A Pioneering Burnham Yacht Comes Home
Pioneering Burnham racing yacht comes home By Nick Skeens A racing yacht that helped put Burnham on the sailing map has recently been brought back to Burnham to take part in this year’s Burnham Week regatta. Wouldn’t it?, the prototype wooden version of...
Welsh Squib Week
The SCYC Squib Welsh Open got underway on Sunday August 4th and the blustery conditions made for some exciting downwind action all day. Race 1. Harry VI was a little premature at the pin so Mayhem got away best, closely followed by Bacchante. Beating through...
Squib Promotion/Coaching Project
The Class has commissioned professional help to create some first-class video coaching modules on various elements of Squib-specific boat handling and tuning. Following a successful weekend filming with the Burnham fleet it is all at the editing stage and will be...
2024 Irish Nationals
Howth Yacht Club welcomed 31 boats to the Provident Squib Irish Championships over the weekend of 26th – 28th July. Three boats from the UK joined the already high quality home fleet. Friday’s weather didn’t play ball and, after two abandoned races PRO Scorie Walls...
The 2024 Squib Championships
Going into the last race of the Squib Championships, two boats had dominated the racing: Micky Wright and Alex Porteous in Spoof from the Royal Corinthian YC had 20 points and Tom Jeffcoat crewed by owner Mark Hogan in RicO'Shea from South Caernarvonshire YC had 24...
Torquay to Host the 2025 Squib Championships.
The Royal Torbay Yacht Club is hosting the 2025 Squib Championships. This promises to be another memorable event at one of the South Coast's premier yachting destinations. Check out what Torbay has to offer on and off the water in the Club's promotional...
Irish Northern Championships 2024
The Squib Northern Championship went right down to the wire on the weekend of June 25th /26th when the far-travelled Ian Travers and Keith O’Riordan in Atomic from Kinsale Yacht Club won the final of five races to knock Dick Batt and Gordy Wright in Squib, the...
2024 Squib Championships Trophy Winners
Who won what this year? Here we see Micky Wright and Alex Porteous being presented with the Chris Hogan Memorial Trophy as the 2024 National Squib Champions. This is the full list of Trophy winners at this year's superb NSOA Championships, so brilliantly hosted by...
2024 UK EAST COAST CHAMPIONSHIPS
Micky Wright and Alex Porteous, sailing Spoof 811, won the 2024 edition of the Squib East Coast Championship, hosted by Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, over the late May Bank Holiday weekend, 25th and 26th of May 2024. The light winds on the morning of Saturday forced...
The New NSOA Constitution
Download the new Constitution document : here
The NSOA Squib Training Scheme
We are now able to launch the application form for bursary funding for local fleet training/coaching. We would encourage you to think how you may be able to utilise this in your fleet to help upskill all ends of the fleet or indeed encourage new people into the class!...
News from Malaysia
GREETINGS FROM PULAU INDAH ! THIS IS THE MALAYSIAN SQUIB CLASS REPORTING. As we say in Malaysia it is always HOT , it may be HOT and WET but it will be always be HOT , never more than a T shirt for sailing and with no seasons ( Which I think I miss l except the winter...
Easter in Burnham
Micky Wright and Alex Porteous, sailing in Squib 811 Spoof, win the Mike Flint Trophy, after the Cheeseboard race was cancelled due to high winds The Cheeseboard race, the traditional starter of the Squib season on the river Crouch, was cancelled on 29th of...
Broadlands Regatta 2024
2024 Squib Broadland Regatta: The first Squib Open Meeting of 2024 was held over the weekend at Waveney & Oulton Broad Yacht Club. The turnout for the event, like last years!, was affected by the forecast - not many people want to make the effort to travel with...
2024 Broadland Regatta Preview
In just a few weeks time Waveney and Oulton Broad Sailing Club looks forward to greeting visiting Squibs to enjoy their unique brand of close racing at one of the Class's long-standing strongholds. The uninitiated will quickly grasp the reason for this famous venue's...