#fireball – Hayling Island Sailing Club will be hosting the UK Fireball National Championship in August 2016 exactly 50 years after the club hosted the inaugural World Championship.
HISC was one of the first clubs to adopt the Fireball after its launch in 1962 and played a leading role in the early development of the class. The club is currently seeing a strong resurgence of interest in Fireballs and has achieved tremendous growth in numbers over the past twelve months. The Fireball is on a roll at the moment, with the 2015 National and World Championships at Pwllheli this August causing a surge of interest in the class which HISC looks set to continue.
The last time the Nationals were held at Hayling Island Sailing Club was in 1993 although the class was a regular visitor to HISC in the 1960s and 1970s for National, European and World events. The Fireball World
Championships which are being held in the UK this year are likely to see a large entry which will hopefully put the Fireball fleet back in the 50+ club.
The class will be visiting HISC for their Open Meeting on 16th & 17th May 2015.
