BACK TO THE LINCOLNSHIRE LYC OPENING PAGE and CONTENTS         2008 FISLY WORLD LANDSAILING CHAMPIONSHIPS Rada Tilly, Patagonia, South America Saturday, February 9 to Friday, February 15, 2008 IMAGES FROM OVER THE EVENT AT RADA TILLY Click on image to view larger photo A jubilant Tim Spiers, one of the two British pilots who made up the three-man Great Britain team in Rada Tilly, holds his Class 5 Champion trophy aloft! Tim Spears K109 in his Class 5 in front of the thousands of locals who came out to watch Sunday's first day of racing at the 2008 FISLY World Landsailing Championships at Rada Tilly in Patagonia. After an embarrassing first day on the track Tim went on to dominate Class 5 and barring one major mishap of a broken stub axle on the penultimate day finished out the regatta as the Class 5 World Champion. The British team snapped at the Opening Ceremony... from the left, Len Warren, official Sailing Master for the event, adds a taste of decorum to the otherwise wayward crew of Tim Spiers [centre] and Gareth Rowland [no guessing who and where he is in this photo!]. Fiftysix Class 5s and Promo 5s line up for their first race of the competition. Gareth Rowland K11 pictured with members of the local Rada Tilly Rotary Club. Part of the extraordinarily large crowd who turned out to watch the first day's racing. Sails and masts "flood" Rada Tilly's beachfront at the Opening Ceremony on Saturday. Gareth Rowland, with bandaged right ankle [an injury sustained in December when he fell from a Segway and broke his ankle], at a scenic lookout overlooking Rada Tilly Beach a few days before the Worlds commenced. A league of nations buzzing around their containers unpacking, assembling and checking the respective yachts in preparedness for the Worlds. MORE PIX TO COME. BACK TO THE LINCOLNSHIRE LYC OPENING PAGE and CONTENTS