Cecil Howard Race

Cecil Howard Race

The start of the Cecil Howard Race is rather mysterious. Cecil Howard (the Club’s first commodore) was a keen racer and would regularly attend the Yare Navigation Race. Each year the boats would move up the Yare to the start at Coldham Hall and Cecil viewed this as a wasted opportunity so he badgered his friends and organised a very informal race from Cantley to Coldham Hall. Inthe early days, boats would record their own times and there was certainly no trophy or prize. By the mid-1980s the race was known sometimes as the Cecil Howard Memorial Trophy, which was a little premature, especially as Cecil must be most unusual in winning his own memorial race! The Yare Sailing Club came to the rescue when the race started to get formalised and to this day still assist greatly in the running of the race. The race now has possibly the largest (and ugliest) trophy of any race on the Broads.

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