Another brutal winter won't be enough to stop Britain's keenest dinghy racers...
The third edition of the SailJuice Global Warm-up brings together five of the biggest winter handicap racing events into a unified series, to find out just who is tough enough to race their way through the brutal cold of a British winter. The Draycote Dash was due to kick off the series in November, but low water levels have forced the organisers to push it back to the end of February 2012, the weekend before the Volvo RYA Dinghy Show at Alexandra Palace.
Five major handicap events constitute this winter's series. They are: