I'm Stuart Hopson, Aka Hoppy or Stu (but that can get confusing), is the 2008/9 Fixtures officer.

I started sailing Cherubs, in 2005 when I was invited to sail Whaam, at the nationals in Newquay. It wasn't the easiest event to get to either, the story behind it is a fairly long one, but a brief summary would be something like this: Three days before the nationals start, I got a phone call inviting me to sail. 2 days before the nationals, I spent a good 3 hours convincing the 'rents' to allow me to go (I was 17 at the time). 1 day to go, I discovered work wouldn't let me have time off work, hmmm… what should I do… yes you guessed it I quit his job and jumped on the train to Newquay!!

Since then I have sailed in 4 national championships 2005, 2006 in Largo Bay where I finished 3rd in Sweet Dreams With Furgus Holland crewing, 2007 at Weymouth, where I finnished 5th in Subtle Knife (very kindly loaned from Richard Taylor) with Steve Hackett Crewing, and 2008 in Atum Bom,

Hoppy has owned 3 cherubs, Eggbert the Nasty, Sweet Dreams and he now owns Atum Bom, as of Nov 2007.