Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

Some activities are being planned for Cadets on Friday evenings.  Keep a look out for more details as each date approaches.

Friday 28^th April – how to rig a boat
Friday 19^th May – science mania
Friday 23^rd June – first aid and personal safety for cadets (weather permitting)
Friday 7^th July – race tactics and Olympic games on the grass
6.30 – 7pm approximately

The Dinghy Park has now been cleared of Sandhoppers and Cruisers and is available for return of Dinghys.

The Picos that were on top of the racks have now been moved to the ground although are not in their allocated spaces.

The space allocation is now on the notice board in the club for all boats, so could all owners review this and ensure their boats are moved to the correct spaces.

The club had a set of heavy duty jump leads which are often used to start  the Displacement and Ribs. Unfortunately they may have been borrowed. If you know of their whereabouts please could you drop them into the club.

A couple of years ago Jono Dunnett set off from Clacton to complete a Solo around Britain Windsurf and his first stop was Thorpe Bay. We invited him to the Balcony where he was offered his first hospitality of the whole trip.

Many people had previously done the circumnavigation, however always with a support boat. Jono completed it in 98 days, far short of the record but he had succeeded in his quest. He uses a quote in the front of the book “Dream is not what you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep”, something that helped him with his goal.

He has now written a book of the adventure and thought we would be interested to know it has now been published.

See Amazon for more details https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XWVQV19

Just as we start our main sailing seasons I wanted to take the opportunity on behalf of the Sprints and I am sure the Lasers and all other classes, to thank every volunteer that has helped during the cold and unforgiving Winter and Icicle series. Without all of you we would  have not been able to continue to deliver competitive sailing.