Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

having just logged onto the website to check this weeks tides it dawned on me that i simply forgot to thank Martyn Eyre and his team at flightline for all their behind the scenes efforts in running the TBYC website with the web cam and weather station which are a tremendous asset to our club which unfortunately i overlooked in recognizing its importance at the AGM. There is also overdue recognition for all those who regularly add the photo’s and video content especially Barry Duce and Linzi Swindon
so in true better late than never style, thankyou!!

Peter

Hi All, for all you armchair sailors, and following popular demand I am sponsoring a trophy for the best placed TBYC virtual boat in the game. For those of you who have not entered or who do not know about it, then here are a few facts. The virtual race mirrors the actual Volvo ocean race covering 8 legs over 9 months. The game has in excess of 120000 virtual boats. leg 1 is complete but we will run each leg as a race in a series and load the entrants on Hal’s racing programme as a series. The series will have 2 discards for the 8 legs to enable newcomers to join in and possibly win!!!. After the first leg the top five TBYC boats were 1st Daren Fitchew, 2nd Jeremy Sandford, 3rd Steve Healey, 4th Steve Hopper and 5th David Hopper.

The next leg starts on Sunday 11th Dec 2011 so get registered and join in the banter and fun!!!

You can register at http://www.volvooceanracegame.org/play

Then please leave a comment on this article so we can enter you and your boat in the regatta.

Happy armchair sailing Steve Hopper

2011 AGM Sunday 20th November,

you should shortly be receiving your AGM booklet

Many thanks to Brian Sandford for producing and collating the AGM Booklet and also many thanks to Janet and Tony in the Office for enveloping and posting.

Peter

Parents good news, the bar will be open all day this week from 11am, so you can enjoy lunch and sit on the balcony in the sun for the afternoon whilst keeping an eye on the children. Enjoy the week.

Starters
Plum Tomato & Mozzarella Salad
Duck Liver & Orange Pate served with brioche toast
Sizzling Tiger prawns in garlic butter
Smoked Haddock Chowder

Main Courses
Chicken & Chesnut pie, chive butter mash & petit pois
Pork belly with celeriac puree, apple sauce & black pudding & sage rosti
Salmon fillet with a Thai green Sauce, Jasmine rice & Pak choy
Caremilised Red Onion & Goats cheese strudel, served with a wild mushroom rissoto

Puddings

Cheese Plate
Elderflower poached pear with Vanilla Ice cream
Double Chocolate torte slice
Individual Apple & Blueberry crumble & Custard

Please book by 3pm Thursday 27th October. £12.50 2 courses or £15.00 3 courses.
Contact Gary on 07854 22 99 39

Many thanks to all of those who turned up early on sunday to paint the changing rooms, repair chairs and tables, clear boat park, and carry out various jobs around the club.
For those of you that missed out don’t worry we will have another one in the new year.

thanks to Linzi for getting great pictures for us every weekend

Butter Chicken
Pork Jalfrezi
Pilau rice & Naan bread
£7.50 per head

Please book in advance through the kitchen or call Gary on 07854 22 99 39

Thankyou

I found this next to the race hut blackboard and put it indoors before I locked up.

Robin

I just wanted to say a big thank you to Ken Tony Toby, Kylie and Sue for a great fun day on the water today. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot and am eager to get out on duty… Thank you all x