Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

…to Paul Spratt and Barry Duce who spent a lot of time and effort using their talents to make a great start on the Committee Boat refurbishment. She is already starting to look more ship shape. Also thank you to Gordon Sanders and Tony Clarke who have cleaned out both displacements ready for painting and antifouling.

Chris

Hi All,

This weekend is the end of Season Trophy and with it comes the end of Season, which means all dinghies and catamarans and their ancilliaries (road trailers, windsurfers/kyaks/paddle boards or whatever else you hide under your boats) need to vacate the dinghy park this Sunday after racing.
The only exception to this is any Picos which are on and have paid for rack space over the winter by this wekeend (at the more than reasonable price of £30, cheques with pico number on the reverse accepted).
Boats which have entered the Winter series can return to the dinghy park once the cruisers and sandhoppers have moved in for the winter.

To celebrate the Cadet Week, Hi-Tec will again offer footwear at greatly reduced prices during the event.

This year, the following products will be available, and can be ordered every day.

However, additionally, all members, visitors and friends are invited to take advantage of an extra special ‘40% off all products’ offer off the www.hi-tecdirect.co.uk website. Simply select the product type in the promo-code TBYC40 (case sensitive) and get your Hi-Tec’s delivered to your home.

Have a great week and……. Enjoy your shoes

Hi and welcome if you are visiting our website for details on the open day. Please come and join us from 1pm when you can meet TBYC members, have a look round the club and watch some of the cadet and family sailing. There will be a BBQ and activities for children during the afternoon.

There is no need to pre-register but it would be helpful for us to get an idea of numbers, so if possible please call or email Amy Wright on 01702 215163 or amywright@southend.gov.uk

We look forward to meeting you.

TBYC would like to thank sportessex.com and Southend on Sea Borough Council for supporting this event.

Ticket only event £5 pp

Choice of Chicken & Chips, Sausage & Chips or Scampi & Chips

Food 19.00-20.00 / Talk from 20.00 beer break in the middle

Alan Willis and Phil Crawford – Race Officer Overview,
Paul Spratt – Safety boat overview

Chris Boshier – Latest Racing Rule Changes

Peter Thompson – Race Tactics

Contact: Chris Maloney 07896 676148 to book in advance, please state food choice

Dear All,

Having had a discussion with Barry last night I recomended this site for self testing.

I thought that it might be useful to anybody interested in taking courses.

www.sailtrain.co.uk/index.htm

There are great tests for IRPCS (International Regulations for Prevention of Collisions at Sea.) Including identifying Vessel Lights.

I have used the site extensively for Day Skipper Training and found it invaluable.

Maybe a permanent Link can be made?

Regards,

Wayne.

P.S for those doing CEVNI  There are two self tests here.  http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/cevni/index.htm Scroll down. (2nd Test is “Next Exercise” and includes lights) Good Luck.

“There is a tremendous spirit within this club in which everybody pulls together and I’m a very grateful beneficiary of that culture.  Many people have helped me at various times”

quote taken from Howard Hawkes article below.

now theres a man who has worked harder than most of us to pull together another fine season of sailing events unselfishly giving up his own sailing and social time for us all to benefit even in a year where the weather didn’t quite play the game fairly… thank you Howard.

the spirit of our club is further enhanced by the working parties that now attract 40+ of all ages which help keep the club in good order.

for me the main spirit/culture test of a club is that of renew. renew of members, renew of assets.

seeing 33 Cadet Pico’s out on the water in their race series on saturday afternoon was just great and shows just how successful the TBYC cadet training program is and has been in giving the opportunity of learning to sail to so many.

sunday witnessed another great turn out for a trophy race and two former pico sailors David Hopper & Tally Eyre literally flying about in their foiling moths, great for all to see and for the cadets to be inspired. TBYC has always led the way with state of the art sailing dinghies and this year is no exception.

alot of work has gone on behind the scenes to secure the renewal of our assets and one man linked to most of the above over many years and has been their driving force is Mike Thomason the man who sets the benchmark for the spirit and culture of our club.

in a world of uncertain times our club will hopefully continue to deliver the same spirit and culture for you and i to enjoy both on and off the water and our subscriptions continue to be invested for the future benefit of sailing.

Peter

ps if you’ve got a bit of spare cash personally or in your business then theres no better time than now to help TBYC and the slipway fund. Mike Thomason will be very pleased to hear from you…. don’t be shy…

The “summer” season is coming to an end and with it arrives the annual migration to the boat park of the cruisers, which is scheduled for Saturday 18^th October. As usual, those who are NOT sailing in the Winter Series need to remove their boats on or before Sunday 12^th October, whereas those who will continue to sail should move their boats to the western half of the boat park.

It is noticeable that some owners take a rather disinterested attitude to the reorganisation of the boat park, leaving it to others to move their boats on their behalf. Please bear in mind that if your boat needs to be moved because you’ve not bothered to comply with the above request, it might not be treated with quite the same delicacy that you would apply – why should it? So if you care about your boat, either take it away OR BETTER STILL, move it to the west side of the boat park and JOIN THE REST OF US in the Winter Series.

The more efficiently we dinghy and cat sailors clear the space for the cruisers the more compactly they are installed, leaving us more space for our boats, so it’s in our interests to co-operate as fully as possible. Not only that, but the Master Recruiter for the Sprint 15 class and Keeper of the Boat Park – none other than Andrew Hannah – has sworn severe retribution for any boats not complying. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Those stalwarts joining us keen Sprint sailors for the season of PROPER sailing need to enter by Saturday 25^th October.  Unfortunately the Sandhoppers won’t be with us – Barry is feeling his age and it is said that this year he may hibernate.

Finally, I’m bowing out after an interesting year. There is a tremendous spirit within this club in which everybody pulls together and I’m a very grateful beneficiary of that culture.  Many people have helped me at various times. My successor is that Contender sailor and master-fixer of broken Sprints, Chris Boshier. I wish him well in the post and hope you will all support him as you have me.

Don’t forget the Winter Series.  See you there!

Howard Hawkes.

congratulations to Paul Spratt for achieving his first award at SLIMMING WORLD this week, keep it up Paul you may start a trend with the rest of us.

so if you see Paul at the club please remember to congratulate him.

Dear Hurricane sailors, here’s a listing off all the Association events for 2008 you can find more information on the Web Site:http://www.hurricane59.com

See you on the water soon:

Saturday June 28-29, Rutland Cat Open
Open fleet
www.rutlandsc.co.uk
Results

Saturday, July 05-06 2008, TT Stone
Own start. A Classes attending
www.stonesc.co.uk
Results

Sunday, July 13 2008, Piers Race Marconi
Good oppurtunity to promote Hurricanes to all classes
www.marconi-sc.org.uk
Results

Saturday, August 02-03 2008, TT Canvey Island
Own start. A Classes attending
www.islandyachtclub.co.uk
Results

Saturday, September 20-21 2008, TT/Open Whitstable
Own start. Forts race plus round the cans
www.wyc.org.uk
Results

Friday, September 26-28 2008, TT Brightlingsea
Own start. Spitfires and Shadows attending
www.sailbrightlingsea.com
Results

Saturday, October 18-19 2008, Cat Open Grafham
Open fleet at present
www.grafham.org
Results

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