Congratulations to Graham Sexton for his overall third place crew in the recent Endeavour ‘Champion of Champions’ trophy races.

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The RCYC Endeavour is a unique event in the UK dinghy sailing world, recognised by the RYA as the pinnacle of that year’s dinghy sailing achievements which will hail a “Champion of Champions”. Held on the tidal rivers Crouch and Roach in October each year  it’s an invitation only event, with the guest-list hand-picked from National Champions of selected fleets.

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Graham represented the Laser 2000 fleet following his 2011 nationals win. The Topper Xenon was this year’s  selected boat sailed by all 25 helms/crews. The event was held on 6& 7 October 2012.

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Sunday 28 October 2012

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‘Winter Warm-Up’ races

For all 4 winter fleets

10.00 am start – W/L Monos, W/L Cats, Slow Cats – course(s) on the front of the boat
10.03 am start – fast and slow monos – course on the rear of the boat

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‘Sandhopper Final Fling’  Race

10.06 am  start – windward/leeward course – 1st and last mark on the rear of the boat.

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The Weather Station is now operational.
Many thanks to our electronic guru Ian Homan for fixing this as well as for putting four of the new CCTV feeds on the club web site.

Breakfasts will be available in the club this Saturday and Sunday 27th & 28th October from 8:30am until 11am.

Sailing or spectating why not come down and try our full English breakfast, or our breakfast baps with fillings of your choice, just what the doctor ordered with these cold winter mornings setting in. Hope to see you all there.

Lisa @fuudltd

In the spirit of trying to inject some tradition to the club we have put together an evening of enjoyment for the gentlemen of the club in the following order:
We arrive at 7.00 for a Real Ale and a Seafood reception.
At 8.00 we will sit down for dinner.
During and after the dinner we will hear a few short speeches from members about the past, present and future of our club.
We will then have a tasteful comedian to end the structure of the evening – we then have a chance to socialise amongst fellow members and guests.

I have invited a number of Commodores from neighbouring clubs, officials from the RYA and members of the Southend Branch for the RNLI.

I hope you are able to join me and fellow flag officers and members of the committees of Thorpe Bay Yacht Club to make the evening a special event and one which I hope we can hold annually from now on.

Tickets are now available from the Bar or Office at the club or by contacting me on 0770 2299555.

The dress code is Black Tie And the cost of the ticket is £ 25.

Guests are most welcome.

Regards and Best Wishes
Nick Elmore
Commodore

Many thanks to all those who turned up last Saturday morning to muck in and complete the tasks in hand.

The Supplementary Sailing Instructions for the TBYC 2012-13 Winter & Icicle Series are attached to the link below.

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TBYC 2012-13 Winter & Icicle Series Supp SI’s

TBYC RACE NOTICE   – Changes to Race Programme

Sunday 28 October 2012

Winter Series Races

The Winter Series Races will be split into separate Saturday and Sunday series

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Winter Saturday races are on 3& 17 November and 1& 15 December 2012 ( a 4 race series)

Winter Sunday races are on 4, 18 & 25 November and 2 &16 December 2012 ( a 5 race series)

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Race Committee 18 October 2012

Come along this week-end for the last racing of the main season.

Sunday  October  21st

 End of Season Trophy Race

Mass start average lap race – start at 1500 hours

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