Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

All Dinghy, Catamaran, Sail Board, Kayak and Canoe owners with craft including trailers and trolleys in the Dinghy park are reminded that these are to be removed immediately after the End of Season Trophy on Saturday 15th October 2016 unless entering the Winter and Icicle Series or having submitted the appropriate Winter Storage Application Form.

Entry and Storage Forms are available from the links below or from the Club Administrator and need to be received by the Club Administrator with the appropriate fee by Friday 21st October 2016.

Winter-Series-Entry-Form (Word)                                                                 Winter-Series-Entry-Form (PDF)

Winter-Storage-Rates-2016     check here for storage costs first.

Dinghy-Catamaran-Winter-Storage-Form (Word)                       Dinghy-Catamaran-Winter-Storage-Form (PDF)

All Dinghies in Rows I, J, K and M will need to be moved to provide room for the Sandhoppers and Cruisers.

The forms in word format can be accessed for completing and sending online

Click here to see the Yuletide-Ball-Poster
Yuletide Ball tickets go on sale from Tuesday 11th October at 10am

Tickets only available via the Office

Dancing will be to the Essex Undercovers – the same band we have at the Midsummer Night’s Dream Ball in June.

Demand is likely to be high – book early to avoid disappointment

I bought her in 2000 from the London Boat Show. Receipts available, owners logbook/Sailing instructions etc. She is 16ft with a Red hull with white upper, sail no 201. She has a furling jib and reefing main. The gelcoat is in good condition with very few marks. Mast, boom, rigging, centerboard and rudder are all in good condition. She is responsive, a great sail and easily towed behind a family car. She has Main, jib and unused gennaker, all in original bags. She has two watertight compartments for storing items and has two self-balers. Although 16 years old she has been dry sailed so no antifoul applied, little used and is very good order and has been maintained bi-annually by the builder White Formula in Brightlingsea. She is on a launching trolley and there is a road base also available with lighting board, winch, and mast support front and rear. There is provision on transom for an outboard motor and a Yamaha 4hp two stroke is also available. less than 25 hours use since new and has been regularly maintained.

 £2500 complete boat on trolley

£200 road trailer and lighting board

£200 Yamaha 4hp 2 stroke engine

 Call Steve on 07771 833150

Sandhopper – Pearl 32

For Sale, due to lack of use and no time to use her in the foreseeable future. New harken blocks &  spinnaker bag fitted at the start of this season.

I will pay for this year’s lift out and winter storage. £2250

Call Martin on 07710406207

On behalf of the committee, thanks to everyone who helped out at Sunday’s work party.

TBYC Cadets – The Matt Trophy – Saturday 15th October at Thames Estuary Yacht Club

URGENT: We need to know who is attending this race by tomorrow (Friday) at the latest to arrange a support Rib to safely escort Cadets to and from the event.

Please confirm your or your son’s/daughter’s attendance (a confirmation will presume parental permission):

Older Cadets: [email protected] or phone/text 07815 113459

Younger Cadets:  [email protected]  or phone/text 07875 204343

The event is open to all Cadets, all abilities and class of boat. There are trophies for all competitors and overall winners.  The prize giving will be immediately after the race at Thames Estuary Yacht Club.

We will co-ordinate the entry requirements and escort Cadets around the Pier to the start of the Race.  Smaller dinghies will need to make their own arrangements to TEYC , phone Andras for more details.

At the end of the race, those sailing back will be escorted to TBYC.  Sailors will need to keep together irrespective of speed of boat etc.

Timings – Race start 1200 (Mass Start, 5, 4, 1 minute GO –  Trapezoid course) Committee Boat start – No entry fee

Leave TBYC beach at 10.45 am (weather dependent) updated nearer to the time, Pico’s etc. will meet on the water at Thames Estuary Yacht Club at 11.30, sail to TBYC Support boat for advice etc.

Original post – http://www.tbyc.org/racing/thorpe-bay-yacht-club-cadets-the-matt-trophy-15th-october/

For those of you vacating the dinghy park this weekend for your annual restoration/hibernation/barnacle scrape or insufficiently foolhardy to sail through the winter, this is your last chance for some pot hunting this season.

Racing on Saturday is for the End of Season Trophy starting at 11:00am.

This is a mass start, avg lap race.

The Veterans Cup is being held in conjunction with the EoS trophy and is open to all TBYC members sailing as a helm and crew with a combined age of at least 90, or to an individual crew member aged 55 or over. To enter, please use the declaration sheet inside the Bosun’s Hut headed ‘Veterans Cup’.

Email: [email protected]
Hi I am available to crew in race today at 3pm I am 7&half stone and crewed for the dart open at whitstable n mumbles

We want to be like the professional sailing races that we see on Television with the animated analytics and graphics. Well it is now very simple to have that information and be shown with the rest of the fleet.

Thanks to Daren Fitchew the Sprints have already been using it and you can review races on the Race Tracking link on the left sidebar. Sunday 2nd had everybody racing with a tracker app. Have a look, full tutorials are on the RaceQs Website

The process is reasonably automated all you require is a smartphone (and many people now have old ones) with the RaceQS app installed which is then uploaded once you have completed. Once you review your race, you will see every other boat that was around. Using your main phone isn’t a problem, you just have to make sure it is in a waterproof (or two) containers (we have been buying cases in bulk for £2). In future we could have live tracking by people putting a data sim card in the phones, Daren has already identified how this can be done cheaply.

Come and join us or plan to use it next year, we will send you a reminder. Click on the Raceqs Logos to go to the official site. Press continue reading for greater detail  on how to use it.

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No catering this Friday evening due to a private function in the Main Bar.

The Commodore Bar will be open to members.

Friday Night Bistro starts next Friday, 14th October