Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

We need volunteers to help with the following Club Racing duties this weekend please

Sat 06 Sep 2025 10:30 Autumn Sat – SS2 Crew

Sat 06 Sep 2025 10:30 Autumn Sat – RIB A Helm or SWAP with Richard Turner

Sun 07 Sep 2025 11:00 Autumn Sun (Shore Box) – Race Officer

The club tow car (BMW) is available to launch RIBs (any club member with a full license over 24 is insured to drive it)

If you have a duty coming up and want a refresher on what to do please come along to any race and let the Duty Officer know if you would like to join a displacement or the committee boat to help / observe.

Don’t forget you can swap a duty with a VOLUNTEER PLEASE duty

If you can help please volunteer / swap in the usual way via Dutyman or email [email protected]

Many thanks

Saturday:
Registration 07:30 to 08:45 in TBYC clubhouse
Breakfast available from 08:00 – Breakfast Baps £3: choice of bacon, sausage or egg (or combination of two, £1 for extra filling)
Briefing: 08:30 in clubhouse
Race start time: 10:00

Dinner: 19:00 – Pie Night £15. Everyone is welcome. If you are not competing but would like to join us, please contact me (Clara – [email protected] – 07775 994266)

Sunday:
Breakfast available from 08:30 in TBYC clubhouse as above
Race start time: 10:30
Prizegiving after racing.

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Links to Event Sailing Instructions and Notice of Race below:

ESI 2025

NOR 2025 Sandhopper Nationals

Cadet Week Programme August 2025

Please see the programme for details.

10th August

3-5pm Cadet week registration in the marquee

4pm Safety briefing – please attend if you are a leader or on a support boat

11th August

From 9am breakfast rolls available to order from the bar

9.30am Main briefing and welcome –

ALL participants and their parents MUST attend as this is the main safety briefing

Parents if you haven’t joined the Cadet Whatsapp group please message me asap

Please check your child and you have appropriate kit and buoyancy aids for the week. If you are on or around the water you must wear a buoyancy aid

Check your boat is in good working order; sail numbers, trolley wheels inflated painter etc

It’s going to be a fantastic week as we pull together as a community to support our cadets!

Thanks to all our sponsors for their continued support

Method IT https://method-it.co.uk/

White and Co https://whitesolicitors.co.uk/

Thorpe Hall School https://www.thorpehall.southend.sch.uk/

Bay Optical https://www.bayoptical.co.uk/

Wetsuit Outlet htts://www.wetsuitoutlet.co.uk

Easifloor https://www.easifloor.co.uk/

Prime Pellets https://primepellets.co.uk/

MWS Accountants https://www.mws-accountants.co.uk/

Dedman Gray https://www.dedmangray.co.uk/

WK Interiors – Wayne Kirk

AQUARRII CAPITAL LIMITED

Please message myself or a group leader if you have any questions. Please let me know if you can volunteer for anything.

Many thanks

Lindsay Rainbow

Cadets Rep

Book your table for the Quiz Night at the Bar. Tables of up to 8 people

Cadet week is fast approaching. Thanks to our sponsors for their continued support

It is with regret that we inform you of the passing of our long-standing members Michael Parkes and Peter Thomas, both will be sadly missed at the Club.

Watch this space,
TBYC Kitchen and Bar team are pleased to advise members of a new monthly themed food evening, sampling culinary cuisines from around the world. More information coming soon…

Morning Sailors,

Conditions permitting, today’s scheduled race is the Yantlet Trophy.

The course will be set by the Race officer and drawn on the blackboard at the top of the slipway.

Rounding the Yantlet Beacon will be replace with an orange cylindrical “special” buoy to port, as it has been in recent previous editions of the race.

I wanted to draw your attention to the Sailing instructions: 7. Classes or Fleets. Here it states that for a mass start we will use flag R, and that for the Nore Race and Benfleet Shield, the Windward Leeward Class will start as published + 30 mins. This year the start is scheduled for 13.00, making the W/L class start 13.30.

Hang on to your hats!

Jeremy

Rear Commodore