Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

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.

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

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

Saturday 15th Oct
Autumn sat 6: start 13.00hrs
 
Sunday 16th Oct
End of Season Trophy & Cadet Walley Trophy: start 13.30hrs
 
Boat Park
Please note dinghies (and cats) must be removed following the End of Season Trophy Race this Sunday 16^th October unless winter racing forms and payment have been received by this Friday 14^th. Due to the demand for space for 2012 those which have not been removed or paid for the winter series may not be allocated a space for 2012. So please remove your boats.
 
Winter Racing
Dont forget to submit your Winter entry form and payment to be received latest this Friday. Any entries after this date will be at £60.00.
 
Working Party
we have a work party on sunday 23rd october start at 9am, lots of painting of the changing rooms etc, come with old clothes and those who have a few tools please bring them, the more people the easier it is for all of us. Would be really nice to see some new faces so don’t be shy!

Prize giving:

Calling all TBYC members, join us on Saturday 12th November and celebrate a fantastic year of sailing at the club at 7.30pm.

Tickets cost £12 for adults and £10 for cadets. Beat the rush & get yours from Kylie or the bar this weekend.

Christmas Party 

With Christmas fast approaching now is the time to get your tables and tickets booked for the TBYC Christmas Bash.

On Saturday December 10^th 2011, tickets cost £25 per person which includes all food and a drink on arrival.  Drinks from 6.30-7.00pm with meal sit down at 7.30pm. Dress: smart casual.

This year we have a fantastic band from Burnham called ‘Sorted’ playing all the old favourites and mixing it up with a lot of new songs too.

A big thank you to those who turned up early this morning to scrub the slipway and then antifouled it making it safe for the rest of us to use. fantastic weather made the tough job a very enjoyable time.
For those of you that missed out, don’t worry we have a work party this month with lots to do around the club so make sure you are there.
make the most of this great weather and go sailing.

A big thank you to Shaun Christian & Andrew Hannah for the excellent race course and length of race on saturday, they were also helping some cadets complete their race officer training with Nike Thomason.

Also we all owe Tony Clark a beer for once again stepping in to help with race officer duty on Sunday, ensuring the rest of us could race. Thanks Tony from the sandhopper fleet.