Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

Monday 9th to Friday 13th August

Last Sunday we had our first Cadet training session and races this season. After an on-shore briefing, observing social distancing, 13 boats and 20 sailors took to the water. It was great to see again our enthusiastic Cadets plus welcoming Daniel to our squad.  We began with our usual warm-up; sailing a tight figure-of-eight course and moving onto rapid tacking. The Cadets then practised their starts before competing in three races.  Great sailing and great kids!

Training on Sunday 16^th August – Briefing at 9.15

Prepare your boat and be ready for a briefing on the beach at 9.15.

Sign up on the Google form (trace and track requirement): CLICK HERE

Cadet Race Training is suitable for sailors who can sail a triangular course safely and willing to listen and learn. Please, read the relevant risk assessment on the website.

Sunday 9th of August.
Launching from the beach at 14:30
Sign up on the Google form (trace and track requirement):
https://forms.gle/3yvySBrhqxeodWLB7

Cadet Race Training is suitable for sailors who can sail a triangular course safely and willing to listen and learn.
Please, read the relevant risk assessment on the website.

Look at the poster and see the resources – will help to get the best experience.

poster Cadet Race Training 2020 08 09.pages

See you on the water: Andras

We are delighted to announce that the club will now return to Cadet Training. This is not the Sail Training programme that the club runs but more specific coaching for cadets and indeed adults, who have a basic sailing knowledge and keen to learn more boat handling skills and some race craft.

A Risk Assessment has been completed as required for the Covid 19 issues, as for all club activities. The link to this is below.

Return to Cadet Training Risk Assessment TBYC V1

Please check the website for details to be posted very soon.

Cadet Week 2020 Cancelled

As a committee we took the decision back in March to continue to plan for a Cadet week, but not to put out the application forms due to the uncertainty of the duration of lockdown. The General Committee have been meeting on a weekly basis, closely monitoring the guidance from the Government and subsequent changes to the advice given by the RYA and PLA.

Having reviewed the planned changes to restrictions issued last week and even with the gradual lifting of lockdown, the obstacles were too big for us to provide a safe event on and off the water. We have therefore taken the decision to cancel this year’s Cadet Week. This is not a decision we have taken lightly, we are disappointed but feel it is the right decision.

As the summer progresses I look forward to seeing more people re integrating with the club and getting back on the water in whatever form that may be. When as a club we are able to organise activities safely, we will look at the remaining planned Cadet programme for the season and issue further guidance.

Jeremy Sandford

TBYC Cadet Representative

Cadets!

You may want to try man overboard on the water this weekend.
Instead of throwing your parent or sibling you may consider using a bottle, like this:

Remember the challenge:
Deadline is approaching, midnight this Sunday

Man overboard!
Call for a challenge: plan your rescue
Great prizes will be offered to those who make an effort!
Have a look at this short video on YouTube:

Options:
– Write a few words – explain your approach!
– Ask me good questions!
– Draw a sketch or make an artwork on your approach!

Send your answer / sketch to my email or to the club’s email.
Deadline: Sunday the 21st of June at midnight

See you on the water
this weekend if you can

Andras

Look at the resources in my previous post.

Cadets! 

Man overboard!

Call for a challenge: plan your rescue

Great prizes will be offered to those who make an effort!

Have a look at this short video on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/0BtYCRIWefk

Options:

– Write a few words – explain your approach!

– Ask me good questions!

– Draw a sketch or make an artwork on your approach!

Send your answer / sketch to my email or to the club’s email.

Deadline: Sunday the 21st of June at midnight

See you on the water this weekend if you can

Andras

Resources:

my famous YouTube Channel approaching 1 million subscribers (only short by 999 980)

In particular:

Come to the coach boat

Points of sailing (“bear down” is not correct, should be bear away)

Shirley Robertson’s Man overboard video (she is an olympic sailor)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZrK3tVCFk

RS Quick Tips: How to pick up a Man Overboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvkNkrFhyp4

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we were unable to run the sail training at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club as originally planned.

Our General Committee is meeting regularly to review and discuss the situation.

The feasibility of small group Sail Training later on this season is being considered as we keep reviewing the Government’s and RYA’s guidance.
Similar considerations are given to Cadet Sailing.

All Sail Training applications submitted electronically are valid.
Further applications are welcome:

https://www.tbyc.org/sail-training/

Looking forward to see you on the water:
Best regards:
Andras Gal
Cadet Sailing Coach and Sail Training Officer

Dear Cadets and Parents,

I would like to recommend the RYA YouTube Channel.
#SailFromHome RYA
The “Sail Smarts” series has started for kids.
Check it out!
There are many other good resources on sailing on YouTube and online.
Sadly at present we can’t do much more than that.

I hope that we can safely get back to sailing again at one point in the future.

Best wishes from Andras

This one is on tides: