Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

Now that the Cruisers and Sandhoppers are back on their moorings, could all members with boats in the dinghy park ensure their beloved vessels are moved into their allocated spaces as soon as possible.

The amended allocated space plan is on the notice board in the main lobby. If your boat is not listed then contact John Laliberte for a space.

If you have a Kayak, Canoe, Windsurfer or Paddleboard and require storage space on the racks for the summer, please mark your vessel with your name and postcode and contact the Club Secretary to pay your storage fees.

If your launching trolley is untagged, please write your name and sail number on the back part of your cover so John can fix the tag to your trolley.

You should be receiving your printed copy of Newsbuoy Spring 2015 although with Easter it maybe delayed in the post. But if you haven’t it is also available here online.

 
http://issuu.com/tbyc/docs/newsbuoy12v6_issuu
 
 

Yesterday a small number of volunteers met on the slipway at 08:30.  Their task was to lift and recover all 15 race marks, using the SS2 and SS3 that have been freshly serviced and maintained and painted by Toby Speller, John Casson, Paul Farrall and their team of helpers. We then had to unload the rescue boats and move all the marks, chain and concrete blocks to the top of the slipway.  After a quick well earned cup of tea and a hose down, the second job to remove all the chain from the buoys and blocks, end to end the chain, checking it as they went, then to re shackle it all up, replacing marks 2, 4, 7, 9, 12 and 14 with orange buoys (a response to discussions at last years Sailing AGM, course cards with orange buoys).  If that was not enough the buoys, chain and blocks were then loaded into SS2 and SS3 before being re-laid using 2 handheld GPS in a slightly condensed version of last years positions.

You may not notice the subtle change, but the west side of the mark grid is now closer to the Roslin Hotel rather than the Halfway house.  This huge, dirty and demanding task was completed in 6 hours by me and my team of Struan Wallace, John Casson, Alan Grant, Paul Beasley, Paul Morgan and Jack Morgan.  If you see these guys this weekend, give them a big thank you and buy them a drink.  Without them we would have not fixed buoys to start the season.

Enjoy the long Easter weekends racing and the start of the season.

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Thank you to Rupert for a fantastic Rules night on Wednesday.

It was great to see so many people there, from past National Champions and experienced club racers to those new to racing at TBYC, all joined in.  Rupert’s knowledge and engaging delivery or each different scenario made for great discussion with some surprising results and answers.

Everyone engaged in the evening and took away something to progress their boat positioning and awareness around the course.  If you weren’t there, watch out on Sunday, you could find yourself being called!

The evening was a great success and we will be looking to run another later in the season.

Comments and Questions for next time always welcome. Jeremy

Winter prize giving will be held in the bar after racing Sunday. Come and gather in the bar around 3pm to support and celebrate this years winners.

If you have completed any of the winter race series and are scoring finishes in your results (you can discard one DNC) then you to could be winning a prize in the new prize draw.

Enjoy todays racing (12:00 start), see you in the bar for prizes at 15:00.

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Just like to say thank you to everyone who helped out at the work party today. Good job !

Just a reminder that we have a work party on Saturday the 7th from 9am onwards. Refreshments and bacon rolls are on offer !
If anyone has a cordless drill please bring it along. Hope my grammer is ok this time Robin , see you on Saturday .