Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

Has anyone picked up a pair of silver Harken sunglasses with straps in the dinghy park yesterday ? if you have can you put behind the bar for me to collect please, or call me on 07702 366053

Rick Paxman

Dear Cadets and Parents,

Next Pico race is on Bank Holiday Monday, 29th of August, 2016
Any boat with cadets or adults is welcome.

Start at 09:50 on the water

Proposed meeting in the dinghy park: 8:30 – 9:00
please, change and rig your boats

Briefing on the beach at 9:40
Launching, follow the leader to explore the course
Triangular course will be set little west off Piranha beach
offshore startline between pencil marks with red and green flags
Please, all stay in the racing area to enable prompt starting
wait on the right side close to the starboard pin of the start line (green flag)
2 laps, each race

Please, see our YouTube channel:
TBYCPicofleet

Triangular course
Starting
Start signals

See you on the water

Andras

Andras Gal
Pico class captain

Dear Cadets and Parents,

Start at 09:20 on the water
Proposed meeting in the dinghy park: 8:30 – 9:00
please, change and rig your boats first
Briefing on the beach at 9:10
Triangular course little west off Piranha beach,
committee boat start (Polly and pencil marks)
2 laps, each race
Please, see our YouTube channel for tutorials:
starting signals, starting tutorial and triangular course
TBYCPicofleet

See you on the water:

Andras

Update:You can add these directly to your electronic calendar by saving the linked file below and importing to your calendars (works with most)-  Pico_Calendar_for_2016.ics

Piranhas and Barracudas!

If you enjoy cadet week, the fun goes on.
Talk to your friends, come to Pico Racing.

Start at 09:20 on the water

Proposed meeting in the dinghy park: 8:30 – 9:00
please, change and rig your boats first

Briefing on the beach at 9:10
Triangular course little west off Piranha beach,
committee boat start (Polly and pencil marks)
2 laps, each race

Please, see our YouTube channel:
TBYCPicofleet

Dear Parents,

I had a two last minute requests from parents, who are looking for a Pico for their cadets to sail with on cadet week.

I would also be grateful for a couple of spare main sails and jibs, we have a boat offered, but her sails are not available (owner abroad).

If you have a boat which is not being sailed by cadets and you would be willing to offer it, please email or ring me.

Borrowing a Pico is not associated with high risks, nevertheless I feel that such agreement should be directly made by the parties on a basis that if damage occurs, it will be rectified.

Thanks very much:

Kind regards:

Andras

Andras Gal

3 Lasers traveled to the lovely Fishers Green Sailing Club on Saturday 27th June for their annual Laser Open Meeting. Forcast was light winds, heavy showers, sun, heavy wind, thunder and lightning and yes we had it all !
Chris Tillyer was always at the front in the mix as usual and somehow always seemed to be on the right side of the shifts and came away with 3 bullets, one up from 2nd last year, well done Chris great sailing in very testing conditions;
Thorpe Bay overall results were;
Chris Tillyer 1st
Rick Paxman 5th
Jeremy Doran 11th

Dear Cadets and Parents

Next Pico Race is on Saturday, 25 June
Start is at 14:20
Proposed meeting time in the dinghy park: 13:00

Report on the Pico race today: 19/06/2016

11 competitors signed up for our Pico race on the beach. A few more joined on the water. The majority were racing, some were sailing by and watching.

Initially there was hardly any wind, beautiful sunshine, warmest day of the season, probably. I thought we will have a fun day, but there will be not much of sailing. I was wrong.

Course and starting signals were published on the YouTube and on the club’s website and printed on paper on the Cadet’s board and an other copy circulated in the dinghy park / beach.

After a short briefing I attempted a short demonstration on sail setting, but this failed, as the wind was too light to move the sail.

The fleet launched and the sailors made their way towards the racing area, which was set near mark 3, to avoid the mooring boats. Nick and his crew kindly set up the course with 4 pencil marks with their RIB. We made a couple of rounds with Polly to tow some cadets out to the course. The wind caught up gradually.

We did two races, 10 and 12 minutes each. The course was beam reach each way, with two gates at each end. The East gate served as a start and finish line as well. We put Polly to a mooring nearby to show the starting signals and keep an eye on the start line.

A few boats did a cracking start, they waited close to the line, got going right on time. They finished on the podium – not surprisingly. Some tried to approach from the distance, but it was difficult to get the timing right that way, they were a little behind, but bravely caught up a bit later.

By the second race the wind shifted from South a bit to West, sailing to the west side of the course got a bit more tricky. Good close hauled technique paid off. At the start getting too close to the leeward pencil mark was a problem, some lost ground, could not cross the finish line, had to tack to gain height.

There has been some great examples of tight mark roundings, others sailed well beyond the mark, unnecessarily. There was some tight racing around the marks, this made it more interesting. One of the Pico’s with two cadets did really good speed, was about to overtake a Pico sailed by parents but then they chose to go leeward, and experienced the effect of the wind shadow, disappointingly.

Learning points:
Starting technique
Beam reach speed: sail setting, balance
Mark rounding
Wind shadow

Results will be published soon on the cadet’s board in the clubhouse.

Next Pico Race is on Saturday, 25 June
Start is at 14:20
Proposed meeting time in the dinghy park: 13:00
similar course planned

Our YouTube channel: TBYCPicofleet

See you on the water next week:

Andras

Dear Cadets and Parents,

Pico Race Sunday, 19 June, 2016 – Tomorrow

Start at 11:20

Proposed meeting in the dinghy park: 10:00

Briefing on the beach at 11:00
Short demonstration of sail setting on the beach
Launching
Please, stay around the race course, do not sail away to Spain!
Warm up, try the course
Two short races, about 10 minutes each
Free sailing
De-brief and prize giving in the dinghy park after washing the boats.

Parents, please, consider helping (4 pencil marks, starting boards to Polly)
Committee boat: Polly – cadets not sailing and parents welcome to join
I would welcome some help with tracking the race and results

Please, see our YouTube channel:

TBYCPicofleet

Course plan: 2 gate reach course 23 04 2016 2 – Improved version
Start signals

See you on the water:

Andras

This Saturday I am assure the rain will have stopped, the sun will be out and the winds fair… a great day to get out on the Water.

If you are able you can race on a shortened course in the Club Racing at 10am, if you are learning to helm you can sail from the beach in your OPen Bic, Terra or Pico, younger cadets can come and join in the Oppie fun on the beach from 9am. See you on the beach.