Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

Race Officer training and Committee Boat familiarisation.

Sunday 15th April 2012

The tide is out so there is no racing – it’s time to learn or renew your Race Officer skills and look over the new Committee Boat.

The Committee boat will be moored at the slipway. We will be running sessions at 10 00am, 11.00am and 12 midday.

Apart from familiarising yourself with the new Committee Boat you will be able to learn and discuss Race Officer skills hands-on on the boat.

If you have been allocated a Race Officer or Assistant Race Officer duty and feel the need to brush up on your understanding and to see the new Committee Boat – or you just consider that you need some hands-on Race Officer training for future use – these sessions are for you. All are welcome at all levels.

If you would like to attend one of these sessions please email [email protected] as soon as possible so that we can assess the level of turn out and allocate times. If you have a time preference then please let us know.

Graham Dare

Throughout the winter we have run organised coaching on Cadet nights, this would not have been possible without the expert guidance of our coaches all of whom provided sessions which were all extremely useful, interesting, educational and above all fun.

I would like to thank Rupert, Mike Thomason, Ken Herve, Mark Petty-Mayor, Johnno Gillies and Alex Farrell for delivering such excellent sessions.

We are finalising plans for the next few months – which we hope will now include outdoor and water based activities.

The final winter session is this Thursday, Mike will be outlining how to rig a Pico and no doubt explaining how to tune it to ensure you stand the best chance of winning TOPS races this year.

We look forward to seeing you then.

Mike

yes its that time of year for ALL members to come along to a free party and enjoy a day with your friends making our club look fresh for the year ahead.

Sunday the 1st April from 9am

Its not an April fools, it is real.

so please come along and help, plenty to do.

many thanks

Barry house rep.

A big thank you from the Race Committee ( and all who raced that day)  goes to Peter Thompson who stood in at the last minute as Race Officer for the Icicle 5 race when the rostered Race Officer did not show up.

Race Notice

The 2012 Icicle Series

and the Olympic Year Wetsuit Outlet Open Trophy

Prize-Giving

 will be held on

 Sunday 25 March 2012

 in the bar area as soon after racing as possible

Please note:  This changes the date stated in the 2012 Handbook & Programme of Events.

Race Committee

25 February 2012

Do you write all the racing dates from the programme onto a Calendar ?  Why not just buy the TBYC Racing Calendar 2012-2013 and save the trouble. The Calendar contains all the racing and many other dates pre printed, with load of great photos from last seasons by Linzi.

The Calendar doesn’t start until April so you can preorder and pick it up after the middle of March.

If you would like to order one then you can do so by posting a cheque to TBYC for £12 before the 4th March. Otherwise you can order directly from www.lulu.com and search for TBYC, however unfortunately this option with P&P is over £15.

The Calendar was produced at no cost to the club and we hope that a small amount from each will go to the Cadets Fund Raising. If popular we will also hope to produce one for next year. If you want to see before ordering there is a couple already in the club.

I wish to record my displeasure with the actions of the race officer and his team yesterday, Sunday January 29th.

Just because our new committee boat has cooking facilities does not mean that they should be used if such action could be detrimental to competitors. The smell of bacon around the committee boat and as far as 100m downwind was so strong that I almost retired after 2 laps and my third lap was impeded by an overwhelming desire to head straight for the club kitchen. Conversations that I heard seemed more concerned with whether ketchup or brown sauce was favourite than the wind conditions.

Come on chaps, have some heart.

RFT

 In February 2012 the club will be introducing a web-based duty management system – ‘DutyMan’.

 ‘DutyMan’ requires a database of the email addresses of the 300 club members who undertake one or more race duties each year together with a database of the duties for the Duty Officer, Race Officers, and the 4 Support boat helms/crews for the 2012/13 races – starting with the Warm Up Race on 25^th March 2012 through to April 2013.

‘DutyMan’ is currently used by around 150 clubs and organisations to:

• Publish a calendar of events with allocated duties on the web, and which should always be up-to-date, accurate and definitive.
• Automatically email members a list of their duties and duty reminders.
• Organise duty swaps between members interactively using email to/from ‘DutyMan’ and automatically update the duty roster with agreed swops.

The databases are currently being finalised and uploaded onto the system with a view to going live in February 2012.

Members who have been allocated duties will receive an email from ‘DutyMan’ to set up their individual password.

 ‘DutyMan’ will be able to be accessed via a link from the club website.

If you Google ‘DutyMan’ you will be able to see presentational videos of how the system works.

                                                    LOOK OUT FOR DUTYMAN

The 2012 Programme has been finalised and can be viewed by clicking on ‘Sailing Programme’ at the left  side of this web page.

The 2012 Handbook & Programme of Events is currently being posted to members as subscriptions are collected.

Thanks to Gary Haylett and Toby Speller for the drafting and production of this year’s programme.

Happy Sailing and Socialising at TBYC in 2012 – you now know when it’s all happening.