Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

Thank you to all who came last night to celebrate another successful and exhilarating years racing at TBYC.  Special thanks to Simon and Sophie Boygle, Sam Husk and Mike Thomason.  It was their hard work, help, organisation and commitment that made last night possible, and to the class captains who came to speak present their fellow sailors with their prizes.  Thank you Struan for stepping in and presenting the Fast Asymmetric Cats.  Lastly a big thank you to Paul Spratt for comparing the Prize giving, entertaining us making the event an amusing and enjoyable evening for all.  Congratulations to all the prize winners.

Calling all Sandhopper sailors, please don’t forget the prize giving 7.30 this coming Saturday night.
We hope to see you all there.

Regards Spratty and Rupert

3 Thorpe Bay boats braved the “killer shrimp” at the Ovington Inlands last weekend at Graham Water.

Dan Henderson and George Hand finished a superb 4th place taking on some of Britain’s Olympic contenders scoring a 1st and two 2nds in the 49er fleet. Miles and Mason Burrage came a very credible 7th out of the 15 strong fleet, really looking good out there in the 16-20 knot breeze.

Newcomers to the 29er fleet this year, Alex Farrall and George Warrington placed 24th overall in the biggest fleet of 62 boats. Their 1st event after a few weekend training sessions with the RYA pre TT squad and they were very happy with their efforts.

http://grafham.dyndns.org/Gwsc_Results/Open%20Meetings/2011/Ovington%20Inlands%202011.htm

The challenge is on for the insomniacs amongst us because the addictive online Round the World, Volvo Ocean race game starts on 5th November at 14:00 CET.

The race  lasts for nearly 9 months and mimicks the real event.

In 2009 there were several boats entered from TBYC and the rivalry set in.

You can run a boat as a share and split the load if you wish.

Please feel free to leave your TBYC boatname once you have signed up as a comment on this item then you will be able to track their progress.

Click on the image to sign up.

AeolusTBYC

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A big thank you to those members including the Commodore that stepped in yesterday at short notice to cover duty no shows.

Please remember it is your own responsibility to arrange duty swaps, please don’t expect the Club Office to deal with last minute requests…….

There are a limited number available from behind the bar and you can also book with myself: [email protected]

Guaranteed to be a great evening, come and support your fellow sailors on their wins.

I found this next to the race hut blackboard and put it indoors before I locked up.

Robin