Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

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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.

There’s still time to book a table for the SANDHOPPER QUIZ NIGHT this Friday 13th Jan..

…but please be quick if you don’t want to miss out!

Tony and Janet will be your quizmasters starting at 7:30 so please arrive by 7 to get to the bar prior to the kick off.

Cost is only £5 per person and includes a Ploughman’s to refresh you at half time!

Please book with Janet in the club office on 01702 587 563 or email [email protected]

Cheques made out to TBYC please.

teams / tables of 6 people and there are of course prizes !!!

There’s still a time to book your table for the SANDHOPPER QUIZ NIGHT this Friday 13th Jan…

…but please be quick if you don’t want to miss out!

Tony and Janet will be your quizmasters starting at 7:30 so please arrive by 7 to get to the bar prior to the kick off.

Cost is only £5 per person and includes a Ploughman’s to refresh you at half time!

Please book with Janet in the club office on 01702 587 563 or email [email protected]

Cheques made out to TBYC please.

teams / tables of 6 people and there are of course prizes !!!

Hi All, for all you armchair sailors, and following popular demand I am sponsoring a trophy for the best placed TBYC virtual boat in the game. For those of you who have not entered or who do not know about it, then here are a few facts. The virtual race mirrors the actual Volvo ocean race covering 8 legs over 9 months. The game has in excess of 120000 virtual boats. leg 1 is complete but we will run each leg as a race in a series and load the entrants on Hal’s racing programme as a series. The series will have 2 discards for the 8 legs to enable newcomers to join in and possibly win!!!. After the first leg the top five TBYC boats were 1st Daren Fitchew, 2nd Jeremy Sandford, 3rd Steve Healey, 4th Steve Hopper and 5th David Hopper.

The next leg starts on Sunday 11th Dec 2011 so get registered and join in the banter and fun!!!

You can register at http://www.volvooceanracegame.org/play

Then please leave a comment on this article so we can enter you and your boat in the regatta.

Happy armchair sailing Steve Hopper

Hi all
Just a quick couple of Items for your diary’s
Sunday 27th November 10.30am Sandhopper class association AGM please come along and have your say, remember this is our class and we need to drive it forward.

Wednesday 14th December 20.00hrs Sandhopper Christmas drinks.
Hope to see you all at these 2 event.
Regards Spratty and Rupert

Saturday November 5th will be the last chance to buy prize giving tickets. Also anyone who has booked already and not paid please can you make sure payment is made by November 5th.

There is a small number of tickets available from behind the bar, if not email [email protected]

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

Congratulations to Chris Clarke & Oliver Herve who are the new Sandhopper national champions
in Sandstorm their brilliant results were 1.1.1.1.2 which sealed victory. 2nd was Apollo with Dan Henderson & Bruce Spratt. 3rd place went to Nick Binnendijk and David Hopper in Scruffy.
26 boats competed in two days of testing conditions