A reminder so you can book your Caribbean Holidays, Cadet Week 2016 is from the 1st to 5th August.

This year’s Interclub Dinghy Team Race is hosted by Thames Estuary Yacht Club. There are fours classes:

• Ingram Shield – Four boat of the same class
• Operatic Cup – Any (mixed) Class
• Silver Sail Trophy – Single handed Classes
• Cadet Class (Under 18 years)

Our Cadets won this event last year and are entering a team to defend their title!  I will be supporting them in a Safety Rib.

If any adults wish to participate, representing TBYC please contact Dave Ayre at [email protected] or 07581 288886. He will co-ordinate the adult teams. Teams of 3 or 4.

If there are more Cadets that would like to participate, they should contact me at [email protected] or 07815 113459. (Bear in mind that you need to sail around the pier).

The deadline for the forms to be submitted is Wednesday 23rd September.

Race Instruction can be found here:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/j3vitlupd6qruep/Interclub%20Dinghy%20Team%20Race%202015.docx?dl=0

Tony Clarke will continue to ensure our ribs are fuelled and ready for action, although will not be able to undertake his support boat duties for most of the rest 2015.
This will mean that we need volunteers to undertake the vacant RIB helming and RIB launching/recovery duties over this period.
RIB launching/recovery will require volunteers with a vehicle with towing point to deliver and retrieve the two RIBs between the clubhouse and the slipway on each occasion.

If you are helming or crewing a rib, you will need to ensure it is washed down, rinsed through and the cover and clamp on.
Please can those members with suitable vehicles volunteer for one or more occasions. You can volunteer through Dutyman ( a new duty of RIB launch/recovery has been added) or contact Graham Dare ( [email protected], 07946 413923)
Clearly, if we cannot get enough volunteers for RIB launching/recovery we will need to review our sailing programme.
Thank you in anticipation of your help.
Rear Commodore ( Racing)

Please book your table direct with Steve on 07947 741946 or email [email protected]

Sunday 20^th September 2015

Starters

Olive and Feta cheese salad

Mushroom soup with fresh cream, parsley and croutons

Ardennes pate with toast and plum chutney

Main courses

Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, sea salt roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables and Shiraz gravy

Pulled pork on sweet potato and corn rosti with plum sauce

Smoked haddock rarebit, mash, pea fricassee and poached egg

Tomato and Parmesan risotto

Desserts
Apricot crumble with cream
Apple and blackberry trifle
Cheese and crackers

£12.50 per person for 3 courses when pre booked before Saturday. £13.50 thereafter £10 per person for 2 courses pre booked, £11 thereafter
Children’s (under 12) portions and alternative menu available

As part of the ‘New Cadet Racing’ events this year, we have decided to have a shorter ‘TBYC Junior Bart’s Bash’ to allow our younger sailors a chance to race on Sunday.

This event is open to all Cadets.
We welcome those who have been racing in the Pico Series and of course, all Cadets that may feel more confident with the extra support, and not forgetting our more experienced sailors.
The course with be shorter than the adults’ course, sailing for approximately 50 minutes.
Prizes according to numbers.

There will be a briefing at 1400, when the course will be explained. Instructions are below, but don’t worry all will be made clear before the race.
Starts at 1500 (Mass Start).
There will be a briefing at 14.00 (1 hour before start) with Nick Elmore and Nick Alston.
The race will use the Cadet buoy as the windward mark with the rest of the course being decided on the day.
The start will be at the committee boat. It will be a Mass Start with the rest of the fleets.
The number of laps will be on the blackboard at the top of the slipway and / or check with Support Rib on the water. Your race can be shortened by the Support Rib.
On the starting signal, you will cross the line and beat to the CADET BUOY, which is a special buoy marked with a C. This will be your windward mark.
Check whether a Red or Green flag is displayed on the Committee boat; Red means leave marks to port, Green means leave marks to starboard.
As you cross the finish line the committee boat will record your time. They will not give you a signal. The Support Rib will blow a whistle unless is needed elsewhere.
Let have a massive turn out on Sunday as this is the last race in this year’s New Cadet Racing programme.

Thanks to Neil Hurrell for this evenings talk about Crewing on the Round World Clipper Race. Good Luck to him completing his legs March onwards and hopefully he can come back and tell us more afterwards.

For those interested there are photos taken by Margaret Kennedy of the boats at Southend and St Katherines Dock, some of which are inside one of the Clippers. These are available on a Club Flickr Gallery at https://www.flickr.com/photos/96697991@N02/albums/72157656274637264

The TBYC Bart’s Bash is at 1500 this Sunday, 20 September 2015.

Please join in and support this event.

This is a mass start mixed fleet average lap race. The Supplementary Sailing Instructions are attached.                                  Bart’s Bash 2015 – TBYC Supp SIs

TBYC is a registered Bart’s Bash event venue. Whilst not essential,  competitors are encouraged to register their boat on the Bart’s Bash web site prior to the day.   http://my.bartsbash.com/registration.

Elapsed time and distance, together with sailing conditions, will be uploaded to the Bart’s Bash results site.

The TBYC results will also be included in the club results set and the TBYC Veteran’s Trophy will be awarded to the first ‘veteran’ helm. A veteran is 55 years or over on the day of the event. The race is also one of the TBYC Sprint 5S series races.

There are no entry fees for this event but entrants are requested to donate to the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation through the Bart’s Bash web site or at the charity boxes at the club on the day of the event. A minimum of £5 is suggested.

Bart’s Bash is officially a monster

The Largest Sailing Race in the World, verified by Guinness World Records.

The first bash in 2014 saw over 30,000 sailors take to the water at over 550 locations around the world. Forty eight boats took part at TBYC

Bart’s Bash is now an annual fundraising and participation campaign promoted by the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation (ASSF) and this year, the organisers want to see participation grow like crazy and see Bart’s Bash become the biggest sporting event in the world. http://www.bartsbash.com/

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Three Lasers travelled to Harlow Blackwater Sailing Club on 12th September, when we arrived the breeze was light with a few gusts, but by the time we had rigged and launched it was blowing 25mph, we had a long run to the start line which was hairy to say the least and i was upside down within 2 minutes !! The course was set straight up and down the river towards Osea Island which meant it was a windward leaward course, and the run which was about 2 miles long was an out of control sleigh ride from start to finish with boats doing death rolls everywhere and people swimming to catch up with their boats !

Michael Airey gave up after having his boat blown away from under him, Chris Tillyer was in the mix up the front as usual, and i had more capsizes in these 3 races than the whole of the year. This is a lovely club to sail at and they had 21 entries from 5 clubs.

Chris Tillyer ended up 2nd overall, well done.

Rick Paxman was 5th overall

One for next years calendar

Rick Paxman

Thanks to martin swindon for the photos