We are sure you will all welcome Steve Bullus who will be joining us as our permanent caterer from Sunday 18th January.
Steve looks forward to welcoming members for a full range of meals at our regular opening times and hopes to offer more outside of these times where possible.
I would ask you all to support Steve as he gets used to our environment and members.

If you want to speak to Steve for bookings or parties, his contact phone number is: 07947 741946 .

Steve will initially be offering the popular Sunday Carvery on the 18th and will be requiring bookings to identify numbers. Please phone or text Steve with your name and number of required seats.

Unfortunately Lesley is a little unwell at present and therefore Lunchtime Catering will not be available until further notice. We all hope that Lesley recovers soon and look forward to seeing her.

The resail of the Frozen Sheets Open will start at 13.30 on Sunday 11th January 2015.

Sailing Instructions are available at: Frozen Sheets SI 11Jan15

The original scheduled race was postponed from the 4th January due to thick fog.

The Frozen Sheets race will start at 10.30 on Sunday 4th January 2015.

Sailing Instructions are available at: Frozen Sheets SI 2015

Amendments to the Sailing Instruction available at: Amendment to Frozen Sheets SI 2015

Many many thanks indeed to all those who made our annual New Year’s Day Brunch possible, in particular Martin Swindon who stepped forward to lead the troops and cook for us and Paul Morgan who organised the whole event and collected all the supplies personally.  Janet Willsmer and Margaret Kennedy, our fantastic admin team, were on duty all morning.  General Committee members and their partners were there performing a range of roles from food prep to washing up to serving.  Thanks also to Paul’s children who, as always, were amazingly helpful and worked like trojans all morning.

The bar was also incredibly busy but nobody was kept waiting thanks to the efficient and friendly service provided by our bar staff.

Another wonderful, successful, event made possible by members pulling together from all sections of the Club!

Many thanks to Paul & Claire Morgan and their children for kindly supplying us with lovely nibbles on Christmas Eve at TBYC.

Hi,
I hope your all having a great Christmas.
I am hoping to sail my Hurricane at this years Frozen Sheets to work the turkey and mince pies off, but Sophie and I are down for SS7 instead.
Does anybody wish to take SS7 out? (you will need a crew) or can swap a duty.
Many thanks.
Simon

Had enough of cooking at home over Christmas. So don’t forget that Lesley will be catering at Lunchtime everyday this week, except New Years Day. She will continue with her popular offerings (there is no Turkey), however suggested that Friday maybe slightly restricted due to the Bank Holiday.

Don’t forget on New Years day the Committee will be cooking and serving Brunch between 11:00 and 13:00.

Nick Turner and family visit Mombasa, Kenya on a regular basis and he doesn’t miss the opportunity to go sailing. There are 4 or 5 Darts/Sprints type boats there that are owned by guys sailing tourists out to the Mombasa reef which is a sand bar 2 miles out from the coast. They also taxi tourists about for a quick sailing experience plus a bit of snorkeling. Basically anyway they can make a bit of money as they are desperately poor.
In Thorpe Bay Nick had asked around for any old fully battens sails and as Richard Sands had just changed his Sprint 15 sail happily passed it on. Nick then flew out with the sail to pass on as a gift.
You can see by the photos the expression of pure delight of having a Dacron made sail in his hands.
And the crowd of 10 praising Nick kindness – all repeating “God Bless you” and different variations of it, God Bless your family – God bless you for a hundred and fifty years. We had to be there as this story does not give it justice.

We are pleased to announce even without a caterer there will be a New Years Day Brunch – enjoy a “recovery” brunch cooked and served by club and committee members!

Between 11.00am and 1.00pm on 1st January, Martin Swindon and members of the General Committee (and family) will be in the kitchen for one day only (in fact two hours only!) serving full English breakfasts and other brunch options including Scrambled Eggs with Smoked Salmon (no pre-orders required) at only £7.50 per person (Children £4.00).

Tickets available now from the club bar – this is always very popular and restricted to 120 people, so please buy your tickets early to avoid disappointment (no later than 30th December 2014).

The bar will be open and will also be serving Bucks Fizz, Bloody Mary’s and all your other favourites.