On behalf of the Hurricane 5.9 Association I would like to extend a big thank you to TBYC. This years Nationals was said to be the best ever, this was due to all the hard work done behind the scenes. Thank’s to Jo and the catering staff for feeding us all, many of the sailors mention how good the food was. To Gordon and Lorraine and the lovely bar staff for serving lots of drinks, I believe from Nick Elmore, the bar nearly ran out of beer. To the sailing committee, especially to Chris for sorting out the results every day. To Phil Crawford and his Race officers team, working in extremely hot conditions and setting good courses. Big thanks! Tony Clarke and the guard boat crews for your hard work, especially on the Saturday in windy conditions with lots of capsizes and masts down. To my team of event organisers, Kylie Jenkins, Wayne Miller, Pete Sherwin, Paul Palmer, Chris Hull and Andrew Hannah. Thanks for your help and support.  To all the club flag officers, Pete Thompson our Commodore and Nick Elmore, Vice commodore, thanks for support. To our prize sponsors, Hyde Sails, Spartan, AW sailboats and Towergate Mardon insurances. To the Hurricane 5.9 association committee and entrants, who made this event such good fun. Finally to Little Max Duce, who did a stirling job sorting out all the trollies and helping the sailors on the beach. Cheers Struan Wallace, Hurricane Treasurer.

Unfortunately I am unable to carry out my guardboat duty (SS2) on Sunday 8th August for the Yantlet Trophy (I’ve already swapped once).

If anyone is willing to swap guardboat duty please let me know.

Many thanks Wes
07891 544972 / 01702 293468

please follow the links below for

Notice of race hurrisprint NORs

Sailing instructions hurrisprint SIs

and courses Appendix A

congratualtions to Dave Whiteand John and Dan Henderson, Graham Sexton and his lovely and talented crew Kristina who did all the hard work, tactics, navigation, wind forecasting / weather routing etc etc and Tally Eyre and Peter for winning their represented classes in the Nore race this year.

Showing TBYC leads the way in dinghies on the sunny side of the Thames yet again.

provisional results here http://www.benfleetyachtclub.org/files/NoreRace/Nore_Race_2010_files/2010_Nore_Results_web_prov_1_200610_2100.xls

Please somebody swap a Race officer duty with me.

I have a clash with another event.

Thank you

Tim

please follow the link below for details

http://www.benfleetyachtclub.org/files/NoreRace/Nore_Race_2010_files/NEW_COURSES_FOR_2010_NORE_RACE.doc

The club will be showing the England V Algeria match on Friday 18th June, Kick off is at 7.30pm

The kitchen will be open from 5pm – 7pm for pre match sustenance !

See you all there!

As some of you will be aware, I am part of a team intending to row across the English Channel in the next few days when the weather settles down (now 90% sure for Sunday). If conditions are right, we are also hoping to beat the current record of 2 hours 40 minutes. Why? You might well ask!

It’s all for charity: The AHOY Centre, which is based in east London, provides water based activities for young and disabled people in one of Britain’s most deprived areas. In particular it does a lot of work with young offenders and those who are not in education, giving them some structure to their lives, often for the first time, regularly leading to RYA qualifications and similar.

For more details see www.ahoy.org.uk.

Anyone wishing to sponsor us is very welcome to do so and the JustGiving site is: www.justgiving.com/xchannelrowing.

Thanks for your support
Kevin Iles

We will be hosting a fun/friendly pre World Cup 5 aside tournament on the green outside the club from 4pm tomorrow.

Everyone is welcome to get involved, the more the merrier!!!

there will be beer/soft drinks for the winning team.

Hope to see you all there!!!

All,

Please make sure you read the attached SSI’s

TBYCSSIs

Thank you