We are looking for some volunteers please. We need an Assistant for the Race Officer and Safety Boat Crew for the 10.00 am race next Sunday.

If you are able to help out for a couple of hours please call or text me on 07881 501 675.

 Thank you

Shaun Christian

Many thanks to Jo and the catering team for feeding us all at the weekend, the sailing was a bit extreme at times with a few bruises to show, again thanks to the race officers and support crews for most enjoyable sailing. The hog roast party was a great success , well done kylie another sell out event.

A massive thank you to Jo and her team for an awesome hog roast and chocolate fountain on Easter Saturday.

Thank you to everyone who bought tickets, i hope you all had a fantastic night.

See you all at the next one!

Due to unforseen circumstances Rex Hanson needs to swap duties with someone for Sunday 11th April. He is down for assistant RO . If you can help then please contact me.

Chris Maloney

Day Reports
Day 2 of the Steve & Spratty assault on Kilimanjaro
a longer day today at higher altitude approx 6hrs climbing
It was a day of infinite ridges just when you thought you were at the top yes
you guessed another bloody ridge!!!!
As is always the case with and expedition with spratty he managed to draw blood from him
self today even if only minor

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Hi All,

thanks to everyone who waited around for us to sort out the final results and graciously accepted their prizes.
For anyone else who won a prize but didn’t attend the prizegiving (see results page to find who you are) then your prizes are behind the bar.

A big thanks to all the race officers and support crew and Tony Padbury for doing the results as well as all the sailors who braved the wintery elements to make the series so successful, let’s have the same again if not better next year!

many thanks to all those who helped lift in go so smoothly especially Paul Spratt for directing, Ryan Peacher & Dan Henderson who were excellent lollipop men, (job for life there boys) Steve Hopper for weighing the 3 very underweight sandhoppers, (Rupert Chris and Nick are looking for 3 tonne of lead if anyone has some?) Jason & Roger whose skill and speed is second to none ensuring our boats are delivered to their moorings. the Stig for showing all how to drive those fabulous machines, and finally to lisa farrall for organising the lovely dinner which was enjoyed by 80 smiling faces. We were all very pleased to see 18 of our friends from MBSC who helped make the evening such a success.
we all must of been so excited (hungover) to be racing on sunday that we were all disqualified for missing the general recall, happy days, more of the same this easter weekend.

Easter is in couple of weeks time and I am looking of a crew for the Easter weekend. My normal crew (Sue) is on holiday then so if any body would like to crew in the front end of a National 12 please give me a call on 01702 205297 . Are any of the cadets who crewed in the National 12 championship last year interested? You will need to be very agile and light. Steve Le Grys

Finally we get round to Sandhopper Lift in this Saturday 27th March, its been a long cold and very wet winter where the Sandhopper owners have taken every window in the weather to make their boats racing ready for the new season, they all look in absolutely tip top condition which is fantastic for the class and our club. The Sandhoppers are the largest One Design Keel Boat Class on the Thames Estuary and there are only a handful of locations round the country where they can boast any one design fleet above 30.
This is a great turning point in the year for me with the boats out on their moorings means summer is not far away.
If you haven’t seen our friendly Local Farmers Roger and Jason Burroughs in action with their fantastic machinery then be at the club from 2pm onwards on saturday to see machine masters at work. 2hrs later and 35 boats will be on their moorings….ready for racing on sunday morning, lovely.

Easter Hog Roast tickets are still available behind the bar and from Jo in the kitchen. Get yours quick before they all sell out!