Saturday 11th July – post sailing

I am pleased to announce that James Christian our resident DJ will again be entertaining us all.  He is organising a Scavenger Hunt and games from about 7pm which will be followed by a disco.  

Large Jenga, Connect 4 and other games will be set up in the Commdores bar for all to enjoy, leaving the main bar free for everyone else to get down and boogie, strutt your funky stuff, moon walk or whatever takes your fancy.

Pre-booked tickets cost adults £2.00 and children £1.00

Tickets purchased on the evening cost adults £3.00 and children £1.50

There will be a raffle at 9pm – entrant must be present to claim the prize, otherwise it will be redrawn

Tickets are on sale from Tina Little on Cadet night or via [email protected] or 07733 025 642

BBQ available from aFORDERble post sailing from 4.45-6.45pm
Prebookable with Jo on 07500 878 249
Price £6.00 – Menu = chicken, burger, sausage in a bun and salads (veggy option available)

Cadet Week is only 3 weeks away and we need to have all of last year’s trophies returned to the Club. If you have any of the following please return to me as soon as possible:

–  Walley Cup

–  Dedman Shield

–  Waitrose Shield

–  Race Group Trophy

–  Eyre Cup

–  Elmore Seamanship Trophy

–  Stingray Le Mans Trophy

I will shortly be posting out the timetables for the week and the parent’s duties.

Bev Warrington

On the 13th June, three boats from the club turned up to sail the biggest catamaran race in the world, with approx 580 boats from twelve different countries on the beach at Texel in Holland. As usual getting off the beach was bad as usual due to the surf. This was my third year, the first time was back in 05 when most boats was destroyed, RFT ‘s included, only 80 boats completed the course that year.

Nick & Kyle on the F20, Pete Sherwin and crew Mark, plus Wayne and I on our Hurricanes joined the 9am early morning start line after successfully launching our kites to break free of the surf in very light F1-2 winds.
Web link for pictures: http://www.roundtexel.com/Default.asp?xlid=en

The start had nearly 500 boats, some decided not to go in the light winds or to attempt getting off the beach. As the race organizes had warned off closing the gates if timed out.
Unfortunately for Pete, he was a casualty at the second gate along with hundreds more and had to sail all the way back, which took nearly as long as doing the whole race.

Wayne and I had a good result for us being 98th boat home but after handicap 223rd but a great result for Nick and Kyle who were 9th boat home on the water and 56th overall on there first Round Texel race, Well done guy’s

Here’s to 2010, just don’t tell the wife

Last weekend in light winds, 4 tbyc boats made the journey to Marconi SC.
Kyle Stoneham and Ollie Herve used Kyle’s Tornado for around the cans racing on the Saturday and won 3rd place out of 35 boats, well-done guys.

Then on the Sunday the weather decided to play tricks with little wind and horrible fog with a variable F3 due to come in. The 3x Piers race stretches for 50 miles up and back down Essex coast from Osea pier to Walton pier. The race officer decided to delay for half an hour to let the fog lift enough to see the water and the wind to fill in.

Neither happened, so the race was started with the intention to shorten course at Colne point. A slow start for everybody, all looking for advantage of tide and wind to get ahead.
At one point, Chris Brooks on Hurricane 307 had the advantage closely followed by Nick and Kyle on the F20, with Kylie and I, Chris Hull and Simon chasing. This was Kylies first open event and long distance race and it was good to see the amount of alcohol such a small person can consume and still stand-up from the night before BBQ.

Lucky for me, having such a light crew was to pay off dividends, All the way up and down the course the Hurricane’s were within 300yds off each other it was at the Colne turning point that Kylie and I started to lead the pack, Most went directly down and were swept out but we cannily, gybe back in shore and had a good angle to power up and be on course for first Hurricane home on the piers race. If only I had read the race instructions properly, Next time Kylie, just kick me. We were home and dry but my mistake lost us 4 places at the finish.

Well done to Nick and Kyle, once the wind picked up a bit the F20 got flying and they got back in double quick time finishing 3rd over the line and 18th on handicap. Simon Steptoe on his F20 was going to join in the fun but had to drop out at the last moment, luckily for us he decided to join in on the BBQ and bring the wine, Most appreciated mate.

Hi, I want to share some of my Flickr photos with you. They’re in a set called “TBYC Slipway open-day 27.6.09“.

Hope you like them!

— Struan Wallace

just a reminder that ALL evening points are a 7pm start, not as the program suggests at 5pm

see you there if I can get out of work.

Would anyone be able to swap duties please. Sally and I are down for Seasafe3 on Thurs eve but I have to go to France on short notice.Please ring 07768 981 669 or 479349. many thanks

Ty

I was clearing out the Bosun’s Hut this morning with Mike Thomason.

At ten o’clock we broke off to watch the last concrete plank be lifted off the beach and fixed in position at the foot of the slipway.

It was an honour for me to be there with Mike to witness it, for it  is an accumulation of five years work for him.

All members current and future owe him a debt of gratitude for the way he has led the project which is a lasting legacy to the club.

From all the  membership.     Thank you Mike.

Eric Mitchell            Commodore

AMENDED

 To be held at:  Thorpe Bay Yacht Club, 115 Thorpe Bay Gardens,

Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 3NW

Telephone (01702) 587563

Rules:  Racing will be governed by the Racing Rules of Sailing, the prescriptions of the RYA, class rules, except if any of these are changed by these sailing instructions, the Thorpe Bay Yacht Club Open Meeting Sailing Instructions and the Supplementary Sailing Instructions.

Eligibility and Entry: The regatta is open to all classes of boats.  Members of TBYC will enter when signing on in the Bosun’s Hut.  Competitors who are not members of TBYC must fill in an entry form prior to racing.

Schedule of Races

Sailing Instructions: These will be available in the clubhouse main bar area on completion of registration.

Venue: The racing area will be to the south of TBYC.

Courses: The course to be sailed for races 1-3 will be as shown in the diagram on page 2.

Race 4 will be a ‘long distance race’ the result of which will count toward the overall series score.  The course for race 4 will be displayed on a black board on the committee boat after the completion of race 3.

 three or more races have been completed.  If only one or two races are completed, a boat’s score will be the total of her race scores.

Disclaimer of Liability: Competitors participate in the regatta entirely at their own risk.  See Rule 4, Decision to Race.  The organising authority will not accept any liability for material damage or personal injury or death sustained in conjunction with or prior to, during or after the regatta.

Insurance: Each participating boat shall be insured with valid third party liability insurance with a minimum of £2,000,000 per event.

Boat Parking: Boats should be left in the TBYC boat park fronting on to Thorpe Esplanade or as directed by a member of the event organising team.

Car Parking: Cars should be parked in the Southend Corporation Car Park adjacent to the boat park – TBYC car parking stickers will be made available.  No cars in or in front of the boat park please.

Food and Bar Service: Food and drink will be available in the clubhouse on both days. 

Prize-giving: In the clubhouse as soon as possible after completion of racing on Sunday.

Changes to Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions:  All changes will be posted at least two hours before the start of the race it will affect, except that any change in the schedule of races will be posted by 20.00 on the day before it will take effect.

Further information can be found at:  www.tbyc.org

Or from:           Chris Boshier, Sailing Secretary, 

E-mail:   [email protected] Tel: 07770 871967

please find attached the SI’s and start times for classes for this years pursuit race, if I’ve omitted your class please mail me asap so I can amend the list, as if you’re not on the list you won’t have a start.

[email protected]

TBYC – RNLI Pursuit Race 2009
Supplementary Sailing Instructions

Racing will be governed by the Racing Rules of Sailing, the prescription of the RYA, the Thorpe Bay Yacht Club Sailing Instructions and these Supplementary Sailing Instructions

Race Duration and Entry
• Entry fee for the race is a £3 per boat voluntary contribution. – All proceeds will be donated to the RNLI.
• The Race Duration has been calculated based on the Laser Pico (Two Sails) sailing for 2 hours. Start times for all other classes have been calculated using an unadjusted PY system based on the handicap numbers in use at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club as at 01 June 2009 for monohulls and SCRHS numbers with a .686 mltiplier for multihulls..
• Classes not allocated a start time should contact the race officer prior to the warning signal for the first start to be allocated a start time.
• Competitors sailing boats without a start time allocated that do not contact the race officer before this time will not be eligible to race.

The Course
• The course will be displayed on the blackboard at the top of the slipway.

The Start
• Start times have been rounded to the nearest minute and are published on the Start Times sheet that accompanies this set of supplementary sailing instructions.

• Flags will only be used in the initial warning and preparatory period before the first start. International Code Flag R shall be used as the warning signal for the first start. Sound signals shall govern the starting sequence thereafter.

• 27 separate start times are set. A blackboard with the start number written on it will be displayed on the Committee Boat 1 minute before that number’s start. A single sound signal will be made for each of the designated starts even if no boat start in that class..

• Competitors are requested to keep clear of the line until the after the start immediately prior to their class.

Finishing
• The race will finish exactly 2 hours after the first start time.
• A committee boat flying a blue flag will motor to the point where the lead boat has reached at the pre-determined finish time and drop a buoy to form a finish line.
• All boats shall then sail through that finish line to gain a place on the final results.
• Time limit for ALL classes to cross the finish line after the pre-determined finish time will be 20 minutes. All boats failing to complete the course in that time will be recorded as did not finish.

Thorpe Bay Yacht Club – RNLI Pursuit Race 2009
Start Times

Based on Pico Sailing 120 minutes
Start Number Class Start Time
1 Laser Pico 15:00
2 Laser pico single sail 15:02
3 Sandhopper, Topaz Duo, feva xl 15:09
4 Laser 4.7 15:11
5 Solo, Byte 15:13
6 National 12, Laser Radial,laser 2000 15:19
7 Laser 15:20
8 RS200, Albacore, Finn 15:22
9 phantom, laser II 15:24
10 Merlin Rocket 15:26
11 Contender 15:28
12 rs500, hornet 15:30
13 rs400 15:32
14 Laser 4000, rs600, 29er 15:36
15 505, 59er, Dart Sprint 15:37
16 hobie 15 15:38
17 musto skiff, kl 15.5 15:38
18 Dart 16 15:39
19 Dart 16 (spi), Topper topaz 16cx, Hobie 15 spi 15:41
20 Dart 15 sprint, laser 5000 15:42
21 Dart 18 15:45
22 hobie 16, foil Moth 15:50
23 Spitfire (2 sail) , 49er 15:51
24 Spitfire (spin), Hurricane (no spi) 15:54
25 Hurricanes 5.9sx, inter 18, tornado std 15:57
26 Nacra 20, tornado 24 15:59
27 Tornado sport, Nacra 20  big rig 16:00