Please note that only food and drinks purchased in the club are permitted for consumption on the premises. There have been recent instances of club members eating their own food in the club house. This must cease with immediate effect.

Vic Davis

Vice Commodore

Please note the Bar opening hours are as follows:-

Tuesday                 11 – 3                 7 – 11

Wednesday           11 – 3                7 – 11

Thursday              11 – 3                 6 – 11 

Friday                     11 – 3                5 – 11 

Saturday         11 – 11 

Sunday         11 – 9

Vic Davis

Vice Commodore

Can anyone please help? I can not do my Race Officer duty on May 31st as I am away at  the Hurricane Nationals.

Cruiser and Hurricane commitments have not left many dates that I can swap.

I can do 26th April, 25/26 July, August 15th or anything after 10th October.

Many thanks,

Wayne Miller 07799 704 524.

Why not come and join us on Tuesday 14 April at 8.30pm to hear a very topical talk. Although titled “FINANCE FOR THE NAUTICAL LADY – HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN DIFFICULT TIMES” it is intended for everyone. All members and their guests will be most welcome.

Can anyone swap with Ian Abbott and Graeme Ward who are on SeaSafe 3 Sunday 24th May please?
If you can help please contact me on 07896676148
Chris

Do you sail a Laser Pico? Getting too big for it? Wonder where to go next?

A laser with a 4.7 rig could be ideal. The 4.7 is the smallest of the 3 rigs designed for use on a one design Laser. The sail is smaller than a Pico Race main but the boat is much faster – particularly off wind when it really flies.

We have several younger members sailing the Laser 4.7 already and it looks like 2009 will be the year when we really take off.

When you outgrow the 4.7 you can stay with a Laser by moving up to the Radial rig.

The Laser Centre are loaning us 6 boats for use at Thorpe Bay over the end of May bank holiday weekend – 23/24/25th. Please email me at [email protected] to add yourself or your child to my list of those interested.

Parents.  A secondhand Laser need not be expensive and if you are selling a Pico the difference could be a lot less than you think. Laser have sold over 190,000 Lasers since the early 1970’s so choice and availability is excellent. Provided that you buy sensibly you won’t lose money when it’s time to sell either.

Email me at [email protected] or call me on 07768 571768 for buying advice.

Robin

RS 500 Sail No 554
Grey hull, black chute. Trailer/Trolley, Under and Over Cover, Foil Bag, Lots of Spares and Extras. VGC. No use in past year. £4400 ono.
Tel 07799674217

The echo have offered to print our results and race reports which is nice of them and they’ll even include a picture or two if they’re good or qas they put it “Any pix from digital cameras (wel captioned) appreciated and almost
certainly used…. especially iof they are mad or creative and not just
stock shots. We like close up action for newspaper not Beken-style
portraits.”
so if you’ve got a safety boat duty take your camera and see if you can get a picture in the paper.
They’d like any reports or pictures by 11am on a Monday so if you do get any good pictures then you’ll need to get them to me sharpish.

mail them to at [email protected] and I’ll forward on with the results.

This Sunday is the slipway appeal day. As you can see from the banner advert above it is £15 to get a pitch for the day, all this goes directly towards funding the slipway which is extremly important to the club. Even if you only have one item to sell, get in the spirit of the day and hire a pitch. It would be great to see the Dinghy park stuffed to the rafters with would be salespeople. Make it a fun day, and check out what your sailing pals are trying to flog!

Please come along to the working party this Saturday 4th April. The main tasks are to clear out and tidy the Dinghy Park. Then clean the concrete outfall near the slipway, as this will be used for picking up safety boat crews etc when we have no slipway.

Chris