The “summer” season is coming to an end and with it arrives the annual migration to the boat park of the cruisers, which is scheduled for Saturday 18^th October. As usual, those who are NOT sailing in the Winter Series need to remove their boats on or before Sunday 12^th October, whereas those who will continue to sail should move their boats to the western half of the boat park.

It is noticeable that some owners take a rather disinterested attitude to the reorganisation of the boat park, leaving it to others to move their boats on their behalf. Please bear in mind that if your boat needs to be moved because you’ve not bothered to comply with the above request, it might not be treated with quite the same delicacy that you would apply – why should it? So if you care about your boat, either take it away OR BETTER STILL, move it to the west side of the boat park and JOIN THE REST OF US in the Winter Series.

The more efficiently we dinghy and cat sailors clear the space for the cruisers the more compactly they are installed, leaving us more space for our boats, so it’s in our interests to co-operate as fully as possible. Not only that, but the Master Recruiter for the Sprint 15 class and Keeper of the Boat Park – none other than Andrew Hannah – has sworn severe retribution for any boats not complying. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Those stalwarts joining us keen Sprint sailors for the season of PROPER sailing need to enter by Saturday 25^th October.  Unfortunately the Sandhoppers won’t be with us – Barry is feeling his age and it is said that this year he may hibernate.

Finally, I’m bowing out after an interesting year. There is a tremendous spirit within this club in which everybody pulls together and I’m a very grateful beneficiary of that culture.  Many people have helped me at various times. My successor is that Contender sailor and master-fixer of broken Sprints, Chris Boshier. I wish him well in the post and hope you will all support him as you have me.

Don’t forget the Winter Series.  See you there!

Howard Hawkes.

We will meet on Thursday 18th Sept to look at entries to the Autumn Series.  Come along and register you interest even if you have no-one to sail with at present.  We may have people interested in taking a crew as the Autumn series is traditionally fairly breezy and it is always more fun with two anyway.

Make sure you are there to register even if you are an old hand, but if for some reason you can’t make it it will be possible to sign-on as usual in the Bosun’s hut on Saturday 20th for a race start time of 2.45pm  (try to get ready in plenty of time please), briefing at the top of the slip at 2.20pm.

On Thursday, at 7.15pm we will look at various aspects of the start sequence and mark rounding to familiarise those who may well be taking their first steps into racing following a successful cadet week.  Turn up even if you are a seasoned pro and ensure i mention everything needed, in order to help newcommers get aquainted with the way we run the series at TBYC.

On a seperate note, please could we get a list of willing volunteers to help run the race box with Lisa and Linda (needed for this Sat as Linda is on rescue duty, and on Sat 27th Sept and Sat 4th Oct).  It would be great to confirm who can help asap.  Please give me or one of the aformentioned ladies a ring if you can.

Cheers,

See you on the water!

Rupert

great fun race yesterday and fantastic to see so many cadets taking part in the windy conditions, the sandhoppers were out in force with Nemesis taking first place in our class, well done Paul and Toby.

I would like to point out that one of the sandhoppers was taking part in a different race, Sand  Star helmed by our commodore and crewed by a man with his own fleet of boats thought it was the Queenborough race and headed for the kent shore, yes messers saunders and Hopper made a massive school boy error and went the wrong way, to make matters worse, upon rejoining the pursuit race all be it a country mile behind, they decided to retire and go fo an early bath.

with all the experience that hopper has sailing around the Uk and the commodore who has just returned from a sailing holiday in Greece, you would expect them to be able to navigate to mark Y.

next time boys follow the cadets, they seem to have better idea of where to go.

Fellow members, when you see either Steve or Gordon dont forget to talk to them about their school boy error.

RobinI seem to have left TBYC without one of my boots yesterday evening. Identifying features – wet and smelly. Any information leading to its recovery much appreciated.





Robin

Enjoy the film, Camera work by Glen.

Don’t forget the RNLI Pursuit Race this Sunday, first start 4.00 pm.

For the uninitiated, the start seqence begins with the slowest boat and gradually works through in decreasing PY order so that the fastest boats start last.  The race will be run for 2 hours and the first over the line wins.  It’s a great spectacle watching the faster boats working their way through the fleet and trying to work out whether they can overtake the early starters.  It’s also a great way of raising money for the Lifeboat as the entry fees go the the RNLI.

RNLI Pursuit SIs 2008

RNLI Pursuit Race Starts 2008

49er, 29er, B14 and Musto Skiff Open Meeting to be held on 13th and 14th September 2008. All necessary documents listed below (in Microsoft Word .doc format) for download.

49er, 29er, B14 and Musto Skiff Open Meeting Entry Form

49er, 29er, B14 and Musto Skiff Open Meeting Parents Declaration

49er, 29er, B14 and Musto Skiff Open Meeting Notice Of Race (NOR)

49er, 29er, B14 and Musto Skiff Open Meeting Sailing Instructions (SI)

49er, 29er, B14 and Musto Skiff Open Meeting Course Diagram

Our yacht Moon Dancer won the overall class 6 title and mid-week class 6 title at this year’s Burnham Week, registered as a  Thorpe Bay Yacht Club entry.

Next year we are moving into the more difficult world of Spinnakers in class 5. We will need to add a couple of crew to compete in this class. The yacht is a small 24 foot Malbec cruiser racer and if anyone wants to crew let me know.

Brian Browne

A big “thank you” to the Cadets who took up the challenge of being RO assistants last Sunday. I thought you all did an excellent job:

Alex Thomason
Athina Duce
Isabella Allard
Isabelle Duce
Madeleine Thomason
Robyn Farrall and
William Thomason

You worked really well as team and I enjoyed your company.
Chris

Hi All cat sailors and interested parties, I’ve posted some Hurricane videos and Nicks F20 shot by Glen on youtube, have a look.