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Hi all, yet another frustrating day in the dingy park waiting for the wind to drop still 30 – 40knt gusts!!!!

Only to have the second day cancelled again.

All I can say is that the race officers had it right. As some of the good guys decided to take the bladeridder FX demo boat out for a sail this lasted approx 3 mins before the boat spectacularly folded up!!!

Moths obviously don’t sail in 30knts!!!

Hoping for some racing tommorrow

keep you updated Steve

The Hornet is a fast spinnaker and trapeze dingy and the class usually get 30 or so boats at their National meeting.

The Hornet National meeting this year is on 10th to 15 August 2008 at Stone SC on the Blackwater ( only 45 minutes drive from Thorpe Bay).

If anyone is available and interested in crewing with me for that week, please contact me on:

Graham Dare 07946 413923 or [email protected]

A big thank you to all those who assisted with the Finn Nationals this weekend. 

A number of people took a day’s holiday on Friday to ensure things ran smoothly.  Yesterday we had the added ingredient of a particularly strong onshore breeze making launching and recovery a tricky affair for boats with fixed rudders. 

Particular heroes were Samantha Husk, Robin Foster-Taylor, Barry Duce, Paul Farrell, Keith Persin, Kevin & Lesley Iles, Theresa Ryall, Martyn Ellis and Glen Ratcliffe, all of whom at times were neck-deep assisting Finns launching or catching them before they hit the beach.  Many others helped with trolleys and hauling boats over the shingle.

I would also like to pay tribute to all those who responded to our emergency with slick efficiency.  I’m pleased to say I saw him later in the day looking much better than he was when he was brought ashore.

A big thank-you to all involved in the running of the Finn Nationals,without your support we couldnt run this type of event.

Thank you

Spratty

Hi all, Not much going on here sailing cancelled on first day due to high winds

Boat is now fully preped following a 10 hour day in the dinghy park!!!

Lots of help from the good guys V friendly class

Have attempted to attach a small vid clip of practice last thursday

Hopefully Sailing will start tommorrow Mon 7th July

Thats all for now Steve

Paul Palmer has won the track day auction with a generous bid of £350. Well done Paul.

The track day will tack place at Donnington’s Motor Racing Circuit on the 14th July with Howard Warrington who kindly donated this prize.

Thanks Howard for supporting the Anviersary Ball Auction.

We are pleased to have renewed the 3 club pico’s and are now looking to sell the old ones.

We would like to keep these in the club if possible and are therefore offering them at a very attractive of £1,000 each.

If you are interested please speak to either Shaun Christian or Mike Thomason. 

Congratulations to the class winners and their crews:

Nick Elmore (Multihull with Asymetric), Roger Pimm (Multihull without Asymetric), Mark Dell (Monohull PY under 945) and Spratty (Sandhopper).

Although there is no category of outright winner, Nick Elmore was the fastest on corrected time.

Please click on the photo right to see some pics from the Nore Race 2008

Well done to all of you who competed in Sundays Nore, a special well done to John Glynn who this year competed in his 30th Nore race.

All results can be found on www.benfleetyachtclub.org 

Please either go to youtube.com and type “pico nationals 2008” into the search box or click on the link below and you should find 25 short videos that I took during Saturday’s racing. The videos are in sequence, so the best place to start is shot 1.

Hope you enjoy.

Martyn

Video link to Pico Nationals 2008 at TBYC