Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

Hello TBYC cruisers,

A quick round-up:

Welcome to Mike Pearmain

We are delighted to welcome Mike to the Club and the Cruising Section. Mike sails Sea Wicca, a 19’ bilge keel Sea Wych (this doubles the size of TBYC’s Sea Wych class!).  He’ll be mooring her here from May.

Cruising Social functions for the next four weeks

Tuesday, 12 February:  Noggin & Natter, 8:30 pm, Bar

Tuesday, 19 February: RNLI First Aid at Sea, 8:30 pm, Commodore’s Bar  (TBC)

Tuesday, 26 February: Noggin & Natter, 8:30 pm, Bar

Tuesday, 5 March: Section Committee meeting 7pm Commodore’s Bar

Noggin & Natter, 8:30 pm, Bar

Not forgetting “The Engagement”, a farce from The Thorpe Bay Rotary Players on 15th March 2013, written by our very own Cruising Social Secretary, Gaynor. I’m sure she’d be delighted to sell you tickets…  make up a party…

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I have moderated and seen to the programming of the TBYC website for 5 years now, it’s time to hand over the keys to someone with the necessary skills.

This has nothing to do with the hosting because as of last November Ian Homan took over the hosting from me and is kindly hosting the website on his server but does not have an active role in the administration of the site.

The role would require you to know about WordPress and HTML to administer the site.

If any member is interested in taking over my role then please contact Janet Willsmore at the club with your experience.  email: [email protected]

Martyn Eyre

Due to unforeseen cirucumstances, our Cocktail Evening, due to be held this Saturday 16th February has been postponed until Friday 27th September.

Our sincere apologies to those members that have purchased tickets – a full refund will be given (please contact Janet Willsmer on 01702 587563).

Kind regards,

Stephanie Bradley

At the RNLI Supporters dinner last night, I am very pleased and honoured to receive, on behalf of Thorpe Bay Yacht Club, a letter of thanks signed by the Cheif Executive of the RNLI for the years of support our club has given to the Institute. Thanks were given to us for not only the financial donations but also for welcoming members of the crews and committees to use our club facilities.

We also received a plaque, of thanks, from the Institute.

The award can be seen on the wall by the main bar.

Nick Elmore
Commodore

The TBYC Racing Calendar featuring pictures of club racing from last year by Linzi Swindon and all race/event details (April-March) is now available from the TBYC office and bar for £12.

We have enough for the people that purchased them last year and if we run out you can preorder at the same price by middle of March and it will be delivered before the Calendar starts.

Lucille Palmer is braving the elements at the end of February in Northern Sweden inside the arctic circle to raise money for Walk the Walk in aid of Breast Cancer. This will involve two days trekking using cross country skis covering 13 miles a day – no mean feat without huskies or a steep slope.

You may have seen her walking at a fair old lick (but under the 5mph they recommend for training!!!) along the seafront in thermals and sporting a rucksack as part of her acclimatisation process.

You can follow her progress or preferably donate some money to support her in this gargantuan effort on the Walk the Walk website.

Her link is www.walkthewalkfundraising.org/lucille_palmer

We are pleased to announce the return of our entertaining Cocktail Making Evening on Saturday 16th February 2013 – this time with a Valentine’s twist!

Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to learn the art of cocktail making with a UK Bar Flairing Champion – a really fun night with demonstrations and tastings of range of fabulous cocktails.

Tickets for this event are £20 each and include a delicious antipasti buffet.

Numbers are strictly limited, and this was a sell out event last year, so please be sure to buy your tickets from the club bar as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Stephanie

Tel: 07831 090816  email: [email protected]

Many people last year asked if we could produce a file that could be imported to your various combinations of electronic diaries (Outlook, Gmail, Smartphones) to include details of the Club Programme. DutyMan have recently done an upgrade which means this is now possible and Graham Dare has included the start times on the race name to make this more useful.

The following link is the file in a format that is recognised by most packages (.ICS). To put into Outlook you can use the Import Option once the file is saved, and within Gmail Google Calendar you can just add the URL directly as anothers calendar. http://www.dutyman.biz/eventfeed/?id=T0001839&m=h11rCbtm . This options is also available for Smartphones, although sometimes it is just best to share an existing calendar. If you use a Google calendar then just add [email protected] as another calendar.

If you are more adventurous all this information is available in the Smartphone tab once logged into DutyMan, including links specifically for your duties. Remember however the file format isn’t just restricted to Smartphones.

Don’t write all the racing dates from the sailing programme, which is due out soon, onto a Calendar. This is just to confirm that a TBYC Racing Calendar 2013-2014 is in production and will be available soon, although as a reminder it is preorder only. More details to follow, however it is expected to be a similar price to last year. Again the Calendar contains all the racing and many other dates pre printed, with loads of great photos from last year by Linzi.
The Calendar doesn’t start until April so will follow on from last years.

If you brought a last years there is a couple of changes that now need to be made, the Sandhopper and Cruiser Lift in have now been arranged for the 23rd and 24th March.