Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

On behalf of the committee; Many thanks to all those who gave their time and effort for the work party on 2nd April.

Cadets, parents, family and Friday diners, Dave will be serving food from 17:30 till 20:00 again this friday.

Dave’s menu for this week:

• Jumbo Saveloy Baguette+ Fries £5.
• Scampi + Fries+Salad (£6 or £3 )
• Chicken Nuggetts+Fries+ Salad(£6 or £3)
• Spicy Chicken Pilaff£6
• Baked Jacket Potato £3.50p..Add fillings…cheese 75p….beans…75p…Tuna mayo £1…Coleslaw…75p
• Bacon Baguette… £3.50p…sausage Baguette £3.50p …
• Chips…£1.50p…Cheesy Chips £2.25p

No other menu items will be available on Friday evening.

Remember, Cadet Week forms are now available to down load and need returning by Monday 2nd May.  Why not bring it down with the cadets on Friday.  You can post it through the letter box or pass it to me directly. 

of everyone who uses Club premises and facilities are of paramount importance.

There have been some incidents recently where children have been quite boisterous in the club house and in the vicinity of the kitchen in particular. This does present safety issues which we must address.

Children playing and running around in the proximity of the kitchen and the pool table pose a very real risk of injury to a child or member of the kitchen staff. The club has a duty of care to all its members and those people employed by the club and for this reason we would ask that children do not play in the area immediately in front of the kitchen or around the pool table.  The playing of ball games in the club house is prohibited (except table tennis and pool).

Parents and carers are reminded of the Parents Charter, a copy of which may be downloaded here:

http://www.tbyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Child-Protection-Parent-Charter.pdf

The charter points out that parents/carers always take the ultimate responsibility for their child/children and any other child left in their care. It is the sole responsibility of the parents to supervise their children whenever they are on the Club premises, surrounding areas and using the Club facilities.

Bev Warrington

Commodore

Cadet Week Registration pack 2016

If you are interesting in your Cadets participating in this years Cadet Week, please download the pack, print out, complete and return to me by 2nd May 2016.

Parents please remember; Members only, all groups apart from Stingrays need their own boat and you need to be at the club for the week and volunteer to help in some way.

Thank you for your support

Jeremy

The 2016 Sailing Instructions are attached. These apply to all club racing for the season 26 March 2016 to 16 October 2016.

There are very few changes  compared with last year. For series racing the same fleets, courses and starting sequence applies.

Two changes to note are:

1.   The Cadet Fleet will race in all series racing ( instead of just a few as last year). This means that the Cadet Special Mark ( their windward mark), and which is usually marked with a ‘C’, will be placed in every series race. Other fleets should note this and not confuse it with any other special mark which may occasionally be used.
2. The outer distance mark on the start line may be moved after the start. ( i.e. the start line, which becomes the gate/finish line, may be shortened after the start)

Happy racing.

TBYC SI’s 2016 – final

Our new look Cadet & Family Night continues this Friday!

Our chef, Dave, will have food available from 5.30pm until around 8.00pm.  The usual snack and children’s menu will be available, but from this week there will also be some ‘Specials’ to tempt you – this week’s are:

Jalapeño Chilli Beef & Rice    £6.00 (very hot, not recommended for children!)

Chicken Korma & Rice    £6.00 for Adults; £3.00 for children

Why not get the weekend off to a great start – come and join us for food, a drink or two and some fun with friends.  Jeremy Sandford, your Cadet Rep, will be there and will be happy to chat with you about sail training, cadet week or anything else you’d like to ask about.

Even if you don’t have any cadets in tow, please feel free to come down – everyone is welcome!

We use RYA Portsmouth Numbers for our race results. Each year RYA review these PNs using results data from sailing clubs around the country – including TBYC.

New PNs were published by RYA last month and are being used in TBYC Race Results with effect from 25 March 2016.

A list of changes to boats used at TBYC are listed below. Other TBYC boats remain unchanged.

Dear Cadets and Parents,

Dear Barracudas and Parents,

After having a chat with Penny I am worried that you got the impression that this is going to be baby racing, rather boring, not really for Barracudas.

That’s not what I meant, I certainly would be very pleased if you would come and support me to make it a success.

Results will be recorded, then I work out the points for the series. There will be prize giving at the end of the Spring series. Additionally I felt that results and feedback should be given after each individual race.

I would like to run the race on a way that the young would get support and encouragement to join in, on the other hand I would like to stretch and challenge the experienced. I need your ideas and thoughts on this, please, talk to me.

I would be grateful if you would consider giving me a hand and help to coach the new generation, your experience is very valuable. You will find that coaching is rewarding, you will make new discoveries and will benefit a lot for your own sailing as well. Appropriate awards will be given to those, who do extra work. These activities count towards the Duke of Edinburgh Awards as well.

A few changes I plan could make racing more exciting for you:

1. There will be a short start line – this would result in more fighting for the good positions and make starting a lot more exciting. This also would keep us all close, excellent opportunity for the less experienced to learn. I would like to talk about different starting techniques at one point, which you could all try.

2. short course: the fleet would be compressed, that again results in more competition, more need for good tactics, battles between the leaders, lots of fun. More manoeuvres, tighter turns, more excitement. Also there will not be such a long wait for the winners, until all competitors finish, and the next race could start a lot sooner.

I hope to see you all on the water this Sunday.

Andras

Andras Gal
Pico fleet captain

Pico race this Sunday

proposed meeting at 12:30, in dinghy park
briefing: 13:00  top of slipway
start of race: 13:20

Dear Cadets and Parents,

This is an invitation to the season’s first Pico race this Sunday.

All sailors are welcome. No racing experience needed.
I really would like to see lots of Piranhas from last year.

Plan:

1. Change to sailing gear, get ready to rig the boats

2. Dry skills practice, 10 minutes
at 12:30 on the grass in the car park next to dinghy park
Pico hull on the grass:
Where to sit on the Pico?
How to use the tiller extension?

3. Rig the boats

4. Briefing at 13:00 – top of the slipway
to discuss the course
please look at YouTube for the starting signals (length: 32 seconds)

5. Mock start on the water

6. Real start, first race (about 10 minutes)

7. Short break on the water

8. Second race (about 10 minutes)

9. Free sailing, fun, games on water

10. De-briefing, results, prize giving in 5 minutes

11. Wash the boats, put them away.

12. Changing, clubhouse, bar, snacks

See you on the water:

Andras

Andras Gal
Pico fleet captain