Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

It is with regret that we inform you of the death of Fred Jones, a long time club member.

His funeral is on Monday 10th June, at 2,20pm at Southend Crematorium in the South Chapel and afterwards at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club.

Dear Members and Staff,

I am pleased to announce on behalf of the Commodore, myself and the committee that after many weeks interviewing and searching for a permanent Chef, tomorrow, “Fish Friday” will see the introduction of our new Chef James Johnson.

He comes to us with an impressive CV for his young age and is enthusiastic, lively, full of great ideas for food and is looking forward to the challenge of taking on the role of Head Chef and Kitchen Manager as well as serving us all great food.

I trust we can all show him a warm welcome and great support in the coming months for what we feel will be an ongoing venture.

Chef James will be in to serve Lunch and Evening service and in order for a smooth transition he will be accompanied by the outgoing agency chef, Chef Mark who’s “Fish Fridays” have made a great impact.

So please show your support this Friday the 7^th June 2019 by coming and saying Hi to Chef James and a fond goodbye to Chef Mark.

They and I look forward to seeing you all.

Wayne.

Vice Commodore

Cadets and Parents!

There is Sailors meeting again this Friday at 7:00 pm sail training room.
Topic for discussion:
Upwind
How to get to the windward mark first?

Cadet Race Training this Sunday
9/06/2019
Start on the water at 15:30
Briefing at 15:00 at the sail training room
Please change and rig before
Main topic:
upwind progress – climbing the ladder
Secondary topic: tacking

YouTube channel: search for “TBYCPicofleet”

See you on the water (and at the meeting)!

Andras

Wanted Sandhopper Road trailer, preferably double stacker. My elderly relative Intends to do the Sandhopper circuit (worlds,Nationals, open meetings etc). Also does anyone know where the Worlds are this year as they were at TBYC last year. Thank you in anticipation.

There is plenty of opportunity for Cadets to sail this weekend in the TBYC Regatta.

Older and more confident Cadets are encourgaed to participate in the Main Club Regatta. There is a Cadet class. Sailing Instruction are here, https://www.tbyc.org/racing/thorpe-bay-regatta-nor-ssi-2019/

For the rest of the Cadets (must be able to sail a basic beat, reach and run, and be able to sail to and from the training area) there is the CADET REGATTA.

We need volunteers to help with the following Club Racing duties this Sunday please

Sat 01 Jun 2019 10:00 TBYC Regatta – RO – covered thanks Grahame Dare

Sat 01 Jun 2019 10:00 TBYC Regatta – SS5 Crew – volunteer please

Sun 02 Jun 2019 11:00 TBYC Regatta – ARO – covered thanks Paul Morgan

Sun 02 Jun 2019 11:00 TBYC Regatta – SS2 Helm – covered thanks Mark Dean

Sun 02 Jun 2019 11:00 TBYC Regatta – SS2 Crew – volunteer please

The club tow car (RAV4) is available to launch RIBs with any club member with a clean license over 25 insured to drive it.

If you have a duty coming up and want a refresher on what to do please come along to any race and let the Duty Officer know if you would like to join a displacement or the committee boat to help / observe.

Don’t forget you can swap a duty with a VOLUNTEER PLEASE duty
If you can help please volunteer / swap in the usual way via Dutyman or email [email protected]

Many thanks

By popular request, this Thursday evening is Dinghy night and by popular demand we will run another rules evening- nothing special just a whiteboard and discussion.