Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

Just a reminder that we have a work party this sunday from 9am. plenty to do so please come along and help.

yes it is April the 1st but this is not a joke.

see you there

Pictures from the fantastic wine tasting evening. If you missed it make sure you book for the cocktail event.

The RNLI will be doing a presentation on life- jacket safety and cold water shock, followed by a life jacket clinic, where members kit can be inspected.

Venue:- TBYC
Tuesday 6th March 2012
8.30pm

Adding to our training programme at the club ten members had a days orientation on seasafe 4 along with learning some basic estuary navigation.

That’ll be a ‘no’ to racing on Lake Geneva then:

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Except advertise the club in the South China Sea.

Without any sailing, Jeremy Sandford probably should have been busy doing DIY, but as a fan of the Virtual Volvo Ocean Race and a second boat not doing well (IsabellaS II), decided to sail it around to form the letters of the club with his track. There may just be better things to do.

But well done, nearly as good a Tony Hart.

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having just logged onto the website to check this weeks tides it dawned on me that i simply forgot to thank Martyn Eyre and his team at flightline for all their behind the scenes efforts in running the TBYC website with the web cam and weather station which are a tremendous asset to our club which unfortunately i overlooked in recognizing its importance at the AGM. There is also overdue recognition for all those who regularly add the photo’s and video content especially Barry Duce and Linzi Swindon
so in true better late than never style, thankyou!!

Peter

Hi All, for all you armchair sailors, and following popular demand I am sponsoring a trophy for the best placed TBYC virtual boat in the game. For those of you who have not entered or who do not know about it, then here are a few facts. The virtual race mirrors the actual Volvo ocean race covering 8 legs over 9 months. The game has in excess of 120000 virtual boats. leg 1 is complete but we will run each leg as a race in a series and load the entrants on Hal’s racing programme as a series. The series will have 2 discards for the 8 legs to enable newcomers to join in and possibly win!!!. After the first leg the top five TBYC boats were 1st Daren Fitchew, 2nd Jeremy Sandford, 3rd Steve Healey, 4th Steve Hopper and 5th David Hopper.

The next leg starts on Sunday 11th Dec 2011 so get registered and join in the banter and fun!!!

You can register at http://www.volvooceanracegame.org/play

Then please leave a comment on this article so we can enter you and your boat in the regatta.

Happy armchair sailing Steve Hopper

2011 AGM Sunday 20th November,

you should shortly be receiving your AGM booklet

Many thanks to Brian Sandford for producing and collating the AGM Booklet and also many thanks to Janet and Tony in the Office for enveloping and posting.

Peter