Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

Reporting of property related works & ideas 

We are moving into a digital age, gone is the whiteboard in the bar for jobs that need to be done around the club.  Instead, we are moving online.

• If you would like to register any new work suggestions or have any property related ideas, you can do this by completing the following online form: TBYC Work Suggestions & Ideas

Volunteering

TBYC thrives on its amazing volunteers, and we would like to make sure that we understand who you amazing people are. Therefore, we are asking if you are volunteer or would like to volunteer that you let us know who you are. This is not a commitment from you to do work, we won’t schedule you to do any work without coming to you first and asking if you would like to help. It just allows us to understand who may want to do some jobs around the club and who has this skills and time to do so. It will also allow us to join up on occasion, those that that are skilled and want to teach with those that want to learn that skill.

• The link is here: TBYC Volunteer Information System
• Once a job or idea is approved by the General Committee, we will post this on the club’s website as a volunteering opportunity and email out to the appropriate volunteers to see who is available to help the club to complete the job.

Please feel free to let me know if you would like to volunteer for any of the jobs that are on the TBYC Existing Work list at any time, as Adrian says say many hands make light work!

Thank you
Scott James
House Rep
[email protected]

** Update 01/02/2022 ** Sorry, the Ladies showers did work while testing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. But when it came to the crunch on Sunday the did not want to work.

We are working on plan D.

If anyone knows when they last worked during the winter, please let me know.

Thanks,
Scott James
House Rep
[email protected]

I am really pleased that we had another good turn out last night for the Adult Sailing Support for Beginners Sessions that we have been runing.

If you have missed the first couple of sessions, fear not you can catch up as we have recorded both of them, the sound quality on a couple of bits is one of our areas for improvement for the next session. However, you will be able to get a good idea of what has been going on will be able to learn from the sessions.

Therefore, I have created the next 6 weeks of invites for the Adult Sailing Support for Beginners on Facebook as this is the easiest way for us to manage the sessions.

These sessions have been and will continue to be be on Zoom and in the Club on Thursdays at 19:30 for 45 mins to 1hr

Zoom details are: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4959293655
Or just Meeting ID: 495 929 3655

The link for the packs and recordings are: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HgS2Wa1p-oQyEHKlYZMUS2tdbtE5j3iz?usp=sharing

Please let us know if you would like to join us either on zoom or in the club by e-mailing [email protected]. You need to be a full member of the club, but you don’t need any sailing experience and there is no charge as these are not formal training sessions, just a group of sailors sharing some experiences, some videos we have found useful along with with some structure to help build confidence and capability and lots of audience participation!

Please do also register and share your interest on Facebook by following the below link:
 https://www.facebook.com/events/371669277792339?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22extra_data%22%3A%22%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22create_dialog%22%7D%2C%7B%22extra_data%22%3A%22%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22permalink%22%7D%2C%7B%22extra_data%22%3A%22%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22edit_dialog%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

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We are Hiring!

Here at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club, we are looking to add a new Bar Supervisor to our team.

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, energetic, sociable and may already have knowledge and experience in the industry.

We hope for this new member of staff to start with us around January/February time to allow training for the 2022 summer season.

You would be one of the three core members of staff working behind the bar averaging around 20 hours per week (this does vary seasonally & dependent on the sailing schedule)

Evenings and weekend availability is essential for this role.

General responsibilities include:

Providing a high-quality service to members.

Working as part of a team.

General running of the bar on a day-to-day basis.

Opening & closing of the bar and clubhouse.

Cashing Up.

Ordering & management of stock.

Cellar management.

If you are interested and would like some more details, then please feel free to speak or send a message to Shane Bottrill or Paul Morgan or you send an email to the secretary at [email protected] to register your interest.

Closing Date for applicants is on Tuesday 18^th January

Taken from the Leigh on Sea Club Website Please check for changes: http://www.leighsailingclub.org/index.php/461-brass-monkey-trophy-race-tuesday-3rd-january-2022

Start 11:00, entry fee £5.00

Prize giving after the race in the club if we are not locked down !!

Please download the Sailing Instructions and Entry Form.

Steve Corbet #SailingSecretary

2021 Brass Monkey SI.pdf

Congratulations to Scott James who was presented with the Gerald Mitcham Cup at our recent Club AGM. The annual trophy  was awarded to Scott for his dedication this year to both volunteering at the club and  for his enthusiasm in promoting sailing to our members particularly in the Sandhopper class. Well done.