Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

A bright but cold sailing day

The Spring Season starts this weekend, with 10-15mph winds and temperature touching 6c.

The Easter Weekend starts with the Sandhopper lift-in at 06:00, then the racing season commences with the Spencer cup on Friday – 11:30 start.

Spring Sat 1 on Saturday – 12:30 start, Spring Sun 1 – 14:00 start and finishing with the Easter Egg Race on Monday at 14:30.

Due to the poor weather, there are some essential pre season servicing and repair jobs on SS2, SS3 and SS4 that have been pushed to this weekend and mean that they will not be in service over Easter.

Our Racing Season will start as normal, but racing will be run from the Race box, with courses set on the blackboard using the old cub marks and Inflatables where necessary.  SS5 with the Elmore rib standing by will replace SS2 and SS3 rescue cover (thanks Nick).

SI for this season will be available on the website and noticeboard over the weekend.

Thank you to all those who have been working in tough conditions and continue to do so, maintaining and preparing all our clubs Rescue, Committee boat and club marks.

If you have time to help this week, please let me know, there are still some jobs to do, if not, enjoy the sailing, bar and food.

See you on the water.

New 2013 Sailing Instructions are available on the left hand link bar or at this link:

http://www.tbyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TBYC_2013_SI.pdf

Easter is soon and I am looking for a crew for this weekend. My normal crew (Sue) is on holiday then so if any body would like to crew in the front end of a National 12 please give me a call on 01702 205297 . Are any of the cadets interested in the National 12? Its a bit more interesting than a Pico. Check out the YouTube link of the N12 championships last year.

At about 2:10 in to the video there is a shot of me surviving a gybe only to go in to a tack straight afterwards. I was the only N12 not to capsize at last years championships and one of only 13 to complete every race. That was one nasty windy event.

Steve Le Grys

N3432

UPDATE – 15 March

A few duties have become vacant over the next few months and we would be grateful for volunteers to fill them. They are:

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• Monday 1 April – Easter Egg Race – 14.30 start – (RACE OFFICER  – now filled – Thanks Robin)  and (SS2 CREW – now filled – Thanks Alexander)
• Sunday 2 June – Summer Sunday – 18.00 Start – RACE OFFICER  
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Please volunteer through DUTYMAN ( click on the icon next to the duty in the ‘volunteer’ section) or contact Graham Dare ( 07946 413923 or [email protected]).

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Thanks for your help.

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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.

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.

The Frozen Sheets race will start at 11.00 am on Saturday 12th January 2013.

The kitchen will be open for pre race breakfast, and prize giving will be held in the main bar as soon as possible after the race finishes.

Frozen sheets 2012 SI’s