Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

yes its that time of year for ALL members to come along to a free party and enjoy a day with your friends making our club look fresh for the year ahead.

Sunday the 1st April from 9am

Its not an April fools, it is real.

so please come along and help, plenty to do.

many thanks

Barry house rep.

A big thank you from the Race Committee ( and all who raced that day)  goes to Peter Thompson who stood in at the last minute as Race Officer for the Icicle 5 race when the rostered Race Officer did not show up.

Race Notice

The 2012 Icicle Series

and the Olympic Year Wetsuit Outlet Open Trophy

Prize-Giving

 will be held on

 Sunday 25 March 2012

 in the bar area as soon after racing as possible

Please note:  This changes the date stated in the 2012 Handbook & Programme of Events.

Race Committee

25 February 2012

Do you write all the racing dates from the programme onto a Calendar ?  Why not just buy the TBYC Racing Calendar 2012-2013 and save the trouble. The Calendar contains all the racing and many other dates pre printed, with load of great photos from last seasons by Linzi.

The Calendar doesn’t start until April so you can preorder and pick it up after the middle of March.

If you would like to order one then you can do so by posting a cheque to TBYC for £12 before the 4th March. Otherwise you can order directly from www.lulu.com and search for TBYC, however unfortunately this option with P&P is over £15.

The Calendar was produced at no cost to the club and we hope that a small amount from each will go to the Cadets Fund Raising. If popular we will also hope to produce one for next year. If you want to see before ordering there is a couple already in the club.

I wish to record my displeasure with the actions of the race officer and his team yesterday, Sunday January 29th.

Just because our new committee boat has cooking facilities does not mean that they should be used if such action could be detrimental to competitors. The smell of bacon around the committee boat and as far as 100m downwind was so strong that I almost retired after 2 laps and my third lap was impeded by an overwhelming desire to head straight for the club kitchen. Conversations that I heard seemed more concerned with whether ketchup or brown sauce was favourite than the wind conditions.

Come on chaps, have some heart.

RFT

 In February 2012 the club will be introducing a web-based duty management system – ‘DutyMan’.

 ‘DutyMan’ requires a database of the email addresses of the 300 club members who undertake one or more race duties each year together with a database of the duties for the Duty Officer, Race Officers, and the 4 Support boat helms/crews for the 2012/13 races – starting with the Warm Up Race on 25^th March 2012 through to April 2013.

‘DutyMan’ is currently used by around 150 clubs and organisations to:

• Publish a calendar of events with allocated duties on the web, and which should always be up-to-date, accurate and definitive.
• Automatically email members a list of their duties and duty reminders.
• Organise duty swaps between members interactively using email to/from ‘DutyMan’ and automatically update the duty roster with agreed swops.

The databases are currently being finalised and uploaded onto the system with a view to going live in February 2012.

Members who have been allocated duties will receive an email from ‘DutyMan’ to set up their individual password.

 ‘DutyMan’ will be able to be accessed via a link from the club website.

If you Google ‘DutyMan’ you will be able to see presentational videos of how the system works.

                                                    LOOK OUT FOR DUTYMAN

The 2012 Programme has been finalised and can be viewed by clicking on ‘Sailing Programme’ at the left  side of this web page.

The 2012 Handbook & Programme of Events is currently being posted to members as subscriptions are collected.

Thanks to Gary Haylett and Toby Speller for the drafting and production of this year’s programme.

Happy Sailing and Socialising at TBYC in 2012 – you now know when it’s all happening.

Who else remembers the ICC Trophy racing at Thorpe Bay?

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/race-for-international-catamaran-trophy-at-thorpe

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/catamaran-contest/query/thorpe+bay

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/little-americas-cup/query/thorpe+bay

Brought to my attention by Barry Duce and Robin Foster-Taylor, Thanks Guys.

FROZEN SHEETS OPEN MEETING 27 DECEMBER 2011

The Race Committee announce that the previously published results were calculated in error not in accordance with the Racing Rules of Sailing and the Sailing Instructions. The error is now remedied with the publication of correct results.

Background

The Sailing Instructions state the following:

1. Unless the number of rounds was signalled in advance then after an appropriate sailing time has elapsed International Code Flag S would be displayed and boats would be finished when they next passed through the finish line.

2. Scoring would be calculated on the basis of average lap times.

3. Results would be calculated on the basis of average lap times.

After International Code Flag S had been raised, boats were finished, and the times recorded, as they next passed the finishing line. In calculating the published results the time of raising Code Flag S was reduced by a few minutes compared with the actual time of raising the flag which resulted in the last lap of 5 boats being excluded when calculating the corrected times. This was undertaken in order to make an adjustment because two classes of boat with the same PN (49er and 29er) had each been split at the time of raising the flag.

This has been reviewed. This method of adjustment of average lap times has not been used previously by the organising authority and is not part of suggested practice by the RYA, and is not therefore in accordance with the Rules or Sailing Instructions. The published results were incorrect and have now been amended.

Race Committee
3 January 2012