Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

Congratulations to Barry for organising a very successful championship.
(And for winning a nice new spinnaker courtesy of Hydes!)

The notice of race, sailing instructions and entry form are available to download from the sandhopper web site

http://www.sandhopper.org.uk/

Don’t forget the Sandhopper Nationals on 5th/6th September!

Congratulations to Peter Thompson and Steve Hopper in Sand star who swept the board at the open with 3 firsts, second place was taken by Paul and Bruce Spratt in Apollo and in third was Phil Crawford and Margaret Kennedy in Satisafaction,

19 boats took part in near perfect conditions with close battles being fought throughout the fleet, many thanks to Gordon Sanders and his team who set perfect courses and did a stirling job.

Thanks to Primo Insurance for Sponsoring the regatta and pulling a sandhopper grandfather (Ken) in the draw giving him a new ipod touch.

Congratulations to Martin and Nick Binnendijk for winning the Yantlet race yesterday out of 50 entrants.

15 Sandhoppers were in the top 20 places and with 17 sandhoppers starting they were the largest class on the water, top marks to Peter and John in Talitrus along with John and Janet in sandpiper who showed the rest of the fleet their skills with tide flow across the thames.

As for chris and toby in Nemises (DBL) along with Apollo and Sand star… boys need to take note of tide times and race course instructions!!!

A fantastic race was had by all in glorious conditions.

SANDHOPPER 10

TRUE BLUE

FOR SALE

£ 3500.

SAILING HISTORY
WINNER OF BURNHAM WEEK 4 TIMES
RUNNER UP TWICE
WINNER OF “SANDHOPPER WORLDS” AT TBYC BEFORE THE CLASS ASSOCIATION WAS FORMED
MULTIPLE CLUB SERIES WINS
VERY LITTLE USE IN RECENT YEARS BUT ON LAST 2 OUTINGS WON THE 2007 MBSC OPEN, IN VERY LIGHT AIRS (MATT RAINBOW AS CREW!) & 6TH IN THE 2008 NATIONALS AT BURNHAM

TRUE BLUE, COMES FULLY EQUIPED AND IN GOOD CONDITION FOR ITS YEARS, THE HULL HAS BEEN TAKEN BACK READY FOR NEXT SEASONS COAT OF ANTIFOUL. SAILS (ALL 3 BROUGHT AS A SUIT) ARE LONGTON & GRAY, VERY LITTLE USED AND ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. THE RUDDER WAS FINISHED BY ALAN JACKSON OF CHIPSTOW BOATS.
ALSO AVAILABLE FOR SALE IS A GAVANISED SANDHOPPER ROAD TRAILER WITH SIDE & FRONT UPRIGHTS, ALONG WITH A GANTRY ENABLING (WITH THE USE OF A BLOCK & TACKLE) THE BOAT TO BE LIFTED WHILST ON THE TRAILER SO THAT PREPERATION & ANTIFOUL CAN BE APPLIED TO THE BOTTOMS OF THE KIEL & LEGS.

THE REASON FOR RELUCTANTLY SELLING TRUE BLUE IS THAT IT IS A WASTE TO KEEP IT LAID UP (I’M SAILING 707s THESE DAYS) WHEN SOMEONE SHOULD BE SAILING IT.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT BILL WRIGHT 07767208150 – 01245 352088 – [email protected]

28 sandhopper sailors are racing sunfast 37s in the solent this weekend representing TBYC, there are 4 teams competing amongst 40 boats, team windrush, team sandstar, team blue jacket, and team apollo will be battling the forecast force 6 to take first prize amongst the fleet, team apollo have recruited a couple of professional ringers so the pressure is on for gordon and martin. team sandstar have the winning gurus hopper and thompson, team blue jacket has the seasoned 707 barnes/dells and team windrush has a time dispensation as they have rupert who will talk nonsense at them for two days. with all to play for and the substantial cash prize kindly donated from the cadets im sure racing will be close.

should we hitch a ride in the big yellow helicopter we will try to video the event for youtube

All of the following people have won prizes this year, please please please turn up to the prizegiving on the 1st November at 20.00hrs to collect your hard earned prizes. just remember this those who dont turn up the prizes go to the rear commodores drinking fund.

The final fling was held in testing conditions with 17 boats battling a 30 mph southerly wind for the top spot,

race officer Andrew hannah was having no nonscense with the starts and insisted on 3 of them, major culprits over on the first 2 were Alan Burrell with Paul spratt on Apollo ensuring they pushed a few over with them.

With the race underway Apollo lead with Sandstar and Satisfaction close on their heels, the entire fleet had some amazing surfing on the downwind leg with positions swapping constantly, 3 laps tested many crews with a few exhausted at the end.

Apollo took line honours with sandstar in 2nd and satisfaction 3rd, maiden voyage blue jacket with the Barnes duo put in a good performance and were awarded the ‘Golden Anchor’ for showing the rest of the fleet how to launch your kite clew first, well done Nic!! Also on their maiden voyage were messers Gibson and Wolfe who pressganged local national champion dan Henderson and put in a fantastic first race even if they did pull half their fittings out of the boat.

many of us sailed 3 up and thoroughly enjoyed the event, Steve Hopper and Peter Thompson won the cash sweepstake, whilst messers Burrell and Spratt took the sunday trophy and the much sort after final fling trophy kindly donated by Hannah and Tony Padbury.

many thanks to Andrew hannah the race officer, Tony Clarke and Peter Evens for safety support and to rupert snow for finishing behind me again for the 26th time this year.

lets hope winter passes quickly so we can continue the fun.

Congratulations to Annemeike and Martin who on squiffy won the sunday Sandhopper trophy, twelve sandhoppers took part in the light conditions and the close racing once again was great fun. Rupert and Linda in Zeus are improving each week and im sure my old crew will start to give me a run for my money next year, we missed Paul and Toby this weekend on Nemesis who in their last two races have lead from start to finish, hope to see you next week boys.

lets hope the remainder of the season is sailed in such glorious sunshine, only a few weeks left before lift out so lets keep the numbers up and remain the biggest single fleet racing at tbyc.