Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Tel: 01702 587 563

If you have paid for you 2023 storage and plan to keep your dinghies on double or triple stacker road trailers, then you need to inform me as soon as possible which boats these are.

Smaller dinghy storage spaces such as those for Teras, Picos and Lasers don’t really have the width to accommodate larger road trailers.

With this in mind, Mark and I have put together a provisional plan to move the storage of smaller boats on larger road trailers from their usual rows at the North of the Dinghy Park to wider spaces.

This can only happen if numbers are low and provided at the start of the season. Trailers that we are not aware of or introduced later in the season may not be allocated spaces depending upon the capacity of the Dinghy Park at the time.

That you in advance for providing us with your details as soon as you can. I need to publish the plan before next Sunday when the majority of boats will be expected to return following the delayed cruiser lift in on Saturday.

If you plan to return your dinghy before then, plan leave it on the west of the Dinghy Park and then move once the cruisers are launched.

Thank you
Jeremy
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If you would like to register to be a volunteer at TBYC so we can match your interest and skills to upcoming jobs please complete the below form.

TBYC Volunteer Form

Thank you

Scott James, House Rep

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A big thank you to Nick, Chris, Rod, Julian and Howard for their help in organising and moving boats around the Dinghy Park last Saturday.

As a result there are a few boats that were moved to their allocated positions for this year. I have indicated that your boat was moved in the right hand column of the spreadsheet, whist every effort was made to secure boats as we found them, please check it is appropriately secured over the next few days.

Can all Lasers and Picos please tell their class captains if they are in a different position and I will then amend the plan appropriately.

If you have any questions, please contact me directly.
Enjoy the long Easter weekend at the Club!

We have several jobs that we plan to do.

– Install the height barrier in the club car park, so we can then repair the surface.

– Continue to repair the fences at the front of the club as started last year.

– Deep clean of the balcony, jet wash etc.

– Repairs to the Commodore’s Bar and install new blinds.

– On SS2 that is now under cover, Complete the antifouling, sand and paint the outside of the hull, sand and oil the woodwork, sand and paint the seats and floor with anti slip paint.

– On Polly, paint the floor and decks with non slip and antifoul.

– For the electricians, we have some light fittings and switches that need to be replaced and would like a two way switch fitting for lights in the bar area.

– We would like to build some shelving in a couple of cupboards as well, battened to the wall.

– we have a number of areas we would like to deep clean as well!

If you can help, please do email me with what jobs you would like to be involved with, I can then allocate works so we make the most of our time!

Thank you

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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
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** 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
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Please be aware that we are undertaking works on all three of the safety boats (SS2, SS3 & Polly) currently and for safety reasons they are not to be boarded unless you are working on them. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Thank you

Scott James, House Rep

Great work from those who turned up last weekend, if you didn’t have enough or still want some more, there is another this Saturday (24th 10:00 am) we still have a few bits to do on the displacements and the club house, please contact your class captains for the work required and what to bring.

Its planned to float the new race buoys out after racing on Saturday. These will then be swapped over at low tide on Sunday morning with the faded orange buoys floated back in prior to sailing on Sunday. Low tide on Sunday is at 9:40am, so I plan to start at 9:00 which should give plenty of time to deal with the 6 buoys. To make life easier, it would be great to have someone assist.

It’s not the lowest of low tides, so I’d suggest a wetsuit or drysuit will be required.