We don’t often get a chance for all sailors to get together and have a chat about sailing with like minded people, so this Thursday evening will be that first opportunity.

Meet some of the people you often just sail past, watch and chat about sailing, chat to others how you could improve yourself, talk about the plans for the year or just help us have more evenings like this.

See you in the club Main Bar, Thursday evening.

Due to a large number of cadets participating in Stage 2 sail training yesterday and the current water temperature there will be no Oppie Beach Club for new sailors or Cadets today.

Conditions permitting, we will start Oppie Beach club on Saturday 29th April.

The club boats are of course still available should you wish to sail today, just help yourself and remember to wash everything down and put it away after you. lub safety boats will be covering main racing, there will be no Cadet Rib patrolling the beach.

If there are ever any problems with club Optimists please let me know or if its Pico related, tell Nick Cotgrove.

Enjoy the beach and water today.
Safe Sailing
Jeremy

I have put together a full program of Training and Races for Cadets aged 11+ years, in any class of boat during this season.  In addition to the Pico Racing there will be Cadet Race training (including mini races) using our new training Rib, preceded by Shore based sessions during Cadet nights on some Thursday / Fridays. I intend to go into some depth over the season, preparing our youngsters for Cadet trophy races, Interclub races and School’s Sailing. In addition, we will train a TBYC Team Racing squad (Year 9+) with our first match against Haileybury School in May. There will also be the opportunity to take the TBYC Stage 3 qualification in September. Nearer to the end of the season, we will enter the Matt Trophy and the Interclub Cadet Team Race at a neighbouring club, both of which, we have won in the past.

I have put all the dates and events together on one sheet to encourage our boys and girls to participate as fully as possible and ENJOY making progress with their sailing.

TBYC Cadet Race Training and Races 2017 version 4               I can E-Mail you a copy if you cannot open the file.

Whilst I will publish times and events, it would be helpful to know those who are interested. Please E-Mail me at [email protected]

The TBYC 2017 Sailing Instructions are published below.

These SI’s are the similar to the 2016 SI’s, the main changes being:

• Boards (not flags) are to be used for the start sequence for race box starts
• The possibility of claiming average points for club series racing, when undertaking a club duty, is confirmed.

TBYC 2017 SI’s – Final April 2017

Some activities are being planned for Cadets on Friday evenings.  Keep a look out for more details as each date approaches.

Friday 28^th April – how to rig a boat
Friday 19^th May – science mania
Friday 23^rd June – first aid and personal safety for cadets (weather permitting)
Friday 7^th July – race tactics and Olympic games on the grass
6.30 – 7pm approximately

The Dinghy Park has now been cleared of Sandhoppers and Cruisers and is available for return of Dinghys.

The Picos that were on top of the racks have now been moved to the ground although are not in their allocated spaces.

The space allocation is now on the notice board in the club for all boats, so could all owners review this and ensure their boats are moved to the correct spaces.

The club had a set of heavy duty jump leads which are often used to start  the Displacement and Ribs. Unfortunately they may have been borrowed. If you know of their whereabouts please could you drop them into the club.

A couple of years ago Jono Dunnett set off from Clacton to complete a Solo around Britain Windsurf and his first stop was Thorpe Bay. We invited him to the Balcony where he was offered his first hospitality of the whole trip.

Many people had previously done the circumnavigation, however always with a support boat. Jono completed it in 98 days, far short of the record but he had succeeded in his quest. He uses a quote in the front of the book “Dream is not what you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep”, something that helped him with his goal.

He has now written a book of the adventure and thought we would be interested to know it has now been published.

See Amazon for more details https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XWVQV19

Just as we start our main sailing seasons I wanted to take the opportunity on behalf of the Sprints and I am sure the Lasers and all other classes, to thank every volunteer that has helped during the cold and unforgiving Winter and Icicle series. Without all of you we would  have not been able to continue to deliver competitive sailing.