All tickets for the New Years Day Brunch are now sold…..apologies if you missed out this time.

The bar will also be open to non-diners serving your usual tipples together with New Years Day specials of Virgin Mary, Bloody Mary and Bucks Fizz.

There are still some tickets available for our New Years Eve Party but they’re selling fast so hurry!

Stephanie

On a very cold Saturday last, we completed our second RYA Powerboat Level 2 training course this autumn, with five more Club members successfully gaining their certificates.  They are Izzy Duce, Janet Willsmer, Adrian Bunting, Allen Burrell and Brant Chapman.  Well done!

Since we registered as an RYA Training Establishment in 2009, we have trained 33 people up to Level 2.  Before that, with the support of SMAC we helped a further 20 members gain this valuable qualification.

Our team, Tony Clarke, Toby Speller and Ken Clarke, get a huge buzz from teaching on this course and as a result, we know that we are adding to the pool of skilled powerboat drivers in the Club, providing safety cover for our racing.  Without that cover, we cannot race.

If you would like to join this group and get your Level 2 qualification, contact any one of us through the office or email [email protected] and we will endeavour to sign you up for one of our 2012 sessions.  The charge of £25 covers the cost of training materials and contributes to the cost of fuel for the practical part of the course.

Thanks Kylie and the TBYC social team, for putting on a fab Christmas party at the weekend. Food / band and the dodgy company was great.
Sailing was such a breeze on Sunday, had to be pissed to go out. Cheers all.

Had a great night on Saturday, but one lady has mistakenly gone home in the wrong coat!! However it may be, your coat is still on the hook in the main bar. Please return at earliesy convenience – thank you. Lesley Bailey

Event; Brass Monkey Race.

26 Dec 2011

Start time 12:00

Hosted by Leigh on Sea Sailing Club.

Open to these classes; monohull dinghies/multihulls.

Briefing at 10:30.

Start time 12:00, HW 13:27

All-in start, average corrected lap times for results. Entry fee – £10.

Contact Steve Corbett on 07802 267597 or [email protected]

Following the fantastic Christmas party on Saturday night, I’d like to say a huge thank you to the people that made the night so successful…Thanks to Kylie for booking the brilliant band “Sorted” who kept us on the dance floor until the early hours – we’re hoping to have them back to TBYC in 2012!  Special thanks also to Gordon, Lorraine, Gary and all the bar and kitchen staff  – their organisation and hard work was much appreciated.

Looking forward to many more enjoyable events next year….

Stephanie

A starting watch was found yesterday on the green in front of the dinghy park. If anyone has lost this watch please contact me 0770 2299555.

Nick Elmore

Hi All, for all you armchair sailors, and following popular demand I am sponsoring a trophy for the best placed TBYC virtual boat in the game. For those of you who have not entered or who do not know about it, then here are a few facts. The virtual race mirrors the actual Volvo ocean race covering 8 legs over 9 months. The game has in excess of 120000 virtual boats. leg 1 is complete but we will run each leg as a race in a series and load the entrants on Hal’s racing programme as a series. The series will have 2 discards for the 8 legs to enable newcomers to join in and possibly win!!!. After the first leg the top five TBYC boats were 1st Daren Fitchew, 2nd Jeremy Sandford, 3rd Steve Healey, 4th Steve Hopper and 5th David Hopper.

The next leg starts on Sunday 11th Dec 2011 so get registered and join in the banter and fun!!!

You can register at http://www.volvooceanracegame.org/play

Then please leave a comment on this article so we can enter you and your boat in the regatta.

Happy armchair sailing Steve Hopper

Thanks go to our new Treasurer Ian Murdoch for securing us a new Credit and Debit Card Machine for use behind the bar.

Members can now use Debit and Credit Cards for a minimum £ 10.00 transaction.

The Machine was installed earlier today by WorldPay and has already been used.

Thanks Ian, I am sure we will all use it.

Sat 24 Dec Bar 11.00 – 3.30 & 5.00 – 11.00 Kitchen 11.00 – 2.30
Sun 25 Dec Bar 12.00 – 2.00 Kitchen Closed
Mon 26 Dec Bar 12.00 – 7.00 Kitchen Closed
Tue 27 Dec Bar 11.00 – 7.00 Kitchen 10.30 – 2.30
Wed 28 Dec Bar 11. 00 – 11.00 Kitchen 11.30 – 2.30
Thu 29 Dec Bar 11.00 – 11.00 Kitchen 11.30 – 2.30
Fri 30 Dec Bar 11.00 – 11.00 Kitchen 11.30 – 2.30
Sat 31 Dec Bar 11.00 -3.00 & 7.00 – 1.00am Kitchen 11.30 – 2.30
Sun 01 Jan Bar 11.00 – 7.00 Kitchen 11.30 for pre-booked brunch
Mon 02 Jan Bar 11.00 – 7.00 Kitchen 11.30 – 2.30
Tue 03 Jan Bar and Kitchen back to normal hours