This coming Saturday (24th) will be TBYC’s event of the summer and there is still time to get your tickets.

Caribbean night tickets are available behind the bar and are £10 for adults and £8 for children. The cost includes Caribbean bbq (from 6pm -8pm) steel band entertainment and much more.

There will be prizes for the 2 best dressed adults and children but fancy dress ISN’T compulsory!

We will also have a punch bar on the balcony serving alcoholic and non alcoholic punch! Alcoholic punch is £2 per glass and non alcoholic punch is £1 per glass

Hope to see you all on Saturday!

Registration for Cadet Week is from 9:00am Monday 24th July. Please park your cars in the car park adjacent to the dinghy park and not in Barrowsand as rubbish carts will not be able to clear the club’s rubbish if you park both sides of Barrowsand.

Gerald’s Funeral will be on Monday 2nd August at Southend Crematorium, time 12pm,

Following Wake at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club.

Flowers if wished or donations to the R.N.L.I.

The Funeral Directors will be collecting cheques at the Crematorium or send to:-

A.R. Adams

117 High Street

Rayleigh

SS6 7OA

Stating ‘In memory of Gerald Webb’

Thanks to David, Toby, Steve, nick, Paul, Rupert, chaz, Peter and Len from the sandhopper fleet for fitting the new fenders to the slipway which I’m sure will be appreciated by all..
Also thank you to sam husk who was scrubbing the slipway from very early till late with the aid of a small team who very kindly turned up to help. If you missed the opportunity to help you could always buy sam a beer next time you see her in the club.

The ladies showers are almost finished, we have doubled the size of the changing room, installed 5 new powerful showers which are running off the supply from the cascading boiler system, within the next few weeks we will have cubicles in the showers for additional privacy, the toilets have been painted, new chrome paper holders, soap dispensers etc are in and we will be adding new hairdryers.
All the work has been carried out with minimal disruption with the help of a few members and some professional trades. Many thanks to Sam Husk, Alex Hadley, Isabel Duce, Peter Thompson, Nick Elmore, Toby Speller, Paul Spratt and Ian Bradley for giving up there time to help.
Thanks also to the various trades for their work…MHS Radiators and boilers, Mike whistler building work and John Woods Taylor plumbers.
I hope you enjoy the improvements and that the increased capacity creates an even better atmosphere for the increasing number of female sailors that TBYC is lucky to have.

Calling all Members

I would really appreciate your help cleaning the slipway this saturday morning(17th July) start time is 9.30am.
The more helpers the quicker it can get finished well before sailing at 3.00 and the less my back will hurt if i’m the only one 😉

We’ve hired a pressure washer and will have some scrappers and brushes but if you have a broom/brush please do bring it with you.

Please do come if your free and able, i know its hard work but the more of us there the easier it will be.
A BIG BIG THANK YOU in advance for all of you that come and help.

Sam Husk

solo 4057

Duty swap required for SS 2 on Wednesday 21st
July – Midweek points for Mike and Alex Thomason.
Any offers, please email [email protected]

The bar will be open all day during the summer holidays starting from 22th July 2010.

For the Summer we are introducing Peroni Premium Lager on tap, Magners Pear Cider in bottles and for the children we have Fruit Shoots and Capri Sun available in a variety of flavours.

The Commodores Bar will be used as a soft drinks bar during Cadet week allowing children to buy their favorite drinks and snacks.

Lets all hope for good weather.

CHEERS

Nick Elmore

Vice Commodore

Thorpe Bay Yacht Club succeeds again….. in holding another great open meeting. This time for a new fleet not seen at TBYC – the Larks and an old fleet resurrected with the Cadets.

21 Larks and 14 Cadets took part in the 6 race series open, superbly run by Alan Willis and his team: Sally, Linda, Lisa, Bev and Alix. We had superb weather and a great breeze which made for some fantastic close racing. I think all who saw them sailing, were very impressed with the Lark.

The Cadet event was won by Max and Francesca Ingall with an impressive (near) clean sweep! We wish them luck in Poland where they will be representing GBR in the World Team!

The Lark event was won by Steve Hall and Si Haigton from Northampton Sailing Club with 11 points.

I have to own up to forgetting to thank 2 other people who helped out at the weekend. Steve Hopper was out with his rib both days to help with rescue cover and was able to take some great photos of the sailing – thanks Steve. But also to Chris Boshier – who not only gave up his weekend’s sailing to sit on the beech as our “Beech-master” but worked with myself and Alan to prepare all the relevant paperwork for the event and entering the results – Thanks very much Chris!

Tickets for the Caribbean night are still on sale from behind the bar,

adults £10 and children up to the age of 13 £8 – this price includes a Caribbean themed bbq and steel band entertainment….. plus much more!