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Merry Christmas!Merry Christmas!Merry Christmas!Merry Christmas!

Winter 2011 T h o r n b u r y S a i l i n g C l u b

TSC Newsletter Inside this issue:

Page 4 Cameron Webber at the Feva Worlds

Page 6 Big ship, narrow channel!

Page 7 Joan gets the trailer compound sorted

Page 9 Social news from Sue Leat

Page 13 Anti-theft property marking from Inky

Thornbury Sailing Club—Notice of Annual General Meeting

In accordance with rule 6.1 notice is given that the Annual General Meeting of the club will be held at the Clubhouse, Oldbury on Severn commencing at 20.00 hours on Thursday 5th January 2012.

AGENDA

1. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 6th January 2011

2. Commodore’s report

3. Treasurer’s report 4. Hon Secretary’s report

5. Membership Secretary’s report

6. Election of President and Vice President 7. Election of Honorary Members

8. Election of Officers

9. Election of Committee

10. Election of Independent Examiner 11. Any other business notified to the Hon Secretary at least 48 hours before the start of the meeting

The January General Meeting will follow the Annual General Meeting.

Del Jeffrey

Hon. Secretary Encl. Nomination Form

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THORNBURY SAILING CLUB Nominations for Election at the Annual General Meeting

Thursday 5th January 2012

Nominations must be submitted to and reach the Honorary Secretary forty-eight hours before the start of the Annual

General Meeting. That is by 8.15 p.m. on Tuesday 3rd January 2012. Nominees must have signified their willingness to serve and all nominees, proposers and seconders must be fully paid-up Full or Family Members. Members are reminded

that subscriptions became due on 1st October and that if they are not paid by 1st January [rule 5.4] membership may be

terminated.

Return completed form to: Del Jeffrey

Hon. Secretary TSC 19 Crowthes Avenue, Yate, Bristol BS37 5SZ

Position Nominee Proposer Seconder

President

Vice President

Commodore

Vice Commodore

Honorary Secretary

Membership Secretary

Honorary Treasurer

Berthing Officer

Sailing Secretary

Sail Training Officer

Social Secretary

Safety Boat Officer

Bosun

Bar Steward

Committee

Committee

Committee

Committee

Committee

Committee

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Commodore’s Report

The year draws to an end and already my first year as your Commodore seems to have, well, just flown. This

has been an interesting time with excellent in-

novations from members and a great deal of work done

behind the scenes to provide great sailing, events and fun for all; whether individuals, families or a bunch of like

minded pals. The coming 2012 season should also see

some new initiatives coming to fruition as well.

Instead of the usual series of “round the can” racing on all

sailing days, our Sailing Secretary is taking a differ-ent approach on a few days next season. As well as some

new ideas we will rekindle some old ventures and hope

to bring a bit more variety to the sailing activities. This all

came out of an excellent initiative from three of our members who devoted many hours of their personal free

time to produce and analyse a wide reaching question-

naire. This resulted in some stimulating and lively club discussions. So all in all it is looking like we will have

some new(ish) horizons to aim at next summer with a few

all day cruises and extra races to suit the entire TSC fleet. Some of our members who have sailed far and wide, have

also met with some most interesting challenges as

they carried the TSC pennant. I believe even as far as

Galway and Sligo in West Ireland where Barry Smith at-tended the Fireball Worlds, not the farthest he’s been but

none the less a marvellous effort and he achieved a good

placing!

Once again a TSC team entered and completed 'The

Round The Island Race ' in some very demanding condi-

tions. I was at home looking at the live coverage on my computer that Saturday when Tony Page and his crew, on

the somewhat very technically advanced craft of his took

part. Our club boats also of course did the usual showing of heels to Portishead Cruising Club and

their fleet coming back home with 1st and 2nd in

their annual Holms Race event. One wonders what the 2012 season will bring in the way of adventure and

achievement. I wish all our members who partake in

events at home and away well for next season and of

course, those fair winds.

The maintenance and upkeep of the infrastructure of our

club is a never ending task. Ever since the club's inception back in 1949, and through the interven-

ing years, dedicated teams and individuals have worked

hard to develop the club to where it is today but there is

never an end in sight!

Many forces of nature compete to keep us 'mere mor-

tals' on our toes. Nature is causing an incredi-ble change to the pill at the moment. Erosion of the bank

in the vicinity of the slipway is the latest 'nail biter'.

However, we now have a 'cunning plan' to alleviate the

problem and ensure that the structural integrity of the slip is maintained as the launching and recovery facility for

all club members. Our next priority needs to be the race

hut and we are also looking to update the RIB en-

gines and also add some new two man dinghies to our fleet of club owned boats. Of course all this takes some

funding and to help our own cash resources we are trying

to source other funding options which may be available nationally to all sports clubs and institutions to improve

facilities. Your committee has therefore resolved to form

a dedicated sub committee, headed by the Vice Commo-dore, looking at how we can usefully gain an advantage

here and bring some funding in without having to impose

further on the membership reserve funds or indeed any

near future increases. Let us wish this enterprise success; and support the team to exploit what is available. There is

without doubt a great deal of work to be done on this and

the help of any member with talents or experience in working on such a scheme will be much appreciated so

please come forward.

I think I have rambled enough, we have a super newslet-ter to read and digest so it just leaves me to wish one and

all a very merry Christmas and a very jolly

good New Year.

Your Commodore,

Paul.

Editor’s Notes

Thanks again for your contributions to the TSC Newslet-

ter. The next issue is due in March and articles, photos

etc are welcome at any time.

How to join the ‘Yahoo’ e-mail group

If you want to receive the sailing club e-mails, send your

e-mail address to John Harvey at john.p.harvey@

btinternet.com and he will add you to the list.

Wishing you a very happy Christmas and New Year.

sarah.brankin@tesco.net

01454 850054

Cruiser news All the best to new cruiser fleet captain Dave Cushing. I

can’t think of a better person for the job as Dave is very

knowledgeable about all things cruising and racing, as well as being a regular on the social side. Dave is also

taking over from Rob Hudson as the club’s representative

on the BCYA.

Sarah Brankin

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RS Feva World Championships 2011 – Holland This year Joseph Fenwick (Yr 7/8) and I have completed the winter training in the RS Feva, South Zone Squad. As well

as the Feva Circuit events and the National Championships, we both wanted to compete in the World Championships

this year.

At the end of the summer term we travelled by car and ferry, through France, Belgium and finally Holland. After 8hrs

we reached Bruinisse, where we stayed in an apartment next to the marina – where the worlds was to be held.

The Worlds was a 5 day sail-ing event with 159 Feva’s

from 13 countries entered. For

the first two days we were

split into 6 groups and each group raced against each other

for a qualifying series. The

first day was really windy and light winds on day two. The

positions we came were con-

verted into points, and from these points we were streamed

into Gold, Silver and Bronze

fleets.

We just missed out getting

into the Gold fleet by one

point. But this did mean that we were top of the Silver fleet.

The next three days were

spent racing in our fleets, mostly in light winds with one

day cancelled with no wind.

At the end of the champion-

ships we managed to get a 3rd in the silver fleet – which was

equivalent to coming 57th out

of the 159 boats. We were pleased with our final results

and had a great time during

the week; sailing and meeting

up with good friends.

Cameron Webber

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One of my new year’s resolutions for 2012 and the next five years is not to tell any more boat stories, I promise,

or to go racing! This is simply so I can dedicate more

time to my new hobby, water colour painting. (mostly

historical, sailing scenes 19th century and early 20th). I am working very hard, building up enough paintings hope-

fully to do an exhibition, maybe one at T.S.C over the

winter? Please feel free to check out my web site at www.larochebernhard.co.uk (multiple orders and T.S.C

discounts available of course!) The final story then!

Kandy, Mr Pinky and two miracles So you don’t believe in miracles? Repent then now, ye

shallow, muddy, river cobblers! (Vietnamese fresh water

fish, a bit like a cod in taste, if only a cod had any taste!) This is a story about two miracles, both concerning a

yacht named ‘Kandy’ in beautiful, deep blue water, under

a beautiful deep blue sky off the coast of Brittany, (in what, it must be said, seemed like much happier times.) It

was 2006 and I had been invited to join Eric Baldwin and

Roger Harper (ex of Bristol) to help return Roger’s 39ft

Sadler Starlight Express, called ‘Kandy’ back from whence they had sailed, namely south Brittany, Roger’s

new home.

I joined Kandy at Padstow and we sailed round the inside

passage at Land’s End around to the Helford river, then

across the channel via L’aberwrac’h, down the Channel Du Four, calling in at the Ile de Molene and Sauzon in

Belle Ile, the weather was glorious, sunny, warm and a

perfect breeze, fantastic sailing conditions.

The first miracle concerned the 6 foot wide wing keel

hanging under the Sadler 39 and the effect it had on a 1

litre plastic water bottle, (empty) that stood bolt upright on the cabin table for four days without falling over once;

more than can be said of the crew (a very well oiled boat

was ‘Kandy’). I still think it’s a miracle that any shaped keel can hypnotise, magnetise and anaesthetise an empty

plastic bottle, almost as if someone had glued it there, it

wasn’t, we all checked, several times, and we had sailed

the whole way from Padstow! In similar conditions on my Sonata I’ve lost the spout off my tea pot!

Miracle no: 2 was this picture.

Roger told us he had a spinnaker but had never flown it

because it was very big, he was very right! We called it Mr Pinky for obvious reasons. (For those in monochrome,

it was mostly pink and suited the name ‘Kandy’ rather

well.)

The conditions were perfect for sailing and so we decided

to fly ‘Mr Pinky’; it took two of us half an hour to get it

on deck, out the bag and eventually flying. We realised that this would make a good photograph (check it out on

the TSC web site) and then Roger could show his mates

that, despite their goading, he had actually flown ‘Mr

Pinky’.

I had a very crude Fuji pocket camera with me, so I was

elected camera-man. It was a good camera but with a lowly 6 megapixel capacity and 3X magnification, it was

going to be a challenge! The only possible way to photo-

graph the whole scene was for us to inflate the rubber din-ghy, for me to get into it and rely on their knot tying

skills, joining old bits of halyard, spinnaker sheet and

painter until I was a hundred feet away, in order to fill the

frame. The breeze increased a little and ‘Kandy’ eased up towards six knots, nothing at all for this boat as you can

see.

It was all a bit different for me though, standing up bal-

ancing my feet right in the bow of the dinghy, to avoid

getting any of it in the shot, both hands on the camera whilst the rudderless, rubber bag of wind beneath me

surged along on the end of a hundred foot rope pendulum.

It felt like a hundred mile an hour taxi trip through the

back streets of Paris with a blind, drunk, Italian racing driver at the wheel. You can see Eric laughing in the stern

of ‘Kandy’ threatening to cut the line if I didn’t stop my

‘girly’ screaming. Brian Mardon

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I Was There

Relating to the incident near the deep water channel with MV Celtic Fortune on August 5th, we feel there’s a few

bits & pieces that need clarification. First however, as is

plainly obvious, we were certainly negligent in our duty to keep a proper lookout – it might seem inconceivable to

some that a 3,400 ton vessel could creep up on you unno-

ticed, but that’s what happened.

The briefing before the race was both thorough and clear

and we were conversant with the rules of avoiding a colli-

sion – we just didn’t see it till alerted by his horn when he was 150 - 200m off our port stern. There are now some

inaccuracies that creep in - our recollection of the incident

is very well remembered as you might expect – this does-

n’t happen every day.

On hearing his signal, rather than steer across his bow, we

steered immediately to starboard towards the power sta-tion wall where we considered he would not wish to go.

We weren’t travelling very fast, with the wind behind and

the vessel probably blanketing us. The deep water chan-nel however turns this way also and the vessel steered

after us – he now gave two blasts of his horn from about

100m. As we didn’t seem to be moving out of his way,

we elected to tack, pick up speed on a reach and cross his bow. He now gave three blasts of the horn and [we under-

stand from his report] reversed engines. With clear air we

now quickly moved away.

The pilot’s report, copied to us by the Gloucester Harbour

Trustees, has several variances to what actually happened. We didn’t challenge these at the time as the incident had

passed.

He asserts that “we took no action”. This is incorrect – who wouldn’t take action in these circumstances? Perhaps

the pilot had limited knowledge of the manoeuvrability of

a sailing dinghy with her wind obscured?

He states that he then he gave five blasts of his horn –

again this is incorrect; his next signal was two blasts.

He states that we then “were observed to tack to star-

board” we actually tacked to port. He also says that we

“re-crossed” his bow – it was of course only crossed once.

He then states that he then gave a further five blasts of his horn – again this is incorrect; his next signal was three

blasts.

The TSC Newsletter report adds to this, somehow finding

an additional single horn blast in the story.

Of course we were far from blameless in this incident but

the pilot could/should have given us earlier warning and

shown greater awareness of our capabilities to manoeuvre thereby reducing the risk of a collision. We feel that in the

pilot’s report – carried into the TSC Newsletter – there is

strong inference that we were somewhat casual in our response to the incident. We want to be very clear that

that was not the case.

Alan & Vivienne Peak-Payne

Rare visitor at TSC

0n Wednesday 26th October the work of the group of mainly re-

tired club members who meet

weekly to maintain the club boats and enjoy the odd biscuit,

was disturbed by the arrival of a

pied wheatear, a bird normally

only found between the extreme southeast of Europe and distant

China. Wintering in India and

northeastern Africa, it is a very rare visitor to western Europe, but this female pied wheatear was quickly identi-

fied by a walker who dashed home to ‘tweet’ his friends.

http://bobduckhouses.blogspot.com/2011/10/pied-wheatear-in-gloucestershire.html

A large number of twitchers and tweeters flew to the

scene. Their approach was spotted by the sharp-eyed team who put biscuits and paintbrushes aside to search out

cameras. As the flock descended on the foreshore and

began to bustle around, arranging the stick-like legs of their camera stands as if they meant to stay, Gerry Bond

took this shot for the TSC newsletter. Ed

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Working Party Sunday 13th November

The sun shone

on an excellent

working party.

The trailer park

in the compound is transformed.

All named trail-ers have been

reinstated.

All unnamed trailers in good

condition have

been reinstated, for the time be-

ing, but must have names put on asap.

All trailers in poor condition have been put outside the compound alongside the fence and need to be claimed

asap.

Permanent pen just about lasts a season so it is much bet-

ter to paint the name on.

Thank you to all who helped to make it a satisfying morn-

ing.

Joan Booys

Thanks Gerry Bond for providing these photos of the

working party and of the unnamed trailers and trolleys.

See back page for Phil Kirk’s advice on tying down din-

ghies.

Ed

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Christmas Card Exchange and Social Evening

Saturday 17th December

(Please note change of date from that in the Club Pro-

gramme).

Information for newer members:

'Post' your Christmas cards to Club members in the 'post

box' which will be in the Club House.

Attend the social evening on the 17th December when the

cards will be distributed in a Christmassy atmosphere with mince pies and sausage rolls.

NB. Please consider whether a card recipient is likely to visit the Club at that time of year as we always have cards

left over for members who never appear until the Spring.

Visit from Father Christmas

Sunday 18th December

Father Christmas has kindly agreed to pay his annual visit

and arrive by boat to greet children of all ages. Bring your camera.

Freezer Race

Saturday 31st December

Galley and Bar open for the last race of the year. All wel-

come for the social get together even if you are not one of the hardy sailors.

Sue Leat

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Mary Prowse

November saw the sad passing of Mary at the age of 85 years. She was determined to visit TSC on both days of

the last Regatta to meet up with her friends but sadly be-

gan to lose the fight with her health soon afterwards. Roger and Mary with their children, Laurie, Chris, Bar-

bara and Verity (Vee), were extremely active members of

TSC in past years and Mary has continued to support

Club activities until very recently. Roger was Club Secre-tary for many years and a well respected GP in Thorn-

bury.

‘What a life! ’ Laurie’s tribute to Mary Prowse

Mum was a traveller…. with a tremendous interest in

trees. She was born in Shanghai and lived there until the family returned to England in 1937. Those of you who

have seen ‘Empire of the Sun’ may remember the scene in

which Jim becomes separated from his parents during the

chaotic evacuation of Shanghai and is left behind. I

couldn’t help thinking… ‘That could have been her!’

The family made it back, to safety, in England. I say ‘safety’… Mum spent all six years of the war in London.

She was 13 when it started and 19 when it ended. I can’t

imagine what it must have been like. She went on to train as a radiographer and, in 1950, she married a young doc-

tor, Roger, who took her home to the West Country.

They lived for a while in Weston-super-Mare then moved to Thornbury, where Dad joined his father in practice.

They brought up their growing family in rural Gloucester-

shire, making the most of the glorious countryside. Last

week, I stopped in front of the house where we grew up

and touched each of the six sycamore trees which, to me,

always represented the six members of our family. Weekends were spent walking in the hills or, when the

tide allowed, sailing on the river Severn and Mum took

on the mammoth task of bringing up two boys and two girls... and a dog! She also became a key figure in the lo-

cal Family Planning Association. We children knew all

about the various forms of contraception.

For us, holidays meant a week away, either camping or in

a remote cottage. We went to Pembrokeshire, where Vee

was born; to the Scilly Isles and to a ruined farmhouse on Islay, off the west coast of Scotland, looking towards the

isle of Jura (the name of our much-loved collie). We went

skiing in Norway, staying at the hostel which Mum and Dad knew well and, one summer, we drove all the way to

Bordeaux to visit the French family with which both Vee

and Barbara had exchanged.

One-by-one we went off to university, finally giving our

parents the opportunity to travel properly… and they did.

They visited family and friends in Australia and Africa, and even spent two years working in Saudi Arabia, even-

tually returning to retire properly to the quiet village of

Uley. But even then, the world beckoned. Mum had caught the genealogy ‘bug’ and started to research the

Prowse family tree; an interest which took her abroad

again, to Canada and the USA, and which kept her active and busy for the rest of her life.

In 2005, Mum flew to the USA for Ben and Vicki’s Las

Vegas wedding and to Jamaica for Mike’s tropical beach wedding. Then, at the age of 80, she announced that she

was off on her travels again. Where this time? Hadn’t she

already visited every continent on the planet? Not quite… and she had clearly decided it was time to finish the job.

She took her granddaughter with her (A good choice… at

the time, Nancy was Expeditions Officer for the British Schools Exploring Society) and they had some amazing

adventures in South America and Antarctica.

Throughout our lives she has challenged and encouraged us to ‘boldly go’ and ‘seek out new worlds’. In our late

teens, Chris joined the crew of a boat sailing across the

Bay of Biscay, I spent my gap year in Ethiopia and Vee spent hers in India. Nancy taught in China, and James in

Japan, Mike worked in Canada, Will climbed in the Dolo-

mites and Alice.. well, we just couldn’t keep track of Al-

ice! We are not what you would call a ‘stay at home’

bunch.

Eventually, Mum’s days of actual travelling drew to a close, so she challenged us to go on her behalf… and re-

port back… in detail. I’m sure Queen Victoria sent out

explorers in much the same way. So… Vee and Bill vis-ited Tokyo (getting stuck for an extra week while the vol-

canic ash settled). Barbara and Jon cruised in style up the

Baltic coast. Chris and Olive hunted tigers (with cameras)

in India and, just 7 months ago, Jo and I trekked at high altitude through the Himalayas.

In early August, following surgery to remove a tumour from her mouth, she enjoyed Nancy and Nick’s ‘pig farm’

wedding and, in September, now in failing health and

with a lot of help from Vee, she organised a whole week-end of activities and visits for the 2011 Prowse Family

Reunion in the New Forest. With Ben’s help, she even

managed to persuade Dave Prowse, who was Darth Vader

in the Stars Wars films, to come along as the guest speaker.

As a long-time member of the Cherington poetry group,

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Sail Training 2012

As in previous years, we are holding Sail Training ses-sions next year starting in March and finishing in June.

We’ll start with a shore based session in early March so that students will know what they are letting themselves

in for and what clothing to buy to protect them against the

elements.

This will be followed at the end of the month by a day

and a half sailing on the tranquil lake waters of Frampton

on Severn Sailing Club (not always tranquil!) where they will get the hang of sailing and the joys of righting a cap-

sized dinghy.

The rest of the sessions will be on the Severn where hope-fully they will gradually increase in confidence and com-

petence with final sessions racing round a triangular

course and, weather permitting, a sail across the river.

We take a maximum of 10 Juniors (over 11 years old) and

8 Adults. The places are filling up, particularly the Jun-iors, so if you know anyone in the family or friends who

would like to learn how to sail, please let me know as

soon as possible.

Over the last few years our courses have proved very

popular, and places filled up very quickly. Places will be

assigned on a “first come first served” basis, so please don’t hesitate, act now!

This coming year we are also planning to hold some more advanced courses beyond Level 2.

This is for those who can already sail, but require more

time and skills to feel confident sailing on their own with-out instruction.

We ran a course last year and those on it very much ap-preciated the newly acquired knowledge it brought.

To get some idea what the course covers, go to the RYA

web site and look up Level 3 and Seamanship Skills.

If you as an existing club member are interested and

would like to know more, please get in touch:

Tony Turnbull

Sail Training Officer

01454 614253

tonyt@cherry-lyn.demon.co.uk

she explored the English language, writing some wonder-fully evocative poetry… and few people realise that she

was also an accomplished calligrapher and sculptor, hav-

ing learnt at Prema, Uley’s amazing little Arts Centre.

Her terracotta sculptures would not be out-of-place in a public gallery. She was, for a long time, a volunteer at the

Westonbirt Arboretum and, in connection with this, we

intend to plant, or adopt, a tree in her memory.

She was a mother of 4, grandmother to 11 and great-

grandmother to 6...and a half.

She was recently described as ‘Queen of the Prowses’ and

as ‘Chief of the Clan’.

Her genuine love of life and family, and her strong sense

of adventure, will live on in all of us.

———————-

Mary Prowse composed this when she paid her final

visit to TSC at the 2011 Regatta

Sue Leat

‘Severn Sailing’ by Mary Prowse

Never more

Will I sail my own boat in the Severn.

Never more

Hoist sails, slip ropes, hold the tiller again.

Never more

Watch the Hayward Buoy to gauge the current.

Never more

Turn the tiller, to give way to tankers, Sharpness

bound

Never more

Watch the old Severn Bridge go by, overhead.

Never more

Land at Littleton, having lost the fight with the tide.

But still,

I can look across the waves,

Hear the distant whistle of the tiny train,

Watch the Hen & Chickens and Chapel Rock

Revealed by the Chepstow shore

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Sail Training dates 2012

Session Date Start

MARCH

Shore based Sun 11 14:00

ST1 (FOSSC) Sat 31 9:00

APRIL

ST2 (FOSSC) Sun 1 (am) 9:00

ST3 Sat 14 12:00

ST4 Sat 28 10:00

MAY

ST5 Sat 12 11:00

ST6 Sat 19 17:45

ST7 Sat 26 9:30

JUNE

ST8 Sat 2 16:45

ST reserve Sat 16 16:30

ST reserve Sat 23 9:00

TSC 2011 Prize Winners

Spring Series

Fast Handicap (Pill Painting)

1st Paul Craig, RS700 2nd John Harvey, RS700

3rd Dave & Henry Morgan, RS800

Slow Handicap (Garnett Trophy) 1st Nick & Sue Russell, Scorpion

2nd Rod Howell, Topaz Magno

3rd Steve Hobbs, Laser

Cruiser (Booys Trophy)

1st ‘Tulie’, Garry Chapman

2nd ‘Heoligan’,Tony Page

Summer Series

Fast Handicap (Clyde Wheeler Cup)

1st Steve Curry, Dart 18

2nd Tom Sully & Ben Rolfe 29ER

3rd Paul Craig, RS700

Slow Handicap (Reid Cup)

1st Nick & Sue Russell, Scorpion 2nd John Maddison, Topper

3rd Jeff Stott & Ken Greville, DB

Cruiser (Lesley-Kay Trophy) 1st ‘Romper’, Bill Beere

2nd ‘Tulie’, Gary Chapman

Midweek Series

Fast Handicap (Westering Winch)

1st Tim Unerman, RS700 2nd Paul Craig, RS700

3rd Phil & Sarah Kirk, Cherub

Slow Handicap (Blakeney Bowl) 1st Tom Sully, Laser Radial

2nd Tim Parkinson & Dave Allen, DB

3rd Garry Prosser & Nick Russell, Laser 2

Saturday Series

Fast Handicap (Craig Trophy) 1st Barry Smith & crews, Fireball

2nd Dave & Henry Morgan, RS800

3rd Nic Morgan, Dart 15

Slow Handicap (Page Plate)

1st Nick & Sue Russell, Scorpion

2nd Gary & Linda Prosser, Laser 2

Autumn Series

Cruisers (Porlock Weir Painting)

1st ‘Romper’, Bill Beere

2nd ‘Barny’, Tony Bowden

Fast Handicap

1st Paul Craig, RS700

2nd Nicky & Hannah Smith, RS800

Slow Handicap

1st Nick & Sue Russell, Scorpion

2nd Rodney Howell, Magno

Pursuit Series (Allen Cup)

1st Tom Macgregor, Laser 2nd Elliott Goodson, Topper

Beachley (Tom Skuse Cup)

1st John Maddison, Topper

Cruiser Out & Back (Russell Trophy)

1st ‘Cutty Stark’, Gordon Craig

Bernie Scoop (Bernie Scoop Trophy)

1st Phil & Sarah Kirk, Cherub

Charity Pump (Charity Pump Trophy)

1st Steve Hobbs, GP14

Bristol Fashion (first cruiser in the Sharpness)

‘Tulie’, Garry Chapman

Lydney Litre ( Lydney Trophy)

Not run

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Anti-theft property marking

Inky has asked me mention that she has bought a bottle of property marking liquid, initially for marking the club

trophies but available to anyone who wants to use it, ei-

ther on other club items or on their personal property. Ask someone on the Committee if you want to use some.

It’s called ’Crimestoppers Property Protector’ and this is

how the product is described on their website:

Crimestoppers Property ProtectorTM is a clear liquid

solution, each bottle containing a unique combination of

microparticles, to allow you to uniquely mark and then

register your valuables.

Simply by dabbing a tiny amount of Crimestoppers Prop-

erty ProtectorTM onto your possessions, you give them

their own coded fingerprint – registered exclusively to

you via this website. That ‘fingerprint’ can’t be seen by

the naked eye, and is virtually impossible to remove - but

police scanners can identify the particles on the spot,

helping to reunite stolen items with their rightful owner.

The bottle that Inky has bought is registered to Thornbury

Sailing Club, so it is the club that would be contacted if

your marked property was recovered and checked by the Police.

We also have permission to copy and display posters like the one below around the club site to warn thieves.

Ed

Sharpness

1st Phil & Sarah Kirk, Cherub

Around the Lights ( Oldbury Cup)

1st Tom Sully & Ben Rolfe 29ER.

Cruising Trophy (Cruising Trophy)

Jeremy Warren, Chris Hart,

Fergus Macgregor, Steve Ferguson

Holms Race (Trojan Trophy)

1st ‘Romper’, Bill Beere

Long Distance Series (Capstan Trophy) 1st Nick & Sue Russell, Scorpion

Ladies Trophy (Ladies Trophy)

Hannah Smith

Novice Trophy (Novice Trophy)

Martin Elms & Alberto Pau

Junior Trophy (Junior Trophy) John Maddison, Topper

The Commodore asked me to be sure to include in the Newsletter the list of trophies and prizes earnt by mem-

bers this year, to show the recognition duly deserved by

the winners.

Trophy officer needed

Inky Macdonald is standing down so we need another

volunteer to collect the trophies at the end of the season

and have them engraved in time for the Dinner Dance and Prize giving. Contact the committee if you can help.

Ed

Cruiser Frostbite Series

Start HW Ht

January

Frostbite 1 Sat 14 09.40 10.44 8.5m

Frostbite 2 Sun 15 10.25 11.25 8.0m

Frostbite 3 Sat 28 09.30 10.34 8.0m

Frostbite 4 Sun 29 10.00 11.01 7.4m

February

Frostbite 5 Sun 12 09.30 10.29 9.1m

Frostbite 6 Sun 26 09.05 10.05 8.0m

March

Frostbite 7 Sun 4 15.40 16.41 5.4m

Frostbite 8 Sun 18 15.50 16.47 5.9m

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Tying Boats Down with Concrete

We are all aware that strong winds can cause a lot of

damage in dinghy parks and that boats need to be tied down securely to avoid damage to our own and

neighbouring boats. The common method involves driv-

ing a metal stake into the ground leaving 6-8 inches ex-

posed to which the boat is tied to. This provides a lovely spike for an unsecured boat and people to fall on to and

makes mowing the grass around boats more difficult.

This short article explains the method which has been

used successfully at Frampton for many years.

Dig a hole either side of the boat a spade width wide and just over a spade length deep. The sides of the hole

should be vertical.

Take an 18 inch length of galvanised chain with links big

enough to pass an 8mm rope through.

Suspend the chain over the middle of each hole on a piece

of garden cane.

Fill each hole with concrete, tamping it down so that the top of the concrete is 2 inches below soil level.

Allow concrete to set.

At Frampton we put one chain between a pair of berths so

two boats will be tied to each chain. When it is necessary to mow the grass the loose chains can sit on top of the

concrete and below ground level.

Frampton’s chains are provided by the club and put in

during winter work parties. A lot of chains can be put in

when you have a cement mixer and several helpers and

the materials are cheaper when bought in bulk. We have never known this system to fail.

Phil Kirk

Chain suspended on a stick

Hole filled with concrete

Ground level

For Sale

‘Freddie’

Pioneer 7

Including: All onboard inventory Tender, Cradle Mooring chain Avon inflatable 2 HP outboard engine Pilot books and loads of charts

Preferable sale to club member

For £4,000

Contact :

Trevor Roberts

01454 850912

07599 018227

tr007e6145@blueyonder.co.uk

Freddie is now a classic yacht and has been invited to a classic boat festival at Brest in June 2012.

Freddie sailing off St Malo