Hi everyone.
What an absolutely fabulous day. No wind, beautiful sunshine, dead calm water, loads of people in the Park. No members, I exaggerate a little, we had approximately 15 members in attendance. Where were you all!!
We had a really relaxing morning, John went out early with rescue boat to take some photographs from the middle of the lake, they will feature on the website when he has picked his best ones. Mark and Andrew M contributed to the photographic duties as well thank you to them for doing that for the club.
No yachts today reason no wind. we all had chance to have a good natter and we welcomed Alan and Josie into the club today, Josie joins us as an associate member, so ladies please make her welcome not forgetting Alan of course.
One or two of us had a bit of club 500 practice around the buoys honing or skills for the next race day which of course is next Sunday 1st April, and that will be No Joke (get it).
After tea and toast we finished for the day at 12.00.
See you next Sunday. Wednesday for the lucky ones.
Christine Hon Sec.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Wednesday 21st
Shipmates
Nine of us ( Wednesday faithfuls ) assembled on the landing stage for our midweek sail. the lake was like a mill pond and ideal for small craft. Have been AWOL for a while so it was nice to see some old friends and catch up with the news.
Arrived early to prep the rescue boat before painting. thanks for the tea Sue, much appreciated !
Full speed ahead.......
Aye John
Nine of us ( Wednesday faithfuls ) assembled on the landing stage for our midweek sail. the lake was like a mill pond and ideal for small craft. Have been AWOL for a while so it was nice to see some old friends and catch up with the news.
Arrived early to prep the rescue boat before painting. thanks for the tea Sue, much appreciated !
Full speed ahead.......
Aye John
Monday, March 19, 2012
Sunday Morning Sail 18th March 2012
Hi everybody
I am running out of words to describe the fun we are having at the lake on Sunday mornings.
Once again the day started a little cold but soon warmed, up but with all the excitement of excellent Club 500 racing, we all soon forgot about the gradually warming conditions as the morning went on. By mid morning the sun shone and the members with slower and scale models turned up in their droves. In all we had around twenty five members present today. We also had dozens of the general public watching our fun to!
We had a competitive Club 500 race again this morning with lots of competitors taking part, with all the usual thrills of racing.
From now on Club 500 competitive racing will take place every fortnight so the next race will be on 1st April 2012, please make a note in your diaries, the reason for only having competitive races on a fortnightly basis is that it takes time for me to collate the results and publish them to the website. so I would ask for a little bit of sympathy for me Ahhhh!!!! in my efforts. We will all be able to race around the course as much as we want to, but we will only be scoring on race days, take note of this please.
Over on the landing stage we had a good crowd sailing tugs, steam launches and two Marblehead yachts in the control of Ian J and Dave R, well done to Dave R for retrieving his yacht with the rescue boat.
When all our batteries had run down and some of us had consumed their tea and toast we all left for the day.
See you all next Sunday or possibly on Wednesday(if retired or otherwise).
Christine (Secretary)
I am running out of words to describe the fun we are having at the lake on Sunday mornings.
Once again the day started a little cold but soon warmed, up but with all the excitement of excellent Club 500 racing, we all soon forgot about the gradually warming conditions as the morning went on. By mid morning the sun shone and the members with slower and scale models turned up in their droves. In all we had around twenty five members present today. We also had dozens of the general public watching our fun to!
We had a competitive Club 500 race again this morning with lots of competitors taking part, with all the usual thrills of racing.
From now on Club 500 competitive racing will take place every fortnight so the next race will be on 1st April 2012, please make a note in your diaries, the reason for only having competitive races on a fortnightly basis is that it takes time for me to collate the results and publish them to the website. so I would ask for a little bit of sympathy for me Ahhhh!!!! in my efforts. We will all be able to race around the course as much as we want to, but we will only be scoring on race days, take note of this please.
Over on the landing stage we had a good crowd sailing tugs, steam launches and two Marblehead yachts in the control of Ian J and Dave R, well done to Dave R for retrieving his yacht with the rescue boat.
When all our batteries had run down and some of us had consumed their tea and toast we all left for the day.
See you all next Sunday or possibly on Wednesday(if retired or otherwise).
Christine (Secretary)
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Sunday Morning Sail 11th March 2012
Hi Everybody
Well here we are 11th March and the first day of the Club 500 racing season. We had thirty two members at the lake this morning!! What a great morning we had!! as is becoming the norm everybody arrived early, even earlier than your Secretary (He! He! Keith) Everything was very quickly set up for Racing under the control of I think David B and Rob P, if I have left your name off the setting up team, I apologise for that.
We had four heats this morning with very few mishaps, we must get a proper stop watch though, which is reliable, not like the cheap one which we keep in the blue box!
I think Jay got a little upset when we had to disqualify him from the heat he took part in. He hit a stationary boat and under the rules had to be disqualified. We know he was upset but a rule is a rule and if we let it go, we would have to do so for everybody else. His Mum and Dad said he would soon get over it. Don't be too upset Jay, you did very well anyway, don't give up!
Martin D managed to knock the rudder of his boat, fortunately he has a new hull so will be back on the water soon. Please all be aware, there is a dirty great lump of concrete just below water level at the edge of the lake just waiting to remove someone else's rudder. We will endeavour to remove it if we can just be careful.
At a request from the Club 500 Racers, the committee has decided to hold 500 races every Sunday throughout the summer, instead of fortnightly, but you must all get to the lake as early as you can to get things ready. We will race for about an hour and then have general sailing for the rest of the morning.
Thanks to everybody who helped to put everything away at midday.
Thats all for today, see you all next week.
Christine Hon Sec
Well here we are 11th March and the first day of the Club 500 racing season. We had thirty two members at the lake this morning!! What a great morning we had!! as is becoming the norm everybody arrived early, even earlier than your Secretary (He! He! Keith) Everything was very quickly set up for Racing under the control of I think David B and Rob P, if I have left your name off the setting up team, I apologise for that.
We had four heats this morning with very few mishaps, we must get a proper stop watch though, which is reliable, not like the cheap one which we keep in the blue box!
I think Jay got a little upset when we had to disqualify him from the heat he took part in. He hit a stationary boat and under the rules had to be disqualified. We know he was upset but a rule is a rule and if we let it go, we would have to do so for everybody else. His Mum and Dad said he would soon get over it. Don't be too upset Jay, you did very well anyway, don't give up!
Martin D managed to knock the rudder of his boat, fortunately he has a new hull so will be back on the water soon. Please all be aware, there is a dirty great lump of concrete just below water level at the edge of the lake just waiting to remove someone else's rudder. We will endeavour to remove it if we can just be careful.
At a request from the Club 500 Racers, the committee has decided to hold 500 races every Sunday throughout the summer, instead of fortnightly, but you must all get to the lake as early as you can to get things ready. We will race for about an hour and then have general sailing for the rest of the morning.
Thanks to everybody who helped to put everything away at midday.
Thats all for today, see you all next week.
Christine Hon Sec
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