Sunday Morning Sail 29th of July 2012

Hi everybody

Well, what a morning.  Ten members came to the lake despite the fact it poured with rain all morning.  Nobody sailed their boats, that must be a first, but Mark did try to sail his newly acquired yacht and nearly broke his neck in the process, when he slipped whilst walking on the jetty. The reason for his near injury BIRD POO.

It was Friends of Taylor Park Funday today, so our chances of having a sail were limited, just for the record the BBQ provided by the St Johns Centre arrived with all their gear, gazebo, gas range and possibly lots of food despite the terrible conditions.  In my opinion its rules for one and blow the rest of you!! and that is putting it politely.

Despite the above I think we all had a good natter putting the country to rights and by 12.00 we had all drifted away for lunch.

I would ask all members to read the members information page regarding the Forum.  The Committee are very sad that they have had to take this step and unfortunately the forum will not return.  If you need to contact the Committee, please do so by speaking to a Committee member at the lake or much more importantly at the general meetings held at the Stanley Arms.  You can also use the Club's webmail on the website.
Any emails sent via webmail will be dealt with by the Committee.

See the usual crowd on Wednesday and its Club 500 racing next Sunday. Lets have another great race day.

Christine

Colwyn Bay Mayors Regatta 22nd July 2012

It was an early start, I was up at 6.00am, I don't even do that when working.  Keith and I got to the lake at around 8.15am to find we were the first SHMBC members there, followed shortly after by Paul Devlin, John Bradford and Dave Coatup. Our Club's Chairman and Hon Sec sauntered in an hour or so later :-).
In the end we had a great turnout by the Club members who put on a good display filling 5 tables under 2 gazebos.  (photos can be seen on the clubs website gallery).

The Colwyn Bay Club put on a fantastic day with a long period of free sailing in the morning and everyone took that opportunity and boy was it hectic! at times the lake absolutely full of many different types of boats.  They also ran organised groups on the water, the likes of yachts and steam launches (although it was a bit windy for these).  Steamboat Phil gave us a display of  his straight running boats.

The Club 500s were run too, first off the Colwyn Bay members had their own race as part of their championship and then after that it was open to everyone and we gave a good account of ourselves, Keith got bored I think and parked up on one of the buoys.. cracking parking at speed it was too!!

Later in the afternoon the judging was made for the Mayor's Cup and at the end of it our own club member Alan Luckett came away with the trophy for his lovely 'Lady Mary', Congratulations Alan.

The weather held out really well, the sun shone from morning till afternoon, unfortunately it was a little windy which proved a challenge for the gazebos, and several were seen to be upturned, luckily ours stayed grounded.

One of the oddest sights had to be Paul Devlin taking his pet boxes for a walk...

Please checkout the gallery on the clubs website for photos from the day and I mustn't forget to congratulate club member Rob Physick who was unable to come to the Mayor's Regatta as he was competing at Bridlington in the British Championships for Model Power Boats, coming away with a runners up place in the Mini Mono class and Mono 2 class, this also gave him qualification to the 2013 World Championships.

Rich.

Sunday Morning Sail 15th July 2012

Hi Everybody

It's nice to be up and running again.  Just a bit of house keeping first. From now on there may only be one blog post per week and I will try to complete a story every Sunday and on days when we are away from Taylor Park, visiting other Clubs.

Please note "we will not be able to use the Landing Stage if the Youth Services are in attendance during August 2012".
We will be sailing in the Jetty area for this period and we will move the 500 course back to it's position to the right of the Jetty, so that we can continue with 500 racing, which has become so popular in our club and long may it continue.  Please, if you want a new 500 boat you must let me know ASAP, we will require payment upfront before we make an order for you.

Just to let you know, I spent some time today (Sunday) racing my Club 500 around the area to the right of the Jetty and did not pick up any weed at all, so fingers crossed we should be able to race as normal.

Despite it being a lovely day we only had about 15 members at the lake this morning, but we had a happy time sailing slow boats and partaking in friendly chat with each other, on the whole a very relaxing morning for me, not having to rush around all over the place as I usually do.

We all left around 12 noon, Dave M and I had some refreshments in the cafe and then left for the day.

May I wish all our members who are not 100%, health wise at the moment, a speedy recovery and get yourselves back down to the Lake as soon as you can.

See you next Sunday for another edition of our Blog

Christine (Hon Sec)