Windsock Jan 2012

Sailing – Talk  Verulam School

     Mike Collins will be giving a talk at Verulam School, Brampton Road, St Albans Thursday 26th January at 7.30pm about preparations made for a solo 3,200 mile yacht race.The purpose of the event is to raise funds for Verulam Parent Teacher Association and Verulam School.

      Welly Challenge  “Olympics “ challenges Saturday 11^th  Mead Hall Wheathampstead – Don’t forget

      Look out for the attached poster and further information .

Pub night 14^th  February – Valentines day  - how romantic

     Second Tuesday of the month   - New venue Rose & Crown Sandridge  - 8pm onwards  14^th January . We also plan to make the June Pub night a little bit more family friendly  - the venue will be some where with a good beer garden.

Windbag

      Val is in need of your articles for the next edition.

Trophies

      Please return in time for engraving and the AGM by 10^th March.

     Please do not have anything engraved your selves we have negotiated favourable rate to have them done in one place and this saves the

     club money.

Winter racing

     Extra race to the programme – pursuit 18^th Feb Extra race to be added to the series between the end of the winter season and the start of the spring series. Probably along the lines of a team pursuit made up of 2 starting with the lead club sailor being paired with the opposite, and working through the ranks so every one is fairly matched up, to be determined on the day according to who ever wishes to participate and at the discretion of the race officer

New committee members

      David Brown has been co-opted on to the committee and will stand for election at the next AGM.

     But now is the time to consider how you can get involved and put your self forward Secretary , Commodore , Vice commodores sought..

Single fleet sailor

     Single fleet sailor – this was discussed following Peter Edel being the only sailor from the fast fleet competing recently in a handicap

    before Christmas. It was agreed that where a single sailor from the fleet sails, that the fleet will be treated as a whole and they will be

    recorded in their finishing position. There result will then be extracted from the results and move the others up to arrive at their finishing position

    This only applies to the handicap races and would be treated as a ranked position – it was also interesting to note that in this particular

    circumstance the problem had been compounded by people swapping duties!!! So if you do swap please try initially to swap from the same fleet.

    There has been no feedback on this  - and even at the last committee meeting we had further discussion , Race officer will make the final conclusions and circulate – any one wish to express their thoughts !!

Contacts list

·        Up to date contacts list was attached with this Windsock sent by email.

Future dates

·         Olympic Welly Challenge 11^th Feb

·         Team pursuit race 18^th Feb

·         Committee meeting March 1^st  - Rays

·         RYA Dinghy show 4^th March

·         Return trophies 10^th March

·         AGM 1^st April

·         Easter egg race April 7^th

·         Queens Jubilee 2^nd June

·         Club regatta 9^th June

·         Little Paxton 30^th June or 7^th July

·         Barton Broads away day  - august bank holiday 26^th August

·         Stewartby away day September to be confirmed

·         Punch bowl pursuit  - 22^nd or 29^th September.

·         Commodore cup & Annual dinner 20^th October

Little Paxton preparations

     Start thinking about how you can compete , support , offer a boat or volunteer to be a team leader – may be we can get a team of youngsters this year.

Appropriate clothing for rescue duty

    Please remember that if you are on rescue duty to where the appropriate clothing  - there have been a few instances recently where those on duty have not been appropriately dressed – you must be kitted out so that if you end up in the water you are safe and do not need to be rescued your self.

Pauline

·        Pauline is making good progress following her hip replacement  - please keep in touch with her .

Kestrel for sale

·        See attached flyer

AGM – 1^st April at Mead Hall

Please accept this as official notification of the forthcoming AGM

AGM minutes will be circulated email along with agenda and officers reports, nothing will be posted unless you do not have email.

Mike Caddy  - Club Secretary