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Up coming activities and social events Feb to End April 2012.

� Dinghy Park Tidy Sunday 4th March at 10am � Visit Aldeburgh Life Boat station Wednesday 21st March at 7pm � OOD Refresher and Chilli Lunch Saturday March 24th from 10 am � RYA First Aid Course Saturday March 31sth at 09.00 � RYA Safety Boat Refresher Course Saturday April 7th at 09.00 � Start of Smart Sailing Saturday April 14th & 28th � Start RYA Nat sailing scheme L1 & 2 Monday April 16th at 18.30 � Fitting Out Supper Saturday April 14th at 18.30 � RYA Safety Boat Course Saturday April 21st and Sunday 22nd � Cruiser Shake Out Sail Saturday April 28th � Club House Work Party Sunday April 29th � Start of Yotas Sailing Age 8 – 15 years Tuesday May 15th from 16.30 � Sea Shanty and Fish and Chip Supper Saturday May 12th at 18.30

A 2012 welcome to all members of Slaughden Sailing Club. The Slaughden Sailing Club Year Book

will be with you soon but in the meantime here are some upcoming events to excite you .

This publication focuses upon a superb range of opportunities to develop and enhance your

sailing and power boat skills. Please make every effort to attend at least one of these courses. In

addition we are organising events to celebrate the Queens Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics

Inside this Issue � Events to look

forward too � A message from

the Commodore � Courses and

training events planned for 2012

� Social Events � Cruising an

article from June Bird

� See Posters for more details

RYA Safety Boat Refresher Course Saturday 7th April 2012

We have a limited number of places available for the Safety Boat Refresher Course. Pick up some new tips, build confidence, share your experiences.

Acclimatise to our New Safety Boat ‘Patricia’

If you are interested then please give Peter Samuels a call on 07803 855505 or e mail on [email protected].

Dinghy Park Tidy . Hello folks. The dinghy park is well and truly ours now that we have bought the land. It is also in a bit of a mess. Lots of high winds and exceptionally high tides have rather left their mark . So..... We are having a Dinghy Park tidy on Sunday 4th March at 10am till lunch time to clear it all up ready for the new season. Lunch will be free and the rumour is that there may also be some free beer !!!! If you are able to help please let me know that you will be coming so that I can allocate tasks fairly and also order enough sausages for lunch !!!!!! Please bring any garden tools you will need with you. ie strimmers, lawnmowers, shovels, wheelbarrows etc. Look forward to seeing you then. Stanley Clark 01728 635606 [email protected]

Refer to Poster

The next First Aid Course will be held over one day on Saturday 31 March- 0900-1630hrs in the clubhouse.

Catherine Tye our expert instructor shared her many experiences on the previous course which made the course very interesting and stimulating and earned her much praise. Check your current certificates as First Aid is a prerequisite for Safety and Power Boat cover / courses as it is for other Instruction.

The cost will be £38.00 to include booklet, certificate and hot drinks with Sandwich Lunch available. All those interested please let Leslie Downing know as soon as possible in order to reserve your place.

Leslie (Downing) Tel: 01728 833599 E mail: [email protected]

STOP PRESS!

Just room to squeeze in an artist’s impression of the new Clubhouse balcony!

A message from Robin our Commodore The first Committee Meeting of the New Year took place on 19th January, and business was brisk with lots of enthusiasm to tackle the challenges of the new season. The minutes may be seen in the Members Area. The new programme was already in draft form and probably finalised by now and will appear soon on our Web Site. Consideration has been given to the comments and wishes of the membership following the Passage Plan. Members who have read the minutes will have noticed that our next capital project, the veranda extension, is also being developed. This was also a scheme resulting from the Passage Plan and proved to be enormously popular with the support of the majority of the membership. Maurice Brown has kindly agreed to be Project Manager and is in the process of applying for planning permission. Detailed drawings and cost schedules have been prepared to extend the veranda to 4 metres wide to the West and South with a modification to a West window to provide folding door access. This will greatly enhance our social facility and provide secure storage for the Club`s fleet of 10 Toppers under the deck, plus some members boats. When all preparations are complete, I will call an EGM to present the finalised project to the membership. I am determined that if at all possible, we should go ahead this season. It will require some form of loan funding but this has never stopped us in the past. There could be no finer place to observe a sunset, with a bottle of wine, and with good friends, after a glorious days sailing. New Season - New Boats - Competition As you all know, our new Safety Boat is to be named “ Patricia “ in loving memory of dear Trish Silsbury. Our 2 brand spanking new Fevas however do not as yet have names. I invite our Junior Members to compete in suggesting names for them. There will be prizes for the winning names, plus the 2 winners will sail the boats for the first time, weather permitting at the naming ceremony to be held on Tuesday 5th June ... part of the Jubilee holiday weekend celebrations' Entries to Luke Cousins by 29th February 2012. As I write these few lines the new season seems somewhat distant with a fair covering of snow transforming our little hamlet into a Christmas Card scene, even our garden looks pretty good! But No! Our Shakedown events are only about 9 weeks away, and could that be a Daffodil forcing its way through 3 feet of snow ? Dream on! Happy new season to you all. Robin

Saturday April 21st and Sunday 22nd

For those that have passed RYA L1 & 2 Power Boat Course an opportunity has arisen to now qualify for Safety Boat.

The cost is £100 for Members with 50% returned upon completion of 5 Boat

Duties. Non Members £240

Junior Rep Junior Rep Junior Rep Junior Rep

Hi from Luke your new Junior Hi from Luke your new Junior Hi from Luke your new Junior Hi from Luke your new Junior Rep Rep Rep Rep

"Happy New Year to all juniors. Hoping that everyone had a great

Christmas. I hope you are all looking forward

to the new sailing season. If anyone has any ideas for the new

season then let me know. I am pleased to be your new Junior Representative and look forward to seeing and hearing from you.

Luke Cousins E-mail

[email protected]"

Note from Luke –

RS Feva naming Competition

Closes 29th February 2012

Want to win a prize ??

Names wanted for the 2 new RS Fevas. All suggestions to Luke

[email protected]

For details of the Safety Boat Course or Refresher

Course contact Peter Samuels

On 07803 855505 or by E mail on

[email protected]

Adult Training for RYA Level 1 &2 certification will start on Monday Evenings on April 16th, 1830 - 2100hrs ,ending with the level 2 assessment weekend at the end of July YOTAS- Junior training for children 8-9yrs to 15yrs will start on Tues 1630- 1830hrs on May 15th Would any member wishing to join either of these training courses please let me know as soon as possible as I need to know how many places I can offer to non members For more information please contact Leslie Downing on 01728 833599 or [email protected]

“High Performance Master Class”

Watch this space as the club are organising for an expert to provide a one day course, possibly a Saturday late June, to deliver

Performance Racing Skills.

For further details refer to Nigel Hemming

Smart Sailing If you want to tone up your sailing skills then come along to the following events on

Saturday April 14th & Saturday April 28th. Please let Leslie Downing know if you intend to join the group

Lets Sail and have fun

Following a level of interest at the passage plan evening Allen Carr has offered to run a "Lets sail" evening each Thursday from 1830 during the season.

Watch the website and year book for more details nearer the time. Questions to [email protected]

The plan will be for fun sailing with a safety boat. There will be no instruction but

ongoing advice.

The aim will be to get members sailing who are looking for more on water experience.

These sessions will not be open to

beginners.

Speaking of Life Boats

Tour of Aldeburgh Life boat station

Wednesday 21st March

At 7pm

Refer Lizzie Clarke See Poster

OOD Refresher course

Saturday March 24th From 10.00 am

Bowl of Chili on offer Payable on the day

Refer to Pris for further details

Fitting Out Supper Saturday April 14 th at 18.30

Always a big hit – so don’t miss out - max 50 covers

Separate announcement to follow but keep the date free in your diary

Food prepared by Penny and Adam Davies-Brown

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Shanty singing for all, and some danciShanty singing for all, and some danciShanty singing for all, and some danciShanty singing for all, and some dancing for those ng for those ng for those ng for those

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Log Of The Year Competition

Still open for your entries. Please send your submissions by the end of February

to Di Munro at [email protected]

Prizes to be awarded at the Fitting Out Supper

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Wednesday 17th Aug 2011

We left Walton Backwaters at 04.00 heading for the Medusa then Sunk Head Towers, Black Deep, and past London Array wind farm. Wind was NW3 and we were motor sailing. We skirted the Fisherman’s Gat and East Margate then reaching the North Foreland, looking dramatic in the morning light. We circled inside Broadstairs

harbour and then went past Ramsgate into Pegwell Bay, at 12.00. We sailed over everything into the entrance of Stour which is by a big old power station. There were lots of seals on bank just inside. We continued past Richborough Port which was used to send troops to France in the first World War, and anchored above Stonar Gap for

lunch. We managed to sail all the way to Sandwich which was a good 4 miles up the beautiful wide and meandering river. It was high slack water by the time we arrived and sailed alongside pristine Dutch yacht. We had a walk round the lovely historic town, which had been an important port in medieval times and a Cinque Port. Hard

to believe now the entrance has silted up. There were plenty of pubs to choose from for our drink and meal. The day had been well above our expectations and Des kept saying “I never thought it would be like this!” Thursday 18th Aug 2011

We explored the town properly which was full of ancient Tudor buildings and visited the ancient law court and church, then bought provisions from the market. We left at 13.00 as soon as tide flowed up (we had already lowered mast). The countryside was beautiful and the weather was still sunny, although very windy. There were lots of big boats moored right up in this part of the river but none were moving! The river doubles back to pass the power station again but from the other side. Pluck’s Gutter, where we had planned to get to, was not much of a place so we continued upstream. We went past Grove Ferry, and then the river opened out suddenly into some big wide broads just like Norfolk. We thought we would see how far we could get and continued past a weed catcher but soon found our prop was completely fouled with very tough weed, which we could not get off easily. We had to row the boat

backwards (the best way it would go) to the weed catcher where I lay down with the bread knife (my arms are longer) to cut all the weed off which took ages!

We had actually got within about 3 miles of Canterbury. We got back to Grove ferry 18.00 and tied up right outside the pub, where we had a well earned drink and meal.

Friday 19th Aug 2011 Left 07.30 to take flow back to Sandwich which was strong by the time we got there so went under the bridge backwards, and back alongside the “Edam” which was still there. We repaired

the running lights then took the stream down at 10.30 and had enough water even at low tide to get all the way down to the entrance, the flood was against us by this time. The last part of the river goes through an absolutely vast drug factory complex! We anchored by the seals and they entertained us for ages as the light faded. In the night they were swimming all round us and splashing about! Our plan had be to go to France and the forecast had looked good but when we woke up at 04.00 it had all changed. The

wind was now fair to go home so we thought we better take the chance before we got stuck, but the trip was well worth it in its own right!

Want to know more about this voyage then I am sure June Bird would be only to pleased to share her experience of this trip.

Yes Please .....don’t forget to mention Slaughden Sailing Club !!

Your sailing club needs just a

couple of hours of your time!!!!

DINGHY PARK WORK PARTY

SUNDAY 4th MARCH

10am till free Banger and Bun

time! Grass cutting, boat moving and

general tidy up.

Phone or email Stanley Clark to book

your party place!!! 01728 635605 or

[email protected]

GUIDED TOUR

ALDEBURGH LIFEBOAT

STATION

WEDNESDAY 21ST MARCH

7PM AT THE LIFEBOAT

STATION

PLACES ARE LIMITED

SO SIGN UP ASAP.

(We may adjourn to the Mill Inn afterwards!!!!!)

Phone or email Lizzie Clark on 01728 635605 [email protected]

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