BHYC “WEEKLY NEWS” No 457 4th February 2015 Website www.bhyc.org.uk Email [email protected] Follow us on GUIDE TO CONTENTS Social Programme Page 2 Social Highlights Feb & March Pages 2 Sailing Programme & Notices Page 3 Cruising Section Page 4 Page 5 Working Party Thanks Page 6 Tuesday Talks/Cadet Section/Ladies Lunch Cadet Night – Tonight! Tonight’s Cadet Night is all about Sea Safety and we have lots of fun activities and games planned. It will start at 6.30pm and all families are welcome. We will tell the Cadets all about our exciting Sea Safety Poster Competition. Bembridge Harbour Malcolm Thorpe has kindly agreed to be at the Club on Wednesday 11th February at 1830 to speak about his plans for the Harbour during the coming year. The talk will cover similar ground to the meeting held recently in Bembridge Village which many of you were unable to attend as the date coincided with our Burns Night celebrations. Scottish Reels BHYC Members are invited to attend an evening of Scottish Dancing on 21st February 2015 starting at 6.00pm. All abilities welcome and there will be instruction to help beginners and those who are a little rusty! £6 dancing only. £16.50 to include a meal with a glass of wine/pint of beer at the Pilot Boat afterwards. Please email Joe Robertson on [email protected] or call 07800 544861 to book and arrange payment in advance. Dancing will be hosted by the Brading & St Helens Conservative branch and a donation from the ticket sales will be made to the branch. Winter Workshops A quick reminder that there is another Winter Workshop planned for Friday 27th February at 19:30. This time we are covering Safety, Use of VHF, sending messages, hopefully with a little practical. It is open to all sailors and non sailors alike. It would help if you could drop an e-mail to [email protected] just so we know approximate numbers. No: 457 Page 1 BHYC “WEEKLY NEWS” Social Programme FEBRUARY 2015 DAY DATE WEDNESDAY 4 THURSDAY FRIDAY LUNCHTIME Bembridge Breakfast Club 0700 Ladies Lunch 1300 Cadet Night 1830 Haven Bridge Club 1400 Quiz Night 2000 5 6 EVENING Rugby Wales Vs England 2000 Rugby Italy Vs Ireland 1430 Rugby France Vs Scotland 1700 SATURDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 7 9 10 11 12 SATURDAY 14 Haven Bridge Club 1400 Rugby England Vs Italy 1430 Rugby Ireland Vs France 1700 SUNDAY 15 Rugby Scotland Vs Wales 1500 MONDAY 16 Salsa Class 1930 TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY 17 19 21 23 24 26 Talk Night – 2000 SATURDAY 28 Salsa Class 1930 Merrill Wake 1400 Music Club 1900 Bembridge Harbour Talk 1830 Valentine’s Evening 1900 Haven Bridge Club 1400 Scottish Dancing 1800 Salsa Class 1930 Music Club 1900 Haven Bridge Club 1400 Rugby Scotland Vs Italy 1430 France Vs Wales 1730 Chris Dean Music Night 2000 Social Highlights in February and March A note from your Social Committee ----February Events • Thursday 5th ----Quiz hosted by Nicky & Pete, prizes for winners and losers, this is a great evening of friendly rivalry. • Saturday 14th Valentine’s meal in the Galley book with Tara. • Saturday 28th --- CHRIS DEAN & friends from the SYD LAWRENCE orchestra, this is going to be a great night, get your tickets, £16 each, from the bar before they sell out. • Saturday 7th March----all of you who appeared in or supported the reviews put on by No: 457 Page 2 BHYC “WEEKLY NEWS” Jillie & Frank Wheeler, are in for a great evening of fun, laughter and maybe embarrassment, for the reviews are back for one evening, for those who do not remember the reviews come and see what some of your fellow members got up to !!! • Saturday 28th March ------ Fitting Out Supper--------Menu to follow SYD LAWRENCE ORCHESTRA---------SAT 28TH FEBRUARY CHRIS DEAN took over the Syd Lawrence orchestra in 1996, when Syd Lawrence retired, the orchestra is normally 16 strong, and they perform a wide range of music from Glen Miller--Buddy Holly--Frank Sinatra--Matt Munroe and many more. TREV BROWN plays the keyboards & piano, in the past he has also played with the great Joe Loss & Victor Sylvester, he has conducted seven Royal Variety Shows as well many TV shows DAVE TANDY is one of the younger members of the band; he is the drummer and has been with the band for four years TOM MARKS is the most recent recruit to the band, and is very well known in the Jazz world, he has previously played with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra----Back to Basie---BBC Big Band. For more information on the band 'Google' Chris Dean & the Syd Lawrence orchestra’. Sailing Notices 2015 Sailing and Training Programme Icebreaker 7 – 8 this weekend RACING SUPPORT DECEMBER 2014 - MARCH 2015 START LINE DATE RO ARO/INSTRUC /HAVEN BASE TOR OF DAY Sun 8 13:00 H Sun 22 13:00 H Graham Not Required Sutton Anne Barlow Not Required 12:00 H David Earee Sun 8 Not Required SCEPTRE CREW SCEPTRE HELM MITRE CREW MITRE HELM Feb-15 Colin Sue Newham Caldicott John Carter Garry Smart Mar-15 Daryl Street David Cumnningham John Carter Event Peter Hudson ICE 7-8 Ian Thompson Peter Hudson ICE 9-10 John Carter Peter Hudson ICE 11-12 The allocation for Support has now been done and has been put on to Dutyman until the end of the Icebreaker Series. Please then arrange your own swaps if you are unable to do a particular day. If your duty either on Sceptre or Mitre in support of a race, please report to the Race Officer for a briefing 45 minutes before Harbour Starts or 1 hour before Committee Boat Starts. If you find this impossible please send an e-mail to [email protected]. No: 457 Page 3 BHYC “WEEKLY NEWS” Dutyman now has the Sailing Programme on it until August 2015. If you would like to offer yourself to do certain duties please add your name to the system. In the Next few weeks we will automatically be allocating people in for the up and coming Sailing programme. The idea is to do this in Teams therefore allowing you to swap within the teams without outside input. More details will follow via Dutyman. Powerboat Level 2 A powerboat Level 2 Course is planned for the end of March. The dates are from 19:00 on Friday 27th March through to 17:00 on Sunday 29th March. Anybody wishing to do this course should contact [email protected] as soon as possible. This leads on to an RYA Safety Course in April. Ladies That Launch Ladies that Launch at BHYC was set up to continue the enjoyment of sailing and progress in gaining more sailing skills. It was started by three ladies on the Adult Beginners' Course during Sail Training Week 2012. Ladies That Launch welcomes anyone from a beginner, a budding improver or ladies that have done lots of sailing, there is always something new to learn. LTL have joined in 'Come Sail With Us' and we have had training sessions and workshops over the years. For more information please email [email protected] Cruising Section - Our February walk is detailed below Thanks again to Ian and Joy for checking that the walks should still be possible, despite the recent wet weather. The Griffin Pub Menu follows the walk details. We plan to meet in the Station Approach car park Wroxall (opposite to the Community Centre) for a 10:00 start on Friday 6th Feb. The walk is a 3.75 mile circular taking in the north escarpment of St Martins Down. We leave the escarpment via a steep zig-zag path which has steps and guard rails but care will need to be taken. The route then goes across open pasture to join the old railway track at Upper Hyde (Shanklin). Finally we follow this recently upgraded track back to Wroxall. For those who would prefer a non-muddy and flatter walk, they can take the Sunshine Trail from Wroxall towards Shanklin to meet up with the walkers taking the above route. At the end of the walk we shall drive to Godshill for lunch in The Griffin (situated opposite to the main car park in the village.) The Griffin will have their regular lunch menu choices but if 20 or more of us book a carvery lunch we have been offered an excellent 2 course deal at £10 Hopefully enough walkers have asked for the carvery deal. Happy Hiking, Anne No: 457 Page 4 BHYC “WEEKLY NEWS” I am sure the excellent presentation about the Yarmouth Lymington Passage by Dr. Alan Doe was thoroughly enjoyed by everybody who attended. It was fascinating to see how the vessels operating this route developed over the 150 or so years since the first ferry the Glascow - entered service in 1830 and was equally fascinating to learn that Alan’s family were directly involved in operating this service from the beginning. interesting presentation Alan, thank you very much. A most The next Talk on Tuesday the 17th of February is to be given by Mark Hickman about his Edwardian sloop the Tarifa which many of us will have seen in the Harbour and I am sure this will be yet another interesting Talk. As usual the start time is 8pm, the Bar will be open from 6pm and Supper will be available from 6pm until 7.30pm. Pre-booking for Supper is required either by putting your name on the list on the Club Notice Board or by ringing the Club on 872828. Guests are welcome but must be signed in. Robin Powell. Cadet Section Poster Competition We would like all BHYC Cadets to design a Sea Safety poster for the Club and bring it to the next Cadet Night in March. The winner will see their poster printed and put up around the Club. This is open to all Cadets. The poster should be colourful, A3 in size, have information about Safety at Sea. This could be what to wear, what to take with you, things to remember before you go sailing. The poster should be clear to read. The closing date is the 4th March 2015 only one entry per child and please write your name, age, email and contact number on the back of the poster. Prizes will be given out in April. Ladies’ Luncheons Anyone interested in joining the coach outing to Poole and Brownsea Island in May should bring a £10 deposit. This May, several members of our committee will stand down. We urgently need to hear from anyone willing to join the committee, which meets for an hour or so after each monthly meeting. If you think you could take part, but are not too sure about it, we would be happy for you to try a 'taster' meeting. Please let me know if you are interested. Tessa Gates - Chairman No: 457 Page 5 BHYC “WEEKLY NEWS” Working Party - Thanks Pleased to announce another successful working party, with thanks to the loyal band of members who turned out in a biting wind to bring a few more improvements to the club and its grounds. The Pico Store is now looking very smart and Robin is very proud of it, the framework to the awning is once again white, armoured cable now extends to the walkway leading to the Deep Water Pontoon (as a step toward lighting it) and the infrastructure for the new signs to the car park has been erected. The signs will be fixed this coming week and will display the club logo and point out that it is a private car park - hopefully it will deter people like the BT truck driver caught by Peter Hudson 'pulling doughnuts' around the central posts! Well done Peter and, yes we are taking this further! Keith Gentleman No: 457 Page 6