Martin Speller has offered to organize Laser training over the winter months. We will only train on Saturday- with a 9.30 meet, brief and then long on the water session- off, late lunch and debrief and away mid to late afternoon.
The following dates have been identified; please can you email Louise Perkins if you would like to attend. A £10 charge will include lunch and fuel costs.
It is important to let us know that you wish to join in so that we can have the appropriate number of RIBS reserved.
The dates are:
23 November
7 December
12 January
26 January
9 February
23 February
Please note this is not a learn to sail a laser; but is for those who can sail one, but need to improve and of course have the appropriate kit for winter sailing. Any queries please contact Louise Perkins
The Sailing Secretary has published the list of qualifiers and NOR for this year’s club Championships event on the 22 September. Well done to all the sailors that have qualified this year. Your Sailing Sec. will post the full list of sailors who scored qualifying points, in the club for you to review.
The club’s annual cruise to Les Ecrehou reef is scheduled for Sunday 8th September. The tide is not quite as low as last year so cricket on the Ecreviere Bank is not going to be possible however it is still a spring tide so plenty of the reef to explore & generally chill out.
The plan is to depart St Inflatable Water Slide Catherine’s at 11:00hrs returning to the slip at 17:30hrs. Members should bring their own lunch and we will also take along a few portable barbecues for those who want to be more adventuress with their cooking. To cover cost of petrol we are asking for £5.00 per adult £2.50 per child under 16 payable at the time. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
As always this event is very much reliant on fine weather & the number of places will be dependent on availability of sufficient motor boats.
To help with the organising we are asking members to register their interest by the 1st September by sending an email to Martin Speller detailing names & numbers.
The Notice of Race, entry form and Sailing Instructions have now been published for this years Jersey regatta, They can be download from our sailing pages or from the regatta website.
Note that SI 17.1 requires dinghy classes to operate a tagging system
operated from RCIYC slipway.
We need you!
We are expecting a big turn out for next weekends Jersey Regatta, SCSC will be providing cover for two rescue ribs for dinghies.
A minimum of 2 persons in each rescue rib is required so crew are welcome. There will be other rescue boats provided by RCIYC and SCSC members who have their own boats and have all indicated that they will be on hand.
Please could you contact Paul Ellison (865382) your availability to help with RIBs, Beach, committee boat and/or social in the evenings (Handing out goody bags etc) as soon as you can.
A Charity Auction in aid of the RNLI will be held at Grand Jersey on Saturday
7th September 2013 from 7:00pm, organised by Chartco Jersey Ltd.
You can download the RNLI Poster for all the details and please do let your friends know of this worthwhile event. To book your spaces, call 07797 752 200 or email mcrowther@grandjersey.com
The Junior regatta, which incorporates the Channel Islands Area Optimist Championships takes place this weekend 13-14 July.
The Junior Regatta is open to Optimist, Topper and Laser 4.7 sailors. Please email us now if you would like to take part. All entries go into a prize draw for a Kindle, kindly donated by the Volvo dealership at Motor Mall.
We would be very grateful if any club members, friends or families would be able to give us a hand, either on or off the water, for this event, as our sailing committee did such a grand job with last weekends Jubilee Regatta that they deserve some time off! Please email if you can offer some time over the weekend.
The most successful Jersey sailor in the recent Jeux des Iles in Corsica, 14-year-old Elana St George, has been awarded the 2013 Jersey Clipper Bursary, worth £600. In addition, an anonymous donation has enabled the Jersey Clipper Bursary trustees to make a second award of £250 to another young sailor, 11-year-old Phoebe Le Marquand. Elana, who has been sailing for five years, says she is thrilled to have won the 2013 bursary, which she will use to help with the cost of training and competing outside the Island. ‘Most of my sailing has been in Optimists at St Catherine’s Sailing Club,’ said Elana, ‘and I have been competing in races for the club and for Jersey for the last three years. Inflatable Water Slide I really enjoy the sport and being part of my club and the local sailing community. ‘I also want to train to be an RYA instructor so that I can put something back into the sport by assisting others to learn to sail. I am not from a sailing family and it was due to the enthusiasm of young instructors that I fell in love with sailing.’ Phoebe, who has been competing in races and regattas since she was nine, will use her award to assist with the travelling costs involved in training in the UK. ‘My ambition is to be the first-ever Jersey girl to gain a place in the British National Squad, sailing my Optimist dinghy,’ she said. ‘I would also love to represent the Island at the Jeux des Iles and be the first Jersey sailor to win a medal! The annual award, a legacy from the three Jersey campaigns in the Clipper Round-the-World Race, was established in 2007 through the generosity of Dandara, Les Pas Holdings and UBS. Further funding to ensure the future of the award was recently provided by local boat-owner Nigel Philpott and the Island’s three former Harbourmasters – Capt Roy Bullen, Capt Brian Nibbs and Capt Howard Le Cornu.
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train on Saturday- with a 9.30 meet, brief and then long on the water session- off, late lunch and debrief and away mid to late afternoon.
