Easter Regatta is cancelled due to forecast and what will be impossible launching conditions. Revised date for event will be published ASAP, I am sure the Easter Eggs will keep!

he House Committee are away, so if anyone can spare a little bit of time to help out in the kitchen it would be greatly appreciated – just half an hour or so helping serving up or washing up.  We could also do with a few cakes for afternoon tea.  If you can help out in any way, please would you contact Sarah Carnegie who would be delighted to hear from you.

Applications are being invited for the 2013 Jersey Clipper Bursary following new funding that has helped to secure its future for the next four years. Nigel Philpott, until recently the Island’s Director of High Net Worth Residency, has donated £1,800 to the Bursary funds, enough to cover the award for the next three years.

A keen boat-owner, Mr Philpott has been presented with the model of Jersey Clipper, previously housed in the Maritime Museum, in recognition of his gift and has arranged for the model to be prominently displayed in the Royal Channel Islands Yacht Club at St Aubin.

In addition, the Island’s three former Harbourmasters – Capt Roy Bullen, Capt Brian Nibbs and Capt Howard Le Cornu – have jointly pledged an additional £600 to the Bursary funds, ensuring a further year’s award.

Now in its seventh year, the Bursary – originally a legacy from the three Jersey campaigns in the Clipper Round-the-World Race made possible through the generosity of Dandara, Les Pas Holdings and UBS – is designed to assist an Islander to bouncy castle for sale achieve a nautical ambition. This could be a trip on a tall ship, participation in a watersports competition or training programme, undertaking a marine biology field trip or competing in an ocean race – anything with a maritime theme.

Applicants of all ages are invited to apply for the 2013 award and the winner will follow in the wake of David Raimbault, a young member of St Catherine’s Sailing Club who won the 2012 Bursary.

David (13) used his £600 award to help with the travel costs of training and sailing his Optimist dinghy in the UK. The top-ranked Optimist sailor in the Channel Islands, he recently gained a place on the International Optimist Class Association Development Squad.

The deadline for submitting written applications for this year’s award is the end of May 2013. They should be no more than 200 words in length and should be e-mailed to philipjeune@gmail.com

Come and join us in La Belle France at 7pm.  There will be a French themed meal followed by the usual fun and games.  (Vegetarian food available on request).  There’ll be a prize for the best dressed.  Tickets are £8 and numbers are limited to 50 people.  For further information and to book your tickets by Tuesday 5th March, please e-mail Catherine Behan

At St. Helier YC this Friday 1st March, 7.30pm. Chris Simon, representing the RYA, will be in Jersey this weekend and will give a talk on the Racing Rules of Sailing 2013-2016 and to carry out race official training. The Racing Rules talk is free to all SCSC members and will be held in the Westward Inflatable Water Slide Room at St Helier Yacht Club. The programme is as follows:
Friday 1st March, commencing at 1930hrs – a talk about the changes to the Racing Rules of Sailing that came into effect on 1st January this year. The talk will last approximately an hour and a half and is aimed at all competitors with some content for race officers, all welcome to attend.

We will be getting all the club sailing boats out and rigged ready for the sailing season.  We would be very grateful for all help received.  House committee will provide tea/coffee and maybe even a cake, but please can you bring your own lunch and snacks.  Please email us now if you are able to help.

Keep up todate and see who is coming to this event on facebook

Will will talk about his experiences leading a
team of 17 amateur sailors around the World in the
BT Global Challenge – “The World’s Toughest Yacht
Race”. This talk is described as a “compelling and engaging
emotional roller coaster” and includes stunning
images and incredible movie footage from the
Southern Ocean. Click the House Information page for details.
BT Global Challenge – scsc flyer

hüpfburg mit rutsche

The 2013 Fixture List can be downloaded from the sailing pages.  We will also post one out to you in the next few weeks.

A free winter walk with Arthur Lamy, meet at the club at 1330, the walk will finish back at the Sailing Club and will last about 1.5 hrs. This walk is suitable for all the family, bring your friends and family along to this fun event and introduce them to our club. This is a great way to socialise, get some fresh air and learn a little about St. Catherine’s in Arthur’s fun and friendly way.  Hot drinks and cakes will be available at the club at the end of the walk and a retiring collection will be made in aid of the Jersey Cancer Trust. Please let us know on facebook or send us an email if you coming.

Your committee has decided to launch a big “park push”, think of this as our New Year Resolution! Therefore on Sunday 27th Jan (weather permitting..) a team will be putting in more wooden rails for boat bows to rest on and to generally make the park area much more organised. We will also be sorting bouncy castle for sale out the fence in a similar way to the club house side. And will need support clearing rusty old trailers, removing old boats, cutting back the over grown brambles, applying wood treatment to the fence posts and finally digging to free up some more spaces! As you see it’s quite an extensive list for one day!

To achieve all this we need a large group of volunteers, ideally 15-20, already we are about half way there, but to really make the desired impact in one day some more offers of help would be very much appreciated.  The aim is to start work around 10:00 a.m., grab a well deserved lunch break, then finish off by about 3:00 p.m.  It should be good fun and hopefully not too strenuous. If you would like to help, please could you just e-mail Paul at paul.raimbault@jerseymail.co.uk so I can  plan the work and get a reasonable idea of the number of volunteers.  Thank you and happy New Year!

During the weekend of 1st, 2nd and 3rd of March Chris Simon will be in the Island to run various Race Management courses which are open to all the islands Yacht clubs and SCSC. The provisional program is:-
Friday evening a talk of about 1 1/2 hours on the new RRS,
this should be of interest to all racing sailors.

Saturday morning 3-4 hour course on Rules Advisor training.
This is connected Inflatable Water Slide with running arbitration hearings (a quicker simpler
approach to protest hearings).

Sunday 09:00 to 17:00 Club Race Officer course.  This will be
both a refresher to those who have already done the Club Race Officer
course and an introduction for those who have not.

All these courses will be FoC.

If you are interested please reply to Louise Perkins