been down the club today, seems the last storm swept a lot of the sand at the top of the beach away, and pushed some of the heavy wooden pieces around on the carpark.
Could make for an interesting working party.
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Wednesday Night Talks on Sailing
Our series of Tynemouth Sailing Club winter talks has been planned – and we will be holding them on a Wednesday at 8.00 p.m. for no more than an hour. See below for the program (and in the calendar shortly) & other events pre-season.
Although four of the talks are aimed at “Lasers” much of the content will be applicable to other boats as well. They will be aimed at those who have started sailing relatively recently and will not be “expert” although we plan to show some of the coaching DVDs. THere may be a couple of additons to the programme below. We hope to see a good number of you for the talks and afterwards at the bar, as well as at other events.
- Jan 2nd Laser Class Meeting. ( We have 25 lasers! ) and the Solo is invited as well!
- Jan 9th Rescue; the basics; Mike
- Jan 16th Lasers; controls and rig adjustment: Mike
- Jan 23rd Lasers; Starting and going to windward; tacking; Mike
- Jan 25th Burns Night
- Feb 6th Rescue; Piers and Priorities, towing; Mike
- Feb 9th Prize giving Dinner. Grand Hotel.
- Feb 13th Lasers; Reaching, Gybing, Running and Finishing; Mike
- Feb 20th Lasers; Tides and Windshifts; Mike
- Feb 27th Contrasting Cruises; Mild Mediterranean and Windy Western Isles; Terry and Tom and crews.
- March 6th Rules; Basic and Expert ; Mike and Howard
- March 13th Race Officer; Equipment and basic procedure. Mike and Ian
- March 20th Spare, to be decided.
- March 24th The Blaydon Race
- March 27th Race Officer; Laying Harbour Courses; Howard
- March 30th Working Party tbc
- March 31st First Sunday tbc
- April 6th On water practice of race officering and basic rescuing. Mike and 3 others.
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Laser Sailors views sought
Did you know we have 25 laser owners?! We have; ( or will have next season) we’ve just counted. Imagine if we all sailed at once! The sailing committee have been tossing around a few ideas for getting “more people sailing more often , more people racing more often” to quote the RYA’s current refrain. These include as possibilities
- A pre-race training session on Sunday morning
- Rescue cover for those who want to go and do a bit of pre-race tuning or practice with a training partner on a Wednesday.
- Joint sailing with South Shields on some Sundays.
- A review of starting times on Sundays and Fridays
- Some Sunday cruises as last year, including one on Great North Run day.
- Handicap racing on a Sunday
- Use of personal handicaps
- Different race formats ; more and shorter, pursuits.
- Different race courses ; triangle sausage, trapezoidal, windward leeward etc.
- Named “Buddies”: two levels ; a training buddy ( same standard ) and a mentor.
- A number of coaching sessions from external coaches which could be Saturday, Sunday or Friday Night. I have already asked the local RYA official to budget for 8!
However we cannot sensibly decide these in glorious isolation. We need to know your constraints, your wishes, your thoughts about what we do to make next season attractive and accessible for you. We need to do this soon to sort out the programme. So we would very much like your presence at a TSC Laser Class
Meeting to be held on Wednesday January 2nd at 20.00 hrs at the club. ( New Year hangovers should have subsided and if not you can have a “hair of the dog”.) The bar will be pre-warmed and the beer cold.
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Protected: AGM Minutes
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Results of Early Summer Series 2012
See the link for the results of the early summer series of sailing
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RYA North East OnBoard
Heres a link to a post on RYA site about the half term sailing here
During mid 2011 we hosted the NEYT series for a day. A dozen (ish) youngsters had a great time – pictures & a video are below.
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OnBoard Club of the Year
Heres a link to a nice article about the club being presented with RYA NE OnBoard Club of the Year Award.
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Tidelines – 2011 Editions
During 2010 & 2011 the club produced a series of short bulletins called Tidelines. Copies are available to download further down the page
Tidelines October and November 2011 Edition
Tidelines August and Sep 2011 Edition
Tidelines June and July 2011 Edition
Tidelines April and May 2011 Edition2
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How did THAT get there ?
Well, we sometomes have to stall the start of races for all sorts of reasons – a big ship in the fairway, majority of sailors not at the start… but this was a first.
We had to hold the start of the racing for nearly an hour while the tide came in & the land rover started to float. By then the police, coastguard anyone with a flashing light o the top of the car was at the scene helping.
Pity the poor driver – a moments inattention and he was stuck.
