TEMPLE NEWS August 2020
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TEMPLE NEWS August 2020 A reminder that you may contact the office for IT’S AUGUST AND WE’RE SO HAPPY TO information/advice. Please email Kathryn at BE BACK ON THE WATER [email protected] or Elizabeth at [email protected] A message from Martin Morgans, Vice Commodore, sent before he set off on the first post-lockdown cruise. As, at the very least, a hint of normality has returned to our lives it is great to see that at last sailing has returned to the Royal Temple Yacht Club. The Cruisers have taken some small steps with a few ad-hoc run outs, with two weeks in Holland only days away followed by the East Coast and France. The racers are out all be it double handed, but they are out, with three races already completed. Six handed racing begins shortly. And lastly the RC Laser racing has returned to the club with new vigour and fresh faces. Saturdays at the Royal Harbour is fast becoming a tourist attraction thanks to the high-spirited competition which, after only four outings, has all the commitment of Formula One! The bar has taken its first tentative steps in the process of returning to normality with limited weekend opening 12.30 until 4.30pm. As the new chair of the Bar Committee I ask you to support the bar more than ever before. The current limited opening will increase to 250 CLUB DRAW RESULTS SO FAR reflect the need for it, the goal being to return February 2020 to normal opening hours just as soon as you, £25 No 12 Mr R Formison o the members, indicate by your attendance that £50 N 149 Mr J Williams £100 No 124 Mr C Richardson it is justified. As the hours increase we will be £200 No 121 Mr S Coleman able to return the cellar operations to normal March 2020 complete with the high standard of draft ales. £25 No 54 Mr M Foote As the bar flourishes, and Government £50 No 52 Mr A Goodman o Guidelines allow more of the club will return to £100 N 154 Mr B Stone £200 No 50 Mr P Curtis normality, or is it a new normal, or as I like to April 2020 call it Normal Plus! £25 No 33 Mr B Rich £50 No 81 Mr J Dadds Here’s to a happy, fluid based, sailing and £100 No 148 Mr N Wright o socialising, remainder of 2020. £200 N 7 Mr G Lewis THE ROLLOVER IS CURRENTLY SUSPENDED May, June, July results will be in the next issue. Martin Date of the next Draw TBC RAMSGATE WEEK & Jordan will return to his polar running challenge in SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS December by heading to Antarctica, however, in the So, this is what Chris and I have been up to since Sunday 26th July ..... Honorary club member, Alex Alley, got us involved once again in a crazy adventure as Jordan Wylie from the TV show Hunted is weather bound in Ramsgate. Keen to help we offered them accommodation for a few days as the carbon monoxide alarm was going off in their motor cruiser, as a result they are all staying with us until Wednesday when Jordan hopes to set off again. Chatting over dinner to Jordan, as you do, about spending 9 months with Tom Hanks as advisor on Captain Philips film, being in charge of security on a his mission to inspire young people around the world container ship that was ambushed by Somali pirates, using the spirit of adventure in his role as the UK’s giving a talk to UN Security Council in New York, national ambassador for Army Cadets with The Great delivering a $14million ransom for a boat in Africa to British Paddle. Jordan, who is also one of the stars two young teenagers who got away with it!! And of Channel 4’s BAFTA nominated and award-winning James, next to him, talking about being a sniper in shows Hunted and Celebrity Hunted, is on a Middle East watching terrorists blow themselves up! mission to inspire young people by building a school Enjoyable dinner! I told them about my shopping for refugees on the Horn of Africa that have been spree to Tesco’s – lol! displaced by the conflicts in Yemen and Somalia. He hopes The Great British Paddle can contribute Press Release: On the weekend of the 26th July towards the £100,000+ he has already raised in the 2020, Jordan Wylie (36) from Blackpool, Lancashire last 12 months to finish the school build which is now will attempt to be the first person in the world to well underway. Stand-Up Paddleboard (SUP) around Great Britain, a complete circumnavigation of over 2,000 miles of The Great British Paddle will be supported by an paddling. He left Essex Marina at Wallasea Island experienced team of world class professionals today Sunday 26th July at 11.18am with a strong tide including world record breaking sailor Alex Alley, a pushing him out into the Thames Estuary into a local lad born in Ramsgate and who attended choppy sea. The wind gradually built during the day Chatham House, who will skipper the support boat reaching gusts of 18 knots meaning that conditions and act as the overall project manager. Adventure were at the upper limit for paddle boarding. Ideal psychologist and polar explorer Paula Reid (Alex’s conditions would be up to 10 knots. As a result, his wife) will head up the onshore team and former first seven-hour day was mainly spent on his knees military adventurer turned film maker James May will however a great performance considering the be documenting the official Guinness World Record conditions with just under 22 km covered at an attempt for the world to share in. average speed 4.3km. This is a feat that has been attempted previously in recent years but, to date, no person has been successful in achieving this highly ambitious endeavour due to the extreme physical and psychological barriers, combined with the relentless and unpredictable British weather system all year round. Jordan, who is no stranger to risk or danger, served in the British Army for 10 years, and ran through the three most dangerous countries in the world in 2018, which was also the subject of his latest book; Running For My Life. Last year he completed Photo by Chris, Jordan arriving in Ramsgate another world first when he rowed across the perilous Bab El Mandeb Straits, the gateway to the pirate This is a challenge like no other and Jordan will be infested Gulf of Aden, coined the most dangerous giving it his best shot as always. To find out more stretch of water on the planet. about Jordan check out his website www.thegreatbritishpaddle.com This year he was scheduled to run marathons in the 10 coldest places on earth but having completed All the best Siberia, Yukon, Alaska and Iceland, his plans came to a grinding hold on his way to the North Pole when Karen the world went into lockdown as a result of the Chair of Ramsgate Week and Social Media. coronavirus pandemic. Please send any contributions for compilation into the next issue or comments, etc to Sue Foster at [email protected] 2 News Release 21 July 2020 HMRC LAUNCHES RED DIESEL CONSULTATION Don't miss your opportunity to have your say on the future of red diesel. HMRC is seeking information about the proposed changes to the rules surrounding the uses of red diesel. At this year’s Spring Budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak shared plans to review the current use of red diesel, and as such announced that he would be launching a consultation with red diesel users later in the year. During the Budget the Chancellor also shared plans for the intended removal of entitlement to use red diesel from April 2022, except for the agriculture sector (including forestry, horticulture and fish farming), railways, and where red diesel is used to power non- commercial heating systems, such as in homes, narrowboats and places of worship. The anticipated red diesel consultation has now been launched by Government and seeks to gather evidence as to whether other sectors, including recreational boating, should be allowed to maintain use of the fuel beyond April 2022. The decision by the Government to withdraw red diesel from wider use has been motivated by their intention to tackle climate change by incentivising businesses to improve the energy efficiency of their products. The RYA supports a move to increase energy efficiency in the short term and to develop a pathway to zero carbon for all sectors in line with UN goals. The RYA’s RTYC CRUISERS case for retaining red diesel is about existing supply Now the brakes are off we find our boats already needs, not colour, tax status or price. Recreational cruising to France and Holland. The programme boaters already pay the full rate of duty and VAT when for our Cruisers has been put awry by the Covid purchasing fuel for the purposes of propulsion. The RYA will therefore be looking at the proposals to virus but already V.C. Martin Morgans is off on the reform the tax treatment of red diesel closely to see how 14-day cruise from 1st August into the Veerse this might affect the supply of fuel for recreational use Meer – always a popular destination. for both propulsion and how it will impact supply for domestic usage such as heating. We can now, at least, follow the programme set out The further west and north you travel in the UK the more at the beginning of the year … so… likely it is that you will have to rely on waterside outlets that only supply red diesel for commercial purposes, East Coast Cruise such as to fishing fleets.