Mainsheet Winter 2016
WIVENHOE SAILING CLUB MAINSHEET 2016/17WINTER EDITION Editor: Roy Crookes Contents in this issue: page as it means the days are getting longer commodore’s seasonal greeting 1 and Spring is on its way. profile: Albert Scott 2 Whereas, as everybody knows, some of Ostend Rally 3 spring, all of summer and a bit of autumn lifting group 4 were invented for sailing, winter was wsc AGM minutes & accounts 5 designed specifically for the contem- 2017 AGM 12 plation of sailing. For example, time can membership renewal form 14 be spent in thinking of ways in which you new membership fees 15 might be able to make your boat go just 2017 sailing/ social programme 15 that little bit faster, or be slightly more nature review, the robin 17 comfortable, or for planning a major social whirl 17 assault on a race series next year, or for wsc: prize-giving 19 planning a summer cruise, or, if you’re Sinterklaas returns 20 really clever, all of them at once. seasonal scary-story 21 Personally, my cruise planning knows no looking back 23 bounds up until the New Year, after that stop press; small ads. 24 reality kicks in a bit, but ambition is a great thing; to quote the well known editor’s note: philosopher, author, and motorcyclist Guy I would like to extend warm seasonal greet- Martin ‘When you dead, you dead’. ings to all club members and readers in this This year, it is intended to leave the club’s winter edition of Mainsheet. Inside are Hunter 19 in the water for much of the regular features: membership renewal and winter, so that any member who feels the reports of club meetings and business, special desperate need for a sail can arrange to events and news, the nature feature and next borrow her.
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