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February RSA Newsletter Roach Sailing Association February 1998 Newsletter In this issue A note from the Chairman Secretaries note A plea for peace To Shotley & Ipswich (and back) Round And Round We Go, Up And Down We Go Racing Officer’s Diary A note from the Chairman wish both Edna and Norman good winds and fair tides for many years to come. Norman Bishop retires as Chairman of the RSA. In conclusion I would like to wish you all good After many years of devoted duty to the Roach sailing in 1998 and to thank you for a very Sailing Association, Norman Bishop has enjoyable evening at the Laying-up Supper, resigned his post as both Chairman and (despite some local difficulties, out of our Treasurer of the Roach Sailing Association. control.) - See you at the AGM Norman remains on the committee of the RSA. Dai Williams Members presented a half model of Pisces to Norman and Edna at the RSA Laying up dinner A note from the Secretary October 1997. AGM The AGM will be held at the Alexandra Yacht Club on 22 March 1998. We would like to see as many of you there as possible. Issues to be discussed will include nomination and election of the committee, The current members are: Dai Williams - Chairman John Martin - President Caroline Gibb - Racing Officer John Langrick - Secretary & Treasurer Other members of the committee on your behalf are: Norman Bishop Richard Bessey Rodney Choppin also presented Norman with a Richard Kirton Mike Dallimore water-colour of his sons Nigel and Paul sailing Michael Figg Rodney Choppin Memory and Samphire in one of the RSA races. If you are interested in joining the committee I am sure you all will join me in thanking please contact myself or any other current Norman for his many years of leadership and member of the committee. its moods and how to handle a yacht; yet one 1998 Subscriptions now due advertiser states that “if you can drive a car you I have attached a form for you to send your can a motor boat.” I suppose you can, but what a 1998 RSA Subscription to myself. This remains nuisance to everyone else! £3 per year. I have the new CHA disks also, these also remain the same at £9.50. If you want To conclude. May I beg all of the above me to post this to you, please send me an SAE. disturbers of our more peaceful rivers and Payment slips are included in this newsletter. harbours: Overdue Subs 1. To slow down when passing an anchored We have a number of members who have not vessel. paid subscriptions for over 2 years. The 2. To silence the electric light engine and committee feels that this will be the last remember that the noise of the exhaust does newsletter they should receive and it will be annoy others. assumed that after this time they no longer wish 3. Not to bring gramophones and loud speakers to be a member of the RSA. on deck. Thanks for the articles Donald C. L. Cree Tony Hudson, Alan Holland, Dai and Caroline for the Sailing Programme and race detail. TO SHOTLEY & IPSWICH A Plea for Peace (AND BACK) First printed in Yachting Monthly 1930 - how true by Alan Holland today ! (Thanks to Tony Hudson) Sir - Now that many of us are either fitting out or seriously thinking of so doing in the near future, it may be a propitious time to voice a complaint I have been urged to make by many cruising people. There are two types of motor boat owners: the considerate or otherwise. The considerate owner is often an ex-sailing man and always a gentleman, and knows how to handle his vessel RUTH, my 20-foot bermudan-rigged Dauntless, well, and with no inconvenience and steerage to missed the '96 Shotley rally, due to some badly others; the “otherwise” (and they are in the timed but essential repair work. Things looked majority) are either extremely ignorant of ships more promising for 1997 except that the Festival and how to handle them, and may be, but are was scheduled to start on Thursday 19 June, and probably not, gentlefolk; or do they know how to this new mid-week arrangement prevented my son handle their ships but most certainly are not even from crewing with me. So the passage from temporary gentlemen, for if they were, they would Paglesham was to be solo, and in order to allow know that to go full speed past an anchored vessel for a leisurely trip, and a night in Pyefleet, I was in a narrow waterway is only done by the on board at 0945 on the preceding Tuesday. “bounder” of a particularly unpleasant type! And yet those bounders seem to be on the increase. At HW (1100) we (RUTH and I) were underway sloop-rigged in overcast conditions with the wind I have had endless complaints about damage to rising 4 Easterly. Good progress was made down dinghies and of the upsetting of vessels caused by to the Branklet, at the confluence of the Roach the wash of vessels owned by these water-hogs. In and Crouch rivers in sheltered water, then a several cases I personally have seen the owner couple of long and short legs got us out to Shore and guests turn round and laugh loudly at the Ends. Here the seas were beginning to come wretched owner trying to hold his dinghy away lumpy, not to RUTH's liking, and less to mine, the from his topsides. This type abounds in the wind having gone slightly north of east. Both sky Beaulieu River, flies the flag of some motorboat and sea were slate-grey, except for the white club and flaunts the most impossible ladies of the horses, and there was not another craft in sight. chorus variety on deck. When spoken to the only answer is a chorus of abuse. It was just half-ebb, theoretically at least in our favour, but the wind over tide conditions were But, Sir, what can one expect? I always steadily knocking the way off RUTH's shoal-draft understood that it took years to know the sea in all hull. I was reluctant to rely on the engine for my 2 passage, as I had recently carried out some repairs well on her starboard quarter right out beyond the which had yet to be fully proven. Having barely Landguard, then made one gybe straight into the sighted the Rays'n buoy, I ran back from the harbour. Outer Crouch and anchored under the slight lee of the north shore at the "Holliwell" racing buoy, Feeling slightly more comfortable under reduced consoling myself with the thought of a day in sail, but still on a dead run, my intention was to hand, and a couple of mugs of tea. It proved to be get up past Parkeston in the lee of the S shore, an uncomfortable berth however, and RUTH and avoid crossing the deep channel at all if there chucked herself about in a most disorderly was nothing on the move at Parkeston Quays. manner, presumably due to the ebb out of the Crossing the Shelf, I passed outside a yacht and a Roach. A shift across the river to Clark's Corner fishing-boat on permanent moorings just off the cured the problem, and a rather disappointing day old Navy Yard, and prepared to gybe and alter was finally brightened by the sight of the Mistley course to the east. There was a grinding and barge REMINDER coming up under tops'l and bumping sound from astern and the tiller jumped fores'l, to disappear round to Paglesham on the in my hand as the rudder-plate bounced and early flood. Later, her former Horlock stablemate hinged up. Not sand, not shingle, but rocks, less XYLONITE motored down from Burnham way than 2 feet below! It was 1715, just about low and anchored less than a cable below RUTH. water... so be warned! This was in the area known as the Guard, well north of the Cliff Foot rocks. Wed 18 June. Forecast S going SW 3-4 possibly 5 later. A calm night was followed by a good Having cleared this hazard more by luck than breakfast. The sun glittered on the "Big H" on judgment, I gybed and headed east, still south of Foulness, accompanied by a steady southerly the dredged channel. Shotley did not look breeze. I paced the deck impatiently until 0930, particularly inviting, but I spotted some moored two hours before HW, then got the chain up-and- yachts close inshore in the bight just past Harwich down. Main, staysail and jib were hoisted, the town. Dropping the plate and hauling sheets, I anchor broken out, and bobstay set up. As RUTH decided to have a look, as it would be ideal for settled on her inshore course, the clinking of popping across to Shotley in the morning. As I XYLONITE's windlass pawls could just be heard closed, however, the local boats did not look at all across the water, and her tops'l started to creep comfortable, sheering and jumping about in a up. She crossed the tideway to the north shore, surprising manner for the prevailing state of wind then to my surprise and delight RUTH overhauled and tide. one of the fastest barges in the current fleet. Then she sheeted in her main... but we stayed within I bore away and passed Parkeston, where all was shouting distance until the first of the Dengie quiet.
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