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WIVENHOE SAILING CLUB MAINSHEET 2014 SPRING EDITION Editor: Roy Crookes profile: Linda Austin contents in this issue: page profile: Linda Austin 1 boat launching this spring 2 SAIL 14 3 dinghy registration form 5 WSC AGM reports 2013 7 pull-out: sailing events/fixtures 9 pull-out: Sail 14 programme 11 sailing and social calendar 14 for Sail 14 15 ceilidh winter nature walk 2014 16 Ever since some basic Mirror Dinghy Burns night 17 sailing at school, Linda promised herself to olde tyme music hall 17 do it again someday. The joys and demands stop press; small ads 20 of a busy nursing career and family life seemed however to reduce the chances of editor’s note: getting on the water, till in 1978 she bought the sturdy dinghy, Thor and took a theory This concluding issue of the current round and practical course at Ardleigh reservoir, th of Mainsheet (the 15 edition aPC) has with tutor Bernie Hetherington. Strong news and views of past and coming events, memories remain for her of the ‘joy in ads and two take-away pull-out supple- practising the capsize drill’ (though Bernie ments, for your retention and convenience: probably doesn’t remember it). It was an one contact-and-event/fixtures list and one exhilarating experience and having survived programme for Sail 14. These are colour the day, she was determined to carry on coded for easy id and should be split down sailing at Ardleigh and later on the lakes at the centre fold before sticking on the fridge Coniston and Windermere. While some- or storing in your club holdall. times daunted by the quirky winds and There is the dinghy registration form and squalls Linda was mainly excited and information and the Annual reports to the energised by the elements and the nature. AGM, with the annual accounts and the When she and John moved to Wivenhoe, outcome of elections of the new officers and they joined the sailing club and helped in committee. the bar, where they got to know everyone. The sightings in the ‘nature walk’ are listed, Linda also helped on House & Wines and a sailing member featured and highlights got an insight into club routines and how it from social events provided. all worked. 1 She took the RYA 1 and 2 in 2008/9 and They sold Athena, buying Jisme, meaning Basic Navigation and Safety with Richard unstoppable, a Jaguar 24, bringing it back to Barnard at the Nottage. Fancying sailing a Wivenhoe with friends Kenny and Linda. bigger boat, Linda did the Start Yachting Linda still misses Athena though, ‘you don’t course at Levington and then the Competent really forget your first boat! and Jisme has Crew. (She took a course each winter at the now become a good friend, keeping us Nottage and the practical at East Anglian warm and comfortable on our trips in all Sea School in the summer, completing the weathers around the coast.’ Day Skipper at the Nottage in 2010.) Linda Linda says she loves sailing and will actually completed the Day Skipper continue as long as she can, adding: ‘John is practical twice, along the coast from an amazing sailing partner; he does all the Levington to Brightlingsea on a 32 Jeannau, maintaince and sails Jisme naturally, totally Strada 1 and along the coast of Turkey, in a enjoying the outdoor life – his support has Benetau 34, Bella. In 2013 she completed been outstanding!’ the Yachtmaster theory paper and is continuing to build on the skippering hours. boat launching this Spring The students on that course had a trip on There was a meeting of WSC Lifting Group Pioneer to celebrate! on Friday evening, 28th February 2014 at As well as completing the International 19.35 with Tony Higbee in the Chair. The Certificate for pleasure craft, with a view to situation regarding Viking and her gearbox chartering abroad, she has had the chance to was addressed and must be attended to in enjoy many sailing days and weeks along the near future. John Austin explained the our East Coast. The draw of the river is still problems with the worn bearings, due to the strong and Linda completed the Power Boat ingress of seawater. The interior of the 2 and practical Safety Boat course to help work boat had been cleaned and a great deal with the dinghy racing (where John and she of effort put in by Chris Mullins and John, have been regular crew) and she found the in the removal of the engine and ancillary skills helped for berthing, picking up buoys equipment but there was still a deal of and ‘man over board’ techniques. painting and refurbishing to do before the In 2012 the club organised a trip to the engine could be returned and the boat ready Royal Harwich Yacht Club to do a Sea for service. Spares had been obtained to Survival course, which she found ‘both rebuild the sea water pump. frightening and hilarious - getting into an Dinghy park users were asked to attend to upside-down life raft is not easy. Great their dinghies, ensuring the wheels were Day!’After their good experience in Turkey, free to turn, the tyres pumped up and the she and John starting looking for a small hulls drained of rainwater. It was urgently cruiser and managed to buy Athena with her requested that locked trailers and dinghies great credentials, owned and loved by be secured and duplicate keys and many experienced sailors in the club. ‘We combination numbers supplied to Tony hoped a little of the expertise would rub off Roberts to enable them to be moved without on us’. Linda felt happy and competent on damage. The use of tender storage should be Athena, a 24’ Achillies, fast and easy to sail. better employed; there was to be a charge of Realising the need of a VHF radio £15 per trailer for the future. As there was certificate and a first- aid course, it was off little space available, it was hoped that to the Nottage again! A high spot came with owners would take them home to ease the opportunity to sail to Ostend with Gary congestion. Jobber on Ishmael and travel through the The meeting was reminded of Angela’s canals. ‘Being aboard in sometimes need for additional help from volunteers difficult weather conditions, over a period using the new hard on the cleaning of the of time gave many opportunities to learn deposit of tidal mud. Please offer for this new skills!’ very urgent task. 2 Mooring pontoon – electricity had been Proposed lifting to launch dates: installed half-way down the main pontoon and a depth gauge need be affixed to the day date HW depth/m Event pontoons to monitor the silting-up and to April 2014 declare the state of water at the berths. Wed 16 13:45 4.2 launching Peter Cobbold reported on the finances of Thu 17 14:22 4.3 launching the period of the winter, 2013/2014 when he Sat 19 15:39 4.1 launching banked for the lifting activities, however Tue 29 13:05 4.3 launching due to the loss of a number of pay-in Wed 30 13:45 4.3 launching cheques at the Post Office, a shortfall was May 2014 received at the bank. Members replaced 4.1 their original cheques and all the monies Fri 2 15:00 launching were entered into the 2014 figures but this Sat 3 15:35 4.0 launching had affected the final receipts for 2013/4. Tue 13 11:59 4.6 launching Members wishing to pay for their club Wed 14 12:38 4.2 launching accounts could now do so by BACS but Thu 15 13:19 4.3 launching Peter would prefer to collect and bank Sat 17 14:44 4.3 launching cheques for lifting fees, as in the past 13 Tue 27 12:02 4.11 launching years. The issue of lifting forms would 4.15 accommodate both systems in next Wed 28 12:44 launching November. Thu 29 13:24 4.18 launching Ted Reddish drew attention to the need for Sat 31 15:12 4.07 launching the issue of Procedures Supplement 2013, which was sent out last year, together with a Sail 14: making it happen confirmation slip, to all users of Club th equipment. A number of new users and June 28/29 others had not yet returned the slips under The Celebration: the terms of the lifting group standards. A Every member should have received a number of new forms were issued anew and personal invitation to attend our celebration these had to be read, understood and (90 years on the river, 20 years in our returned to either Ted or Kevin Hosking for clubhouse). The displays are prepared, the entry in the procedures file. Anyone who band is booked (see p.15.) we will be had not received the form, were to see photographed from every angle including Kevin, Ted or Peter. low-flying aircraft. The 'Hospitality Boats' Inspection of the new ‘Harry’ mobile crane have been commissioned to anchor off was due shortly; this mobile crane would Whitehouse Beach. And if you're wondering enable masts to be removed by hand almost - yes you can help. Gary Jobber and his anywhere around the site, to free up time team will be contacting you about under the original crane and save time, contributions (cakes, salads, puddings) to enabling more boats to be lifted per tide. the Stupendous Buffet and Afternoon Teas; Working parties, to operate on the hard- we're making lists of volunteers for working working day, would attend to a number of parties and looking for bar-staff, safety-boat tasks in the maintenance of the lifting (and crew and shoreside helpers for Sunday's other) equipment but Chris Mullins should Race day, as well as itinerant musicians for be contacted for vacancies.