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GAFFERS LOG JUNE 2014 in This Issue: Pilot Cutters Racing &Insurance Winklebrigs Fitting Out GAFFERS LOG JUNE 2014 In this Issue: Pilot Cutters Racing &Insurance Winklebrigs Fitting out NEWSLETTER OF THE ASSOCIA TION FOR GAFF RIG SAILING GAFFERS LOGJUNE 2014 Contents Foreword 3• Foreword It’sMay Day. Dull, damp and distinctly chilly as I put together the June Gaffers Log, here in land-locked Derbyshire. Not ideal weather today, but there have been enough sunny 4• Fromthe Quarterdeck days to feel Spring is in the air, and I hear that many of you are already out on the water. 5• OGATrophies Two reports from early season racing caught the copy deadline, the East Coast p.15 and 6• 110ºis OKby me Solent p.48. A young gaffer reflects on YOGAFF, and as this issue hits your doormats SamLlewellyn reflects on thejoysofsailingagaffer there’sbeen plenty going on. DBOGA has another great line-up, then there’sUp and 8• OGA50legacy: Youthfund Down Channel in Cardiff Bay, BealePark, Lake District Rally, SeaFairHaven and the Photo:Phil Cogdell Campbeltown Classics.Send your reports to update the website, and browse the 14 Area 9• YOGAFF:fromtot toteenager pages in this issue to find plans for the future and what’s been happening since February. June 2014 14 year-oldFynMitchell reflects onhisexperiences Editor: BeverleyDaley-Yates 10 • AveryFrenchfestival Themes for June were ‘Fitting out’ and ‘Spring sailing’,attracting plenty of contributions. +44(0)797 0943135 Royston Raymondlooks back to1996 This issue illustrates the wide range of our fleet, from winklebrig to pilot cutter. Reviewed by one of our advertisers, Simon Winter, we bring a timely article about insurance and [email protected] 14 • Pleasures ofsailingaWinklebrig Please submit material forthe DavidOwensprovides a quick summary Lodestar Books, another new advertiser, offers a sailing ‘snippet’ with a wintry theme, September edition by6August 2014 p.19. The Dutch OGA10 update, an article from 1996 as a taster for Douarnenez 2014 OG 15• Tollesbury Rally, 2014:ʻAWOLʼraces single-handed and offer from the skipper of SIF for a trial sail in the Med. all reflectour international GENERAL MANAGEMENTCOMMITTEE(GMC) connections. We’vepacked a lot in, and I do hope you all find something of interest. President: Sean Walsh 16• Keepsafe, keepinsured Anupdatefor OGAorganisers andparticipants L [email protected] I look forward to receivingreports, photos and thoughts for the website and September Secretary: SueLewis 20• Noticeboard edition of the Log. Themes for the next issue are ‘Summer sailing’ and ‘Working boats’. [email protected] Treasurer: GordonGarman 22• Calling all photographers Beverley Daley-Yates,Editor (Logandonline) 2014competitions andtips toimpress the judges [email protected] Membership:Alistair Randall 24• ʻWorkingYacht 1ʼ [email protected] Sailing report fromthewinner ofBCAtrophy,2013 Sailing CommitteeChair:Pete Thomas 28• Welcome aboard andʻa NOGnoteʼ [email protected] AREASECRETARIES 30• Fitting out:what doesit meanforyou? Contactdetails onAreapages 32 • The Irish river curragh OGABOATREGISTER 33• OGA50legacy:online Boat Register goeslive! Boat Register Editor: PatDawson [email protected] 34• AroundtheAreas GAFFERS LOGPRODUCTION Reports fromtheUK,Ireland, Netherlands &the Med Graphic design: Steve Daley-Yates 48• Every kindofweather: St Georgeʼs Trophyreport Print andfulfilment: Northend 51• OGAin the News TROPHYSECRETARY SueFarrer: [email protected] 52• Obituaries: RobinPatmore andAlisonCade MERCHANDISE AFFERS 54• OGAmerchandise andMembersʼ adverts EdAllen: [email protected] +44(0)20 76074772 59• OGA50legacy: OGAonline and in print One ofthe photosontheʻfitting outʼthemecame fromScotland. www.oga.org.uk/shop OnlineBoat Register, 2014Yearbookandwebsite Mist onthejetty atArdoranMarine, LochFeochan, southofOban,where theyard hadbroughtmooringsashore Coverphoto:ʻAgnesʼbyLuke Powell G forwinter servicing. ComeMarch,theyʼre laid outonthejetty toawait alifting bargeanddivertoreplace them. 3 OldGaffersAssociation, 2,OutpartEastward, Harwich, CO123HN Photo: NealHill,ScotlandAreaSecretary GAFFERS LOGJUNE 2014 GAFFERS LOGJUNE 2014 From the Quarterdeck OGA Trophies It’s that time of year again when launch fever sets in. Boat- Photo:W Areyouinterested in takingon TheOGAhas nineAssociation trophies, awarded owners, and well-organised crews, will already be launched, Nixon therole ofTrophySecretary? fora wide rangeofactivities, andopenfor2014 or finishing final tasks before the gentle splash, as she re- Please sendexpressionsofinterest for nominations. On pp.24-27we hear fromthe enters her natural element. It’s a busy time, and an exciting this role, bythe endofAugust2014,to: process, as we anticipate the coming season, finalising plans SueLewis, [email protected] recipient oftheBristol ChannelArea,ʻHidden for Area Events, looking forward to sunny summer cruises. Challengeʼ Trophy,2013. Whoshouldbeawarded Our Annual AreaEvents are arguably the most important trophies in 2014? Sue Farrer, North Wales Area Secretary, has managed activity each season, allowing us to enjoy the company of Remembertolookout for potential the process of calling for nominations and co-ordinating our Fellowship, meet friends from adjoining Areaswho sail award winners throughouttheseason. judging and presentation of the Association awards for over to support us, and have a jolly good time in the process. Nominationsshouldbe submitted eleven years, and has decided to step down. Sue saysit’s an Your March Gaffers Log had a comprehensive Area Event SeanWalsh,President by 31October 2014 enjoyable and rewarding role. The GMC is keen to find a www.oga.org.uk/trophies Guide. I urge you to reviewit, decide on which events you willing volunteer to take Sue’splace. AsTrophy Secretary can attend, and notify the Organiser as soon as possible. you keep in touch with activities around the Areasand offer They will appreciate early registrations. Wishing youa recognition for members’ achievements. Our beloved OGA is evolving. It’s developing a new, fresh, look on our website, Gaffers Log and online Boat register. terrific sailing MarleneStevens Memorial Award We have a new OGA logo, all good, I believe. season! Mike Stevens reportson an award presented in memory of his late wife, Marlene. The website is where we can look for recent news. I’vejust seen news of our youngest Solent gaffer, Alex, born 11 April, My late wife Marlene Stevens loved the OGA. For many son of Hannah and Dan. I understand he’salreadybeen out years she had suffered depression, and when we started sailing in Southampton Water, and ‘took to helming like a sailing again with the OGA, the change in her was duck to water’.That’s what I call youth sailing. Welcome remarkable. Sadly, she passed away in 2008, and as the years aboard Alex!Please take the time (as Solent did) to keep the have rolled on, I have long wanted to institute an OGA Editor up-to-date with current OGA news and events. award to remember her name. Meanwhile, Pat Dawson is doing terrific work on the online At the end of last year, when I circulated the Trailer Section Boat Register. She reports in this issue on how it’s coming with Sue Farrer’splea for nominations for OGA awards, I along, p.33. The Yearbook,mailed with this Log, includes receiveda huge number of replies nominating Pete and Sue a handy four-page form to update your details.The more Seeking anewTreasurer Farrer, which made it awkward because Sue is the Awards Secretary. Pete and Sue have for so many years given so accurate the data, the better the online Register will be. I Finally,I givenotice thatourable urge you to review your details and update if necessary. Treasurer,GordonGarman,is retiring much of themselvesto the OGA and never got anything fromhispostthis year.Weneedtoenlist back in the way of recognition. What better recipients could The Youth Project is one of our main objectives this year, areplacement. there be?On Saturday 15 February 2014, at the Holyhead having been an OGA aim for some time. With a budget in Sailing Club, I had the greatest pleasure in presenting this place we can implement something in every Area. Do take If youthinkyouhavetheability to award to the Farrers. a look at pp.8 & 20 for some general guidelines and a little takeonthetask, please contact our encouragement to get stuck in this year. Secretary,SueLewis. MikeStevens,TrailerSectionSecretary SeanWalsh,President 4 5 GAFFERS LOGJUNE 2014 GAFFERS LOGJUNE 2014 110º is OK by me Sam Llewellyn, one of Britain’sgreat storytellers, reflectson his relationship with gaffersfrom A few years later I found myself owning ‘Gloria’, a Cornish Crabber Mark 1. She early childhood on Tresco, Islesof Scilly to the coastsof Ontario and back again for a sail on combined the worst of more worlds than you’llfind in the averagespiral galaxy.She Luke Powell’sScillonian pilot cutter ‘Agnes’.Samis Editor of Marine Quarterly, a journal of had the sailing characteristics of a shoebox, pointed like a sawmill worker and had the sea, well worth subscribing to. accommodation I will not describe except to say that it has left me with a lifelong prejudice against heads on a boat 24 feet long. Later, I should say, I owned a Cornish I’vealwaysregarded myself as a stranger to gaffers. After all, life is too short for lumbering Shrimper, which unlike the Crabber was a pure delight. up to windward, 110º between tacks. But the other day some past boats weresurging through my head, making me realise that actually there have been severalgaffersin my Lurking in a shed we had ‘Lucille’,a Drascombe Longboat and therefore, I suppose, a life, and that
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