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News, Views & Information from Weir Wood Sailing Club News, views & information from Weir Wood Sailing Club Issue 16 Spring/Summer 2014 Club Championships Laser Open Member’s other sports Cruising in Scotland Commodore’s Cosy Chat delicious but fickle little gust simply Simon Davis disappeared and I am delighted to be talking to you after possibly the busiest we were left to rue start to the season the Club has seen. Virtually every the decision to weekend since the start of the year there has been either a follow it. About 20 Youth coaching event, Club training, or an event such as the minutes later we Club Champs or an Open meeting. And we shouldn’t forget finally rounded the the work detail weekend as well where we had over 20 willing windward mark, (?) helpers who, after 3 hours of honest graft, were treated Stuart 2nd last to an excellent ‘builders’ lunch for their exertions. It’s a bit and me last and unfair to pick out individuals for praise because so many do well down the 4.7 so much for the Club but I will make some exceptions during fleet that started this CCC. All this activity is taking place as the season has barely got underway with ‘Saturday Skills’ for example only 5 minutes after beginning recently. us!! I didn’t sail in the afternoon as, Bill Stean and David Giles will, I’m sure, talk about the amongst other J Simon Davis Laser Open on May 3 but I will add my piece. The wind things, Saturday forecast had been bad for most of the previous week as Skills began that afternoon. I sat, after lunch on our beautiful, a high pressure centre moved in; cold with very light northerly winds.So I arrived at the Club with son Rory west facing balcony watching 71 boats, yes that is seventy expecting about a dozen boats preparing. What met my one boats, enjoying the early May sunshine. Thanks go gaze as I walked down past the Clubhouse was a forest of particularly to John Hamilton, Chris Hopkins and Richard masts with a profusion of visitors and particularly youth Haw for their commitment to Youth Laser and their ability to representation from WWSC and around. There were 41 bring on large numbers of boats onto Weir Wood. standard rigs and 11 4.7’s – they sometimes don’t get 11 4.7’s There has been a really fascinating development that I would at the Nationals so this was a major event! Sadly the wind did its worst but Martin Pascoe did manage to get 4 races like to tell you about. The enduring characteristics of the away over the course of the day which is a tribute to his skill Club Committee is that the constituents are predominantly and perseverance! It was the sort of wind that made fools male and all over 50 and a significant percentage over 60; or heroes of a sailor, sometimes both at the same time. In but still male. The honourable exception is Membership the second race Stuart Alexander thought he saw a gust up Secretary Ian Alderman. His surname might be an indication the left hand (northerly) side of the course and went for it. of a congenital commitment to public service maybe. That Knowing Stuart as a wily old sailor (less of the old – Stuart) isn’t because males over 60 want or think they have a right I decided to follow and we leapt up the fleet as it held with to run things and it isn’t true just of WWSC. Almost all us and died on the right hand side of the course. What we voluntary organisations I have been involved with exhibit the should have expected to have happened duly happened. Our same characteristics. It’s because they are the only ones who have volunteered or have been volunteered. While there is Dates at a Glance little we can do to put this right (the two most recent joiners, Mike Summers and Ken Burgess both ‘fit the demographic’ Sailing as the Marketers say) we can ameliorate their influence and provide means by which others can have their say. To 26 May Taster day that end I invited ladies in the Club to a meeting a couple 14 June RS 2000 (Laser 2000) Open of Saturdays ago to set up a ‘Ladies who Launch’ group to Spring 2014 bring their ideas to the fore. My only role was as facilitator 13 July RS 200 Open and cook for brunch! They have come up with some first 27 July Enterprise Open class ideas around the Clubhouse, Open Day and a kids play 20 Sept Optimist Open area just to start with and have already planned a follow up Afloat 21 Sept Bart’s Bash get together. If there are any ladies out there who would care to join the group then let me know and I’ll put you in 2 Training touch. So formidable do I feel their characters are and the 31 May Level 1 & 2 courses combination of their intellect and persuasive powers such that a re-naming from ‘Ladies who Launch’ is justified. I Social thought ‘The Cougars’ might suit? Talk on Wednesday last 21 June Mid Summer Picnic and moved onto a fund raising possibility for next year of some Proms and 4 hour race sort of Calendar and I have already volunteered my services as a photographer. I have to say that my further suggestion of Write them in your diaries NOW a Calendar by the boys in the Laser fleet wasn’t met by quite so high a level of enthusiasm. Whilst on the matter of the Committee I will put in a doing more than half the race. We will give handicap relief very strong word of support for them. There is always an to both kids, families and other groupings to ensure good enormous amount of work that goes on both obvious and racing both on the water and on handicap. That will end at in the background to provide the facilities you all take 5 and then from 6 the Clubs BBQ’s will be on and the bar advantage of. This year is a particularly demanding one in open. Bring your own food to cook and, weather permitting, that we have the issue of the Lease renewal that is taking have a picnic BBQ outside. Then from 7 a fantastic local up a vast amount of time. I would appeal to anyone out band “The Buffaloes” will be banging it out from the front there who can spare the time to help by being co-opted of the Clubhouse. The Buffaloes played for us a number of for a limited time to a sub-committee either membership, years ago and the car park in front of the Clubhouse was full business planning or the like. Please help out our Club at a all night – Brilliant! They play a mixture of 60’s, 70’s and 80’s Afloat time where the pressures on us are extremely high. pop and rock which will get you all up and dancing (I hope!) There is one very pleasurable and non-demanding item I Ken is selling tickets now and we are asking you to buy them would like to ask for volunteers on please. We have the Open beforehand - £10 per adult, £5 for kids, £25 for a family Day coming up and the more help we can have there the of 2 adults and 2 kids. Let’s make it a big one!! Overnight Spring 2014 better. It’s on the 17th May so please let me know. The more camping available. Having Ken means we are going to have a I have the less everyone has to do! But even more important Xmas Supper as well. than that is I would like some established Club members to The reservoir is at its perfect best at the moment, it is also ‘buddy up’ with some of this year’s new members. Joining a full and last but absolutely not least, Wednesday evenings new Club or even a new sport can be a pretty intimidating have started again. If you’ve not been down to the Club on experience so I would like existing members just to be there a Wednesday in summer I hugely recommend it. You can on occasions and over the ‘phone for new members. We either race or cruise. The atmosphere is slightly different 3 try to portray ourselves as both a friendly and welcoming to the weekends and the evenings and the sunsets sublime. organisation and this is part of that. Again please let me Now we always have a member of the Club cooking so, from know on [email protected] just after 8pm you will get a delicious meal for a fiver a head. It’s great to have a Social Secretary again and Ken has I know it’s not easy for some of you who live a distance away already kicked off with a brilliant Quiz Night. Next event is but I do urge you to try it – if only just once! at Midsummer –June 21st. We’re starting with a 4 hour race Let it blow!! at 13.00. The idea of this is to have teams, 4 or more in a two hander, 2 or more in a single hander with no one individual Simon small group focussed on the lease renewal process. The Our Future! group focusing on our core activity, sailing, is also staffed.
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