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Summer 2006 Newsletter d Sailing Llandegfed Page 1 June 2006 COMMODORE’S LETTER Well it’s been a funny ‘ole ticularly successful this year INSIDE THIS ISSUE through social events, sale of the You may have noticed that the year so far with winds at water level at the reservoir has • both extremes and very little old committee boat, open meet- Progress against ings and through gener ous dona- droppe d quickly this year. This in the middle where we is due to the horrific accident Action Pla n want it. The first two months tions from companies operated by or associated with club mem- at the Usk pumping station •Tuning Guides where particularly unpleas- where a fitter was killed earlier ant with more races can- bers. We thank all those who • have offered financial support this month when a pipe fitting Local & National celled due to snow or gale exploded under pressure. We force winds then were and through their efforts gener- Results ated cash for the club and can understand that the health sailed. Weather since then and safety executive have •Clubhouse Update seems to have been gener- report that reserves have now been restored to approximately finished their investigation ally light and all this seems to and the station may start have been reflected in low 2004 years levels. Furt her fund raising will be a major priority in pumping shortly which hope- turnouts in club racing. Ap- fully will maintain water levels parently all sailing clubs have the coming year when the water sports centre gets movi ng al- through the summer. Our suffered from the bad start sympathies of course go out due to weather so we are though grant aid is being sought from a number of sources. to the family of the worker not alone. Global warming who died in this incident. or just the highly variable British weather – who knows? Even though facilities have been limited this year, it is encouraging With good weather and to note that the enthusiasm of the warm waters (should you members is strong and will carry fall in) readily available The main topic of conversa- there really is no excuse for STOP PRESS us through this interim stage. • tion has often swung you not to join in with the Coppet Week Re- around to a clubhouse facili- racing …and watch out for sults. ties and I am glad to say that We have a number of new in- our next batch of social • First Pictures of new we are moving forward well events to get to know your with this and we can now structors in the club and training Clubhouse and the junior race team remains fellow sailors. reveal more details which • Llandegfedd clear are provide d later in this strong. Congratulations to all i n- Happy sailing volved in this area as this is a real up at Corus Open newsletter. The main pro- Meeting gress made this month is bonus for the club and hold us in very good stead for development that we have now received written confirmation that of facilities and equipment in the Welsh Water will support near future. Our annual training our Water Sports Centre kicks off in July and I would like to Steve project and provi de us with thank all involved in this in ad- RS700 GBR 938 a lease for the land adjacent vance as it is a huge commitment to the starters hut. but makes a real difference in attracting new members to the club. Fund raising has been par- P AGE 2 Progress AGAINST the Action Plan OD Training Race Management Fund raising The W.Y.A have a race training officer Equipment A big thank you to the companies who by the name of Dave Sheppard who have donated funds to the club this All racing marks are being refurbished can offer courses to aspiring race offi- year. With the sale of the old committee and old chains replaced. cers starting at the basic cl ub race offi- boat and old engines and takings from cer level (CRO) through to regional, The Sailwave software has been the Asymmetric Open and CYRC, funds national and international levels. adopted for ra ce results which has had have now been restored to roughly an instant impact by allowing all partici- 2004 levels. Please note that the finan- We should aim to have at least 5 CRO’s pants to get a result in a series even if cial year now ends at the end of Sep- this year. the qualifying number is not achieved. tember so make sure all expenses and Thanks to Jeremy for his perseverance monies are sorted out with the Treas- on this. We can probably do a lot more urer well before this. Safety boat training with this package now that at least it is basically functioning and make the job Members have this year been given the easier for all concerned and get the best option t o choose OD or rescue duties out of its functi ons. Instructor Training within the membership application forms. We now have three extra instructors (as All members will need to attain PB2 by Clubhouse known at t he time of goi ng to press): the end of this year to drive the power Simon Stanle y, Guy Boswell and Paul boats. See later in newsletter. Thomas. Congratulations to all of them. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS MANDATORY TO MEET OUR SAFETY POLICY FOR WELSH Yearbook WATER AND INSURANCE. Now complete and available for We also need to encourage those inter- download on the Yahoo site. We can ested in concentrating on rescue rather not place this on the website as it is than OD to have Safety Boat certificate. open to anyone to see and has our Steve membership list within. If you haven’t Contact Sean Tedstone for details on accessed it yet, please register on the training. yahoo group and download from the files section. Printed copies are being Steve Clarke prepared and the format is now ready RS700 GBR 938 for next year. Doris Doris will need painting in the warmer Club Manual weather. Well underway. Job descripti ons a nd duties are being prepared with a com- plete manual includi ng all document Safety boat storage templates for meetings etc. This will allow the jobs to be taken on by anyone Now more or less complete but the roof with a clear i ndication of what is will need some attention or a n addi - needed from each officer throughout tional layer added. the year. The new slipway has been started but will be left until the summer assuming Youth Representative we have sufficient funds to purchase Charlotte Clarke is heading this up and the concrete (approx £1,000) once she has email addresses and con- tact numbers from the junior and youth members and is organising events and drum up enthusiasm. A sailing day with evening camp is being run in July/ August. Call Charlotte for details. P AGE 3 Vice Commodore's A big thank you to all those who turned up for the Pre- The prize giving will be at the same venue as last year and Rigging part y and ’Promise Auction’ on Frida y 3rd @ T he will be the same format as last year without the pig. This Chepstow Hotel, Over £700 was raised on t he night and all year it will therefore hereby be known as the ‘Big de-rig those who attended had a great time. and Jig” Those who paid for the ri de out with Sean, Steve a nd Paul will be pleased to know that this will take place at the end of P July and will be joined by a few hangers on like m yself on my hil Bandit. Phil Leeb du Toit The Go-Karting event will the next event to be in in the mid- RS Vareo 286 dle of September, provisionall y the 20th. Please contact me for more information. Editors Column Well we are 5 months into our Associations, I have included a sailing season and despite some tuning guide for RS200’s and awful weather either too much Solo’s, I will try to get other classes wind or too little, Llandegfedd over coming issues. If anybody Sailing Club is being very well would like to see specific articles represented nationally in a num- please feel free to either e-mail or ber of classes. phone me. Our non-e xistent clubhouse has I shall be ne xt at the club all being not hampered our efforts with a well sometime in July, until the n I number of open meetings bei ng shall be hunting thr ough the successfully held, again it was the Yachts and Yachting pages for weather that let us down. how club members are perform- ing on local and national le vel. My time at the club is very limited at the moment due to work pres- Please feel free to e-mail or phone sures and I am finding it increas- me with any idea’s and lets see if ingly difficult to allocate time into we can improve t his newsletter the Newsletter and more impor- into being something really tantly into actually sailing. I will worthwhile. see out this year but if anybody would like to take over the news- letter editors job please come David forward its quite easy really. David Aston I will hopefully be back to sail in RS700 GBR 843 the Autumn as I believe that this is the best time of year with good weather and steady breezes.
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