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COMMODORE’S LETTER

Well this is my last letter turnouts and the success of more work particularly at club INSIDE THIS ISSUE asymmetric sailing has re- as Commodore and I level and participating in club • AGM Agenda have to say it has been a sulted in the most active racing. blast. I hope that my ef- fleet in South Wales. • Llandegfedd Wa- ter Sports Centre forts have helped to de- velop the club in a way On the whole I have enjoyed Update which allows us to grow By far the biggest goal of the 2 years as Commodore • BCYC Top Club and improve.. course is improvement of and have taken a great deal • facilities as this is the largest of satisfaction from it. It is a Vareo Inlands

brake on developing sailing certainly a very useful experi- • RS700 Inland My targets for my two and indeed applies for all ence and character building • year stint was to make the the other clubs at the reser- which I urge others to try – Top Tips tasks of running club voir. It is pretty impressive please volunteer it is fun. • Presidents Week- more streamlined, im- that the club is as active as end results prove facilities, equipment it is considering our rudi- for OD’s and the quality mentary facilities. The LWSC I therefore wish Phil Leeb du of race management and project is now gathering Toit the very best for his lead- improve the standard of steam as explained later in ership year and am pleased racing using boat starts. I this newsletter and I will be that he is building and receiv- think many of these goals concentrating on this with ing great support from his STOP PRESS have been reached or we Gareth and Martyn from new team. • Water Level iack are at least moving in the now on. onto the slips says Sailing sec right direction and take pleasure in having the • Llandegfedd Jun- helm during this phase of The season is now drawing iors top club at Bris- fairly rapid change. I can to a close and I think con- tol

not take full responsibility sidering the bad start and • Llandegfedd Water for all this as it was largely removal of facilities, on the Sports Centre pro- implemented by the team whole has gone reasonably Steve ject gathers pace. who have all pulled to- well. Most events have • Results from your gether to make these been well supported al- intrepid travellers plans happen and of though conditions in the • Nigel Tinkler fin- course you the member- early part of the year were ishes 4th in R S ship for trusting and very variable. The standard Vareo Nationals of sailing is getting better working with us. Com- pared to other local clubs and our junior scene is still we have actually strong vibrant. Youth sailing needs P AGE 2

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING FOR LLANDEGFEDD SAILING CLUB 2006

To be held at Cwmbran Stadium, Cwmbran Friday, 17th November 2006 at 7.30pm

AGENDA

1. Apologies for absence 2. Minutes of last AGM (On the web site, under ADMIN, AGM details) 3. Matters arising 4. Commodore’s report 5. Treasurer’s report 6. To receive reports from subcommittees 7. Election of officers and committee 8. To determine the subscriptions for 2007 9. Action plan and targets for 2007 10. Proposal for Sailing programme and racing formats for 2007 11. Proposal for 2007 social and coaching programmes 12. Any other business

Pleas e visit the club website on: www. Llandegfedd.org.uk P AGE 3

Vice Commodore's Social bits Llandegfedd Sailing Club need to know Polo shirts cost £15,00 all sizes As you are aware, the end of year your commitment in advance. and come in yellow, red, navy, Dinner and Prize Giving is fast grey. approaching. R.S.V.P. Phil at: Rugby shirts cost £28.00 and [email protected] erve.co.uk come in all sizes and are red, navy, The Date: Saturday 25th Novem- yellow, ber The T shirt, polo shirt, rugby top green, black. The Time: 19h00 for 19h30 Start. club clothes is about to fall flat and These are all good quality items. The Place: Same as 2005 - Conser- fail, as I have had very few orders. vative Club Usk. As you know, I don’t wish to tie up So, you have any last minute or- club funds in stock, I would like to ders for T shirts, Polo Shirts and Cost is the same as last year, £ take orders or commitment to buy Rugby 12,00 per adult and £ 5,00 per from Shirts, Let me know by email. /Student/Scholar. you all at this stage. [email protected] erve.co.uk Please could you email me with We will be having some nosh, your order. followed by the prize giving and I need size, type ( t, polo, rugby ). ceilidh. and preferred colour. T shirts cost £9,00 and come in all Phil You will need to pay me at the sizes and come in Blue, pale blue, event on the evening, but I do yellow, green, red, grey.

Editors Column

Well as the seasons draws to a ter, I am standing down as editor, close, its been a funny old year, Steve Clarke has kindly offered to take with strange winds and a distinct back (but onl y until someone else lack of water, but the club has takes it on—Dep Ed) the duties now made great progress towards its that his commodoreship has come to new clubhouse (see related arti- an end. I have decided to take some cle in this issue). time out from sailing and concentrate on giving my children the best possi-

ble chance of playing Golf at county The summer has seen the full level. I aim to get down to the club as range of wind, July saw sailing often as possible just to see what’s conditions akin to the mediter- happeni ng. My boat is on the market raen and September started with for sale if anyone is interested, if not a traditional Autumn gale, but it’ll stay tucked up in the garage. hey that’s the UK for you.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as I notice from the number of editor and at the club, but time moves boats in the dinghy park a nd on. racing t hat the RS Vareo is be- coming the preferred choice within the club, Martin a nd Nigel I hope you enjoy my last newsletter. are also proving that Llandeg- fedd members can perform away from home with a number of top ten results in national competi- David tions, this can only be good for the club in is pursuit of attracting new members. David Aston RS700 GBR 843 Hey Dave! You’re going the wrong way—the As explained i n my last newslet- golf course is behind you! (Dep Ed) P AGE 4

Explorers visit to TSyT Prince William

Will take on a fresh crew before sailing for Liverpool.

As members of the Newport 10th Tan Gwylit (Wildfire) Expl orer Scouts trooped up the 180ft Brigtantine-rigged vessel’s gang- plank, scouting veteran Mac Pearce, who is also a committee member of the Tall Ships Youth Trust, said “Things don’t get more adventurous than sailing in this”.

“Handling something like the Prince William with a rough sea runni ng is enough t o c hallenge the most adventur ous scout”.

From Left To Right: “When I was a scout, 60 odd years ago, we didn’t have anything Alison Gordon, Jonathan Price, Oli ver Hando, Leo Mil- like this. The Sea Scouts had a whaling boat, but otherwise it was ton, NICKN ICK HAMMERSLEY, James White and Andrew a weekend on Henllys Hill”. Jeffs on the tall ship Prince William.

“Explorer Scout leader Nigel White, 54, from Cwmbran, said that Going down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and since the former Venture Scouts were reorganised into Explorer the sky is a distinct option for a group of Gwent scouts. Scouts in 2000 t he accent was on advent ure”.

And, if like the mariner the Masefield poem, they want “Whether it’s the traditional woodcraft activities that everyone a tall ship to do it i n the TSYT Prince William is just the associates with scouts, or outdoor activities on a larger scale, the thing. emphasis is on self reliance and teamwork.

The Prince William was moored in Barry, where she Kindly re-printed form the Sout h Wales Argus.

Sailing secretary’s Locker

OOD 19 Nov John Regan, Debbie White, David White, Tom Watts Does a nyone ha ve a friend, relative or colleague who 26 Nov Jeremy Symons, Christine Stanley, Elfyn Morgan, would like to become a regu- Simon Stanley lar OOD (Officer of the day) for Llandegfedd Sailing Club? Forthcoming Events Finally please make a note Ideally they would need to Llandegfedd of our new email ad- ha ve done some dresses mine November Series will be taking if they are keen, we could is [email protected] a place over the next 4 Sundays, provide training. Also we nd Mandy's for member- the first race will start at wo u l d l ike to hea r f rom an y- ship enquiries is member- 11:00am prompt, there will be one who would like to be as- [email protected] 2 ra ces ba ck to ba ck s in gle flee t sist with safety boat duties. starts. As our season permits OD Duty for November exp ire o n 3 1s t O ctobe r the re 5 Nov Keith Sykes, Sandra Bran- will be a charge of £5 per boat Keith RS400 848 nigan, Mandy Sykes, Dave each Sunday, payable to the Brannigan rangers on the day. The water 12 Nov Guy & Julie Boswell, level should reach all the ramps Caroline Meech, Vaughn very soon, please come along Jones and support these races. P AGE 5 Talent Spotter DIARY

Spotted at a recent Greek night- of the era. Sadly he appears spot, that natural performer to have lost his trousers to Sean Tedstone has been cap- one of his many adoring fans tured on film strutting his stuff torn off, no doubt, in the to the refrain of the House of frenzy of his performance the Rising Sun. Sean’s associa- and has to endure the com- tion with the Animals is legen- plete number in his boxers. dry as he once was involved Sadly all the front seats were with the original line up—well quickly vacated once they he used queue up to buy the realised it wasn’t Sean’s records anyway. round. You will note Sean’s attention to the original detail of the Apparently the Greek fans band sporting side burns typical loved it and no one else could hold a candle to our Sean. BOSUNS REPORT

The life skills guru, Paul McKenna The guy at the back claimed in one of his books, and sup- has clearly had ported by research, t hat people who enough and is achieve their goals gain motivation by identifying with a cause. The demands screaming for it to of family life and career are often time- stop. A music lover consuming, so it is difficult t o gi ve time obviously. to causes which seem less important. Paul McKenna identified two benefits of applying time and talent to a cause: firstly, a feel good factor, and secondly the acquisition of personal qualities Anon gained by worki ng t owards the goals.

In an article in the Times last year, the former England rugby player Jason Leonard le d a group of volunteers to CLASSIFIEDS improve his l ocal rugby clubhouse. The improvement and maintenance of Anythi ng to sell or a nythi ng wanted. Wit hin reason and t he rules of c ommon de- equipment and facilities at our club makes it sailing efficient and pleasant. cency, can be a dvertised here. Call the editor if you wish to advertise. For sale: RS700 GBR 843 Therefore, I ask you to add or action Complete with everything and in mint condition the current list of jobs which are in the £44950ovno container and OD hut. 13ft Si ngle seat Canoe

Complete with Paddle, Crash Hat and Spray Deck Martin £100 (& phil osopher) Contact: David 01633 413306 Topper 44526 Hardly used in 2 years. Good condition, trolle y, cover and two sails, one hardly used. Contact: Steve 01291 620081 P AGE 6

BCYC Top Club

Early July saw our juniors travel to Bristol Corinthian Yacht club at the Llandegfedd ‘Starboard’ team foot of the Cheddar Gorge and Llandegfedd ‘Port’ (pictured above) take part in a Junior Top Club Rebekka Thomas, James Thomas Kate Stanley, Maddie Stanley and Myles event. Juniors from numerous local and Merrick Stanley were first U12 Jackson who were first U16 team but also clubs took part and Lla ndegfedd team members did rather well. finished 2nd overall. Llangorse Challenge

The youngsters kept up the familiar tradition by gi ving our local rivals at Langorse a damn good thrashing as has been the case for some considerable number of More OpenMeeting Results years. S Vareo’sVareo’s———BurghfieldBurghfield 2nd M.Williams At time of press no specific details of how the vict ory 5th N Tinkler was secured were available but the results below indi- cate a dominant showing by the Llandegfedd O ppies. RS Vareo Nationals 4th Nigel Tinkler

Wanderer NationalsNationals———WeymouthWeymouthWeymouth, 12th John & Courtney James P AGE 7 L LANDEGFEDD SAI LING

TIPS from the top - Asymmetric DOWNWIND

There are four different ways of sail- across the wind. To check the angle, back, so you must head up a bit to ing, directly tracked from the wind just look at the burgee/hawk. (You do keep the pressure on and sails strength. This controls your short term have one, don’t you?). It ought to be trimmed right. If t he wind c hanges a tactics and what to do with the boat straight across the boat, implying a lot you will need to pull sails in to keep itself. In general, your strategy should reach at 90 de grees to the wind. If it is balance right. Is it worth gybing to get be to aim for the bits of water with the not, you are not going at max speed. back int o the wind? strongest wind as your boat comes Sit out more, probably pull t he mainsail Wind moves up or down. Here you with means to control how you cope in so it is over the ba ck of t he boat – just follow it unless lifted and you think with it. remember, you are on a 90 degree a gybe is called for. Control the sails reach for the sails, not goi ng down- and balance with the course – aiming No wind wind. to maximise speed at all times. You might as well give up with the spinnaker – it will not fill and all it does Interestingly enough, once you do this is prevent any sensible airflow over the If it’s Force 4, the wind speed might right you will find that jib tell tales will other sails. Go into Oppy mode, go be 20 mph. RS 400s might go at be absolutely constant, despite alter- direct to the next buoy and adjust sails 16mph in this wind, we have clocked ing c ourse thr ough 30 degrees or for clean airflow. You are, for once, the RS800 at 18 mph on a day such as more as the wind spend a nd direction allowed to heel the boat so that the this. If you go direct downwind for a varies. This is an indication that what boom holds the mainsail in the right moment or two the result is only 4mph you are actually trying to do is keep a shape. across the front of the boat – so gy- constant angle t o the wind despite bing is easy. If you go 45 de g off real tribulations. Max speed at all times. Light wind downwind, the result is near enough

The object of the exercise is to sail the 12mph appare nt wind at ri ght a ngles The angle you ought to gybe thr ough boat as low as possible, but with the to the boat. ( Simple 3,4,5 right angled is about 90 degrees, so you can proba- spinnaker filling. The ke y here is to triangle!). bly see the leeward buoy behind the head up until the sail fills. Once it does, mainsail when sitting in a normal the helm bears away but keeps the helming position spinnaker flyi ng. The crew – if you The boat should be absolutely flat – have the luxury of one - ought to be rudder not acting as a brake – the tiller Too much wind informing the helm if the sheet tension has very little pressure on it either way. Here the key is to set the boat up to is going light, as this indicates immi- If not, get the boat flat! As the wind minimise power from the sails. Maybe nent collapse. If pressure even rake the mast back if you can. builds and the sheet load in- The actual way of sailing is as above – creases – tell the helm - who but more so. You can go very much ought to bear away again. deeper – and when it’s above Force 6 you might actually be going straight Keep the boat very nearly flat. downwind. However, due to your You probably have one crew speed the sails are still in normal reach- member each side of the boat. ing/upwind mode. Head up to where Practice will give a better un- you can control the boat in the lulls, derstanding of this mode and bear away vigorously in the gusts. The surprisingly rapid progress is key is to work the mainsheet to keep feasible. However, keep your the boat flat – and alter course to assist head out of the boat – are this as above. Gybing is actually no you act ually going down- worse than in lighter winds, but is wind, or are you reverting to more an act-of-faith of course. Once the No Wind case? the boom comes across tiller straight – boat MUST be absolutely flat at all times. Gybing angle might be very varies, there are things you need to do Gybe to keep in wind, if you have this small. option. Gybe if you get a lift (headers to keep speed, boat flat and course are what you want downwind, it’s the under contr ol; Theoretical opposite of upwind) knowledge Moderate good Gust hits, more wind. Both sails might If you really want to know more, t hen need letting out to spill a bit of wind. there is a bible written by Frank wind As you go faster, trimming the sails, Bethwaite on “High Performance Sail- This is when the boat is properly pow- bear away and get the overall balance ered up. Let’s assume the boat is plan- again. The boat will accelerate due to ing”. T his brings all of this into focus as ing properl y. Both crew are sitting out the bigger wind – so this will then well as far more. However, this hard to some degree. The target here is to mean you can pull in again as the but very rewarding work is at about get the boat moving as fast as possi- wind moves forwards. Boat flat so you engineering degree level. The video ble. Because of the speed you go can control it. Aim deeper once you “Higher and Faster” is much more ac- through t he air, the apparent wind have stability. Max speed! cessible – but has far less data. moves forwards, so the course you steer ought to be an automatic com- promise between down-wind and Gust eases, less wind. You will find that as the wind eases the wind moves Andy P AGE 1 P AGE 8

RS700 Inlands Rutland—Ramblings from a victim

All week that blasted bloke at the against the beast and rather Met office was scattering large large w aves w ith adrenalin arrows all over the screen. Clarke pumping. First bear aw ay—what and O sborne watch their computer the ***** as light speed is screens with trepidation every quickly reached. Lets get the morning hoping for a reprieve for up-huge gust- wop, straight in the weekend. It looked like the the drink. Look around carnage w ind was dropping and dipping ev erywhere. Well in good com- below 25mph so the decision was pany suppose. Pretty much same taken to attend the annual pilgrim- drill ev ery lap then it ends. Tw o age to the RS700 Inlands to accept hour wait for next start. Off we the usual slices of humble pie in go again this time mixing it with the wake of the masters. Consola- the mid fleet boy s, blimey fin- tion would be at least finishing the ished the race with no capsize– courses and a result in the top 20 and 600’s and 700’s to the east. “If we result but all the boys we usually race w ould be an improvement on prev ious can get to the start line, we’re laugh- against have gone in, the swines. years. With digs booked somewhere ing” shouts Clarke above the din look- Camio appearance by Osborne on the in the Cambridgeshire countryside the ing slightly pale. horizon until gear fails again. team set off on Friday night to get to Last race, getting knackered now cap- G rafham and turn up early for the size on downwind . Time to go in S aturday morning to soak up atmos- Heading out, suddenly the full force of and have a curry and a good whinge. phere or decide if the local shopping the ‘breeze’ hit as the shielding effect scene was more appealing. of the trees was lost. Picking your way Sunday, dropped to a nice F3-4 and through the detritus of capsized 600’s pretty civilized. O sbourne actually

as they sudden realized that had a tad starts and finishes two races. Getting A rriv ing at G rafham on Saturday into the swing of it a bit but these morning and all of a sudden copious boys take no prisoners, one little mis- Cappuccino’s in the local Starbucks take and three go past. Last race started looking more appealing. ”Sure enough ‘out to sea’ the looking good mid fleet until do the White horses galloped freely across raging torrents buffeted small boats honorable thing and take a 720, big the v ast expanse that is Grafham mistake. Yes , chuck it in trying to Water and the waves were pretty like corks and windsurfers ripped gybe quickly. big as well! across the waves at some Did we win, not quite but who cares enormous speed” we finished at least a few races and actually had a few moments of bril- “It’s dropping off you know” says liance. The fleet is actually only Clarke the eternal , “Its spread out over 100m or so but quick barely a F5 now, gusts are a bit boat handling and frantic activity are nasty but we can survive it. “Yeah too much kicker on when the full force the order of the day. Obviously more right” say s Osborne screw ing new bits struck, got the adrenaline pumping as big fleet practice required and less onto his boat “Trouble is, we are be- we hurtle towards the start line. “Don’t pies. hind the trees here, look out there”. put the kite up yet” little sensible voice Sure enough ‘out to sea’ the raging says in head, “Go on get it up ,you big Why is it that the only photo that Foto torrents buffeted small boats like corks girls blouse” said Mr Testosterone. Website blokey takes of me is recover- and windsurfers ripped across the Survival dictates, listening to Little ing from a capsize whilst everyone waves at some enormous speed. Sensible v oice and C larke makes it to else has action packed pictures flat out “Come on, we need the practice in the the line. Osborne had disappeared at on the wire, kite pulling like a train. It big stuff” says C larke. O sborne accepts this stage making a quick return to did go in that many times, did I? Sod the inev itable as they join the ev er base camp hav ing discovered that this buying a toy boat or Vareo next increasing queue for the lavvy and the screw ing bits onto your boat untested year or one of those radio controlled vending machine for the plastic trou- just before launching into the teeth of things w hich I can sail from the safety sers. a gale is a singularly bad idea. In addi- of the new bar. tion cov ering all you lines with Graf- ham clay is also unadvised unless you Well succeeded in getting into the top 20, trouble is everyone else went It always sounds worse when the sails like sailing with no kicker and you home! A t least our local hero Marshall go up, have you noticed! A raft of boom parallel to the mast offering the only finished 18th. In the races we boats hoist large amounts of mylar opportunity for thrilling the crowds actually competed in together it was film into the raging atmosphere with a w ith a demonstration of Chinese Clarke 1 Osborne 1. deafening sound of expensive fibres gy be s. try ing to break free. Boats in differ- Start and first beat was a frantic fight ent directions with 800’s heading West Steve

P AGE 9 Vareo Inlands

Inlands were good. 26 Vareos, torn mainsail and kite, bent dag- day. I ended up 5th overall with 32 RS300s and 51 . Rut- ger board and of course the Nigel 4th Nigel definitely sailed land water is huge but with 110 dent. Only the ripped kite was better than I did and deserved boats zig zagging to the race my fault after a really big cap- the result. area in a it was q uite size. (Nigel had a s imilarly b ig Sailing was really good espec ially crowded. My bad luck started capsize in eth sa me race and off wind where are times we when an RS400 gybed out of drifted over the finish line upside were just hanging on. The control onto port in front of me down!) I didn’t see any other RS300s shared our race area but then just missed me at high damage during the weekend so I had a wing mark which seemed closing speed with my boom hit- really was unlucky. to give them two broad reaches ting his hull. Then during a race Both Nigel and I struggled to so their sailing loo ked really I called starboard on a Vareo but hold the heavy (15 or 16 stone) tame whilst we sped past with he couldn't bear away (too much helms upwind. Although I was our kites up. kicker) and hit me - hard! Luckily 3rd and Nigel 4th overnight the gunwale took the impact so Nigel actually had the better re- £140 of damage but boat was Mark Williams sults. The heavyweights were raceable. I ended the weekend similarly fast in the wind on Sun- with a bent mast (another one),

Presidents Weekend

President’s weekend was held on 16th event, with Mark Williams second and and 17th September. Three races were Jeremy Symons third. Nick Hamersley Presidents Weekend held on Saturday, and three on Sunday. won the junior e vent, followed by There was one discard, so the winners Merrick Stanley and Rachel Thomas. had to sail both days. Club President Results

Gareth Edwards and his First Lady 1st N Tinkler—Vareo Sherene acted as principal race officers. The turn out was high, with 36 entrants 2ns M Williams - Vareo over the two days. It was good to see so

many boats on the water, and to wel- 3rd J Simmonds—RS200 They deci ded to vary t he course, and come some new competitors. 4th N Hammersley - radial the length of races, so some races lasted 5th S Lewis/D Green - Magno less than half an ho ur, while others were about 50 minutes long. There was The last race on Sunday di dn’t form part one fleet, so that the RS 800 race d of the series, and was raced for the against Optimists on the same course. Llandegfedd Pin. T his is now the cl ub’s Juniors (Fortunately, it beat the Oppies on the oldest trophy. It was first raced in 1967, 1st N Hammersley - water, too.) Average laps were used in and past winners include an Olympic an attempt to ensure that there was not silver medallist. A new record was set 2nd Maddie Stanley—Optimist too muc h hanging around between this year when Myles Jackson became 3rd R Thomas—Optimist races, and that all boats enjoyed roughly the youngest ever winner. A long 4th J Thomas—Optimist the same conditions. course was set, and the race lasted for 5th K Stanley—Optimist over an hour. The first adult was Mark 6th M Jackson—Optimist On Saturday, t he wind came from the Williams, followed by Nigel Tinkler. north and Doris was moved south so 7th K Stanley/S jackson—420 that there was a good distance to the windward mark. By Sunday, the wind We can’t run events like this without had swung to the south east and Doris plenty of help from OD assistants and PIN was put back on her usual moori ng. rescue boat dri vers. Thank you to all The expected shift to the south or south those who gave their time so freely. west didn’t happen, so the first beat was 1st Myles Jackson - Optimist usually a little biased. 2nd M Williams—Vareo There was keen racing with close results Gareth 3rd N Tinkler—Vareo on corrected time and on handicap. 4th B & H Jackson—RS400 The Optimists and Vareos dominated, 5th D Hammersley—Laser and eventually Nigel Tinkler won the 6th A & J Bolton—RS200 P AGE 10

Llandegfedd Water Sports Centre (LWSC) update

Those who attended the EGM Currently the sailing club is lead- • Final design decisions for in- at Cwmbran stadium last ing the bid and has donated as a ternal design of building month will have heard the full loan the funds for planning ap- • Preparation of building costs presentation of what we intend plication. We hope that other and bill of quantities to provide for the new centre. clubs will donate as well to this • fund and reduce the sailing Negotiation with suppliers A company has been formed club’s exposure. Planning will as the vehicle for negotiating take 3-4 months assuming no the lease with Welsh Water and Depending on timescales and major pr oblems arise during for planning applications and budgets we will be looking at which time the following activi- legal work to progress. The some kind of temporary facility ties will take place in parallel; general idea is the new com- on the new site. There will be pany will own and build the optimum times for working on centre with all the clubs at the site during the closed season • Liaison with all users reservoir as associate members. which is now very close . Pres- The clubs will eventually run • Negotiations for lease with sure will be applied where we the centre through a liaison WW and site management can to get services and other committee and executive direc- plan works completed soonest once tors will tale overall responsibil- • Funding through Sports Coun- legal works are done. ity plucked from me mbers of cil for Wales, Welsh Tourism each club. During the building and others. Private funding op- and negotiation stage the cur- tions may also be considered. Steve rent team (Steve Clarke, Martyn • Arrange with United Utilities Osborne and Gareth Edwards) for provision of site services and will the executive group and a access liaison committee is being • formed to include all other Design of services and negotia- clubs. tion with providers