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**1** Contents Page 2. Editor's Ripple ...Charlotte Editor‘s Ripple Contents Page Well, I wish I could start this as many of the contributors have, by saying it seems like yesterday I did the last one! As I have problems remembering what I did this morning (I‘d score badly on a dementia test!), the last issue of the Reach seems to have come out decades 2. Editor‘s Ripple . Charlotte Davies ago! Things we like to do always pop round quickly and this is probably half the reason it seems too long ago! For all the difficulties 3. Verbiage from the Vice . Penny Davies the Reach presents me with, I do enjoy editing it. I know that some of you enjoy reading it, so it seems to me a win win situation! Who‘s Who 2005 . Unfortunately it seems, not so many people enjoy writing the articles! Thank you very much to everyone who has written an article 4. Social Report . Karen Bodman - you‘ve given great pleasure to many! 5. The Grivsend Bison . Martin Jacob Due to thinning out Reaches and cut-backs, discussion has taken place about the number of issues we should produce a year. It has 6. Development Update . Steve Davies been decided to reduce the number of issues from three, to two a year. Whilst this upsets me greatly, the rationale is flawless. There 9. Mooring Post . Eddie Weston are very few who can complain about this move, as very few provide me with the articles. If I get a regular influx of articles, we‘ll have to 10. Membership News . Jane Fletcher re-negotiate. Please keep your articles coming. Even things that may seem 11. Instructor Insurance . RYA mundane to you, are often very interesting to members who can‘t visit the sailing club often. The new deadlines are included in this 13. Mud, glorious mud? . John Skellorn issue - articles can be sent to me by most methods (please someone try a carrier pigeon)- and please note my new mobile number for 14. Corder Litten . Pam Boddy texted snippets (07987 1992946). 16. Thames and Medway Canal . Dave Rouse Have a happy year sailing and writing! Charlotte Davies 19. RYA Small Craft First Aid . James Newell Reach Editor 20. The GSC Library . The Librarian RYA SE Region will soon have a new web site aimed specifically at boating in the South-East. The first blooms of spring should appear soon on 21. The River‘s Tale . Rudyard Kipling www.ryase.org.uk - it will include forums for clubs, an event calendar for open and regional events, and photos of them. If you have suggestions for 23. Dinghy Park Puzzle . Chris Hague-Smith content, mail [email protected]. RYA Dinghy level 1&2 course material is now available in braille and on audio 24. Global Warming . The Debunker tape. Gravesham Council‘s toilet attendants have made a real splash by scooping 25. Sailing Terms explained . James Davies two awards at the Loo of the Year ceremony! **1** **2** Verbiage from the Vice Social Report There may be someone out there who doesn‘t know who I am. I am Dear All, a woman of few words and shy disposition who finds herself in the Where does all the time go?! I‘m sure I‘ve just finished writing the role of Vice Commodore with responsibility for Works, and this is the last one! first of perhaps many little commentaries I shall be writing for the Once again we had a very enjoyable Christmas dinner. I think that Reach. this is one of my favourite events. Thanks to all the committee for We find ourselves in difficult and frustrating times. Developers and their help - we are almost getting it off to a fine art! I bet you didn‘t council are not the most desirable of ”bed fellows‘ in any know that your Christmas Turkey was spirited to the club having circumstances, but mix this with a large expanse of mud and the been cooked across the A2 œ thank you Brenda! and also your pigs usual politics, and you know you won‘t be going anywhere very fast. in blankets œ thank you Pat! Next year we should be able to do it all As my brother has often said to me:- ”if you can‘t get into it; get on site when we have the new cooker. out of it. Or, if you can‘t get out of it; get into it‘. I fear the ”it‘ There was a happy gathering over the New Year at the club which I we can‘t get out of is more accurately the water we can‘t get into, missed as I spent it with my twenty-somethings and the neighbours. and possibly won‘t get anywhere near until early Summer. I figured that at their age this might not happen too often so I should Maybe now is the ideal opportunity to give a few hours to helping out take advantage of it! (The kids not the neighbours!) at one of the club‘s working weekends. I can guarantee good company, good food, and maybe even an experienced ear who just The New Year has got off to a good start with a talk entitled the happens to know how to sort out that problem with the antifouling Mirrors from Oz. Pete and Co repeated their wonderful Burns night or that bit of electrics that just won‘t work. So why not come along supper, which raised a considerable amount for the club. We have and join us. Details and dates can be found on the website, club just had our successful annual quiz night again which is also a fund notice board or just talk to one of the committee members. We‘d raising event. I must remember to read the papers the week love to see you. beforehand next year and also to brush up on my sweets so as I can And me. well, I‘ll be the one quietly in the background; recognise them in the egg box before I eat them! (Any excuse!) screwdriver in one hand, teapot in the other. [Beware- next year‘s egg box round may be cheese! - Ed.] Penny Davies I know it is a disappointment that lift out is going to be later this W ho‘s W ho 2005 year so we are going to extend the talks and social events through Commodore: Peter Fletcher to June. The talks, we hope, will be on the theme of Tales along the Vice Commodore (works): Penny Davies River Bank œ those places you sail past and wonder what they really Rear Commodore (house): Ken Munro do. Rear Commodore (corporate image): Emma Foreman If you would like to organise a social event yourself or have an idea Social: Karen Bodman please do not hesitate to contact me, or any social committee Sailing Sec: Dave Thompson member. Mooring Masters: Brian Pietrzyba and Trevor Simmonds Treasurer: Jo Munro We are now in a new club year and we have some changes to the Secretary: Kath Lilley social committee. I would like to say a BIG thank you to Penny who Training: John Williams now has other responsibilities in her role as Vice Commodore but has Building and Development: Roy Turner offered to help out at events and also to Julie who has a busy year Bar: Roy Boughton ahead studying and is also stepping down from the committee. Thank Gen Com Members: Leon Ferguson, Dave Rouse, Geoff Honey you both very much for you help. (Julie, I may still be calling on you for a loaf of tuna sandwiches!) **3** **4** I would like to welcome Val Green, Pat Robb and Debbie Parker to Development Update the social committee this year. The more observant of you will have noticed that there was no development update in the last Reach, and this was an accurate 1orthcoming events: - reflection of events - basically nothing had happened which couldn‘t Saturday 9th April Singalong with the musicals (and be covered by a few lines in the accompanying newsletter. anything else you want to singalong to) Saturday 23rd April to be arranged However a lot has happened in the last four months, and continues Saturday 7th May Sail-past Cream Tea from 4pm to happen. I will try and give the background here, and for the very Saturday 28th May Barbecue latest refer to the newsletter, which goes to press a week or two after the Reach. Please check the notice board and web site for further events or The lead developer, Countryside Properties, has woken up after a few contact a social committee member. low profile months (at least as far as the basin was concerned). They have been the target of a management buyout bid, which finally Look forward to seeing you all at the club succeeded about a month ago. So Countryside is to become a private Best Wishes company - generally held to be a —good thing“. It means they can Karen Bodman, Sociable Secretary time the work on projects to suit themselves, rather than to achieve steadily rising profits to keep the shareholders happy. How much this The Grivesend Bison protracted bid process has diverted Countryside‘s management from Core blimey mate the projects on hand we shall probably never know, but I‘m sure it a pig‘s jead on a plite? didn‘t help. Don‘t yer know that the head The development now rejoices in the name of —The Embankment“, on the red and has its own web site (www.theembankment.gb.uk). Within this, castle aint dead Countryside have an interest in the former Magnox Building, Alpha meat on a plite Plant and Alcan sites (which are surrounded by their hoardings).
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