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All these and much more, usually from stock Mal.1O.rder and credit Card FacilitiesA .... arker Boats |bec Summer 2004 Issue 102 Next Issue Cnet Copy date for the Summer 2004 issue will be 3rd August 2004 Commodore's Corner 5 Pael GddsRacing Secretary's Ruminations 8 Pkame GeddseLagoeRdlnrkp Report on Measurement exersise 11 Kireoe A Ogh usBdJv.kp Safer singir-handed sailing 15 Greok A6O.Good Launch Guide 17 Tel: 0147$ 521327 Waldrinfield Easter Egg I8 Email editor~wayfarer.org.uk Easter at Parksrone 22 2004 Sail Training 23 Don't forget, when sending in your copy Falmouth Week 25 to add who wrote it and the boat number, Slashaway Trophy 28 please. Also for photos or illustrations, so Irish Matters 29 that credit can be given. Thanks. Norfolk Broads YC 31 Summary of AGM 32 WEBSITE PASSWORD 34 Cruising Semminar 35 W Oxfordshire S C Open 44 Humber Cruise 48 Destination Isle of Mull .50 Every effort has been made to make the 100 Ip & going strong 53 information as accurate as possible. Nev- Brancaster Sailing 56 ertheless, neither the UKWA, nor its Coin-LetrothNws6 mittees or Editor will accept responsibilityFoSae5Minutes of 46th AGM 68 for any error, inaccuracy, omission from or staemntcotanei i. hereposiiltyClass clothing order form 8I stteetnii otand TerepnsbliyIndex to Advertisers 82 f'or safety lies with the boat and it's crew. tJKWA; and the Data Protection Act Cover photo generously sponsored by Por- Membership records within the scope of the ter Bros., John Parker and Proctor Masts DPA 1984 are held on computer by the As-(Slo) sociation and memers objecting to such data(elo) being held should write to the Secretary: Photo by Anne and Dennis Kell. Sarah Burgess. 49 Seaview Avenue, West Mersea, Colehester. Essex CO5 8BW. Shows Paul and Irene Ammentorp W 239, and rally organisers Bo and Neel Chris- tensen W 2042. at the International Rally 2003 Summer 2004 issue 102 3 VrPamela's Prattlings Well, it's been a typical April with plenty of sunshine and showers. Especially showers, which managed to ruin part of my paint job on the boat, but everything else seems to be going well. Hope you have all managed to finish those 'winter johs' and are now out and about sailing and enjoying your Wayfarer. The new Executive Committee is now in place and picking up speed. There is a letter from our new Chairman as well as the usual colomn fron the Commodore. A new feature this issue is a 'Letters to the Editor' section and 1 hope you will continue to write to me on any subject connected to Wayfaring, they are all welcome and make for an interesting read for everybody as well as sparking useful debate and providing informa- tion. So, keep up the good work and we can make it a regular section. Also, don't forget to send in those race and rally reports, they are vital and are valued articles to all our members, who look forward to reading them, and perhaps reading about ourselves. Pictures or drawings to accompany them are always welcome and help to make the magazine brighter and better. Pamela SOLENT DINGHIES THE COMPREHENSIVE DINGHY MANA GEMENT SER VICE I [ctt51 d[ ............... f [ql # 1 * [;1! -l -*";* =1A1II /ie .0...................-..;['< : : . =oem Wayfarer specialists, supporting the Wayfarer Association. We are always looking for Wayfarers Barnes Farm, Barnes Lane, Milford on Sea S041 ORR Tel: 01590 644800 Mob: 07967 122303 Fax: 01425 274264 4 Summer 2004 Issue 102 Commodore's Corner This, my first Commodore's Corner, 1 felt should go some way towards showing In similar manner I have pondered over what I was all about, how I thought of the what the role of the Commodore actually is. Association and how it should continue. As I was presented with a job description, but with any piece of writing it is the starting having read it several times I am not sure if that is the hardest bit, so I began to think it accords with my thoughts or just as likely about a few basics and asked myself a few with the spare time 1 can give the job. So questions. what do [ think my role is? What forms the basis of our UKWA, or any I know what the Commodore shouldn't be other like association for that matter? The - partial, one sided, a supporter of factions, answer has to be - volunteers. The people political. The UKWA already has a very who give up their own time to keep the thing able leader in Liz Feibusch our chair, so going, to run rallies, training events or races, another leader is not called for. I am afraid to produce a magazine and a Wayfarer book. therefore that the best I can come up with is These things don't just happen - someone an entry in the job description I was given has to take on the responsibility of making that references the general "promotion of them happen. This applies equally to theAssociation and membership". It is this I the Committee - the UKWA doesn't run shall work on for now. itself, someone has to set the rules, run the finances, and generally look after the long It is important for us on the Committee to term health of the Association, remember that a sizeable proportion of our members neither race nor cruise, but simply I first 'volunteered' back in 1992 when I enjoy owning and sailing their Wayfarers fancied joining one of those rally things. and being entertained by the writings of Having spoken to the published organiser othermembers. It has to betherefore thatone for about ten minutes expressing my of the roles of the Commodore is to promote interest, I put the phone down wondering balance within the Association where the how it was that I had just become organiser views of all are taken into account. myself. 1 have been running it every year since! I also found that I was considered It is also important to remember that we something of an expert in certain areas of are primarily an association of Wayfarer Wayfaring and managed to 'volunteer' to owners. We are not designers, builders or present a few ideas at a Cruising Conference salesmen, we are not in the game for profit 1 have done so at most Conferences since. - in fact if my wife were ever to demand an account of my Wayfaring it is most likely So it will come as no surprise to you that she would find I had much in common with this year, in similar manner, I 'volunteered' Gordon Brown (but with a slightly smaller to become Commodore. overspend)! So this tradition, as I now know it to be, I would likle to conclude by encouraging of 'volunteering' is obviously fairly all of you to enjoy whatever it is you do, fundamental to the Association and it is fair because the best way to promote a group is to say that I in turn have assisted others to for others to see what a fun and friendly lot 'volunteer' since then. Could this be the we are. future of the Association - members freely 'volunteering' to take on the donkey work Matt Sharman of making the UKWA the successful class W 773 association that it is? I strongly suspect this to be the case. Summer 2004 Issue 1025 VD A mm *;il - I1l/.4 a - - - * ia : i0 a a -P - *- & i~1g< * SIl EDGE ONE DESIGN Unit 10 Kensington Court Kensington Road Earlsdon Coventry CV5 6GG * Te: 02476 711716 Wayfarer Deluxe Custom Cruising Sails - Includes:- -Contender 6oz Supercruz -Slab Reefing as Standard -Genoa Window. Main if required -Rutgerson Hardware, Nos., Insignia, Telltales -Two bags, Battens -Double stitched and glued seams -Heavily reinforced stressed areas, for superior durability and performance Main £31 8 NO ONE ELSE GETS CLOSE TO THIS Genoa £137 QUALITY OF SPEC FOR THESE Spinny £188 PRICES -GUARANTEEDI S. Jib £ 99 VISITORS WELCOME E xtras: Additional Slab Reefs £39, Foam Head Buoyancy £38 P'rices fully inclusive (delivery extra) B:udget/School Sails Main £198, Genoa £95 Racing Sails in 4.46oz Palycote Main £365, Genoa £138 P'lease phone Jon Clarke for full specifica-tioan t Racing Secretary's Ruminations The season has well and truly started and was cloudless and beautiful and the breeze l am sure most of us have seen just about light, disappearing at times. It was quite a every imaginable degree of sun, wind and challenge to get around all the waypoints rain, in what has been quite a nice spring, in time; we didn't quite make them all. The intrepid entries to Waldringfield's But again the Wayfarer showed what an race training weekend saw increasing excellent cruiser it is in being able to keep winds leading to a vigorous Saturday going in the lightest conditions especially afternoon workout with dead run spinnaker when augmented by racing techniques such planing. Conditions became atrocious as roll tacking up narrow channels etc. It for the Sunday when they were banished is this cruiser racer aspect of Wayfaring to the class room all day for no doubt a which, is to me the essence of the boat and rigorous mental workout under Michael which, unlike in Denmark, where they all McNamara's expert guidance.