Paphos International Sailing Club Newsletter Summer/Autumn 2014 edition 001 Hello Friends and Members I hope you New PISC First Aid Officer are all having a great summer! During the summer the General Committee This edition is a mix of the summer news with appointed Brigitte D as our First Aid Officer. She has additional news for our new web site. We hope you now taken on the task of organising the RIB First Aid enjoy our latest news of the efforts of the club. If you boxes as well as the RIB Shed and Club House can do anything to assist or help the organisation supplies. We wish Brigitte well with this and would please don’t wait to be asked. Please volunteer as we require all First Aiders who use supplies to report always need the willing and able in the Club house their useage and inform Brigitte so that she can keep and at the beach. our stocks of First Aid equipment in date and in place. Well the heat has been on in Cyprus and we have all been keeping in the shade to get through the hot spell. We have seen end of June temperatures rise to 40 degrees C which is almost a month earlier than usual. Quite a few of our travelling members (Swallows) have now returned to the Island. Members competed in the highly successful Summer Regatta and some have now flown off again to go on cruises or cruise in the English channel or on the Shannon with Brian L. Most likely to escape the heat! Also some to return to work - Ugh! 11 March 2014 - Fitting Out Supper at the 5th Floor Lounge We all went to the 5th Floor Lounge for the Spring fitting out supper. The venue was excellent and it gave us the room to spread out and enjoy the Outgoing Cdre Chas presents Di with her First Aid dancing. The dance floor was surrounded by our Certificate. diners tables so a lovely evening was enjoyed by all. The Buffet was also very nicely placed and enjoyed by 11 April 2014 – Annual General Meeting all. The Annual General Meeting took place in April and 8 April 2014 - 10 pin bowling and Fish this saw the ending of Chas K’s two year term as Commodore. After the previous Committee stood supper at the Club House down a new Committee was voted in. Kit W took over Quite a number of bowlers turned out for the spring as Commodore and Paul H-A was voted in as Vice 10 pin bowling competition at the Cosmic Bowling Commodore. The new team is Bill C as RC(S) Alley. We had around 24 players which was an Tony C as RC(H), Jaqui B continues as Hon Treasurer. excellent As does Sue S as Hon Social Sec and Di B as Hon Sec. th Thanks to you all for the great attendance at the 5 Brian P was elected to be the new Membership Floor Lounge. The venue was lovely with under Secretary. All in all an orderly meeting with Liz W First Aid Courses 2014 officiating during the time the Committee stood down and new Committee elected. A very good Our annual first aid courses were again organised turnout on the day. with Kembali Divers (Chris) and this year we had 13 members who participated. This increases our qualified First Aiders to over 20 which will pay dividends in the years to come. 1 PISC Assistant (Dinghy) Instructor Course Phil M acting as our Chief Sailing Instructor prepared the boats for dry land tacking drills though it wan’t tood dry for some day s on the course! Paul H-A Vice Commodore waiting for the tide PISC Basic Dinghy Sailing Course We have trained our first tranche of PISC Assistant Instructors so they were all trained and briefed to Torrential rain for the PISC AI Course hold the first Basic Dinghy Sailing Course in June. The Basic dinghy sailing course had its first six willing volunteers who took part, two ladies and four men. It is hoped that a second course will be programmed for the Autumn. Over the four busy days PISC Chief Instructor Phil M and the new PISC AI’s took the candidates through all the PISC basic sailing syllabus. The weather for the course was warmer and less windy than for the Assistant Instructor course though it was just about on the upper edge of F3 which made the instruction challenging. The course covered boat work, dry sailing techniques, safety, first aid /hypothermia and knot tying. Lessons on the weather, tides and local conditions at Agios Georgios John L instructing were also covered. Successful candidates will receive a PISC certificate in due course. It was very noticeable that the candidates were very keen initially and they were challenged thoroughly throughout the course. If you wish to go on a course please contact Bill or Phil. We did take some HD video of the sailors at sea so if you would like to have it Scotty has it on an SD card. The members actually enjoyed righting their capsized boat (Dabulamanzi) and swimming the 50metres to the safety boat on completion. John L and Chas were the crash dummy instructors in the water for each students capsize. Well done all who took part and congratulations to everyone, instructor and student all. Wayfarer’s in doors! What facilities we now have! John L trying his hand at tacking in the dry. The students Instructors found it an entirely different matter to get it right after not doing it the RYA way for years! 2 10 May 14 Black and White Ball at Kamares Sue S organised the lovely May Ball at Kamares for approximately 80 members and friends . We all enjoyed dancing to the disco music and a lovely dinner spread from Kamares Club Staff. The ball has now got the season off to a grand start. Bring on the Sailing (not that we have stopped over the winter)! Dhekalia Regatta 23 May 2014 Our first away match involved camping, sailing and a very social weekend par excellence. We took 4 dinghies, Cdre Kit and Bob S took the club “Hartley” (Kestrel), B Layng took “Red Kite” (Kestrel), D Cdre Kit, Kestrel Hartley and the Pisc team dinghies at Stragroom loaned a Laser 1. Sharon K also borrowed Dhekalia Sailing Club Regatta a Laser to use her own 4.7 rig on. Dave S and Brian G 20 – 22 June 14 PISC Summer Regatta took Merlot (Wayfarer) Lots of dinghies on show. Visitors with three boats from Dhekalia reciprocated our attendance at Dhekalia in May Pisc away team evening cocktail party in the woods Another swinging Regatta was enjoyed by all and we had 25 boats in the races. Paul. H-A officiated as the R.O. The original intention was to have a Laser fleet, a Wayfarer Fleet, a Kestrel Fleet and General Handicap Fleet. We achieved all but the Laser fleet so the Lasers moved into the General Hadicap fleet. Dhekalia SSC brought two Laser 2000’s and a RS200 which were all very competitive. Our usual strange weather patterns for regatta days gave us a Friday afternoon race in upper F4 wind. On Saturday it really blew F5 with harbour entrance very rough. The option to withdraw from the racing was taken seriously by our novice sailors which is good. There were some really big seas with 2 to 3 metre swells for the afternoon races. I sailed on my Laser and the Brian L sails off on Kestrel “Red Kite”. Jim PISC harbour entrance rollers almost took me out but for Beachmaster the fact I turned into a big “boiler” which was very white and very big. Once through it conditions at sea were a little better and I did complete the race. 3 Saturday 21st Regatta beach party Georgios for our normal Thursday sailing day. Six On the Saturday evening we had another great dinghies went around Managen island and back barbeque for. Over 100 members and friends around Yeronnisos Island to Agios Georgios finish organised by Jaqui and her team. line. We took more new members onto the water for their first taste of sailing and several have indicated Thanks to all the food preparation and organising that they wish to join us. Throughout the summer we members. We had four chefs on four barbeques have increased membership and more boats have working hard so over 100 members and guests were been ordered to be shipped out! well fed. A little dancing and some fine pole dancing was seen afterwards. The competitive sailors started to leave fairly early so that they could be well rested Boat Reviews – Tony and Brigitte’s for the Sunday racing. The regatta party was hugely popular and a lovely event. Thanks to Koula for her “Way 2 Go” loan of the café and alternate clubhouse! The Sunday was calmer and the sea had subsided again with lack of overnight wind. That’s the weather out here! The series races were very slow with some boats not reaching the windward mark by the time the lead boats had finished the Olympic course. Despite this we had enough sets of results for the Regatta Committte to work with. Dhekalia did collect quite a few trophies so they went away happy with their haul Summer unsheduled Sail First J/80 Regatta PISC were asked to assist Sail First who were holding Tony & Brigitte sailing “Way 2 Go” for the first time a regatta for visiting sailors on Thursday 3rd July by together.