Tidal Diamond 827

• Inter-Club Darts Tournament
• Waiting for the Tide
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Inter-Club Darts Tournament

We are pleased to confirm that the darts tournament will be going ahead on Friday 28th January and TSC will be the first to host so please come along and support your team!

The bar will be open from 7pm, the tournament starts at 7:30pm with a free buffet in the interval.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Denise Rogers
Social Secretary
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Waiting for the Tide

It’s that time of year when news (sailing wise at least) we are stuck in the doldrums, so a few items that may be of interest from the Sustainable Anchoring and Mooring webinar I attended earlier (there are more coming up, with two Solent based on The Green Blue website).

• There’s a guide to anchoring and mooring available from the Green Blue website (along with some others) available at: https://thegreenblue.org.uk/resources/boat-user-resources/green-guides-to-boating/.
• You can find out more about Life Recreateion ReMEDIES and seabed habitat at: https://saveourseabed.co.uk/.
• There’s a short video on restoring seagrass beds in Plymouth Sound on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/7dDQdJtJIuM.
• If you are interested in getting involved in volunteering to help pack seagrass seed bags visit https://saveourseabed.co.uk/event/volunteer-seagrass-seed-bag-packing/. There are some sessions in Portsmouth on 16th and 17th March.

I’m old enough to remember quite significant seagrass areas on either side of the Tudor moorings. They were a great indicator that it may be time to go ashore before you ran out of water! Although the new Advance Mooring Systems aren’t particularly helpful for drying moorings like ours (the purpose is to keep the chain off the bed, and if a boat is settling anyway that won’t help!), there was another element of these moorings that caught my attention. They use helical screws driven deep into the sea bed that give you a clear and measurable strength of hold, and with the elastic rode in particular, the swing area is reduced alowing a higher density of moorings. Something to watch for the future.

As ever, feel free to drop me an email at this address, it is always nice to hear from members. Any ideas of things to include in the Tidal Diamonds would be most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Useful Links

I thought it worth continuing to include a few useful links here as a handy place to find them if you haven’t already got them bookmarked:

• Webcollect: https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc
• SailEvent race entries: https://sailevent.net/enter/TUDOR
• Opportunities for sailing and social related maintenance hours can be found at:
  • Dutyman for sailing related duties: https://dutyman.biz/dmmain.aspx?id=T0001338
  • Dutyman for bar and galley duties: https://dutyman.biz/dmmain.aspx?id=T0001746
• Langstone LNtM: https://www.langstoneharbour.org.uk/local-notices-to-mariners
• Chichester LNtM: https://www.conservancy.co.uk/page/notices
• QHM Portsmouth LNtM: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/qhm/portsmouth/local-notices

• Government information on Coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
• NHS information on Coronavirus: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
• RYA information on Coronovirus: https://www.rya.org.uk/knowledge-advice/current-affairs/Pages/coronavirus-covid-19.aspx
• Portsmouth Tide Times: https://www.ntslf.org/tides/tidepred?port=Portsmouth
• Southern Water Beachbouy: https://www.southernwater.co.uk/water-for-life/our-bathing-waters/beachbuoy

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Diary Dates

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Paul Tansom

Tidal Diamond Editor
Tudor Sailing Club

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