Tidal Diamond 826

• Inter-Club Darts Tournament
• Reporting Accidents, Incidents and Near Misses
• VHF Courses
• 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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Reporting Accidents, Incidents and Near Misses

Just a reminder to please record all accidents, incidents and near misses in the ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS LOG BOOK, located in the Exec Noticeboard in the clubhouse entrance lobby. In addition, please let the Officer of the Day know if an accident or incident occurs at a club organised event. In the event of a major incident where serious injury occurred, or could have occurred, the Officer of the Day needs to notify the Commodore or their deputy as a matter of urgency.

The Exec will review all reported accidents, incidents and near misses to identify any lessons which can be learnt and any changes which are required to club policies or procedures.

The Commodore or designated club official will initiate and maintain any contact with other Agencies and parties such as the Harbour Authority, RYA, club insurers or police, in relation to any accidents or incidents as required.

Thanks for your help with this. Can I wish you a good season ahead.

Rob Waring
Vice Commodore
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VHF Courses

As part of our ongoing commitment to training, the Sailing Committee have arranged 2 RYA VHF courses / short range certificate. The courses will be run at the Club on the following dates, Sunday 06/02 and Sunday 27/02, the proposed time for the course will be from 08:00 to 19:00. The cost for the course will be £99 per person with an additional fee of £60 per person, which is an RYA Exam fee and will need to be paid prior to the course (I will send the link beforehand)

Course aims:

To provide clients with an understanding of radio rules and regulations and be competent and licensed to operate a marine SRC VHF DSC radio. A VHF SRC licence is a legal requirement for anyone who uses a ship’s VHF or portable VHF Radio. All new VHF Radio users need to obtain this certificate to operate their radios safely and legally.

Course content:

The VHF course covers the Global Maritime Distress & Safety System (GMDSS), marine VHF radio operations and voice procedures and the operation of VHF Digital Selective Calling (DSC). You will be taught how to use basic radio language and protocols and the correct use of various channels. Learn how to make calls to other radio users, emergency calls and send a distress alert.

Course pre-requisites:

No previous experience is required to enrol on the VHF course. However, you will be asked to learn your phonetic alphabet before the start of the course. NATO Phonetic Alphabet chart

Please note that the VHF Exam Fee is payable online to the RYA before the start of your course. You will receive details of how to do this in your booking confirmation.

If you are interested in completing the course please could you email your name and also a preference to which date you would like to attend, if you can only attend one of the dates please can you let me know which one in your email. We have a limit of 12 places per course so it will work on a first come first served basis. I look forward to hearing from you, my email address is andy.healey

To date we still have 3 places left on the 06/02 and 9 paces on the 27/02.

Andy Healey
Cruiser Racing
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Waiting for the Tide

A few items that may be of interest to member from the Solent Forum this week.

• Issue 51 of Solent News, the biannual newsletter with a round-up of what has been happening around the Solent and the latest national coastal news has just been published (the link is to a PDF copy).
• See Farlington Marshes senior reserve officer, Chris, talk about breeding wader numbers returning to historic levels and 9 avocet chicks fledging. https://twitter.com/i/status/1475187186916118534 (link to a Twitter post with a 1 minute video, but no need to have an account).
• Watch a diver film through the seagrass beds of Bembridge MCZ in clear and calm winter conditions with stalked jellyfish and scallops encountered. See: https://twitter.com/i/status/1482706917520592897 (again a link to a Twitter post with a short 15 second video, and no need to have an account).
• Access upcoming Blue Green webinars and listen to past ones at: Join Our Webinars – The Green Blue (there are some upcoming Sustainable Anchoring and Mooring webinars available).
• Read a new report that shares findings from part of the LIFE-funded Recreation ReMEDIES project, which focused on understanding the behaviours of recreational boaters in selected sites on the south coast of England. See: http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5864273489428480?category=10006.
• Read a blog on how the Environment Agency responds to pollution incidents, see: How the Environment Agency responds to pollution incidents – Defra in the media (blog.gov.uk).
• Rising temperatures are causing a “growing diversity” of Vibrio bacteria in the sea around the UK, new research shows. The study, led by the University of Exeter and also involving researchers from the University of Portsmouth, found two Vibrio species – Vibrio rotiferianus and Vibrio jasicida – that have never been recorded in UK waters before. See: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/new-bacteria-in-uk-waters-as-temperatures-rise.
• Bird Aware Solent are expanding their guided walks offer. They now have monthly walks going on in different locations around the Solent coast. See: Events Archive – Bird Aware Solent.

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

Dinghy, Sailing, Cruiser

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Regards,
Paul Tansom

Tidal Diamond Editor
Tudor Sailing Club

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Tidal Diamond 825

• Thanks to All Retiring Committee Members
• LHB Moorings Service Offer
• Members Awarded Medals
• Inter-Club Darts Tournament
• Waiting for the Tide
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Thanks to All Retiring Committee Members

At the AGM on Sunday, I must apologise for forgetting to thank all of the committee members who have retired from the Exec and the other committees, especially Colin Thorpe who has done a sterling job as my Rear Commodore for the last three years, two of which have been very difficult, and Denise Rogers who managed the Social Committee through a very challenging year.

Richard Gunn
Commodore
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LHB Moorings Service Offer

Some cruiser owners are thinking of clubbing together and employing Langstone Harbour Board to lift, inspect, refurbish and replace their moorings. If interested, please contact the Moorings Bosun.

John Dunn
Moorings Bosun
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Members Awarded Medals

It gives us great pleasure to share with you that two of our club members have been honoured for their services to the country. The medals awarded honour their achievements in the medical field and international development field respectively.

Maggie Hodge (Lieutenant Colonel Margaret-Ann Hodge, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps) has been honoured by The Military Division of the New Year Honours 2022 and has been awarded The Royal Red Cross medal by Her Majesty The Queen.

Nina Laurie (Professor Nina Laurie) has been awarded the BUSK medal from the Royal Geographical Society in 2020.

Here is some background on their impressive achievements and I’m sure you’ll all join us in extending our congratulations and thanking them for their continued service to our country.

Maggie Hodge RRC

The Royal Red Cross (RRC) was established on 23 April 1883 by Queen Victoria and first awarded to the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.

The award is made to a fully military nurse of an officially recognised nursing service, who has shown exceptional devotion and competence in the performance of nursing duties, over a continuous and long period, or who has performed an exceptional act of bravery and devotion at her or his post of duty.

Maggie has been a nurse in the British Army for 21 years joining from training in the NHS in the early 90’s. She has been deployed to Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan and South Sudan as well as other exercises and deployments for bespoke short Ops with specialist teams.

She says the work she has been most proud of has been working in a specialist nursing area (Critical Care) both in the UK and on Ops overseas. She built the first critical care in Camp Bastion in 2006, returned during a very busy time in 2010 and again in 2016 managing teams of multi-national nurses from the UK, US and Denmark. She deployed to South Sudan in 2018 as the Senior Nursing Officer to run a small hospital for the United Nations in Bentui in the north of the country. At the start of the Covid 19 pandemic she was deployed to the London Nightingale as a mentor / facilitator in the organisation of the clinical equipment needed to open a large-scale hospital in a non-standard hospital location, her deployed experience giving her a unique perspective.

Nina Laurie

The BUSK medal is awarded for conservation research or for fieldwork abroad in geography or in a geographical aspect of an allied science.

Nina’s award recognises her work as an exceptional geographer and is in recognition for her field-based research in the Global South. Nina’s work brings together interconnected concerns about social inclusion, international development and environmental sustainability. This has involved innovative field research in South America and South Asia on indigeneity and development, human trafficking and international volunteering. Nina’s detailed fieldwork has yielded important insights into local experiences, but she is always mindful of how these local experiences are shaped by and affect relationships at different scales (such as international volunteering organisations or trafficking networks). Her research is fundamentally collaborative and inclusive, involving early career researchers and students, local academics, community organisations, non-governmental organisations and, where appropriate, government and multilateral institutions. Nina’s work has been an inspiration for many and continues to shape geographical debates within academia and beyond.

Nina started her career working in Peru in the mid 1980s focusing on women’s social movements during the Peruvian Civil war. Her interest in how women organise during times of crisis led to collaborative work in Nepal with returnee trafficked women and with groups working on indigenous rights in Bolivia and Ecuador. She is now working back in Peru on how rural livelihoods can be sustainable in the context of climate change in Amazonia and the desert of northern coastal Peru.

Richard Gunn – Commodore and Jane Dare – Rowing Captain

Inter-Club Darts Tournament

The inter-club darts tournament will be starting in January 2022 and Tudor Sailing Club will be hosting the first round.

Please come along to support your team, the bar will be open and there will be a free buffet.

Dates are as follows:

• TSC Friday 28th January
• Mengeham Friday 25th Feb
• Langstone Friday 25th March

This is a great opportunity to meet up with members from other clubs as well as our own so come along for a fun night of 180’s!

Denise Rogers
Social Secretary
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Waiting for the Tide

With the success of my comments last week, and the content this week, I think I am just going to leave it with…

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
tidal_diamonds

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
tidal_diamonds

Diary Dates

Dinghy, Sailing, Cruiser

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All contributions for Tidal Diamonds to me by 1400hrs on Tuesdays please; please allow plenty of time for emails to reach me. However exceptions will always be made for emergencies. Note: all content is automatically published on the Tudor website unless requested otherwise.

Regards,
Paul Tansom

Tidal Diamond Editor
Tudor Sailing Club

If you do not wish to receive such emails please contact Tudor Sailing Club at Tsclangstone or reply to this email.