Tidal Diamond 966

• Compound Work Parties
• Cruiser Recovery
• Cruiser Dates 2025
• Southsea Rowing Club
• Vacancies
• Nominations Meeting
• Ebb & Flow
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Compound Work Parties

Please let me know if you can help with any of the following. In particular, do come along on Thursday evening, 5pm, to help move dinghies around.

Thursday 26th September, 5 – 7pm – clear the north end of the compound of boats. Cut back weeds.

Friday 27th afternoon, Saturday 28th, Sunday 29th – use excavator and dumper to spread 80 tonnes of Type 1 aggregate.

Week of 30th September – finish off levelling the surface.

Sunday 6th September 10am – Dinghy reorganisation and garage tidy.

Cruiser Recovery

• Recovery Briefing – Wednesday 9th Oct, 20:00

• Recovery – Saturday 12th Oct, 06:00
• Recovery – Sunday 13th Oct, time confirmed at end of Saturday.

This is weekend is only able to take place by all cruiser owners helping each other in the many tasks that need doing. As such, all cruiser owners are expected to be on site to help for the duration of cruiser recovery.

Please let Jane or me know if you are able to help in the bar or galley.

Cruiser Dates 2025

• Cruiser Relaunch – 5/6 April 2025
• Cruiser Recovery – 18/19 Oct 2025

Southsea Rowing Club

The Exec have provisionally agreed with Southsea Rowing Club that they can use our slipway while the sea-defence works are in process along the Southsea Seafront. This requires a byelaw change to allow us to grant them Group Members. Please take a look at the email that has been sent out and let me know if you have any comments.

Vacancies

We have the following vacancies – please contact me for more information

• Bar Manager – no applicants so far. The bar cannot open without a bar manager.
• WebCollect Administrator – working with the Membership Secretary to keep our records up to date; manage renewals and subscriptions.

Nominations Meeting

Yes, it’s getting to that time of year again!

The Nominations Meeting is at 14:00, Sunday 3rd November. This is a short meeting at which we take nominations for our flag officers and Committee posts, and accept proposals for any Constitution changes.

Please consider if you would like to join and of the committees or stand for one of the officer roles. I will give more information in due course as to which committee posts we particularly need to fill.

Colin Thorpe
Commodore
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Ebb & Flow

A busy Tidal Diamond this week so I shall simply round off with a quick link to Sofa to Sailboat. As a past Leisure 17 owner it was nice to have a chat with them at the Boat Show and see the work they have done on their Leisure 17. The plan is to cross 3000 miles of the Atlantic and raise money for four charities, leaving in December. You can read more at https://www.sofatosailboat.co.uk/.

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 always most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Useful Links

• WebCollect: dinghies for more details.

Tidal Diamond 965

• Social Events
• End of Season Cruiser Get Together
• Women on Water End of Season Social
• New WhatsApp Group
• Bar Manager
• Ebb & Flow
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Social Events

Friday 4th October – Live Music from The Beat Collective

Time to swing your pants!

Join us for live music from *The Beat Collective* for a set of melodic rock and pop covers spanning a period of over forty years.

From 7.30pm.

Band starts at 8pm

Ticket includes a hot dog!

Tickets must be booked on Web Collect

Family and friends are welcome

https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/band-ticket-and-hot-dog

Friday 18th October – Knotty Night

Come along and bring some old bits of rope for learning and practicing all the knots you’ll ever need. We’ve lined up 8 knotty masters (thank you) but could always use more. If you’ve already had a chat with Jane, please consider yourself ‘booked’ as a knot master and please pop Jane a message if you want to be part of the knotastic team and haven’t ‘volunteered’ yet.

Booking is available now on web collect with a choice of delicious pie from local kitchen MadK. Friends and Family welcome.

https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/knotty-night-and-pie

Friday 1st November – Presentation & Celebration evening

Join us for chilli, chat, and a chance to chat about the memories we’ve made on the water this year. Save the date as it’s not on web collect just yet. As always, amongst the more ‘serious’ presentations we’ll be awarding the Flounder Trophy and the Should’ve Gone To Specsavers Trophy. Nominations of your fellow members to Hannah B are appreciated.

Inga Lambert
Social Secretary
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End of Season Cruiser Get Together

Join us this Friday, September 20th, at the club for an evening to celebrate the highlights of the 2024 cruising season as it draws to a close.

This gathering is a wonderful opportunity for both seasoned cruiser sailors and newcomers to share stories, exchange tips, and offer suggestions. Everyone is welcome, and we look forward to a fun evening of camaraderie and conversation.

Let’s remember, the season isn’t over just yet:

Sunday, 29th September, brings an exciting chance to participate in the Nab Tower Trophy race, a great sail out to the Nab Tower and back.

Additionally, I’m planning a final cruise starting on Wednesday, October 2nd, for a few days. If you’d like to join or meet up along the way, feel free to let me know!

Lastly, we’re gauging interest in a meet-up at the Folly Inn on the Isle of Wight on Saturday, October 5th. Let’s see who’s up for a last hurrah!

Hope to see you there!

Thanks

Brian Kinsley
Cruiser Captain
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Women on Water End of Season Social

We are holding an end of season get together at the Club on Thursday 3rd October at 6.30pm.

All women are welcome; kayakers, rowers, dinghy and cruiser sailors, paddle boarders, or those women who love to watch the water from the club garden and get out less often.

It will be an opportunity to get together on dry land and celebrate some fantastic times over the last year or memories – maybe fun, hair-raising or personal or team achievements.

The theme will be a TexMex one, meat or veggie/vegan chilli alongside rice, tortillas, sour cream, guacamole and salsa.

Please can you book on WebCollect by midnight on Tuesday 1st October for catering purposes.

https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/wow-end-of-season-share-memories-with-food

We look forward to seeing you.

Terri Johnson
Kayak Captain
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Hannah Barnes
Dinghy Captain
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New WhatsApp Group for Club Announcements and Advertising Events

The new group is now live and ready to join. If you haven’t already joined please do as going forward this new group will be where the flag officers, our social committee, & class captains post important notices and information about events of interest to all members. If you don’t join you’ll miss important information as we plan to not spam everything out across all WhatsApp groups now. (Naturally information will still be put in emails, TD and on our members lounge as appropriate)

https://chat.whatsapp.com/IAnAth3MTm227ZNYo2FRRA

Thanks

Jane Dare
Rear Commodore
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Bar Manager

We need to appoint a new Bar Manager from amongst our membership. The main tasks are keeping the bar stocked, training new bar volunteers, ensuring that duties are covered, and generally ensuring that the bar operates smoothly. There is a small team that helps with this. It also comes with a seat on the Executive Committee, and covers all duty hours.

Please let me know if you are interested – the bar won’t be able to operate unless we can fill this role.

Colin Thorpe
Commodore
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Ebb & Flow

To round off this week a link to an article from the Solent Protection Society on the ‘Solent CO2 Pipeline’ consultation that may be of interest: https://solentprotection.org/2024/09/02/exxonmobil-pipeline-a-deeper-look/

Next, a quick note of the cruiser dates for next year:

• Cruiser Relaunch – 5/6 April 2025
• Cruiser Recovery – 18/19 Oct 2025

..and finally, if anyone is wanting to go to the Southampton Boatshow and needs a ticket, I have a spare half price one – just drop me an email.

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 always most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Useful Links

• WebCollect: https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc
• Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Tudorsailing
• Facebook Members Lounge: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1380997942212963/
• Useful Documents: https://www.tudorsailing.org.uk/TudorSailing/?r=/05_sailing/documents/body.php
• Know the Ropes (PDF): https://www.tudorsailing.org.uk/TudorSailing/05_sailing/documents/upload/Know%20the%20Ropes%20New%20Edition%20May%202023.pdf
• 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
• KHM Portsmouth LNtM: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/khm/portsmouth/local-notices
• National Coast Watch (Gosport): https://www.nci.org.uk/gosport
• NCI Gosport blog: https://ncigosport.blogspot.com/
• Langstone Weather & Tides: https://www.langstoneharbour.org.uk/weather-forecast
• 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

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.

Tidal Diamond 964

• Commodore’s Update
• New WhatsApp group
• Social Update
  
• Sailing Update
• Photos Needed for the Website
• 75th Anniversary Regatta
• Ebb & Flow
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Commodore’s Update

75th Regatta

A massive thank you to everybody who supported the Regatta weekend – whether helping with the mostly successful (shame about Saturday’s wind!) racing and on-the-water fun, helping feed and water people in the clubhouse, making cakes for the Bake-Off, or simply turning up and enjoying the event. It was a fitting way to celebrate our 75th Anniversary, probably summed up by a member who popped in with his kids at 2pm on Saturday and was just about leaving gone 9pm!

Congratulations to those who won, both on and off the water.

Also well done to our rowing crews who successfully defended 2 out of 3 trophies at open meetings on Saturday.

Cruiser Recovery and dates for next year

Cruiser Recovery Weekend is 12th / 13th October. All cruiser owners are expected to attend. We will be recovering some of the larger boats outside of this weekend in order to prevent the tractor being submerged; we’ll communicate with these owners in due course.

• Relaunch will be 5th /6th April 2025
• Recovery will be 18th/19th October 2025

We will be doing Phase 2 of compound improvements in the fortnight prior to recovery.

Moorings Refurbishment

Plans are progressing with Langstone Harbour Board to relay a proportion of our moorings to make them fit for the future. We will communicate more details in the next couple of weeks. If you would specifically like your block brought ashore to refurbish (particularly those which are buried or in deep water), please let John, Moorings Bosun, know asap. moorings

Southsea Rowing Club

Plans are also progressing to accommodate Southsea Rowing Club while their clubhouse is out of action during coastal defence work. They plan to store their boats at Andrew Simpson and use our slipway for launching.

Bar Manager

Maggie is standing down as Bar Manager after 2 years’ excellent work. Thank you Maggie!! If you are interested in taking on this role, please let me know. The main tasks are keeping the bar stocked, training new bar volunteers, ensuring that duties are covered, and generally ensuring that the bar operates smoothly. There is a small team that helps with this. It also comes with a seat on the Executive Committee.

Colin Thorpe
Commodore
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New WhatsApp group for club announcements and advertising events

The new group is now live and ready to join. Going forward this new group will be where the flag officers, our social committee, & class captains post important notices and information about events of interest to all members. Please join so you don’t miss anything important. It will now be easier to scroll back to find links to book events and check start times etc. (Naturally information will still be put in TD and on our members lounge as appropriate).

There will be a crossover period of a week or so where info will be posted in all the main WhatsApp groups to avoid confusion or loss of info while people join. New members will be automatically added when they join the club.

https://chat.whatsapp.com/IAnAth3MTm227ZNYo2FRRA

Thanks,

Jane Dare
Rear Commodore
rearcommodore

Social Update

Friday 4th October – Live Music from The Beat Collective

Join us for live music from *The Beat Collective* for a set of melodic rock and pop covers spanning a period of over forty years.

• From 7.30pm.
• Band starts at 8pm
• Ticket includes a hot dog!

Tickets must be booked on Web Collect

Family and friends are welcome

https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/band-ticket-and-hot-dog

Friday 18th October – Knotty Night

Come along and bring some old bits of rope for learning and practicing all the knots you’ll ever need. We’ve lined up 8 knotty masters (thank you) but could always use more. If you’ve already had a chat with Jane, please consider yourself ‘booked’ as a knot master and please pop Jane a message if you want to be part of the knotastic team and haven’t ‘volunteered’ yet.

Booking is available now on web collect with a choice of delicious pie from local kitchen MadK. Friends and Family welcome.

https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/knotty-night-and-pie

Finally. .. thank you! To everyone who answered the appeal for more help for the Regatta weekend. To everyone that helped in the bar and galley, shopped, cooked, served, washed up, the list goes on. Thank you, you are the BEST.

Inga Lambert
Social Secretary
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Photos Needed for the Website

If you have photos from the last few year then please add them to the TSC Flickr group and tag them and then they will appear on the TSC gallery pages.

To make photos appear on the Tudor photos pages please follow the following steps:

• Create a free account on Flickr if you don’t already have one.
• Ask to join the Tudor Sailing Club group on flickr.
• Upload your pictures to flickr ensuring you add them to the group. Ideally giving them a name which describes them including the event and date.
• Tag the photos in Flickr following the scheme outlined below:

Mandatory Tags: ‘TudorSC’:

• Year Tag: ‘2024’ etc.
• Activity Tags: ‘dinghy’, ‘cruiser’, ‘rowing’, ‘wow’, ‘kayaking’, ‘cadets’, ‘social’

Optional Event Tags:

• These tags are listed on the photos page (e.g. ‘regatta’, ‘outofharbour’, ‘nab_tower’, ‘gig’)

Hannah Barnes
Dinghy Captain
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Sailing Update

Sunset Race 8

The final sunset race of the season is this Friday, 13th September starting at 7pm. It will involve sailing in low light / darkness so competitors will be provided with glow sticks to attach to buoyancy aid shoulders and also some to attach to the boat (you may also bring your own illumination). Sailors should also ideally carry a compass, a fully charged accessible mobile phone or VHF, a whistle and a head torch. Attached are the light sequences for the harbour marks. If Russells is used it will have glow sticks attached for illumination. The dredger is currently not scheduled to move as is having planned maintenance. We do currently need a Race Officer for this so please volunteer if you can.

Barts Bash

We will be running the Barts Bash race again this year in collaboration with ASWC next door. A donation for entry should be made at the centre on the day. It is a LW race so will be a simple course not venturing far from the club. It is perfect for novices to have a go at racing. As part of this sailing participation and fundraising event, there will be lots of activities taking place throughout the day at the ASWC including taster sessions, helmed boat spaces, gourmet burgers, raffle and visits from our partners here in Portsmouth. All funds raised from the day will be donated to the Andrew Simpson Foundation to help transform lives through sailing.

All participants need to register online by following this link: https://www.bartsbash.com/sign-up/individual, and choose Andrew Simpson Centre – Portsmouth as your venue!

If anyone is able to assist me as Race Officer then please drop me a line as it can get a bit hectic!

Hannah Barnes
Dinghy Captain
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75th Anniversary Regatta

What a fantastic weekend at TSC! Club was buzzing with lots of members both days and Paul seemed to be having a great time dancing to the Shanty Band. Big thank you to everyone who volunteered, sailed, paddled, rowed or took part in any other way. Photos will appear over the next few days on the website.

If anyone has any feedback (positive or constructive) then please let me know as we will be having a wash up meeting next week.

For those that completed the quiz, the answers are attached. Joint winners were Neil Boyce and Bill / Wendy Jones each with 9 out of 10.

Hannah Barnes
Dinghy Captain
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Ebb & Flow

With a busy Tidal Diamond this week, and a busy weekend, I shall simply sign off with the usual…

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 always most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
tidal_diamonds

Useful Links

• WebCollect: dinghies for more details.

Tidal Diamond 963

• Tudor Regatta
• WhatsApp
• Ebb & Flow
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Tudor Regatta

Sailing Instructions for the Regatta this weekend are available on the club website in the useful documents section. Link below to access:

Tudor Sailing Club – Langstone Harbour

In addition to our normal Regatta events, we have:

Saturday

• Games on the Water – 2:30pm, these will be in kayaks and tenders, perfect for cadets to get involved.
• Anniversary Parade of Boats – 4pm we need as many boats on the water in all shapes and sizes, if you can’t decorate your boat then why not put on a fancy hat or sparkly top?
• Kayak Races – 4.30pm
• History of TSC Quiz – collect the questions and pop your answers in the box and the winner will be announced on Sunday.
• Cream Teas – from 3pm
• Bake-Off – 4:45pm
• Shanties, Hot Food and Disco from 5pm

Sunday

• Tug of War – 2pm
• Friendly Gig Racing – come and have a go from 3:30pm
• History of TSC Quiz – collect the questions and pop your answers in the box and the winner will be announced at the prize giving.
• Cream Teas
• BBQ & Bar – all afternoon

Booking for Saturday evening food is essential, booking closes Friday lunchtime. – Tudor Sailing Club: Regatta Saturday 7th September (webcollect.org.uk)

Advanced booking for Cream Teas is advised to ensure you get one.

BBQ can be pre-booked or turn up on the day.

Tudor Sailing Club: Regatta Sunday 8th September (webcollect.org.uk)

Hannah Barnes
Dinghy Captain
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WhatsApp – Club Announcements and Social Events Advertising

One of the quick wins coming from the club development survey you recently completed is that members would like a club WhatsApp group just for announcements, important information and social advertising.

The key point being requested is you would like Admins Only to have access to post. Every other member will be read only.

The Objective being to provide a place to quickly receive and retrieve key information and important stuff so it doesn’t get lost in the general stream of the individual groups. Plus the ability to scroll back easily to locate information. It will, hopefully, resolve recent feedback from members that they have missed key information.

To that end at some point early next week a link will be sent to every WhatsApp group so people can add themselves to the new Announcements group. I will also display the QR code on the social committee notice board and advertise via email and here in Tidal Diamond.

This new group complements existing communication avenues: TD, the members lounge, email communications and means important info and Ads won’t need to be repeated or get lost across numerous busy groups. A crossover communication period will ensure everyone has plenty of notice. I won’t do it this week to avoid confusion / lost information ahead of the Regatta.

This new group will not replace class captains posting announcements in their section relevant to their section, but it will enable them to reach everyone with events or information that is of interest club wide.

If you have any questions please let me know and look out for the link to the new group early next week.

Jane Dare
Rear Commodore
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Ebb & Flow

I have attached a copy of the flyer for the Langstone Harbour Board Advisory Committee Open Forum. It isn’t exactly the snappiest title, but we have talks on Seaweed Aquaculture, Project Portunus, 3 Harbours Partnership & Wetland Works, and Helping Share Our Shores with Wildlife. It will take place at ECA on Tuesday 8th October from 7 to 9pm. Please see the flyer for details of how to let us know you are coming so we can get an idea of numbers.

A couple of items that came up at last weeks LHB Advisory Committee meeting that may be of interest:

• Bird Aware Solent have an interactive map to aid enjoying watersports without disturbig wildlife. For details visit: https://birdaware.org/solent/the-solent/watersports-with-wildlife/
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust have a Solent Boating Survey to help understand attitudes to anchoring and mooring in seagrass meadows. To find out more and complete it visit: https://www.hiwwt.org.uk/solent-boating-survey

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 always most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Useful Links

• WebCollect: https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc
• Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Tudorsailing
• Facebook Members Lounge: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1380997942212963/
• Useful Documents: https://www.tudorsailing.org.uk/TudorSailing/?r=/05_sailing/documents/body.php
• Know the Ropes (PDF): https://www.tudorsailing.org.uk/TudorSailing/05_sailing/documents/upload/Know%20the%20Ropes%20New%20Edition%20May%202023.pdf
• 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
• KHM Portsmouth LNtM: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/khm/portsmouth/local-notices
• National Coast Watch (Gosport): https://www.nci.org.uk/gosport
• NCI Gosport blog: https://ncigosport.blogspot.com/
• Langstone Weather & Tides: https://www.langstoneharbour.org.uk/weather-forecast
• 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

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.

Tidal Diamond 962

• Photos for the 75th Anniversary Regatta
• Bar and Galley Shifts
• Great Tudor Bake Off is Back!
• Ebb & Flow
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Photos for the 75th Anniversary Regatta

Let’s fill the club house with our memories ready for our Regatta.
It doesn’t have to be you on the water, let’s celebrate you and your families. Even if you’re a newish member let’s see you in yester-year. Photos can be scanned and will be cared for. Please contact me if you can contribute.

Colin Thorpe
Commodore
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Bar and Galley Shifts

The Bar and Galley shifts for the Regatta weekend are available on duty man and have been created in manageable chunks so everyone can enjoy the weekends events.

Training can be arranged for the event if you want to help. No help turned down. The more we have doing a small bit the more everyone enjoys the weekend.

As always, THANK YOU.

Maggie Hodge
Bar Manager
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…and…

Inga Lambert
Social Secretary
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Great Tudor Bake Off is Back!

As part of our 7th Anniversary celebrations the Great Tudor Bake Off is returning.

Bake any cake / cupcakes / brownies with a nautical theme. Be as inventive as you like with your icing and decorations. Your bakes will be judged on taste and presentation. Entries will be judged on the afternoon of the regatta. Cakes will be put out on Saturday evening and Sunday Prizegiving for everyone to eat.

Cakes should ideally serve 6 or more, a list of ingredients of each entry will be required for allergen purposes

Hannah Barnes
Dinghy Captain
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Ebb & Flow

In case you hadn’t noticed we have our 75th Anniversary Regatta coming up, do come along and join in the fun; help out with the bar and galley if you can (see above).

I will add a quick reminder of the 75th Anniversary Memento coaster which you can order until the end of the month, so only a few days left to order on WebCollect: Tudor Sailing Club: 75th Anniversary Coaster. (webcollect.org.uk)

The weekend after our regatta is Bart’s Bash. Andrew Simpsons, next door to us, is organising things. See the attached poster for more details.

To make sure I finish on the regatta I will note that I have left the Great Tudor Bakeoff details in from last week as a reminder, and give another plug for photos. I am going to have to dig through my old pre-digital photos to see what I can find – 56 years worth, most in boxes is going to be a challenge! Frustratingly I am pre-booked on a 26 mile ‘Mighty Hike’ for Macmillan. If my legs still work I may make it for Sunday!

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 always most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
tidal_diamonds

Useful Links

• WebCollect: dinghies for more details.

Tidal Diamond 961

• High Water Cruise
• 75th Anniversary Regatta
• Great Tudor Bake Off is Back!
• Regatta 2024
• 75th Anniversary Memento
• Club SUPs
• Ebb & Flow
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

High Water Cruise Saturday 24th

This Saturday is a high water cruise, staying within the harbour, with safety boat cover. It’s a cruise not a race, so boats should stay close together.

We will start off with a briefing at 1400 by the race box steps. Please have your dinghy mostly rigged and ready and be changed by then. We will confirm the route and if we are stopping off anywhere on Hayling. We may be stopping off somewhere where you could buy a drink or ice cream but this isn’t guaranteed. The route and destination will partly depend on the weather, particularly wind strength and direction. Please bring suitable clothing, sunglasses, suncream, water and snacks etc.

If you have space in your dinghy for another person please let me know or post it on the dinghy / new members WhatsApp. Conversely if you would like to be crew for someone, also let me know or post it on the group.

If you would like to take out a club boat but haven’t been shown how to rig it yet, let us know and Mark can show you beforehand.

We still need a patrol boat helm for this event, please volunteer on duty man.

Mark and Nicola
Cruise leaders
Wanderer 5178

75th Anniversary Regatta

The weekend of 7th and 8th September is our 75th Anniversary Regatta. We have lots going on all weekend, including a Sail-Past on Saturday afternoon, racing (all sections), family fun, shanties, disco, bake-off, cream teas and pulled pork. Please watch out on our socials for details and put the date in your diary!

It would be great to gather any old photos of the club to show at the weekend – please let me know if you have any.

Colin Thorpe
Commodore
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Great Tudor Bake Off is Back!

As part of our 7th Anniversary celebrations the Great Tudor Bake Off is returning.

Bake any cake / cupcakes / brownies with a nautical theme. Be as inventive as you like with your icing and decorations. Your bakes will be judged on taste and presentation. Entries will be judged on the afternoon of the regatta. Cakes will be put out on Saturday evening and Sunday Prizegiving for everyone to eat.

Cakes should ideally serve 6 or more, a list of ingredients of each entry will be required for allergen purposes

Hannah Barnes
Dinghy Captain
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Regatta 2024

Provisional Schedule for the forthcoming regatta is below, all racing will be from the club line with the dinghies and rowers using short courses that can be seen most of the time from the club garden.

Tickets for the BBQ, Afternoon Tea and Saturday evening are all available on WebCollect. Tudor Sailing Club: Social Events (webcollect.org.uk) If you want to come on saturday evening but don’t want food then please book a free ticket so that we know rough numbers.

Saturday 7th

• 1.30pm Cruiser Racing
• 2.00pm Dinghy Racing
• 2.30pm Games on the Water
• 4.00pm Parade of Boats
• 4.30pm Kayak Races (TBC)
• 4.45pm Bake Off Judging
• 5.00pm Shanty Singers
• 5.45pm Prizegiving
• 5.00pm onwards
• Evening Food & Entertainment

Sunday 8th

• 2.00pm Tug of War
• 2.10pm Cruiser Racing
• 2.40pm Dinghy Racing
• 3.30pm Rowing Racing
• 1.00pm onwards
• BBQ & Bar
• 5.15pm Prizegiving

Hannah Barnes
Dinghy Captain
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75th Anniversary Memento

If anyone would like to order a special anniversary stone coaster then the first order will be going in at the end of the month. A further order may go ahead if there are sufficient numbers.

The details are as follows, picture attached to this TD.

• Sandstone coaster with cork backing
• Heat resistant
• Wipe clean with damp cloth and mild soap
• Customised with Tudor 75th anniversary design
• Measures width 4.25″ (10.8cm); depth 1/4″ (0.7cm)
• £7.50 each inc vat.

Order on WebCollect

Tudor Sailing Club: 75th Anniversary Coaster. (webcollect.org.uk)

Hannah Barnes
Dinghy Captain
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Club SUPs

I’m pleased to advise that our new club SUPs are now available for booking and use.

They will be charged at £3.50 per SUP for two hours usage.

As with all our club vessels please remember to book and then pay for your session.

Booking here…

https://www.tudorsailing.org.uk/TudorSailing/?r=/05_sailing/club_boats/body.php

And then pay for your session here…

https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/club-boat-hire-single-session-ticket-2024

The SUPs are included if you have a kayak season ticket or an all boat season ticket.

Please ensure before you go out on club SUPs that you have read and understood the safety protocols available in the Kayak and SUP section on useful documents.

https://www.tudorsailing.org.uk/TudorSailing/?r=/05_sailing/documents/body.php

A video guide to usage will be available on our YouTube channel. It may not be available immediately so please keep checking back.

https://youtu.be/ZA4yfr_WBO8?si=trqRV3ee2zVlB3R5

Thank you to everyone involved in this initiative.

Colin Thorpe
Commodore
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Ebb & Flow

We have had correspondence through from The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation who are hosting The Morning Cloud Sailing Talks 2024 in Salisbury on 25th October. There are talks from Timothy Long (In 2020, at the age of 15, Timothy Long sailed solo around Britain, at the time the youngest person to do so.) and Peter Forbes (Peter is the proud owner of an Amel 54 cutter rigged ketch sailing yacht.). For more details about the speakers and costs see the attached PDF that I have created from the email.

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 always most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Useful Links

• WebCollect: dinghies for more details.