Tidal Diamond 910
- Commodore’s Update
- Tudor Regatta 2nd & 3rd September
- Barts Bash 16th September
- Women on the Water have an Eventful Evening
- Swanwick, Bursledon and Warsash Regatta
- It’s a Bug Life
- Ebb & Flow
- Useful Links
- Diary Dates
Commodore’s Update
I’m pleased to let you know that the Exec have appointed Richard Bryant to be our new treasurer from 1st November. Richard has many years of experience working in financial management, and we look forward to welcoming him to the team.
You will have hopefully seen the proposed byelaw changes last week. Please do take time to have a look at these and feedback any comments for us to consider. The byelaws set out how the club operates and are important in helping to keep everything running smoothly.
It’s been excellent seeing the club so busy over the summer, despite the weather doing its best to put us off. The Tudor Challenge was a huge success, with over a hundred rowers on the water. Women on the Water has been going from strength to strength, Cadets is now firmly re-establishing itself thanks to Dani’s hard work, regular kayak session are up and running, and cruisers and dinghies have been active as ever, regularly welcoming people from other sections to have a go.
Do come along to the regatta next weekend, even if just to enjoy the bar and barbeque. Barts Bash is also coming up on 16th September, giving you and your family a chance to have a go at a new watersport with our neighbours at the Andrew Simpson centre.
Colin Thorpe
Commodore
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Tudor Regatta 2nd & 3rd September
Activities for everyone!
Please come along and support our wonderful club.
Saturday 2nd September
Kayak Games , Dinghy & Cruiser Racing (dinghy racing visible from club), BBQ and Bar, Rowing Races & Fun on the Water, Help Build a Bug Hotel, Paint a Poppy
Sunday 3rd September
Dinghy & Cruiser Racing (dinghy racing visible from club) , BBQ and Bar , Regatta Prizegiving
Regatta Sailing Instructions
Please find attached the Sailing instructions for this weekends regatta. Any questions then please drop me a line
Hannah Barnes
Dinghy Captain
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Barts Bash 16th September
On Saturday 16th September there is Bart’s Bash race with a starting time of 1pm. This year will be the tenth year that Bart’s Bash race has taken place. As per previous years, we have invited ASWC next door to take part in our race. The race will be multiple laps of a short course starting at the club line. There will be a briefing at 12:30 on the club house lawn which will go over the race course and answer any questions you may have about racing. This event is a charity race in the aid of The Andrew Simpson Foundation. The race is not taken too seriously and it is there to encourage people to get out on the water dinghy sailing with patrol boat cover. Even if you sail a slow boat please do think about taking part.
ASWC next door will also be running taster sessions during the day as well as having food available from the cookhouse streetfood. So please do consider popping next door and supporting them by buying some lunch.
To celebrate the 10th year of the Barts bash there is branded clothing available at https://andrewsimpsoncentres.org/shop/
If you have any questions before the event, then please do get in contact.
Mark Swallow
Sailing Secretary
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Women on the Water have an Eventful Evening
This season we have been lucky at WoW to have opportunities for the ladies to try cruiser sailing onboard Grace and also Aquila.
On Thursday 24th we had both Aquila and Grace out sailing with all lady crews many of which had never sailed before. The ladies aboard Aquila were Julie, Yvonne, Nina, and Karen. On board Grace were Linda, Penny, Debbie, Joanna, and myself.
The ladies boarded Grace and whilst Linda prepared the boat to slip the visitor mooring she gave a run down of the various controls and names for boat bits. We left the mooring an motored for a short time whilst hoisting the main sail and unfurling the genoa. We then had a lovely gentle sail down the harbour tacking all the way as the wind was against us. We sailed to south of East Milton and then decided to gybe round and run back up harbour to meet up with Aquila and let the ladies have a go on the helm. All was well, the gybe went smoothly and we started heading north. It was at this point that the wind decided to drop and leave us at the mercy of the outgoing tide. No worries, we can motor towards East Milton and get into the moorings and out of the tide. Linda fired up the engine and immediately it was apparent that the engine was not running as it should, we headed towards an empty mooring in the hope that the engine would keep going and we could get out of the tide. That was wishful thinking, the engine gave up about 10 feet from the buoy still with no wind to propel us forwards. Linda went down below and tinkered with the engine and after a while got it going again long enough for us to get to the mooring, it was a one chance pick up and I was glad that the boat didn’t play any tricks on me as I was on the helm with Linda on the bow. Get it wrong and we would have had to throw the anchor over to stop us drifting south. Several calls later and a rescue mission was on with the ladies on Aquila preparing to come and rescue us and take us back to the mooring using an alongside tow. We also had the lovely Ross from AWSC on standby at the centre with RIB to come and get us if needed. Linda being the wonder-woman that she is went down below and bled the engine fuel system and after letting the engine run for 5 minutes the previous problem seemed to have gone away and the engine was running smoothly. We decided to make a run for it and left the mooring and motored back up the harbour taking as short as possible route and staying out the tide, the ladies got to have a go at steering the boat whilst learning to watch the depth and avoid the obstacles. The crew on Aquila were most disappointed that they didn’t need to be international rescue as they had planned and got themselves ready to assist (which we were very grateful for). We gently arrived back at the visitor mooring and Linda rowed the ladies ashore whilst I stayed aboard to tidy the sails away and ready the boat for being left. We had left the engine running whilst on the mooring and thought we were home dry……..the ladies on Aquila were on their mooring and waiting for us to moor safely before they went ashore. We motored nicely off the mooring and all was well until we were a few boats away from Grace’ mooring. We both could hear that the engine problem was back as could Aquila across the channel. We had momentum and it looked like we would make it to the mooring, that was until the wind returned and blew to boat towards the mud and away from the mooring. I was on the bow and ready to deploy the anchor but quick-thinking Linda jumped in the tender, I threw her a rope and she rowed furiously towards the mooring to try and unite the two of us. If you hadn’t already guessed, yes the rope was too short to reach, I had to nip back sharpish to the cockpit and laid my hands on the first bit of rope I could find (it’s tricky when it’s not your boat and you are not familiar where everything is). Quickly I tied the ropes together and Linda tied the buoy to the other end, at which point I noticed that one of the oars from the tender was floating past but out of my reach. Linda hauled the tender down the rope towards Grace and slingshot of it in pursuit of the oar which she caught up with. I then tried to pull Grace towards the mooring using the rope, it was made tricker as we had not had a chance to raise the keel fully and Grace was a starting to stick. A gentle rocking got her unstuck and I managed to pull her to the mooring and get us all tied on. Thankfully the row back to the slipway was uneventful! Whilst this might seem like we had a dramatic evening everyone stayed calm, ate the shortbread that Penny had brought with her and admired the brilliant view of the sunset and rainbows. We all had a great time and it is a trip that I am sure everyone will remember for a long time.
Hannah Barnes
Women on the Water Co-ordinator / Dinghy Captain
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Swanwick, Bursledon and Warsash Regatta
Saturday 26 Aug saw 2x gigs leave Tudor Base for an excursion deep into enemy territory on the Hamble River for a Right Royal Regatta at Warsash Sailing Club.
The Freedom crew (Mr D, John, Sandy and Glenn) were looking to hold on to the Boatyard Sheave Trophy for a 3rd straight year after it was wrestled from the Elephant Boatyard race team in 2021 and retained in 2022, whilst John Woodbridge had assembled an internationally flavoured crew (see photos) featuring long-standing club member Martino Pani (Italy) and visiting Spanish rower Carmen Mulet. New club member Kirsty Stark completed the Lady Jane crew.
On arrival, team coxes Linda Vacher (Freedom) and Yvonne Adams (Lady Jane) poured over the 2.5-mile course notes and established strategy with John W. Although shorter than the Tudor teams are accustomed to, the course presented a challenging, prolonged ‘sprint’ in moderate south-westerly wind.
The typically British Summer sharp showers eased as the 9 Bursledon Gigs approached the start line and the Tudor crews stripped to battle dress. Each crew set off on a staggered start with Freedom going 7th, Lady Jane 8th and the Elephant Boatyard Race Team last.
Freedom made a punchy start, rowing somewhere close to full power for the first few minutes before settling into the well-established ‘long and strong’ stroke rhythm that Tudor rowers are well known for.
Meanwhile, Lady Jane had made a fantastic start which saw them gain on Freedom in the early stages, before gallantly trying to hold off the looming Elephant Boatyard Team.
The race was a gruelling 20min slog which saw both Tudor gigs overtake other crews both on the way out to the race turn, and on the home leg.
On completion in front of Warsash Sailing Club, the tired crews nursed their blistered hands with cold drinks and awaited the final timings from Race Officer Jim Williams.
As the crews assembled in the Clubhouse for the presentation, no one from Tudor was entirely certain of the placings, although the Elephant Team looked to have had the edge on their home ground.
Announced in reverse order, the Mistress crew placed 3rd in 21mins 6secs. Race Officer Jim then described an unusual situation in which 2 crews had both recorded the exact same winning time of 20min 22secs.
And so it was that Freedom retained the Boatyard Sheave for a 3rd successive year, sharing 1st place (see photo of joint 1st place crews) and the Boatyard Sheave Trophy with the Elephant Boatyard Race Team.
Lady Jane finished 5th in 21min 17secs, only 1 minute behind the winning crews – a great achievement for a scratch crew assembled only 2-days before the race.
Rowing Captain John Elson restored the Boatyard Sheave to its place in the Tudor Trophy cabinet during the battle de-brief back at Tudor Base. And there it will remain, for now, until someone remembers to transfer it back to the Hamble River for its shared 2023/24 ownership with the Elephant Team.
Glenn Jeffrey
It’s a Bug Life
We’re hoping to start building a habitat for our insect friends and we need your help.
This won’t be just any bug box, this will be a bug mansion.
Please let me know if you have a few natural materials to donate such as wood, bamboo pieces, pine cones, wood blocks, roof tiles, burlap/hessian fabric, extruded/perforated bricks. We plan to start the build at our Regatta weekend and it will be situated close to the border alongside the community area to complement the trees and shrubs being planted there.
Nicola and I invite your children and grandchildren to come up with a fun catchy name for our bug loving haven. There’ll be a prize for the winning name, so start thinking and get your entries in as soon as possible. If you, your children, or grandchildren would like to help with the building please let me know.
Jane Dare
Rear Commodore
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Ebb & Flow
With a raft of article and even more attachments to peruse this week I shall sign off with two things. Firstly, for anyone who missed it, a link to a BBC piece on the water spout spotted of the Isle of Wight this week: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-66632419. Secondly, a quick advert for a boat for sale.
Boat for Sale
Eryngium – Snapdragon 747 – 24’6” – 15HP Yanmar Engine – £2,500
The Snapdragon 747 is a capable small cruiser. She would make an excellent first boat. Antifouled this season. Available to view in the compound.
See ApolloDuck.com for full details, or contact Chris on 07830 163575
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
- WebCollect: dinghies for more details.
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If you, your children, or grandchildren would like to help with the building please let me know. (PS Bill, I’ve put your name down already as I’m not usually trusted with hammers 
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