Tidal Diamond 815

• Remembrance Paddle
• Interclub Darts Tournament
  
• Maintenance Hours
  
• Waiting for the Tide
• Maintenance Jobs
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Remembrance Paddle – Sunday 14th November

If the weather is good on Sunday there is a paddle planned to the mulberry harbour. Aiming to leave the slipway at 11.30 am. Bring flowers if you wish but please ensure they are free of plastic. The water is not as warm as it was so please ensure you dress accordingly. If the weather is poor an update will go out via the paddlers WhatsApp group.

Hannah Barnes
Kayak Captain
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Interclub Darts Tournament

Yes it’s back by popular demand! New darts team members required! No experience or natural ability needed!

Steve Francis is organising the Interclub Darts Tournament again with matches beginning in January 2022. For those who don’t know the format there will be darts matches between TSC, Langstone and Mengeham. One at each of the 3 club locations between January and March. The teams consist of 8 players each and TSC need a few extra players to expand on the previous existing team. Darts “practice” nights will be each Wednesday 7.30pm at TSC starting November 24th. You don’t need to want to be in the team to come along to practice evenings.

The darts tournament is always great fun and nothing serious (believe me!) so if you fancy joining in come along to one of the practice evenings.

Steve Francis
Maintenance Committee
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Maintenance Hours

Hi All Tudor Members,

Please be aware that a new system is now in place for distributing maintenance jobs. It is based on a WhatsApp group, therefore, if you are wanting jobs from the maintenance section to make up your hours please email me with your phone number and I will put you on the group chat. You will of course have to download WhatsApp to your phone or PC. I have now run the system for a couple of weeks with all of the members that I know are wanting work and it is proving highly efficient.

This means that jobs will not now be advertised via the Tidal Diamond.

If there are members who want hours but are not able to use the Whatsapp system please email me specifically and I will make arrangements to suit.

Best regards Ian

Ian DuCane
Maintenance Officer
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Waiting for the Tide

I was at the Portsmouth Dockyard Forum last week, and whilst there was a lot discussed, one item caught my attention as being of relevance to other harbours, including ours. The subject of dredging the marinas was covered, and it was noted that the costs of this were increased due to the fact that, when tested, the material being dredged is all too often found to be toxic. This results in increased costs around disposal and is largely down to antifouling and other chemicals finding their way into the water from water blasting, scraping and other maintenance tasks. Whilst there isn’t quite such a direct route into the harbour from Tudor, clearly over the years we have been using the compound for winter maintenance it does make you wonder what has made its way into the local environment.

Some useful information can be found on The Green Blue website, and particularly the section on antifouling, there is also info on things like anchoring and invasive species prevention (which includes transport by dinghy).

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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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

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