Tidal Diamond No. 506

Friday 22nd April : 7.30pm Movie & Curry Night
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Join us at TSC for the first ever movie night on the big screen!! This showing will be "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel". Entrance is free to watch the film and we will also be serving a curry & dessert (£5 per person). If successful we will be putting more of these evenings on! Please book food via socialsec

Thanks

Steve Francis
Social Secretary

Low Water Cruiser – Saturday 16th April, 11:00

The Low water cruise is the perfect opportunity for a ‘shake down’ after the long, windy winter.

Phil Bryant, our illustrious Vice-Commodore will be your cruise leader for the day, expertly guiding you around the narrow channels of Langstone Harbour. He will be giving a briefing to all participants at 10:45 on the club lawn, with departure from the slip shortly after and congregating at the first liaison point in the entrance to Russell’s lake for around 11:15.

Low Water is at 13:34 (1.7m), so the Tudor fleet will take advantage of the outgoing tide, as we sail down harbour. It is highly likely that Phil will seek some form of refreshment during the day, so bring some cash monies in a water proof container and you will be able to join him for a hot lunch / coffee / other form of brown liquid refreshment from the Ferry Boat Inn.

Please bring plenty of warm clothing, as it is still debatable if the round yellow circle in the sky will make an appearance. If you have any other burning questions that can not wait for the briefing, please email Phil – vicecommodore

Richard Barnes
Dinghy Captain

Self-Timed Race – Sunday 17th April, 11:00

This is a new concept for the dinghy calendar in 2016. Competitors are asked to congregate around 10am in front of workshop to discuss their preferred format for the race and synchronise watches (yes… bringing a watch is essential for this race!). The format, course, start sequence, finish sequence, results and rules are at the discretion of the sailors participating – so this will either be a shining example of a democracy in action, or quickly descend into chaos. This is your opportunity to mould this event format, so bring your ideas and your sense of humour!

Please note: there is no organised patrol boat cover – so sailors should carefully consider the weather conditions prior to taking to the water. However, if anyone would like to practice their patrol boat skills, we are happy for the patrol boats to be launched. If you can practice your PB skills in the vicinity of the Self timed race fleet then you will be providing them with an element of security in knowing that you are there. Please note that you do not have an obligation to cover the whole race – the racers know that they are unsupported so any cover you chose to offer for part or the whole of the race is a fortunate benefit to them.

Richard Barnes
Dinghy Captain

Final call for Patrol Boat questionnaire submissions

If you expect to be using the Tudor Patrol Boats over the coming years, it would be much appreciated if you could complete this short questionnaire:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LFQZXTB

The Sailing Committee are starting to plan how we can meet our commitment, voted for at the last AGM, to have all Tudor Patrol Boat helms qualified to RYA Level 2 within the next 5 years. The questionnaire will give us lots of good information to use as a starting point for this project. We have already had a strong response which is much appreciated. We will be closing the survey on Friday 22nd May so it will be much appreciated if anyone who has not done so already could go online and complete this for us.

Many thanks

Will Stokely
Sailing Secretary

Training Requests for Duties

Are you a new member looking to get involved in the club’s duty rosters? Or perhaps you are an old member looking to change the type of club duty you perform?

Did you know you can apply to be trained in one of the club duty disciplines via the TSC website?

The club are always keen to encourage our members to train in multiple disciplines, whether that is in the Galley, behind the Bar, in the Race Box or out in a club Patrol Boat.

Log into the members only area, using the credentials found in your club calendar and click on the Members Duty Training Request section at the bottom of the page, or click here:

< DUTY TRAINING REQUEST >

Richard Barnes
Dinghy Captain

Supplementary Fees for Additional Laying Up (commonly known as Overstay), Summer Fitting Out and Sick Boats are agreed each year by the Executive Committee and are laid out in the table below:

Steve Jones
Bosun

Gig activity

Hi all, the Gig is now being used frequently even though it is restricted by my diary. Here are the planned times on the water for the coming week:

Saturday morning 16th March 0930hrs; Wednesday evening 20th March 1800hrs; Thursday 21st. March 1800hrs.

If you fancy a “Blast” just email me, ianducane. Ref. what to wear? Wet or dry suits are not a good idea as they will be to warm. If it is cold then layers are best with a windcheater on top, you can peel them off as you warm up. Footwear is deckboots or similar and your feet will stay dry or dinghy wet boots or similar if you don`t mind them getting wet. Although the Gig is “sea kindly” and very safe a buoyancy aid is always a sensible item to have. No experience is required for rowing this boat. This is definitely rowing for “pleasure” not for “Pain”, lots of fun and better exercise than any Gym.

Ian Ducane

Diary Dates

Tidal Diamond No. 505

COMPOUND Re-Org Saturday 9th at 08:30 HOURS
**Opportunity to do your club maintenance hours**

Please make sure your trolley is marked clearly with your surname to make identifying it as quick as possible on Saturday. Many boats are NOT named and this makes the re-org difficult, time consuming and frankly is not fair. I have some name tags to tie to boats – see me. Obviously boats will have to be moved so it is important that the tyres are pumped up, the trolley is in good order and the boat is not full of water – having looked around in the compound yesterday this is not the case at the moment! We usually have a large number of members helping on the compound on re-org day. Can you please bring along some gardening gloves and together we can shift boats, clear weeds and generally clear up our compound and surrounding areas. I will bring some ‘strong’ bags. Let me know about any ‘movements of boats’ in the compound. Email is best way please.

This is an excellent day for new members to meet us, please make yourself known.

See you there,

Linda Vacher
Compound Bosun

Cadet Pre-season meeting: Wednesday April 13th 7:00

Please note the new earlier starting time!

As usual we will be having a pre season meeting, collecting sign-on sheets, and forming the 2016 register. There will be a short briefing from me. Our welfare officer will be giving a short child protection briefing. We will also run through how to rig an oppose, topper and our new club boats- the Feva and Quba. I would like everyone, children and parents to know this so we can all help each other during the frantic half hour before we launch.

Rob Nicholson
Cadet Captain

Cruiser re-launch

The cruiser re-launch went very well with most members helping each other. Many thanks to everyone who helped make the weekend the success it was. We used the Sunday to make sure the dinghy end was clear and did a lot of ‘litter picking’ in the compound – sadly this was rubbish that some members had left for others to clear up! It was heartening to hear compliments re the way we arrange / carry out the ‘boat lifts’. There are a lot of wooden posts, blocks etc that belong to someone; this is mainly just inside the North gates. If this is yours please remove by the end of the week. Cheers.

Linda Vacher
Compound Bosun

Cruiser Relaunch Weekend

Thank you all all the members who came down over the weekend and helped with cruiser relaunch. There are too many to name them all but you all know who you are and the help is appreciated.

Hannah Barnes
Commodore

Welfare Officer

I am pleased to announce that we have appointed Helen DuCane as the new club Welfare Officer. Helen is a familiar face at cadets and at club socials. Helen can be contacted on welfare or see her at the club during cadets.

Hannah Barnes
Commodore

GIG Activity

The Gig is now owned by the Tudor Sailing Club. A stainless keel band has been fitted so it will now withstand the slipway usage.

In the short term the Exec. have asked me to oversee and control its usage, obviously this will seriously restrict its “outings”……therefore we rapidly need to build a list of members who are willing to be responsible for putting her on the water……Please let me know a.s.a.p. if you are happy with this role …..I am working on the coaching aspects. Obviously it will take a while for a usage pattern to emerge, but to get things started I propose to put her afloat this coming Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th mornings @ 0930hrs …….and Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th in the evening @ 1800 hrs…..

The best crew arrangement is a Cox and 3 oarsmen….(one sat central sculling with twin oars and a bow and stern with single sweep oars)….i.e. 4 in total….It is easy to swap about while afloat if the cox wants to row or the crew want to change positions. Let me know your preferred slot time …..I will be working to have some sort of interactive page on the club site for crewing as soon as possible….in the meantime I will reply to all who email me wanting a place as to whether the crew is full or not. My email address is;- ianducane

Please let me know of any ideas/suggestions that you may have regarding any aspect of operating this boat.

Let’s “Dig Water”

Ian Ducane

Diary Dates

Tidal Diamond No. 504

RNLI Visit TSC Friday 1st April 7.30pm

Come

along to the free event (evening before cruiser launch weekend) and get your life jacket checked by a professional RNLI member for free. Please show your support of the RNLI and club.

Steve Francis
Social Secretary

Galley Sunday’s

From,

and including, April 3rd the galley will be open on the first Sunday of every month with an enhanced menu with dessert. Although there will be some “on the day” availability we would appreciate it if you booked your place by email socialsec by Wednesday 30th March.

Steve Francis
Social Secretary

Galley & BBQ volunteers

I desperately need people to volunteer for galley and BBQ duties this year. As it stands there are no volunteers for most of these duties. ( thank you to the few who have volunteered). Please do not leave it to someone else to volunteer. YOU are the someone else! Without volunteers then the galley will not open and the various events will have no food provided.

Please do not leave it until renewals to try and find duty hours. If you would like to know more about what these duties entail or would like to volunteer please contact me as soon as possible.

Steve Francis
Social Secretary

Start of Season Cruise

For the Start Of Season Cruise this year, we plan to head round to Chichester Marina for the weekend of 16th & 17th April (Cinabbar will probably be going round on the Friday afternoon, possibly stopping at Bosham for the night, weather permitting).

Unless there is significant interest, there is not much point booking spaces in the marina this early in the season, but I will see about a meal at the (Chichester) sailing club if people let me know in time.

Roger Smith
Cruiser Captain

Gould Trophy

It is only a month to go before the first out of harbour cruiser race down to Lymington & back over the weekend of the early May bank holiday (30th April – 2nd May). As in previous years I will book a meal on the Saturday evening – probably the Kings Head, just up from the quay unless anyone has any other good recommendations. It would be great to see the sort of numbers we used to see – you don’t have to take it seriously if you don’t want to race, but it would be nice to have the town quay filled with Tudor boats again. If anyone is interested in crewing for the race, I am sure a boat can be found that would like a crew – just let me know or ask around the cruiser folk.

Roger Smith
Cruiser Captain

Diary Dates

Tidal Diamond No. 503

Meeting Minutes

The minutes of the February meeting of the Executive Committee have been posted on the club noticeboard and in the Members’ secure area on the website. Minutes for the February meetings of the Bosun’s and Social Committees are also in the Members’ secure area.

Paul Megson
Secretary

Cruiser Launch Safety Briefing Wednesday 30th March 20:00 hours

All Cruiser Owners are reminded that the Cruiser Launch Safety Briefing will take place on Wednesday 30th March in the Club House at 20:00 hours. This is an essential part of the safety planning for the Launch Weekend. A review of the process for booking and operating with the Hoist should you not launch during the Launch Weekend will also be presented. All Cruiser Owners are encouraged to attend.

Steve Jones
Bosun

Diary Dates

Tidal Diamond No. 502

Quiz & Pizza : This Friday 18th March : 7.30pm

If you are coming along to the quiz and would like pizza can you let me know as soon as possible please.

Thanks

Steve Francis
Social Secretary

Data collection request regarding patrol boat helm and crew

At this year’s AGM, it was voted that, by 2021, all Tudor patrol boat helms would have to be qualified to RYA Power Boat Level Two. In order to help the Sailing Committee work out how best to achieve this, we would like to gather some data to establish where we are at the moment in terms of qualifications vs numbers of patrol boat helm and crew.

To this end, if you use our patrol boats already or you intend to be signed off to helm or crew Tudor patrol boats by 2021, it would be much appreciated if you could click on this link and fill in a short Survey Monkey questionnaire. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LFQZXTB

If there are several of you on a family membership who will be using the patrol boats, please complete the questionnaire for each person (just come back and click on the link a second time!)

Many thanks

Will Stokely
Sailing Secretary

RBS 6 Nations Rugby

We will be showing the following Rugby matches on the big screen at the club:

Saturday 19 March

• 14:30 Wales v Italy at Stadio Olimpico
• 17:00 Ireland v Scotland at Murrayfield
• 20:00 France v England at Twickenham

The bar will be open for the matches and all members and their guests are welcome to attend. To help you celebrate your team’s tries the bar has extended its collection of whiskies to include at least one whisky from each of the nations playing.

The galley will be serving hot dog and chips between the first two games and are planning to organize take-out meals to be delivered to the club prior to the last match – orders to be taken at the club on the day.

Please let me know If you would like to volunteer for a bar and/or galley duty for any of these games.

Thanks,

Jason Chipper
Bar Manager

Bar Duties

Bar duties for the next few months will be on Duty Man by this weekend. Please check what you have been assigned and swap as necessary.

To extend bar opening times on “Friendly Fridays” and to reduce opening times for the quieter Sunday lunch times there will be some 1.5 hour duties this year as well as the usual 3 hour duties. The maintenance requirement remains unchanged at 15 hours per year.

If you wish to volunteer for bar duties, but require training please let me know via the email address below.

Thanks,

Jason Chipper
Bar Manager
barmanager

Diary Dates

Tidal Diamond No. 501

Cruiser Break Ins

I have had reported today that a number of cruisers have been broken into. At this point I don’t know how many / who has been affected. Please can cruiser owners pop down and check their boat and ensure that all ladders are secure, boarding ladders should be folded up and locked into position where possible. We have now been targeted twice, so please take home anything valuable that you would like keep hold of. Please also take home your tools, loose tools make it even easier for the thieves to break into other boats.

The local Hampshire Police community team will be visiting the club on Sunday 20th March, 12pm – 1.30pm to talk to members about Immobilise, a free service where you can register valuables with the hope of being reunited with them should they be stolen and recovered by the police.

https://www.immobilise.com/

Hannah Barnes
Commodore

THIS IS A FINAL REMINDER FOR ALL WHO HAVE NOT YET COLLECTED THEIR PLAQUES.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT YOUR PLAQUES WILL NOT BE POSTED TO YOU.

If you have renewed on line or by cheque please come and collect your plaques from me on:

SUNDAY MARCH 13th Between 12.30 and 13.30

If you have not sent your boat form(s) back please bring them with you and you can collect your plaques once I have seen your form(s). I cannot issue plaques without verification of insurance – your boat form has this at the bottom!!

After this session any issues will need to be referred to the Paul as Hon Sec. Contact details in your diaries.

Many thanks

Jan Sobey
Assistant Secretary

Diary Dates

Tidal Diamond No. 500

Attention All Cruiser Owners – Launch Weekend

Would all Cruiser owners who are not planning to relaunch their boats during the Launch Weekend (2/3 April 2016) please advise the Bosun. Advance notification greatly assists with the planning for this Club Activity.

Steve Jones
TSC Bosun

Bosun’s Tender

The Bosun’s Tender has been repaired and can now be used again. Please remember to book usage in the Bosun’s Diary which is located in the Bosun’s pigeon hole inside the Clubhouse

Steve Jones
TSC Bosun

Come along and support the TSC darts team this Friday at Locks. It’s the 3rd and final leg of the series and we are going for the hat trick!

Hope to see as many supporters as possible.

Steve Francis
Social Secretary

Galley Changes & Volunteers Required

As you hopefully read in last weeks TD, from Sunday April 3rd the galley will be open on the first Sunday of every month only. (March open as usual). There will be an alternative and hopefully more attractive menu offering. We are doing this as an experiment and will open the galley more often if it proves popular. The amount of food wastage on galley Sunday’s over the last couple of years is proving an unacceptable cost to the club.

Sarah Bryant and Moira Barber have very kindly agreed to have the menu offerings fully prepared for each of the new monthly galley Sunday’s but we still need galley volunteers to dish out and wash up during the opening hours.

We also need volunteers to cover the BBQ for the various events (family fun day, regattas etc).

These are simple duties to complete and without volunteers the galley will simply stay closed and events will have no food service.

The club needs you to volunteer for these duties as soon as possible please. Don’t just leave it to someone else.

Steve Francis
Social Secretary

New Galley Opening Times

The galley will be open on 1st Sunday of each month, please see the attached poster for details of food booking and other information.

Steve Francis
Social Secretary

Diary Dates

Galley Change Poster 2016.pdf