Tidal Diamond No. 499

Renewals

PLEASE BE REMINDED THAT YOUR PLAQUES WILL NOT BE POSTED TO YOU

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

FRIDAY MARCH 6th Between 20.00 and 21.30

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!!

Many thanks

Jan Sobey
Assistant 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

Ebb & Flow

Deadline for the next issue of Ebb & Flow – Monday, 7 March 2016

Get into print!

We’re all looking forward to another’s season’s sailing. If you’ve not been out this year why not at least start thinking and writing about it with an article for the spring issue of Ebb & Flow?

We need your input to make the next Ebb and Flow interesting so please let us know all about your sailing adventures and activities. If you are writing an article (and please do), a few photos if you have them help to make it even more interesting (and make it easier to adjust it to fit in the space available).

We can all learn from the nautical experiences of others so let’s hear about your sailing successes and failures – don’t be embarrassed, pseudonyms can be used if you prefer! Whether cruising or racing, why not let us have some information on your tips and or trips. What about some practical advice or suggestions for this summer. Why not write something on your favourite type of dinghy or cruiser, practical boating advice or cooking in confined quarters – all contributions gratefully received.

Other ideas for articles: what made you want to get afloat in the first place, what was your first sailing experience; what was your worst (and/or best) sailing experience; what boat would you like to own and why; sailing trivia; most useful piece of kit; book reviews; your favourite nautical film or poem?

Sailing stories, cartoons or photos are all welcome? Don’t be shy, start to write. Cast your mind adrift and put pen to paper – or fingers to keyboard.

If you have an idea, please get in touch and send your contributions to ebbnflow

Richard

Curtis
Ebb & Flow Editor

Used chain & shackles

Please leave chain & shackles, suitable for securing dinghies & tenders along the slip, at the top of the slip, just inside the Club compound.

Thanks very much.

Terry Smith
Bosuns Committee

Gig Rowing Group

Please see the attached document for details of the first meeting and the opportunity to get involved – at least two more members needed.

Ian Ducane

Diary Dates

Galley Change Poster 2016.pdf
Gig_Rowing.pdf

Tidal Diamond No. 498

Cruiser Break Ins

Over the night of 19th / 20th Feb some 15 Cruisers were broken into and various items stolen. An update for members from the exec on the break ins is attached to this TD.

Following the break ins 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

Ladders

Update on Recent Cruiser Break Ins.pdf

Tidal Diamond No. 497

RENEWALS

Please be reminded that plaques have to be collected from the club this year.

If you have paid either by cheque or online and HAVE returned your boat forms then your plaques will be waiting for you to collect them in an envelope – all you have to do is sign for them.

If you have paid online but NOT yet returned your boat forms to the club, your plaques will be in an envelope ready for collection, but I need the boat forms first.

ADDITIONAL DATE not on the green form: Friday February 26th 20.00 – 22.00.

Please don’t leave it to that very last session otherwise we’re likely to have long queues!!

Many thanks

Paul Megson
Secretary

Ebb & Flow

Deadline for the next issue of Ebb & Flow – Monday, 7 March 2016

Get into print!

We’re all looking forward to another’s season’s sailing. If you’ve not been out this year why not at least start thinking and writing about it with an article for the spring issue of Ebb & Flow?

We need your input to make the next Ebb and Flow interesting so please let us know all about your sailing adventures and activities. If you are writing an article (and please do), a few photos if you have them help to make it even more interesting (and make it easier to adjust it to fit in the space available).

We can all learn from the nautical experiences of others so let’s hear about your sailing successes and failures – don’t be embarrassed, pseudonyms can be used if you prefer! Whether cruising or racing, why not let us have some information on your tips and or trips. What about some practical advice or suggestions for this summer. Why not write something on your favourite type of dinghy or cruiser, practical boating advice or cooking in confined quarters – all contributions gratefully received.

Other ideas for articles: what made you want to get afloat in the first place, what was your first sailing experience; what was your worst (and/or best) sailing experience; what boat would you like to own and why; sailing trivia; most useful piece of kit; book reviews; your favourite nautical film or poem?

Sailing stories, cartoons or photos are all welcome? Don’t be shy, start to write. Cast your mind adrift and put pen to paper – or fingers to keyboard.

If you have an idea, please get in touch and send your contributions to ebbnflow

Richard Curtis
Ebb & Flow Editor

England Coastal Path

Natural England are running three drop in sessions in March to find out more about the England Coastal Path, a new National Trail around England’s entire coast. See attached flyer for details.

Paul Tansom
PLSA Rep.

RBS 6 Nations Rugby

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

• Friday 26 February

• 20:05 Wales v France at Principality Stadium

Saturday 27 February

• 14:25 Italy v Scotland at Stadio Olimpico
• 16:50 England v Ireland at Twickenham

Saturday 12 March

• 13:30 Ireland v Italy at Millennium Stadium
• 16:00 England v Wales at Twickenham

Sunday 13 March

• 15:00 Scotland v France at Murrayfield

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 open with hot snacks and basket style meals between games on the Saturdays. We are also planning to organize take-out meals to be delivered to the club prior to the last match on Saturday 19th March.

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

Thanks,

Jason Chipper
Bar Manager

Diary Dates

!!! TSC Galley & Bar Will Be Open Every Sunday in February !!!

coast path flyer.pdf

Tidal Diamond No. 496

Awnings and Covers on Boats in compound

I walked around the compound last weekend and noticed that a lot of ‘covers’ have become misplaced in this very windy weather. Please take some time to check yours. A couple of the boats have quite a bit of water in them and at 10lb per gallon! I also noted that many of the tyres are flat. Non-use is a ‘killer’ for tyres!

Please can you inform me of any ‘movements’ of boats. I remind you that you will need to check that your surname is clearly and obviously placed on your boat trolley. Spring is on it’s way!

Linda Vacher
Compound Bosun

Boats in Compound

In addition to the above, and following a check by Richard Barnes this weekend, it seems that there are lots of dinghies at the end of the compound that have fallen off their trailers and onto other boats. Could you please arrange to check any dinghies you are responsible for after the high winds.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor

Bruce – Committee Boat Project

Thank-you to all those who have helped on the committee boat project. The team have made some great progress over the last few months, including rewiring most of the boat, getting the engine running, installing all the new accessories (VHF, Horn, Depth Sounder, Flag Gantry, Pulpit etc.) and working on the woodwork. The team always welcome additional help, so if you would like to get involved in the project please contact Richard Barnes, dinghies. Any time spent working on the project can count towards your duty hours, so if you would like to get them signed off early this year, please get in contact.

The next phase of the project is to fix the rotting woodwork around the rubbing strake. If you are able to offer your woodworking skills or have a suggestion regarding where to source the following items please get in touch:

• WANTED: Hardwood planking. 100mm x 20mm section & 100mm x 10mm section
• WANTED: Rubberised D section, approximately 38mm base, 18m in length

Richard Barnes
Dinghy Captain

Diary Dates

!!! TSC Galley & Bar Will Be Open Every Sunday in February !!!

Tidal Diamond No. 495

Diary Dates

!!! TSC Galley & Bar Will Be Open Every Sunday in February !!!

Vacancy for Assistant Secretary

Following the AGM there was no nomination for the Assistant Secretary role, whose main duties are handling renewals and taking the exec minutes. If you are interested in the role then please contact myself or Paul Megson for more details.

Hannah Barnes
Commodore

Friendly Fridays – Cruiser pre-season get-togethers

Ahead of the “formal” Friendly Fridays planned for this year, (mainly because many of us cruiser folk will be away for the weekend as soon as we can on a Friday, come the sailing season) I am planning on kicking things off a bit early.

My thoughts are that any of you newer / less experienced cruiser owners (or those who have moved up to larger craft and want to venture further) can come along on a Friday evening to chat with us more experienced folk. Whether it is finding out the best places to visit with given tidal conditions, where you can get to in a given time frame, or just odds and ends of advice, there are plenty of members who have “been there & done that” whose brains you can pick.

Moira & I can be there most Fridays in the run-up to launch weekend and possibly for a couple of weeks after, until the weather picks up a bit, and I am sure other seasoned cruisers will be along too, to share their knowledge & experiences.

If you have any particular questions or things you want to find out about, drop me an e-mail at the “cruisers” address in the week before and we can make sure we are there with charts & pilot books or whatever, as required.

Roger Smith
Cruiser Captain

Summer cruise plans

As you may have read in the last “Ebb & Flow” we plan to visit north Brittany for our big cruise this year. If anyone is interested in coming along, either for the whole 3 weeks or just the last two, I would like to hear from you. If you would like to do such a trip but are nervous, come along to a “Friendly Friday” and we can chat about what it is all about. Maybe if you fancy crewing for such a trip, we can team you up with someone who would like to go, but lacks crew?

Roger Smith
Cruiser Captain

Antifoul

I am not sure how many of you have read the recent PBO tests on antifoul, but it looks like 4 brands come out tops in our region – three are definitely top-end price wise, but the fourth – Teamac “D”, is much more sensibly priced. I am planning on ordering some for Cinabbar and wonder if anyone else would be interested to help keep the costs down – Drop me an e-mail if you are interested.

Roger Smith
Cruiser Captain

Jose Vogel

For those that remember Jose and Colin Vogel, I am sorry to report that Jose passed away on 21st January 2016. Colin has asked for the message to be passed on and to say that the funeral is on 11th February at 2pm at Chichester Crematorium for those who wish to send Jose on her way, and that there is to be a wake afterwards.

Mark Wilshaw

New Bass Fishing Regulations

Please see attached leaflet.

Hannah Barnes
Commodore

Bass Leaflet 2016 Regulations.pdf