Apr 19

IRC Rating – all you need to know

As part of the campaign to try and get more people IRC racing a number of experienced yachtsmen including measurers have been asked if they will help local clubs with any questions their members may have. RNSA are very fortunate as Peter Wykeham-Martin is one of the measurers who was approached to help in educating yachtsmen on the new rating system.

Apr 18

MAY 2013 Newsletter out now

Apr 17

RNSA(P) Early Summer Series Race 2

Big wind shift just at start time spoils the best laid plans of the Race Officer In the absence of Kurketrekker (Steve Parry) Electra (Mike Tattersall) once again took on the SOOD responsibility and with a light SE breeze evident mainly in the Eastern Solent set a windward-leeward course to Nth Sturbridge twice round.

Apr 17

Tidal Diamond 326 – Launch Weekend, Cruiser and Dinghy racing, Call for help

Tidal Diamond No. 326

New Members

We welcome three new Tudor members who were approved at the April executive committee. Anthony Harris, Dean Woodgate and Anthony Robbins and family.

Launch Weekend – Galley Thanks

I am sure everyone involved in the launch weekend would like to join me in thanking the galley volunteers and cake makers for all their hard work and superb food provided over the 3 days. Apparently the Victoria sponge from Jane Francis was a big success! Special thanks to Bill, Dave & Pete ‘The Breakfast Lads’ and also Annelise Hurst, Jan Sobey’s daughter.

Steve Francis
TSC Social Secretary

Langstone Harbour Race Weekend 2013 – Friday 24th May – Monday 27th May 2013

The 5th Langstone Harbour Race Weekend is due to be held over the late May bank holiday weekend (Friday 24th May – Monday 27th May 2013). The event will follow a similar format to previous years, however this year, the event will also be hosting the Wanderer Class Association National Championships. We would like to extend a warm welcome to the Wanderer Class and visiting sailors from across the UK.

The online entry system for the event is now live and we would like to encourage all entrants to make use of this facility prior to the event to reduce the amount of admin required on the Friday evening.

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We will be accepting entry fees at the registration desk prior to the event briefing on Friday 24th May from 18:00 which will be held at Tudor Sailing Club. There will be a curry available on the Friday evening (included in your entry fee) and the race briefing will be held at approximately 20:30.

If you are unable to attend the race briefing on the Friday evening, please visit Tudor Sailing Club on Saturday 25th May, where the registration desk will open at 08:00. A second race briefing will be held at Tudor SC on Saturday 25th May at 09:30 for those who miss the Friday briefing.

More information about the event will be posted on the event website in the weeks leading up to the late May bank holiday weekend. In the meantime, we have attached the event Notice of Race and Promotional Poster for your information.

www.langstonerace.co.uk

We look forward to welcoming you for the 5th Langstone Harbour Race Weekend and hope for good sailing conditions!

If you have any queries regarding the event, please email the event co-ordinator:

Richard & Hannah Barnes
Langstone Harbour Race Weekend Event Committee
Email: lhrw

Cruiser Update April 2013

The first of the Gales series races is on Friday the 19th for those of you into in – harbour, round the cans races and at the end of the month (Saturday 27th) we have the first of the out of harbour, Forts & Fairway races for those who like more open waters.
With May rapidly approaching, it is time to start thinking about the Gould Trophy passage race to Lymington and back. I will be putting a notice on the cruiser board to get an idea of who is interested in dinner at one of the pubs in town on the Saturday night – if you can add your names soon, I will have a better idea of numbers for booking.

Hopefully the weather will be a be getting a bit better before then to give us late launchers a chance of having the required work done on our boats – the way it has been so far this month, I am not sure even Cinabbar would have gone far yet, so I don’t feel so bad about missing a few weekends on the water.

Roger Smith,
Cruiser Captain

Calling all electronics engineers!

Our beloved RIB is having temperamental time with its fitted radio and before the club takes the commercial investigation/repair option it was thought to explore in house alternatives.

Do we have an electronics engineer in the club who may be willing to apply some of his/her maintenance hours to investigating (and hopefully fixing) a sporadic fault with the RIB radio? If we do can they contact me on dinghies and we can discuss the problem and how to resolve it. Very many thanks in advance

Phil Bryant
Dinghy Captain.

Friday 19 April 1930 Night Race (Sunset Series 1) High Water 19:05 3.77 metres

Yes dinghy sailing in the dark, how hard can it be? Well the harbour master has issued his notice to mariners and we have the green light (albeit a bit dim) for the race. There are some important safety factors for the entrants to be aware of and these have been entered onto the comments page in the on line club calendar. It can be accessed by clicking on the calendar entry for the day and entering the username and password found in the front of the club handbook (yes, paper at last)

For those like me who are IT averse I’ve copied the details below for the requirements. I believe in past years the glowsticks have been sourced by the club. I’m not aware of that being so this year.

A whistle, a glowstick attached to your buoyancy aid (we may be able to find the dinghy, but life is more important than equipment), a head torch (don’t blind your crew with it!) and finally a torch to play on your sail.

For this event I’m in the patrol boat, without sunglasses, it should be a fun evening so try and make it if you can.

Phil Bryant
Dinghy Captain dinghies

LHRW_Event_Poster_2013_v2.pdf
LHRW_NOR_2013_v4.pdf


Apr 17

Boating Banyans – fantastic days out for all the family

The RNSC is holding 3 Banyans (June 2nd August 17th Sept 15th) to Priory Bay on the Isle of Wight this year. All Dinghy and Yacht sailors are invited. For more information please read the attached the poster.

Apr 16

EX EMU PASSAGE 08-19 Jul 13 – YM Coastal needed

Yachtmaster Coastal needed for OTC exped East Midlands Universities Officers' Training Corps is running an exped with a Nicholson 55 out of JSASTC 08-19 July. It will include cross channel passages and will be a good mile-building opportunity for budding Skippers. They are looking for a Yachtmaster Coastal to act as a mate for the trip.

Apr 12

St George’s Day Dinner

Apr 11

RNSA(P) Early Summer Series Race 1

Winter still in full swing for the first race of the season To add insult to injury not only did the coldest winter in memory spill over to the first race of the Early Summer Series but it was miserably wet to boot. Despite all this 8 boats made their way to the Gilkicker start line with the majority being in the first start.

Apr 10

Tidal Diamond 325 – Hoist, Calendar, Website and Course

Tidal Diamond No. 325

Tractor and Hoist

Please be advised that we have experienced a major fault with the Tractor during its operation today. The clutch has failed, which may also be the Slave Cylinder. Parts have been ordered and the earliest it can be worked on is next Wednesday 17th April. This will obviously have a bearing on how soon boats can be launched. I will provide an update as soon as I have any further information. Everything is being done to speed things up and we are also considering hiring a relief tractor, which would only allow dry launch’s (not dunking the tractor in the oggin !)

George Thomson
Bosun

Calendar Updates

  1. Fairway Beacon Race (DINGHY) Sat 18 May (10.00)

    Please note that although the printed calendar is correct, the online version of the calendar was showing an incorrect date for this race. DutyMan was also incorrect until this week. The website and DutyMan have now been corrected.

  2. High Water Cruise

    The High water Cruise did not go ahead on Monday 1st April so will now go ahead on 13 July, shown as High Water Cruise 2 in your printed calendar.

Robert Nicholson

Comment facility on the website

Richard and I have implemented a new “comment” facility for sailing events on the website. We think this will be useful to allow people to say thinks like “I’ll be coming to this event” especially for the cruises and “sailing in company” events. To leave a comment, simply click on the event either on the front page of the website or on the main calendar. You will need to log in with the username and password from the printed 2013 calendar (page 3) but if you tick the box “remember me” then you’ll stay logged in all year. Then you’ll be able to see any comments already left for that event and you’ll be able to leave a comment with your name.

Any events which have comments will get a little red “comment” icon next to them on the front page. Comments are only visible to Tudor members.

Note that there is no easy way to remove a comment once left. Also note that we have implemented this as a very “light touch” – no requirement to log in with personal email/password etc but we do log the IP address used to leave each comment.

If you have thoughts or questions on the comment facility please drop me a line to cadetcaptain

Robert Nicholson

VHF Short Range Certificate (SRC) Course to be held at Tudor Club House on 13 May and 14 May 2013

We plan to hold a SRC Course in the Clubhouse on 2 consecutive evenings Monday 13 May and Tuesday 14 May 2013.

The course has places for 10 students and will be on a first come first served basis. The course will commence at 18:30 hours on both days and will cost approximately £25 per person (the final cost will be dependant on the numbers attending) plus £30 for the certificate.

In addition you will be required to bring a passport sized photo for the certificate.

To reserve a place or for more details please E Mail or phone me. Responses by 19 April 2013 latest would be appreciated to allow us to confirm with the Instructor

Steve Jones
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Apr 09

Newsletter – Number One

The first newsletter is now available in the 'Members Only' section of the RNSA Website under a new tab named Newsletters. Please click on the link below to the first RNSA newsletter, an explanation of which is given by the Vice Commodore in both the recent Journal and also at the start of this newsletter.