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
stevew.jones


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.

Apr 07

Plymouth Cruising Group Programme

Latest detail on the 2013 programme Dave Barron-Robinson has produced an update on the programme. If you would like more details or think you might join in any of the activities please contact Dave who is trying to firm up numbers. His details are on the Cruising Committee page. Sat 20 April Fitting Out Respite (Who’d have thought it) – Menu to be published and choices requested 13 Apr Sat 18 May Jupiter Point Meet (BBQ) – All approvals now in place.

Apr 05

LOSSC corporate arrangement

As some of you may already be aware, the RNSA have agreed a corporate membership arrangement with Lee-on-the-Solent Sailing Club (LOSSC) which allows the RNSA to use 4 places in the Dinghy Park and enables up to 12 RNSA Members to use the club at one time. The purpose of this initiative is to enable RNSA Members, serving temporarily in the Portsmouth area, opportunity to race with the Club on a Tuesday, train on a Thursday and race at the weekends.

Apr 05

Christmas Caribbean Rally

Larry Jeram-Croft reports that the Christmas Caribbean Rally now has an IRC Racing Division added. Departing from Lanzarote on 16 Dec to Antigua, there will now be a Christmas Caribbean Race as well as the Rally itself. The event will be managed by the Royal Southampton Yacht Club who have enorm For more details please visit: http://www.

Apr 04

Thames Valley – 2013 Programme

Chris Thompson reported the 2013 programme decided by the RNSA TVB Branch Committee. The Branch are pleased to announce that the Association’s main Annual General meeting will now take place in the Thames Valley at Leander Club, in Henley on Thames, over lunchtime on Saturday 7 December 2013. The intention is to avoid duplication of effort and travelling and hold our own Thames Valley Branch 2013 AGM ahead of the Association AGM over morning coffee etc at 10:30 on that day.