Tidal Diamond 956

• Save the Dates: Socials with Food
  
• Round Hayling Dinghy Cruise 28th July
• Club Development Planning
• Research into Conservation in Langstone Harbour
• Ebb & Flow
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Save the Dates: Socials with Food

Hi everyone

Firstly, thank you to everyone that came to our quiz night. A really fun evening. Congratulations to The Better Halves. Keep that new Tudor trophy somewhere safe until the next time. Thank you to Yvonne and Richard for a great set of questions.

26th July

Friday 26th is our next rowing Friendly Friday. Don’t worry if you’re not rowing, spectators are very welcome. We’ll let you know as soon as WebCollect is available to book food. The bar will be open.

27th July

For those of you coming to the supported recreational sailing on July 27th please keep an eye out for more details and stay after for some light bites buffet. The bar will be open.

3rd August

Even if you’re not taking part in the clubs Tudor Challenge please do come along and join us for a BBQ and a drink. Race starts at 11:30.

9th August

Join us for an evening with Portsmouth Distillery to try a selection of their gins and rums. The distiller will be a available to answer questions. More details to follow.

Inga Lambert
Social Secretary
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Round Hayling Dinghy Cruise 28th July

It’s almost time for the annual dinghy cruise around Hayling Island. It’s a cruise, not a race (looking at you Mr Rhodes), with safety boat cover. We do need volunteers still on the RIBs for the event to go ahead, so please volunteer on duty man. Your cruise leaders will be Mark and Nicola.

To make best use of the tide we will have a briefing at 0915. Please have your boat rigged and be dressed ready to set sail. We will be launching promptly after the briefing. That way we can sail down Langstone Harbour with the out going tide. We then sail along Hayling seafront and stop off at HISC for lunch. And then sail up Chichester harbour with an incoming tide.

If you’re in a boat with not much space to store your lunch etc, one of the safety boats can carry it for you. Bring plenty to drink, extra layers, sunglasses, sun cream etc. Boats should stay close together, so it should be easy to get the attention of a RIB if you need assistance, but bringing a VHF can come in useful. Paddles / oars can be useful too, especially if you lower your mast to get under Hayling bridge.

If you have any questions, feel free to pop them as a comment on the Facebook post advertising the event, email me at environmental or post the question in any of the following WhatsApp groups if your on them: Tudor dinghy sailors, newbies – dinghy sailors, new members tsc, or women on the water.

Nicola and Mark
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Club Development Planning

The club has evolved from its humble beginnings in Chatsworth Avenue in 1949 and we pride ourselves that 75 years later we have a member led club that thrives and is committed to growing according to the needs and aspirations of its own membership.

To that end it’s time to look again at future development planning and hear from you about what we do well, what you would change, and what exciting ideas you have for the club to take us forward. Naturally we can’t guarantee we can cover everything each person might individually wish for, but we believe it’s important to hear all views and ideas and understand and act on the common threads and vision of our membership.

Please click on the link below and complete the survey, which should take no more than five minutes of your time. Your input will be anonymous. Each reply will be read and considered fully by the flag officers and subsequently the executive committee. A development plan will then be compiled and published. We expect this to contain short term actions that we can implement as soon as possible, and some longer term aims which will take more discussion and planning.

It’s our club and its future success is ours. Thank you in advance. Here’s the link…..
https://forms.gle/crc6Y64xdCvk8gJ58

Jane Dare
Rear Commodore
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Research into Conservation in Langstone Harbour

Kasia is studying a master’s degree in marine science at the university of Portsmouth. She would love to get your opinion on conservation within the harbour, by filling in the form in the below link. The results of the survey will create data for her dissertation project. The survey takes around ten mins to fill in.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9E_bMXE4kUpXZ6bbmKFZ04D2Iybtq3e3XRn8a7wbCZHbAMw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0

Nicola Craig
Environmental Officer
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Ebb & Flow

A few more links that may be of interest this week.

First, from the RYA, A handy guide to boating into Europe: https://www.rya.org.uk/news/boating-into-europe

Next the RYA again, this time they are conducting a nationwide survey into watersports clothing and equipment. To find out more and complete the survey visit: https://www.rya.org.uk/news/equipment-survey

Finally water quality. The Solent Protection Society have put together an interesting article on Southern Water discharges and how EA data shows a worsening trend. Not good news, if not entirely unexpected. To read more visit: https://solentprotection.org/2024/07/02/cso-discharges-the-four-year-trend/

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 always most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Useful Links

• WebCollect: dinghies for more details.

Tidal Diamond 955

• Quick Reminder – 2 Ways to Advertise Tudor
• Dinghy News
• Dinghy Sailing – Locks Regatta Debrief
• Ebb & Flow
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Quick Reminder – 2 Ways to Advertise Tudor

If you are planning to buy any Rooster kit and would like to personalise with the club logo here’s the direct link to use: Rooster-Highlights-Custom-Kit – ROOSTER UK (roostersailing.com).

Simply select your item and then search for TSC in the drop down menu to add the logo. The club receives a small commission on each purchase.

I’ll let you know as soon as our other logos are available on the site (cadets, kayak, rowing, WoW). Unfortunately it’s taking longer than expected to get them added.

Naturally you are free to put our various approved logos on your own choice of clothing. The only stipulation is that you don’t make changes to our approved logos or create new ones to represent Tudor without exec approval. I’m happy to answer any questions if you need clarification.

Business cards for the club are now available. If you’ve found yourself in a conversational situation where a card might have been useful, and you’re happy to carry some please let me know.

Jane Dare
Rear Commodore
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Dinghy News

Sunset Race 5

A reminder that Sunset 5 has moved to Tuesday 16th July, 7pm start.

Tudor 75 anniversary regatta 7/8 September -put the date in your diary!

On Saturday there will be a sail past, racing for dinghies and cruisers (using club line) plus fun & games in kayaks and rowing boats. Off the water there will be a BBQ in the afternoon along with shanty singers, the famous Tudor bake off then later pulled pork & evening party.

On Sunday there will again be racing for dinghies and cruisers plus the Friday rowing race night will make a guest appearance in a Sunday slot.

If you are able to help out with being race officer or with the bar or bbq then please get in touch.

Hannah Barnes
Dinghy Captain
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Dinghy Sailing – Locks Regatta Debrief

The locks regatta was scheduled for 4 races to be sailed over two days, committee boat starts, sun shining, and huge numbers of sailors from various nooks around the harbour. Well that went rather wrong.

Saturday morning dawned to the chirps of birds being blown to their unfortunate ends and trees doing their best to remain upright, with Chimet lurking nastily around 28 knots and WhatsApp groups labelling the weather as ‘lively’. This was an even worse fib than Rishi calling the worst political defeat ever as ‘rather poor’ and England football fans referring to the team performance as ‘disappointing’.

Anyway, I digress. Cool heads and self preservation prevailed, walks were taken, gardening tasks completed, crossword puzzles and coffee…anything but sailing. Score one for common sense!

Then came Sunday and more heavy weather, or at least less heavy than Saturday. Russell and Chuck threw their racing prowess into the hat, and then removed it when no one was looking and made the decision to exit stage left. The rain came alongside more wind until eventually, when it blew through, Mark and I felt that it was all going to be just peachy. 30 gusty minutes later we were at locks awaiting the start of a very short course, with both fast and medium handicap fleets starting on the same gun. The gun went, not that you could hear it over the southwesterly squall going though, and an unbiased line saw boats starting on both tacks, fighting to stay upright. Mark started at the club end and mixed it up with the lasers, coming round the first mark in a good position. I went for a slightly more conservative start and tacked away from trouble to round alongside the d zeros. All good so far although we are only talking 2 minutes into the regatta! Gybe time. In 22-25 knots. Every boat in the race had no problems and carried on to the next mark. This still seems odd as I can capsize on a gybe in 5 knots! The run to mark 2 was tippy. The rs400 went round, followed by the laser 4000 showboating upside down. I passed one of the d zeros only to fall in to windward, along with the other d zero, a laser and I stopped counting then as my race was over after being stopped from damaging the boat on the mark by the swift actions of the rescue crew (thank you again by the way). I watched Mark pass by me as he went round the mark, although he probably didn’t see my inane waving due to him also swimming. Mark is fitter than me, got the boat upright and carried on to round the next mark. And then capsized again simply to prove to me that he is definitely fitter than me!

Capsizing does not do wonders for your finish time but Mark did still get over the line. No small feat when half of the fleet retired and limped home. Fun day but strange to have a weekend regatta consisting of a 34 minute race and a BBQ.

This weekend showed that I still have an idiotic streak in my body that I haven’t managed to shift over 40 years of sailing, but more importantly, I’m not alone.

Jane Dare
Rear Commodore
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Ebb & Flow

A selection of items from the RYA this week.

First, lifejackets are an essential safety item on the water, so here is an article “Everything you need to know about lifejackets” with information about lifejackets vs bouyancy aids, servicing and other useful topics: https://www.rya.org.uk/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-lifejackets

Next, with seals, seagrass and other wildlife in Langstone, here is an interesting article on navigating safely around them: https://www.rya.org.uk/blog/navigate-safely-around-marine-wildlife-this-summer

Finally, for those that are interested in dinghy cruising there is an RYA Special Interest Group (https://www.rya.org.uk/about-us/job-vacancies/committee-and-volunteer-vacancies/dinghy-trails-special-interest-group) working on building and expanding a collection of Dinghy Trails details of launching places and routes to enjoy cruising dinghies. They are looking for anyone with an interest in helping to get in touch (https://www.rya.org.uk/about-us/job-vacancies/committee-and-volunteer-vacancies/dinghy-trails-committee).

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 always most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Useful Links

• WebCollect: dinghies for more details.

Tidal Diamond 954

• Quiz Night Friday 5th July
• Recent Rowing
• Ebb & Flow
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Quiz Night Friday 5th July

Tudor it’s time to test your brains.

Do you know your ‘Ps’ from your ‘Qs’?

This Friday’s quiz night is for all abilities

There’ll be 8 rounds of 10 questions but when to play your joker? ….

Teams of no more than 6.

Yvonne will be delivering your quiz and

Richard will be scoring.

Don’t miss out as there’s prizes You could be the first team to hold aloft the New, (not very heavy) Tudor Quiz Team Trophy Or if you don’t score quite so well we have the Booker prize winning “How to be Clever” There’s a special chocolatey prize for Best Team Name .

So come on Quiztina Aguilera’s get booking fast

https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/quiz-night-ploughmans-platter

Inga Lambert
Social Secretary
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Recent Rowing

Summer finally arrived for June’s Friendly Rowing Race evening

Unlike the first two rowing race evenings of the season, the sun finally came out and the wind dropped last Friday to provide a beautiful summers evening for the Tudor rowers and their guests to enjoy. Thank you to all those who helped with the organisation, and the private boat owners who allowed their boats to be used for the racing.

Congratulations go to the winning crew of Jamie from Tudor, Andrew from Dell Quay with excellent coxing by Isaac. Also well done to Audrey, Ian, Jo and Graham who picked up this month’s VIPER trophy in recognition of all the effort they put in to get four Bursledon Gigs from Tudor down to Venice for this year’s Vogalonga. The big prize of the evening, however, went to Lydia and Ladina from Tudor and Crazy Jonathan from the Crazy Boys, who won this months wooden spoon which had been lovingly created by Dawn, see attached photos.

The Tudor Rowers look forward to welcoming anyone who is interested in joining them for the next Friendly Race evening on 26th July.

The Tudor Monster reappears at Seaford

Tudor Rowers re-established their friendship with Rowhedge Rowing Club last Saturday when they formed a joint squad with the Essex based club at the Seaford Pilot Gig Rowing Regatta. Despite not having had much experience of rowing Pilot Gigs the Tudor Rowers put in a great performance against experienced crews achieving 3rd in the men’s, 4th in the mixed and 5th in the women’s categories.

Congratulations go to all members of the Rowdor squad aka The Tudor Monster.

John Elson
Rowing Captain
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Ebb & Flow

A couple of quick LnTM this week. Firstly from KHM about a Cross Solent Swim on 7th July. See https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/khm/portsmouth/local-notices/lntm/2024/24-84-cross-solent-swim-7-july-2024 for details.

Next, and I have mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, but it is worth mentioning again now there is a notice from LHB. There is now real time tide and weather information from the Harbour Office at Langstone Entrance. More details at: https://mailchi.mp/25f6ce61d5a5/local-notice-to-mariners-langstone-harbour-10642398?e=03ba08e68f.

Before I sign off for this week I’ll add a quick “save the date”:

7th & 8th September – 75th Anniversary Regatta

This will be a fun event whether you are shore side or on the water, so book the time in your calendar so you don’t miss it.

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 always most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Useful Links

• WebCollect: dinghies for more details.

Tidal Diamond 953

• Social Dates for Your Diary
• Family Fun Day
• Kayaking
• FSMBC Regatta
• Ebb & Flow
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Social Dates for Your Diary

Hi everyone,

Remember Friday 28th June we’re having a BBQ at the club. Fingers crossed for great weather. Come along even if you’re not going on the water. John and Paul will be behind the bar.

Booking essential please. The link is below.

https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/friendly-friday-race-night-june

The following Friday 5th July we have a fun quiz night planned and you’ll also be able to order a ploughman’s supper. Even more meat and less celery this time . It’s not on WebCollect yet, but please save the date. We’ll send round a nudge once the web collect is ready.

Inga Lambert
Social Secretary
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Kayaking

I hope to see some of you on Saturday 29th June for a lovely paddle in company over to Hayling Island. You can get a coffee and a bacon roll, or an ice cream, at the cafe on the beach by the Ferry Boat Inn.

We’ll launch at 10.00am, the tides will be great, and the weather is looking good, so slap on your sun screen and your and come along. There’ll be time to have a look at the Mulberry Harbour on the way back if anyone wants to do that. Any questions just shout.

There’s another planned for 27th July with a 9am launch so save the date.

Terri Johnson
Kayak Captain
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Family Fun Day

Sunday 30th June. Leaving Slipway at 10am. Club boats available to hire. Don’t forget sunscreen and a hat. Bring games and a picnic. ‘Our own private beach’ beautiful Sword Sands.

Jane Dare
Rear Commodore
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Fareham Sailing & Motor Boat Club Regatta

FSMBC laid on a great regatta over the 22/23 June weekend, including some lovely warm sunny weather and a light breeze. Saturday was dedicated to the rowing heats, with nine women’s and ten men’s teams taking part, along with a good number of Scout teams. The boats for the adult races were a pair of large and heavy boats that were a big contrast to the Bursledon Gigs with which we were familiar. This was a steep learning curve for our rowers and coxes!

Tudor was represented by one women’s and one men’s team. Our women were short of a cox, but found a very keen volunteer from Portchester Sailing Club. Races were run on a head-to-head format over a short ‘sausage’ course around two marks. Both Tudor teams came through their heats as winners, each posting the second fastest times of the day. Meanwhile onshore, there was BBQ catering running from early in the day. Starting with very popular bacon rolls and moving on to Burgers and Hot Dogs, with hot and cold drinks to keep everyone refreshed. There was also a well stocked bar, which may have attracted a passing interest!

Sunday saw the day start with sailing racing in the local Fareham Lugger boats. These small scow type boats were sailed single-handed by sailors who clearly knew the boats and the waters well. The result was some close and entertaining sailing right in front of the clubhouse. Sailing was followed by the rowing semi-finals and then the finals. Tudor men comfortably won their semi-final in a good time. In their semi-final, our women came a very creditable second, only losing by 3 seconds to a team that suddenly found a lot more pace than on Saturday and would go on to win the final.

The men’s final was a head-to-head with the team from Fareham, who were multiple winners of this annual event.had posted the fastest time in the heats. Tudor had matched this time of 3′:03″ in the semi, so we were set for a very close race! In the end it was Tudor who were victorious by one second… an amazing 2′:52″ race!

After competing, the bar provided welcome drinks which were much enjoyed! There was a very exuberant prize giving and a very good group of A Cappella singers kept us entertained with a great selection of Sea Shanties.

Tudor made a lot of new friends over the weekend and it was a pleasure to visit this very welcoming club and enjoy its great waterfront location. Well done to our Bronze Medal Ladies: Nina, Kirsty, Ladina, Nikki and their cox Valarie. Our men’s winning team: Martino, Rory, Mike, Crazy Rich and their cox Paul.

Paul Rivington
Vice Commodore
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Ebb & Flow

Family Fun Day

This coming Sunday we have the Family Fun Day on Sword Sands. Having grown up visit Sword Sands from before I could walk I know it is the place to go to have fun! See the attached poster for details.

Locks Regatta

Locks Regatta is being held on 6th and 7th July. The Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions are attached for those heading down harbour to join in.

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 always most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Useful Links

• WebCollect: dinghies for more details.

Tidal Diamond 952

• Ebb & Flow
• Useful Links
• Diary Dates

Ebb & Flow

Just the Ebb & Flow section this week, but that doesn’t mean there’s no news.

First item of interest is the new Real Time Tide and Weather information from the Langstone Harbour Board office. This provides quite a lot of interesting data that is local and useful for all water based activities in Langstone. It has just been launched and can be found at: https://www.langstoneharbour.org.uk/realtime-weather.

Next item is an interesting article from the University of Portsmouth on the data collected by the the GB Row Challenge Team Ithaca. Not only did they set a Guinness World Record, they collected valuable scientific data, which this piece gives an insight into. Read more at: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/data-collected-by-record-breaking-rowers-builds-a-unique-picture-of-coastal-biodiversity.

I will round off with a few items from the Tudor calendar. Fridays are usually a good night if you are feeling social, with a variety of Friendly Friday activities. You can keep up to the minute on these and bar opening details by joining one of the WhatsApp groups listed below.

On the water we have regular events on Mondays with Paddle Mondays. Wednesdays have a dinghy Cruise in Company as well as Cadets on the Water, and Thursdays we have Women on the Water. That’s the regular events, if you check the website calendar (again linked below) you can find the full list of events. Between now and the end of June we have Summer Series 1 & 2, the Langstone Regatta, the Ian Silk Trophy and Forts and Fairway 1, the Priory Bay Cruise and a Family Fun Day. Plenty to look forward to.

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 always most welcome.

Let’s be careful out there.

Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Useful Links

• WebCollect: dinghies for more details.