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.
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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 
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. It’s not on WebCollect yet, but please save the date. We’ll send round a nudge once the web collect is ready.
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.
