Tidal Diamond 899
- Social Update
- Langstone SC Regatta
- Club Marketing
- Cruiser Update
- Cockleshell Challenge
- Round Hayling Cruise
- Ebb & Flow
- Useful Links
- Diary Dates
Social Update
Friendly Friday Race Night – June 30th
This evening is very popular, so please get your names to the rowing captain if you wish to join in.
It’s a great way to get to know each other. If you haven’t rowed before or are relatively new, that is no problem, everyone is welcome to come along, even if it’s just to watch and have something to eat.
There is a trophy to be won, but more importantly who will win the coveted wooden spoon?
Please pre book food. We will be serving chilli and rice.
https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/friendly-friday-food
Games Night – July 7th
Do come along for a social evening, whether you fancy playing darts, board games or even chess.
The pool table has been recovered if you fancy challenging someone to a game! Tokens are £1 for 2 and can be purchased at the bar, each game uses 1 token.
New Members Evening – 14th July
If you’re new to the club this year, come along to our new members evening. Meet like minded people, find out more about the activities on and off water at your club and get the answer to any questions you may still have.
We will be providing a finger buffet.
Please book on Webcollect so we can get an idea of numbers, there is no charge for coming along.
https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/new-members-evening
Cocktail Evening – 21st July
The evening will start with a nice glass of Pimms.
We will then make 3 different cocktails. It could be a maiden voyage, a hello sailor, a man overboard, 3 sheets to the wind or even a Keel over!
There will be nibbles, and possibly some games……. lifts home advised!
https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/cocktail-evening
Sword Sands Family Day – 30th July
Let’s all make the most of having our own island so close by and spend the afternoon on Sword Sands enjoying the sun, sand and sea.
Bring along your footballs, frisbees, your badminton racquets etc, along with your suntan lotion and a picnic. The main thing is to bring yourselves and your friends and family along.
There will be a rounders rematch, as there is a rumour that last year’s winning team cheated 
Then back to the club for a BBQ and a few drinks to finish the day off.
BBQ will be pay on the day, but please book on webcollect so we can get an idea of numbers.
https://webcollect.org.uk/tudorsc/event/sword-sands-family-fun-day
Don’t forget you can always hire the club for your own private parties at very reasonable rates. We all know how lucky we are to have just a great venue on the water’s edge with a bar!
You can now also hire the BBQ for only £15.
We do ask that you give it a really good clean after use please, ready for the next person, or if you prefer we can sort out the cleaning for you at a cost of £36.
Details for booking can be found here: – MYTUDORSC, then click browse subscriptions, go to the club hire tab and then select Barbecue.
Please don’t forget to keep those beautiful photos coming in for our charity TSC calendar to tscmedia
Thank you,
Sue Elson
Social Secretary
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Langstone Sailing Club’s Regatta
This Saturday is Langstone Sailing Club’s regatta starting at 11am. The sailing instructions are attached for anyone interested in taking part in their regatta. If you are interested in taking part then please can you please register your interest at Register your interest in Langstone SC Regatta & Prentice Plate Saturday 17th June 2023. Also, please allow plenty of time to sail round to Langstone Sailing Club as the forecast at the time of writing is for light winds and there is currently no patrol boat cover to be able to tow you round. If you have any questions then please do get in touch, It would be good to have a few Tudor sailors take part and support Langstone Sailing Club.
Mark Swallow
Sailing Secretary
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Club Marketing
Thank you to everyone that’s been sharing social media posts and spreading the word about all things Tudor. It’s great to see our presence in the harbour and community flourishing.
You will start to notice a few new logos on our social media. As you’ve already seen with the rowing section previously, we continue to build a brand of logos that sit under our familiar TSC burgee and help to showcase each water activity we offer as well as the overall club. They’ve been designed with impact and clarity in mind, specifically for use in social media, marketing materials, and clothing. Teamwork and collaboration is always a strength at the club, so thank you to everyone that is involved, with special credit to Martino Pani, Will Coleman, Dani Brain, and Hannah Barnes for their upcoming Tudor Cadets and Women on Water section logos.
The club is happy for you to use these logos and share to advertise TSC, but naturally your content should be related to activities we offer at Tudor. Please don’t change or play with the logo in any way. A heads up to me would be appreciated if you plan to use the logo to ensure the visual of our club stays on point and relevant, and naturally we’d like to use footage from you budding filmmakers on our official channel too so please get in touch.
Jane Dare
Rear Commodore
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Cruiser Update
Tudor’s cruisers have been enjoying this run of lovely breezy, sunny weather by getting out and about. We heard that the north-easterlies haven’t been so much fun for members visiting France, with lumpy sea conditions there making life rather uncomfortable. Over here, our WhatsApp group contains tales of members’ recent trips to (among other destinations, no doubt) Studland, Newport, Island Harbour, Folly, Cowes, Lymington, Ryde and Chichester. Last weekend several cruisers met up and enjoyed socialising in Newport: Kelly Semmens writes “The crews of Holly and Dream On were island bound on Friday morning, heading to Newport on the Isle of Wight. After a little bit of floundering in the Solent, we made our way up the Medina to meet with the crew of Goodyear who were ready with welcome drinks to re-hydrate us all. They have dredged the harbour but not right up to the pontoon, as Holly discovered as she settled on a slight slant. A weekend full of fun, lots of laughs and plenty of sunshine. A fabulous time was enjoyed by all.” The picture collage shows some of the fun they had!
Please do keep contributing to the Cruiser WhatsApp group when you’re out and about – it’s great to see and hear what everyone’s up to. Don’t forget you can use the Cruiser Calendar here to help plan trips with others, and also to look for crew or crewing opportunities. If you’re a cruising member who’s not already in the WhatsApp group, please email me with your name, mobile number and cruiser name (for info) to join. There’s also a Cruiser Racing WhatsApp Group.
Kat Robinson
Cruiser Captain
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Cockleshell Challenge
Hi All Tudor members,
Last Sunday saw the 5th. annual ECA 9 mile round the Fort “Cockleshell” rowing Challenge (the race is in honour of the Cockleshell heroes who trained on these shores). This is a very important race in the Tudor rowing calendar as it was the first rowing race that Tudor entered (with Rosie) some 5 years ago, we won it then and the subsequent 2 races, last year we were just beaten by the “Lewis” pilot gig crew. The competition from the 22 boat fleet was fierce with the venomous calls of coxswain shouting “Pull” filling the air. However in spite of their best efforts the overwhelming power of our Tudor rowers triumphed against all-comers by winning all of the trophies on offer.
Fastest overall on handicap “Freedom” …..Fastest Bursledon Gig “Freedom”….. Fastest ladies “Friendship” ……Fastest mixed crew “Orange Peel”.
There were other categories such as fastest Pilot Gig, fastest Celtic longboat, Fastest Solent Galley but these obviously don’t apply to us but important to remember that when all the handicaps were applied our crews swept the board.
For information there was a “Race within this race” between our boats Freedom and Navigator. These 2 crews are extremely well matched (and determined) with both their calculated rowing efficiencies being some 95%. I wager it is near impossible to drive these boats faster than we do, particularly over long distance, we ran neck and neck for the whole race. Under these conditions where boats are alongside or within just one or two lengths of each other at any given time the rowing battle becomes one of outright attrition with both crews hurling in every thing they have to gain advantage. The slightest error by the rowers or the cox can be decisive. Calling on full crew discipline and concentration, the outcome of this 2 boat battle means we left the whole of the rest of the fleet way behind and clipped approximately 10 minutes off previous best time, in the end Freedom just pipped Navigator by 20 seconds, an extremely small margin after one and a half hours of outright “mental and physical torture” , hence the very true old adage “you become better by working with the best”.
The ECA always have the best hospitality and their organisation coupled with good weather and sea conditions made It a great race day with great people enjoyed by all, made even better by the cheering on from friends and family ashore with Richard and Yvonne Adams and crew of Pluto providing on the water support. We were surprised to suddenly hear cheering as we came down on the fort.
Ian DuCane
Round Hayling Cruise
Saturday 10 June
Forecast – NE veering to SE, 8-14kts
7 crews and a swashbuckling, dashing, courageous single-hander adventurer (me) assembled outside the club lounge at 0945 sharp(ish) to receive a thorough briefing from our intrepid organiser, Neil Boyce, about the perils that lay in wait for us as we contemplated the 14 treacherous miles of tides, sandbars, mud flats, navigation marks, harbour entrances and the infamous Hayling bridge.
With, amazingly, no one backing out in the face of such odds, we rigged up and headed down the slipway, slower boats first. I was in my wetsuit as I suspected I might be swimming the club’s Topper Topaz under the bridge, and because I’m getting a name amongst the dinghy community for capsizing every time I go afloat, so had a reputation to uphold. Mark & Nicola led the way in the club Wanderer, followed by me and Mike & Clare in the first of four magnificent Wayfarer entries. The tide was low and the wind was showing southerly tendencies even as we set sail, so some tacking (past 12 unfazed, hauled-out seals) in the narrow channel was necessary before we reached the eastern edge of Russell’s Lake.
At this point, M&N decided to head for a sandbank for a pause (neither lost nor an early lunch, it seems), handing me the lead (it’s not a race, Rupert) to lead the flotilla out through The Race and on to the High Seas. M&C soon zipped by upwind and, to make them feel better, I decided literally to test the water once more and capsize when I forgot about the main sheet jammer on this boat. A concerned Paul & Ian hovered nearby in a patrol boat but were soon back off on shepherding duties.
Annoyed at having relinquished my lead (it’s not a race, R), I set off in pursuit of M&C, as all the boats transited the Langstone Harbour entrance. Neil & Anita were next on Wayfarer Sanderling, with Russell & Laurie on club WYSIWYG, Declan and Fabia on the fourth Wanderer and Ian & Dave in a GP playing tail-end Charlie (though the new, immaculately white sails and bright PFDs meant there was no chance they would ever be lost from view).
Taking the inside line close to shore (in contradiction to Neil’s advice, soz), I snuck inside M&C and got to the Chichester Bar mark first (it’s not a r, R), then lurked around as the rest of the convoy assembled. The wind at our end of the island was quite energetic from the SE as the sea breeze kicked in but it had yet to fill at the far end, so we started out on a slow broad reach/run into Chichester Harbour…just as LITERALLY a MILLION boats left HISC for the day’s racing. Lasers, Finns, Europes, Devotis, RS-everythings, 29ers, Optimists, unnamed things with trapezes, you name it, it swarmed out to sea. I furled my jib to get a better view (we were at least entering on starboard) but still had a close encounter with an RS Elite and its 3 crew as they exited my blind spot, with right of way to boot (see pic).
Without too much shouting and no collisions, we curled around the back of the club and hauled up on the (very steeply shelving – another swim for me!) shore for lunch. Out came the picnic blankets and provisions as we scoffed our various self-prepared feasts, while keeping an eye on the rapidly-rising tide line. Enplumpened, I went off for 30 minutes more sailing in the harbour, the damage of the supremely uncomfortable gunwale seating of the Topaz having already rendered me insouciant of the pain in my rear end, and to be in pole position for the restart (it’s nar,R).
With a fair wind and flooding tide, we whizzed off up the channel on the eastern flank of HI (Hayling Island, not Hawaii), with 4 more seals added to the list. As inar, R, I tried to get ye olde Topaz planing with broad reaches back and forth across the channel, allowing the current to do some of the VMG work for me and some of the others to pass. Resisting the temptation of ice cream in Emsworth, we proceeded west towards the top of HI, towards…the bridge of doom! Everyone dropped their masts and rowed under the bridge except for me, who went ashore, capsized the boat (deliberately, this time) and guided it between the supports in waist-deep water. Past the annoyingly-spaced cruisers and we were out into Home Harbour, again with all paint and buoyancy intact.
This time, unbeknownst to the others, I decided it IS a race, Rupert, and set off in a straight line, as close to Farlington Marshes as I could get, aiming for our distant slipway. Only when I spotted the dry mud banks against the hull of the incoming dredger did I realise this course wouldn’t work, so headed more towards the Broom buoy (as Neil had suggested, in his infinite wisdom), with daggerboard and rudder raised to the max. I managed to squeak over the shallows and into the channel without hitting the bottom (or any seals) and was ashore in minutes…which only meant I had to get the trailers for all the other boats which had wisely taken more circuitous routes (the losers! ).
Thanks to Neil for the organisation, Paul & Ian and Roger & Joe for their long day on the patrol boats and to everyone who took part. Wonderful weather, interesting sailing and fun company – I even managed not to shout at myself this time. But I did fall in for the third time during a botched arrival on the slipway – luckily a passing seagull and dismembered crab leg were the only witnesses to that.
Rupert Rhodes
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(Pictures courtesy of Rich Barnes, lurking in a bush with a long lens somewhere near HISC:)
Note: the photos are attached in PDF form to include the caption and reduce the number of attachments.
Ebb & Flow
With the number of lenghy articles and number of attachments this week I think I will simply round off with the usual…
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 would be most welcome.
Let’s be careful out there.
Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Useful Links
I thought it worth continuing to include a few useful links here as a handy place to find them if you haven’t already got them bookmarked:
Diary Dates
Shore side
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On the water
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| Friendly Friday Race Night |
June 30th 1830hrs |
Cruise in Company |
June 14th 1300hrs |
| Friendly Friday Games Night |
July 7th 1900hrs |
Club Rowing – Leisure Row |
June 14th 1800hrs |
| New Members Evening |
July 14th 1900hrs |
Women on the Water |
June 15th 1800hrs |
| Cocktail Evening |
July 21st 1900hrs |
Friendly Friday |
June 16th 1800hrs |
| Friendly Friday Race Night |
July 28th 1830hrs |
Club Rowing – Sport Row |
June 17th 0800hrs |
| Sword Sands Family Fun Day |
July 29th |
Langstone Regatta (LHCCS 1&2) |
June 17th 1100hrs |
| Tudor Challenge BBQ & Drum Nation |
August 19th 1200hrs |
Supported Recreational Sailing |
June 17th 1100hrs |
| Tudor Regatta BBQ |
September 2nd 1200hrs |
Round Hayling Rowing Race |
June 18th |
| Tudor Regatta |
September 3rd 1300hrs |
Sunday Series 1 Wilson / Glanville |
June 18th 1130hrs |
| Watch this Space |
Club Rowing – Leisure / Sport Row |
June 20th 0800hrs |
| Club Rowing – Intro Row |
June 20th 1800hrs |
| Cadets on the Water |
June 20th 1800hrs |
| Cruise in Company |
June 21st 1300hrs |
| Club Activities |
| Dinghy racing – please use the following link to register and sign in to any dinghy racing event or series: dinghies for more details. |
| Cruiser sailing planning & info (WhatsApp group) – contact cruisers for more details. |
| Cruiser racing (WhatsApp group)- contact cruisers for more details. |
Rowing, new and experienced rowers are always welcome to join us –
contact rowing for more details. Gigs are also available for hire here. |
| Women on the Water, weekly – contact wow for more details. |
| Maintenance Hours – to join the WhatsApp group contact maintenance |
| New(ish) Members – to join the WhatsApp group contact rearcommodore |
Dinghy, Sailing, Cruiser
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All contributions for Tidal Diamonds to me by 1400hrs on Tuesdays please; please allow plenty of time for emails to reach me. However exceptions will always be made for emergencies. Note: all content is automatically published on the Tudor website unless requested otherwise.
Regards,
Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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