Tidal Diamond 767
- Upcoming Dinghy Events
- Call for Cadet Rowers
- Brenda Hair
- Waiting for the Tide
- Useful Links
- Diary Dates
Upcoming Dinghy Events
The next scheduled dinghy event is the Boxing day race. But unfortunately, the tide time means a 9am race start. This is likely to result in a poor turn out of both competitors and volunteers coming down the club after overindulging on Christmas day. Therefore, I am cancelling this year’s boxing day race.
This means the next dinghy event that is planned to go ahead is the Icicle series race 1 on 17th January starting at 13:30. For this and the subsequent icicle races to go ahead we need members who are trained up to please volunteer via DutyMan.
Mark Swallow
Dinghy Captain
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Call for Cadet Rowers
Hi All Tudor members,
The rowing section is keen to coach young Tudor members in the art of rowing.
As you are probably aware the rowing section is constantly active all year round, with crews rowing every Tuesday morning, Wednesday evening and Saturday morning and Novice training on Saturday mornings at approx. 1000hrs.
When the rowing section first started some 4 years ago we trained a number of cadets and they became and still are very proficient rowers winning races against juniors and adults. These young rowers are also very competent sailors and remain very active in the club and in particular they cox for us on a regular basis, however they are now “Ageing fast” and their lifestyles are more complex, consequently they are finding it increasingly difficult to support our coxing needs.
We have started to introduce ‘youngsters’ from among the memberships children but for some time now we have neglected to train young club members and it is that deficiency we are now wanting to address.
So if you have children or Grandchildren between the ages of 12 and 18 who would appreciate learning new boating skills, (there is nothing like rowing to drive home the appreciation of tidal shifts) massively increase their level of fitness but most important of all want to have Fun on the water we would be delighted to hear from you. Please email:- rowing and we will make it happen.
(Volunteers will be contacted in due course in line with current social distancing restraints)
(These activities are monitored by the club welfare officer.)
By the way the above Coaching offer also still applies to all Tudor SC adults as a major part of the rowing sections rapid growth has been driven by our ongoing Saturday morning novice training sessions.
Jane Dare
Prospective Rowing Captain
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Brenda Hair
We were very sorry to learn that Brenda Hair, wife of Jim Hair and also an Honorary Life Member of the club, passed away in September.
Richard Gunn
Commodore
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Waiting for the Tide
If anybody has been following the INEOS TEAM UK putting together their challenge for the 36th America’s Cup on YouTube, you will have seen some pretty impressive engineering with their high tech foiling yachts. Bringing things a little more down to earth, all be it not exactly suited to Langstone or Tudor, I had a couple of videos suggested to me from back in 2017 that I thought some members may find entertaining.
First off there is an RYA video “Incredible Foiling Laser – Taking off at Southampton Water Activities Centre – Flying Boat“:
https://youtu.be/4HkIs5VzXCA
Not to be outdone, and likely a more impressive feat of engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, is “The Foiling Optimist” – and yes, you read that correctly, an Optimist!:
https://youtu.be/UokOO60dsMU
Impressive though those modifications are, I’m still not planning to try it on any of my boats!
As ever, feel free to drop me an email at this address if you feeling isolated and cut off from the world, even though this lockdown is slightly different things are far from normal. It is always nice to hear from members, and any ideas of things to include in the Tidal Diamonds would be most welcome.
Stay safe.
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:
Paul Tansom
Tidal Diamond Editor
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Diary Dates
| Social |
Sailing |
| AGM |
January 10th 1400hrs |
Icicle Series 1 |
January 17th 1330hrs |
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Icicle Series 2 |
January 31st 1230hrs |
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| Current Club Activities |
| Dinghy sailing in company – contact dinghies for more details. |
| Cruiser sailing planning & info – contact commodore<a href="mailto:commodore for more details. |
| Rowing, gigs can be booked – contact rowing for more details. |
| Women on the Water, weekly – contact wow for more details. |
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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