News – Page 29 – Gt Yarmouth & Gorleston Sailing Club

17th April Watling Plate Results

Another bright sunny day and pleasant breeze greeted the fleet for the first weekend of the Watling Plate. Dave and Jon in there 400 port tacked the fleet and pulled out a good lead up the first beat. Behind the 400 Ben and Steve in their D-ones had pulled away from the fleet to hold second and third. With a slight drop in the breeze the rest of the fleet grouped up as boats struggled to judge the tide.

Dave and Jon continued to pull away and were looking good till a miss timed gybe at the gate resulted in a near miss with the committee boat and a first swim of the season. Ben took full advantage and in the building wind and waves took the lead and never looked back to take the win with the 400 recovering to take second. Anna and Keith having got there capsize out of the way before the start took a well deserved 3rd. With the wind and waves continuing to increase and with everyone bar Jamie Freeman in a borrowed RS700 and Ben having taken a swim the fleet headed for the beach and a pie.

Results Here……….

Next week is the start of the spring series, so if you haven’t made it down yet come and join in the fun!

Regards

Phil

Start of the Season Results.

At last the season started today at Gorleston, with the aptly named ‘Start of season’ trophy. Conditions could not have been better with sunshine all day and a F2 wind to start with but increasing throughout the day. With the assistance of a flooding tide upwind legs were relatively short meaning plenty of time to enjoy the downwind legs. The D-One’s were out in force with Chris kicking of the season with a perfect score. Dave H.

Full Results Here………..

Members enjoy canal walk.

Members took to the countryside today for an enjoyable walk along the Nth Walsham & Dilham Canal although muddy the walk took in some very interesting countryside and the ongoing restoration of the canal. There was even so Yachts sailing on the mill pond.

The canal was Norfolk’s only artificial, locked sailing canal and was opened in 1826. 8¾ miles in length, it ran from Antingham Bone Mills, 1½ miles NW of North Walsham, to Wayford Bridge where it joined the navigable River Ant. It used 6 large locks along its length to enable the 20 ton wherries to ascend the 58ft rise to Antingham.

The canal was closed in 1893 and officially abandoned in 1927.

The Walk sensibly started and finished the Bluebell Pub where we enjoyed lunch and a pint.

Thanks to Tom for organising. We all enjoyed ourselves and there was no whingeing at all.

Season Dates & 2016 Programme

The 2016 season is almost here! To make sure you don’t miss the start of season below are the key dates for your diary.

Sunday 3rd April Lay Ramp
Saturday 9th April Work Party
Sunday 10th April Start of Season Regatta

2016 Programme is available here..

Find out about joining here….

End of season Results.

Congratulations to Tom and Sarah for their victory in the End of Season mini series. With some of the strongest tides of the season and only a light breeze tactics played a great part in both days racing. With Tom and Sarah taking a victory in week one of over 35 minutes as the rest of the fleet tried to beat through the tide to round the first mark time and time again. Race 2 & 3 saw a strengthening of the wind and lap times back to 20 minutes Martin taking bullets in both races but the 505 still taking a 2nd and 3rd. Week 2 and still not much breeze and the tide as furious as the previous week, Just before the race start the course was shortened to try and accommodate the tide, a good job too as it was still a struggle. Chris took an easy Win in the first race and it looked like the wind was picking up for race 2. Looks can be deceiving and Phil and Lorna headed for home before the end on the first beat, the rest battled on with race team eventually deciding to finish after 1 lap a decision universally approved. Tom managed to sneak past Chris to take the honours as the rest of the fleet limped across the line. After lunch the ramp was soon lifted thanks to all.

So hopefully see you all Saturday for the final clear up.

GYGSC 2016 Agm

The GYGSC AGM will be held at the club on Monday 9th November at 8.00pm.

As usual the AGM will be followed by the Sailing Forum which gives everyone the chance to say what they would like to see in next year’s sailing programme how the racing should be run and what changes might be introduced to make the club as successful as possible in 2016.

Do come along if you possibly can. It’s our final get-together of the year!

End of season Prize Giving

Last Orders – to me by Sunday as I have to pass details to the hotel.

(If you’ve said your coming – you will need to pay!! so any problems let me know ASAP.)

This year’s end of season meal and prize giving will be held at the Pier Hotel on Saturday October 24^th. Please let me know if you are coming with your menu choices or Sign up on the sheet in the Clubhouse.

Chef’s Homemade soup

Fan of Honey Dew melon with fruit coulis

Chefs Homemade Pate with red Onion Marmalade

Prawn and Grayfish Cocktail in Marie rose sauce

~oOo~

Grill Sirloin Steak Mushrooms Tomato & Chipped Potatoes

(£4 Supplement)

Roast Turkey, Chipolata, Stuffing and Gravy

Deep Fried Cod fillet, Chips and Peas

Steak and Ale Shortcrust Pastry Pie

Baked Salmon and Hollandaise Sauce

Lasagne with Chipped Potatoes & Side Salad

~oOo~

Apple & Blackberry Pie and Custard

Peach Melba Sundae

Ginger & Mandarin Cheesecake with Cream

Chocolate Chip Sponge & Custard

£21.95 Per Person.

Photo’s July and August

Photos from the last few weeks, sorry for the delay.

There are some great ones especially from the 2nd August when Kevin was out on the water.
A Big thanks to Kevin for these photos. We have been very lucky in have Kevin available to take great photos so far around 2500 and counting

You can also check them out and download any you would like from our FLIKR page

Go to GYGSC photostream

If you would like to Download a photo please see instructions attached.

How To Downlaod a Photo from the GYGSC Flickr page 2015

August 9th

August 2nd

July 26th

Training Day Saturday 25th July

After the success of last years training days we will be running 3 training days this year.. A chance to improve your boat handling and race skills. This is the 2nd one of the year. See you there………

Dates/times:

Saturday 25th July – Rigged for 10:30am

Saturday 30th September – Rigged for 10:30am

These days are open to non members as well as members of GYGSC and are free to attend.

2015 Training Poster please display where you can.