SPRING 2010 £5.00 ROYAL SOUTHERN YACHT CLUB

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EDITORIAL TEAM
John Beardsley - Commodore
Pat Aspinall - Rear Commodore
Sheelagh Cohen - Editor
Tim Robinson - Chairman, House Committee
Colin Sinclair - Vice Chairman,
Sailing Committee
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Anne Arscott
David Mead
Pat Aspinall
Annette Newton
John Beardsley
Tony Parker
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Sally Sturt
Colin Hall
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John Walker
Geoff Holt
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Judy Hussey
Natalie Gray
Mike Jones
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Tony Lovell
CONTENTS
From the Commodore
Page 2
Charitable Trust
Page 3
Club News
Pages 4-6
ICOYC
Page 8
New Members
Page 9
Obituaries
Page 10
Benefits of Membership
Page 11
Countdown to 2012
Page 12
Afloat
Page 14
Since we last met
Pages 15-17
Cruising
Pages 18
Cruiser Race
Pages 20-21
Iorana - A Dunkirk little ship Pages 22-23
Bay of Islands
Page 24
Saint Jack - Summer in SwedenPages 26-27
Motorboats
Page 28
Academy
Pages 30-31
Splash
Pages 32-33
Impossible Dream
Page 34
Christmas Panto
Pages 36-37
Ladies Committee
Page 38
Golf & Shooting
Page 40
Fitting Out Supper
Page 41
Snippets
Pages 42-45
Southern Hospitality
Pages 46-47
2010 Programme
Page 48
ROYAL SOUTHERN YACHT CLUB
CONTACTS
Secretary: Mike Rogers
secretary@royal-southern.co.uk
023 8045 0300
Sailing Secretary: Natalie Gray
023 8045 0302
sailing@royal-southern.co.uk
Office and Administration:
023 8045 0300
Accounts:
023 8045 0304
from
the
The start of a new season is a refreshing
time to be around the Club seeing everybody
coming out of hibernation and preparing their
boat for the coming season.
Things have not been still during the winter
months. A great deal of planning, and indeed
action, has taken place dealing with items both
on and off the water.
On the water, a full programme for racing,
cruising and motorboats has been planned and
Commodore
will be in full swing when you read this.
John Beardsley
Commodore
As your Commodore I have had the pleasure
of carrying the gospel of the Royal Southern
to many overseas places and have no shame
in saying whilst many of you were suffering
the British winter I had the onerous task of
representing the Royal Southern in warmer
climes. Away to the British Virgin Islands, well
someone had to go and meet our Honorary
Member Geoff Holt after his epic transatlantic
crossing. It was a very emotional event and
worthy of the man and I had promised to
do it. Geoff will be doing a lecture for us
some time in 2010. I also had the pleasure of
confirming the reciprocal arrangement with the
Royal BVI Yacht Club, any Southern Member
venturing into that part of the world can expect
to receive superb hospitality. I hope many will
take advantage of this. Also as a final event I
had a pleasant meeting with the newly elected
Commodore of the Barbados Yacht Club.
sponsors reflected the ethos of the Club. On my
return, I am delighted to report that the ICOYC
forum in 2012 will be at the Royal Southern
during our 175th anniversary year.
On the subject of the 175th Anniversary
planning the celebrations for this milestone
event in the Club's history is taking shape with
something for each month of the year. There is
an article later in the magazine and Members
will be kept informed of progress by all means
possible.
One of the most important things I wanted
to achieve during my term as Commodore of
the Royal Southern was to try and retain the
Cadets, who at the age of 18, fledge and leave
us. As some of you know I was always convinced
that this could be achieved. We needed to have
a scheme whereby we create an interesting
environment of sailing and social events such
that these Members would want to come to the
Club, and take part in when they have so many
other demands on their time.
Out of all this the Academy has been born
and I believe we are making good progress. A
committee has been formed and as always there
are a couple of stalwarts, who have helped drive
this forward. These young people are the life
blood of our great Club and I sincerely hope
the rest of our membership will support this and
welcome our young people in.
ABOVE Angus and Annette
Newton with our Secretary Mike
Rogers and myself at the ICOYC
Dinner in Perth Australia.
TOP RIGHT Addressing
the delegation at the ICOYC
Conference
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After three weeks of winter weather it was
back to the warmer weather. This time to
Australia, to attend the International Council
of Yacht Clubs (ICOYC) forum in Perth. This
was a great opportunity to once more fly the
Royal Southern burgee with representatives
from yacht clubs around the world - Canada,
America, South Africa, Europe, Hong Kong
and Australia. It was a very interesting and
worthwhile conference visiting many subjects
affecting us all in this modern world. To mention
two in particular: we had useful exchanges on
membership covering recruitment, retention and
delivering value for money and also sponsorship;
getting sponsorship, keeping it alive, giving the
sponsor value for money and ensuring that
My final paragraph is to mention our
refurbished River Room. It was badly in need of
repair so it was thought we should go the whole
mile and develop some good dining facilities.
With some intense staff training, new menus
and wine list and the recruitment of a second
chef we believe that we have succeeded. We
are well aware that we have to maintain this
standard in order to convince those who doubt
should try it. I am sure that you will not be
disappointed.
On that note may I wish you all a happy
and eventful sailing season in 2010 may the sun
shine and the breeze appear, where ever you
sail and may there be not too much if you are
motoring?
I am delighted to be able to write that the
Trust is now able to fund larger projects and
provide substantial support to the provision of
open racing events.
When the Trust was formed 3 years ago
the Trustees decided that we should keep the
capital intact and award grants from the income
generated from the loan of the capital and from
Friends’ donations. Consequently the Trust has
only been able to award relatively small grants
to assist individuals and organisations in their
sailing. However, as reported in the last Annual
Report, the Club made a generous donation
to the Trust in 2009. This has been mutually
beneficial as it has provided the Trust with a
substantial increase in the funds available for
grants and reduced the Club’s tax liability. This
made our February round of grants a much
more interesting prospect as we were able to
fund some larger, and previously unaffordable
projects, supporting racing for all which will
have long term benefits. The other grants
covered a wide range of purposes and recipients.
Looking back over all our past requests,
around one third are from those aged under 18.
Likewise around a third of all applications - and
of grants given - is from Club Members. To
date, we have not made as much headway as
we would have liked with supporting sailing in
local schools. However we will persevere in this
objective as we believe it important for us to
invest in our local community and particularly
in supporting young people’s sailing.
Our next round of awards will be made
in the autumn, with a closing date for
applications on Wednesday 15th September.
The link to the Trust on the Club’s website,
www.royal-southern.co.uk, is where the details
of how to apply, the criteria and an application
form can all be found.
Annette Newton
Chairman, Board of Trustees
February Awards
ROYAL
SOUTHERN
YACHT
CLUB
CHARITABLE
Trust
STUDENT MATCH
RACING
Contribution towards the fees for the
student match race event at the Club
involving Southampton, Southampton
Solent, Exeter and Portsmouth
Universities.
F18 EUROCAT
AND WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIPS
CENTRE TOP The Trustees, from
left to right, Brian Mead,
Fr. John Travers, Maggie Smith,
Annette Newton, John Beardsley
and Colin Hall.
Contribution to enable a young
Club Member to participate in these
championships.
ROYAL SOUTHERN
ACADEMY
ROYAL SOUTHERN
ACADEMY
Contribution
towards the costs
of campaigning an
SB3 by an Academy crew.
ROYAL SOUTHERN
YACHT CLUB
Contribution to new racing marks and
ground tackle needed for Open and new
Academy events.
BELOW New Club RIB currently
under construction.
SOUTHAMPTON
SOLENT UNIVERSITY
Grant towards funding a ‘freshers’ crew
in the Student Yachting Nationals.
YMCA FAIRTHORNE
MANOR
Two bursaries for the summer Water
Camp.
BRITISH KEELBOAT
ACADEMY
Contribution towards fees for top level
training.
RYA
Contribution to an GBR Star boat crew
for new spars.
Contribution to enable a student to take
a Day Skippers course.
Grant and loan towards the acquisition of
a replacement RIB for race management,
particularly needed for Academy events and
open regattas.
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CLUB NEWS
Information
Day
The Club staged an Information Day in
March which was designed to provide details of
all the different activities available to Members
in one place and at the same time.
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In recent years there has been a policy that,
when necessary works have to be carried out
that the opportunity should be used to upgrade
the facilities at the same time. This is the most
cost effective means of ensuring that the Club’s
assets are maintained at a high standard and
that the cost of improvements is kept to a
minimum.
Each committee had a “stall” in the Upper
Bar with their props ranging from a gun to
fancy hats. This was the first time that we
have tried such an event and as a result new
Members joined the Academy and three people
became Friends of the Royal Southern Trust.
The Entertainments Committee also acquired
three new members, no doubt because it was
clear from those committee members present
that they had a lot of fun doing what they do!
New interest was shown in both the Golf and
Shooting societies, bringing together sailors
from both sail and power. House Committee
had a display of food from the new menus
which would have been eaten several times over
if it had not been covered in aspic!
This spring, as major structural repairs
were required, we have used the opportunity to
refurbish the River Room, an area much loved
by Members. Our objective in the refurbishment
has been to retain the ambience of the room,
remove some of the problems and provide an
improved experience for Members.
This was a chance to find out more about
things first hand and meet the people involved.
The interior of the room has been
modernised with narrow slat venetian blinds,
dimmable ceiling uplighters set into lighting
coffers and the ceiling repainted. There are also
new chairs, linen, glasses and condiment sets. A
stunning feature is the change to the “windows”
into the hallway. They have been transformed
into illuminated display cabinets for some of
our trophies. In addition to providing a design
feature, it means that Members and guests
can see our trophies displayed to their best
Refurbishment of the River
Room
Pat Aspinall
Rear Commodore House
the new wall, giving a view into the room.
However there remained problems with the
structure of the room. It had only single
glazing, there were draughts from the open
access to the hall and the lack of doors between
the River Room and the hall meant that it was
difficult to “isolate” the room when it was used
for a meeting as it had a tendency to be used
as a corridor. Over the years maintenance has
been carried out, when necessary, especially
to combat the ingress of water in heavy
weather, but the point had been reached
when a significant structural refurbishment
was needed.
The River Room was built over 25 years
ago. Since then the only significant structural
change was when the new building was erected.
This meant that the River Room was accessible
from the main entrance hall, the bar and the
terrace. In addition “windows” were set into
The timber framework of the room has
been renewed with a douglas fir wall framework
and the infill panels have been replaced, both
inside and out, with cedar. Custom built double
glazed windows with wooden frames have been
installed and the radiators have been replaced
with modern designer stainless steel radiators.
These changes will mean reduced maintenance
costs in the future.
advantage. A serendipitous consequence of this
is that the trophy cabinet is also less crowded
and the remaining trophies are consequently
better displayed.
A key feature that will be installed over the
next few weeks are the etched glass doors on
to the entrance hall. It was hoped to install
these prior to the River Room’s re-opening but,
unfortunately, there were some problems in the
manufacture of the doors. To complement all
these changes there will be some changes in the
entrance hall adjacent to the River Room. The
Visitors Book stand is being replaced with a unit
that includes a computer cabinet and there will
be a weather station display that will be visible
from both inside and outside the Clubhouse.
The refurbishment of the River Room
means that not only have we carried essential
maintenance but that we have improved a Club
facility. We now have a high quality dining room,
with the potential for al fresco dining in the
summer, with one of the best views on the River.
In addition it provides an additional room
which can be used for a number of functions
from a wet bar after sailing to a seminar room
during the day.
New Food and
Drink experiences at
the Southern...
At the same time we have taken the
opportunity to take stock of how we deliver
our catering and what members expect from
a prestigious yacht club. The River Room
restaurant will be open on Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, and
on Friday Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes for
full a la carte dining with also tasting menus
and other special menus from time to time. The
River Room will also be available for private
hire at other times and food will still be served
every day in the Upper Bar at lunchtimes.
Take a look at the sample menus. They
have been designed to provide good interesting
food at competitive prices in a place with
a spectacular view which is different from
anywhere else locally. You can have all three
courses or just one if you prefer. You will see
that the menus still include traditional Sunday
luncheon. The special menus may also include
a special “light lunch”. Take a look also at
the pictures of sample dishes here and on the
next page.
TO START
Pan seared fresh king scallops
with crispy bacon, watercress
salad and lime dressing
5@£8.95
9@£15.95
Warm confit of duck leg served
with pickled red cabbage
£6.45
Smoked halibut and smoked salmon set
on a light potato salad with whole grain
mustard and chives
£6.95
Coarse venison and pistachio
terrine with spiced apple chutney
£6.65
Buffalo mozzarella, cherry tomato and
rocket salad finished with fresh basil,
toasted croutons and olive oil
£5.95
R
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IN
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Celery and Stilton cheese soup
£5.25
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MAIN COURSES
Lobster Thermidor with new potatoes.
Fresh lobster cooked with English mustard
cream and glazed with cheese
2x ½ lobster £25.95
Royal Southern Surf and Turf. ½ lobster &
4oz fillet steak served with mixed salad
£21.95
Baked Lamb cutlets with herb crumb
served with a red wine and roasted
shallot sauce set with a potato rosti
£16.95
Poached chicken filled with a crab
mousse and set on a shellfish cream
with basmati rice
£12.50
Pan-fried duck breast enhanced with a
redcurrant and port sauce served with
dauphinoise potato
£13.50
Seared monkfish with Parma ham and leek
cream served with roasted new potatoes
£15.50
Butternut squash and chickpea risotto
with roasted cherry tomatoes
£11.25
SIDE ORDERS
Hand cut chips £2.25
Green salad £2.25
Mixed salad £2.25
Fresh buttered spinach £2.25
Turned root vegetable panache £2.25
Fresh asparagus spears £2.25
Braised red cabbage £2.25
TO FINISH
Royal Southern speciality. Homemade
sticky toffee pudding with toffee sauce
£5.45
Chocolate and strawberry mille fuille
Thin layers of dark chocolate, strawberry
mousse and fresh strawberries
£6.95
Drambuie flavoured creme brulee
Served with dark chocolate sticks
£5.95
As a dessert or an additional course:
English cheese board
Please choose 3 from:
Barkham blue, Cornish yarg, Rosary goat’s
cheese, Somerset Brie, Mature cheddar.
Served with biscuits, celery
and homemade chutney
£6.95
Nespresso coffee with petit fours
£2.95
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A new sous chef has been engaged to assist
Lawrence and his team in the kitchen. Sean
Light is the dedicated restaurant manager for
the River Room and we think that you will be
impressed with the service. The entrance is
through the Lower Bar where staff will greet
you and take your orders for drinks and food
which will then be cooked specially for you.
With fine fare and fresh modern surroundings
we have retrained our staff to the traditional
rosette standard. It is still early days but our
staff are keen to ensure that you should all have
a fantastic experience when eating in the Club.
The wine sub-committee has been working
very hard as well to update our wine list.
There have been exhaustive (and some said
exhausting) wine tastings testing out the wines
which were available against other comparably
priced wines. Whereas our Club wines did not
do too badly, the committee has been able to
identify both better quality house wines and
some great value fine wines which have been
well received. Why not come along and give
them a try if you have not already done so. They
have put in a lot of hard work!
A personal view
from Tim Robinson,
Chairman of House
Committee
On a busy Friday evening after the April
Executive Committe meeting Tim dines in the
River Room with the Vice Commodore and
Treasurer. The following is his 'birds eye view' of
the days proceedings.
30th April, another Executive Committee and
the Vice-Commodore,Treasurer and myself have pre
ordered our dinner in the River Room to help the
staff and I’ve asked Sean our Restaurant Manager
what time will suit him to minimise impact to other
diners. The Commodore and other members of the
Executive are at the Cruiser Dinner in the South
dining room with over 70 other Members.
There is a drinks reception and briefing in the
Upper Bar for the X-Yachts Regatta, run by Race
Management. Then a dinner in the north dining
room .
The bars and kitchen are really revved up ...with
20 diners in the River Room ,sampling the new
menu, and wine list.....80 in the South dining room
for the Cruiser Dinner, plus the X-yacht crews,
owners and sponsors sitting down in the North
dining room.
The River Room is a new venture...we’re
constantly tuning...the wine lists have changed.....Old
favourites on the wine list have been replaced being
replaced by new ones..try the unoaked shiraz......
memories of my old favourite the tempranillo are
fading fast.The Treasurer agrees and orders another
bottle. I get my iPhone out and take notes ..on things
to improve...glass doors, light dimmers....sound
proofing....my food arrives, another tour de force
from the Brigade...but I’m too busy watching other
tables...was that service too slow or too fast?.....
have that couple just sat down without Sean taking
their pre order in the bar...mmm that will slow their
meal down - everything cooked to order.
I nip out to check with the team that all is going
well......Sean the restaurant manger grins..I assume
that means under control, Dan our newly appointed
Front of House, is quite clearly taking charge of his
multiple venues.
The Brigade in the kitchen are delivering on
schedule,and to plan...The bars are starting to ease
off, so bar staff turn to waiting staff, chefs are
reeling off commands ...............
40 North Dining Room
80 South Dining Room
20 River Room
We have decided to up our game on dining,
while still running our traditional programme........it's
hard work, but with the support of our Members it
will be worth it...
Tim Robinson
House Committe Chairman
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International
Council of
Yacht Clubs
International Council of
Yacht Clubs
5th Commodore's Forum,
March 2010, Royal Freshwater
Bay Yacht Club, Perth,
Australia
The ICOYC was formed in 2006 and it
now includes many of the world's leading
yacht clubs. The clubs work together sharing
experience for the benefit of all individual clubs
and their members. The Commodore's forum is
open to Flag Officers and General Managers
(Secretaries) of Council Clubs and rotates by
continent, meeting every 12-18 months.
The forum comprised a varied programme
of conference sessions, an excellent social
programme both at the RFBYC and also at
the Royal Perth Yacht Club, and the ICOYC
Commodore's Cup. With presentations from
many delegates supplemented by guest speakers
such as John Longley, Peter Gilmour and Belina
Stowell the programme was rich in knowledge,
ideas and discussion.
ABOVE Flying Burgees at Royal
Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, Perth.
ABOVE CENTRE Forum
Participants.
TOP RIGHT The official opening
by the ICOYC President.
CENTRE The Inter-Club Race
in a fleet of BW8 One-Designs,
eventually won by Team Hong
Kong (RHKYC & HHYC).
FAR RIGHT The Commodores
exchanging burgees with Warwick
Downes, Commodore of the Royal
Hong Kong Yacht Club.
RIGHT Russell Murphy,
Commodore of the Royal Prince
Alfred Yacht Club and the
Commodore exchange burgees.+
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Commodore John Beardsley, Immediate
Past Commodore Annette Newton, Angus
Newton and Mike Rogers attended the 2010
forun, which was hosted most excellently by
the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club in Perth,
Western Australia. Following the Vice Regal
Reception at Govenment House the Forum
commenced with an opeining ceremony and
flag raising. There were over 20 yacht clubs from
4 continents represented, with burgees flying
from the RFBYC Flagstaff. ICOYC President
and Royal Southern Member John Stork
officially opened the forum and proceedings
were underway.
The next forum will be held in Seattle in
2011 and the Royal Southern are proud to
have been chosen as the host Club for the 2012
forum, a prestigious addition to our celebratory
175th anniversary programme.
New
Members
OBITUARIES
Derek Stevens
We are pleased to welcome the
following New Members to the
Royal Southern Yacht Club.
David and Grainne Allen
Steven Anderson & Jane Curwen
Robin & Marian Armstrong
Leon Barbour
Tim Brouard
Timothy Burnell
Nicola Carney
David and Catherine Collins
Nicholas Cory
Robert Cowley
James Cullen
David Cummins
John Dickinson
Allen and Linda Dobie
Ridzuan Farouk
Hendrik Fedderson
Owain Franks & Jean Lockett
Christopher Garrod
John & Angela Gilbert
Kevin and Dorothy Hall
Paul Harlow
Markus Hendricks and
Iris Hendricks-LanBoeck
John Herrick
Theresa Marshall
Ben Meakins
Christopher & Patricia Menheneott
Lucinda Milton
Graham & Virginia Nixon
David Noel and Melanie Hand
Jeremy Odhams
Thomas Phillip
Charles and Susan Reynolds
Ben Saxton
Peter and Susan Saxton
John & Sarah Sillars
Alex Simpson
David Smith
Robert Spence
Susanne Stanghan-Batch
Dudley & Nicola Stock
Timothy & Margaret Stokes
Jannine Stoodley and Raelene Hurst
Simon and Sally Stoodley
Wendy Stowe
Jennifer Taylor
John and Lucille Taylor
Sarah Treseder
Daniel Van Gelder & Daniela Davidson
Luke Wadman
Penelope Woods
Derek had been a Member of the Royal
Southern for over fifty years and served the Club
in many capacities. He was Commodore from
1977 to 1979 and was subsequently a Trustee
of the Club until incorporation took place. He
also acted as Sailing Secretary for six months
following the death of Major Rex King.
We also regret to
announce the deaths
of the following
members:
Many Members will recall Derek and Jean
on their pale blue blue yacht, Finlandia, that was
present at most Royal Southern events and for
some of the more persistent visitors on board it
was also know as “Ginlandia”.
Hugh Barker
Derek loved that boat and cruised long
distances in her. She was strongly built and one
summer Derek was determined to make a trip
to the Scilly Isles. Having safely navigated to the
Scillies the weather turned foul whilst they were
at anchor and the wind direction changed putting
Finlandia on a lee shore. The gale increased and
Finlandia eventually dragged towards the shore
and ended up beached. In the morning, when
the tide dropped Finlandia was on the only bit of
clear sand, surrounded by rocks. When refloated
the only damage were some scratches to her
topsides. Jean said that she ached afterwards but
it was noticed that the gin was empty.
Barry Pritchard
Derek also turned his hand to becoming a
TV star. Finlandia featured as a Committee Boat
in the early episodes of “Howard’s Way” when
she had to mark the serial’s star boat, The Flying
Fish, winning its races. This proved somewhat
less exciting than it sounds taking some hours
to set up a scene that last seconds on the screen.
Bernard Gorgeu
Following the sale of Finlandia Derek turned
to motorboats but he was never happy with them
and the final Finlandia was a Yarmouth One
Design which Derek and Jean sailed with the
assistance of their son Christopher.
Derek’s ashes are being divided into two. Part
will be placed in a weighted casket which will be
buried on the Bramble Bank at low tide where we
will be able to race and sail round him for years
to come. The other will be scattered on the Solent
in the presence of as many Members and friends
as can attend.
Carole Antas
Karen-Ann Couper
Nanou Guthrie
Sally Howe-Piper
David Walker
Patricia Watts
Ray Williams
Everyone at the Royal Southern
will be saddened to hear of the
death of our long standing friend
Bernard Gorgeu, President of
the Deauville Yacht Club at the
age of 85. Seemingly part of the
fabric of the Club, his passing,
whilst sad, brings back so many
happy memories.
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Bill
Foulkes
Bill was a Bursledon lad, at home on the river.
He, with other Club Members, attended Hamble
Senior School where he was always a rebel. He
tried the Headmaster’s patience and his career
path seems to have been set when Bill left school
and the headmaster said that he’d never be able
to work for anyone else; he’d have to work for
himself.
Despite his headmaster’s advice, after leaving
school Bill worked for various companies on the
river including Tormentor Shipyard and Bridge
Yard. He crewed and skippered the tug Heron,
towing yachts, barges and wrecks all around the
coast and abroad and also helped with his father
Alwyn’s business. In addition to working on the
river and working as a professional seaman Bill
also skippered and crewed various yachts, the
most famous of which was Blanquilla a cruising
twelve metre, which can still be seen on the river.
Eventually Bill took his headmaster’s advice
and decided to work for himself. In the early
sixties he started Aladdins Cave in partnership
with his brother John and older Club Members
will recall them trading from the barge above
Bursledon bridge. Joined later by his younger
brother Glyn, Bill was the dynamo in the business
driving all over the country picking up bankrupt
stock, unwanted stores and equipment from
various shipyards and boat builders in order to
set up the business. Aladdins Cave Chandleries
flourished and when he retired they had a chain
of stores along the south coast and on the
Thames.
He was also involved in the life of the
community. Always keen on hockey at school,
after leaving school, Bill went on to play hockey
for Hamble Old Boys, the team being well known
as a formidable force in the hockey world. He
was also a founder member of the River Rats, a
networking organisation for people who made
their living on the river and was “King Rat” for
a year. He was also a founder member of the
Hamble Inshore Lifeboat and at one time was the
Coxswain.
Bill, with his first wife, brought up his
family in Old Bursledon where they were well
known locally. They enjoyed the river and Solent
participating in Bursledon Regatta, sailing a
number of boats including a Squib and latterly a
Fairey Swordsman. In later life he became a keen
golfer and had much success in competitions.
Bill experienced great sadness when his first
wife died of cancer but some years later he found
happiness again when he married Sandy Guyer,
who, together with Bill’s family and professionals,
cared for him in his time of need when diagnosed
with a brain tumour.
Bill Foulkes was a charismatic character,
whose popularity both with his wide range of
personal friends and with all his contacts in the
yachting industry was immense. His presence and
his humour will be very sadly missed by so many.
David Hopkins
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The Davis
Offshore Trophy
This trophy was presented to the Royal
Southern Yacht Club by six of the late Tony
Davis' friends who had sailed with him over
his many racing years in various offshore
events. The trophy is to be awarded in his
memory annually for outstanding achievement
in offshore sailing.
Tony began his sailing career with his father
on the River Thames at Kingston and became a
highly successful helmsman in Merlin Rockets.
He soon took to helming big boats including
such famous names from the 1960s/1970s
as Firebrand, Longbow and Zest. He was a
crew member on Noryema IV, a British crewed
Swan 48 that won the Bermuda race against
top American opposition in 1972. The only
British boat to have won that event since its
inauguration 1906.
A fellow crew member, Paul Antrobus,
describes Tony’s role in the race
“The fleet set off in a breeze which built to
a near hurricane. Noryema had just started to
follow the fashion to have dedicated helmsmen
for racing instead of everyone having a go, Tony
was one of these along with Ross Walker. The
race was four days on the wind into the face of
50 to 60 knot winds and driving rain squalls.
Diving masks were used by the helmsmen to
protect their eyes. They worked 2hrs on and
2 off, Tony never missed a beat, cheerful and
tenacious all the way.”
He was also class winner in the Fastnet on
Rustler and for many years he owned and sailed
the 30 foot gaff rigged cutter Skipjack in classic
events. Later, he raced Claire de Lune and Skiffle
with the Hamble XOD fleet but still participated
in the occasional offshore race.
The inaugural presentation of ‘The Davis
Offshore Trophy’ took place at the Club’s annual
prizegiving and from four strong contenders, the
trophy was awarded to Chrissie White who,
with Noj, won the JOG double handed offshore
points series in their X37 SX Girl. Indeed, they
nearly won overall against the fully crewed
boats amassing 5087 points and beaten into 2nd
place by only a mere 41 points. SX Girl was the
outright winner in three of the six offshore races
in which they competed.
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Countdown
to 2012...
2012
1837
5
ROYAL SOUTHERN
YACHT CLUB
ABOVE Queen Victoria receiving
the news of accession to the
throne June 20 1837 from Lord
Conyngham.
“
It is an ambitious
programme and our
Club committees are now
involved with the 175 Group
planning but you are all
invited to suggest other ways
in which the 175 message
can be relayed and the
legacy constructed. It may
seem a long way away but
2012 is approaching like an
express train; 600 days to go
and counting.
“
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At almost precisely the same moment in 1837
that the Royal Southern Yacht Club was being
formed, King William IV died of heart failure.
It is not recorded if, other than by a
serendipitous accident of timing, these two events
were in any way connected, but within four hours
of his demise, a future Commodore of the Club,
in the shape of the Most Noble the Marquis
Conyngham, was to be found padding about
in Princess Victoria’s bedchamber, acquainting
her that she was now Heiress Presumptive and
heading for the throne. Thus was the Club’s
long and benign affair with royalty begun but
it is doubtful whether the young Queen who
patronised it, or the party of gentlemen who
agreed to form it, ever supposed that 175 years
later, their Club would still be active and in such
good heart.
Perversely, the Club began its tenure as the
Royal Southampton but finding this association
to be too limiting to its ambitions for increasing
membership, income and racing waters, quickly
widened its catchment and became the Royal
Southern. Within a decade, the Club had taken
its rightful place among the great yachting
establishments and has clung tenaciously to that
position.
It is wholly admirable and equally remarkable,
that faced with the vagaries of European politics,
several wars and a number of other hiccups,
any private members club should have survived
in unbroken succession for 175 years so, as we
approach that notable waypoint of 2012, how are
we going to mark its passing ?
The Royal Southern is overwhelmingly a
Club for sailors and sailing, whether racing or
cruising, using wind or internal combustability,
in dinghies, keelboats, sports boats or oceangoing vessels and the events of 2012 will reflect
this. A steering group was formed one year ago
and has been looking at how the activities of
the Anniversary year could leave the best and
most lasting legacy for Members, of all ages and
interests. That programme, dove-tailing neatly
with the Club’s regular activities, from Cowes
Week to Splash Week, is designed to look both
inwards, to recognise the innumerable talents
possessed of our Members and outwards, to
present the Royal Southern to its neighbours and
peers, both at home and overseas.
An extensive multi-class open regatta across
16 days of May and June, incorporating the
50th. running of the Cowes-Deauville Race which
the Club initiated, hosting the biggest annual
gathering of modern and classic motorboats from
across Europe in the Pavillon d’Or, a brand new
trans-Atlantic sailing race and an international
match-racing competition for our new Academy
will form its backbone.
But the Club is also a social melting pot so an
open day for our neighbours to showcase what
we do, a celebratory service in our parish church,
a lunch to recognise the massive contributions
of our older Members, hosting the International
Council Of Yacht Clubs’ conference and a
summer ball to end all summer balls are all on
the agenda. As is what we hope will be the high
point of the year, a day on which we welcome our
much respected Patron to review our fleet.
We would like to encourage Members to
visit our reciprocal clubs and compete in their
events as crewing ambassadors for the Royal
Southern and try to more tangibly involve our
overseas Members, promote the cruising log
competition and record the whole year in still and
video photography, so that we have something to
remember from 2012.
John Walker Chairman – 175 Group
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AFLOAT
Since we last
met...
So, what have you been up to through
one of the coldest winters we can remember
when the country ground to a halt and snow
lay on the ground in Hamble for some weeks
in January and February. Were you tucked
up warm, like your boat, eating and drinking
happily, waiting for spring, or were you out
there at the gym, or on your bike, preparing
yourself for the forthcoming season?
Perhaps you noticed that there were a few
interesting sailing events in the winter months,
and that some of our Members were flying
the Royal Southern burgee in far flung places.
Following a fantastic first season when Niklas
Zennstrom’s Ran II won the Rolex Fastnet Race
and the RORC Channel Race at this end of the
world. They then took off to the Mediterranean
winning the Mini Maxi Division of the Rolex
Maxi Cup and fourth place in the Rolex Middle
Sea Race. At the end of the year they moved to
the southern hemisphere winning division 1 of
the Rolex Sydney Hobart at the bottom of the
planet.
Other Members were also winning races
and awards or doing extraordinary voyages. Bill
Blain was overall RORC champion for 2009
with Batfish, Hervé Bénic’s latest Iritis (a new
Bénéteau First 40) won the autumn series in St
Malo and Noj & Chrissie White with their X-37
SX Girl wrapped up a successful season winning
their double handed class in the JOG Offshore
Series, and coming within a whisker of an
overall class win. Our Honorary Members were
also busy. Ian Percy was Star World Champion
again and Sam Davies, Yachtsman of the Year
(she is off with her other half Romain Attanasio
At the RYA Youth National Championships
and selection trials at the Weymouth and
Portland National Sailing Academy competition
was tough through all classes, particularly as
this event would decide who represents Britain
at this year’s ISAF Youth Worlds in Turkey. The
Royal Southern Yacht Club burgee was flown by
two excellent young sailors.
Annabel Vose has moved on this year from
conspicuous success in the Optimist fleet, to
campaigning a 420 with Hamble girl Megan
Brickwood. They are amongst the youngest
sailors in this class, and at Weymouth boys
and girls sailed together in one fleet. Annabel
and Megan finished 13th out of 44 competitors
displaying good consistency and demonstrating
clearly that they are pushing towards the top of
this class.
Closer to home many of our younger sailors
mock their elders’ sedentary winters and train
hard. RYA squads take advantage of this period
to up the tempo, and of course university
students are out there team and match racing.
BELOW Niklas and Catherine
Zennstrom with RAN and the
crew. Photo courtest of Rolex/Carlo
Borlenghi.
Andrew Sinclair was not supposed to be
there at all, as he is campaigning in the F18
class again this year, with the huge World
Championships just across the water at Erquy
in July. However a last minute telephone call
had him dashing from the Weston Sailing Club
Easter Grand Slam to Weymouth on Sunday
evening. Two twin brothers from Newcastle
were entered, but the helm damaged his knee
playing rugby, so the asked Andrew to stand in.
Never having sailed together Andrew and Benny
Harrison also had to deal with Andrew only
once having sailed a Spitfire – the catamaran
class used by the UK Youth Squad.
Undaunted, they enjoyed the windy first day
despite being amongst the lightest crews and
were lying second to reigning champions Butler
& Bonniface. Varied conditions through the
week tested tactics, boathandling and nerves,
but they persevered, finishing up with the bronze
medal, only two points off silver and being the
only boat other than the champions to win a
race.
in the Transat Ag2r as we go to press). Then of
course there is that stubborn mule Geoff Holt!
Impossible Dream? With Geoff the impossible
is reined in, put under the cosh and well and
truly sorted.
OPPOSITE PAGE RAN powering
away in the Rolex Maxi Cup Series.
Photo courtest of Rolex/Carlo
Borlenghi.
Well done to both of our talented youngsters.
Annabel has a full campaign year ahead and will
be at the front for 2011. Andrew has decided
he likes medals, but thinks gold is nicer, so is
committing to a Youth Nationals and Worlds
campaign for 2011.
ABOVE Andrew Sinclair in the
Easter Spitfire Nationals.
LEFT Noj White - well
wrapped up!
We hope you have survived your winter
and find yourselves and your Club refreshed,
rejuvenated and ready for more sailing in 2010.
Indeed, we have already run a number of events,
from race training to a much enjoyed Folly
Rally. See you on the water.
Colin Sinclair
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Rán is the sea goddess in Norse
mythology.
Rán II is a 72 foot Judel Vrolijk designed racing yacht built
by Green Marine in 2009.
S ail no GBR7236R, LOA 21.91m, Beam 5.75m, Draft
4.81m, Weight 17 938kg
Among her sweetest victories are Rolex Fastnet Race
overall winner 2009, winner of Rolex Maxi Cup Mini Maxi
open division 2009, winner of Régate Pirelli-Copa Pura
Negri Mini maxi class 2009, overall winner RORC Channel
Race 2009 and finally winner of division 1 Rolex Sydney
Hobart 2009.
Final posting on Ran’s blog 2009
“We’ve just done the maths and it is impossible for
anyone still out there on the racecourse to beat Rán in
IRC group 1. Our objective during the race was to first of
all win our group, which we now have done. We have not
seen any other boat in our group arrive in Hobart until this
evening, so we’re safe. Now we have a wait until tomorrow
evening or so to see how we do against the small boats in
the fleet still out there. It looks like two boats can beat us if
they only sail a fraction slower than their previous average
speed, the others have to sail faster than their previous
average speed. It will be tight and dependent on the wind
conditions until tomorrow. If they have more wind against
they have to sail a longer distance and therefore faster
than their previous average. If we beat them it will be a
huge bonus to us, if not we are happy and proud of our
class victory. Right now the team is enjoying the hospitality
of Hobart, which is fabulous. After all we are the leading
yacht in the harbor so we may enjoy it while it lasts. The
Oysters here are actually better than the freeze-dried food
onboard! Meeting up with old and new friends from other
yachts in famous and infamous Hobart water holes has
been the favorite occupation this afternoon after a well
deserved team lunch with some great Hobart seafood.
Some of us are already crashing after the effort of the
race and after mobilizing the extra energy the last evening
and morning with energy bars, chocolate and coffee, we
quit the watch system at 1 am this morning. Some other
are delaying the crash... Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
2009 has been fantastic for Ran and we are proud of our
achievement. Debriefing the race we think we did a very
good race and we didn’t do many mistakes, the team
worked better together than ever before. It was one of the
trickiest races to forecast for a long time. It’s been fantastic
racing against some very good boats here in Australia and
the hospitality of CYCA has been second to none. We only
wish they skip the obligatory SSB radio which is a bit out of
date now when we all can blog, Twitter, Skype, email, call
with sat phone and sat broadband etc to let them know we
are OK. Result wise, everything now is a bonus. Now the
shore team is taking over and getting Ran ready for next
season when we will go to USA and attempt the Newport
Bermuda Race. The only concern we have now is the beds
will be rocking tonight...”
Richardson Sails are celebrating 25
years of sailmaking on the Hamble
this year. Your local sail loft – just a
stones throw from the RYA in Ensign
Park, Hamble – and still under
the friendly, personal and expert
guidance of Simon Richardson.
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quality, built to last sails to suit all
types of yachts from cruisers to
out-and-out race boats. Recent
successes include a state-of-the-art
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classic 6 metre and new mainsail for
our Commodore’s yacht!
As well as custom made British sails
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valeting service, so why not contact
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for that new set of sails before the
serious racing starts!
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023 8045 5106
e: simon@sailshed.com
p16 Photograph courtesy Rolex/Carlo Borlenghi.
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CRUISING
Our cruising events in 2009 were all well
attended, though we had to cancel some due to
bad weather. This year your Cruising Committee,
in the hope of better weather, have put together
a full programme which we believe will appeal
to all those who enjoy cruising in good company.
We’ve included some ‘educational’ events too,
namely a repeat of last year’s visit to the National
Oceanography Centre, and a Bird Watching trip
in Chichester Harbour.
Our season started mid April with a
rally to the ever popular Folly Inn. It was a
roaring success with15 boats, carrying 31 club
members participating. We even had a singlehander, Christopher Barker on Belle Serene. We
all moored up together on the River Medina
during the Tuesday afternoon. The weather was
glorious: sunshine and light winds. Once again,
we managed to sink the pontoon during the early
evening pontoon party. At 7:30 pm we taxied
across to the pub where we were seated together
in the north wing. The evening went very well
with our Members enjoying each other's company
and good food. The early May Bank Holiday
saw the Solent Cruiser Race, this year visiting
Portsmouth, Cowes, with dinner at the ISC, and
back to Hamble. There is a full report on this race
on page 20.
During the summer the monthly Ladies
Afloat day continues, courtesy of several kindly
gentlemen who do the stressful things like
providing a boat, whilst the ladies provide the
scrumptious picnics, or so I have heard! We’ll be
doing mid week rallies to all the favourite Solent
harbours during the summer, the Solent really is
a different, beautiful, and often peaceful place
midweek, we are so lucky to be able to cruise
on it.
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The Annual Cruiser Race starts on 17th
July, visiting France and the Channel Islands, an
opportunity for some family cruising and lighthearted racing, with lots of social events too.
In November we’ll be going bird watching in
Chichester Harbour on board the eco-friendly
solar boat, a new venture, and your opportunity
to identify all those birds that miraculously
appear as the tide ebbs.
And finally - this year’s Christmas Rally
will be held at the Royal Yacht Squadron,
which really will be something special. We’ll
have an opportunity to see the many interesting
and historical artefacts the club owns too.
For details and entry forms see the website
www.royal-southern.co.uk or contact the Sailing
Office.
The Cruising Committee have enjoyed
putting this programme together and we hope
members old and new will join us to enjoy it too!
Maggie Widdop
Chairman, Cruising Committee
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Solent
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Race
ABOVE Let's get started!
RIGHT 'Bonnie of Dartmouth' eventual winners
BELOW 'Finlandia of Hamble'
Chris Stevens with crew Mike Jones
(without his camera today!)
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The May bank holiday weekend started with
the Cruiser Supper on Friday evening when the
Chairman of the Cruising Committee, Maggie
Widdop, introduced her committee and gave a
brief resume of the 2010 cruising programme.
Nick Hollamby the CRO for the Solent Cruiser
race explained what was going to happen on
the race to ensure that all participants knew
the race rules and experienced participants did
not have an advantage.
The start on Saturday was near Stormforce
Coaching and the course took the fleet of 12
boats first to the west round Royal Southern
and then to the south round East Knoll before
heading off to the Eastern Solent. There was
some great off-wind sailing towards Bembridge
and then back towards Portsmouth Harbour.
After everyone was tied up in Royal Clarence
marina and Nick had worked out the results
the pontoon party started. The ‘ducks of the
day’ were awarded to those competitors who
had made the various faux pas. Tony and Anne
Lovell won the first leg in Bonnie of Dartmouth.
The Sunday’s start was delayed by an hour
due to a lack of wind and a strong flood
tide. The race started at Gleeds and the first
mark was downwind to Bob Kemp. Slowly the
wind built to a force 5 – 6 and this scattered
the fleet between Wootton Creek and Lee-onthe-Solent. Everyone arrived safely in Cowes
despite a keen northerly wind howling in the
rigging and a very nasty sea running in Cowes
Yacht Haven. The sensible ones went further
up the river to East Cowes marina. Everyone
met in Cowes Corinthian Yacht Club to get
the second day’s results from the CRO. Again
Bonnie of Dartmouth got it right and Tony and
Anne Lovell had won the second leg. Everyone
enjoyed supper at the Island Sailing Club before
returning to their boats – many to have a
sleepless night in the rough conditions.
Results
TOP LEFT Someone had a good
head for heights!
Leg 1
The next morning only 4 boats made it to the
start line; some due to damage the day before
and others because of crew mutiny due to the
gale warnings. It was quite a tough race with
the wind gusting up to 35 knots but the first leg
was off the wind and everyone enjoyed some
fast racing. Paul and Linda Reading’s Diamond
Blue had an extra handicap when their liferaft
inflated and they had to tow it round the course.
They were determined to finish the last leg in
order to gain their 2nd place in the final results.
1 Bonnie of Dartmouth Tony & Anne Lovell
2 Diamond Blue
Paul & Linda Reading
3 Rin Jinn
Maggie Widdop
Leg 2
ABOVE Getting a bit crowded.
FAR LEFT 'Salamander' just
finishing.
1 Bonnie of Dartmouth Tony & Anne Lovell
2 Finlandia of Hamble Chris Stevens
3 Marela
Martin & Pam Smout
Leg 3
1 Bonnie of Dartmouth Tony & Anne Lovell
2 Finlandia of Hamble Chris Stevens
Maggie Widdop
3 Rin Jinn
Overall
1 Bonnie of Dartmouth Tony & Anne Lovell
Paul & Linda Reading
2 Diamond Blue
3 Finlandia of Hamble Chris Stevens
Sailing Prize
Finlandia of Hamble
Chris Stevens
LEFT A Past Commodore caught
in the middle!
BOTTOM LEFT Maggie heads
for home.
BELOW The winning crew.
Back at the Club, Tony and Anne Lovell
in Bonnie of Dartmouth were declared overall
winners and everyone agreed that it had been
a fun weekend in spite of the weather. I was
delighted to be able to welcome so many new
Members to cruising events and look forward to
seeing them at our other events in 2010.
Maggie Widdop
Chairman of Cruising
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IORANA A Dunkirk
little ship
Gracing the Club pontoons recently has
been the unmistakable shape of a veteran
wooden motor yacht and I had the privilege
of joining the delivery crew for her first long
passage in many years, from the River Thames
to the River Hamble. Named Iorana, she has a
proud and fascinating history.
She was designed by E.P.Lewns, a gentleman
of independent means, who commissioned
David Hillyard’s yard in Littlehampton to build
her under his supervision in 1935/6. Iorana is
the Tahitian word for welcome and this little
carvel-built ship, 40ft. overall, 10ft 6ins. in the
beam, drawing 3ft 6ins. and weighing in at 8
tons has certainly welcomed us.
Each summer before the second War,
Lewns cruised in Iorana westward to Fowey
and Falmouth, where he used her to fish for
tunny and tope. Then, in 1940, the Royal
Navy requisitioned and collected her from
Littlehampton and she was prepared for the
Dunkirk evacuation, though she was not
compulsorily acquired until 1942. When offered
her back by the Ministry of War Transport in
1948, Lewns declined, wanting a larger boat,
so with the provenance of the beach rescue
attached, she came on to the market for the first
time.
Fred J. Watts, a yacht and boat builder with
the Parham yard in Gosport, became her second
private owner, together with a number of other
vessels which had been requisitioned by the
Admiralty for the duration of the war and she
was at his yard in 1949 when engineer, Donald
Berry, found her: “very tatty but sound and
unaltered from the original design”. The engines
had been completely dismantled and packed
into boxes and the rudder was missing, but
the refit job just suited him and having bought
Iorana, he rebuilt the original engines and had
twin semi-balanced rudders cast in Admiralty
bronze. She had a small wheelhouse and was
open at the stern, with light hatch covers across
the open cockpit.
In about 1954, the Brooke BMC 1.8 litre
diesel engines went, in favour of a handed pair
of Vosper V8s which, at full power, gave 17 knots
on the measured mile off Lee-on-Solent and
Berry built a larger enclosed wheelhouse and aft
cabin for what was essentially a family boat. He
kept her at Gosport until 1963, from where he
enjoyed cruising the Solent and along the south
coast. When he sold Iorana, her fourth owner
re-positioned her to the mill stream at Windsor,
where she provided accommodation for the
family over the next four years.
It is here that her story becomes more
closely related to the Club, when Percy
Beaumont, Commodore of the Association of
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LEFT A different view of Chelsea.
BOTTOM LEFT Tower Bridge
and HMS Belfast.
BELOW Essential equipment for
the voyage.
Dunkirk Little Ships from 1979-1981, and the
grandfather of our current Vice Commodore,
Mark Inkster, acquired her and she has lived on
the Thames at Staines ever since. Mark is now
the third generation of his family to be entrusted
with her welfare and has overseen a major refit
lasting three years, by Toughs at Teddington.
It was my privilege to carry out performance
trials with the skipper, in the upper reaches of
the Thames at Runnymede, below the ramparts
of Windsor Castle, were she exceeded 7.5 knots
with her new Yanmar diesel engines. By the
end of March, Mark and Yvonne Curtis had
navigated the locks of the Thames, which was in
full flood, and positioned her to Cadogan Pier
in Chelsea and this was to be the starting point
on our epic voyage from Thames to Hamble, a
total of 210 miles.
We were joined by the Commodore for our
0600 departure and with the flood tide under her
bustle, she proudly carried us downstream past
Parliament, HMS Belfast, London Bridge and
Canary Wharf, before passing the Dome, the
Royal Naval College at Greenwich and on to the
mighty Thames Barrier. Then it was onwards
down the Thames Estuary to North Foreland
and leaving the Goodwin Sands to port, we
entered Ramsgate Harbour, having averaged 9.2
knots and using only 10 litres per hour from her
pair of 50 hp diesels.
ABOVE Phew - Missed the
Thames Barrier.
Our efforts were rewarded after this 9-hour
passage with a glass of excellent wine, courtesy
of Michael Brand, the Commodore of the Royal
Temple Yacht Club, and a jolly good dinner in
the local Italian ended our day.
Departing Ramsgate at dawn, we had
estimated a 15-hour run to the Hamble. Luckily,
Dungeness, Royal Sovereign and Beachy Head
were all flat calm, but the 136 mile leg, on
2-hour watches, was quite demanding without
the modern facility of an auto pilot. Passing
the Forts and up the North Channel was
very rewarding and we three-men-in-a-boat
marvelled that this 75 year old Dunkirk Little
Ship, Iorana, had performed this epic voyage
without a hitch. A credit to those who built her
and subsequently restored her.
On 29th May this year, Iorana will form
part of the 70th Anniversary commemorative
fleet on their return to Dunkirk, joining a
further 50 Little Ships making the crossing,
where they will circle off the beaches during
which the Lancaster bomber of the Battle of
Britain Memorial Flight will salute the fleet at
the conclusion of the ceremony. HRH Prince
Michael of Kent, Honorary Admiral of the
Association of Dunkirk Little Ships will lay a
wreath on their behalf, preserving “The Spirit
of Dunkirk”.
Richard Campbell-Walter
ABOVE Ramsgate and dinner.
ABOVE What do you think he's
doing?
BELOW Ready for action
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A tough
life
in the
Bay of
Islands
March 2010
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When we received the invitation for RSrnYC
members to join the Royal New Zealand Yacht
Squadron on a cruise of the Bay of Islands, we
thought it would be an ideal excuse to visit the
southern hemisphere and to sail in one of the
most beautiful parts of the world.
There were 11 yachts in total with crews
from Canada, Australia, Norway, New Zealand
and GB. We were accompanied on the cruise by
16 international sailors on the beautiful tall ship,
Soren Larsen, which featured in the Onedin Line and
served as the mother ship for the flotilla.
We joined Angus and Annette Newton and
Maggie Widdop on an Elan 43.4 called Tough Life.
Other Club Members flying the RSrnYC burgee were
Bill and Anita Perrin and George and Pat Lines.
The boats were boarded in Opua and after a
short sail we anchored at Russell to be welcomed
by a traditional Maori greeting and a Hangi dinner at
the Russell Boating Club.
During the next few days we discovered magical
sandy coves, dramatic headlands and tranquil
lagoons. The hills and beaches provided excellent
walks with stunning views. There was an abundance
of beautiful anchorages on islands with, to us,
unpronounceable Maori names. We were privileged
to visit several private homes and gardens of local
residents who gave interesting talks on the history
of the area and the arrival of Captain Cook.
Mid way through the week we visited the
Waitangi Treaty grounds, the site of the historical
agreement, signed in 1840, between the British
government and the Maori tribes. This stop enabled
thirsty and hungry crews to replenish stores at one
of the few shops in the Bay of Islands.
We were fortunate with the weather throughout
with clear blue skies, good sailing winds and
warmish water for the few who braved the Pacific.
Those who visited Rangihoura Bay were not only
treated to superb views but were then lucky enough
to watch a brown kiwi feeding close to the beach.
On the final evening there was a supper on
Roberton Island with fresh oysters, mussels and a
hog roast supper, where each crew provided a short
sketch. This demonstrated the diversity of the crews
and provided a light hearted ending to an extremely
successful and enjoyable cruise.
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CRUISING
LOG
COMPETITION
WINNER
2009
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RIGHT Saint Jack in one of the
18 locks
SAINT JACK
- SUMMER
IN SWEDEN
The well deserved winner of the Cruising
Log competition for 2009 was Tony Parker with
his log of Saint Jack’s “Summer in Sweden”.
His target for the cruise was to transit Sweden
“overland” from West to East, visit the Stockholm
Archipelago and then to bring Saint Jack back
to Hamble through the Baltic and the Kiel Canal,
southabout Sweden and Denmark.
The cruise lasted for 32 days and was split into
two sections: the first half in June lasted 18 days
and covered the “cross-country” section by way of
the Göta River, the Trollhätte Canal, Lake Vänern and
the Göta Canal, an entirely inland route, finishing in
Nynashamn in the Stockholm archipelago where
Saint Jack was left for a month. The cruise resumed
in early August with the first week being spent
cruising the Swedish archipelago and the second
on the return to Hamble. The log covers Saint Jack’s
voyage of 1589 nautical miles with a total of 14
crew members at different times.
Sadly we are only able to print extracts from the
log but the complete log can be seen on the website
www.royal-southern.co.uk.
Congratulation to Tony and commiserations
to the other entrants - they were up against
serious competition.
Extracts from
the Log...
Sunday 21st June 2009
Having rigged turning blocks on the toerail
fore and aft enabling us to run the lines to cockpit
winches, we entered the first of 18 locks that would
take us up almost to the highest point on the canal
by the end of the day. We soon found a working
routine – Biddy would hop off with the two lines as
we approached each lock and loop them over the
steel pegs, Martin and Carol would ensure that the
lines were running cleanly through the turning blocks
and would then manage the fenders as the lock filled
and the level changed, and I winched the lines in. It
sounds straightforward, and often was, but it could
be tricky bringing the boat close enough to land the
line handler while entering the lock – particularly in
any wind and given the unforgiving nature of the
stone abutments. We travelled in company with our
Norwegian friend and a couple of German yachts
and stopped overnight alongside the canal at the
Hajstorp Gasthamn. It was a beautiful evening and a
stunning location for further al fresco dining.
Distance run: 8nm
Tuesday 4th August - Västervik
Glorious weather. We rigged a shore line to help
us extricate Saint Jack from a rather tight berth.
Everything went like clockwork. Sophie said “I bet
you wish those Swedes were still around to admire
that Dad”. Then we hit the rock. What a noise! We
had been drifting astern very slowly and had just
moved the control ahead when we touched – it
was quite a shock. Picking our way very gingerly
out into deep water, we picked up a mooring where
we could dive and check up on things. Thankfully
all was OK and we were soon heading south
again, following the charted route through the many
thousands of islands.
The pilot book identifies two kinds of harbour:
guest harbour and natural harbour.The former is
what in the UK would be regarded as a marina,
although often with only limited facilities, and the
latter is simply an attractive location either to
anchor or, more often, to lie bows on to a tree, rock
or, occasionally, a rudimentary jetty. There are no
facilities in such natural harbours.
After a hot day motoring through the skerries,
we anchored overnight in Bokö Hamnvik, a natural
harbour on the north of Stora Ålö, a small island
close to the entrance to the long fjord leading NW
11nm up to Valdemarsvik.
Distance run: 29nm
Weather: Calm, sun
Saturday 15th August
The weather forecast was suggesting wind from
the SW at 10 – 15 metres per second (Beaufort
5 - 7), not ideal given that we had some 300nm of
Baltic between us and Kiel, and in a south westerly
direction. However, we left Karlskrona at 0700 Roger and David having arrived from UK only late
the previous evening – and motored out through
the outlying islands in calm conditions. The wind
filled in at midday, bang on the nose, and we were
soon motorsailing into 20 – 25 knots apparent, as
advertised. As we had observed in Kalmarsund, the
wind quickly built up a very steep and uncomfortable
sea, making it difficult to maintain effective progress.
Our course took us close to Simrishamn on the south
east extremity of Sweden, so we put in here briefly to
take on diesel and check the weather developments.
The nearby lighthouse at Sandhammaren is famous,
marking what is known as “Kap Horn of the North” in
view of the number of local shipwrecks, so we gave
this a good offing and set off on a long board to the
south as night fell. The wind eased somewhat during
the night and by first light we had made a landfall
at Arkona on the German island of Rügen where
we came about and headed north. Midday brought
us within sight of the “White Cliffs of Denmark”
on the island of Møn, which we had visited on
our way to Norway the year before. We had now
circumnavigated the south of Sweden!
Although our original intention was to press
on round the southern tip of Falster, late in the
afternoon the wind increased such that we felt it
prudent to drop in the third reef and, in light of the
sea conditions and the tricky navigation among
the sandbanks in this exposed area, we thought it
sensible to put in to Gedser rather than stay out for
another night.
Distance run: 208nm
Weather: SW 4 – 7, sun
Saturday 22nd August 2009
We set off at 07.00 planning to make only a short
trip, either to Ijmuiden or possibly Scheveningen
where we could lock in and meet Roger’s Dutch
friends. However, out of the Schulpengat and into
open water we found very benign conditions – a
gentle westerly breeze and warm sun – and then
we heard the shipping forecast indicating the wind
backing to S/SE 3 to 4…… Another soldier’s
breeze, and too good to miss – we would carry
on. We motorsailed all day in light southwesterlies
but at nightfall the wind backed southeast and
increased, giving us super sailing throughout the
night – reaching along, at great speed, off the coast
of the low countries. By 10.00 the following morning
we were crossing the Dover separation channel
and then Saint Jack was back in Blighty after her
Scandinavian adventure. The wind fell away in the
afternoon and we were faced with a long motor
back to Hamble, which we reached at 07.00 the
following morning, only 48 hours after leaving Den
Helder _ an average speed of exactly 7knots. Saint
Jack was home.
Distance run: 336nm
Weather: SW 2 – 3 bec SE 4, then calm, sun
ABOVE Tony Parker, the author,
with David Aspinall lending a
hand.
BELOW Nearly home
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MOTORBOATS
105 years after running its first motorboat
event, the 2010 programme is equally
enterprising and began with the Spring Rally
over the Bank Holiday weekend of 1-3 May.
Cruising in company, the flotilla first go west
to Poole, based at Dolphin Quay on Saturday
and Sunday, with a pontoon party, exploring
the Old Town and Sunday lunch at the Royal
Motor Yacht Club completing the itinerary.
Cruising east on the Monday morning, the
weekend finished with lunch at the Royal
Southampton Yacht Club’s Gins Farm base, on
the Beaulieu River. Two very pleasant watering
holes and not too onerous an itinerary reaching
them.
Slipped to accommodate the Dunkirk cruise,
the Open Weekend will take place over the
weekend of 16-18 July. This is the event at which
the Club hosts visitors from along the coast and
a proven format of gentle competition within
the Solent tests seamanship and brainpower
in roughly equal measure. A poker run, time
over distance predicted log and treasure hunt
are the elements, GJW Direct, Sea Start and
Swordsman Marine are the sponsors and
2010 will see the second running of the InterClub Team Trophy, currently held by the Royal
Southern, as well as trophies for individual
competitors, in a weekend of good food, good
fun and good prizes.
The decision to ‘rest’ the regular Euro Rally
this year is offset by a less formal rally to Dunkirk
over the Whitsun weekend of 28-30 May, joining
the Association of Little Ships to mark the 70th.
Anniversary of Operation Dynamo.
The Hamble fleet will forgather in Dover for
a tour of the caves below Dover Castle, from
where the operation was run, followed by dinner
with the Flag Officers of the Royal Cinque Ports
Yacht Club.
BELOW Cowes will provide the
host venue for the Autumn Rally,
with dinner at The Prospect and
lunch at the Island Sailing Club
Having made passage in company to
Dunkirk, berthing will be within the locked
inner harbour. Amongst the other celebrations
to mark the Anniversary, it is hoped that Royal
Southern Members will have a pontoon party
and after the Anniversary formalities are
completed, those with a taste for eel and Bols
may continue cruising in company into Holland,
which should appeal to both sailing and motor
boats. Remember Rotterdam!
The Motorboat season afloat closes with
the Autumn Rally over the weekend of 18-19
September, a cruise in company to Cowes,
berthing overnight in Shepards Wharf. Not
the most taxing navigation to get there but the
excellence of dinner at The Prospect and lunch
at the Island Sailing Club make this a jolly
gastronomic jaunt.
A busy season including both golf and clay
pigeon shooting should bring motor boaters
together as never before and the key to the Royal
Southern Yacht Club Motorboat Committee
activities is enjoyment of boats, surroundings
and people. It is a good format and it continues
to offer great variety and value and full details
and booking form can be found on the Club
website.
David Mead
Chairman – Motorboat Division
TOP The Spring Rally will take in Poole Harbour
before visiting the Beaulieu River.
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second running of the second Inter-Club Team Trophy.
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ACADEMY
Academy Action
‘You, you and you’, said the Commodore, ‘And
you and you’. And that’s how five of us became
the Academy Project Group straight after the last
AGM. He’s a hard task master is our Commodore:
‘We’ve talked about it long enough’, he said.
‘I want some action’.
Just over three months later, we’ve run the
first two Academy events, have seventeen new
Members and a similar number waiting in the wings,
and that’s on top of those 18-25 year olds who were
already Members of the Club. We welcome them all.
They have commented on the friendly welcome they
have had from the Club, and we appreciate the extra
‘buzz’ in the Club when it’s full of young people.
RIGHT The lengendary Jim
Saltonstall briefs his 'ferrets'.
ABOVE This is Jim's
key to success on
the water – OK?
TOP RIGHT And on
water, the little and large
lined up together for the starts
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ROYAL SOUTHERN
ACADEMY
TRAINING DAY
We’ve obviously had a lot of help to achieve this.
The Sailing Committee had arranged its training day
with Jim Saltonstall, and several Southern owners
agreed to take the new Academy members out
on their boats with them: ‘Thank you for a very
successful day’.
After sailing, the new Academicians met, drank
lots of beer and elected Ed Dyer as their Captain. The
plan is that progressively the Academy members run
their own programme, but first we have been setting
up the administrative system. They have designed
their own Royal Southern Academy logo and you will
shortly see it on the Academy’s red gilets.
MATCH RACING
Meanwhile, Southampton Solent University
(SSU), where Club Member Sophie Barker-Dodds
is Commodore, had been in touch with us to help
run a match racing event for several Universities.
Guy Jackson of SSU had negotiated the first use
of the new SB3 Match conversion kit with Laser’s
very own Katie Ashworth -Yes, that Katie Ashworth.
The Royal Southern YC Trust helped out with a
grant towards the race fees. Simon Hand put
together a well qualified race team complete with
comfort boat, and the students thought they’d
never had it so comfortable on the water despite
the fog and rain. They even let Ed Dyer and the
Southampton University team win! You can see
Yachts & Yachting’s very complimentary match
report on the Club website.
In the meantime we will concentrate on getting
the young people out on the water racing in
Members’ boats, and making sure that we help
them to develop their own social scene so that they
come to see the Southern as their Club, where they
want to stay as Members long term.
ABOVE The SB3s were converted
to match form, with symmetrical
poles and spinnakers. Finding your
opponent in the fog was sometimes
the problem.
FAR LEFT The lightweight carbon
pole helped with the gybes.
LEFT Academy Captain Ed Dyer
looks thoughtful.
These first two events have shown that there
is a pent up demand for the Academy and its
programme of competitive sailing and socialising.
The local Universities are all at the top of the
University sailing rankings and we are working
with them as we think ahead. Attention was now
focussed on the Warsash Spring Series where
several Academy members are taking part and
meeting up afterwards in the Southern.
LOOKING AHEAD
The programme for the coming year is based on
extra activity around the Club’s Regatta programme
but avoiding exam times as much as possible.
There will be separate results kept for the Academy
participants with their own event and series prizes.
In late summer, we will assess the good bits and the
bad bits and use these to plan ahead into 2011 and
beyond. We are already planning more Match Race
events with SSU later in the year and next year, and
this will mean more opportunities for Members to
train as umpires. Any volunteers?
There are some bigger aspirations too. For some
years, Cowes International Youth Week was the
young peoples’ Regatta to get into. That has gone,
so how about ‘Royal Southern Academy Week’
taking over?
Further ahead, several of us have seen how well
the big Australian and New Zealand Yacht Clubs
run their youth development programmes with the
world’s No. 1 and No. 2 Open Match Racers, still in
their twenties, having come out of that environment.
Can we give our own young people that kind of
experience? Could it be something we aim at in our
175th year, just two years away? We’re very aware
that we must make sure that we can walk before
we run, but it’s also good to have a target to aim at.
We shall see.
THANKS
The Academy Project Team has just
metamorphosed into the Academy Committee with
Ed Dyer as Captain, Karen Henderson-Williams as
Chairman, Colin Hall as Vice, the Commodore, Chris
Mansfield, Colin Sinclair, Stuart Childerley, Gordon
Craigen, Chris Russell and Natalie Gray. In a year’s
time, expect the average age to be a lot less!
We thank Mike Jones for the use of his action
shots from both events in this report and everyone
else who has helped us to launch the Royal Southern
Academy.
Colin Hall
ABOVE Southampton University
on their way to a win.
31
s plash
TOP Stuart in the thick of it
RIGHT Ben - our Splash leader
BOTTOM Teams Richards and
Childerley
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Splash is all about fun on and off the water
for children, parents, grandparents, uncles and
aunties. Many parents and children past and
present always ensure Splash is one of the
highlights of the Youth Sailing Programme.
2009 was no exception. Splash is also famous
for encouraging children who have never sailed
before to take to the water like little ducklings.
It is truly amazing to see the children as young
as six confidently hopping in an Optimist
under the watchful eye of parents and Club
Members.
Ben Richards and Stuart Childerley have
introduced a more structured approach to the
sailing tuition both onshore and out on and the
water. All the children progressed their sailing
skills whilst having a fabulous time with their
new and old buddies.
Our world class Olympic Sailing Champion
Stuart Childerley, has taken the Splasher’s to
new skill levels using his experience to guide
them. These skills will be honed during 2010
when each monthly Splash day during the
season, which is now usually preceded by
Optimist flotilla session on the Saturday, has a
specific learning objective with formal coaching
support. Splash Week 2010 will be held from the
23rd to the 27th August. Full details of all the
youth activities can be obtained from the Club
website www.royal-southern.co.uk.
The friendships that the children form in
their groups at Splash unite them for years to
come. As they progress they reach the much
sought after and honorable title of a Junior
Cadet… the JC’s, as they are known - and in
time to the Academy.
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We would like to thank all the
Royal Southern Yacht Club
members who help to make
Splash such a success. It is
their energy and enthusiasm
that drives the whole Youth
Sailing Season. Also a special
mention and thanks to all those
parents and Club staff who
work behind the scenes to make
the impossible happen.
Kate Church
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Impossible
Dream
TOP Fresh caught fish made a
change to the tinned food diet.
BELOW The Commodore
enjoying the hospitality.
ABOVE Geoff arriving at
Cane Bay.
TOP RIGHT Geoff arriving with
wife Elaine and son Tim.
RIGHT A few of the reception
Committee including the
Commodore.
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Members know of the amazing endeavours
of fellow Member, quadriplegic yachtsman
Geoff Holt, and the latest was his voyage across
the Atlantic at the end of 2009.
On the 10th December Geoff set sail
from Lanzarote in Impossible Dream, a 60ft,
purpose-built, wheelchair-accessible catamaran.
Although he had a carer and cameraman
aboard only Geoff sailed the boat. Like most
Atlantic (and other) crossings things did not go
exactly as planned following his departure from
Lanzarote. After a few hours of good sailing
the wind died and Impossible Dream was only
making 4 knots. By day 4 things were getting
more challenging - his average speed was barely
5 knots with a confused sea state which meant
that Impossible Dream was “bobbing like a cork,
pitching and yawing, snatching and jerking”.
This meant that as well as getting little rest
moving around was difficult and in his blog
he describes moving his wheelchair around the
boat as “like riding a unicycle on a rollercoaster”.
The winds continued to blow unseasonally
from the south-west – bang on the nose – and
following engine failure in both engines Geoff
decided on the 16th December, having made
barely 500 miles that he would head for the Cape
Verde Islands to ensure that there was clean fuel
for the generator which runs the boat’s systems.
Progress to the Cape Verde Islands was slow
with only one partially functioning engine and
the wind continuing to blow from the south
west. Geoff eventually arrived in the Cape Verde
Islands on Sunday 20 December. Work was not
able to start on the engines until the Monday
and the cause of the problem was identified
as a “diesel bug” and the fuel systems of both
engines had to be stripped and tanks emptied.
Have left the Cape Verde Island on the 23rd
December with a following wind by Christmas
Eve it was back on the beam making life
difficult for Geoff. Christmas Day was one of his
busiest ever with four TV appearances and six
interviews, in addition to speaking to his family
and opening presents that had been carefully
stowed. However one present was missing was stronger winds. The breeze continued at barely
5 knots but stronger winds were promised. The
wind eventually arrived on the 29th December
and Impossible Dream started making good
progress towards her destination – the British
Virgin Islands.
With just over 500 miles to go further
problems struck – the generator failed. With the
boat depending entirely on electricity to run its
complex electronic and hydraulic systems this
was a serious matter. The backup generator uses
5 times the amount of fuel and despite switching
off the electronics and the autopilot in an effort
to save fuel it proved necessary to refuel off
Antigua on the 6th January.
Having refuelled Geoff headed straight for
the British Virgin Islands, rendezvousing with
a welcoming flotilla between the islands of
Norman Island and Peter Island, about 5 miles
south of Tortola and progressing to Cane Bay,
the scene of Geoff’s accident 25 years ago,
where he was greeted by over 1000 people –
including our Commodore. The next few days
were eventful with a reception at Government
House, becoming, with his wife Elaine and son
Tim “Honorary Belongers” (Citizens) of the
Virgin Islands - an honour previously bestowed
on only two people and assorted parties and
press events.
If you want to read more about Geoff’s
adventures in more detail and the emotional
roller coaster that the voyage turned out to be
go to www.geoffholt.com .
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Southern
CHRISTMAS
PANTO...
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Saturday 19th December saw celebrations
for the first and last night of “Treasure Island”
– the Royal Southern’s very own pantomime
produced and directed by Charlie Madge,
ably assisted by an all star cast headed by
the Commodore and Vice Commodore as the
Dame and Long John Silver.
The production was ‘in the round’ with the
each scene being played from a different part of
a packed dining room. There was full audience
participation from the capacity audience and a
significant amount of cast/audience interaction.
Sadly there were no theatre critics present,
who missed a hugely enjoyable evening, but
they would no doubt have had views on the
interesting interpretation of Robert Louis
Stevenson’s pirates and buried gold adventure
story and the hidden meaning of the tallest
parrot ever seen in a production of Treasure
Island.
Producer and Director
Charlie Madge
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The 2010 programme of events is already
underway; the Spring Bridge Drive was very well
attended with 12 tables enjoying an excellent
afternoon of bridge and to quote ‘the best ever
tea’. Peter Raw, a well known local Auctioneer
and Valuer, gave a most amusing talk at the
April Ladies Lunch, which was enjoyed by
members and their friends, as well as a number
of visitors from other Yacht Clubs.
LADIES
COMMITTEE
TOP Anne Lines presenting the
cheque to Roger Harding.
We were delighted that, as a result of the
very successful Xmas Fayre, we were able to
donate the splendid total of £4,500 to our two
chosen charities Hamble Inshore Rescue and
the Children’s Friendship League. Recently
we had the opportunity to present our cheque
in person to Roger Harding, Chairman of
the Trustees of Hamble Inshore Rescue. We
are not sure if everyone is aware they are an
independent service that relies on donations to
fund their activities, last year was a particularly
busy one for them as they were called out over
100 times. Many thanks to Judy Greensmith
and her team for all their hard work. Our
thanks also to our sponsors and the donors
of the prizes for the Wheel of Fortune, for
their generosity. This year we will continue
to support Hamble Inshore Rescue but have
chosen Shepherds Down School for children
with complex learning difficulties as our
second charity of the year.
Although the Xmas Fayre is our major
fundraising event, the Bridge Drives and Ladies
Lunches also make important contributions to
our funds. In 2009 we distributed over £6000 to
good causes as well as restoring the chairs in the
lower bar and purchasing the ‘cane‘ tables and
chairs that grace the terrace. We are currently
planning further expenditure on the clubhouse
including re-covering the Chart Room chairs.
ABOVE Peter Raw, with
Members.
RIGHT Waiting for pudding at the
Ladies Lunch
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The Inter Club Bridge evenings have been a
great success and are now well established. We
set the ball rolling with an event and the Royal
Southampton and the Royal Naval and Albert
have also hosted events over the winter. We look
forward to welcoming them back to the club in
the autumn. Congratulations to those involved
in the initiative. Bridge lessons, for beginners,
improvers and experienced players were run
over the winter months, several of the improvers
now regularly play in the Thursday afternoon
sessions. If there is sufficient demand we will
run another beginners course in the autumn,
so please let one of the committee know if you
would be interested.
Looking ahead, we are planning to hold
an Arts and Crafts Exhibition during the first
weekend in October; it was a surprise to learn
that it is over 10 years since the last one was held
at the club. The Exhibition, which will be a joint
initiative with the Entertainments Committee,
will raise funds for the Royal Southern’s
Charitable Trust. If anyone would like to exhibit
at the event, would they advise a member of
either Committee as soon as possible so that we
can ascertain the viability of the venture.
We are always keen to welcome new members
to the Ladies Committee, if you would like
to find out more about what being a member
entails why not join us for lunch after one of
our meetings which are normally on the second
Tuesday of the month?
Anne Lines
Chairman - Ladies Committee
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know, is a wonderful course for all standards,
however for me the surprise of the course is the
wildlife which wanders the course. It seems that
a certain lady took offence to the cows and there
is now one with a Titleist tattoo.
The results for the day were:
Longest Drive
Helen Bartholomew
Sandy
McPherson
SHOOTINGGOLF
Nearest the Pin John Manktelow
Golf
Another golf season has been
completed and hopefully a
good time had by all, as per
our tradition, we presented out annual prizes
at the Motorboat Christmas Dinner. This
time there were overall first prizes for Carol
Parker and Jim Flanagan, both proving that
some consistency and practice go a long way
(something which I could take note from).
Second prizes went to Tony Parker and Grania
Flanagan and third went to Margaret Dowman
and Roger Pritchard.
Now looking at the season ahead of us. On
the 24th April we played the forest course at
Bramshaw, at which we were joined by 3 new
members to the golf society, as well as 2 guests.
The day was thoroughly enjoyed by all that were
involved and we managed to have super dinner
back at the Club afterwards. Bramshaw Forest
course, for those who have played it before will
Men’s
Ladies’
3rd
John Taylor
Helen Bartholomew
2nd Tony Parker
1st
Carol Parker
John Manktelow Lesley-Jane Nicholson
Our second golf day of the season is at Leeon-the-Solent in late May, at which point we will
break for the summer so we can all drift round
the Solent, or even wilder shores, for a few
months. We will return in the Autumn for the
rest of the programme. On the 9th September
we visit Corhampton, and then to Dummer on
15th October.
The Golf Society is always looking for and
welcomes new members, of all standards of
play. Although there are prizes for the winners
the main aim of the golf days is to meet other
Club Members, renew friendships, and most
importantly is to enjoy the day. Handicaps range
from 14 to 36 and everywhere between (for
those without handicaps, a provisional one can
be supplied). More information can be found
on the Club website www.royal-southern.co.uk.
Something for
Everyone
The 2010 season of the Shooting Society
has started with something of a bang. Many
regular members and supporters have been
shooting again with us this year but now that
many new members to the Shooting Society
have sampled one of our days, they are eager
for more. Our aim is to provide a great day out
at a minimum cost which is very relaxed with
lots of laughs. It is well recognised that many
newcomers have not shot previously or are
extremely rusty; so we try to make everyone
feel as welcome as possible, irrespective of
their previous experience.
Our days start with an 80 clay sporting
layout such that each clay is intended to mimic a
different flight pattern. We then have the googly
which, for those not used to cricket terminology,
is a single, far-flung target at the extremities
of the hitting range. We finish with a flush
where teams of 4, 5 or 6 guns are presented
with an irregular pattern of a number of clays
simultaneously launched. For those who have
never shot before or who are out of practice,
full instruction is given and if desired can join in
with the googly and flush.
Our first day in February was held at Wylye
Valley Shooting Ground whilst our second
in March was held on the other side of the
Salisbury Plain at Widdington Shooting Club.
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Both shooting grounds are set in the Wiltshire
rolling hills which provide fertile topographies
for launching clays. We were lucky to avoid
the worst of the English weather; particularly
by retiring to the shoot club house for hearty
lunches or tea and homemade cakes.
Nearly everyone who shot on both days
improved at Widdington. The full results are
posted on the web site but particular mention
is made of Fiona Pankhurst who improved
so much at Widdington that she more than
deserved the top handicap prize; Peter Albon
who shot so well in spite of a broken left hand;
and John Stelling who has shot so consistently
well but managed to come second on both days
for the top members prize. Dates for future
shooting days can be found on the website
www.royal-southern.co.uk.
Sally Sturt
Around
& about
the
Southern
Fitting Out
Supper
ABOVE Tony Lovell.
TOP LEFT Chrissie White and
Mandy Mead.
LEFT Leon and Jane Barbour.
FAR LEFT Margaret Gardner
and Jan Shute.
LEFT John Beardsley and Colin
Hall.
BOTTOM LEFT Bill Nutt.
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SOUTHERN
SNIPPETS
Photographic
competition
And the winner is – Malcolm Freeman. Pat
Aspinall, Rear Commodore House, presented
Malcolm with his prize of a bottle of Club
champagne for the shot of a misty morning
in Hamble. In addition to his winning shot
Malcolm has also produced exceptional quality
photographs to accompany of his cruise to the
West Country in the last edition of the magazine.
In order to encourage all Members to
take photographs for the magazine we offer
the prize of a bottle of Club Champagne to
the photographer who has produced the best
photograph. The Editorial Team looks forward
to receiving your photographs for the Autumn
edition of The Southern. A reminder that photos
should be taken with at as high a resolution as
possible – file size 1mb or more. Although lower
resolution photos can be used on the website
printing requires very high resolution shots.
Send photos to editor@royal-southern.co.uk.
Keep those cameras at the ready and get snapping!
Tender
CENTRE Yes, it is a Past
Commodore rowing – a great way
to keep fit.
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BOTTOM RIGHT A gentleman's
Tender - OK for the ladies too!
We were sat around the Yacht Club bar
one evening, ’The Six O’clock Club’, as some
Members call us, bemoaning the fact that none
of us could find a pretty tender that could be
easily trailed and launched, was easy to row or
scull, would take a small outboard, didn’t cost the
earth and more importantly looked like a proper
gentleman’s dinghy.
The lines of an old Victorian Fife yacht
tender were offered by one Member, a mould by
another, building and fit-out came from a third
whilst funding and materials were proposed by
another stalwart along with marketing and selling
expertise.
9 months later after many long hours of
discussions, drawings, prototyping and many,
many gin & tonics, the Luke Tender was born.
The beautiful clinker hull, moulded in GRP
with built-in fore and aft buoyancy tanks and
wax coat interior finish, is fitted out with Iroko
hardwood and Pine floorboards. Bronze captive
rowlocks and fittings are standard with braided
rope fendering. A pair of Scandinavian oars
complete the inventory.
Available with or without a combined road
and launching trolley the Luke Tender will carry
4 people in safety and comfort and its seakindly
lines make it effortless to row or scull. – a true
gentleman’s dinghy, now available to all.
Who says that discussions over a pint at the
bar are just hot air….? If you would like to know
more about this gorgeous little 10’ dreamboat,
just contact Keith Hughes…..at the bar.
Balloon
Competition
This Spring issue of The Southern brings
a welcome return of the popular Balloon
Competition. Just come up with a suitable
caption to the photograph alongside and send
it in. The winner will receive a bottle of Club
Wine of their choice.
Please send entries to:
The Editor
The Southern
Royal Southern Yacht Club
Rope Walk
Hamble
Southampton SO31 4HB
Members are invited to submit ‘suitable’
photographs for future competitions. Where
possible the subject should be associated with
the Club, its Members or have a nautical theme.
Advertising
by Members
or e-mail:
editor@royal-southern.co.uk
What a Star!
Have you considered advertising your
business in The Southern? There is a discounted
rate for Members and by including advertising
in the magazine it enables the Club to continue
producing a high quality magazine. We are
also able to help with the artwork for any
advertisement.
The next edition will be published in the
Autumn. If you are interested in advertising
contact The Secretary who will be able to let
you have more details.
Bursledon 2010
Regatta
The
Swanwick,
Bursledon and Warsash
Regatta is now in its
140th year and the theme
for 2010 is ‘Passage to
India’
Held at the Elephant Boatyard, Lands End
Road, Old Bursledon, the dates to remember are
Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th August.
For those not familiar with this event, there is
dinghy racing on the Saturday morning starting
and finishing at the Elephant Boatyard. At
lunchtime there is a BBQ and a Bar followed
by Canoe, Rowing and Swimming Races. The
Water Carnival and Fancy Dress are in the
afternoon and in the evening, a Pig Roast and
Barbecue, Torch-lit Dinghy Procession, Son et
Lumiere and one of the finest Firework displays
seen on the South Coast.
On Sunday the yacht races take place in
the Solent followed by the Prizegiving in the
afternoon.
For further information and race entry forms
visit: www.bursledonregatta.co.uk
John Gimson is a member of the Skandia
Team GBR and has been campaigning a Star,
with Ed Greig, since the start of 2009, He
also competes on the Melges 24 International
circuit and Farr 45 circuit as helmsman for
Team Unlimited. Last year they set themselves
a gruelling schedule, with a regatta almost every
other week from March until the end of July so
that they would be properly prepared for the
Europeans where they finished 8th European
and 11th overall in a fleet of over 93 boats. 11th
continued to be their average and they finished
the year 11th in the ISAF ratings.
ABOVE Photography courtesy of
Richard Landan - Ocean Images.
At the end of 2009 John said “We know we
have a lot of work to do in 2010 to move further
up the fleet to get to where we want to be for
the 2010 Sail for Gold Regatta which will be
the Pre-Olympics, and what we are spending
the next 9 months building up to that”. John
has been true to his word and they have been
campaigning hard in 2010 and, most recently
came 9th in the Star Class at Olympic Garda.
John is based at the Royal Southern and
has also received assistance from the Royal
Southern Charitable Trust. We wish him every
success.
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MORE
SNIPPETS
Report from
Blustery Day
It is always good to try something different,
so we were pleased to see the Sailing Committee
put some new events in this year’s programme.
Instead of our twice annual pilgrimage to
Yarmouth, the spring outing saw Poole taking
over as the destination port. With a weekend
of favourable tides, we were hopeful of getting
there and back OK despite the very light
forecast. In the event, the wind gods chose to
give us 12 to 15 knots most of the time, with
gusts creeping over 20.
The fleet was divided into IRC and Club
Classes, but all started together at 1100 at Royal
Thames buoy between Calshot and Lepe Spit.
The forecast NW wind direction turned out to
be more W or even SW at times, so lots of tacks
were the order of the day, initially keeping out of
the tide on the mainland shore. Once the current
turned to run W, it was out into deeper water
for the maximum assistance, quite lively in the
Needles Channel, then settle down on port tack
to lay the finish at East Hook buoy just outside
the Poole harbour entrance channel.
Blustery Day, bless her, is a lady who does
not really appreciate too much wind in her face,
being a little tender of disposition, so she had
to accept that these conditions were unlikely
to see her in the chocolates. Brian Mead on
Wishful Thinking with the ink barely dry on his
IRC Certificate showed us that his Club Class
performances were not necessarily due to a
“bandit handicap”. He and that old warhorse
Paul Waxman on Imperator revelled in the
conditions and beat us not just on handicap, but
on the water too. Well done!
It is always lovely sailing into Poole, past
millionaires’ row at Sandbanks, with a mixture
of hustle, bustle and tranquil calm in the various
areas of the harbour. As we settled in at the
wonderfully welcoming Parkstone Haven, we
watched the dinghy and Flying Fifteen fleets
returning from racing, opened one or two
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bottles of wine, and watched the clouds clear to
give us nice evening sunshine. A very reasonably
priced curry was laid on for us in Parkstone
Yacht Club, where we were entertained by all
the people dressed for a “Flower Power” party,
with live band and all. As we had an early start
in the morning, we did not behave too badly,
though we are not sure the same can be said
for the Batfish crew, who, as usual, seemed to
be up to some of what Para Handy refers to as
“High Jinks”.
The wind played fair, and we set up for
a spinnaker hoist as the gun went at 0815,
and kept it up to the finish, 6 or 7 gybes later.
Blustery Day liked this MUCH better, especially
early on with about 10 knots true wind. We
made Carolyn steer all the way, as she had not
been able to do much more than encourage the
3 old men the day before. Ian Stow is now to
be known as Charles Atlas after his comments
about being a ten stone weakling reminded us
of the sand kicking advert all those years ago.
Thankfully his slim stature was compensated for
by our old friend Peter Gillies from Leigh on Sea
who claims he is regaining his youthful figure
(which resembled a mountain!). Unfortunately
for us, having put plenty of time on our rivals,
and leading the fleet handsomely on the water,
we saw the wind slowly but steadily build
from behind and squeeze us all back together
somewhat. Crossing the line, we started the
watch, and in the end finished 3rd on corrected
time only 38 seconds behind the winner, Vela,
with Wishful Thinking splitting us. Ah well, that’s
yacht racing. We still took line honours ahead of
much faster boats, so pride was salved.
Overall, from our perspective, a very
successful event, good racing, good company,
good food and good fun. Well worth keeping on
the calendar for 2011. Our thanks to race team
Peter Bateson and Phillip Gage.
Colin Sinclair
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SOUTHERNHOSPITALITY
... an extract from
a thank you letter
A Weekend Away
“Well what could we say when we entered
the room. “Have they given us the right place?”
It went on for miles. A slight exaggeration.
Not just one room but a whole suite of rooms.
“Keep quiet and perhaps they won’t notice if
they’ve made a mistake.”
There was a small kitchen, a bathroom
where you could swing a cat, the bedroom of
course but with a massive bed and a lounge
with settees, table and chairs and a television on
the wall. It was originally part of three cottages,
which had been knocked together. This had
been cleverly done because from the outside it
still looked as if Coastguard Cottage, Mariners,
Magnolia and Sundial Cottages were separate
entities. I could go on about the décor inside but
it’s not really a man thing. It was tastefully done.
If you have ever eaten at the Royal Southern
then you will know that the kitchen will never
let you down. We had a fantastic dinner, service
was good and the bar staff friendly.
Breakfast, overlooking the Hamble was a
leisurely affair in the continental style. No fullEnglish for us as we knew we had to keep room
for the post-meeting lunch. It was entertaining
to watch the boats going out down the river
as it was a cold overcast February day and we
admired their bravery and their dedication to
their art.
How much did it all cost? Well, we don’t
really know but to us it was priceless as a
relaxing weekend.
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Bars and Dining
The Club offers a choice of bars, each with
beautiful river views. Upstairs lunch is served
daily, with a menu ranging from sandwiches to
hot snacks and table meals.
The upstairs bar with its large balcony is the
ideal place for a drink in good weather and, if
you have just come off the water, you may like to
stop off at the downstairs bar and have a drink
on the terrace.
Dinner is served in the Club from Wednesday
to Saturday evenings, and theme nights regularly
appear on the programme.
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Special Events
The Royal Southern is an ideal venue for
business or social functions. The Yeoman
Room, River Room and Dining Rooms which
can cater from 8 – 200 guests, have views over
the river and can be set up for conferences or
banquets.
Please contact Sorrel Taylor who will be
pleased to help you plan your party, wedding or
conference.
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Club dinners.
Bedrooms
Within 18th Century listed buildings
overlooking the River Hamble we have created
11 elegant new bedrooms and a Master Suite.
All rooms have modern facilities with ensuite
bathrooms, Internet access and flat screen
television. Tea and coffee is available in each
room and the room rate includes Continental
breakfast.
Club
Launches
Summer Service
Monday – Thursday
0800 – 1800 hrs
Friday – Sunday
0800 – 2000 hrs
Hours will be extended during
regatta racing.
Club Contacts
Mike Rogers 023 8045 0300
Secretary secretary@royal-southern.co.uk
Monica MacIntosh 023 8045 0304
Management accounts@royal-southern.co.uk
Accountant
Natalie Gray 023 8045 0302
Sailing Secretary
sailing@royal-southern.co.uk
Sorrel Taylor
023 8045 0315
House Secretary house@royal-southern.co.uk
Sean Light
023 8045 0300
Dan Marshall foh@royal-southern.co.uk
Lawrence Hall 023 8045 0300
Head Chef catering@royal-southern.co.uk
Sue Kent 023 8045 0300
Receptionist sue@royal-southern.co.uk
Rebecca Lake 023 8045 0300
Membership admin@royal-southern.co.uk
Secretary
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David Williams
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Mike Hesk & Gordon Richards
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Artamain
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Aquafax
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E.P. Barrus Ltd
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Coastline Marine
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sales@coastlinemarine.co.uk
GJW Direct
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Hamble Cover Services
023 8045 6354
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Marco Marine Ltd
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Pike Pictures
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Richardson Sails
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Sea Ventures
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Yachting Sports UK Ltd
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The Commodore, Flag Officers
and Members of the Royal
Southern Yacht Club thank all
the advertisers for supporting
the Club by advertising in The
Southern.
The Winter programme
is subject to change and
additional events are likely to
organised.
Check www.royal-southern.
co.uk or Club Notice Boards
for up-to-date information
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Sa 1 -Mo 3Motor Boat Spring Rally /
Solent Cruiser Race
Sa 1 - Su 2 X-Yachts Solent Cup
Sa 8 - Su 9 SB3 Solent Series 1
Sa 8 - Su 9Cruiser Club Handicap Race & Rally
to Yarmouth
Sun 9
Optimist Flotilla Away Day
Mon 10Discover Oceanography
aboard RV Callista
Tue 11
Shooting Lains
Sa 15- Su 16 Poole and Back Race
Sun 16
Splash & Junior Cadet Event
Mid week Rally to Bembridge
Tue 18
Thu 20
Lee on Solent Golf Day
Sa 22 - Su 23 May Regatta
First 40.7 Nationals
Wed 26
Ladies Afloat
Thu 27
Pre Deauville Race Dinner
Th 27 - Su 30Dunkirk 70th Anniversary Cruise
Fr 28 - Su 30Deauville Race & Rally
JUNE
Wed 2
J-Cup Registrations
Th 3 - Sa 5 J-Cup & J/109 Nationals
Sun 6
Optimist Flotilla at Royal Lymington YC
Tue 8
Midweek Rally to Newtown
June Regatta
Sat 12
Contessa 32 Racing weekend
IRC Solent Series 2
J109 Saturday Series 1
June Regatta
Sun 13
Contessa 32 Racing weekend
Mid week rally to the Horse & Jockey
Tue 15
Sat 19
Round The Island Race
New Members Party
Sun 20
Opera on the Run
Optimist Flotilla Session
Sat 26
Swallow Nationals
Splash & Junior Cadet Event
Sun 27
Swallow Nationals
Club Pursuit Race to Cowes
Mo 28 - Tu 29Oyster Regatta
Ladies Afloat
Wed 30
Oyster Regatta
JULY
Th 1 - Fr 2 Oyster Regatta
Sat 3
July Regatta
Sigma 33 Regatta Series
J109 Southern Series 2
Sun 4
July Regatta
Optimist Flotilla at Warsash SC
Tue 6
Mid Week Rally to Gins Farm
Th 8 - Fr 9 Metre Regatta
Optimist Flotilla Session
Sat 10
Sat 10
Metre Regatta
Sun 11
Splash & Junior Cadet Regatta Day
incl BBQ & Prize Giving
Metre Regatta
Wed 14
Ladies Afloat
Fr 16 - Su 18 Motor Boat Open Weekend
Sa 17 - Fr 23Cruiser Race to France & the
Channel Islands
Sat 24
Cruiser Race Prize Giving
Sa 24 - Su 25 WOKC
Farr 45 Race Weekend
Sa 24 - Fr 30 Optimist Flotilla at Weymouth Nationals
Thu 29Commodore’s Pre Cowes Week
Cocktail Party
Sat 31
COWES WEEK
AUGUST
Su 1 - Sa 7 COWES WEEK
Sat 7
Cowes Week Race Officers Dinner
Tue 10
Mid Week Rally to Yarmouth
Sat 14
Brambles Cricket Match
Sa 14 - Su 15 HALF CREW CUP
Farr 45 Race Weekend
Wed 18
Ladies Afloat
Sa 21 - Su 22 Junior Cadet Weekend
Mo 23 - Fr 27 Youth Week
Sa 28 - Su 29 Beneteau Cup
SEPTEMBER
Th 2 - Su 5 6 Metre Nationals
Sat 4
Sailability Day
Tue 7
Mid Week Rally to Lymington
Thu 9
Corhampton Golf Day
Shooting Compton
Sat 11
September Regatta
J109 Southern Series 3
Sun 12
September Regatta
Ladies Afloat
Wed 15
Sat 18
Motor Boat Autumn Rally
Final Fling Crew Ball
Sun 19
Motor Boat Autumn Rally
New Members Party
Fri 24
MacMillan Coffee Morning
Sa 25 - Su 26Hamble Scramble White Sail
Race & Rally
Sun 26
Splash & Junior Cadet Event
OCTOBER
Fr 1 - Su 3
Sat 2
Sun 3
Mon 4
Wed 6
Fri 8
Sa 9 - Su 10
Wed 13
Thu 14
Fri 15
Wed 20
Wed 27
Beer Festival
Ladies Race
Ancient Mariners Race
Interclub Pair Bridge
Wine Tasting
Cruiser Supper
Folly Rally
Lecture
Ladies Lunch with Speaker
Dummer Golf Day
Lecture
Lecture
NOVEMBER
Wed 3
Sat 6
Wed 10
Sat 13
Wed 17
Thu 18
Sat 20
Wed 24
Sat 27
Lecture
Christmas Fayre
Lecture
Prize Giving
Lecture
Bridge Drive
Laying Up Dinner
Lecture
AGM
DECEMBER
Fri 3
Christmas Golf Fun Day
Sat 4
Motor Boat Christmas Dinner
Sun 12Club Christmas Lunch /
New Members Party
Tue 14
Christmas Rally to Cowes
Wed 15
Carol Supper
Sun 26
Boxing Day Members Bar
New Years Eve
Tue 31
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Address
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Email
info@arconayachts.com
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