COMMODORE'S PAGE

Briefing Spring 2010

Welcome to the 2010 season. After one of the coldest winters for a long time, I am looking forward to the sailing programme Sean Moore has been putting together during the dark days of winter.

This 2010 yearbook has been published by Steve Soanes. This follows many years of dedicated work by Mien Ramuz. You will see that technology enables us to produce the year book in colour and it has been designed so that the centre page can be extracted to provide all the essential information for the sailing programme.You will also see the yearbook has two new elements, a section by the Bosun, Geoff Cleall, explaining the changes that we have made with the safety boats. And as a result of closer liaison with the Blakeney Regatta Committee (non sailing) we have included a page detailing the events and timing for the rural and aquatic sports on the weekend of the 8th and 9th of August.

This season sees the introduction of two new safety boats and a refurbished flag pole. Both these initiatives reflect a lot of work by various members during the winter, and a financial contribution toward the flag pole by Kay Tilley the sister of Helen Turner who provided the original pole. You will also have seen that the sustained effort over the last few years is coming to fruition as the tie down chains cover over half the dinghy park.

The tides and their times enables us to provide more races in the sailing programme this year and, following the success of the fun week and social activities last year, we have included even more activities in the programme in the middle of the summer.

We were pleased to welcome a number of new members during 2009 and are keen to encourage more new members not only to take part in the racing but also in the increasing number of non racing, social sailing and other social activities that the club is now providing.

I look forward to seeing you all out on the water in some fine weather this year.

Joe Carr - Commodore