If you’d like to choose your winter duty date please sign up on the clubhouse notice board by 5th September.
Alternatively email me (with more than one alternative) – sailing@rbsc.org.uk by the same date.
Many thanks – Ian
If you’d like to choose your winter duty date please sign up on the clubhouse notice board by 5th September.
Alternatively email me (with more than one alternative) – sailing@rbsc.org.uk by the same date.
Many thanks – Ian
End of Summer Sailing and BBQ
SATURDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER 12.30-16.30
Let’s Make Sailing Fun
*Grown up in long trousers on board to helm or supervise
All planned activities will be subject to prevailing weather conditions
Please bring suitable wet weather gear. Some lifejackets are available
A link to an interactive Sailing Rules Quiz has been under the Rules section of the website.
I am sure some of you will have seen this before but its worth a look, you can rewind, pause and slowdown the incidents (unlike the real thing) and each decision is explained with references to the rule.
Try it here
Safety Boat Training / Refresher being run today.
Book early, places limited’ish
MID-SUMMER BOATS N’ BBQ BASH SATURDAY 10TH JULY 13.00-17.00
MID-SUMMER BOATS N’ BBQ BASH
SATURDAY 10TH JULY 13.00-17.00
Kids sailing and late afternoon BBQ/Picnic
Everybody welcome ( Yes, even grown ups )
( Tea/Coffee/Juice/Crisps/Muffins/Chocolate etc )
*Grown up in long trousers on board to helm or supervise
All planned activities will be subject to prevailing weather and weed conditions
Please bring suitable wet weather gear. Some lifejackets are available
On a day when the weatherman promised light winds 21 Solos raced in the RBSC Open Meeting. They competed in good spirits as the wind and the weed favoured the boats.
More details soon
KIDS@RBSC
The Event
Saturday 29th May dawned grey and cloudy with a less than promising weather forecast of breezy and gusty conditions with rain promised for 13.00, would anyone turn up? By the start time of 11.00 there were 12 youths of varying age and experience, some members and some not so at least the effort had not been in vain ( I’d hired 4 myself to ensure some sort of turn out )
Incredibly, over the next 3 hours, we saw in excess of 30 kids aged from 4 to16 go sailing in less than pleasant conditions, the last of these being dragged off the water by their parents at around16.00.A slightly bemused Roger Wilson commented that he’d never seen anything like it during his time at the club (I presume this was a good thing Roger?)
Boats out included Oppie x 3, Wayfarer x 2, Mirror, Topper x 5, Laser 2000, Laser Stratos and a Laser or 2, quite a fleet in fact
One 6 year old sailed for the first time ever with her Dad in a loaned Mirror (brave as he hadn’t sailed for 10 years), then graduated to a Wayfarer with John Saddington and Dennis Manning (& dad) in gusty conditions which she loved.
Next she moved to a club Oppie inside the pontoons (no Dad) and after lunch returned for more of the same in pouring rain. When she got home she logged onto e-Bay looking for a suitable craft for Dad to buy her. Brilliant!
While things didn’t quite go to plan (and a very loose one at that) everybody seemed to enjoy themselves with a positive response to the informality of the whole day.
Unfortunately the weather rather put paid to our afternoon plans as the rain arrived at 13.20 and was still hammering down when I left around 17.00
Questionnaire-What you wanted
24 Kids and/or their parents completed our 2 questionnaires ( the kids had their own one ) with positive responses to almost all of the questions.
To answer some of the requests and questions
We asked kids to describe their best and worst bit of the day
Our favourite best being “ I like it when the boat tipped on its side. My dad can’t do that” with the worst being no more than a “wet bottom”.
Thanks
A big thanks must go to all who supported this event, in particular the club members without whom the event wouldn’t have been the great success it was
To the parents who gave up a large part of their day while their little angels sailed. It seemed that almost everyone who rang, e-mailed or posted on the website turned up.
To Roger Wilson, Ian Ayres, John Saddington, Dennis Manning, Steve Gray ( those 2 little nippers surprised you in the Wayfarer ), Derek Page & Laurence Milton and anyone whose names I’ve forgotten or don’t know.
Finally to the kids themselves, it was your day and you made the most of it
Why did we do it?
This was an experiment to try to re-ignite kids sailing at Rollesby that for various and understandable reasons had perhaps faltered over the last couple of years. The recurring observation was that parents had brought their kids to sail, particularly on Saturday, but as there appeared to be few others for them to sail with their interest had waned.
The attendance of more than excited 30 kids and their equally enthusiastic parents on a single day proved otherwise.
Is this the start?
Hopefully, in between the organized events, more families will now want to sail together and make the best use of a friendly club in a lovely setting, and most of all, have fun.
Is this the start of a Rollesby cadet club ( I still prefer KIDS@RBSC )?,only time will tell but please let us have your thoughts and those of your kids.
Watch this space for details of the next event
Regatta marks start of Whitsun Race Series
Starting at Rollesby and now Round Britain with a Brain Tumour.
Josie and Roger Phillips are setting off on Sat 15th May (at 9am from Fox’s
marina on the Orwell at Ipswich) to sail round the UK in a Contessa32. Roger
learnt to sail at Rollesby and Filby. Josie has had a brain tumour for 5
years but when it went malignant 18 months ago they conceived the ambition
to undertake this trip to raise money and awareness for Brain Tumour
Research as more people under 40 die of Brain tumours than any other cancer
but the funding for this doesn’t represent this.
More information is on their website www.contessa32.co.uk where updates of
their progress will appear.
They plan to arrive at Lowestoft (arriving Sat evening 15th May) and then
Wells on Sun evening 16th May with a day’s rest before continuing on to
Grimsby and an anticlockwise circumnavigation (going through the Caledonian
canal).
They are very grateful for help and support already received from large and
small companies including Apogee Engineering Analysis in Norwich and very
significant help with safety and other adaptations to the boat from Jeremy
Rogers (Contessa32 builders) in Lymington.
Please get in touch through the website if you would like to offer advice,
useful information, support or help which is always very gratefully
received. Links to Just Giving on the website allow messages of support as
well as donations.
(Geoff and Liz Phillips on liz.phillips@uea.ac.uk and
Geoff.l.phillips@btinternet.com
And 01493751012 will be pleased to pass on messages when they are underway).