July's Caption Competion

Click On Image to Enlarge, all captions welcome...............

Team Victory at the Annual Abingdon Match Sat 22nd

The Sutton SC team came a very respectable second place well done to all.

A great day considering the weather conditions, just the normal no wind, Thunder, Lighting & Heavey Rain, a huge thanks the Abington Team for making the effort and putting in a great team for the event, look forward to the rematch next year.

A big thanks to Dave& Joy Batsford for organising it and to Graham and the team for the marvelous catering, last but not least thanks to the members for providing the boats and turning up and having a go. I can safely say the boyency tanks on JW ent are fine and it passed its floatation test with flying colours.

Once again thanks to all involved.

Regards

Faz

Summer Holiday Friday Racing - REVISED

After discussions on Sunday it transpires that many of you budding Topper Sailors will be away on holiday or at Bala on the first planned Friday (28th July).

As such below is the revised schedule with the first Friday racing being held on our Topper Fleet Captains Birthday (Friday 4th August).

We will be running 4 races on a Friday afternoon with the 1st start at 2.30pm, the races will be approx 30minutes long. Races 1 and 2 will be sailed back to back then a short break and races 3 and 4 back to back.

Dates
Friday 4th August - Races 1 - 4
Friday 11th August - Races 5 - 8
Friday 18th August - Races 9 - 12
Friday 25th August - Races 13 - 16
Friday 1st September - Races 17 - 20

Discards
16 - 20 Races sailed - 12 to count
12 - 15 Races sailed - 9 to count
9 - 11 Races sailed - 7 to count
7 Races or less sailed - All Races to count

Prizes - Donated by www.purplemarine.com
1st, 2nd & 3rd Overall
1st under 10 year old - Boy - Not finishing in the top 3 overall
1st under 10 year old - Girl - Not finishing in the top 3 overall
Boat that completes all races sailed and finishes last

Thank you to all volunteers that have offered their assistance. The galley will be open for drinks and snacks between races.

Should anyone require anymore information, please contact Greg O'Brien.
Greg@purplemarine.com
07702 000032

New Secret Weapon

Meet my new secret weapon for light airs.
Well, perhaps not so secret and it will be a couple of years yet but we are working on it.

JW

"THE BIG VOTE"

As both JW and I endeavour to deliver "probably the best sailing club web site in the world" we have come up with a difference in preference which needs to be settled by you the club members.

The predicament is simply this: as a frustrated artist/photographer I personally prefer to display my photographs in black & white, whilst JW likes to see them in vibrant colour.

Option one: Black & White

Option: Two Colour

Option one or option two we can't decide it is up to you.

Please place a vote by clicking the "comments" link on this posting and state your name and preference.

The casting vote will determine future photos displayed.

Thanks For Participating.

Faz & JW.

ENTERPRISE RACE TRAINNING..........................

Just a big thankyou to Greg for giving up his time to run the Enterprise Race Trainning sessions over the last couple of weeks, the information we received was fantastic and hopefully beneficial to all who participated.

The proof is in the racing>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Watch this space.

Also a big thanks to the providers of the lunch, it was very greatly appreacieated.

The real reason for going to Bala

The Usual Suspects......................

Once Again the SSC TF out on the weekend ready to kick sum.

Be Afraid, Very Afraid..........................

Topper Open

Today 6 of us went to the Topper Open at Manor Park.

It was boiling hot and there wasnt much wind.

We took part in three races. Two to count.

In the first race our highest position was James Hill- 7th

In the second race James lead the fleet of 31 for nearly two laps! And came 6th overall and I got a 5th.

The third race was terrible- very little wind and very hot. James got the highest placed sutton boat in this race with a 6th.

So overall
James Hill- 6th
Georgina Fletcher-7th
Matt Venables- 12th
Dan Ewers- 16th (and prize for first in silver fleet)
Robyn Goding-18th (prize for second in silver fleet)
Dan Venables- 20th (and got a prize for youngest male sailor)

Well done to everyone and thank you to all the adults for taking us and supporting us!

Gf.

Our Website Award

It seems someone likes our website!!

Sutton Sailing Club [http://www.suttonsc.org.uk/]

Your website http://www.suttonsc.org.uk/ has been selected as one of the best educational resources on the Web by StudySphere. StudySphere is one of the Internet's fastest growing sites of educational resources for students, teachers and parents. StudySphere has scoured the Internet to select only the finest sites to be included within its listing of educational links.

JW