Topper Summer Series Results ( One week to Go......)

Even More Topper Pics

A huge thankyou to David Venables for giving up his time
to take these pics. Click a photo to enlarge




The TFC got confused and thought she was wind surfing...................

Website Homepage

Take a look at the homepage of the website - it looks quite exciting.

Just click on the website link from this page.

While you are there, check the 'Help for the OOD' part and learn your start sequences (and tell me what I have done wrong)

JW

Purple Tuesday

For this week, we have on offer two great value for money products.


For the Dinghy Sailor we have the Purple Marine branded Magic Marine Skiff Buoyancy Aid on offer at just £20.00.

Manufactured for Purple by renowned dinghy specialists Magic Marine, the brand new CE approved Purple Marine Skiff Buoyancy Aid is a must for style and functionality conscious sailors of all ages. As a skiff buoyancy Aid, this is a well thought out and perfect bit of kit. Lightweight and slim fit, you don’t even know you’re wearing it. It fits comfortable snug against your body promoting an easy movement around the boat that is essential for high performance skiff sailors, and incredibly useful for any sailor. Although simple and slim, the Purple Marine Skiff Buoyancy Aid still has the range of adjustment you’d expect. Shoulder and waist straps are fully adjustable and hidden within a lycra covering to avoid those irritating and potentially dangerous moments when you become attached to parts of the boat you don’t want to be. With it’s stylish colour scheme, this really is a bit of kit you will want to be seen in on the water in 2006, and the useful Velcro closing pocket on the front is perfect for those spare shackles, bits of rope and tape.Order Code:6678Colour: BlackSizes: XS, S, M, L, XLNOW JUST £20


For the Yachtsman we have the Gill Crew Sport Jacket in Electric Blue reduced from £80.00 to just £39.99.

The Crew Sport is styled for a sportier look and is the perfect all rounder, performing on board whilst still looking great as a casual jacket. It is made from one of our waterproof 2 Dot™ fabrics giving good breathability and durability. It is fully taped and is lined with a warm anti-pill fleece.Order Code: 1033Colour: Electric BlueSizes: XS, S, M, L, XLNOW JUST £39.99


For Further details call 01922 614787 or shop on line at www.purplemarine.com

Meet Half Way.com

Greg Wrote...

If you are looking to meet someone half way then check out this great new site.
www.meethalfway.com

Designed by John Wilber's son Steven its a winner.

Topper Open Meeting

You can see a full report on Yachts and Yachting website.

http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=22998

Regards

Greg

More Topper Pics

Click On Image To Enlarge, right click on Enlarged image and click "save as" to down load.

Topper Open

It’s been 15 years since Sutton held a Topper Open so we wanted to go in with a bang, and we certainly did just that.
20 boats set sail on the light and shifty day. 8 of which were Sutton boats.

In the first race James was leading until the wind suddenly dropped and there was a raft of about six boats. A visitor and I took this as an opportunity to catch up. Then James got going, I had suddenly gone from about eighth place to second- but not everyone was as lucky as me- and we were closely followed by Andy Salt.
James and I were leading until the end, when I foolishly thought there was another lap so did not tack. Andy saw my mistake and tacked straight away, finishing second.

After a well-earned lunch (thanks to Graham, Sue and Laura) we headed onto the water for the second race- and a new course. The wind had now picked up a little and some of the smaller sailors were struggling, the race was won by Andy Salt.

The third race came and there were two contenders for first place- Andy and James- both of which had gained a first place. Unfortunately James didn’t get a great start so Andy won.

A big thank you has to go to Purple Marine for sponsoring the event and also Alan Turner and all the team for all their hard work.

I would like to say well done to everyone who took part and I hope that we can have such a great event again next year.

Georgina Fletcher t.f.c

Sutton Topper Open Results Table 19th Aug 2006

Click on Table to Enlarge for a better veiw.

Topper open - some random photos

Most of the photos here were either taken by or starred in by Sutton Sailing Club's junior photographer team, Jamie, Alexander and Amy.
A new addition to the safety boat team!

Alexander spots a capsized boat.

To the rescue!

A lovely mug of hot chocolate to warm up!

A very cool picture by Alexander with the boat in the foreground and lots of boats in the background.

A snap of James after finishing first in the first race, taken by Amy.

A hot chocalately Jamie!

A funky picture of Amy.

Georgina coming in after the first race, taken by Jamie.


A big well done to all the sailors and everyone who helped in one way or another - it was a fab day!
Laura

Topper open - some race photos

Laura

Topper Open

This is just a preliminary shot showing the start of the first race in what turned out to be a brilliant Topper Open.

James won this race and Georgie came third.

No doubt there will be many other photos to follow.





JW

Purple Marine Topper Summer Series Results

From Auction to Benches

From this...



To this...



I would like to say a big thank you to everyone involved from donating items for the auction to putting the benches together.

Thanks

Georgie

Topper Open Meeting

Check out the advert on Yachts & Yachting

http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=22964

Uploading a picture

It seems that there is a problem uploading images, so this is just a test.

I have logged in as anyone else would as 'sscmember' with the usual password then followed the following proceedure:

1) Clicked the picture icon
2) Decided how I wanted it displayed - in this case have selected 'center' and a 'medium sized' picture by clicking the respective buttons
3) Clicked on 'Browse' and navigated to my picture file then either double click on the file name or single click then click 'open'
4) Then click 'Upload Image' and, in this case it uploads a nice friendly wedding photo and it will eventually say 'Done' which should also be clicked
5) Clicked 'preview' to make sure it is how I want it. If it is not, you can move things around or do more complicated things by clicking Edit Html
6) Note that the image displayed is a small version of your image (unless, as in this case you only have a small image) and you can later click on the picture on the blog to see the full version
7) When you are quite happy with it, click 'Publish Post' and it will put your picture on the blog as demonstrated here

JW

Gate Left Unlocked Again

Greg just rang to say that the club gate was left unlocked yet again!!
He found this situation at 6.30pm on Monday 14 August.

JW

Topper Nationals 2006

It’s been years since anyone from Sutton did the topper nationals and now we have a team together, which kick ass. There’s no other way to put it. When out on the water we don’t say good luck. We say “kick ass”

This year we didn’t kick ass. We did ok. It was a great week and we all learned a lot. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Steve Venables, Greg O’Brien and Allan Coleman for training us over the last few months. Also our parents for taking us to the event.

But onto the week its self. Five of us took part. James Hill, Dan Ewers, Matt and Dan Venables and I. Dan Venables was in Regatta Fleet, meaning that he did training and had fun all week. They went on picnics and did capsize drill while the rest of us raced hard.

The first day there was just enough wind and managed to get the scheduled three races in. Day two came and there was absolutely no wind but after hours of postponement we managed to get one race in. The wind dropped again and we all came in. Day three, four races were scheduled to try and get all races of the qualifying series in. Luckily there was some wind and the four races took place. Although none of us finished the fourth as it was a lot for us. Six or so hours on the water!

So after three days were split into two starts- Gold, the best 130 and Silver, the remaining 130, all Sutton boats being the Silver fleet.

Day four. There was lots of wind. Big waves and lots of aching legs. Very different to Sutton.

None of us expected more wind on day five but there was. James and Dan both decided to reef. Matt didn’t race, but joined the regatta fleet. And I decided to be brave, and be one of the few to use full sail. (I later heard that my dad, Peter and Allan thought that we must be very brave to go out in that wind, or very mad)
We all just about scraped by in the first two races. But, in the third race the three of us were occupying the last three places. Dan and I both caught the same gust going down wind and death rolled, and then turtled. James took this opportunity to get ahead while Dan and I were upside down. We got out boats up, nose dived a few times, before I death rolled again. This time I decided to call it a day but Dan carried on.

So the last day came, Dan, James and I needed to do these two races in to qualify. There was a little less wind than the day before, but we all reefed. Then, the wind dropped and we were all very annoyed, so took our reefs out and then spent the next hour or so drifting round until the wind picked up. The races started and it was very close with Dan finishing first out of Sutton boats, then me, the James. So the end of the week came and we are all now experts of sea sailing, turteling and nose-diving.

The highlights of the week have to be Dan swallowing the ring pull of a coke can, James being locked in a port a loo and on the down side I am now known by three hundred people as the girl who fancies Mike Wood (which, for those of you who were there and know who I’m talking about, I don’t)

Once again thank you for a great week, especially from the support team- My dad, Pete, Allan, Beth, Steve and Jude- who you can guess spent most of the week drinking!

So in the end overall (in the Silver Fleet)
James- 105
Georgina- 106 (by half a point, you can imagine how annoyed I was)
Dan- 114
And Matt- 130 (because he didn’t complete all the races)

And maybe next year we can (as Pete repeatedly said) knock the hundred off our places!

By Georgina Fletcher (t.f.c) and Dan Ewers.

Blog Post Alert

As I set the blog up I automatically get an email alert everytime someone posts anything or a comment. This means that I only need to check the blog when I get an alert and thus it makes things more convenient.

If any other member would like to get similar alerts then please email me at john@wilberworld.net and I can set one up for you

JW

Purple Marine Topper Summer Series

Unlocked Gate (Again)

I found the gate at the Sailing Club left unlocked again at 12.15 (Mid day) on Sat 12 August.

We all really need to be a bit more carefull before something really serious happens

JW

Sutton Sailing Club

LATEST NEWS FROM WEYMOUTH.
RESULTS AFTER EIGHT QUALIFYING RACES.
GEORGE 227
DAN 255
MATT 248
JAMES 191

NOT BAD AFTER A NUMBER OF DIFFICULT RACES.
THE TEAM ARE A CREDIT TO SSC.

THEY ARE BATTLING A FORCE5/6 AT THE MOMENT [2ND RACE IN PROGRESS]MATT HAS RETIRED.
OUT OF APPROX 284 STARTERS AT LEAST A DOZEN HAVE RETIRED DUE TO CONDITIONS.
WILL REPORT AGAIN SOON AC.

topper nationals 2006.

GREAT NEWS FROM A CAR PARK IN BETWEEN THE COASTGUARD HELICOPTER STATION AND THE NATIONAL SAILING ACADEMY.
DAN 245 O/A 109/133/118/112.
MAT233 O/A 86/110/114/121.
GEORGE220O/A 112/106/105/79.
JAMES190 O/A 64/100/107/86.

THE PURPLE TEAM ARE PERFORMING GREAT.
THE SUPPORT TEAM ARE ALSO DOING WELL......48 CANS OF LAGER,3 BOTTLES OF WHISKEY,SEVEN BOTTLES OF BAILEYS AND THAT WAS JUST TODAY. AC.

Enterprise World Championchips

A fantastic result for Dennis Swain & Pete 23087 finnished 19th, and Judith and Steve Venables 22487 finnished 44th.

Thats two of our fleet currently ranking in the top 50 in the world.

The full results list is posted on the Enterprise fleet notice board.

GP14 For Sale, in need of slight restoration.

GP14 For Sale

In need of loving restoration this fantastic looking craft is the perfect winter project for the home DIY'er, Its rumoured this was once raced by the legondary Bill Burton internationally acclaimed GP sailor, but it comes with no documented records.

Trailer not included.

Offers start at .25pence.

Please contact Dave Hall for details.

The Purple Marine Summer Topper League Results.Week One.

There is a total of 20 races to be sailed over the summer holidays.

Each Fleet member has 17 points at the start of each race and then gets reduced to there finnishing position number.

The fleet member with the lowest score at the end of the series wins.