RYA WEST MIDLANDS WEBSITE

Dear All,

Apologies for the group email. However, I wanted to let you know about the new RYA West Midlands website. Stuart Scrimgeour has kindly reworked the entire site so it is now more user friendly, has new content and looks fantastic!

This site is now an excellent resource for local and national information on the following -

Resources for Instructors
Club Development
Resources for Principals
Dinghy Hire – regional fleets
OnBoard
T15
Volvo Champion Clubs
Freelance Instructors
Instructor Courses

We would love to hear any feedback and suggestions you may have for additions to the site.
Check it out at http://www.ryawm.co.uk/

Regards
Gareth Brookes
RYA Development Officer Midlands
Mobile: 07876 330 136
E-mail: gareth.brookes@rya.org.uk

TOPPER RACE TRAINING

Dates 18, 19, 20 August 2008

Venue Hollowell Sailing Club

Cost £60 (approx) for the 3 days

Coaches:
Russell Brayshaw
Mike Wood
Hugh Brayshaw
Pete Newbery

Overnight camping is available.

Please let me know if you are interested in attending this event. If I get enough interest, I will go ahead and finalise the details. Booking will be on a first come first served basis until all places have been allocated. There are only 16 places available. Cheques will not be presented until one week before the event. Booking will closed on by 18 July. Assistance with catering, house parents and shore parents will be needed.

Lorna Newbery
ITCA Midland Rep
07876 230053

Midland Toppers is sponsored by Purple Sails and Marine Ltd
www.purplemarine.com

Boat Whisperer Talk Series

If anyone is interested, please fill in the form below (a challenge) and send it off

Steve Cockerill Boat Whisperer Talk

Tuesday 10th June 2008

7.00pm – 10.30pm
(Food included)

Chase Sailing Club
Pool Road
Chasetown
Walsall
WS7 8QW



Please reserve me ______ tickets at £10.00 each for the above talk.

I attach a cheque payable to Chase Sailing Club for £___________


Name ________________________________________


Email ________________________________________
(confirmation of booking will be sent by email – tickets will be issued on door)

Address _______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

Sailing Club _________________________________________

Please return to:

Gareth Hyland
45 Fotherley Brook Road, Aldridge, Walsall, WS9 0PD

Chase S.C. members can leave behind bar in a sealed envelope marked for my attention.

Power Boat Incident

Dear All

RYA training centres are often approached to provide training onboard an owner’s vessel.

On the second day of a recent Powerboat Level Two course an instructor and owner were both thrown from a RIB when the centre console and helm position became detached from the deck. This happened during a gentle turn to starboard at approximately 20 – 25 knots.

Fortunately, neither the owner nor the instructor were injured.

Upon further inspection it was discovered that the console had only four short self tapping screws securing it to the deck. The boat was brand new and displayed an RCD mark.

This incident highlights that it is not always prudent to put ones faith totally in CE markings as a guarantee of satisfactory manufacture and assembly.

Full details of the incident and the ensuing MAIB investigation will be in the next edition of Wavelength.

Polite Reminder

Can any members who have yet to pay their fees, please dig out your invoice / declaration form and send it off to Max Coleman (Membership Secretary) together with your subscription for the year.

If you have lost your invoice, please just follow the link to the form from the web page http://www.suttonsc.org.uk/member.html , complete as appropriate and return to Max (his address is on the bottom of the form.)

Thank you so much

Matthew Daniels
Treasurer

Amended Race Results Wed 14th May 2008 Tudor 12 Handicap

1 Greg Obrien Laser 185975 54.87m
2 Ian Goodman Laser 122217 55.23m
3 Dennis Swain Laser 00000 55.95m
4 A Coleman GP14 13173 56.31m
5 M Venables RS Feva 57.37
6 C Davic Solo 4137 58.23m
7 M Daniels Laser 2000 2123 59.32m
8 A Frost Laser 86609 50.42m
9 R Daniels RS Feva 2885 60.09m
10 B Burton GP14 12135 60.21m
11 A Williams Xzenon 5140 62.31
12 C Healy Topper 36392 68.33m
13 Healy Mirror 29458 68.90m
14 C Carty Ent 14471 69.52m
15 C Thompson GP14 11390 86.85m
16 A Hughes DNF
16 R Webb DNF

Due to an error in the green books the results have changed from the original posting, any one in future on ood duty an RS Feva is 84% and not 79% as stated in the books.

Thanks

RS FEVA & TERA OPEN - 16 AUGUST

Hi

As you maybe aware Sutton SC are holding the first RS Feva and Tera Open Meeting on Saturday 16th August.

The day starts with a 2 hour race training session in the morning, followed by 3 short races in the afternoon.

Purple Marine have 3 RS Fevas and 4 RS Teras available for use by Club Members for the day, there is no charge for the use of the boats, however there is a £7.50 entry fee for each boat.

If you are under 18 and would like to use a boat for the day, please contact Andrew Weeden - Andrew.weeden@purplemarine.com as soon as possible.

We also have 2 Club Fevas available and these need to be booked with our Club Bosun - Dave Hall - dave@purplesails.com again as soon as possible.

The boats will be allocated on a first come basis.

Finally we are looking for volunteers to assist during the day, if you are able to assist please contact Greg O'Brien - greg@purplemarine.com

Many Thanks

Greg

OOD DUTY EXCHANGE

Hi

Paul, Adam & I are all away for our duty on Sunday 22 June, can anyone swap please?

Please contact Greg - greg@purplemarine.com or 07702 000032

Many Thanks

Greg, Paul & Adam

Rya Safety Boat Course 23rd/24th May 2008

I am planning on running an RYA Safety Boat Course on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th May.

Numbers are limited to the amount of PB instructors available. At present I can take 3 students but if any of the other PBI's are free that number can increase as we are only allowed to teach 3:1.

I also need one volunteer on day one and two volunteers on day two to sail various club boats and create various scenarios.

Its a full two day course and you need to be prepared to get wet as some of the syllabus involves entering the water.

You are required to hold an RYA Level 2 power boat certificate in order to do this course.

Course price is £35 to book a place please contact faz@fazaudio.com tel: 07831 434675.

Thanks

Faz

BALA SAFARI
It will soon be that time again!
Join us this year for the following weekend
27-29th June
The usual entertainments on offer:
Endless sunshine, Steady Force 2 - 3,
General fun sailing; B.B.Q.; tall tales; football; cricket;
boules; Chillin' (whatever that is). Other options include
hill walking; steam railway; liquid shopping etc

For further details contact Mike Hughes, 0121 382 6979
No Topper Opens, No club racing at SSC, No OOD duty
NO EXCUSE
Turn up with your tent, BBQ and boat for a great weekend

Posted on behalf of Mike who pretends he doesn't know how to do it. He obviously subscribes to the 'Barking Dog' philosophy.

Assistant Instructor Training
We are planning to run a two day Assistant Dinghy Instructor Course in June/July (dates to be confirmed). The aim of this course is to train Assistant Instructors to be able to assist qualified Instructors to teach beginners up to the standard of the National Sailing Certificate, Level 2 Basic Skills, and the Youth Sailing Scheme. This is a very good way to learn a lot about sailing - the best way to learn is to teach! It is also good fun.

Applications from our Junior members are particularly encouraged, but other members of the club are very welcome too.

Interested?

Contact
Greg O’Brien, Ute Hughes, John Wilber