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17 January 2012 2012 Racing
The NoR and SIs for the 2012 are announced together with the Racecard for the Earlybird Series. This starts on Sunday 5th February.

Don't forget the generous discount available for early entry!
6 November 2011 Owners and Helms meeting
This meeting will be held on the 27th November after the Bay race and not on the 20th as previuously published

There will be a meeting of owners and helms in the Clubhouse after racing or at 1600 on Sunday 20th November.
This will be to agree the racing programme and sailing instructions for the 2012 Club Series Racing.

Draft NoR and SIs are published and can be viewed in the NoR, SI and other documents tab above.
26 October 2011 Christmas Party
The Cruiser Racing Christmas Party and Presentation of Prizes will be held on the evening of Saturday 10th Decemeber.
Tickets are £10 each and include a hot buffet.
Until 12th November tickets are available exclusively to entrants into the Club series racing and thereafter to the general Club membership. They are only available from the office until 12th November. You will be asked for your preference of hot buffet option at the time ticket acquisition. The options are Hunter's Chicken, Chilli con carne and a vegetarian dish.
Boats that have entered three or more series will be able to claim two free tickets. These can only be obtained from the office and must be claimed by 12th November.
12 May 2011 Race Officer and Marklaying List
I've compiled a list of Race Officers and Marklayers for the Spring Series and Tuesday evening racing. It can be found by following the Race Management link above.
It is the responsibility of the boat listed to ensure the course is laid and recovered. You have to do it yourself or make sure that someone else does it for you.
7 May 2011 Amendment to SIs
An amendment to the SIs for racing outside the Bay is announced. It deals with the shortening of courses

Insert a Section 9;

9.0 Shortened Courses

Courses may be shortened by the Race Officer by VHF. No sound or light signal will be used. In the event of a ‘lap type course’ the number or laps to be completed will be given. The course may be shortened at any mark of the course by the Race Officer. That mark will then be passed as originally prescribed. Having passed or rounded the mark Competitors will return direct to the finish line, missing out any other marks designated in the original course. The Race Officer may, for the purpose of clarification, give the direction in which they should cross the finishing line.

25 April 2011 Tuesday Evening Racing
The Tuesday Evening race programme has been bumped on a week. It will now start on the 10th May and end on 23rd August.

You can see the race card in the NoR, SI and other documents section above.
22 March 2011 Spring Series
I have published the Race Card for the Spring Series
Fleets will be decided on entries received by 1st April. If, as in the Early Bird, there are insufficient entries for a IRC fleet then the fast fleet will race using fixed handicaps.
10 March 2011 New and Changed positions of marks
The position of the DZ buoys to the N and E of Watchet and a new wreck buoy off Barry are reported as follows:

DZ151° 15.2993° 09.487
DZ251° 13.773° 19.865
DZ351° 16.3573° 14.953
New Wreck51° 21.6663° 20.296
11 January 2011 Earlybird Series
The Racecard for the Earlybird series is announced. All the race times can be seen there. Also the Notice of Race for the 2011 Club series racing and the Sailing instructions. Click on NoR, SI and other documents above to see it all.
6 December 2010 Boxing Day +1 Race
CYC are holding their traditional BD+1 race on Monday 27th December. Start 1100. Free entry and buffet. Read all about it here
4 November 2010 Two important bits of information
1) There will be a meeting in the Clubhouse for skippers and helmspersons asap after racing on Sunday 28th November to discuss the 2011 Club Series Racing. A draft Notice of Race and Calendar are published. If you have any specific issues you should want to raise then please email me, or why not start a discussion on the forum.

2) The arrangements for the Christmas Party are now in hand. As in previous years, those boats that have competed in three of more series will each receive a pair of tickets. Owners who have competed in any series are able to buy tickets from the office now and they will go on general sale in the Club from the 12th November in the bar and office.
The tickets are £10 each to include a hot buffet and live music. It will start at 7:30pm on 11th December. The party will include the presentation of prizes for the Spring Series, the two Tuesday evening Series, SWOG, and the Frostbite Series.
25 October 2010 21st November Race
The Club is hosting the Optimist Winter Championship on the weekend of 20-21 November and the Bay will be swarming with Oppies both days.

The Bay race originally planned for the Sunday will now be a Race over Low Water starting at 1130 from the PYC line.
3 October 2010 Frostbite Series Racecard
I'm sure by now you have all spotted the errors in the Frostbite Series Racecard published on the website.

Basically all the tides are now expected to be an hour earlier than previously thought. The barrage and road closures associated with the Cardiff Half Marathon also need to be accommodated.

The new Racecard can be found in the NoR, SI and other documents tab above.
1 July 2010 Christmas Party
This years Cruiser Racing Christmas Party will be on Saturday 11th December. Make a note in your diaries now!
This will include the presentation of prizes for the two Tuesday evening series, the Spring series and the Frostbite series.
The format of the evening in terms of food and entertainment are as yet undecided. If you have a view on what you would like to happen then join the discussion on the forum.
29 June 2010 Cruiser Racing Forum
There seems to have been quite a lot of email discussion of various aspects of the cruiser racing recently.
In order to open this up to the whole of the Clubs cruiser racing fleet and not just the random few on the email list, I've opened up a forum on the website.
This forum can only be visited by Club members and registration is required. The purpose of the forum is for general discussion and should not be used as an alternative to formal communication with your Race Committee or the Council of Management. Although nicknames can be used as user names, all users must reveal their real names. The forum may only be used for the discussion of cruiser racing and not for any other Club related topics.
You can register here or from the option on the menu bar above and I'll email you when your registration is successful!
11 May 2010 Race Officer and Marklaying List
I've compiled a list of Race Officers and Marklayers for the Spring Series and Tuesday evening racing. It can be found here. Please make sure you are available to take your turn as listed.
22 March 2010 Earlybird Presentation
The prizegiving for the EarlyBird Series will be held as soon as possible after the last race. All prizewinners are urged to attend.
26 December 2009 2010 Club Series Racing
The 2010 Club Series racing programme is announced. See here for the NoR, SIs and Race Cards.
1 December 2009 Boxing Day + 1 Race
Cardiff Yacht Club will be holding their traditional Boxing Day + 1 race in the bay.
28 October 2009 Christmas Part and Frostbite Presentation
This will occur on the evening of Saturday 12th December 1930 onwards. All boats that have entered three or more series will receive a pair of tickets. These are available from behind the bar.
All competitors in this years Series racing will be able to buy tickets from the Office until 16th November. After that you still still buy them but they will be available to all Club members and be available from behind the bar.
14 October 2009 Club Series Racing 2010
There will be a meeting for owners/helms on Wednesday 4th November at 2030 to discuss the draft proposals for next years racing.
These can be seen here
13 October 2009 Shanghai and Nimrod Cups 2010
Here is the letter from the Commodore regarding next year event
1 October 2009 Shanghai and Nimrod Cups 2010
Yes, Shanghai and Nimrod Cups 2010 already.
There will be a meeting asap after racing on Sunday 25th October in the Clubhouse to discuss next years event. All owners and helms are urged to attend.
Further information will be posted here in the next week so please check often.
31 July 2009 Prize givings
Prizes for the Spring Series, the Club Regatta and both Tuesday Evening Series will be given out asap after racing on Tuesday 18th August.

A hot buffet will be available.
22 April 2009 Race Management
At the meeting last Sunday the fleet was made aware that there were races scheduled for which there was no race management provision in place.

From within the newly trained Race Officers, Syd Thomas and other voluntees it is hoped that most of the races will take place.
A new Race Management link on the website will be maintained and will include uptodate lists of Race Officers and Mark Layers. A set of Race Officer equipment will be stored in the Clubhouse.
15 April 2009 Race Management
There will be a meeting of owners/helms after racing this Sunday to discuss future race management. It is important that as many of you as possible attend.
5 April 2009 Spring Seies Race 1
Well, the series got off to a fairly poor start with no boats inclined to complete the course. Anyway, a special welcome to all the boats that entered the series and welcome also to those that just turned up!
3 April 2009 Spring Series
The good news for sportsboats was the sudden last minute surge in entries on Thursday. There will be a sportsboat fleet after all.
31 March 2009 Spring Series
No sooner has the Earlybird Series finished than the Spring Series starts. First race on Sunday 5th April at 1445. Boats will be allocated to fleets based on entries received by your race officer on Thursday night. So far we only have two Sportsboat entries.
24 March 2009 Earlybird Presentation
The prizes for the Earlybird series will be presented as soon as possible after racing on Sunday. Hopefully there will be some sandwiches available and the bar will be open.
2 March 2009 An Apology
I had a phone call and an email from the Club office today with an overdue updated list of whose paid for racing so far.

As a result of this boats previously disqualified have been reinstated. The Office apologise to Peter Gamble of Forebitters, Ben Redwood of Duck n'Jybe and Geoff Parr of Jonah for their omission in this respect.
2 March 2009 Race Fee Payment
There seems to be some confusion about race fee payment. One of the rules is that if my records show payment is not received within two weeks of your first start then you will be disqualified from all races until you do.

You can see my records by clicking on the 'Whose paid' link above. If you think they are wrong then you need to do something!
2 March 2009 Race Management
For Race 4 and for most of the remaining races in the Earlybird series you will be racing with new Race Officers. Yesterday you listened to Tim Lowe and others follow in weeks to come. I know you will give them all your support as they take on that role.
6 February 2009 Earlybird Series
A total of 14 boats have entered the series, 7 each in the PY and IRC fleets. There is only one sportsboat entered which will not be racing and so there will be no sportsboat fleet.

Only five boats have so far paid for the year ahead, one of them kindly not availing themselves of the £15 discount.

Dont forget that if you dont pay within two weeks of your first start then previous race results will be lost.

See you Sunday!
26 January 2009 Rugby
There is a 6 Nations game on after racing on the 8th Feb.

If there is sufficient interest a curry or something could be made available at the Club for consumption before the game. If you are interested then contact me to let me know how many and what you'd like.
5 January 2009 Earlybird Series
The Race Card for the Earlybird series is now published.

At the risk of getting boring I feel I must emphasise that it is agreed that all boats racing in the IRC fleet must provide a copy of a valid certificate before being recognised as competitors.
2 January 2009 Happy New Year
Well, here we go again.

I've started putting up some documents for the 2009 Club series racing in the 'Notices of Race, Sailing Instructions and other information' section above. I started with the NoR.