| 15 August 2010 | Racing Cancelled | |
Hello all, Please note that due to a 3 day Oppie event over the Bank Holiday Weekend of 27, 28, 29 August, club racing that weekend will be cancelled. So there will be NO club racing on Sunday 29th August, which was due to be the last weekend of the current Summer Series. The Autumn Series will start the following week as planned on Sunday 4th September. Andrew On behalf of the Dinghy Com |
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| 11 July 2010 | Sunday 18th July Racing | |
It has come to our attention that there is a Water Ski-ing event in the Bay next weekend, 17th & 18th July. Therefore, normal Sunday Racing on 18th July will be CANCELLED. Please let anybody you know who might be turning up that the racing is cancelled. Thanks Andrew On behalf of the Dinghy Committee |
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| 2 June 2010 | Change of date for the Spring Series Presentation | |
The presentation for the Spring Series will now take place on Saturday 12th June at Cardiff Yacht Club. It is hoped that the presentation will be around about 6pm as part of the festivities of the CYC Regatta weekend. The evening will be kicking off with a BBQ following on after the hard days racing. Please come along and support not on the the presentation, but also to join in Cardiff's Regatta on the Saturday and Sunday. See the CYC web site at www.cardiffyachtclub.org for more details. Andrew |
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| 18 May 2010 | Asymmetric Open Cancelled | |
Sadly we have had to cancel the Asymmetric Open that we were originally planning on hosting this coming Saturday for various reasons. However, we will look to see if we can re-arrange it for later in the year. However, if anybody is interested in some informal Asymmetric sailing or coaching instead on Saturday morning, then contact me and we'll see what we can arrange. Andrew On behalf of the Dinghy Committee |
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| 18 May 2010 | CYC & CBYC Regatta's | |
Cardiff Yacht Club are holding their Annual Regatta on the weekend of 12/13 June. Please make every effort to support our friends across the Bay for both the Saturday and Sunday. Details are available on the CYC web site at www.cardiffyachtclub.org If anybody is able to help CYC in running the racing on their behalf, then contact Jim Atkinson at CYC or Idris Dibble at CBYC. The following weekend 19/20 June, CBYC will be holding their Annual Regatta starting with a race on the Friday evening at 7pm, followed by 4 races on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. There will be separate starts for classes such as oppies, Toppers, Flying Fifteen etc plus Enterprises from Penarth as well as a General Handicap fleet. This will finished off with the Annual Two Rivers Race. Further details available on the CBYC web site. Andrew On behalf of the Dinghy Committee |
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| 18 May 2010 | OOD / SB Rota | |
Don't forget to check the OOD / SB rota on the NoR, SI and other documents page. It might be your turn next!!! Any issues with your duty, then contact Chris Rogers as per details on the OOD / SB rota sheet. Andrew On behalf of the Dinghy Committee |
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| 18 May 2010 | Supervised Sailing | |
| The next supervised sailing session will be held on Saturday 5th June from 09:30 onwards. The main aim of this session will be to practice and sharpen up your starts! The session will consist on lots of short races with a 3,2,1 go. The session is available for anybody, at any level, so don’t feel intimidated, come along and have a go. If you preference is to just potter around knowing that there is a safety boat on the water, then you are welcome to come along as well. Andrew On behalf of the Dinghy Committee. |
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| 19 April 2010 | Supervised Sailing | |
Just to let you know that Idris, along with a few helpers, will be running a supervised sailing session on the morning of Saturday 1st May from 9:30am. This is a chance for you to come and take the cover off your boat and give run out, especially if your a bit rusty! Not only will there be a safety boat on the water and some helpful advice, but you can also try a mixture of boats if you wish to have a go in something different. Hopefully there will be a range of boats available from the adopted fleet range of : Flying Fifteen, Laser, Laser 2000, Topper Omega, plus any other boats who's owners are present and are happy for others to try out. So, give yourself a break from the usual Saturday shopping and go sailing instead! Andrew |
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| 14 April 2010 | Wednesday Racing | |
Just a quick reminder that Wednesday evening racing starts NEXT Wednesday, 21st April 2010. First race starts at 7:00pm. Depending on the day light we might get, we will either have one long race, or two very short races. Andrew |
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| 7 April 2010 | Racing rules refresher (mark rounding) | |
Helen will be doing another rules refesher night on Tuesday 13th April at 7:30pm in the training classroom. This will be looking into the rules regarding mark rounding. Anybody that is interested, please feel free to turn up. |
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| 3 April 2010 | Dinghy Compound boat movements | |
| A small team on volunteers moved a few boats around in the compound on Sat 3rd April. Thank you to those who came down and helped. The number of boats moved was very small, so most of you will not have been affected. For those that might have been, here is a brief out line of what was done :- Two Lasers were moved from the pitching to the grass area, along with a Wayfarer and the Osprey. The Laser 2000 and the Omega that were on the grass are now in row D in the Compound. The boats that were moved out of the compound and onto the grass were moved because the owners had not sailed the required number of sails during the year. Do to shortage of space on the grass area, the boats that have not yet put in a berthing request have not been moved as yet. These boats either need a berthing request to be submitted or the boats removed from the club. Please do not move these boats back to the main compound. No Oppies or training boats were moved. Hopefully you should start receiving your boat stickers with the compound location listed on it. Please display the sticker in a prominent position so that it can be seen easily, and make sure that your boat stays in the correct space during the year! Andrew On behalf of the Dinghy Committee. |
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| 31 March 2010 | Dinghy Compund Re-arrangement | |
| There will be a small party of Dinghy Committee members relocating some of the Dinghies within the Dinghy compound on Saturday morning (3rd April), as part of the 'Use it or Lose it' policy. If you wish to come along and help, then please be down the club for about 10am. The vast majority of boats will not be moved, although some boats in the same fleet might be put together, which would necesitate a few other boats being moved around to accommodate this. The only boats being moved out of the main Dinghy compound are those boats that HAVE NOT been sailed the required number of times last year, or are boats that have NOT made a request for a space for the coming year. The moved boats will be carefully taken out and moved to the grass area to the north of the club house, where they will be tied down awaiting removal by their owners. Boats currently on the grass area that are used regularly, will then be moved into the main Dinghy compound (including the pitchings for the Lasers) If your boat is one of the ones moved to the grass area, please DO NOT move it back into the compound, as it has been moved for a reason, speak to the Dinghy Committee first to clarify why it has been moved. It will be either that you didn't sail it enough times, or you haven't applied for a space. If you move it back, it'll get put back on the grass area again. I will be sending the list of allocated spaces to Kirsty after the boats have been moved to the correctly sized spaces. You should then receive your stickers, with the location number on it, once you have paid. When you receive the stickers, please place them in a prominent position on the boats so that they can be easily seen. Andrew On behalf of the Dinghy Committee |
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| 18 January 2010 | AGM | |
| The Dinghy Sections A.G.M. which will be held on Wednesday 24th of February in the Quay Lounge 7.30pm | ||
| 17 November 2009 | Laying Up Supper | |
| Please make a note in your diaries, and make every effort to attend this years Annual dinghy Section Laying Up Supper. This year the Laying Up Supper in on Saturday 5th December 2009. (7:30pm for 8:00pm) The Supper will be a Hot Buffet style as per last year. tickets are priced at £8.00 if you took entered the years racing, or £11.50 otherwise. Tickets are available from behind the bar, or by contacting the office. We will also be presenting the Autumn Series prizes, along with other prizes, which could be you! So come along and chat about the goings on during the year, and start the Winter lay off in style. |
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| 21 September 2009 | 21-Sep-2009 | |
Please note a change to previously advertised Club racing dates. Previously the weekend 3rd / 4th October was pencilled in as the Dinghy Open This event will now NOT take place, but will be replaced by NORMAL racing on Sunday 4th October at 10:30, and will form part of the Autumn Series instead. Dinghy Committee. |
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| 16 August 2009 | Presentations | |
The Presentations of the Summer Series and the Asymmetric Series, will be held at Cardiff Yacht Club on Sunday 23rd August AFTER Sunday racing. CYC are also putting on a BBQ as part of the Presentations, so please make EVERY effort to attend support them. The Presentation of the two Wednesday Evening Series will be held at CBYC after the last Wednesday evening racing for this year, on 2nd September. It is hoped that there will be a finger buffet available as part of the Presentations on the evening Don't forget, the the start of the Autum Series will be on MONDAY 31st August starting at 6:30pm, and NOT the on the usual Sunday, due to an Oppie event at the club over the Bank Holiday weekend. |
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| 6 August 2009 | Racing on Sunday 30th August is postponed! | |
There will be NO CLUB RACING on Sunday 30th August. This is due to an Oppie went at the club on the August Bank Holiday weekend, so the Sunday racing (30th) will be put back until the Monday (31st) evening. The racing will take place on MONDAY 31st starting at 6:30pm Please note, that if you intend coming along, that we will try and start racing at 6:30pm to allow 2 races to take place before it gets too dark! |
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| 6 August 2009 | Wednesday 26th August | |
Please note that due to Ellen MacArthur’s visit to the club between 26th & 28th of August, the Flying Fifteens will be MOVED from their compound. This is to allow space to be created for a marquee to be erected for Ellen MacArthur’s visit, and then as storage space for Oppies during their regatta the following weekend. Club racing will still take place on Wednesday 26th, but please be advised that parking will be an issue, and that you may need to launch from the other slipway as well as the normal slip way. If you launch from the normal slipway, watch out for Ellen’s boat, which will be moored up on the visitors pontoon. Please just be careful with your boat movements during this period, as there will be lots of people around! |
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| 28 May 2009 | Racing Cancelled -- 31st May 2009 | |
Hi All, Racing on Sunday 31st May is CANCELLED. We found out about this last night. This is due to a European Water-ski Competition taking place between 11am and 5pm, which is supposed to be using up all of the Bay area. On another note, please could we have some volunteers on Saturday Morning, say 09:30 onwards for a hour or so, to sort out the boat layout in the Flying Fifteen compound and on the grass area. Thanks. |
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| 17 May 2009 | Reminders & Dates for your diaries | |
| Dates for your diaries :- 1) Wednesday 3rd June Prize giving for the Spring Series will be held after Wed racing. Hopefully there will be a finger buffet to go with the prize giving. 2) No Club racing for the following weekends 13/14, 20/21, 27/28 June. NOTE - No Summer Series results will be taken from any of the Regattas listed below. 3) 13 / 14 June CYC Regatta. Please make every attempt to join in with Cardiff Yacht Clubs regatta over the Saturday and Sunday. 4) 20 / 21 June Flying Fifteen Open. If you sail a FF, then please come along and join in on both the Saturday and Sunday. More details from Ian Horton. 5) 27 / 28 June CBYC Regatta. Please make every effort to join in the Dinghy Racing as part of the Club regatta on both the Saturday and the Sunday. 6) Check the NEW OOD / SB rota on the Documents page. |
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| 17 May 2009 | Turbo Racing Sunday 24-May | |
As the 3 clubs regatta is nolonger taking place over the Bank Holiday weekend, and we are now between series, Idirs will be holding a Turbo Race Event next Sunday morning (24th May). The plan is to sail lots of short races with one beat and one downwind leg to a finish. This will give plenty of practice at starting!!! So, if your looking for your normal Sunday Sailing fix, then turn up for a different type of racing (otherwise Idris will get lonely!!) |
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| 10 May 2009 | Flying Fifteen Compound | |
Hi All, Just to let you all know, the Flying Fifteen compound is being levelled in the next week or so. The intention is to level out the whole area, and top it off with fine chippings / stones to make boat movements that much easier. Therefore, ALL the boats in the Flying Fifteen area have been moved to other areas around the club, with most of the FFs in the corner of the boat yard, with one or two on the grass area, and two other smaller dinghies moved to the main compound temporarily whilst the work is being carried out. Please don’t move your boats back into the FF compound before it’s finished! Many thanks to all those that helped move the boats out of the FF area, it was much appreciated. |
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| 26 April 2009 | Laser improver Coaching / Training | |
Hi All, During May, Helen and myself will be running Laser coaching / training sessions on Thursday Evenings (4 off), starting on May 7th. The coaching is intended for those of you who are either new to the boat, or out of the sailing school in the last year or two, and want to improve your sailing techniques in the Laser. The intension is that you will need to attend all 4 if possible, as we will take you through the steps of setting up your boat, to roll tacking and gybing etc to help you be more efficient around the race course. The coaching / training sessions will work towards and finish off with some race training between the Lasers on the sessions. If you are interested in coming alone, please book yor place with the Office at CBYC ASAP. We are sort of limited to about 6 boats, (one place of which has gone already!!) If you book, or intend to come, then please let me know by e-mail. If you know of any other Laser sailors ay CBYC would would like to come along, please let them know as well. Thanks Andrew |
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| 12 April 2009 | Dinghy Compound boat movements | |
| A small team on volunteers moved a few boats around in the compound on Sat 11 April. The number of boats moved was very small, so most of you will not have been affected. For those that might have been, here is a brief out line of what was done :- All the Lasers that were on the Grass area to the north of the club are now on the pitching's along the front huddled up to each other. The Wayfarer and the RS200 that were on the grass are now in row D in the Compound, with one Finn now in the main compound (Row B) whilst the other is still on the grass. The boats that were moved out of the compound and onto the grass are :- Wanderer and a Laser 2000 (no birthing requests received the office) Merlin Rocket, Skipper 12 (not sailed the required number of times so lose their space for this year) Please do not move these boats back to the main compound. No Oppies or training boats were moved, apart from one 420 which was hiding in D01, so is now on the grass. Hopefully you should start receiving your boat stickers with the compound location listed on it. Please display the sticker in a prominent position so that it can be seen easily, and make sure that your boat stays in the correct space during the year! Andrew On behalf of the Dinghy Committee. |
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| 7 April 2009 | Dinghy Compund Re-arrangement | |
There will be a small party of Dinghy Committee members relocating some of the Dinghies within the Dinghy compound on Saturday morning (11th April), as part of the 'Use it or Lose it' policy. The vast majority of boats will not be moved. The only boats being moved out of the main Dinghy compound are those boats that HAVE NOT been sailed the required number of times last year, or are boats that have NOT made a request for a space for the coming year. The moved boats will be carefully taken out and moved to the grass area to the north of the club house, where they will be tied down awaiting removal by their owners. Boats currently on the grass area that are used regularly, will then be moved into the main Dinghy compound (including the pitchings for the Lasers) If your boat is one of the ones moved to the grass area, please DO NOT move it back into the compound, as it has been moved for a reason, speak to the Dinghy Committee first to clarify why it has been moved. It will be either that you didn't sail it enough times, or you haven't applied for a space. If you move it back, it'll get put back on the grass area again. I will be sending the list of allocated spaces to Ruth after the boats have been moved to the correctly sized spaces. You should then receive your stickers, with the location number on it, once you have paid. When you receive the stickers, please place them in a prominent position on the boats so that they can be easily seen. Andrew On behalf of the Dinghy Committee |
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| 7 April 2009 | Race Results - Fleets | |
Hi All, Next time you go to the Race Results page, you will notice that I hae now put two lists of results for the Spring Series. You can either view the results with Fleets (Flying Fifteens, Lasers and Genreal Handicap) or without Fleets in one General Handicap list. It might make for some interesting reading for those that way inclined! |
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| 4 March 2009 | Race Reports | |
Hi All, I have now added a new link on the Results page, which provides you with a summary report of the Spring Series racing that started last Sunday. Take a look! |
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| 27 February 2009 | NoR and Sis | |
| See the NoR here and SIs here for the 2009 season | ||
| 13 February 2009 | Meeting Minutes | |
| See the notes of the meeting of the section held on 12th January here and those of 3rd Decembers meeting here | ||
| 11 February 2009 | Dinghy Racing OOD duties refresher evening | |
| With the new Racing Series starting soon on the 1st March, you might be interested, or in need of, a refresher of OOD duties! If you are, then come along to an OOD refresher evening on :- Thursday 26th February @ 7:30pm in the wet bar / class room at CBYC. Idris will run through the OOD duties that you will be expected to carry out as part of your rota over the coming year. Idris will also run through the modifications that we would like to include as part of the series this year, namely the number of laps to be sailed, how to indicate this from the committee boat, and how to shorten the course depending on time of the lead boat if necessary. The session will also go through order of the course eg (triangle, sausage x3 ) where it is hoped that this will extend the racing to 45 minutes per race, as opposed to last years sausage, triangle x2 which gave average racing of only 30 minutes per race. If there is no Rules update clinich between now and 26th Feb, then it is hoped that we can run through some of this years rule changes as well. Hope to see you ALL there! Andrew |
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| 18 January 2009 | Provisional Dinghy Dates for 2009 | |
| Hi All, I have put a list of provisional Dates for this years Dinghy Racing on the Results page for now, until we find a new home page for them. You will notice that the First Sunday racing will be 1st March, with the usual 10:30 start time. The usual cards will be produced and be available behind the bar within the next few weeks. |
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| 18 December 2008 | AGM Minutes | |
| See the minutes of the 2008 AGM here | ||