A flood alert was issued this evening from Bassenthwaite to Workington and Crummock to Workington for Wednesday and Thursday.

Please keep an eye on lake levels as water is already quite high.

With Bass Week 24 starting on Saturday, a final working party to finalise preparations will be held on Tuesday from 10am. All help will be welcomed.

Follow the action on our Bass Week website

We are intending on running a windward leeward experiment for the Wythop 5 race series held on the 26th and 27th of May. The handicap fleet will start as normal but a specific course will be added for boats within this class with an asymmetric spinnaker. This course will be a windward leeward and use the 1st mark of the course as the windward mark and then the leeward mark would be the penultimate mark prior to Y/Z with the requirement to pass through Y/Z each lap. These boats if individually shortened would be under specific class flag ‘numeral 9’. Y/Z has not been mandated for this windward leeward course as we are not sure a third Y/Z plate is available on the committee boat. 

Results for handicap will be calculated as two separate fleets and results used for club championship. This is a single weekend experiment which will be followed up by a general members survey for consideration over the winter. The above wording is an addition to section 5, courses of the sailing instructions. 

Any questions feel free to catch me at the weekend. 

John Reekie Sailing Secretary

It is with sadness we have learnt of the sudden passing of Aileen Telford. Aileen is a long standing active member of the club, widow of Herb, a past commodore and official starter.

Funeral arrangements (now confirmed)

1pm 28th May at St James Church, High St, Whitehaven CA28 7PY and afterwards at Whitehaven golf club

Our thoughts are with daughter Lezliann, son John, and their families at this sad time.

We have learned of the death earlier this week of Pat DeRedder, wife of former sailing secretary Max DeRedder.

Max and Pat were club members for over 30 years.

Pat was a former magistrate, and supported Max in various activities including sailing in GPs and Flying 15s, and racing/driving/maintaining vintage cars, for which many longer standing members will have known them.

Saturday racing was cancelled due to high prevailing winds, and a lack of sailors.

A sunny Sunday still had a gusty forecast but much more sailable, with a handful of boats keen to race.

The RS200s of Banter/Rory and Neil/Archie had some good competitive racing, with exciting reaches. Banter gained a strong lead and won the first race. He led the next race too, but lost the lead at the end of the final reach after bearing away more than Neil. Banter made up ground on the final beat, but Neil beat him by a couple of seconds.

Alex/Saskia/Phoebe in a Mirror survived the chilly conditions for one race, beating Oscar in his Tera

Latest BL results

The forecast for Sunday is dreadful. Will the Bass micro-climate win over?

Let us know if you intend to come down so we can manage racing/rescue cover as necessary.

We have learned that Toni Nuttall sadly passed away on Wednesday,� March 13^th�after a short battle with cancer.

The Nuttalls were fixtures at the club during the 80s and 90s with Toni being the very patient wife (and sometimes crew) to Peter as Commodore!

Sons Chris and Andrew were both with Toni at the time of her passing.� The funeral will be held�later this month in the Cotswolds.

21st � 27th July 2024 (racing 22nd � 26th July)

Bassenthwaite Sailing Club are delighted to welcome the NSSA National Youth Regatta back to the lake district.

Planning is well underway for the event and entries have now opened. Please enter via the club website and Webcollect. https://webcollect.org.uk/bass-sc/event/nssa-regatta-2024

Entries will be collated by team managers. Please contact the NSSA for your local team manager.

Team managers will find a spreadsheet document within Webcollect to download, distribute and populate.

Camping, food and sailing will all be available from the sailing club site which will hopefully make it easy for teams to access the event and enjoy the clubs well renowned hospitality throughout the regatta.

Entry fees:
Sailing � Double Handed entry (per boat) �250. Single handed entry �160.
Camping – �65 per person.
Food – �120 for meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) Sunday evening � Friday evening.
�4.50 breakfast Saturday 27th July.
�33 lunch only.

The Notice of Race has now been published and is available via our dedicated website page Bassenthwaite-sc.org.uk/nssa24

Any questions or queries, please do get in touch and we�ll endeavour to assist.
[email protected]

Look forward to seeing you all in July.

Bass NSSA Team