Congratulations to Mark and Kirstie Somerville who has just given birth to Cameron Luke at 9.45am on 29 September. Cameron weighed in at 7lb 10oz, is a brother for Matthew, and is temporarily in the special care unit.
Sam’s Successes
Bass must have had the lion’s share of the winds over the weekend. Sam Hall travelled to Redesmere for a North West Junior Traveller event and finished 3rd overall in very LIGHT winds.
Bass Week Preparations Nearing Completion
Update form Vice Commodore:
I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who was able to come down and help at the Bass Week working party. Your efforts were greatly appreciated and has helped us to get the site ready for this year�s regatta.
There has obviously been a massive amount of work throughout the year building up to this point (especially including the work of the grounds team) and it was brilliant to see efforts culminating with so many getting involved in the working party.
Here�s to a great Bass Week!
Thanks again and best wishes,
Stephen
As the grounds are looking so good, it’s a shame to let anyone on site to disturb it all…….
More Thomas’ Twitters
Apologies to those not captured on film! (Think yourselves lucky 🙂
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| Nigel pressure washes the grime from the floods away in the boat house | Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Spin doctor |
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| Do they know what they are doing? | Lynn looks about to saw her arm off . Surely Dave’s not that bad to sail with |
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| Toggle trying to find out how lonng is a piece of string | Scumper the big boss man keeps his eye on his men |
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| Some of the hard workers deserve a well earned snack | Galley slaves |
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| Not doing exercises just preparing banners for Bass week. | Graffiti artists at work |
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| All hands on deck as the boats are prepared | So that’s where the ex treasurer has the pot of gold |
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| Hiding the oppositions boats so that they can’t win | Grafting hard |
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| Just two of the hard working foot soldiers putting in a lot of effort. |
Toby Gatty
Many older members will remember Toby Gatty who used to work on rescue. Sadly Toby passed away last Friday. His funeral was held in St John’s Church, Bassenthwaite at 11am on Wednesday 28 July.
Our thoughts are with his wife Jean who worked behind the bar for many years.
Club ties are considered most appropriate for those attending the funeral.
Raising the flagstaff
After Winter maintenance identified some major defects in the top part of the flagstaff. The substantial repairs have been completed and the pole re-erected in time for Bass Week much to the relief of our vice commodore, and he expresses his personal thanks to Scumper and Alan Smith for all their efforts in organising its repair and reinstatement.
Daws on course, of course!
Well done to Ethan Dawson who competed in the Topper 4.2 Nationals last weekend at Leigh and Lowton. There were 45 entries and Ethan finished 39th.
He won a prize for completing all nine races, especially impressive as Saturday’s wind hit 28 knots!
Any guesses who dreamt up the heading?
RYA Training Day
Des Wright, Ken West, Emma Smith, Ellen and Jamie Kerr, Jordan and Arnie Helling enjoyed a race training day with Pete Robinson from the RYA.� The wind was gusty and many enjoyed the warm water of the lake, but everyone agreed they had learned many simple techniques and learned more about the rules to help them gain confidence to start racing.� Pete coached them on the water and finished the day with some short races. Next RYA Training Day is in September.� Keep a look out for the date
Sam’s Success
Sam Hall was sailing at Coniston on Saturday where he secured a hat trick of wins and received a �15 prize.
Sunday Soaking
The wind seemed unexpectedly light when sailors turned up, but as the start time arrived, the wind picked up and the rain moved in – it was relentless until lunchtime. There were light patches, and William with Jo Watkins managed to find them on the single spinnaker reach of the course, but there were strong gusts from time to time too.
Although Neil Garrison in his Dart finished first on the water, it was Scumper in his Vareo that won on handicap from Jim Christie.
During lunch the wind freshened, and led to some more exciting reaches at times, but the shadow of Sale Fell still had its effect on racing and progress. William and Jo led the handicap, but they were beaten by Jim Christie in his Supernova on handicap. Scumper despite a couple of capsizes, held on to his position but was going to retire due to damage to his spinnaker pole, however he opted to wait for the shorten course signal. Little did he realise he would have to wait until the lead boat completed their lap some 10 mins later before the signal was sounded!
Although Mike beat Tim in the F15 fleet in both races, he did have to sneak past Tim in a lull going to mark 5 as Tim had mastered the first beat and gained a solid lead much to Mike’s dismay (or was it surprise?)
Congratulations!
Many congratulations to vice commodore Stephen Kirkpatrick and his wife Claire following the birth of their daughter Georgina Elizabeth,� a sister for Henry and Thomas, who weighed in at 7lb11oz on Tuesday evening. Mother and baby doing well.
Well done to Emily for guessing it would be a girl called Elizabeth!