Heard the story about the bus journey from Whitehaven to Cockermouth that took 3� hours? No, it wasn’t due to an in efficient bus service, a mechanical breakdown, heavy traffic, or weather conditions. A certain (lone) passenger fell asleep, and missed her stop, and woke up somewhere near Wigton. When she realised her predicament, she admitted to rolling in the aisles laughing (her words!) and having to tell herself to stop [laughing], but these fits of laughter kept coming back as her journey continued to the terminus at Carlisle and back to where she was first heading. As demanded by her friend, she eventually sent a text to say she was safely back home. Of course, by the time she arrived at work on Monday the whole office knew about the trip – so why shouldn’t you? Thanks to our very own Cecile for sharing this with us (and the rest of the club!)

Well actually yes! Congratulations to Sam Hall for achieving 1st U14 and 4th overall at last weekend’s Bolton North West Junior Travellers event

Unfortunately those of you that enjoy voicing their opinions on the forum are stumped for the time being! The servers that we use have not been accessible for some days, and there are no clues as to when (or if) the issues will be resolved.

Congratulations to Lesley following her marriage to Andrew yesterday. Hopefully we’ll see her back at the front end of William’s boat some time during Bass Week

Mr Commodore

Writing to thank you, Elaine, the council and the rest of the club for agreeing to our wedding reception being held at the club.

We had an absolutely fantastic day, one to remember for sure! We hope that everyone who came had a great time. The weather was kind to us which meant the club provided a beautiful setting which many of our friends and family thought good enough to consider moving up here!

Many thanks also to all the club members for their lovely gifts and for sharing our day.

Hope that the event proved financially profitable; judging by the photos of the evening that we’ve seen it is a wonder if there was anything left behind the bar at the end of the night.

On the subject of the bar, thanks too to Sonja and Richard, and everyone else who helped out in keeping guests’ thirsts at bay.

Many thanks once again,

Andy & Em xx

Congratulations to Andy and Emma following their wedding earlier this afternoon. The celebrations will continue on throughout the evening

As there are only a couple of weeks until the start of the sailing season, everyone seems to be getting things ready. Working parties have been arranged to prepare the clubhouse, boats and grounds. More boats are being brought back on site.

Those that have changed their boats will be making sure all the bits are there, and checking on settings. The RS200 fleet has increased following the purchase of boats by Andy, Bean and Robbie D.

Having noted Shunty’s capsize escapade on the web, some people are taking no chances – Jim Christie has been spotted practising his swimming. His biggest struggle seemed to be blowing up some water wings!

The handbooks are ready and should be arriving through your letterbox any day now.

Ok, so we’ve had someone taking their boat down to the club, Knowlesy sailing in the South China seas, and to top that Shunty’s been practising his swimming when he went sailing at the weekend. Some things never change!

Having read the following note on the website John Knowles felt obliged to send us the following note

Just looked at the web site and my sailing season has started as I’m in Hong Kong at the moment and just had a 26 hour sail 40 mile off the coast of HK in the South China in not too much wind but full moon was great. There was a few problems on my watch (9pm to 2am then back on at 7am) the first was getting trapped by a 5 mile fishing net that kept going off at different angles that took time to find the end of. Good job the moon was out. The second one was coming up on a fleet of fishing boats which I spotted and had to go through the middle of – very good fun! The boat is 42 feet long with a international crew. Including myself there were 4 English, 1 German, 1 Dutch, 1 Italian and 1 Korean. That is it for now going out and about the islands of HK now. Photos when I get back.

John

PS HK sailing club is a very very very nice club if you have the money! and they still have a ff fleet!!

How the other half live! Can you beat that?

Actually, no secret to anyone who’s been following the forum. Toddy’s building his secret weapon for the new season – a new mirror. You can follow its progress here