As promised, Santa stopped off at the club this afternoon gave out some early presents to members’ children who had been enjoying an afternoon tea party. There followed some carol singing
and there were games too….
The Thomas’ Twitter
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| Mr and Mrs vice commodore tell Henry and Thomas they have to crew for Toggle next season | Our social secretary being very social |
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| Becky just realises she’s now on the council and all the work that needs to be done |
Toggle in the drink – AGAIN |
58th Annual General Meeting
At the AGM approx 40 members voted on the following
- To adopt the minutes of 57th AGM
- To adopt the Hon Treasurer’s accounts for the year ending 30th September 2009
- After some discussion, Council’s recommendation to leave subscriptions unchanged were challenged and it was proposed that they should increase by 3%. However, as the majority vote for the amendment was less than 75% of those voting, the amendment does not stand, and the subscriptions will remain the same for the forthcoming season.
- To elect the officers of the club
Commodore – Dave Nicholson
Vice Commodore – Stephen Kirkpatrick
Rear Commodore – Stephen Hunt
Hon Secretary – Pauline Nicholson
Hon Treasurer – Dave Lawson
Hon Sailing Secretary – Roy Blackburn - To elect council of the club
Lucy Cowen, John Prestidge and Alan Waugh stepped down and were thanked for their help and efforts
Becky Dawson, Andrea Kirkpatrick and Nick Orton were newly voted on to council along with the remainder of the outgoing council - Claire Garrison was elected Hon Auditor
- The existing fleet captains were re-elected
- It was agreed to amend rule 3 (A)iii to read:
“Family members being the husband, wife, or child of an Ordinary member, Associate member, Life member, Country, or Senior member………………” - It was agreed to replace bye-law 4 to read
“Camping (in tents, caravans or motor homes) shall only be undertaken in the Clubs grounds on specific days nominated by the Council. Those days nominated for camping will be detailed in the current years handbook and, where relevant, in Bass Week and Open meeting literature (with amendments posted on the Club notice board). Some camping days will be for tents only. Camping in the Clubs grounds at any other time is not permitted” - It was agreed to amend Rule 6 Clause (1) ii. to read
“Other persons elected………” - It was agreed to delete Rule 6 Clause (1) iii.
- After considerable discussion, a proposal to amend Rule 12 was defeated
There followed an open discussion on various matters stemming from the following points
a) Does the Club racing programme support close racing and help sailors improve?
b) Does our taster session/training scheme directly feed into the Club’s racing programme and provide a logical step up from training to racing and is this what the Club wishes to happen?
No answers were determined, but it was accepted that class racing helps improve sailors racing skills
Annual Prize Giving
The 58th prize giving and dinner dance was held at Hundith Hill, Cockermouth. It was attended by almost 100 members and guests, many of whom disguised themselves (well attempted to) by wearing a mask.
Bobbie Middleton gave the first speech recalling some of her 30 years as a member at the club, and toasted the club, and the response was given by Commodore Dave Nicholson. The prizes were awarded by Pauline Nicholson including award of the Consistency Trophy which went to Toggle for consistently trying to renegotiate the handicap for the Vareo fleet!
Championship winners
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| Flying Fifteen – Mike Moore, Martyn Stephenson and Sally | Handicap – Robin Dawson and Ian Smith | GP14 – Dave and Lynn Lawson | Mirrors – Mik Chappell |
Photos of all other prize winners can be found on the 2009 Championship Results page
Some of the masked merrimakers!
It’s Over :(
The sailing season came to a damp, abrupt halt for the second year running. The floods last week resulted in no sailing for the final weekend of the season.
Time to get down to the club, check out, and remove your boat of you have not already done so.
Some pics of the devastation!
Saturday
Friday
Looking towards Ouse bridge from Armathwaite Hall
The above pics were taken on Friday 20 November by Sarah Nicholson
Night Jar
The fresh on shore breeze thinned out numbers for Thursday’s Night Jar. It was the newcomers to the series that came out best on handicap – Mark Ninnim was first and Rory Yardley second. Just three races left in the series.
Weather window
For the second week in a row, the weather changed in favour of some pleasant sailing. Although light, the day was dry and tempted twelve boats on to the water for the morning race, but a couple dropped out of the afternoon race. Wind was ultra flukey at 9 and Alan Nicholson, Jim Christie and Jo Watkins in close company all had big moments there on first lap. They didn’t heed the warning and Alan crashed in on lap 2. Jim was just behind, got prepared for the shift, and was thrown in the other way! He continued, but Alan was in the mud (again!) and needed rescue to extract his Solo.
With another first in the bag due to beating Mike Fairlamb and Eric Smith in their GP, and now having sufficient races to qualify, Joan and Jack Hardie in an RS200 have taken the lead on the fleet handicap series from Jim Christie in his Laser, who still leads the personal handicap series. Tim Knowles in a GP won the afternoon race from Alan Waugh in his Mirror.
Good to see Steve Hannah back on the Lake after a good few years out – trying out a FF with Martyn Stephenson at the helm.
Just the weather!
After the wind and rain of recent weeks, pleasantly, Sunday’s forecast was for a dry and bright day, although not a lot of wind.
However, 14 boats were tempted to the water, and were able to enjoy some pleasant sailing conditions – not planing conditions, but enough to keep the boats moving and the crews to sit to windward! After lunch the breeze eased as the race went along.
The weather was so pleasant that Mark Ninnim, with Rob Smith, broke a 20 year habit of not sailing in November to finish 3rd on fleet handicap, and 1st on personal handicap in the afternoon race.
It was Joan and Jack Hardie that mastered the conditions to take two first on fleet handicap, beating Mike Moore and Martyn Stephenson in the morning race, and Mike Fairlamb in the afternoon – perhaps that could be called taking the Micks?!
Having sailed all four of the races to date, Jim Christie remains in a strong position and leads the table
Congratulations
After a reluctance to appear (surely not stage fright?!) baby Lily Alice Smith was born early on 2 November – a sister to Katia and second daughter for Andy and Emma.
All doing fine
Is that Andy’s hairline she’s sporting?! 🙂 Sure she’ll grow out of it