SYC Newsletter
A place for all your news. January 2018
Happy New Year
First for your diary:
January 20th Albert Strange presentation by Nick Taylor
January 27th Burns Night Supper
February 3rd Six Nations Rugby starts on BIG screen
February 10th Ladies dinner
February 17th Gents dinner
February 24th RNLI Cheque presentation at the club
March 3rd Lifeboat and safety presentation by Andy Volans
March 24th AGM
April 7th Tri Club Challenge
Everything is detailed on the Social Calendar
Places filling up for Burns, Ladies Dinner and Gents Dinner.
Christmas Draw
A big thank you to Phill and his team for organising the event, and a big thank you FROM Phill to all those who bought tickets and made contributions, it was a great night, only I think we had enough mince pies to supply every club member and their families if they all turned up.
Bridge opening
A reminder to all Skippers, the bridge has to be opened by the watch keeper at the bridge, so you need to give him sufficient notice to allow him time to walk around.
Outer Harbour Dinghy Pontoon
Tri Club Games Night
No one seems to know why the Tri club Games night stopped, but I seem to think the last one was at the Sub-aqua club when Roger and Kelvin were caught in what looked like a very compromising position, I remember it was a great evening of entertainment.
I now have confirmation from the Rowing Club and the Sub-aqua Club that the 7th April is good for all of us, so put it in your diary now and make sure you come along to enjoy the games.
Website
You will notice that the website has changed again slightly, this is to further improve what has already been done, and allow us to incorporate the weather station, which is on the drop down under 'Weather' or if it isn't it soon will be.
I also intend to upgrade the system as we go on, this will give us even more flexibility and a better looking, more informative front page.
For anyone new or for those not visited in a while you can get to the site by clicking HERE
Clean Water Initiative
Please take the time to read it.
Dirty Dogs
If anyone has any information about this, then please let us know, I am sure 99% of users will agree with me on this and will want to put an end to it.
PETA from Hugh Sanders
Im attaching a couple of photos of our “New” boat PETA she is a Hunter Horizon 272 CCS built in 1991. I hope this will be of interest to you.
We sailed her down overnight from Amble last June on one of the best days of the year. She is in great condition and we are very pleased with her, she appears to have only been lightly sailed and had only two owners from new - first registered in the Orkneys and then berthed in Amble. She is a great step up from our last little boat Mystre de Mer , a Mystere Flyer, which unfortunately was damaged beyond economical repair in 2016 when she came second in a fight with a local fishing trawler. That is all behind us now and we are looking forward to 2018 season and having some fun.
If possible I would like to say a (very) belated thank you to all who helped us when we had the accident, in particular Pete and Emma (Ruffian) , who were a great help.
Best wishes for 2018
Kind regards
This months video
Volvo Ocean Race.Christmas thoughts from Dee
With Leg 3 well underway, Dee and the team turn their thoughts to Christmas on the boat.
We are faced with just 1600 nautical miles to go on our first Southern Ocean odyssey in this edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. Yet again we find ourselves sliding across the top of the ice exclusion zone preparing to head south again as soon as it permits us to. We are heading south into gale force winds one final time before we turn and head north towards Australian sunshine. We will not be in for Christmas but we have written our letters to Father Christmas explaining where we are and letting him know we have a jolly good mast to climb down that is cleaner than a chimney!
We are racing hard and trying to catch Scallywag in front and keep Akzonobel behind us. Lots can happen in the short time left. We have had our share of issues down here which is typical when pushing hard in these conditions. As a result Liz has been up the mast several times to try and fix wind instruments and navigation light issues. Rather her than me. She loves the challenge but I have seen the bruises she encounters first hand after swinging around the mast 33 metres in the air. What little boat movement we feel we have on deck is always escalated at the top of the mast.
Wisdom, the Volvo Ocean Race Albatross mascot, has felt at home on the boat enjoying being near his family and even ventured up to the top of the rig with Liz on one occasion. Sail repairs and general wear and tear have taken place but my concern is the crew. Some are faring better than others. There are some who are tired and therefore feeling the cold a little more. There are some that are sad to be away from friends and family at this time of year and then there are others that are relishing the conditions and where they are. My role is to keep them all together pushing to the end and getting them enough rest in the short stopover of Melbourne ready to go again on the next leg to Hong Kong. That starts on 2ndJanuary.
Being out here does give you time to reflect. We talk about our message and how we can make a difference to people's behaviour regarding single use plastics and how hard it is to live differently as we are not often given the choice. One of our crew uses disposable contact lenses and we discussed how disposable are they and can they be recycled? Questions he had never considered before. Packaging for what we carry on board is so important to keep stuff dry against the wet conditions we face. How can we pack things differently? How do we keep our food for three weeks on the boat so it can still be eaten but use less plastic and packaging? As we know plastic has been designed for a reason because it is good at what it does, but we need to make sure we can re-use it and use less of it. We have all bought into our message of a change of behaviour, reducing single use plastics, like no to straws, using a bag for life, having a refillable water bottle and carry our own thermal mug.
So that leads us onto our New Year’s Resolutions. These need to test us a little further and maybe challenge those around us to change behaviours.
Dee and Team TTTOP
Easy Fund Raising
A little more to ad on this as not so many have registered. It's easy to say 'oh I can't be bothered' but really folks you are just throwing money away and it really is so easy, once you have registered, there is nothing more to do, if you go online to do shopping and the site you go to is registered, then it automatically kicks in and gives the club a donation, as simple as that.
All I ask is that you join to renew your utilities and insurance, this can raise so much for the club and yet costs you nothing, by registering you will also get special offers sent to you.
Just follow the link below to register, it is so easy and costs you nothing.
http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/scarboroughyachtclub
PLEASE WATCH THIS 17 SECOND VIDEO