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I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
New Members 2
Diary Dates
Club Security
2
WOCC Report
Training Report
3
Junior and
Youth News
4
Squad News 5
2017 sailing
programme
6
Committee
contact details
7
Llyn Brenig Sailing Club www.llynnbrenigsc.org.uk
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S E N D A R T I C L E S
F O R T H E N E X T
E D I T I O N B Y
2 2 N D O C T O B E R
September Events September brings three major events for the club, the North Wales School
Championships on Saturday 9th followed by the Autumn Regatta on Sunday
10th, then a training day on Saturday 16th ready for Bart’s Bash on Sunday 17th.
To participate on the North Wales School Champs, you must be under 18 and
have attended the school they sail for in 2017 (see notice on page 4). The
Autumn Regatta is a open meeting, so please do invite your sailing friends that
are not club members. Three races are scheduled, with 2 to count for scoring.
The first race is at 11.30 am.
Bart’s Bash is an annual global sailing race with thousands of sailors and
hundreds of classes of boat. The event was founded in 2014 in memory of
double Olympic medallist Andrew “Bart” Simpson who tragically lost his life whilst
training for the 2013 America’s Cup. At time of writing, 578 venues in 77 different
countries were signed up for the 2017 event, including Llyn Brenig.
Sign up online and race against the world: www.bartsbash.com.
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Dates for your Diary 9th September—North Wales Schools regatta
10th September—Autumn Regatta (open meeting)
17th September—Bart’s Bash
3rd November—AGM
27th November—Closing down work party
We emailed members at the end of July
advising that we had received four reports
of a locker being left unlocked in recent
weeks.
This is a polite reminder to everyone that if
you are the last person to leave the site,
please ... please, check that everything
is locked. Not just lockers that you may
have opened, but all lockers on the site.
Club Security
Help our new members “learn
the ropes”.
Those of you helping at the WOCC
on 23rd & 24th July may have been
too busy to notice a man on his
hands and knees fitting new dock
fenders onto the small pontoon.
But thanks to Richard Jones, boats
using either pontoon are now
suitably protected.
We have had a spurt of new memberships, some of which are as a direct result of Open Day and taster sessions. There may be a couple more in the pipeline as well! If you meet any of these new members, please help to make them welcome as they "learn the ropes". They are:
David Pryce (Full Member) sailing a Seabird Cruiser
Vincent Stenhouse (Full Member)
Kevin Ringer (Full Member).
John Goulding (Full Member) sailing a 16ft Shipmate cruiser
Stephie Cowling (Junior) and father Ian (Guardian).
David Buckland (Family member), sailing a Silhouette
Owain and Lorraine Rowley-Conwy. (Family Member) sailing an Enterprise.
Please make sure everything is locked before
leaving the site
This broken jockey wheel is the result of
dropping the Rib trailers when removing
the boats from the containers.
Please don't drop the ribs, lower them
gently!
Gently Does It
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Pontoon Fenders
Please take care when moving ribs
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Welsh Open Challenger Championships 2017 People travelled from Scotland and England for the Welsh Open Challenger Championship (WOCC) hosted at Llyn Brenig on 22 and 23 July. Peter Davies organised this event and facilitated a very well-thought out prize giving with some appropriate mementos of the experience. Click here to read the article in Yachts and Yachting.
2017 Training
A full schedule of training events have taken place throughout the year, with additional dates required due to demand for both the RYA level 1 and 2, and Powerboat 2 courses. The Sunday morning on-board sailing sessions for members that have their RYA 1 / 2 have again been a huge success. Run by our youth members, these sessions allow new sailors to build on their skills. Thank you to everyone that has made this possible, and congratulations to all those who have successfully completed the courses.
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Regional events
Lots of great events this
Autumn
JUNIOR AND YOUTH NEWS
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the WYA Onboard Festival at Bala on
1st & 2nd September. Fabulous results in the Optimist Regatta Fleet - Mia Littlejohn
came 1st, Finlay Williams 3rd and Caitlin Herbert 4th! Amazing
Jack and Rhys Dolder were also out competing in the Main Fleets. Both posted a
good set of results finishing in the top 3 for a couple of races.
9th September—North Wales
Schools Championship—Llyn
B r e n i g — c o n t a c t
10th September—Llyn Brenig
Autumn Regatta
23rd & 24th September—RYA
Z o n e C h a m p i o n s h i p s —
Fishguard Bay Yacht Club—
details and entry here—let Phil
Watson know if this is your first
Zone Champs, you could win a
boat from John Merricks Sailing
Trust!
21st October— Final CYRC of
2017—Shotwick Sailing Club
details and entry here or register
on the day.
Onboard Success!
Well done everyone!
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Squad Sailors 2016-17 Tyler Green—Welsh National Optimist Squad, UK Optimist Intermediate Squad
Tasmyn Green—Welsh National Optimist Squad, UK Optimist Intermediate
Squad
Rhys Dolder—North Wales Regional Optimist Squad
Jack Dolder—North Wales Regional Topper Squad
Kai Wolgram—Welsh National Laser Transition Squad, UK Laser 4.7 National
Squad
Harry Pulford—Welsh National 29er Squad
Brenig sailors travel far and wide Llyn Brenig has been well represented at major national and international
championships across a range of classes this summer.
Optimist: Tyler and Tasmyn Green
had some great results at the UK
Nationals in Weymouth at the end of
July. In the Senior Gold Fleet, Tyler
finished 39th overall and results in the
top 20.
Meanwhile, Tasmyn finished 12th over-
all, first female and 4th Brit in the Jun-
ior Gold Fleet— earning her a mention
in Yachts and Yachting.
Tyler and Tasmyn are currently
competing in the Mediterranean
Championships in Limassol. Photograph courtesy of Yachts & Yachting
29er: It’s been a busy summery for Harry Pulford and his helm Toby Cope who
competed in the UK Nationals in Weymouth finishing 21st in Gold Fleet with a best
race result of 4th, then travelling to France for the European Championships at the
end of August.
Laser 4.7: Kai Wolgram ventured to Belgium for the 4.7 Youth Worlds in July
where he came 48th in Gold Fleet, finishing in the top 10 in a number of races. He
rushed back for the UK Nationals at the beginning of August in Abersoch where he
finished 9th overall.
Tasmyn is first Girl !
Squads 2017-18 If you’ve just started and want some great winter training, you might consider Welsh Regional Squads. Applications open on 9th September. All details here.
Applications for Welsh National Squad also from 9th September.
RYA National Squad applications opened on 1st August – details from here
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2017 SAILING PROGRAMME
Committee 2017
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Please email articles and photographs for the next edition to by 22nd October to:
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If you have a query or suggestion for the club, these are the people to contact:
Commodore Andrew Roberts - [email protected]
Vice Commodore Paul Marfleet - [email protected]
Secretary David Blood - [email protected]
Treasurer Steve Kitchen [email protected]
Membership Secretary & Andy Davey—[email protected] Duty Rota Telephone: 077 7984 9536
Bosun Peter Davies - [email protected]
Cruiser Representative Richard Jones—[email protected]
Sailing Captain Paul Oliver
Junior Representative Alex Watson
Inclusion Officer VACANT
Committee Members: Christian Blood. Peter Jacobs, Andrew Pulford, Matthew Seddon,
Dennise Shepherd, Phil Watson
Since mid July, a pair of Ospreys have
been visiting the nesting pole on the
island nearest to the club. It is hoped that
this will become a regular nest.
As a result we ask all sailors to avoid
using marks 1 and 2, and to keep 100
metres away from the nesting poles to
avoid masts and rustling sails disturbing
these magnificent creatures.
Photo courtesy of BBC
Osprey’s have arrived