Herne Bay Sailing Club was delighted to welcome around 70 visitors of all ages to its 2019 Push the Boat Out Open Day. It was a busy day with our cadet group demonstrating their skills on the water as well as the King's School sailors buzzing about in the afternoon.
Fifty five of the visitors enjoyed a sail with an experienced helm, supervised by a team of safety boats, and many had a go at steering as well as controlling the jib. There were lots of smiles when visitors returned to the shore. Many club members were on hand throughout the day welcoming the visitors, keeping them fed and watered in the bar and galley and helping on the shore and on the water to ensure everyone had a great taste of sailing and our sailing club. We hope to welcome some new sailing, social and kayak members, as well as see some novice sailors participate in our training programme and some young people join our Cadet group.
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It was a busy weekend at Herne Bay Sailing Club with a Superhero Party on Saturday (for the children, honest!), bar open on Sunday and 18 boats on the water (3 more on the side) for the long distance race. Saturday's sploosh decoration was taken literally on Sunday with a number of the sailors falling in on their trip up to Bishopstone, round the pier and repeat, and one sailing so hard he broke his mast in half. Lots of smiles when the sailors were back ashore.
The deck and bar were also busy with members eating homemade cake, fresh sandwiches, hot potatoes and enjoying the odd alcoholic beverage. Saturday the 18th May is Herne Bay Sailing Club's annual Open Day. Sign up here if you would like to find out why sailing is fun for all ages. We also welcome social and kayak members so pop in to find out more. With glorious weather forecast for this coming weekend, there will be a full programme of sailing events and plenty of opportunities to get on the water.
A massive thank you on behalf of the Sailing Committee if you were one of the many members who turned out in force on Sunday to lay the slipway and carry out other jobs, large and small to ready our Club and its boats for the new season or help out in the galley. Glorious weather played its part as did the supply of tea, coffee and bacon rolls.
It is fast approaching the time of year to lay the slipway and go sailing or kayaking again.
Slipway laying will be on Sunday 24th March with help from members needed from around 7.30am. There will be plenty of jobs that don't require any lifting including spring cleaning the galley and getting the training boats ship-shape. This year Club Week will take place from Monday 29 July to Friday 2 August inclusive. Further details will be advertised in due course.It’s membership renewal time and this year we are doing things differently. All you need to do is click on the link below, follow the instructions and complete the online form. The whole process should take about 10 minutes. Membership Form To take advantage of the discounted rates, please apply before 31st January 2019. Here’s to a fantastic 2019 sailing season! Congratulations to Michael and Sam Dyer who won the Herne Bay Sailing Club Championship 2018 by 10 points and with 15 first placings. Second place went to Colin Smith and third to Richard de Lisle. Helms must race 15 or more qualifying races to qualify the Club Championship. The full results were as follows:
1 Michael Dyer 2 Colin Smith 3 Richard de Lisle 4 Laurie Dengate 5 Olaf Throndsen 6 Gary Danilewicz 7 Guy Alexander 8 Phil Rees 9 Graham Harbord 10 Sally Woodward Herne Bay Sailing Club is delighted to be hosting the Hadron H2 National Championships 7th-9th September 2018. Days 1 and 2 have been very enjoyable for us as hosts and hopefully too for the competitors. There was perhaps a bit too much wind and waves yesterday, but lovely weather today. 5 races completed and 2 to go.
Report on each day's sailing is available on Yachts and Yachting are here. Cadets at Clubweek is my personal highlight of the HBSC calendar, and this year has been no exception. Yet again a brilliant three days, with 50ish cadets having a great time supported by a team of more than 50 relatives and members.
A huge thank you to all the volunteers on and off the water and a special thanks to Ben & Jo, for wonderful organisation and leadership over the last three years. The highlights for me were how well the cadets worked together, seeing members and relatives who don't normally go on the water having a taster in the powerboats and (I'm biased here) the fantastic sailing the Dolphins did back from the icecream cruise in slightly more wind than forecast. A fitting end to the last day of the cadet activities was to receive the news that cadets Michael and Sam Dyer won the National School Sailing Association's National Regatta Fast handicap fleet at Datchet Water. They got 6 firsts in 10 races and won the series by one point. A brilliant achievement and inspirational for our younger sailors. They have gone straight to Hayling Island to compete in the 29er Nationals. Good luck Michael and Sam! Herne Bay Sailing Club. Family sailing at its best. Clare |
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