BRISTOL SAILING ASSOCIATION

Newsletter April 2011

Contacts:Gordon Ogden (Commodore)01275 462473

Jock Playle (Secretary)0117 973 8855

Jane Jenkyn (Treasurer) 01275 880318

Future Trips

Jeff Birkin will skipper a weekend sail from Haslar Marina, Gosport, on May 20 – 22. This is now fully booked and paid, and details sent to all crew.

Bill Thomas will skipper a weekend trip from Plymouth on June 3 – 5. This is now fully booked and will cost £115 per person. The balance of £65 will be due by May 2nd.

Helford – l’Aber Wrac’h race, June 22 – 29. We have chartered a boat from Falmouth for this. The race starts on Friday June 24, with post-race meal etc. on the Saturday evening. The charter will be from Wednesday 23, returning to Falmouth on the 30th, allowing 3 days for a short cruise in Brittany and the return Channel crossing. Alan Howells will skipper. This is now fully booked and will cost £230 per person including racing insurance. The balance of £160 will be due by May 2nd.

PASAB (Penzance, around Scillies, and back) races, July 29 – August 1. This is already fully booked, with Bill Thomas as skipper. We will charter from Falmouth, which means picking up the boat on the evening of Wednesday 27th July and sailing to Penzance on the Thursday, for the start of the race to St Mary’s on Friday evening. Saturday is a free day for cruising with a race around the Islands on Sunday. The return race to Penzance is on the Monday, with the return sail to Falmouth on Tuesday. If Bill is only available for the weekend of the races Jeff Birkin will skipper the two Falmouth – Penzance legs, for which we have another three crew members available. The full cost will be £1300 for the boat, £220 racing insurance and £50 race entry which includes mooring fees at St Mary’s for 2 days, a total of £1570, = £262 per person. The balance of £192 will be due by 6 June.

2011 Med charter. This is a charter from Kremik in Croatia, to be skippered by Phil Steele, on June 11-18, and is fully booked. Bob Hayes has booked the boat from Sunsail and made the flight bookings. To validate our indemnity insurance all balance payments have been made to BSA and Sunsail have now been paid in full.

Jeff Birkin will skipper a weekend from Mercury Marina, Hamble, on July 15 – 17. This is fully booked and will cost £120 per person including gas and fuel. The boat has been booked and deposits paid. The balance of £70 will be due by June 12th.

Chris Watts would like to skipper a midweek trip from Hamble cross-Channel to Alderney, Cherbourg and perhaps St Vaast. His preferred dates are Monday 27 June – Friday 1 July. Sme night sailing would be involved. We need three more crew for this, so will anyone interested please let us know (either contact Jock or at the next meeting).

1.8Jeff Birkin will skipper what was originally planned as a midweek cruise to the Scilly Isles on September 12 – 16. However, as Cornish Cruising charge a full week’s charter fee for any charter of more than 3 days, the available period will be from 1600 on Saturday September 10 until 1000 on Saturday 17. At the April meeting all those going agreed to this.

1.9Alan Howells has said he would skipper a trip on the GK29 from Plymouth in July or August, probably cross-Channel to Tréguier. This would be a fairly demanding trip on a smaller (but very seaworthy and sea-kindly) yacht. Alan will confirm this in due course, so let us know if you are interested. Alan may also skipper this boat more local to Plymouth later in the year. This is the boat we have used, with Alan as skipper, for training boat- and sail-handling in the past two years. Please let us know if you are interested – we had several members who missed out on the previous training trips and said they would be interested in further ones.

Announcements

Chris and Julia Wallace arranged a VHF/DSC course on board Sabrina on April 9th, taken by David Sidwell of DS Marine. We congratulate all six members who passed.

David Sidwell came to our April meeting accompanied by a colleague Gerry Packer, who has a Bavaria 38 “Bavarian Spirit” currently in Antigua, which he will sail to Gibraltar in May/June and is seeking crew. The intention is to leave Antigua on about May 7th for Bermuda, then from Bermuda on May 18/20 to the Azores, then to Gibraltar by July 1st, sailing in convoy – a total of 4-5 weeks sailing. Anyone interested should contact Gerry, tel. 01275 392039, email gerrypacker@hotmail.co.uk .

3.Recent Trips

A summary of all trips reported at meetings is given here, or a full report, if available. Members reporting at a meeting are reminded that a full version of the report should be provided, either written or emailed. If this isn’t available, then only a short summary will be given in the newsletter. Full reports will be included in the next newsletter following receipt.

At the April meeting there were no reports of BSA trips, but Bob Buchanan described two trips he had made on other yachts, and Don Hirst, sailing with Bob, described a Portishead CC race.

Trip on Spring Fever , skippered by Geoff Louch

Trip on Crack-on, skippered by Hugh Hayward

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Trip on Lady Emma, skippered by Becky Goddard

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