BRISTOL SAILING ASSOCIATION

Newsletter June 2011

Contacts:Gordon Ogden (Commodore)01275 462473

Jock Playle (Secretary)0117 973 8855

Jane Jenkyn (Treasurer) 01275 880318

Future Trips

Note: As the secretary will be away until July 10, all enquiries about trips planned for June and July should be made to the respective skipper.

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 22nd , returning to Falmouth by 10.00 on the 29th, allowing 3 days for a short cruise in Brittany and the return Channel crossing. Alan Howells will skipper. There has been a late cancellation for this, so there is now one place still available. The cost is £230, including racing insurance. Alan will complete the race entry paperwork on the day; the race entry fee is £40 for the boat. Please contact Alan (0117 944 2618, email alan@john-howells.fsnet.co.uk) if you would like to take this place.

Chris Watts will skipper a midweek trip from Hamble on June 27 – July 1, aiming for Alderney, Cherbourg and perhaps St Vaast, if the weather is suitable. There is one place still available, at a cost of £128.50 for the four days midday Monday to midday Friday. Please contact Chris (01275 851110, mobile 07802 883691, email chris.seadog@googlemail.com ) if you would like to take this place.

1.3PASAB (Penzance, around Scillies, and back) races, July 29 – August 1. This is 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.

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 was due by June 13th; will anyone who hasn’t paid please now send a cheque, payable to BSA, to the Treasurer, Mrs J R Jenkyn, Edgecliff, 12 Marine Parade, Clevedon, Bristol, BS21 7QS).

1.5Jeff Birkin will skipper a cruise to the Scilly Isles on September 10 – 17. Cornish Cruising’s charter period is from 1600 on Saturday September 10 until 1000 on Saturday 17. This is fully booked, and the cost is £175 per person. All deposits have been paid, and the balance of £125 will be due by July 25th.

Alan Howells has said he would skipper a trip on the GK29 ‘Gundulph’ 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 when he returns from the l’Aber Wrac’h race in July, so let us know if you are interested. Alan may also skipper this boat more locally 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.

Gordon Ogden will skipper a midweek trip in September or October. Four or five members have said they are interested. A date will be confirmed at the July meeting. Gordon may also skipper a midweek trip on August 8 - 12, but is not yet sure if he will be available for this. One option is a charter from Guernsey – a Jeanneau SO40 may be available from 1200 on Monday 8th – 1700 on Thursday 11th. If not, then this trip would be from Plymouth.

Malcolm Price will skipper a weekend from Plymouth on September 9 – 11. This may be fully booked – this will be confirmed, with payment details, in July.

2.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.

There were two BSA weekend trips reported. Jeff Birkin reported on a trip he skippered from Hamble on May 20, and Kath Liddiard gave a report on a trip Bill Thomas skippered from Plymouth on June 3. Peter Wakeling gave a brief report on a recent Med charter in Turkey; we expect a report for the newsletter from Sue Fowle when she returns from a current BSA charter in Croatia.

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Trip on Antara, skippered by Jeff Borkin

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Trip on Pantalaimon, skippered by Bill Thomas

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