BRISTOL SAILING ASSOCIATION

Newsletter May 2015

Contacts:Kath Liddiard (Commodore)01443 227928

Jock Playle (Secretary)0117 973 8855

Becky Goddard (Treasurer) 01749 346818

We welcome new member Alex Barry.

Future Trips

Jeff Birkin will skipper a week’s trip from Milford Haven, aiming for the east coast of Ireland on Sunday July 5th – Sunday 12th. A Jeanneau 36i ‘Kalel’ (which Jeff has sailed before and really liked) has been booked.

FOLLOWING A LATE CANCELLATION THERE IS NOW ONE PLACE AVAILABLE, at a cost of £232. Please let Jock know if you would like to take this place.

1.2Gordon Ogden will skipper the Bavaria 44 ‘Bertie’ from Plymouth for a long weekend on July 16th – 20th. This is fully booked and will cost £235 per person. All deposits have been paid and a final payment of £165 is due by June 1st (ref. Jul16P). As the Treasurer will be away by then, if you are paying by cheque and have not yet paid, please send the cheque to Jock, not Becky.

1.3Having successfully arranged to charter a yacht from Plymouth Sailing School for racing, Alan Howells will skipper the Helford to l’Aber Wrac’h race on June 26/27th. As in previous years there will be a cruise in Brittany following the race, so the charter will be from Wednesday June 24th to Friday July 3rd. The race crew is complete, and it is fully paid.

1.4A weekend trip has been requested for early September, this may be from Plymouth, skippered by Alan Howells, who will confirm a date in due course.

1.5BSA members have been offered the opportunity to sail on the PYC yacht ‘Quartette’ during her summer cruise on the east coast. Two weeks are available, July 25 – Aug 1 and Aug 1 – 8. These will be based at Woolverstone marina on the River Orwell, and could be skippered by PYC-approved BSA skippers between the River Blackwater and Orford. Costs are £35 per weekday and £55 per day at weekends. Chris Watts will skipper the first week, with space for one or two more crew. We have just one crew for the second week and a skipper is needed.

News and Notices

2.1Charter payments - As well as using a code specific to the particular charter as a transaction reference when paying by bank transfer Becky has asked that if a member’s account is in a name other than their own (e.g a partner’s name) would they please tell her when they email her to advise that the transfer has been made..

3.Recent Trips

All reports of trips in March were postponed until the May meeting, to allow the remainder of the April meeting to be used for Jeff Birkin’s presentation of sea trials of OSCAR, a MoB recovery system he has been developing for some time.

At the May meeting there were reports by Sue Fowle and John Hartland on the midweek sail on both PYC yachts on March 23 – 25. Sue then gave a report on sailing in the Canarreos Archipelago, Cuba, in March. Bill Barnes (who was away sailing) had previously sent a report of a weekend sail from Plymouth, and Bernard Smyth had sent one of sailing at Easter on the new CSSA Channel boat. Here are all these reports.

Trip on Quartette, skippered by Chris Watts

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Trip on Spellbinder, skippered by Gordon Ogden

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Trip on , skippered by

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Trip on Cleo, skippered by Ian Collins

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Trip on Sea Essay, skippered by Andy Smith

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