BRISTOL SAILING ASSOCIATION

Newsletter May 2017

Contacts:Kath Liddiard (Commodore)01443 227928

Jock Playle (Secretary)0117 973 8855

Becky Goddard (Treasurer) 01749 346818

We welcome new members Nigel Alltimes, Paul Eyers and Mike Fidler.

Future Trips

1.1Ian Collins has chartered one of Plymouth Sailing School’s Bavarias for the weekend of June 16 – 18. There are two places available; will anyone who would like to go please let us know.

1.2Gordon Ogden and Chris Watts are skippering two boats from Hamble Point for a midweek sail on July 10 – 14. This is fully booked; the balance payment is due by June 26th, (either £213 or £234, to be confirmed).

1.3Alan Howells is skippering a week’s charter from Plymouth on July 13th – 20th on the Delphia 40 ‘Ventis Secundis’ This is now fully booked with all £100 initial payments made. The balance of £210 was due by May 29th.

1.4Another 3-boat charter from Plymouth Sailing School has been booked for the weekend of September 29th – October 1st. There are 4 places still available for this, so please let us know if you are interested.

1.5Alan Howells’ proposed autumn charter in NW Spain has become a December charter in Tenerife, and a Lagoon 380 catamaran has now been chartered from Santa Cruz. This will be on December 2nd – 9th. In order to secure the boat Ian Collins has made the booking at a cost of £2315 (deposit of £695 paid by Ian). It is fully booked, and will those going please contact Ian for payment details.

2.Recent Trips

After all the trip cancellations from November to March due to bad weather it was good to have a report of a decent weekend sail from Plymouth on April 29-30, skippered by Jerzy Wieczorek, whose report follows:

Trip on Liver Bird, skippered by Jerzy Wieczorek

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BSA website photos

There are some photos and a video of the above trip posted by Andy Sawyer on the BSA Facebook page, which prompts a reminder that our webmaster Chris Wallace has asked for pictures of our trips to be made available for the website, either via Facebook or by email to aremiti36@yahoo.com . Some photos of the recent cruise from Hamble to Honfleur, Caen and St Vaast (to be reported at the June meeting) would be welcome.

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