Monthly ArchiveNovember 2009
Team Racing Committee on 18 Nov 2009
London 6 pack and Sheffield Shuffle
This weekend saw the firsts and seconds heading their separate ways to London and Sheffield respectively. This was not to be the 1sts finest hour as some untimely capsizes and some more than sceptical umpire decisions they found themselves in the silver fleet and struggled against a Royal Thames team that finished Newcastle’s run to the quarters.The 2s however were in much better form and luck as they found there way through the round robin at a very competitive Sheffield event. However they did not progress any further than the quarters as they were knocked out by
Racing Committee on 18 Nov 2009
BUCS Fleet Racing
Next was the first BUCS event of the year in the form of the fleet racing. We sent 4 boats in the for of George Yeoman and Georgie Akin-Smith in the Firefly fleet, Ben Crompton and Tom Altmann in an RS200 and Doug Conway in a Phantom in the handicap fleet and Ed Bates and Jamie Bridgefoot in the Laser 2s.
With a very high standard of sailing all fleets and the shifty gusty conditions of Queen Mary SC the racing was very hard for all competitors. This was shown especially in the handicap fleet where the top places were all taken by RS200s mostly sailed by current or ex Olympic development squad or national champions. After some issues (forgetting spinni pole and a trapeze harness) Ed and Jamie struggled to put a series together but finished on a massive high with a top ten and their best result of the week end. They finished 12th overall!
In the handicap fleet the top 3 were all separated by 4 points. Unfortunately none of these were
George and Georgie brought home Newcastle’s first gold medal of the campaign winning the firefly fleet with a solid last days results of 1,1,2 which led to them winning by 3 points from Tim Saxton of Exeter after a tough battle that lasted all week end.
Team Racing Committee on 18 Nov 2009
Leeds Halloween Howler
The first event was the Leeds Halloween Howler which involved a minibus full of fun for the freshers initiation! This was followed by an epic night in fruity which set us up nicely for the racing on saturday. The first team, while winning all their races on saturday, found themselves starting behind alot of the time but made up for it with some solid boat speed and good boat handling to finish top of their group at the end of the day with only Nottingham 1sts to race. The 2nds also had a solid day winning all of their races apart from against Durham Ladies. This left them as 2nd in their group at the end of day 1. After a big night out dressed as witches we arrived at the sailing club to find gale force winds and after leeds race committee tried to get in some races the decision was made after lunch to cancel the rest of racing. This left the 1sts in first on count back of number of points with the seconds in a very creditable 5th!
Social Committee on 17 Nov 2009
Where’s Wally Social
This wednesday is going to be the annual Where’s Wally social, it going to be an amazing social, we are going to start from the Men’s bar in the Union at 8.30pm and then move on down the pub crawl which will end up in tiger tiger!!! The fancy dress is Where’s Wally!! You don’t have to be a member to come along so please bring housemates and friends. Look forward to seeing you all there; if you are going to be lightly late please ring me on 0788688103 so we can arrange to meet you some where along the pub crawl.
Love
Sailing Committee
Social Committee on 09 Nov 2009
Christmas Sailing Ball
Dear Sailors
Christmas is advancing very quickly and with it, as always, comes the greatly anticipated Sailing Club Christmas Ball!! Tickets can be bought from Ed and myself over the next couple of weeks for £35. This gets you a 3 course meal, half a bottle of wine each and coffee. Everyone’s welcome so if you want to bring friends it’s not a problem and doesn’t cost any extra for non-members. If you’re interested give us a text, or we’ll be selling tickets in the union over the next couple of days, We’ll be there at 1-4 on Tuesday, 12-1 Wednesday and 12-3 Thursday. Any other times we’re free we’ll send an email out before hand. This is always a really good event so hope to see lots of you there.
Thanks,
Josh and Ed
Josh: 07813555064
Ed: 07788688103