Newcastle University Sailing Club

London 6 pack and Sheffield Shuffle

Committee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:50:07 +0000

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 Southampton.

BUCS Fleet Racing

Committee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:48:15 +0000

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 Newcastle boats. Doug finished in a very creditable 7th in a fleet that was dominated by RS200s. Ben and Tom finished on a high with their best result of the week end and finished 17th overall.

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.

Results and write up are posted here:

Firelies

Handicaps

Laser 2s

Leeds Halloween Howler

Committee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:45:31 +0000

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!

Where’s Wally Social

Committee — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:35:16 +0000

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

Christmas Sailing Ball

Committee — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:50:56 +0000

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

Newcastle first University team at Nottingham Snakebite

Team Racing Captain — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:12:35 +0000

Nottingham Snakebite report

Newcastle 1sts this weekend travelled to Nottingham for the amazing Nottingham Snakebite. After a messy night in Ocean on Friday night Saturday was the perfect day for team racing.

Newcastle suffered slightly from hangovers on Saturday that definitely hindered performance. Two early losses out of five in the early stages of the round robins in the leagues led to us being positioned in the Silver Fleet at lunch time on Saturday.

Fortunately Newcastle found their form and went on to win every race for the rest of the day. After a night in Dogma dressed as Where’s Wally Sunday morning saw the continuation of the Gold, Silver, Bronze League and Newcastle sustained their race domination to win the Silver Fleet without having lost a race.

Quarter Finals were run on Sunday afternoon incorporating the top four teams from the Gold Fleet, top three from the Silver and top team from the Bronze fleet. This allowed Newcastle another chance to reach the finals, racing Warwick 1^st team. After winning the one-race quarter final Newcastle were against Bristol in the semi finals, sailed as best of three.

The three races were not needed as Newcastle won the first two, positioning them in the finals against West Kirby Youth Team. West Kirby took the first race convincingly but Newcastle fought back to win race two. Race three was extremely close with the event open to being taken at every mark. Unfortunately West Kirby sailed through to win the race and the event.

Newcastle therefore finished second out of the 18 teams racing and first University team. This is a fantastic result that shows the benefits of a season’s hard training and commitment and the advantages of the new fireflies we are now able to train in. We are now looking very positively towards the BUSA Team Racing Finals 15^th-17^th April.

Team Racing News

admin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:33:35 +0000

Well done to the Newcastle 1st team who won both the Bottled Firefly and the Liverpool Lash last term.

7/8 Feb 09 - Despite the cold the Newcastle first team won all the races in their league at the BUSA Northern Qualifiers this weekend to guarantee them a place at the BUSC Team Racing Finals at Datchet in April.

The second team also sailed very well in their league, hopefully securing them a place at the Playoffs in March.

Well Done everyone!

Upcoming events - Sheffield Shuffle and Nottingham Snakebite - Good Luck!

Team Racing News

Team Racing Captain — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:18:28 +0000

This weekend saw both the first and second teams going to the Brummy Bender in Birmingham.

Photo ©: William Rook

Saturday saw the First team win all their races coming 1st,2nd and 3rd positions and the Second team won three races and lost three. Fortunately this was good enough for both teams to make it into the Gold Fleet on Sunday.
The Firsts made it to the semi finals and narrowly lost to Cambridge. Subsequently they Raced Notts Old Boys in 3rd/4th place play off and won it after a close race to come 3rd overall and were awarded some wine and medals.

1st team was

Ben and Fiona
George and Ed Fitz
Emma and Steve

2nd team was:

Ed Bates and Matt Bradfield
Alastair and Benji
Ian and Sally

Visit http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=144248 for full details.
Well done guys - we wish you luck at the Durham Dambuster coming soon!

Largs Yachting Trip 08

Committee — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:36:55 +0000

Jules and Cat and Ian will be in the Mens Bar (on the left in the Union) on Wednesday (8th) between 12 till 2pm, to book your place please come and find them with your cheque book / cash!

Hey Everyone,

We will be running the first largs yachting trip, this semester, on the 17th to the 19th October, please find attached the poster advertising the event and with details about the trip.

The cost of the trip is £65 per person, and that includes the cost of the bus and the yacht hire, If you are in need of kit such as waterproofs, these can be hired at an additional cost (please ask for further info),

We will be leaving on the bus to head for largs on the Friday afternoon after lectures, and returning on the Sunday evening, with the plan to sail to tarbert on Saturday morning and then return during Sunday.

There is a limit at only 40 places available for this trip, and its first come first serve, so get your name down ASAP to be sure for a place.

Please may I also remind anyone interested that to come on the trip they must be a signed up member of the sailing club before leaving on the Friday night.

Please feel free to join the facebook group NUSYC First Largs Yachting Trip 2008!

Cheers

Gerry Goodfellow
Yachting Coordinator

NUSC in 2008/09!

Committee — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:26:39 +0000

Its the start of a brand new year and since most of us have doubtlessly forgotten most of what we learnt last year we may as well forget those worries and go sailing. So, welcome to all the freshers this year and welcome back to all of those familiar faces from previous ones. We hope to see you about both on the water and in the toon! We’ve got a load of stuff planned for the first few weeks of term so get involved!

What’s on!

Fresher’s Barbecue
Three-Legged-Pubcrawl
Team Racing Trials!
Swim test

Fresher’s Barbecue:

During Fresher’s week the sailing club organises a barbecue at South Shield’s Sailing Club to let you scope out the place and meet some new friends. This is your chance to come and eat some free food on the Tynemouth and perhaps have a few beverages whilst learning a bit more about what it is we do and who we are as a club. Meet outside the union on Sat, 27 Sep, at 10:30

Three-Legged-Pubcrawl:

That most infamous of events - the Three-Legged-Pubcrawl - is back. Join us and a new friend as we tour the pubs, clubs and bars of Newcastle. You’ll just have to make sure your partner doesn’t pick and fights with an drunk local whilst you’re still attached! Wed, 1 Oct, 20:00 – Thu, 2 Oct, 00:00

Team Racing Trials:

If you’ve got a bit of competitive spirit in you come along to our team racing trials - where we pick Newcastle Uni’s finest to compete in our team racing squads. For all returning members the trials are Wed, 1st Oct, 12:00 – 17:00

For all new members the racing trials are Sat, 4 Oct, 10:00 – 16:30 or Wed, 8th Oct, 12:00 – 17:00 if you miss the first ones.

NB - If you plan to come to the trials please first contact the captain, Emma Norris by email; emma.norris { a t } ncl.ac.uk

Swim Test:

Union policy and our insurance requires each member of the club to be able to swim to a reasonable degree of proficiency. We don’t need to know if you’re the next Michael Phelps but it’d be nice to know you won’t sink to the bottom of the Tyne (and trust us - you really don’t want to know what is on the bottom of the Tyne). Wednesday the 1st Oct, 15.30 -17.00 at City Pool.

If you didn’t make it to the swim test take this form to any local pool and ask the lifeguard to evaluate you:

SWIM TEST FORM!