http://nusyc.co.uk NUSC Online: All the news, photos, event info and chat from Newcastle University Sailing Club Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:37:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2009/11/18/london-6-pack-and-sheffield-shuffle/ 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 ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2009/11/18/bucs-fleet-racing/ 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 ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2009/11/18/leeds-halloween-howler/ 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 ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2009/11/17/wheres-wally-social/  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 ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2009/11/09/christmas-sailing-ball/ 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 ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2009/03/03/racing/ BODY { SCROLLBAR-HIGHLIGHT-COLOR: #cecfce; SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR: #010101; SCROLLBAR-TRACK-COLOR: #fffbff; SCROLLBAR-DARKSHADOW-COLOR: #fafafa; SCROLLBAR-BASE-COLOR: #f7f7f7 } Well done to the Newcastle 1st team who won both the Bottled Firefly and the Liverpool Lash last term. BODY { SCROLLBAR-HIGHLIGHT-COLOR: #cecfce; SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR: #010101; SCROLLBAR-TRACK-COLOR: #fffbff; SCROLLBAR-DARKSHADOW-COLOR: #fafafa; SCROLLBAR-BASE-COLOR: #f7f7f7 } 7/8 Feb 09 - ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2009/02/16/team-racing-news-2/ 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 ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2008/11/20/team-racing-news/ 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 ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2008/10/04/largs-yachting-trip-08/ 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 ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2008/09/11/nusc-in-200809/