Tiddly Christmas Party - December 11th

"Who's got my dinghy?"

Just like last year, the festivities are at:

The Vancouver Maritime Museum
Thursday December 11th
7-10 p.m.

Drinks and snacks are on the house, so come out and enjoy the good fellowship of your fellow Tiddlies.

See you there,
Your Tiddly Executive


Annual Awards Dinner

Our 2003 Awards dinner was held on November 4th at the Ivy Restaurant. Almost 50 Tiddly members and guests came out for a fun evening to celebrate the successes of the season.

Lots of Tiddlies!	The great Tiddly phone committee
Trevor wins the Fleet Championship for Div II as the lady behind him turns green with envy	Ernie wins yet again!
Heather picks up some more hardware	and Gord takes home the Dave Jordan Memorial Trophy and the Log Boom

This year's trophy winners were:

Bill Wood Sail Past Trophy
Broos
Bruce McClacherty and Judith Roos-McClacherty

Fleet Championship
Division 1: Intuit 3
Keith Sangster & Debbie Gittins

Fleet Championship
Division II: Mumbles II
Trevor Jenkins

Crash Pad Cup
(Best attendance and performance)
Pegasus
Gerry Furseth & Penny Bax

Dave Jordan Memorial Trophy
(Outstanding contribution to the club and to the spirit of sailing)
Gord Wylie

Log Boom Award
(Outstanding mishap witnessed by another member and shared with the club)
Gord Wylie
This year for putting Rhumb Line's racing sponsor Richmond Savings 'on the hook', so as to speak, for a quantity of fishing tackle which mysteriously detached itself from a fishing boat and attached itself to Rhumb Line during the Fraser Lightship Race. And for a most 'creative' spinnaker takedown and mark rounding that vaulted Gord through the lifelines and back, forcing the RVYC Dignitaries Boat, out for an evening cruise in honour of Prince Andrew's visit, to change course rather abruptly to avoid a close encounter of the third kind!

Annual General Meeting - New 2004 Roster

The club's AGM was held November 16th at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Our new Executive was elected for the 2003/04 year, as follows:

Ms. Money Bags was pretty happy about the Club's financials! (Treasurer Ellen Fowler)

Commodore Michael Spearing and Past Commodore Phil DeGeller come back for another round!

Brian Ferris accepts the Flag for Rear Commodore

The newest Tiddly demands the floor (Adrian Granoux with Mom Sabine)

TCYC 30th Anniversary

Well in true Tiddly fashion, our history seems confused and strongly resembles the proverbial caucus race of Lewis Carroll fame!

· We have elected 30 commodores;
· We celebrated our 20th anniversary in 1994;
· We celebrated our 25th anniversary in 1999;
· We have a charter that was issued by the Registrar of Societies in April 1977;
· We have a letter recording the establishment of the club in July 1975 and,
· We have a first commodore who was elected for the 1974 -1975 year.

Trevor Jenkins thinks the club was started in the fall of 1974 whilst the original members were still part of Burrard Yacht Club.

Stay tuned for more information on when and how we'll celebrate.

… Michael Spearing

COMING EVENTS

Tiddly Bits

Valencia had been revealed as the Host City for the 32nd America's Cup. Check out http://www.americascup.com/en/acm/ for more info.