Due to the overwhelming participation in the False Creek Thursday Night Racing we have decided to postpone Grahame Shannon's presentation until October.
So back to our traditional schedule of no May meeting, apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Greetings Tiddlies!
Springtime is charging upon us, and the TCYC sailpast (and sailpast race! and raft up) is THIS COMING SATURDAY!
Hopefully you had it written in your schedule all along, so this is merely a timely reminder. The forecast is showing sun and we hope it will be a good time.
Attached is the ORDER for the sailpast (click to download). As always, we will sail past the Commodore's boat in three flights, each flight led by a flag officer.
Also attached are the SAILING INSTRUCTIONS for the race. As always, the race will be a somewhat informal affair, and racers must take their own finish time. Course details will be determined and announced by the commodore on race day, to take best advantage of the prevailing conditions.
The sailpast commences at 11:00am, the race takes place as soon as the sailpast wraps up, and the raft up is held in False Creek as soon as the leaders get there.
Any questions, feel free to ask Commodore Randy ;-)
Hope to see you out there!
Simon Hill
PS: The Passage Island race is next weekend, mark it in your calendars and we hope to see you there too! SIs for that race will be posted ASAP.
Two new Tiddlies joined on Thursday. Unfortuntelly, all we had onsite was Randy's iPhone, but here is the photo-op, such as it was!
On the left is new member David Hoens, Cal 20, Tyrannical and on the right is Dan Pasco, Hot foot 27, still working on the name.
Many of you will have heard the very sad news that Doug Morrison suffered a severe heart attack on Saturday during a VARC race and passed away. He was 57. He leaves behind Gail, and sons Spencer and Willy.
A memorial service will be held for Doug on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Mary's Kerrisdale Anglican Church, which is located at 2490 W. 37th Ave (at Balsam) in Vancouver. A reception will follow in the Parish Hall.
Please share this information with anyone you think would like to be informed.
Please see the attached letter, confirming a reciprocal agreement with False Creek Yacht Club that allows TCYC Members to use their dining & lounge facilities.
Of particular note is their Pub and Hockey nights where they welcome the Tiddlys to come on over and participate.
Our thanks to Court Touwslager and Commodore Anthony Kaul for their hospitality.
Randy
From left to right: Teresa Dobson, Peter Heiberg and Christy McLeod. Welcome!
TCYC and the Fleet Captain are currently seeking a boats to act as Race Committee willing to run one or two races each over the remainder of the 2010 season (final dates to be determined).
Please contact the Fleet Captain (Simon Hill at 604-733-9004 or shill_edit [at] telus.net).
If you are willing to act as committee for a race later in the season, drop the fleet Captain a line at your leisure, indicating which races you'd be willing to cover. Currently Ted Sharplin with Trigger (Cal 20 Race Committee) has volunteered for New Years Day, Fancy Free is Race Committee for the Spring Tune Up, Pegasus has agreed to committee the Passage Island Race and Krikkit will be covering some of the later Summer Shorts races (but not the early July races).
Over 20 members attended the AGM insuring a quorum and a new executive. Two guests were also in attendance.
The new Flag Officers are:
On the Board we also have: Treasurer & Education Ellen Fowler, Club Historian Trevor Jenkins, Director at Large Brian Ferris,Social Director Achilles Dolhaine
Special Tasks: Phone Chair: Carole Speck Scramble Chair: John Boyko VARC Liaison: Tim Coughlin Web: Tyler /Niko
With our small club it is critical that members look for opportunities to volunteer, whether helping out at the bar, phone committee, race committee or the Scramble we all need to contribute.
Our Fleet Captain's role is to organize the races, all racing skippers should expect to use their boats as race committee at least once per year.
Our new Commodore has issued a challenge to the Stamps Landing Yacht Club to participate in our New Years Day Race. The Commodore of the losing club will have to publicly wash the winning club's Commodore's boat.
Stepping down after exemplary service are; Roy Mitchell, John Bassingthwaite, Mary Brennan, MC Marciniak, Heather Wylie. Niko Lourotos did a great job as Scramble Chair in 2008 as well as maintaining the website and forum. Many thanks for your efforts, you made my term as Commodore a breeze.
Looking forward to 2010
I guess I was asleep at the wheel, but there seems to be a kafuffle brewing in Howe Sound. It seems the Artificial Reef Society is seeking a home for their latest acquisition, the HMCS Annapolis and are currently looking at Halkett Bay for her final resting place as an artificial reef (this after an attempt to sink her near Paisley Island).
The local residents and cottagers in Halkett have started a website at savehalkett.com that discusses the plans and offers feedback links to the powers-that-be.
Do members think that TCYC should have a stance on this issue and if so, should we be for or against it? Please weigh in with your opinions!
Here are the predicted tides for the raft up, for Friday and Saturday. We are on a large rising tide right through 2245hrs/ 10:45pm. As Alder Bay is so protected we can expect less 'challenging' rafting conditions than we enjoyed at our last on the water event!
If you haven't been into Alder Bay before, the charted least depth at datum on the approach and in the basin is 2.3m/ 7.5ft., and it is clear of charted rocks and obstructions, just stay to the centre of the channel.
2009-06-12 (Friday)
Time Height
PDT (m) (ft)
04:12 3.2 10.5
07:54 3.5 11.5
15:14 1.1 3.6
22:45 4.5 14.8
2009-06-13 (Saturday)
Time Height
PDT (m) (ft)
05:08 3.0 9.8
08:53 3.3 10.8
15:48 1.4 4.6
23:15 4.5 14.8
What's John got to grin about in this photo? Well, the other two gentlemen just happen to be Design Coordinator Mike Drummond and Consultant Tom Speer of BMW / Oracle, who were in town on Friday to field test some super-secret, cutting-edge sail performance analysis device, which is being developed by a local group, including our very own Rear Commodore Rob Murray.
In this case "field testing" meant that John, Rob and Niko got to go sailing with the two BMW/O crew, around English Bay! The new electronics were jury-rigged on one of Rob's old jibs on Avant and - I gotta tell you - they worked great!
What can I say? We 're moving up in the world...
Take a peak at Swiftsure results. Only two TCYC boats made the trip this year - HARWAR and TIGER LILLY
Guess what? They both won their respective divisions :-)
