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BURGEE SUMMER 2016
Commodore’s Report
As I write this I realise that we are now racing
rapidly through our race sailing calendar
season and nearly finished the summer series
with just the autumn series to go.
The racing has been well attended and we
have been lucky with some good winds as well
as the occasional frustrating Goring days with
winds shifts from every direction (usually at
the most inopportune moment for me!) or just
dropping off altogether and there have been
one or two races abandoned because of this.
Other than the Sunday racing it has been a
packed few months and since the last Burgee
we have had a number of events happening
including:
A trip with the juniors down to the
National Sailing Academy in
Weymouth and Portland which was a
really good weekend in which 17 of
our intrepid juniors sailed in quite
challenging sailing conditions.
Our summer party on 25th June which
was an excellent evening which this
year we spent in the clubhouse for a
sit down meal prepared by
Pierrepoint’s. Many thanks to Jill
Marsden for organising such a
successful evening.
The Thames Challenge at Reading
Sailing Club in which Goring juniors
competed against 7 other teams from
5 other clubs making an excellent days
team racing and doing very well in the
windy conditions…
July saw 6 of our juniors head off to
Norfolk to compete in the Oxfordshire
team at the NSSA and August saw a
number of members head off to
Studland for a few days sailing.
Hopefully everyone will come back from their
summer’s activities refreshed and ready to sail
in the fresh Autumn winds!
Visitors to the club
Please don’t keep the pleasure of club
membership all to yourself; you are welcome
to bring guests. Any member can sign in up to
three visitors at any one time, all you need to
do is to make sure that they sign the visitor’s
book which is in the holder by the entrance
door to the clubhouse and they are welcome
to use the club facilities. So if you are a family
of four you could bring down up to 12 guests
between you as long as you sign them all in.
Please remember if they are going on the
water then they MUST sign in as a temporary
member, temporary membership is available
for up to 5 days a year (any more than that
and they should really be joining!). Hopefully if
they enjoy using the club then they will want
to join!
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If you want to have a larger group or a party
then you are welcome to make a booking to
use the club, this can be from as little as £45.
Please contact our club Secretary Jill Marsden
for availability and more information if you
want to make a club booking.
Toilet blocking
A reminder to all members that we are not on
mains sewerage, but have a septic tank so it is
important not to put anything other than the
3P’s down the toilet. We recently had to have
the toilets unblocked which cost the club £100.
Apart from the cost this is very inconvenient (if
you pardon the pun) for all members so please
help us to manage this problem by not putting
anything else down the toilet. In the past we
have had the blue handtowels block the toilet,
these need to go in the bin and if there is no
toilet paper in the loo the supplies of toilet
rolls are kept in the disabled toilet in the
clubhouse building so please go and grab a
roll rather than use the blue towels!
Tea and bar facilities
The committee has been reviewing the
facilities that we offer with regard to tea bar
and bar facilities, our profits margin is lower
than expected with the tea bar barely covering
costs. We should be making considerably more
than we currently do and the only reason that
we can account for this is that people are
forgetting to pay. We will therefore be
improving the signage and will purchase a new
cash box which will be kept on the tea bar.
Please remember that everything has to be
paid for and please do not take anything from
the tea bar without paying for it first.
Otherwise we will end up having to reduce the
range of items that are in stock to only those
low cost items (tea and coffee only).
Saturday Sailing
Saturdays sailing has continued throughout
the summer, with the club paying for an
instructor to come down more or less every
Saturday from May to September. This is a
considerable outlay for the club so we need to
make sure that it is a facility that is useful for
club members and I would welcome your
thoughts as to whether we have got this right.
Have we got the right mix of formal and
informal coaching? Do we need to look at the
dates andmaybe take a break in August and
continue again in September? Your thoughts
on this would be welcome
September 3rd sees the our annual regatta
and the aim this is year is to a have a range of
racing events to make this as inclusive for all
our club members – see Sailing Secretary’s
Report for more details.
So here’s hoping that the winds continue to
blow and the sun continues to shine and we
can all look forward to some happy sailing
Andy Nicoll
Commodore
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Sailing Secretary’s Report
GTSC Regatta 3rd September
The GTSC Regatta Saturday 3rd September is
fast approaching, including the JMS Challenge
Trophy
With races such as:
- Youth/Junior races
- Qba/Topper racing
- Oppie racing
- Stig Challenge
Plus as part of the JMS Challenge Trophy we
will holding 2 races of Comets v Laser dinghies,
with sailors swapping boats for the second
race.
This is a fantastic fun day with lots of sailing.
We really need your help for the various duties
and tasks: OOD, AOD, SO plus rigging and de-
rigging of boats and manning the Tea-Bar, Bar
and BBQ.
Events start at 11 am but the day starts earlier
with the preparation and rigging of boats, then
on during the day to 5pm.
If you can help would you drop me a mail to
confirm what duty you can help with
gtscsailingsec@gmail.com
Safety Officer Duty Vacancies
We have the following dates where we have
no Safety Officers to cover racing and are
looking for volunteers please:-
4th September - Adult Improver Series 9 & 10
Starting at 12:00 & Autumn Points 1 & 2
Starting at 2:30pm
25th September - Laser/Singlehanded Starting
at 2:30pm
Thank you in advance If you can do any of the
above and could let me know.
Neil Champion
GTSC Sailing Secretary
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BART’S BASH 2016 @GTSC
The world’s largest sailing event will take place
over a weekend this year, with GTSC joining in
on Sunday 18th September. The ASSF (Andrew
Simpson Sailing Foundation) who organise
Bart’s Bash have supported GTSC very well
over the last 2 years and therefore the club
feels it is important that we participate. Bart’s
Bash is a charity fundraiser – GTSC do not ask
members to raise funds at other events during
the year, so it would be great if we can make
this annual event a huge success.
The fun starts at 13.00 with a BBQ, with racing
commencing at 14.30.
Costs: Juniors £5.00 / Adults £10.00 to include
BBQ and tea. An absolute bargain – lunch, a
great afternoon’s racing and tea!
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Racing Rules – How do I know
who’s in the right?
We all know the racing rules of sailing can be
confusing but it’s important for the safety and
enjoyment of all that they are followed.
At the moment if someone breaks a rule the
only options are for the party in the wrong to
immediately do “two turns” (turn the boat
through 720o including two gybes and two
tacks) or for one of the boats to ”Protest” the
other. As a Protest hearing can be quite
adversarial and means a boat is disqualified it
rarely happens and no one really learns from
the incident.
To make it easier for everyone to better
understand the rules (and reduce the effect of
a minor misdemeanour on the results) GTSC is
adopting the RYA Alternative Rules procedure.
If there is an incident on the water there are
now two additional ways to clarify who was
right:
Ask a Rules Advisor for an informal hearing
after the race to review if any rules were
broken and who was in the wrong. This should
only take around 5-10 minutes. A party in the
wrong would then be invited to take a small
“Exoneration penalty” (20% of their finishing
position with a minimum of 2 places). Taking
the penalty is not compulsory but encouraged!
Fill in a Protest form as normal but ask the
OOD to arrange an “RYA Arbitration” session.
If both helms agree then a simplified version of
a protest hearing is arranged with a Rules
Advisor. The maximum penalty that can be
imposed is the “Exoneration penalty”.
We held a training course earlier in the year to
get enough people trained as Rules Advisors to
start it off, but if you would like to become one
please speak to Mark Hayzelden (or a member
of the Committee). We aren’t formally
rostering people to cover particular races, the
hope is we have enough people trained such
that at any given event there will be at least
one trained person present.
The people who have been trained as Rules
Advisors are:
Elspeth Drew
Neil Grant
Jane Howe
John Howe
Mark Hayzelden
Rob Jones
Miles Lidbetter
Simon Lidbetter
This is a simplified version of the process, if
you want to know more please see the RYA
“Rules Disputes Guidance Notes” document at
http://www.rya.org.uk/racing/racing-rules . If
you want to know more about the sailing rules
in general we have a couple of copies of “Paul
Elvstrom Explains the Racing Rules of Sailing”
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available for loan and there is a copy for
reference in the OOD hut. The second part of
the book takes typical racing situations and
explains which rules apply and is extremely
useful! (There is also a Rules Dispute Poster at
the end of this edition of Burgee)
Happy sailing!
Mark Hayzelden
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Rail & Lost Property
The ‘Sail Rail’ is bowing under the weight of a
huge number of wetsuits which have been
outgrown by juniors. Before you go off and
buy new kit for your growing cherubs, have a
look on the Sail Rail and see if there is anything
which will fit them for this season. If you see
something suitable please either swap it for an
item of yours that you no longer need, or put a
donation in the blue tin by the telephone.
If you’ve left something behind at GTSC, it
should end up in the lost property bins which
are located in the disabled toilet. If you find
something on the premises which appears to
have been left behind, please put it in the lost
property bins – please do not hang it on the
Sail Rail as its rightful owner may be a tad
disappointed!
Phip Woodhatch
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Topper News
There are still a number of events coming up in
the Calendar for the Southern Area Topper
Sailors
Coaching
4th September OXFORD SC
1st October BOSHAM SC
Traveller Events
3rd September – Oxford
South Zone Championships
23rd 24th September– Weymouth and Portland
National Sailing Academy
Southern Zone Squad
Anyone interested in applying for the Zone
Squad must attend the Traveller event on 3rd
September at Oxford, the South Zone
Championships and the Coaching session at
Bosham SC on 1st October.
If you want any more information about any
Topper events please contact me
All the best
Andy Nicoll
07867551507
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Training Courses 2016
We’ve had a great season of training so far – but it’s not over yet!
Dates for your diary
17th – 18th September: RYA Level 3 (adults) or Stage 3 (juniors).
Join us for the next sailing course where you will increase your confidence, skills and refine your technique.
24th – 25th September: RYA Safety Boat
Get your skills up to ensure safety and stay safe on the water in motor boats.
15th – 16th October: RYA Power Boat.
Learn to drive - water version! A useful course that will give you the skills to drive all kinds of motor boats.
Have any requests for courses or training? – We’re starting to look at next year’s calendar so send in your suggestions.
Get in contact with John Turtle or Rachel Conway at gtsc.training@goringthamessc.org.uk for more details or to book on to a course!
Rachel Conway & John Turtle Training Principal & Training Coordinator
........................................................ Junior Jottings!
The start of the summer is a mad few weeks
for junior sailors at GTSC and then comes
August, so before we forget let’s not forget!!
Thames Challenge 2016
The same All Girls team that won the Team
Racing event in 2015, did the double by
winning again at Reading SC; well to be
completely honest, they were joint first with
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Dorchester who were captained by Dan Batty,
who’s in the National Topper Squad, and on tie
break GTSC Girls came second with GTSC Boys
third and our mixed team 8th.
NSSA Regatta The following week rivalries were put to one
side as many of our sailors joined forces with
Dorchester Dan and 30 other juniors to train
for the Oxfordshire squad at Farmoor, before
heading off to the North Sea and Yarmouth for
the week long NSSA Regatta.
Faced with tides of 3.5 knots, half the 4.7 laser
fleet did not even make the first mark on day
one, whilst hypothermia hit 8 competitors
including two from GTSC on the second day,
who afterwards swopped tee shirts and shorts
for wet suits as, despite much sunshine, they
realised we were still on and sometimes in the
North Sea!
With Dan Batty coming 3rd/ 62, the quality of
racing was clearly top class, so our Dan Nicoll
coming 35/62 was a very respectable result,
beating all the single-handed Oxfordshire
sailors on the Wednesday.
Alicia Condie, in her first ever national event
on the sea, came 54/62, whilst her Sister Olivia
was 34/44 racing her laser 4.7 for the first time
ever.
Rosie Turtle came 23/44 despite a nasty injury
half way through the week, but achieved a
stunning personal best in one race of 10th.
Small wonder she’s entering the zone squad
selection competition in September.
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Emily Foster and Alice Baillie came 20/25 in
the Feva but again showed what they were
capable of with a PB of 12th.
Camping was in the dry this year, with Andy
and Corinna helping supervise and loosely
chaperone. All the sailors from Oxfordshire
were great ambassadors and many are looking
forward to next year’s to be held inland at
Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire with the
prospect of bunk beds indoors for those who
book early in lieu of canvass!
See below for Emily Foster’s account on NSSA.
Back to the Future 28TH August…Autumn Series….Junior racing
starts again with races 1 & 2 at NOON on
SUNDAY 28TH AUGUST. New series, new
chances, new winners?
3rd Sept…GTSC Regatta and JMS Challenge…. A
whole day of racing for all, with parent and
offspring races, the oppie cup and the
combined Topper/Q’ba cup.
And for the first time the JMS Challenge will be
two races. Comets v Lasers, with helms
swapping for the second race. Anyone want to
borrow my laser?
9th Sept… Youth Club Finale. Usually an
evening of raft building but this year we will be
TOPPER TEAM RACING. 5.00 for 6.00 start
£7.50 to include supper. Getting ready for our
FIRST EVER ENTRY TO NSSA TOPPER TEAM
RACE EVENT ON 8th & 9TH OCT….VERY CHEAP
ACCOMODATION PROVIDED AT HOLIDAY
INN…FULL INFO AT BOTTOM OF BURGEE or
click this link Please e-mail me at
rob@gardendesignco.co.uk if you are
interested in going, by 5th Sept….
11th Sept.... Junior Autumn series 3 & 4
18th Sept….lets fill the river for BART’S BASH
25th Sept….Laser and single handed
Championship….is there a bigger race?
2nd Oct…Junior Autumn Series 5 & 6
So it’s simple really, there’s Junior sailing every
weekend until the Thames starts to freeze
over.
See you Sailing Rob Junior Development Officer
NSSA 2016 – By Emily Foster
Six Goring juniors were part of 33 strong team
from Oxfordshire NSSA 2016 Regatta:- Olivia
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Condie and Rosie Turtle were in Lasers, Dan
Nicoll and Alicia Condie in Toppers and Alice
Bailie and Emily Foster in a Feva. The team
came 2nd overall.
The conditions at Great Yarmouth were very
challenging as the tides were very strong, but
everyone battled through it and enjoyed
themselves, despite not getting enough sleep,
the rain (less than last year though), and mild
hyperthermia!!!!
Launching off of the beach was interesting as
the wheels on our boat trailers got very stuck
in the sand, but once we were out on the
water the sailing was amazing. It was the first
time most of us had done reaching on the sea
and it is very different even to sailing at
Farmoor; we had to learn how to use the tides
and waves to our advantage in racing.
Despite being a very hard week it is an
amazing opportunity and I have enjoyed it
completely both times that I have taken part in
it. I would recommend it to anyone who asked
and I hope that next year even more people
from Goring get involved at Grafham Water!
By: Emily Foster
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Who’s Who At GTSC
Commodore Andy Nicoll
Vice Commodore Rob Jones
Rear Commodore Simon Lidbetter
Hon Treasurer Jean Mitchell
Hon Secretary Jill Marsden
Hon Sailing Secretary Neil Champion
Membership Secretary Simon Lidbetter
Other Roles
Safety Boat Pete Owen
Safety Boat Instructor Barry Bailie
Training Principal Rachel Conway
Training Bookings John Turtle
Child Protection Mark Foster
Junior Development Rob Jones
Adult Development Rachel Conway
Bar Managers Audrey & John Beer
Bosun Simon Reed
Site Maintenance Simon Home
Burgee Editor Phip Woodhatch
Committee
John Turtle, Phip Woodhatch,
Audrey Beer, John Beer, Rachel Conway,
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