Just a reminder, that it’s now less than 2 weeks to the next event at Queen Mary SC on Saturday, February 16th. The races will be the usual winter format, 2 races back to back, first start at 11am. There’s a bit of information on the QM club website at : http://www.queenmary.org.uk/ And a bit more o...

Would any one from Carsington know if the club will be doing dinner on the Saturday evening of the event?

I've enjoyed that the last few years but I haven't seen any thing mentioned this year.

Regards
Gordon

This is for Jan

Picked up your hull stands from QM today, still sitting on their own in the boat park.

I'm not going to Carsington till next year, so I'm taking them to Grafham instead.

Regards
Gordon

Many thanks to everyone who braved the elements and turned up for an 'exciting / sometimes a bit scary' days sailing at Queen Mary on Saturday.
Well done to you all.
There's a report on Y & Y now, no doubt Martin will have it on here soon.

Best wishes
and see you at Grafham

Gordon

Just a reminder to every one that the next event of the Sprint 15 Winter Series is taking place at Queen Mary Sailing Club on Saturday February 18th. As usual for the Winter Series, the first race is scheduled for an 11-00am start with the 2nd race to follow ASAP afterwards, leaving time for packing...

Yes Bob, you're right, I was asked to help out at Queen Mary's Bloody Mary (their major winter event) but obviously I had a duty to sail at Draycote... You could say George, Stewart and me helped out by making a bit of space for the 302 entries that turned up! Goodness knows how they all fitted in. ...

Thanks for that information Robin, I've just phoned today and booked myself in.

Gordon

Mike / Robert

There won't be any problem if you want to sail 2 up or , infact you'd be very welcome as we dont often see that at QM.

The wording was kept simple, but all formats are welcome.

Regards
Gordon

Erling, unless you're camping outside the gate, I intend to be there before you, and, hopefully I can keep that going all the way to the finish line! FYI. The NOR and SI's have been posted on the Queen Mary SC at the link below. I'm sure they'll be on our website soon, with Martin's help. http://www...

As Ray had said earlier, it looked as if Carsington were feted this year not to get the event off the ground, and with this week's weather, so it turned out to be. But in sailing, you set a date and you have to hope the weather will play along. It's just the way it goes. This year's been more diffic...

This discussion has certainly stirred up some differing views, Just want to chip in with a personal opinion. I've done a lot of events and have done for quite a long time now. If I ask myself, why keep doing it? what's the appeal ? For myself, I'd say there's 2 main reasons, a) the people in the cla...

Don't know if any one else saw this, but I read an article in the Times this week (Monday I think it was), regarding the dreaded "killer shrimp". Whilst this shrimp is giving us sailors some inconvenience, according to the article, it's very serious for the angling fraternity. Seems they'r...

To Ray and George I know it's difficult to change things like this, but thanks for making the decision in good time. I was planning on making the journey and there's nothing worse than waiting till the last minute, not knowing what to do. When the new date is decided, I'm sure I'll be there. Happy C...

George Just to let you know, Martin delayed changing over the Treasurer's contact details at my request because it takes a little while and quite a few bits of paper to be sent to the bank for this to actually change over. I'm sure in a very short while this will be changed over and I'm sure Howard ...

If I could turn this topic around the other way, so to speak. Any one know the class legal position on using less purchases on the mainsheet block in light winds if you wanted to? By that I mean not using all the available rollers. To me, more purchases equals more leverage but less feel, which can ...