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Telephone 01903 249956<br>
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<td height="68" > <font color="#000080" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="2">Welcome
to the Worthing Yacht Club web site. We'll be keeping it updated with
lots of information for members, sailors, windsurfers, kitesurfers
and anyone else who wants to find out more about our activities or
what is happening in and around West Worthing beach. For starters
here is what is happening over the next month or so. <font color="#CC0066">Last
update on 5th May 2008</font></font></strong></font></td>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Pub Quiz
and games evening - 24th May</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Mark Saturday
24th May in your diary as this will be our next club social event
coinciding with the Dart 16 open that weekend. The evening is open
to all members and their guests and we hope that all the visitors
to the club will join in as well, starting about 7:30pm. Questions
will be a very mixed bag from the intellectual through popular knowledge
to the downright silly so you need not be a genius to suceed. Probably
an advantage not to be a genius in fact. We also plan to play some
lively games between question rounds so the eveining will definitely
not be a serious one. The galley will be offering a pre-bookable
evening meal for the convenience of the club visitors but any members/guests
are welcome to prebook the meal as well as sailors in the open.
You need to start putting you teams together now - teams can have
up to 8 people in them. There is no entrance fee but there will
be some modest prizes for all winners on the night. Hope you can
make it.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Mike Holdstock
memorial race - Sunday 5th May</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The Mike Holdstock
memorial race is to be run this Sunday (5th May) at noon. The weather
is forecast as sunny spell with a high of 21C and gentle 8mph SE
winds, so lets have a good show to remember a real old club character.
Mike waw a stalwart of the club for many years and latterly used
to run the race box with Carol and Albert every Sunday as well as
doing odd maintenance and repair jobs around the club during the
week. I first met Mike at Harry Heath's evening welding classes
at Northbrook college where he took me under his wing, standing
up to Harry's claim that "welding is a bloke's game only".
He also used to encourage many of the youngsters in the club, particulrly
when they had had a bit of a bad day on the water and he would always
help them to get their confidence back and make them feel better.
Mike was a friend of mine and I miss him.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Time to get
on your bike</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The sun is shining
outside and the air is positively spring like so I am beginning
to think about brushing the cobwebs off the bike ans heading up
onto the downs. There are some positive reasons for mountain biking
like it helps shed those excess pounds you might have gained over
the winter, gets you fitter for sailing (builds up your legs for
trapezing and hiking out), you get to see all sorts of wild life
up on the hills and it is fun to do with a good bunch of people.
We will be starting to cycle regularly on a Saturday morning and
you are welcome to join us - just send your Email details/mobile
number via the <a href="form.html">contact page</a> and I will let
you know where we are meeting etc. We are not going to try to beat
the blokes so if you are new to mountain biking or haven't been
for a while, we are probably at the right level for you. It is 2
years since Dave Parker's last charity off-road bike ride so I am
thinking it should be a cyclathon year so we have all summer to
get in shape for the 40 mile sponsored ride.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Clarification
on final lap for "finish on shape" races</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Just had an
Email from Graham who was race officer 20th April regarding some
confusion over the "finish on shape" races that we usually
run with smaller mixed fleets. The clarification has been supplied
by Martin Stevens who is current D16 National champion (for the
umpteenth year in a row) and has many, many years experience both
as a helm and a Race Officer. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">If a boat has
past the penultimate buoy when the shape is raised (and 2 sound
signals given) to signal the end of the race, but not yet past the
finish mark, that boat only needs to pass the finish mark and does
not require to complete a further lap to finish the race. After
the shape has been raised, all boats will be finished when they
cross the finish line (presuming they are not disqualified for any
reason). This will affect the results from Sunday 20th April thus
Shane and Jill were placed second in both races.</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">It
is often difficult to decide when to finish a race when you are
race officer and trying to raise the shape at an appropriate time
when there are no boats between the penultimate mark and the finish
line can be impossible, so it is good to have this clarified for
future races - thanks Graham and Martin for this.</font></p>
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