Find us on Facebook www.goringthamessc.org.uk Follow us on Twitter 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 25 th 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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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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