You can now get the forecast for the pond from the website – there is a button on the bottom left of the pages to click which pops out a small window with the 4 day forecast from Winderfinder.com. Sorry its not more days but that is the limit from Windfinder. Hopefully you will find it useful.
The trailer park has now been sorted out, thank you to Paul Martin for clearing it, Howard and Celia Frear and James Harcourt for the few hours of hard graft on Saturday of sorting trailers, trolleys and moving them about.
I currently have 22 trailers stacked in the parking area in rows which will be labelled A,B,C ect but I only have 11 trolley subscriptions. Only 2 trailers are easily identifiable by the owners name. There were a vast number of launch trolleys in this area which are not allowed and a huge number of road trailers in varying degrees of decay, a lot of which are not road worthy – these are all now down by the entry gate.
In the first instance I would like owners to check the trailers in the parking area and identify which is yours, label it clearly with your surname and pay for storage if you have not already done so. Any trailers left in this area unnamed / unpaid for by the 15th of May will be disposed off. Please will the owner of the box trailer make yourself known to me by the 15th May – either remove said box trailer or pay for a space, beyond this date this item will be sold and the proceeds given to the club.
Second, please can I ask everyone to check the pile of trailers and trolleys by the gate, identify yours and either remove it, pay for a trailer space (if its a trailer) or remove it if its a trolley (these should not be stored in the Trailer Park. You have until 14th May to do this. On the 15th of May I will be holding a Car Park Trolley and Trailer Sale for members to ‘liberate’ parts, trailers and trolleys with a donation to the club for anything taken (£3 a trolley wheel, £5 a trailer wheel, £40 for a decent road trailer and £30 for a decent launch trolley – prices will be negotiable). This will be on a first come, first served basis – reservations and removals (unless you own the item) will not be permitted before this date.
On my walk round I noticed an array of masts dotted about the club tucked up in hedges, laying on the ground, perched on the back of the club house – if any of these belong to you please label them clearly or remove them as I will be collecting these up and disposing of any unnamed ones by the end of May.
Lastly, if you keep your road trailer in your dinghy space please ensure that your boat is stored on top of your road trailer when your boat is not in use. Please DO NOT leave your road trailer along side your boat taking up space between you and your neighbour – you have various options, store it under your boat, take it home or pay for it to be stored in the Trailer Park – please sort this ASAP.
Thank you all for your assistance in the above. The club site is looking great at the moment thanks to various peoples hard work in cutting the grass, strimming brambles, club house / pontoon, rescue boats care and maintenance – lets keep it looking pukka and therefore a nice environment to enjoy for everyone.
Best Wishes
Jo Mahy
Honorary Membership Secretary SBSC
Don’t forget there are 4 races for the Spring series starting this Sunday. And the first race is at 11:00am rather than 11:30 that you have probably got used to.
Is anyone interested in a (possibly free) boat? It’s a Moth Europe which is a low-rider and can be seen in dinghy park space J5.
If anyone is interested please get in touch with Jo Mahy (Membership Sec) and she will put you on to the owner.
It appears the website is back up to speed thanks to some software tweaks behind the scenes from our hosting company. If you notice it slowing down again please let us know. Thank you for your patience.
The 2021 calendar is now live on the website and you can search by event type, series, or whatever you like. Lets hope that we can do all of it without any further lockdowns.
With the roadmap allowing sailing again at the club we need you, the members to start volunteering for safety duties please. Go to the website, follow the link to Dutyman and logon to volunteer. There is no sailing if there is no safety cover.
Following the Commodores announcement regarding the resumption of sailing at the club the Covid information page has been updated. Please make yourself familiar with it here before you attend the club at any point.
Dear Member
Further to my message earlier this month, I am now very pleased to send you the Club’s roadmap for returning to sailing after 29 March. This is based on the current guidance from the RYA, which is itself derived from instructions issued by the Government. Hopefully, HMG will not find it necessary to amend or delay the four steps to normality it published last month. The Club’s roadmap is a summary of key dates and the opening-up measures associated with them. More detailed information about the national return to sailing is accessible to all on the RYA’s website: https://www.rya.org.uk. I would strongly suggest that you keep up-to-date with that, so that you have a good understanding of the guidance provided by our organising body, since this underpins the Club’s plans and its measures to restrict the transmission of Covid-19.
From the roadmap, you will see that Sherborne School will actually start sailing on 20 March; this is because schools are a specific exception under the current rules. They intend to sail again on 27 March. Weekend club sailing will initially start on Sundays only, the first session being on 4 April. Saturday sailing will start soon after this on 17 April, when a number of travelling cruisers will be having a ‘shakedown’ event. Before that, many will be delighted to see that the Thursday Evening Series will begin on 8 April.
There is no specified limit on how many people can sail or be on the premises, but those on shore must not gather in group of more than six or two households. The removal of the limit on numbers is with the strong proviso that all must comply with the RYA’s guidance. You will not need to book to go sailing – as was the case before the current lockdown – but you must sign in and out, for track and trace purposes. Note that the RYA ‘s guidance on mixed household crews still applies. The OODs will have the authority to require those attending to observe the rules and to limit the total number present if they are concerned that discipline is breaking down. Please support them in this.
Sadly, we are not yet able to allow access to indoor facilities, other than toilets so, initially, please can you change at home or in your car. We hope to have limited use of the changing rooms from 12 April, when also some form of galley facility may be offered. Let us hope for a warm spring!
Can I remind you again that Dutyman is open for bookings and that we will retain the additional OOD C role until the end of April. We now expect all members to book duties as in ‘normal times’. Insufficient volunteers will mean no sailing.
I am really delighted that the lockdown and fantastic vaccination programme mean that we can get back on the water and I look forward to seeing you at the reservoir soon.
Merv Clark
Commodore
