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Sunday 2nd May is the date for the 2021 Mini Mole event. Named after one of the club founder’s Mirror dinghy, this is a pursuit race. Slow boats start earlier than the faster ones and whoever is in front at the end, wins.  A different format to our usual racing but it makes a nice change.

The front page of the website has a little facelift for Spring. Latest news items now appear on it as well as forthcoming events. Check it out at www.suttonbinghamsc.net

Hopefully all race results are available again but please let me know if you have any further issues at web@suttonbinghamsc.net. Apologies for the inconvience.

There is an issue currently with the software that runs all the downloads on the website. This means race results, documents, everything like that, etc, will give you an error saying invalid file type. Please bear with us as we try to get a fix for this.

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.