Weymouth
Sailing
Club

After the Longshed opening and during the commodores punch party but before the Strictly evening there was the handbook cover photographic competition.

After the success of last years Strictly Come Dancing finals night, Ali Ashworth and Celia Rushton pushed the boat out and created a little piece of Strictly magic in the club.

Mid-day on Saturday 20th witnessed the official opening of the Longshed thanks to an inspired facilities grant of £50,000.

This year Phil and I have used our boat Lochmarin to sail across the Caribbean, through the Panama canal and across the Pacific Ocean.

We left Trinidad in November last year, heading North to Grenada before going West, to avoid the pirates around Venezuela. A boat we knew had been attacked leaving Trinidad, the people in it badly beaten, just two weeks before we left. We stopped at the Dutch Antilles, Bonaire and Curacao, enjoying the fantastic diving and picking up some solar panels we'd had shipped there.

YOBs have started their winter evening meeting with a visit from St John Ambulance. Three members from St Johns gave up their evening to teach first aid to our youngsters concentrating on first aid at sea including drowning and hypothermia. This was followed by a hands on experience of CPR and bandaging.
If you do need a Bandage at any time I wouldn't ask a YOB !.

Tomorrow looks like giving a fast trip round the Bill and back, with rather a wet start admittedly, but in conditions forecast to improve during the day. The start is at 1030 from the club line, using VHF channel 9. HW Portland 1553 for whoever's doing the nav!

Weymouth Sailing Club members have dug deep to help out local lifesavers on the Weymouth lifeboat.

This Saturday 27th September marks the end of the summer season and the start of the autumn season. The Phillipson Cup and Open Pursuit were won by Dave McCune on the Squib Inky Finger in 2013.

The trophy, first awarded in 1933, was presented to the club by the then Commodore of Parkstone Sailing Club, E.A. Phillipson, and the event was originally a race to bring together every sailing boat at the club in a celebration of the past season's sailing, at the moment when racing insurance generally expired for the year.

A visitor to the club late on Sunday evening was Mrs Gabrielle Lyne (nee Ridge) from Exmouth along with her husband and friends having sailed up from the Exe Estuary.

Following cancellation of the Lyme Regis passage race, a good call considering the SW gale that blew through, the weekend for the third and final passage race of the season came round for the weekend of 30th August. The westerly blow that had been with us all week, the remnants of hurricane Cristobal, was forecast to diminish and by Sunday summer was meant to return! So we signed up. A slight change of destination from Poole to Swanage, to account for the tides, meant (hopefully) a shorter race.