Club members will already have received an email with the newsletter attached, anyone else is welcome to view it (click the image to download and view the PDF). If you are thinking of joining you will be very welcome to come to the AGM and if you join on the… Read More »AGM Newsletter
The AGM will be held on Thursday 27th February at 8pm at the Seven Oaks Inn, Lows Lane, Stanton DE7 4QU. A buffet will be provided. We will be there from around 7pm so you can renew your membership before the meeting or during the interval. Whilst this is formal… Read More »2014 AGM
This years Weymouth trip will take place from the 8th to the 13th of April, thats 6 nights away. Number of nights is flexible we should be able to accommodate those only wanting to stay for fewer nights. As many of you will know Weymouth offers very safe sailing on… Read More »Weymouth Trip
Current members will already have seen the email about this years Weymouth trip and this heralds the publication of a whole swathe of events for the coming year. Have a look at Events/Overview for a taste of whats to come. More detail will be added later and for the major… Read More »2014 Events
twitter verb 1 (of a bird) give a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds: sparrows twittered under the eaves (as noun twittering)the swallows were settling to roost with a good deal of twittering talk in a light, high-pitched voice:old ladies in the congregation twittered talk rapidly and at length… Read More »TWC enters the Twittersphere
Looks like a good weekend to get some speed, with the best forecast for Sunday around lunchtime. North Wales looks like it will get the most wind, with Gusts up to 50mph forecast. Inland lakes (and our own Lake) will have an easier time of it, only 40mph gusts predicted… Read More »Major Wind For this Weekend – Dust off your GPS Units
Sunday 13th October will be the last training day of the year See here for details. Dave Maul is planning a trip to Aberdover, see here for details.
Wow – what a scorcher ! Fantastic weather, you’d hard believe it was late september. After a few trial runs to get my ‘eye’ in, I thought I’d play with my new Go Pro and get some footage for the club web site. After a bit of ‘editing’ (no-one really… Read More »Rutland 29/09/2013
National Watersports Festival 2013 The National Watersports Festival (NWF) took place at the end of August. Formerly an exclusively Windsurf Festival, this year saw the inclusion of Kayaking, Stand-up Paddleboarding and Kitesurfing to the festival. The event has for the last seven years been the biggest mass participation windsurfing event… Read More »National Watersports Festival 2013
Easy access to the lake for the boat.
A huge thanks to everyone who turned out on the 22nd June to help with phase 2 of the slipway.
Yes it is over a year since we attempted to do this first time round, but the weather we had on the first day and the rotten summer and winter since then have made it impossible to contemplate having a JCB driving around churning up the grass. Thankfully its dried out and, with the exception of a bit of tidying up, it is now complete.
We had a huge work schedule organised for the day, including making a barrier to prevent nutters driving onto the rigging area and churning it up just for their amusement, and we got the most important bits done. We know the area around the toilets is a bit soggy so we want to address that, plus we need to lay some roadstone in front of the boat lockup, and we all know how poor the track down from the gate is, so…….