Dates for your diary:
September 6th: 1000 Lift-out list will open (see foot of Page 3)
October 4th: 1000 Work party to tidy and prepare
cradles
1200
onwards Masts
October
18th : 0730
start Lift-Out
November 22nd: Ceilidh at the South Beach Hotel (see
below)
Commodore’s Comments
Well
it’s certainly been a mixed season for many of us so far, and of course I’m
really referring to the weather here. Combine this with the intermittent
closure of the Crinan Canal and it easy to explain why so many intentions for
sailing holidays/racing have not quite gone to plan this year.
Of
course, for some, there have already been great successes; with the cruisers
reaching far flung shores and notable racing results. Well done to Ziggy
Stardust class winner and Stevie B second in class at the West Highland Week.
However
for the rest of us who have been less fortunate so far all is not lost. We
still have several weeks sailing time left before we need to start thinking
about the Lift Out (18th October), including musters at Tarbert and
Largs in September. Just maybe the weather gods will start to look a little
more favourably on the weather-beaten souls of Troon Cruising Club...keep your
fingers crossed!
It
is with much regret that I have to advise of the death of ex-commodore Tom
Croan who passed away on the 8th of June. Tom was a valued member of
the club and skippered Paladin for many years. Our thoughts are with his
family.
The club is about to undertake some work to the Clubhouse, Compound and Slip. We will, as a result, be looking for volunteers to help organise and carry out work as part of work parties yet to be arranged. It is essential that club members make themselves available for these otherwise the cost of fulfilling these maintenance and upgrading works greatly escalate by virtue of the fact that contractors will have to appointed. Please keep a look out for further notices on these items and I’ll take the opportunity to thank you all in advance for your assistance.
I
would like also to draw your attention to the log retrieval procedures which
have been posted in the clubhouse. Please also note the presence of the “Log –
Log Book”. Please fill this in when logs are spotted in the marina. This allows
the club to make informed representations to ABP on this matter and will
greatly assist the Club Committee should further action be required. (NB Log
reporting procedures are repeated at the end of this Newsletter).
The use of the bin inside the gate has been causing some problems. Regular overfilling must stop! Having repeatedly had the unpleasant job of picking up disgorged bags of waste from both within and outwith the compound I must insist that if the lid does not fully close then the rubbish must be disposed of elsewhere. The seagulls seem to take delight in hauling the rubbish out and spreading it around. The club can now be fined for this! Take it home or to the recycling centre, it’s just along the road opposite Morrisons.
Lastly
I’d like to touch on security. Just for a change of emphasis it’s not about the
clubhouse being unlocked, it’s not about the gate being left open all night or
even that the garage door appears to be regularly left lying wide open without
a single person in the clubhouse or compound. It’s about your boats!
Please
consider the security of items in or attached to your boat. An attempted break
in has already been reported to the committee. I hope that ransacked boats and
stolen outboards is not a problem that TCC will have to face, but that will be
largely down to you!
Please
also remember to identify items of kit left in the garage or compound as
belonging to you, otherwise it may be disposed of.
I’m
off now to search the internet on how to perform an anti-rain dance!
Happy sailing,
Ian Gairns
Much
has been said already this season about how it is a waste of time for any of
the non regular racing members to take part in any of the club’s weekend racing
programme. One of the arguments is that if you do not fly a spinnaker, then
don’t bother. In view of this I feel I
must point out the following results:
Firstly,
Jimmy and Diane Lindsay turned out for the first time for a while in the Lady
Isle race in White Maa and despite not flying the spinnaker, won the race on
corrected time over four of the club’s regular racers.
Secondly, Ken Jack in Kerima, who has not been a regular racer for a while, came a good second out of six boats in the overnight part of the UFG race to Rothesay.
Thirdly,
in the recent Arran trophy race, Peter Robertson and White Rose, racing for the
first time in the Saturday portion of the weekend, finished only 28 seconds
behind the second placed boat without using a spinnaker.
Well
done to all of those members, and I do hope that these results might give some
encouragement to others who have not so far tried their hand at racing. We
could certainly do with a lot more of you appearing on the start line.
Look
forward to seeing you.
John MacKinnon
Racing Secretary
As
the Commodore has said above, it has been a fairly mixed season weather-wise.
Nevertheless some of our muster events have been quite successful, and quite a
few members seem to have been undeterred by the closure of the canal and have
braved The Mull to venture “out West”. I
spotted TCC boats in Lochaline, Tobermory, Arisaig, Loch Moidart, the Isle of
Muck, and Ardfern, just to mention a few.
The Wreck Bay muster had to be abandoned due to bad weather, and when it came to the Rothesay one, having looked in and seen from a distance of a couple of miles the spray flying, from seas driven by a F6 north-easterly breaking on the promenade, I am afraid I chickened out and went in search of a more sheltered anchorage. I am told that the racers did stay, so I hope they had a comfortable night.
More
recently, several boats stopped over on Arran after the trophy races at the
beginning of August and a pleasant evening was had by all.
We
now have only two scheduled cruising events remaining – the Tarbert muster on
September 6th/7th and the closing muster at Largs on the
20th/21st. Some details of these have still to be settled
so please keep an eye on the notice boards at the club.
It
is not too early (it is never too early) to submit your logs and cruising
reports from this season, for inclusion in next year’s Yearbook and for a
chance of winning one of the cruising awards. Please hand material to any committee member,
or leave it in the committee room for the
attention of myself or Jim Goodlad, or email to jagoodlad@aol.com
. We had a great response to this appeal
last year; let’s make this one even better!
Andrew Duffin
Cruising Convenor
The
new members’ night will be held in the Clubhouse on the 27th Sept.
The annual Ceilidh will be held at the South Beach Hotel on 22nd November.
As
you can see from elsewhere in this newsletter, lift in is the 18th Oct and as
usual we need volunteers for the kitchen - this is not a request exclusively
for the ladies!
Please
contact me (phone number is in the membership card) for more details on any of
the above.
Elaine
Nicoll
Social
Convenor
For
those not aware of the process may we remind you that if you wish a club
lift-out for your boat, you MUST put the boat’s name up on the list in the
clubhouse, since spaces are limited. The list will open on September 6th
at 1000 and it fills up fast!
New Members since the last newsletter:
|
Name |
Address
|
Phone No |
Boat |
|
Maureen
Short |
See hard copy or
Clubhouse
|
|
Mo
Bhata |
|
Tom
Liz and Grant Storrar |
|
|
Never
Never |
|
Morag Rowley |
|
|
|
|
David Hogg |
|
|
Candy |
|
Ben Duffin |
|
|
Rosie B |
|
James Evans |
|
|
Dilly Dally |
|
Paul Morledge |
|
|
Freyja |
|
James W Munro |
|
|
Elan |
|
Robbie Gemmell |
|
|
|
|
Seph Jardine |
|
|
Tamara II |
|
David Irvine |
|
|
Triath Nan Luin (TYH) |
|
Clarke L Callaghan |
|
|
|
We welcome the above new members who
have joined or who are in the process of
joining the club since the issue of the membership list in April.
Please retain this with your
original list. Thank you.
Please
note:
Secretary/Treasurer’s
new email address is babshenderson59@googlemail.com
If you have an email address and are willing for the club to use it to contact you, feel free to drop Babs a note for her records.
Please
see the Commodore’s notes about this above.
If you find a log floating in or near the harbour, please enter details in the “Log log” which is kept in the clubhouse. This enables us to be able to quote “chapter and verse” if we need to make further representations to the harbour authorities.
In addition,
please follow the Harbourmaster’s procedure, which is to call the Troon Pilot
House on 01292 313412 or, if no answer, on their mobile 07734 071824, and
report the date, time, and location.
We
appreciate this is a lot to ask, but the more pressure we can put on the
various parties involved, the better this hazard will be managed. Thanks!