Sunday 8th February 2014
Guildford Model Yacht Club extends a very warm welcome to you for the first 2015 Footy open event.
Come and enjoy racing your Footy at Abbey Meads Lake, Chertsey and help us to create some fun in a friendly, but competitive atmosphere.
We are able set North/South courses from the West bank. Recently we have been having difficulty with vehicles on the muddy track to the control area. If this Western control area is to be used then parking is restricted to the tarmac close to the entrance gates. Probably rubber boots will be essential for walking along the track to the control area. We apologise that there are no toilet facilities, but there are lots of bushes! If the weather is wet, there will be shelter etc in our gazebo. On on the South bank from where we control the racing for East/West courses parking directly off the road is available close to the Control Area; however here to the ground may be muddy.
Hugh McAdoo will be the PRO and racing will be conducted using the RRS 2013-2016 modified by the MYA Standard Sailing Instructions. The current 2009 Footy Class Rules will apply. We would ask you to limit the size of your biggest rigs to comply with the ‘Experimental Footy rig Template‘. The relevant notices are as follows:
REGISTRATION and measurement check 08.40 to 09.30 hours.
BRIEFING – this will start at approximately 09.40 hours.
RACING TIMES – the first race will start soon after the briefing at approximately 10.00 hours – no race will start after 15.00 hours and any race in progress at 15.30 hours will be abandoned.
Please make sure that your correct sail numbers are clearly displayed on your mainsails: just the last two digits of your boat’s registration number. When you bring your boat for registration, please make sure that it will fit in the ‘Footy measurement box’, as required by class rules.
As well as Fred’ Big Toephy and prizes for the winners and junior winners, there will be the first of the ‘novICE’ trophies for novice competitors that have not finished in the top 3 in the Footy open events in the last 2 years. The 2014 Traveller’s Trophy will also be presented.
The entry fee will be £3.00, to be paid on the day. Entries and any queries should go to Roger Stollery and may be either phoned through on 01483 421 801 or e-mailed to stollery17@sky.com before midnight on Thursday 29th January 2015 The information required is your name, MYA number ,club, sail number, radio frequencies if not 2.4ghz. Please pass this notice onto those you know who might like to participate. If they have no Footy, we have some that may be borrowed; please ring Roger ASAP to avoid disappointment.
ABBEY MEADS LAKE is easy to find, so long as you follow these instructions and not any others. Follow the local brown signs to THORPE PARK and go to the roundabout at their entrance. From here travel south on the A320 towards Chertsey and Abbey Meads Lake is behind the hedge on your left. After a few hundred yards turn left off the road when you see a sign, RADIO SAILING, together with signs to the 3 Valleys Water’s Chertsey Treatment Works. If the gate is locked, unlock the brass number padlock marked GMYC with 1617 or ring the mobile number on the ‘GMYC welcome notice’ on the gate. Please replace the padlock as you found it. We look forward to seeing you
