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Fred’s Big Toephy

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

By |2017-03-17T18:39:49+00:00February 2nd, 2015|Categories: Games|Comments Off on Fred’s Big Toephy
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NoR Brass Monkey Trophy Christmas Race on Sunday 14th December 2014

We extend a very warm welcome to you and your members to come and have some competitive fun at our Christmas Open meeting for Marbleheads and BOTTLE boats.
We hope that you will come and enjoy racing in a relaxed mode at Abbey Meads lake, Chertsey to get you into the party mood. Festive dress for self/boat is anticipated! As usual, we will be stopping for lunch when mince pies and mulled wine will be served. We do hope that you will come and join the party.

Following GMYC tradition there will be no normal financial entry fee. Instead, please bring a wrapped present containing something that you might like to win!

We will be racing mostly Marbleheads, but with BOTTLE boats starting together. The latter will have a course handicap, as we normally do very successfully in our club events to even up the performance difference.

For those of you who have not been before, you will find ABBEY MEADS lake easily. From whatever direction you are travelling, follow the signs to THORPE PARK and go to the roundabout at their entrance. Then travel south on the A320 towards Chertsey and you will see the lake on your left. After a few hundred yards turn left off the road after you see a sign, RADIO SAILING. If you arrive late and the inner gate is locked, put 1617 into the brass GMYC number padlock to open and just slide the horizontal bar back to open and replace after entry.

The racing will be conducted using the RRS 2013-2016 modified by the MYA SSIs. The relevant notices are as follows:
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 15.20 hours will be abandoned.

The closing date for entries for that event is midnight on Thursday 11th December 2014. Please ring Roger with your entry on 01483 421 801 or e-mail him on stollery17@sky.com . If there is more than one boat entered with the same number, we will inform you prior to the event as to the prefix or the modification of your number. If you don’t have a Marblehead or BOTTLE boat, but would like to come for a bit of fun, please ask to borrow a boat.
We look forward to seeing you!

By |2017-03-17T18:39:49+00:00November 30th, 2014|Categories: Sailing|Comments Off on NoR Brass Monkey Trophy Christmas Race on Sunday 14th December 2014
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2015 Membership Subscription Renewals

Dear members at last nights AGM the 2015 subs were confirmed as follows:

£38 for adults

£24 if affiliated to another club

£7 for Juniors

Please send Payments to the Treasurer Martin Crysell by the 23rd December, this will enable Martin to process all the club memberships within the MYA deadline.

By |2014-11-15T22:28:31+00:00November 15th, 2014|Categories: Membership|Comments Off on 2015 Membership Subscription Renewals
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GMYC AGM

Don’t forget it’s the GMYC AGM this Friday 14th November at Victoria Hall Ash, see calendar for details and map.

By |2017-03-17T18:39:50+00:00November 12th, 2014|Categories: Evenings|Comments Off on GMYC AGM
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Work Party 14th March 2014

The next Work party at Abbey Meads lake is scheduled for Friday 14th March at 09:30.

The access to the West bank is still very muddy and cannot be driven on. The committee decided on the spot to reinstate the work party that was postponed in February, to clear the brambles and other vegetation alongside this track, a) to let the sun get to dry this out and b) to allow people to walk on the adjacent grass area. This work party is planned for this Friday 14th of March starting at 9:30 AM. Alan Viney is hiring a hedge cutter on a pole in order to cut the brambles at their rooting points and we need as many ‘rakers’ as possible to move the dead brambles into bonfire areas or if necessary down the bank. John T and myself are the first signed up rakers, but we need more people, so if you have time on this Friday morning please come along and help. You will need a rake and some gardening gloves. Even if you can only spend a short amount of time, please come along and help as many hands make light work. It is important that we get as much of the dead brambles cut as possible and this will only happen if the cut parts are raked away.
By |2014-03-13T00:12:53+00:00March 12th, 2014|Categories: Work Party|0 Comments
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