Elstead Cutter club event this Sunday 22nd April

Dear All,

This is just a reminder of our club event on Sunday. There is a decent A rig breeze from the west forecast by XC weather so there should be some good sailing as we have experienced in the last two ALE events, so don’t miss out again and come and have some good racing. My son Peter is hoping to make up for his disappointment he was already on the M25 when we had to cancel the Courage Cock because of the snow making travel inadvisable south of the M 40. That experience doesn’t seem real now that we are now in summertime temperatures.

Attached is a photograph recently sent to me by another Guildford member who joined as a teenager in 1956, (I joined in 1964 as 19 year old).  This shows the rather relaxed assembly of cars, motorcycles and boats at Elstead moat, which was then our sailing water. The boats were 10 raters and 36″. Perhaps we are lucky that at Abbey Meads we can still get our cars just as close to the sailing water as in this image of our club from 60 years ago.