First GMYC Race of 2018 This Sunday 14th January

Dear All,

This is just a reminder that our first club race is on Sunday. The weather forecast looks good with sunshine shown all day, relatively warm temperature and a light easterly breeze so charge your batteries and come out for an enjoyable sail – quite a change from the freezing cold snow at the BRASS MONKEY a month ago!

I hope that you have all been looking at the GMYC website which Mark has updated over the Christmas period it is now looking very good, with pictures in between paragraphs etc in the reports. In reporting Guildford’s activities to the District Councillor, I have been more upbeat than usual, praising the good things about our club and our lake, which is still one of the best lakes in the district. This report was copied to all M&S club secretaries, so the hope is to encourage more M sailors to come and sail with us. There is also an updated PDF publicity sheet for 2018, which is also more upbeat and which you could copy at A5 for handing to those who pass our activity and show interest. Many thanks Mark!

Rob Vice has affiliated via GMYC this year and this is very welcome and other member news is that Paul Tickner has borrowed Peter Dunne’s CRAZY TUBE and we may see him at Abbey Meads, probably at the new summertime After Lunch Events (ALE), but hopefully at some of our Sunday events. See the club website for dates etc.

I am hoping to have my latest design UP ready to launch on Sunday, but am struggling with the time left and transoms sticking in the new moulds………..

Cheers, Roger

By Mark|2018-01-12T16:08:15+00:00January 12th, 2018|Categories: News, Sailing|Comments Off

Guildford Model Yacht Club Report January 2018

Heavy snow at the BRASS MONKEY Marblehead event brought an end to the successful 2017 GAMES series won by Peter Stollery. 46 competitors from 21 clubs took part in the 9 event series. 8 GAMES open events are planned for 2018, starting with the Marblehead Interclub at Chipstead.

Guildford continue to run Friday Evening Workshops, usually on the last Friday of the month, which our open to all district club members and provides useful guidance for getting the best performance from your boat, strategy for avoiding incidents on the water etc.

Membership is on the up and will be enjoying the superb sailing facilities at Abbey Meads Lake, Chertsey, with upgraded launching platforms and vegetation clearance. A full series of Marblehead handicapped club events, open to all newcomers, will continue in 2018. Also a new series of free ALE events, open to all boats, will be introduced on Wednesday afternoons over the summer. Abbey Meads is too deep to suffer mid season weed problems.

Our open water lake offers fantastic visibility with control areas high above the water, good access to allow you to follow your boat to the furthest marks of the long courses. These can be set from either the South or the West bank to relate to any wind direction and still give good windward leeward courses.

Come and visit us!

By Mark|2018-01-08T21:51:05+00:00January 8th, 2018|Categories: Afternoons, Evenings, Games, News, Sailing, Workshop|Comments Off

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you all from the GMYC, we look forward to seeing you lots in 2018.

The next event at Abbey Meads is the Cobweb on 14th January, see you there.

By Mark|2018-01-08T21:53:03+00:00December 31st, 2017|Categories: News, Sailing|Comments Off

GAMES 1 and Marblehead Open at Chipstead S/C 20th January 2018

Chipstead S/C Radio Sailing invite entries to their Marblehead Open meeting and Games 1 on Saturday 20th January 2018. First Race at 10.00am. Full details in the NOR Marblehead Open – Games 1 2018.

Click Here For Notice of Race

By Mark|2017-12-30T09:49:18+00:00December 29th, 2017|Categories: Games|Comments Off

New for 2018 our ALE (After Lunch Event)

New for 2018 our ALE (After Lunch Event)

To make the most of our late spring and summer afternoons, come and join us for some friendly, laid back but competitive, afternoon sailing on the following dates:

By Mark|2017-12-20T11:16:56+00:00December 16th, 2017|Categories: Afternoons, Sailing|Comments Off

GMYC Membership Renewals Now Due

Message from our Treasurer Martin Crysell

Dear All,

Membership renewals are now due the costs are as follows:

Full membership with MYA affiliation £42:00

Full membership without affiliation £28:00

Junior membership £7:00

Payment methods which are either: send a cheque to my address,

8 Meadow Lane

Fetcham

Surrey

KT229UW

or you can pay directly to the bank (put your name as the reference)

Lloyds Bank

Sort Code: 30-18-45

Account No: 00024868

Name: Guildford Model Yacht Club

Incidentally if you are getting affiliation via another club, our fee reduces by £14:00 to £28:00.

All renewals are needed in by 12^th January at the latest.

Many thanks and a happy Christmas to all.

Martin

By Mark|2017-12-20T15:28:44+00:00December 13th, 2017|Categories: Membership|Comments Off

BRASS MONKEY & GAMES 9 on 10 December 2017

The weather lived up to the name of the event and this Marblehead event was sailed at GMYC’s Abbey Meads Lake in atrocious freezing conditions that were not forecast. Instead of small amounts of rain and 20 to 40 mph westerly winds there was continual rain, sleet or snow and very little wind from almost every direction.The heavy snowfall further north prevented Phil Holliday from setting out from home, but did not prevent Alf Reynolds and David Croom getting to Abbey Meads through the snow in Kent.

This did not put off the Guildford team, who erected two linked gazebos close to the edge of the southern bank to act as part of the control area for protection from the worst downpours. A ring of specially laid marks allowed windward legs to match the wind variation at some point around the course.

Rob Vice, who had upgraded his UPROAR with a new Robot keel and new bulb, set the pace to win Race 1 from Roger Stollery’s UPROAR. He won again in Race 2 from Martin Crysell sailing a PRIME NUMBER. Then it was the turn of Peter Stollery to win from Roger, who then won Race 4. After another 2 races won by Rob and Roger there was a welcome break for lunch with the hot mulled wine, sausage rolls and mince pies helping to warm the frozen fingers to thaw out.

As it began to snow harder, all agreed to do another couple of races to end the madness and thaw and dry out properly on the way home. This was a wise decision as it was becoming difficult to see the boats through the blizzard conditions in the final race.

As is traditional for this Christmas event, the prize-giving consisted of selecting by the order of finishing places, a wrapped prize, which was the entry fee. As this was the finale of the GAMES’ events it was hoped to present the Midgley Memorial Mug to the winner, but the cold and wet was not conducive to doing the necessary calculations. The top 3 are shown below.

The Marblehead events for 2018 are already on the Guildford Model Yacht Club website at www.guildfordmyc.co.uk

BRASS MONKEY Results:

1st Rob Vice Clapham UPROAR 11

2nd Peter Stollery Guildford UPROAR 11

3rd Roger Stollery Guildford UPROAR 12

4th Martin Crysell Guildford PRIME NUMBER 19

5th Alan Viney Guildford PRIME NUMBER 27

6th Les Thorn Hawley Lake PARADOX 31

7th Alf Reynolds Chelmsford PARADOX 33

8th Keith Bullard Guildford ABEL’S 41

9th David Croom Chelmsford STARKERS 49

GAMES results –

1st Peter Stollery 378.9

2nd Rob Vice 348.8

3rd Roger Stollery 336.5

By Mark|2017-12-13T21:22:59+00:00December 13th, 2017|Categories: Games|Comments Off

Many Congratulations Roger Stollery!!

Many Congratulations go to our very own Guildford member and polymath of the radio sailing world, Roger Stollery on being awarded Both the Chris Dicks and Syan awards. Roger has recently resigned from heading up the MYA Tech team, which is a great loss for UK radio yachting, so these awards are well deserved and long overdue. We wish Roger well and hope he enjoys the extra me time! although we suspect he will soon fill the time with new projects.

The Syan Award This year Roger has made a major contribution to the administration of the MYA, by his work with the Tech Team, the Racing Regulations Team and Vane Regulations Team.

There are over a dozen documents on the MYA website, which Roger has either led or made a big contribution to, including the SSIs, National Championship Regulations, Ranking Regulations, Sail ID and the Free Sailing Yacht Racing Rules.

The MYA IOM Certification Control and checklists have been updated to relate to the latest IOMICA rule changes.

The Six Metre and 36″ class rules have been updated, revised and rewritten along with the Free Sailing Class Rule Supplement.

2017 marked 29 years service on the MYA Council with 14 years as publicity officer from 1967 and 15 years as Technical Officer.

The Chris Dicks Award Roger’s innovative designs have contributed to many features that members have on their current boats. He was the architect for the 1960s design revolution introducing bulb keels, light displacement, simple 2 part GRP moulded hull construction, wing masts, double luff sails, mylar sails, an ergonomic easily made vane gear, displacement penalty lightweight A class.

With radio he introduced una rigs, removable cassette radio gear, wire mast rings, the swing rig, kevlar hulls, carbon spars, hulls and fins, the BOTTLE boat, which was awarded a Millennium Products award by the Design Council.

Currently his designs still rate with the best and win Footy and Marblehead events.

He is experimenting with offset pivot swing rigs for smaller suits where the mast is mounted on a rotating bracket and not attached directly to the hull.

"Syan Award - Chis Dicks Award - Guildford Model Yacht Club - Roger Stolley - National Awards - Tech Team"

MYA National Awards

His designs feature simplicity in both concept and manufacture, whether it is a stainless steel wire bowsie or a Dyneema line mast ring. His boats are beautifully balanced, easy to sail and have given pleasure to a great many owners.

By Mark|2017-12-10T15:40:20+00:00December 9th, 2017|Categories: News|Comments Off

NoR GAMES 9 FINALE & Brass Monkey Trophy Christmas Race on Sunday 10th December 2017

Notice of Race for GAMES 9 FINALE and the Brass Monkey Trophy Christmas Race on Sunday 10^th December 2017

We extend a very warm welcome to you 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. This is very much a fun event, with festive dress for self/boat 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.

This year the event is the finale of the 2017 GAMES Marblehead series with the MIDGLEY MUG, Improver’s and Junior Prizes to be awarded. There is all to sail for because there are four competitors who could win the GAMES. See the latest updated GAMES schedule copied with this NoR.

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!

The racing will be organised for Marbleheads and BOTTLE boats starting on the same countdown, but at different times. BOTTLE boats will have a course handicap and will be competing in their own event.

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 black GMYC number padlock to open and just slide the horizontal bar back to open and replace after entry. Please print this NoR and refer to it when you are at the gate.

The racing will be conducted using the RRS 2017-2020 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 the event is midnight on Thursday 7^th December 2017. Please ring Roger with your entry on 01483 421 801 or e-mail him on stollery17@sky.com and include your MYA number. If there is more than one boat entered with the same sail 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 Roger to borrow a boat.

We look forward to seeing you!

By Mark|2017-11-28T07:58:48+00:00November 28th, 2017|Categories: Games, Sailing|Comments Off

2017 BOTTLE boat Championship

Plenty of wind and sun gave 16 competitors a spectacular day’s racing for BOTTLE boats on the river Deben at Waldringfield Sailing Club. With the southerly wind against the ebb tide there was spray everywhere, generated by the speed on the offwind legs with the powerful bottle & plastic cup bows planing through the waves.

After the first few races nearly all these unusual one-designs changed into their small swing rigs to improve their tacking and manoeuvrability, whilst still producing fantastic speeds off the wind.

Everyone enjoyed this, particularly one quarter of the fleet, who were aged between 4 and 10 years old and yet coped well with a little parental help at times, changing batteries, rigs and mending these simple boats, which are mostly made from recycled materials.

After a group photo, the racing began around the simple windward leeward course parallel to the beach. Initially against the southerly wind and the top of the flood tide, this gave almost perfect conditions, which got even better when the tide turned. This spectacle was greatly enjoyed by many family supporters, club members and villagers, who always love to watch this event.

The morning racing

The first two races were won by Graham Viney followed by Mike Pert and Bernard Kufluk all in big rigs. In Race 3 which was won by the latter, Keith Parrott was the first to appreciate the strength of the increasing wind and changed to his small rig. This immediately allowed him to improve his usual finishing position to gain 5^th place. It gave him an even better performance in Race 4 when he came 2^nd ahead of the overpowered big rig powered boats that were showing their rudders in the air in the strongest gusts. Even more delighted was seven-year-old Oliver Stollery, who won the race after also having his rig changed.

The last race before lunch saw Alan Viney get a win, still in his big rig and absolutely flying downwind. In second place was Rob Vice, who had been struggling all morning to get his boat going during these initial races.

The barbecue The competitors and the new WSC members were treated to a barbecue laid on by Kim Mayhew and time to mend broken gear, change rigs and get ready before the afternoon racing. Graham headed the lunchtime leaderboard with 11 from Mike 12 and Bernard 14 points.

The afternoon racing

Wayfarer sailor, Mike came out strongly to win Race 6 followed by Marblehead sailor, Rob and Keith Parrott. Bernard took Race 7 and then allowed Rob to collect a string of four first places only interrupted by Mike winning Race 10. Mike also won Races 13, 14 and 16, but allowed Bernard to take Race 15. In these last races there were more juniors sailing than grown-ups! The Championship was all down to the last race, as Bernard only had to come 3^rd to beat Mike. However he sailed into a well publicised mooring line that dropped him down to 5^th, whilst Mike finished first ahead of the two boys, Oliver and Arthur.

The prizegiving

WSC Commodore, Bob Whitehouse gave away the Junior Championship prizes first, with Oliver with 61 points taking the junior BOTTLE trophy. Second was Arthur Sturmer with 79 points, his brother William 120 and fourth Nathan Stollery with 180.

Mike took the main BOTTLE trophy with 30 points, with Bernard second with 31 and Graham third with 47. Remarkably, two youngsters took the next two places with Oliver fourth and Arthur fifth.

Mike thanked the race team, which included Sarah Stollery in the rescue boat and scorer Linda

Stollery and particularly Roger for having created the idea, designed and built the boats, organised the event and run the event on the day!

For a film of some of the action see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfV8MYR9NZY

Results:

1^st Mike Pert, WSC 30,

2^nd Bernard Kufluk WSC 31,

3^rd Graham Viney Guildford 47,

4^th Oliver Stollery (J) Guildford 61,

5^th Arthur Sturmer (J) WSC 79,

6^th Rob Vice Clapham 90,

7^th Alan Viney Guildford 101,

8^th Keith Parrott Frensham Pond 102,

9^th William Sturmer (J) WSC 120,

10^th Graham Whitehead Frensham Pond 158,

11^th Steve Hill Frensham Pond 171,

12^th Howard Fraser WSC 171,

13^th Nathan Stollery (J) Guildford 180,

14^th John Fish WSC 192,

15^th Noel Fraser WSC 193,

16^th Matthew Lake WSC 213

By Mark|2017-11-28T17:53:12+00:00November 28th, 2017|Categories: Sailing|Comments Off

News & Reports

Happy New Year to you all from the GMYC, we look forward to seeing you lots in 2018.

The next event at Abbey Meads is the Cobweb on 14th January, see you there.