As the TSC website has a ‘Meet the New Cruiser Captain”, Andy B suggested we should also have a ‘Meet the Not So New Dinghy Captain. As I’m an out-of-towner too, though not quite such a long way, this seemed like a passable idea, so here I am. Originally from the North West, I’ve lived in Chelmsford since 1979,…
As Geoffrey Chaucer put it so succinctly: “Time and tide wait for no man …” So – to help you know what time the tide that doesn’t wait for you is, we have as usual put the 2017 tide tables on the website. Thanks to Ron Laurie for preparing them.
In this year of multiple celebrity deaths, it would be easy to miss that of one from the sailing world, that of Paul Elvstrom, who died on December 7th aged 88. Whilst today we may think of Ben Ainslie as the World’s best, Elvstrom’s record speaks for itself: four consecutive Olympic Golds and eleven World Championships including those in…
Happy Christmas to all club members. If you fancy a sing-along with family and friends this Christmas, why not try the TSC version of the 12 days of Christmas. This went down so well at the club Christmas party that they even demanded an encore – well the bar had been doing well that evening … So, here’s the words:…
The new year sees the start of winter events at the club with two talks. On January 14th Andy Beharrell will give a talk entitled “It’s sailing Jim, but not as we know it …”. This will look at the opportunities for anyone to sail and the boats and adaptations which enable this. He will also cover some of…
Below are some photos from the GP14 Open meeting held on July 23rd. A perfect day’s weather and some great racing.
A relatively small field of 5 local boats and 4 visitors competed for the TSC GP Open. Despite the poor forecast sailing conditions turned out to be pretty much perfect with a steady easterly. Racing was extremely close throughout. James Ward (Papercourt) took all three races, after a navigational error by Richard Ham in the first race. James and Richard…
Tollesbury Sailing Club has been successful in obtaining a grant towards the cost of a new boat store, changing rooms and showers and a ‘wet’ classroom facility for their cadets. The club is setting up a dedicated team to manage this exciting project which they hope to have completed ready for the start of the 2017 sailing season. With…
Previous Tollesbury Cadet Archie Willis (aged 21) is living his dream onboard the racing J-Class yacht ‘Ranger’. It was only a few years ago that Archie Willis was a cadet sailor messing around in the Blackwater in an Optimist and a Topaz and more recently crewing on the Tollesbury racing smack ‘Charlotte Ellen’ so it was really exciting to…
The club racing and all the events won’t happen without people to manage all the racing. Each dinghy race needs people to be race officer and assistant and also crew for the rescue boats. So, for this season, to help the committee manage everything, the club has decided to use a site called DutyMan. This site will: organise the…
UPDATE 30/09/2022 Hi everyone, we have decided that tomorrow’s…
Tollesbury Sailing Club 2021 Smacks and Classics Race,…
