Duty calls …

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…

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Flag of the week – Week 5

First substitute If the Race Officer can’t identity all of the boats On the Course Side of the starting line before the gun, they can issue a general recall. The signal is the First substitute. Return to starting area and prepare for a new start. It is called the first substitute as it is one of a series of…

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Laser Open 2015

September 27th saw the club hosting its second Laser Open. The weather gods smiled on us and a building breeze through the morning saw some excellent racing. The first race saw a close battle at the front with Rick Paxman finishing just ahead of Scott Edwards and Rob Laurie. With the tide still flooding strongly and a big shift…

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Flag of the week – Week 1

Over the next few weeks in Signals and on the website, we will be doing a ‘Flag of the week’. The first one is a cheat really, as there’s more than one. The Warning flag, which is the first flag to go up for a race start sequence, at 5 minutes. For handicap racing, we use Pennant No 1…

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The club ‘gooseberry’

The 4th July may have been American independence day, but much more significantly it was the date for the annual Gooseberry Pie competition at the club. The competition was organised for this year to tie in with a visit from Wivenhoe SC who came bearing gifts in the form of gooseberry pies. Under the auspices of the Sailing Club the…

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