HIGH SEAS SAILING CLUB
IS PROUD TO PRESENT

 The Michael Doctors Memorial Lecture

entitled

“Where do you think you are?  The Satellite revolution:-
Dream or Nightmare!”

featuring
the World Renowned Mariner

 TOM CUNLIFFE

TUESDAY 3rd FEBRUARY 2009

 7.30 pm.

 Your guests are welcome, but we must have names in advance
£12.50 members; £13.50 non-members including refreshments.
To reserve your places and to find out details of the venue please e-mail Sandy
More info click here

Want to get the extra knot out of your sails, to know how to get all the telltales flying at once or when to move the sheet-car forward? What’s the mainsheet traveller for? What’s weather-helm? What’s sail twist?

The workshop will be suitable as an introduction for novices or as a refresher for those with more experience. It will start with the basics and, using simple models and illustrations, will move on to explain the discussion topics above.

Tue 20 January
Bernays Hall, Stanmore 19:30
Light Refreshments will be provided
£5 members £6 non-members

Please contact Phil Sugarman to reserve your place.

The highest Spring tide for 4 months made the timing a little tricky and it wasn’t helped by early morning fog that barely revealed the Isle of Wight from Calshot.

But the Skipper and crew of Camena had been up before the chilly dawn to travel down, some on motorbike, from London. Nothing would stand between them and their goal.

On arrival at Cowes Camena joined Wild Spirit that had sailed up from Lymington the day before. After the traditional mulled wine and mince pies it was already time to go to beat the tide.

Both boats headed off to their own berths. Channukah Sail 2008 - Mission accomplished!

(Thanks to Stephen Stern for the photos)

The AGM and Laying Up dinner this year crept up on us silently and suddenly I realised that it has been two years since my appointment as your commodore. I also reflected that much has changed since I joined the club, not only in my life but also for many members and for many reasons.

During the AGM that always precedes the Laying Up diner, tribute was paid to Michael Doctors, founder member and former commodore who passed away at the beginning of the year. Read the rest…

Crewman Of The Year
Nigel Reese

Crewwoman Of The Year
Diana Abramova

Yachtsperson Of The Year
Gill Woodbridge

Round The Island Cup
Philip Sugarmanand Nanae Gendre

Skipper Of The Year
Adair Butchins

Cruising Cup
Bryan Sheinman

Commodore’s Trophy
Maureen Gorb

Most Promising Newcomer
Martin Sargeant

The background:   (From the Telegraph..)

LIFEBOAT crews fear being scuppered by crippling new charges for using their radios from Ofcom, the communications regulator. The RNLI could see the price of using its VHF emergency frequencies rise to £250,000 under plans to charge the full commercial rate. Read the rest…

In summary, a great cruise of about 100 miles total starting in Falmouth in Cornwall, stopping off at Helford River, Fowey, and Mevagissey, in glorious suntan lotion weather throughout – we did not hit anything, nothing hit us, we did not murder each other on the boat, and many thanks to Victor for organising and skippering.

This was the delayed departure of the Easter cruise, the sort of thing you read about on the train destination boards when the time now is quite clearly different from what the destination board shows.  At least we had an explanation – Force 8 at Easter is not conducive to good sailing, manic yes, good no.  So this was the Easter cruise.  What sort of sailing did we have?  Manic at times, and that was just the crew!

Read the rest…

Fishy Business!
From a very early age my dad quite regularly used to take me out on fishing trips off the South Coast.  I can vividly remember my excitement heightened by the earthy pungent aroma of the clinker built fishing boats; they smelt like a sort of farmyard of the sea, a heady odour from decades of catches in contact with the tar and linseed oil ingrained timbers of the old boats with a background tang of rusty corroded diesels and bilges awash with old black engine oil and sea water.  I never remember coming back from one of those trips without a sack full of fish and a beaming face.  It’s probably those fond memories of times with my Dad that sometimes encourages me to pull out a line when I am sailing.  So, having heard of a few disparaging rumours going around the club about my purported lack of success in fishing attempts, I wanted to set the record straight.  Here, therefore, are three accounts of fishing ‘successes’ while sailing with HSSC friends. Read the rest…

It looked as if the July 2008 event would be no less damp and slightly inclement than the 2007 version of the same name, however, surprisingly to some, if not to the forecasters, the afternoon turned bright and intermittently sunny.

  Read the rest…

Log Cabin,
Trencrom,
Hayle,
Cornwall,
TR27 6NP
19th August 2008
Rosail41@msn.com

Dear All,

Determination comes in a lot of different forms, every individual reacts to both strain and pressure in different ways. Going into Europe this year I knew that I had not qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games, also knowing that I was far from my physical peak. These were things I could not change, I had to accept my disadvantage against my team mates and competitors who had been training for years without setbacks. My goal was to work on my mental game and accept my physical disadvantage. Read the rest…