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Late Summer / Autumn 2007
Dear All,
As the sun sets on another sailing season I’m sure that there is a wealth of experiences and tales to be shared from another summer of sailing. I personally have had fog with no wind, fog with wind, rain with no wind, rain with wind, wind with driving rain and gales with rain. The wind was always dead on the nose or dead astern and I could never lay a course unless there wasn’t any wind and was motoring!
Our summer cruise was typical of this. Fourteen days to Sweden and Denmark proved somewhat exceptional in that we had five gales, were storm bound on three occasions for a day each (I can recommend the island of Lasos for it’s free bus service to make for a different day!). In Gothenborg the only thing sailing was the ferries and some of those turned back. And if you want to see half the population of Hirstalls in the Skagerak at dusk than enter in a north westerly 35knots, not to be recommended unless you want more grey hairs!
After bunkering and licking our wounds we set off with SW 4-5 forecast heading for Newcastle (nearly), after clearing Denmark the 4-5 became a gale warning for everywhere except Humber so we headed south only to get a massive wind shift that said a hard and uncomfortable Newcastle with, of course, torrential rain. Stuart took the first half of the night (because I thought that that would be the worst of it!) but alas not so, as daylight broke the boat was flying along crashing and banging through some awful waves. When I eventually poked my head around the hood I could see the main down to 3 reefs flapping around like a flag on just 3 slides (there were only 3 left!) and we’re still doing 8 knots to wind. It had to come down and we got on with the painful business of motoring back to Blighty arriving in Newcastle at 0300.
Enough of my experiences as almost everyone had an eventful year, Simon blew his main out, Mike Billany experienced a sand storm, Cameron’s been having a bad time lately and Kevin, our Vice Commodore, now has two boats and is readying for a trip around the world next year. Derek will have cycled the Norfolk and Suffolk coast by now and Johnny Cash is between boats.
Although the weather hasn’t been ideal we’ve still had some good races with Hydra winning the Easter Race, Blue Flacon the Figure of Eight, two new faces got the silver, an old face got the Cock and an even older face got the Three Creeks in Easter by motorsailing most of the course (again!).
Thanks to the efforts of John Medland and other club members the, Clipper fleet had Hull Sailing Club representatives as ship hosts and crew members were treated to a guided tour of the Old Town hosted by HSC. The Clipper, Hull & Humber is proudly flying the club’s burgee on her way round the world race. (Starts from Liverpool in mid September )
The sailing calendar still has the event of the season in store, nothing less than The Guy Fawkes Regatta! We have managed to acquire the use of the Green Bricks pub on the marina in which to stage the event on Saturday 3rd November. There will be bands, raffle prizes and hopefully a good attendance from all members and friends of the club to share stories of another year on the river and at sea and to enjoy the entertainment. Tickets are being printed as we go to press and will be £ 5 each. So support your club and come down for a good night after the race. Contact Trevor on 07860 789575, Iain on 07734 757089 or Simon on 07712 001767 for tickets. Alternatively visit www.hullsailingclub.co.uk for details. It would be great to finish off an eventful year with a bang!
Yours in Sailing
Trevor Snow
/ Autumn
Late Summer / Autumn 2007
Dear All,
As the sun sets on another sailing season I’m sure that there is a wealth of experiences and tales to be shared from another summer of sailing. I personally have had fog with no wind, fog with wind, rain with no wind, rain with wind, wind with driving rain and gales with rain. The wind was always dead on the nose or dead astern and I could never lay a course unless there wasn’t any wind and was motoring!
Our summer cruise was typical of this. Fourteen days to Sweden and Denmark proved somewhat exceptional in that we had five gales, were storm bound on three occasions for a day each (I can recommend the island of Lasos for it’s free bus service to make for a different day!). In Gothenborg the only thing sailing was the ferries and some of those turned back. And if you want to see half the population of Hirstalls in the Skagerak at dusk than enter in a north westerly 35knots, not to be recommended unless you want more grey hairs!
After bunkering and licking our wounds we set off with SW 4-5 forecast heading for Newcastle (nearly), after clearing Denmark the 4-5 became a gale warning for everywhere except Humber so we headed south only to get a massive wind shift that said a hard and uncomfortable Newcastle with, of course, torrential rain. Stuart took the first half of the night (because I thought that that would be the worst of it!) but alas not so, as daylight broke the boat was flying along crashing and banging through some awful waves. When I eventually poked my head around the hood I could see the main down to 3 reefs flapping around like a flag on just 3 slides (there were only 3 left!) and we’re still doing 8 knots to wind. It had to come down and we got on with the painful business of motoring back to Blighty arriving in Newcastle at 0300.
Enough of my experiences as almost everyone had an eventful year, Simon blew his main out, Mike Billany experienced a sand storm, Cameron’s been having a bad time lately and Kevin, our Vice Commodore, now has two boats and is readying for a trip around the world next year. Derek will have cycled the Norfolk and Suffolk coast by now and Johnny Cash is between boats.
Although the weather hasn’t been ideal we’ve still had some good races with Hydra winning the Easter Race, Blue Flacon the Figure of Eight, two new faces got the silver, an old face got the Cock and an even older face got the Three Creeks in Easter by motorsailing most of the course (again!).
Thanks to the efforts of John Medland and other club members the, Clipper fleet had Hull Sailing Club representatives as ship hosts and crew members were treated to a guided tour of the Old Town hosted by HSC. The Clipper, Hull & Humber is proudly flying the club’s burgee on her way round the world race. (Starts from Liverpool in mid September )
The sailing calendar still has the event of the season in store, nothing less than The Guy Fawkes Regatta! We have managed to acquire the use of the Green Bricks pub on the marina in which to stage the event on Saturday 3rd November. There will be bands, raffle prizes and hopefully a good attendance from all members and friends of the club to share stories of another year on the river and at sea and to enjoy the entertainment. Tickets are being printed as we go to press and will be £ 5 each. So support your club and come down for a good night after the race. Contact Trevor on 07860 789575, Iain on 07734 757089 or Simon on 07712 001767 for tickets. Alternatively visit www.hullsailingclub.co.uk for details. It would be great to finish off an eventful year with a bang!
Yours in Sailing
Trevor Snow
/ Autumn
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