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Members Auction
Sunday 28th February. Following the AGM there will be an auction of abandoned boats. This auction is open to GSC members only. |
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Members & Friends Regatta & Skittles evening
More info! Please let us know if you are coming!
There have been a few changes to the schedule - food wise!
There will be a bit of a "children's " T party in the middle of the afternoon - with sandwiches and cakes, jelly and icecream - to tide us over until the Fish and Chip Van arrives at about 7.30pm.
The skittles will kick off from around 6pm.
The cost, which is just to cover the skittles alley hire, will be £5 for adults, £2.50 for under 16’s, under 5’s will be free. Supper will be extra.
Please bring your own booze. Feel free to bring your friends. (Let us know if you are coming and how many!)
The regatta starts at 1pm (be there from 12) - afternoon T will be available mid afternoon and will be followed by a Fish & Chip supper at approximately 7.30pm. |
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Members & Friends Regatta followed by Skittles evening
The annual members regatta for children of all ages! (and suitably daft adults - which means most of you!)
For newcomers to the club, the regatta is an annual event where we just mess about on the water. There will be four or five different competitions for example tag with boats, pig rescue (use your imagination), sponge balls and maybe a rowing race. The children (and some irresponsible adults) usually end up getting a bit wet.
Following the watery stuff we’ll be having a fish and chip supper which will be at about 6pm and then we’ve hired a skittle alley so the competitiveness can continue indoors. We expect to finish at about 10pm.
The cost, which is just to cover the skittles alley hire, will be £5 for adults, £2.50 for under 16’s, under 5’s will be free. Supper will be extra.
Please bring your own booze. Feel free to bring your friends. (Let us know if you are coming and how many!)
The regatta starts at 1pm (be there from 12) and will be followed by a Fish & Chip supper at approximately 6pm. |
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Calling all Streakers & Lasers
Broxbourne Sailing Club (Essex) are
holding a Streaker & Laser Open Meeting on Saturday 14th September - see the poster in the club house or contact Gill for more details. |
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Open Day - Thank You!
A big thank you to all those who turned out to help on the Open Day - the rerun of the Open day and for the subsequent training days. We couldn't do it without you! |
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Membership renewal 2009
It was agreed at the AGM not to increase the fees in 2009. If you have not received your membership renewal form please contact Gill ASAP. Remember - if you pay up before 1st April you are rewarded with a £10 discount off your Full membership. |
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Sam would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! |
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Congratulations - to Hugh & Angela
Our warmest congratulations and best wishes go to Hugh and Angela on the safe arrival of their baby boy on 8th December - weighing in at 10lb 1oz . Both Angela and the baby are fine and we look forward to meeting baby Dyer sometime soon!
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Thank you!
Dear Doctor L,
A big thank you from the Youth section for the instruction you provided on Sunday.
We can get our young people up to RYA level 4 Youth sailing but the real work begins when they start racing on a Sunday.
Your starting line instruction paid dividends as in the First race we got a first with Sam Frost-Huskinson and a second with Amy Lord, this was Amys first ever race and to beat the experienced Colin was no mean feat. In the other races we had two further positions with Lewis Brown gaining fourth both times.
The race instruction is obviously paying off and it is great to see the Youth competitors making a challenge to the Seniors!
We know that the racing etiquette needs to get better from the youth section and I know that with your help this will get better. I would like to thank the Seniors for their patience with the Youth team.
I cannot wait until next year with the rest of the youth coming through albeit we will need to get some more boats before this happens!
Thanks again for your invaluable help and assistance.
Regards,
Steven Brown
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50th Bash - A right good do!
What a great day we had - some good sailing with John & Lyndon evens on the honours! Will & Bedlam were as ever superb entertainment. A few thanks are in order: thanks to Jayne for making the place look so lovely and for running the races and to Martin for his fairy light and bunting expertise. To Colin, Lyndon & Stuart for catering equipment & to Gill & Mike for the food. To the Houlahans for crumble and a rather excellent banoffee pie and Sheila for lovely trifle! To Keith & Ron for representing our beginnings and for blowing out the candles. Thanks to washer and clearer uppers and to everyone for turning up! Happy Birthday Greensforge! Oh and thanks to Martin for filling, what seems like, my entire house with flowers! AND to Sam's folks for bringing proper yummy samosas from Wolves and for all their help on the day! |
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RYA Training Successes - Well done everyone!!!
Congratulations to members of the youth section who underwent training at Chasewater last weekend.
Sam Frost Huskisson and Lewis Brown passed their level 4
Calum Hook, Tom Eaton, Beckie Yarnold, Rory Fulton & Amy Lloyd passed level 3
Patrick Sterling and slight less junior Steve Brown and Peter Jones passed their Seamanship Dinghy Skills and Jan Sterling got her Inshore Safety Boat.
We look forward to some good competition from the juniors in our Sunday racing - maybe they could teach the old dogs a few new tricks!
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GSC Youth do brilliantly at Midland Scout Regatta
Congratulations to all those who took part - what excellent results! Especially since most are competing with much older youngsters and have been sailing for a relatively short length of time.
Under 18s single
Sam Frost- Huskisson got a First place.
Under 18s two man
Lewis Brown and Sam Frost Huskisson came Third
Under 14 single
Tom Eaton came Third
Under14
Tom Eaton and Becky Yarnold got a Fourth
Under 12
Jess and Shannon came Fifth
There were also good results in the Kayaking, Rowing and Pulling.
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5Oth Anniversary Celebration
Saturday October 18th 2008
Sailing, Supper and Singing. We shall be having an afternoon sail (from 1pm) followed by Supper and no GSC celebration would be complete without fantastic entertainment from Will Morgan and Bedlam! If you don't fancy the Sail don't panic - you will be very welcome at the evening bash! Please contact Martin for more details and to give us an idea of how many to cater for! Tickets £5 under 16's £3.
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Family Regatta - 30th August 2008
Loads of fun was had in near perfect messing about in boats conditions - many thanks to all the helpers. |
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Work Party CANCELLED - Saturday 6th September
Sorry folks - another dreadful forcast - so we're having to postpone once again.
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Greensforge Bala Plate
Having braved another damp night of camping, the weather improved and we had a great steady sail on the Sunday. Four boats competed for the Greensforge Bala Pursuit race on a triangular course for just under 2 hours - Mike Reynolds & Gill Cooper in the GP14 held the lead for a number of laps until over taken by Lyndon Beasley and novice fireball crew Hugh Dyer about 20 minutes before the end. A nice steady breeze made for a thoroughly enjoyable sail. The final results were:
1. Lyndon Beasley & Hugh Dyer (Fireball)
2. Mike Reynolds & Gill Cooper (GP 14)
3. Ian Cooper & Pete Fellows (Fireball)
4. Peter Baker & Jayne Lord (GP14)
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Greensforge at Bala - we won the team prize!
We had a great turn out for the Bala Long Distance Race. Although the wind was extremely challenging- basically all over the place - and there was a lot of swimming, a number of our boats managed to finish with Hugh and Mike getting a very respectable 4th in the slow handicap fleet and Lyndon & Tim an 8th in the fast handicap.
Greensforge won the team prize! What a fantastic effort - and a big thank you to Bala Sailing Club for hosting such a popular and enjoyable event.
The individual results for GSC were as follows:
Fast Handicap
8th - Lyndon Beasley & Tim Dicker (Fireball)
18th - John Wagstaff (Blaze)
24th - Ian Cooper & Pete Fellows (Fireball)
Slow Handicap
4th - Mike Reynolds & Hugh Dyer
(GP14)
DNF -David & Julie Morrice (YW Dayboat)
DNF - Peter Baker & Jayne Lord (GP14)
DNF - Neil Benton & Gill Cooper (Enterprise)
Peter & Neil both retired - however the Morrices did complete the course and would have finished if the Long distance mark hadn't been removed before they got there - top marks for perseverance! |
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More youngsters to join us!
A big warm welcome to Keith and the 1st Blackfords Sea Scout Group who are joining the youth arm of GSC. We look forward to welcoming them on the water. |
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Sea Scouts - are getting qualified
The Wheaton Aston Sea Scouts have been busy gaining RYA qualifications. Well done to youngsters Rory & Yuvraj for passing their level 2 and to Shannon and Jessica for getting their level 1. Good luck to the other 4 youngsters currently doing their level 2 and to Alison and Tim (Sea Explorer
leaders) also doing level 2. Let's not forget the old guys! Gary Audis Sea Scout Leader and Steven Brown Group Sea Scout Leader got their safety Boat Certificates two weeks ago.
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Open Day 2008
What a great day we had! The weather was just perfect and our visitors got a good sail and a chance to meet us and find out what we're all about. There are too many people to thank individually - so a big joint thank you to all the helpers and helms - the galley and BBQ crew (Mike - you have a new vocation!), the rescue team and the scouts. We are still waiting for course dates and will be in touch with those who were interested as soon as we have confirmation. In the mean time if you'd like to come back and see us one Sunday - get in touch with Gill and she'll organise for someone to look after you.
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Pico Challenge Colwyn Bay
Two youngsters from Greensforge entered as crew and helm in the Pico Challenge at Colwyn Bay North Wales. This was a national competition and saw some of the the countries top youth sailors in action. Our two lads Lewis Brown and Sam Frost – Huskinson came a respectable 8th out of 16 Boats. This was their first time on the Sea and they were on the water all day Saturday and Sunday with just a lunch break. What a fantastic effort and a good start to the youth sailing at GSC. Well done guys!
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Ringing the Bells for Brian - 11th May 2008
Sunday the 11th May was spent remembering our dear friend Brain Spruce with a special day of racing in his memory and the inauguration of the Brian Spruce trophy and a buffet. It was a lovely day with some good sailing and we were pleased to welcome many of Brian's friends to the club. The trophy was won by Lyndon Beasley - well done Lyndon!
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Team Prizes at Bala SC
Bala are running Team prizes at their Open events - perhaps we could raise a team!
See the details here
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Streaker Open Meeting 2008
A few notes of thanks - to the people who made our 2008 Streaker Open such a successful and enjoyable day. Thanks to the Wheaton Aston Scouts for putting up the signs and taking them down again! - for running reception and sorting out those important first brew orders of the day. To Hugh and Mike for setting an excellent course and being OOD. To Lyndon and Ian for manning the rescue boat. Ian also managed to get the race report to Yachts and Yachting before some of the competitors had made it home! Thanks also to the Galley crew - Jayne, Gillie & Gill and to Lyndon and Tim for supplying the back up cooking equipment! (you don't want to know!) And last of all thanks to all those lovely Streaker sailors - who travelled in some cases a considerable distance and make it such a pleasure to host this event. THANK YOU
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Warm welcome to Wheaton Aston Scouts!
Greensforge offers a warm to welcome Wheaton Aston Scout group. We are pleased to extend our relationship with the sea scouts and to help get more youngsters on the water. Have a look at their website |
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New feature! Ask the boat doctor!
Got a technical question? Our resident boat doctor is here to help! |
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New Topper Topaz Dinghys - thanks to the Local Network Fund.
Greensforge is very grateful to the Local Network Fund for its generous grant which enabled us to purchase 3 Topper Topaz dinghies. The new boats are ideal for our younger members and our affiliated scout groups and are perfect for adult beginners too! Click here to read the press release which gives more details.
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Alison & Colin got Married on the Isle of Wight!
Thanks to everyone for all their kind wishes, Love Alison & Colin |
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Bala Long Distance Race
Greensforge fielded a good ( if rather last minute) turnout for the Bala Long distance race on Saturday 8th July. This was mostly to do with the weather and the height of the lake. It was a great sail and although we didn't win any trophies this year an excellent time was had by all - I'm not sure Jame's knees will agree! Click here to see the pictures on the Bala Sailing Club website - can you spot yourself?
GSC placings
Fast Handicap
L Beasley & T Dicker (Fireball) 8th
J Marson (Laser Rooster) 17th
Slow Handicap
M Reynolds & H Dyer (GP14) 6th
P Baker & M Greenland (ENT) 9th
M Cowell & W Cowell (GP14) 10th
N Benton & G Cooper (GP14) - broke their centreboard! |
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Bala Trophy snatched from grasp of GSC Commodore
The GSC Bala race was held in near perfect conditions on Sunday 9th July. Martin & Will Cowell had a strong lead for the whole race showing great spinnaker proficiency until the very last lap when Hugh & Angela Dyer pulled off an amazing come back from 2nd place for a nail biting finish.
The final result was...
1. Hugh & Angela Dyer (GP14)
2. Martin & Will Cowell (GP14)
3. P Baker & G Cooper (Enterprise)
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Congratulations to Cathy and Neil Archer
on the safe arrival of their son Alastair on 12th June 2007. |
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A bit of your time...
If you sail a dual handed boat - or are happy to sail the Club Ent and could spare a bit of time on a Sunday to give a new member some time on the water then please contact Martin
Posted by Gill 16th April 07 |
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37th Wolverhampton Sea Scouts
The scouts will be sailing on a regular basis on Saturdays and we hope that the scout leaders will come and join us on Sundays to gain a bit of racing experience. Greensforge is pleased to welcome Neal Quinton on to the committee to represent the Sea Scouts
Posted 2nd March 2007. |
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Open Day -Fantastic Success - Saturday 9th June 2007 - Well done everyone!
Pete Fellows filmed some of the grand event - click here to see it!
What a glorious day we had - and a fantastic turnout. We had record numbers of visitors who enjoyed a great day messing about in boats and finding out about the club. Many many thanks to everyone who helped out on the day and also beforehand with advertising etc.
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