Bartley Sailing Club Blog

The Finn Inland Championships took place at the weekend at Oxford S.C. with Jeremy Shinton representing the club in his first outing to a Finn event. The wind was howling with 3 races per day to challenge the sailors ability and stamina. Jeremy managed to get to the windward mark in the top group in most of the races showing he has competitive upwind speed only to find that the downwind pumping technique allowed in the class required some work and he lost time to the competition on this part of the course.

Overall the event was a great entry into the Finn class racing with Jeremy posting a creditable 16th out of 32 in a competitive fleet.

The only thing that stands between Jeremy and Giles Scott now is a good downwind pumping technique, now who at the club could teach him that....? ;)

Bartley Lasers continued their Midland traveller circuit success with a 1st (John) and 2nd (Simon) place at Trimpley SC at the weekend to follow on from a win at Trent Valley the week before. John Ling now leads the series with only Shustoke, Draycote, Staunton Harold, and the series finale at Bartley left to go. It would be great to see our full laser fleet out on the water for our Open on 14th October so if you own or have access to a laser make sure you put the date in your diary.

(Photo @ Trent Valley SC Courtesy of Jennifer Foort)

26 people sailed in the bottle race on our last Tuesday eveing of the series and of the year with 41 at the prize giving and curry.

Prizes of wine, beer, tape measures, shower gel, fanta, Haribos, and much more were distributed to the worthy winners:

Dave brand over 60 prize

Ian capener the solo scratch

Roger Hopper solo personal handicap

Tom Williams laser personal handicap

Laser scratch John ling

Full results will be posted on the results section of the website shortly.

Thanks to all attendees for making this one of the best years ever. Thanks to John and David for the orgainisation and prizes. Thanks to Dee and the Galley team for feeding us so well and keeping the drink flowing.

Great to see the club house full of happy sailors!

Bartley S.C. looks forward to welcoming all of our members to the Summer ‘End of Series Regatta’ and Summer Series Prize Giving

Schedule for the day:

9.30  K20 Junior Club ‘Mini Regatta’

10.00  Working Party – Top end of Boat Park

12.00  Mini Regatta Prize giving & RYA Certificate presentation for all K2O members. Parents - don't forget your cameras!

13.00  End of Series Regatta (both races to count)

  - Pursuit Race 1 @ 13.00

  - Pursuit Race 2 @ 15.00

  - Novice / Improvers challenge Shield TBC

17.00 (ish)  Curry, Raffle and Prize Giving, followed by EGM.

*** The raffle will be for a BRAND NEW Gill bouyancy aid and Gill Gillet *** (All proceeds to the club)

Hope to see you on the day!

Hot roast pork on crusty bread with stuffing and gravy yum.

Homemade soup.

All day Breakfast available from 9am till 3pm.

cold sandwiches also available.

Calling all RS400 sailors.... it's time to put your club rash vest on, as Bartley SC is the next stop on the Southern Tour.

Our event will be on Sunday 9th September, with registration opening at 9.30am.

Do come along and support your club, and hopefully pit your wits against other sailors from the Southern circuit....who knows, a little local knowledge might help propel you up the fleet!

A Laser kicking strap was found in the boat park last night. I have placed it on the printer behind the bar for collection if it is yours.

Please be aware that a lorry will be on site at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning to remove the old pontoon sections from the top of the boat park. I have cleared an access area so that the sections can be lifted by crane from their current location so please leave this area clear for the next couple of days. When the sections have been removed I will return boats / hulls etc... to their previous locations.

If you are ariving on site on Saturday morning please be patient while the removal activity takes place.

Thanks.

Tuesday 28th evening sailing!

Chicken curry with rice and a drink £7.50 

* drink offer is only pint of larger, cider, medium soft drink 

Which means its the last Tuesday evening series race this week with just the bottle race next Tuesday evening, and the last Wednesday coaching session tomorrow. We hope you have enjoyed the evening sessions and look forward to seeing many of you join the sailing at the weekends and on Wednesday afternoons throughout Autumn and Winter.