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NEWSLETTER – FEBRUARY 2010
Winter Sunday lunches
Once again our Sunday Lunches have proved to be highly popular. We have just two left. To beat the queues and allow time to have a walk afterwards we decided to book all our lunches this winter for 1200 for 1230hrs. It is important that we are ready to eat by 1230 as many venues have more than one sitting. So please arrive early. Following the success of last year we will have a different SOA host each month. Please phone that person at least 7 days in advance to book a place. Don’t leave it to the last moment otherwise you may be disappointed
28th Feb.....Malters Arm Chapel Amble PL27 6EW..... Mark Osborn (245)………………01326 270528
28th Mar.....The Rosevine near Portscatho TR2 5EW....Derek Holman (842)…………….01326 270571
2010 Programme
Please pin up a copy of our programme in a prominent position so that you don’t miss anything. The main dates for your diary are
26th June / 3rd July….. SOA Falmouth Fun Week (with the Peter Keeling Memorial Race on the final day 3rd July).
7th / 14th August……Falmouth Week (Seven days of racing) This year we will be holding our dinner on the 7th and this will be an opportunity to welcome our visitors who we hope will be joining us again this year.
To keep updated with the week visit http://www.falmouthweek.co.uk/ Falmouth is again hosting the Pendennis Cup and it will be a great opportunity to see the fantastic superyachts.
Start the season on 1st May
Whether you have got your boat on the water or not, all owners, their families and friends are invited to an SOA “MEET OTHER OWNERS” DIY BBQ at Restronguet Sailing Club at 1200hrs Saturday 1st May. We do so hope that all owners will make a big effort to attend this event. With 30 Shrimper based at or around Mylor, how many owners have you met. There are probably another 15-20 Shrimpers at St Just. Again we have not met many of these people or certainly not for some time. Please make an effort to come! It is so easy to raft up on Mylor Yacht Harbour’s pontoons if you don’t want to anchor off. We have specially chosen a Bank Holiday Weekend as many of our up-country owners will be down in Cornwall at that time. If your boat is not in the water, I am sure you will need a break from the antifouling, so jump in the car and come and join us. For those of you who have never been to one of our DIY BBQ’s please bring all your food plus a disposable BBQ. These fit in the rungs of a ladder so there will be no bending! Julian Wolfram our Mylor SOA SWF representative (262) will be on hand to give you any advice. Bar open and easy parking at Windsports, Church House Farm behind Restronguet S.C.
All the SOA Events on our programme are highlighted in yellow. These include a lunch at Roundwood Quay (NT), a sail across to Helford, Falmouth Fun Week (a must seven days of fun and games!), a BBQ in St Just Pool, a cream tea at Tolverne, a lunch in Pill Creek, and a creek crawl up to Trethem. All these events are very relaxed and the eating and drinking at halftime is often the reason owners attend, ideal for non racers.
For those keen on racing you are spoilt for choice. We are particularly keen on encourage more starters to the Mylor racing on Friday nights. This racing is also ideally located for owners with their boats at St Just as all starts are now started from a Committee boat.
St Mawes has racing Thursday evenings and Sunday mornings. Flushing has afternoon racing on Saturdays and evening racing on Tuesdays.
Village Regattas…… I would ask every racer to support these events. Many of them have been running for over 100 years and if we don’t turn out in numbers we are likely to lose our class. St Mawes also have a couple of special events shown in pink.
DISCLAIMERS……Each year your SOA SWF Committee does a Risk Assessment and each year we ask every owner to sign a Disclaimer. This not only gives you a reminder of the recommended safety equipment, but also reminds you to check your insurance. At the bottom of the form there is a list of events. Please tick the ones that most interest you. This information is invaluable when planning our annual programme. The number of forms being returned has dropped in recent years. Why is this, we would ask all owners to return one, regardless of the number of events you are likely to attend. Feel free to add any comments! We must have received your form before you attend any of our SOA events. Why not do it now and then that is done for the year.
WEBSITE…… When did you last visit the SOA Website. We are now able to update our own pages for Falmouth http://www.shrimperowners.org/page/12 All our mailings to members will be published on the website as well. From the home page, click areas, then slide the cursor across to Falmouth and then across again and you will find the 2010 programme for instance, also this newsletter and much more. We thank Derek Holman for all his work updating our pages.
Stop Press….. By the time you read this a group of St Mawes owners will have attended the local St Mawes Panto. Supper was served at the club beforehand. It is not all about sailing, if you have any other idea let us known.
Mark Osborn ….. marko@miltonminor.wanadoo.co.uk