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Spring mailing 2019 - please go to the Members' Area to download this document
Birds of Chichester Harbour - Saturday 23 March, 6.30pm
Robin Pascal, sailor and wildlife photographer, would like to share his passion for the birds of Chichester Harbour. Robin has sailed and explored Chichester Harbour for over 50 years and has been a member of ISC for 30, where he can still be found sailing his International 14. As well as sailing, his other passion is wildlife photography, a skill which he developed whilst travelling and working on scientific research ships across the globe. These days, Robin’s focus is mainly on Chichester Harbour where he volunteers for the Harbour Conservancy leading birding tours on the Solar Boat.
The talk starts at 6.30pm followed by a two course supper - £16.50 per person. Book through the Office on 01243 512400.
ISC Support Boat Day – Sunday 24 March, 9.30am
There are still a few spaces left. This in-house training is designed to help and refine powerboat drivers’ rescuing skills. The format of the day will be 90% practical, 10% theory, with the aim to practice rescues as much as possible.
What will it cover?
Boat handling (pontoon leaving and returning), RIB placement (racing and training), casualty recovery (drift down/head up methods), righting capsized and totally inverted dinghies, recovery of boats stuck on the mud and keelboat recovery (theory only).
Price £15. Book online via this link.
If you can’t make this date, we are running another Support Boat Day on Sunday 12 May – price £15 (Members only).
We are also running RYA Powerboat Level 2 courses on 5 and 6 May, and 15 and 16 June. Price £200 (Members); £225 (Non-Members)
RYA First Aid Course – Saturday 23 March, 9.30am
There are still a couple of spaces remaining on this one-day course, which covers all the usual first aid subjects, but from a boating perspective. It is aimed at anyone who goes afloat, whether on inland waters, rivers, estuaries or on cross channel passages. This is the recommended course for anyone looking to gain an RYA Instructor Qualification or help out with any ISC event. Price is £75 for Members or £95 for Non-Members. Book online via this link. Price includes book and certificate.
If you can’t make this date, we have more RYA First Aid courses running on 18 May and 1 June.
INVITATIONS - Are you interested?
The RCS has received two invites from the RTYC for ISC members to get involved with two upcoming events. If you are interested please contact the RCS via the sailing manager at sailing@itchenorsailingclub.co.uk Some funding support is available for teams representing ISC.
Firstly the British Isles Keelboat Team Racing League ('BIKTRL'). During 2018, events were hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron and Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Clubs. Sadly, the final event had to be cancelled due to high winds.
In 2019 four events are planned. The ones in our part of the world are 18-19 May at the RYS in J/70s and 6-7 July at the Royal Southern Yacht Club in RS21s at Hamble.
They also send.
On behalf of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, I am honoured to invite the female members of your Club to compete in the inaugural 2019 Women’s J70 Open Championship. Races will be held in Cowes, Isle of Wight, all day on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th October.
The Championship is open to female professional and amateur sailors alike with up to 4 women per boat. The Championship format is fleet racing with spinnakers being used, weather permitting.
Ready2Race round up
Some of the attendees at Ready2Race with Sophie Ainsworth who delivered an excellent keynote talk to wrap up the proceedings on Sunday.
There have been changes in our programme and race management procedures for the coming year so we encourage all those who couldn't make it to the Ready2Race to check the SI changes carefully before racing and for Race Officers to read the revised Guidance Notes before their day.
Club member Sophie is looking for help with funding the three 49er FXs she and Sophie Weguelin need for their campaign for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. She has a crowd funding site at https://makeachamp.com/sailingsophies/32493 and I encourage us all to make a contribution large or small. Every little helps on a crowd funding site.
Eleanor Keers and Fay Chatterton win the 420 Inlands at Rutland
Many congratulations to Eleanor Keers and Fay Chatterton on winning the Int 420 Inlands at Rutland. You can link to the report and results here.
Image courtesy Yachts and Yachting and Richard Sturt
Rowing Regatta, 2nd March 2019
We've got a great gallery of images kindly taken by Mary Pudney from this event - please click here to see them.
REPORT: The sun shone and the boats and people kept arriving for the first Itchenor Rowing Rally on Saturday 2nd March. They rowed from Eastney, Langstone, Emsworth, Bosham and Westlands and drove from the Hamble and Portsmouth to assemble a flotilla of different styles of rowing boat.
The aim of the day was to get as many people rowing in as many different types of boats as possible.
By midday Itchenor Sailing Club had a wide array of boats including a St Ayles Skiff, a Cornish Pilot Gig, Solent Galleys, a Celtic Longboat, Burseldon Gigs, a Claydon, an Epona, a moving seat quad scull, a moving seat coxed 4, a single scull and a Langstone 4.
Over eighty people turned up from the local area to try out all the boats in the Itchenor Reach creating quite a spectacle.
Particularly popular were the Celtic Longboat, Solent Galleys, Bursledon Gigs and the quad sculling boat, which had queues all afternoon.
The day was followed by an evening talk in the Club House by Steve Woods of Langstone Cutters on how to win the annual Great River Race on the Thames.
The Rally was scheduled to continue through Sunday but sadly activities were cancelled due to Storm Freya.
Winter Warmer - Merlin Rocket and RS200 - REPORT
Please click here to read the report from this event
Swallowers also do it standing up! 25 Swallow sailors managed to surface early on Sunday 13th January (after a mega Annual Dinner at ISC for 60 the previous evening) to undertake a 5.5 mile Downland hike from Walderton - which started and finished at the Barley Mow where after another excellent meal we played in the pub's skittle alley
Evolution of the International 14
This is a link to a video which is a Documentary – The International 14 has spawned many innovations within sailing that are now common use by numerous other classes. Andy Bates takes you through the ‘evolution’ including interviews with a number of skiff legends. Video Producer: VR Sport Media
Posted 7th January 2019
Itchenor members start the year in “style” with South Downs nurdling.
Posted 14th December 2018
Many congratulations to Maria Stanley, the first female helm to win an adult RS Championship, on being voted Amateur Sailor of the Year at the British Yachting Awards 2018.
Posted 16th November 2018
Many congratulations to Maria Stanley and Rob Henderson
Yet another massive RS200 season has been brought to a close at the RS End of Seasons Regatta at Rutland. With the 2018 National Tour won by Maria Stanley and Rob Henderson, taking the double with their Nationals win, and Maria completing the treble crown with the Inlands too - massive congratulations!! Link to full Y&Y article here
Posted 28th October 2018
Amateur Sailor of the Year
Congratulations to Maria Stanley on being one of the nominations for Amateur Sailor of the Year. You can see this nomination, and indeed all nomiations, and vote, in all categories by clicking here.
RS200 sailor Maria Stanley became the first female helm to win an adult fleet at a UK RS national championship since the RS classes were first established 25 years ago. Together with crew Rob Henderson, she showed a strong pedigree with an excellent string of results throughout the week-long championship, which was part of the RS Games held at Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The RS200 fleet saw the biggest adult fleet, with 116 boats contesting the title.
It rounded off a highly successful 12 months for the duo, who also won the inland championships (in deep snow!)
RS2000 Open meeting - Results
You can see the results from our recent Open Meeting here
You can see the report here
Posted 25th August 2018
Maria Stanley and Rob Henderson are RS200 UK National Champions
Maria Stanley and Rob Henderson win the RS200 UK Nationals at the RS Games at the WPNSA © Alex & David Irwin / www.sportography.tv
Congratulations to Itchenor members, Maria Stanley and Rob Henderson for winning the RS200 National Championships. The talented duo secured the title after a ten race series in Weymouth Bay with another Itchenor pair, Arthur Henderson and Sophie Heritage, in third place.
Maria is not only the first Lady helm to win the RS200 Nationals but the first Lady Helm to win any UK RS Nationals in any of the adult classes in the 25 year history of RS.
On top of this, Itchenor successfully retained the team trophy for the second year in a row, ultimately making Itchenor the top club for 2018.
Congratulations all round!
Posted 26th July 2018
Congratulations to Seaview Yacht Club on their 125th Anniversary being celebrated this weekend.
ISC member Ashley Hatton sailed over to wish them well and can be seen in photo raising the ISC club flag on dressed XOD Drover which was warmly welcomed.
Posted 19th July 2018
Itchenor takes second place in Commodore's Invitational Regatta at RYS
Following Itchenor’s invite from the Royal Yacht Squadron, Andy Fitzgerald volunteered to find a crew, not knowing what he had let himself in for. The inaugural regatta was 4 crew fleet racing with the Royal Yacht Squadron’s own fleet of J70s. The crew competing for Itchenor comprised Andy FitzGerald, Jonathan Pudney, James Hartley and Fred Hayes.
It was a six-race regatta with one discard over the two days characterised by light winds. Race one was all about learning, having learnt that they were set up wrong, the squad took a slow walk to the back of the fleet with a seventh. However, things picked up in race two with a good second, and both races showed the importance of a good start as the boat that won the start won both races.
The race team then called a passage race back to the club as a new westerly wind arrived circa 15 knots. A strong east going tide saw a strung out start, but despite a shabby start by the first mark Itchenor were up to second and hunting the leader down. Much tacking later, a full beaching on the sandbank and back to first again, they succumbed to going around the last mark the wrong way around, forcing them to double back to take second.
The following day there was a light easterly breeze that was filling. Sharpened by yesterday’s experience Andy’s crew won the start and won the first race. It was now a proper contest between Itchenor, Aldebrough Yacht Club and Royal Torbay Yacht Club who had won the first two days’ races.
With a safe start, race two resulted in a second to the Squadron commodore. Race three started with a contested Port end with the Navy. Itchenor were ahead again at the first mark but by now the breeze was failing and sailing away from the others didn’t happen as the tide set strongly against the windward leg. The race restarted at the leeward mark and the wind played games as the crew played the right hand side, losing three boats to finish fourth. Itchenor was now one point behind RTYC.
The last race was started in a new southerly breeze and despite a safe middle of the line start ISC were called over, dipping the line they went left in almost drifting conditions with big wind changes. Having been directed to the easterly zephyer, they picked up the wind first to round first. Shorten course was sounded and a spinnaker reach to the finish, ISC won the race and regatta or so they thought, but alas the boat behind came up on a new wind to overtake the crew, two boats short of the line and as they did, so the race team abandoned the race, resulting in a second overall to RTYC
Huge thanks to the Squadron for a fun regatta. The J70 was great fun, easy to sail and light on the tiller; the boats seemed well matched with nice sails.
Results:
1. Royal Torbay YC
2. Itchenor SC
3. Aldeburgh YC
Posted 17th July 2018
Rowing
Friday evening took us to Pilsey Island to inspect the obstuctions at low water and the oysters. Please join in - we now have two boats and need more coxes and crews! Contact the office for details.
National Swallow National Championships 2018
The cream rises to the top
The 70th anniversary event of the Swallow’s debut at the 1948 Olympics in Torbay was hosted by Itchenor SC and sailed in Hayling Bay over two days in glorious if somewhat light conditions and attracted a top quality fleet of 17 boats.
This was a long-awaited battle between a number of elite boats and sailors and did not disappoint – even if tidal conditions and significant wind shifts occasionally challenged the fleet. First win after a delayed start on Saturday went to the family-crewed Skua and in emphatic style from Gwaihir (the 2017 Champion). However in the second race the order was reversed with Carolyn Brigg in Marengo (the 2016 Champion) filling third place twice over in Marengo. A bold start for the final race of the first day and some canny upwind tactics brought Swift (Jon Perry) to the front with Gwaihir and Skua recovering well from indifferent starts to occupy the other podium positions.
At the end of the first day’s racing Gwaihir topped the leaderboard by a single point from Skua and the fleet celebrated this auspicious anniversary with an excellent open air Championship Dinner at Itchenor Sailing Club.
Racing was again delayed on Day 2 for the sea breeze to settle but when it did the race produced another winner with Solitude (Anthony Lunch) showing good speed and control of the fleet to notch up a win with Marengo and Osprey (James Hartley) following. In the final and breezier race of the 5 race series Gwaihir managed to cross the fleet on port and was away. Skua still the closest challenger did an excellent recovery job to climb to second but it was not quite enough. Marengo finished third once more.
The event benefitted from excellent race management by Itchenor SC members and by Richard Fleck the Race Officer and great catering by the Club team.
Note:The mainsail in the background on the bandstand is Stewart Morris and David Bond's actual gold-medal cotton winning sail from Swift in the 1948 Olympics.
Points Week at ISC - Review 2018
Please click here to read the Points Week 2018 review
Nice image galleries courtesy of Kirsty Vind.
Swallows
Sunbeam
XOD
Prize giving
and some images courtesy Sula Riedlinger.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sula23/albums/72157670213666878
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sula23/albums/72157670255153298
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sula23/albums/72157696428681111
Data Privacy
Posted 1st March 2018
ALL MEMBERS – IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ AND ACTION
The laws on data privacy change this year. On 25 May, the new General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) come into effect, replacing the Data Protection Act 1998. GDPR tightens how any business collects, stores and uses personal data. This link takes you to details of the uses to which the Club puts your personal data and to a consent form to cover the continued use of data for certain purposes which needs to be completed by all Members aged 16 and over, and by a parent/guardian of members aged under 16 years..
Itchenor Sailing Club has reciprocity arrangements with the following clubs:
Cercle Nautique Honfleur
Royal Channel Islands Yacht Club
Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club
Royal Perth Yacht Club
Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club
Further details are available from the Office.
A History of Itchenor Sailing Cliub
Posted 16th December 2016
We thought you might enjoy this wonderful record of the history of our Club from its formation in 1927 until 1981, written by Tony Wright (who was Admiral of the Club from 1970-1985). The foreword written by Robin Wilson (Commodore 1977-1981, and who kindly gave us this copy) sets the scene nicely.
