Monthly Archive: October 2012

Flying Fifteen Update 24

Arrived at Bewl yesterday and the sun was shining and there was a good westerly force 3-4 blowing with 13 knot gusts. Could life get much better? Yes it could!! I was the fourth Fifteen down on the slip to rig but then more and more arrived. In the end, 12 of us made our …

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Annual General Meeting

  Bewl Valley Sailing Club Ltd. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Notice is hereby given in accordance with Article 22(a) of the Memorandum and Articles of Association that the Annual General Meeting of Bewl Valley Sailing Club Limited will be held on Sunday 18th November 2012 at 14.30 hours at the Clubhouse, Bewl Water, Lamberhurst, Kent. …

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LWA Icebreaker

2012 LWA Icebreaker Team Competition: Adult teams: 5 sailors. Max sail size 9.5. All sailors scores to count towards the team score (except discard as below). Teams can include either one lady or one youth/junior on max sail size 8.5 whose score will be halved. If a lady/youth/junior decides to sail as a 9.5 their …

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Flying Fifteen Update 23

Ice on the windscreen yesterday morning as I was loading up the car and no wind. Arrived at Bewl and ice on the boat cover and no wind. However, six of us took our boats down to the slipway but only Eric and Bill took the cover of theirs…. and that was only to step …

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Flying Fifteen Update 22

I was first and only Fifteen on the slipway yesterday for some time and thought that I’d be getting first place in the race until Dan and then Paddy turned up. But, hey, third would better than most weeks! All we needed now was some wind. Two cups of coffee later and Jo and Ann, …

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Flying Fifteen Update 21

In Keith’s and Geoff’s absence I have been volunteered to give my impressions of yesterdays sailing, seen from the pointy end of Jo Mayes boat. The Wanderer Inland Championships meant that our race was confined to a proportion of the main lake and the virtually triangular course of HBWX, all to port , resulted in …

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