All posts by : Ian Jay

Date for your diary:

SBSC Race Officer training will be held on 16th November at SBSC. You will be shown how to do all the elements of running racing at the club including:

– How to select a course

– ⁠How to run a start + manage an individual & a general recal

– ⁠How to finish the race and record the results

– ⁠How to use sail wave & print off a results sheet

– ⁠You will be given the opportunity to run a race (with the support from the duty Race Officer). Depending on numbers this might be a team effort.

Day will run from 0930-1600.

Galley will be open.

Instructors for the day myself, Pat Jones & possibly Andrew Frost (TBC).

This is open to all club members who wish to learn how to be a Race Officer either on a Thursday evening or on Sundays (or both).

Completion of this day will allow participants to select RO duties as part of their annual 3 duty quota.

It is open to all club members but places will be restricted to about 8 so if you are wishing to secure a place please let me know either here, via email or when you see me.

Thank you

Jo

Commodore

The training team are pleased to announce there is now training available if you would like to become a dinghy instructor recognised by the RYA. Go to https://www.suttonbinghamsc.net/w/dinghy-instructor/ for more information

2025 sees Jo Mahy take over the reigns as Commodore of the club. She is regularly sailing one of her fleet of Scorpions at the club so should be easy to find should need to have a chat. Jo is our second female Commodore following the footsteps of Jenny Kerswell whose tenure was over 44 years ago!!

The role of Vice Commodore has been taken up a new member to the club, Bryn Jones, so a big welcome to Bryn.

Jo will doing a Commodores Clinic when at the club and the first will be on the 15th & 16th February.

You can now subscribe to the events calendar easily by clicking on the link in the Events menu on the website. This will then allow you to save an ics file to your device. You can then import this to your calendar app and you will see all the SBSC events in your calendar. It will also update if there are any changes to the calendar.

There is a first aid course scheduled for Tuesday, April 2nd. There are 12 places, available to all members but club instructors will be given first priority. The cost is £30 each and instructors costs will be reimbursed. To sign up please go to webcollect where it is listed as a course. Franscesca, our bookings manager will then sign you on. If you get any difficulties please contact her at training@suttonbinghamsc.net