Just a reminder that you should receive your membership renewal forms in the next few days – this year we are offering for the first time the option for you spread the cost across the whole year by making 12 monthly payments by standing order. To take advantage of this, however, you need to get your first payment in place for 1st January 2012 so don’t delay. The renewal form contains all the bank details and payment details – please...
Would your business benefit from an advert in the year book? The club has over 400 members in 220 memberships. The 2012 year book will be a bumper A5 version. 250 year books will be printed, with one posted to each members household. We are keen to raise revenue to cover print costs and hoped members would support the club in buying a half page advert for £25? If needed I can help with artwork. The deadline is Friday!! For more info contact Paul...
This year LLSC have submitted their annual RYA PY return via the PYS website and below are the results. The PYS website uses a methodology based around Bench Marking to calculate the suggested handicaps. The big fleets like RS400, Solo, Laser are unlikely to move as they are set as the bench mark therefore the other fleets will move around them. Outliers (extreme results) are also excluded to generate a better average result. In 2011, 140 races were inputted into...
Gill Kenyon will be running a winter safety workshop on Wednesday 14th December. Aim: To examine the 3 stages of hypothermia and how sailors can recognise and deal with it’s effects.Objective: Sailing crews and rescue personnel will be able to differentiate between potentially life threatening and less serious but performance degrading changes to body temperature. Free to members and £3 for visitors.
Over 60 members enjoyed a great evening at the club last Saturday.
Leigh and Lowton Sailing Club’s Open Revett Winter Series concluded this weekend on Sunday the 11th December 2011 with 99 boats having competed at some stage of the series. The forecast originally looked promising on Sunday but in the end never actually arrived resulting in a long tea drinking day with both races of the day being canned. So how did it finish in the end? Chris Gillard romped home in the Solos followed by Steve White and Jon Walter. ...
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Now that Howard, Roy, Wayne and assistants have completed the resurfacing of the dinghy park in a breathtakingly short period of time. It now remains for the reorganisation of the boats in line with what was at agreed at the AGM.
Howard and a team of members are well underway with phase 2 of the dinghy park. There will be a different layout and a discussion lead by Mike Barnes at the AGM involved class areas. Click for pics