Blackwater Sailing Club
Introduction to Racing
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Adult Introduction to Racing
Once again this year Steve Sharpe will be running this popular one day course on Saturday July 13th. Steve is an RYA senior instructor, race coach and regular club racer.The course is free and open to all club members (both dinghy and cruisers) and is intended for those wishing to start racing for the first time, or wishing to improve their race results. This year, the focus will be on the skills, techniques and tips to achieve the best results on some of the typical BSC courses. It will include both theory and on-river sessions. The course will be limited to 20 boats on a first come basis. If you would like to register, or ask Steve a question, please e-mail him on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
BSC OPEN DAY 2013
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- Written by Amanda Garrett
Despite the gloomy grey day a healthy number of visitors joined us on Saturday for our 2013 Open Day. Enquiries to the club were varied; the obvious interest in our super successful Cadet division but also a great number of enquiries from adults who have either never sailed before and want to learn or those who have dabbled in the past and want to renew their interest.
The day followed the usual format; trial sales on the lake in a Wayfarer, tours of the facilities and refreshments. Twenty seven families/cars visited the club on the day and we have received seventeen applications for membership.
Don't forget you can come and visit us anytime to have a look around; if you are a member please feel free to bring your friends/colleagues along to have a look around (and perhaps a little sail). Taster sessions are readily available for booking via Jan Taylor our Sailing School Manager.
JOGLE!
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- Written by Jan Swanwick
Hi everyone!
Another great charity effort spearheaded by BSC members is under way, and welcomes your support (ie MONEY!).
The charity is Brain Tumour Research, a cause dear to the team's heart, as a couple of their close friends are fighting the condition. Dan Dixon's regular crew member Dave Giles has been fighting one for the past four years, and Matt Gregg another close friend of the lads has been moved into Farleigh Hospice after a similar time fighting his tumour. The more that is ploughed into research the better the chance many others like them will have.
Links. http://www.justgiving.com/rideforbtr
http://www.braintumourresearch.org
http://www.facebook.com/JogleBikeRideForBTR
The challenge is to cycle from John O'Groats (That's at the top of Scotland, folks!) to Land's End - a distance of 960 miles, and it's generally considered that doing it north to south is harder than the other way due, as I'm sure you all know, to the prevailing South Westerlies.
The group have been training right through the winter and have ridden thousands of miles between them.
The superfit team is led by Tom Wass, and comprises Blackwater SC members Ben Brown, Dan Dixon, Matt Sheppard, and Vince Brown, with friends Kev and Trev Bawden, Dean Jeffers and Steve Pyman all members at Stone SC. The ride takes place from 13 June to 22 June - an average of 96 miles per day, and riding with the posse (in a van) to provide backup, spare tyres, Kit Kats etc is Geoff Wass.
Their target is to raise £10,000, and so far £3,100 has been pledged, from 52 donations.
The BSC and its members are great supporters of a number of Charities, via our social events, auctions, raffles, and in backing individual efforts like Rob and Louise Dean's London Marathon runs last year, which raised over £3,000 for the Headway brain injury research organisation.
Give this one a boost too - donate now!
