CH cross-Channel Regatta, July 11-14
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 3:32 pm
Christ's Hospital Cruising and Sailing Club Regatta 11-14 July, 2014 Dartmouth/St Peter Port, Guernsey
Whatever your experience, do please consider participating in this event. We are not looking for great experience (although some of you will have more experience than others!)– all yachts are skippered by fully competent yachtsmen who are well used to passing on their skills to novices. Other than a small contribution towards fuel and mooring charges there will be no basic charge for participation.
The draft programme is as follows:
Friday 11 July - Participants gather in Dartmouth
Drinks/Registration/reception at the Yacht Club
Saturday 12 - Cruise in company (to Slapton / Brixham / Dittisham or wherever) depending on weather
Dinner at the Yacht Club
Sunday 13 Special cross-Channel handicap event to St Peter Port Guernsey.
Monday 14 – afternoon cruise to Herm
Dinner and Prizegiving at St Peter Port Yacht Club
We now have four boats attending with a maximum capacity of 20 OBs (excluding skippers) as crew. I am still working on getting more boats. As the number of berths is limited, applicants for places will be accepted strictly on a ‘first come first served’ basis.
More participating boats are urgently needed. If you know somebody who might be able to help, please let me know.
As well as Moonshot we have three other yachts: special thanks to Mark Stevenson, Outrageous; Martin Crick Harmony of Hamble; and Robert Hichens, Panacea. (Robert is not an Old Blue, but a very experienced skipper who is making himself and his boat available to support our regatta.) At present, should you have a preference for Outrageous, Moonshot, Harmony of Hamble or Panacea, I will try to meet it, but there are no promises. Outrageous is a Swan 49 (49' - 8 berth), Moonshot, a Twister 28 (28' - 4 berth), Harmony a Westerly Griffon (26' - 5/6 berth) and Panacea a Trident Voyager (35' – 5/6 berth). I will try and email more information about all the boats in due course.
All four boats will have to sail from their home port to Dartmouth and ultimately return from Guernsey and will need crewing on these legs as well as the actual regatta. A minimum of two days will be needed each side of the Regatta for this, although Moonshot may well potter over to Sark and Jersey before returning home via St Malo and the N. Brittany coast. Departure points for the existing boats are the Hamble, Gosport and Falmouth. When you email me with your acceptance of this offer, please could indicate whether you would be up for helping getting the boats to Dartmouth or back from Guernsey. If you fancy the more extended cruise on Moonshot please give me a call - you do not necessarily have to sail on her during the regatta if you are interested in this.
In order to confirm serious intent, I am asking you all to send £15 immediately your berth is approved. This will go towards provisioning and, in the unlikely event of any surplus, towards modest prizes (or the Benevolent Society of Blues).
If you have any questions or suggestions, please give me a ring. Thanks to Polly Muir, I have the makings of a reception Committee in St Peter Port; should anyone know of a similar group of Old Blues in the Dartmouth area, I would be grateful if you could let me know.
Best Wishes
David
David Eastburn - Commodore CHC&SC (MdA 47-55)
Cliffside, 54 Trefusis Rd., Flushing, FALMOUTH,Cornwall. TR11 5UB
Tel: 01326 374237 Mobile: 0798 457 1052
Whatever your experience, do please consider participating in this event. We are not looking for great experience (although some of you will have more experience than others!)– all yachts are skippered by fully competent yachtsmen who are well used to passing on their skills to novices. Other than a small contribution towards fuel and mooring charges there will be no basic charge for participation.
The draft programme is as follows:
Friday 11 July - Participants gather in Dartmouth
Drinks/Registration/reception at the Yacht Club
Saturday 12 - Cruise in company (to Slapton / Brixham / Dittisham or wherever) depending on weather
Dinner at the Yacht Club
Sunday 13 Special cross-Channel handicap event to St Peter Port Guernsey.
Monday 14 – afternoon cruise to Herm
Dinner and Prizegiving at St Peter Port Yacht Club
We now have four boats attending with a maximum capacity of 20 OBs (excluding skippers) as crew. I am still working on getting more boats. As the number of berths is limited, applicants for places will be accepted strictly on a ‘first come first served’ basis.
More participating boats are urgently needed. If you know somebody who might be able to help, please let me know.
As well as Moonshot we have three other yachts: special thanks to Mark Stevenson, Outrageous; Martin Crick Harmony of Hamble; and Robert Hichens, Panacea. (Robert is not an Old Blue, but a very experienced skipper who is making himself and his boat available to support our regatta.) At present, should you have a preference for Outrageous, Moonshot, Harmony of Hamble or Panacea, I will try to meet it, but there are no promises. Outrageous is a Swan 49 (49' - 8 berth), Moonshot, a Twister 28 (28' - 4 berth), Harmony a Westerly Griffon (26' - 5/6 berth) and Panacea a Trident Voyager (35' – 5/6 berth). I will try and email more information about all the boats in due course.
All four boats will have to sail from their home port to Dartmouth and ultimately return from Guernsey and will need crewing on these legs as well as the actual regatta. A minimum of two days will be needed each side of the Regatta for this, although Moonshot may well potter over to Sark and Jersey before returning home via St Malo and the N. Brittany coast. Departure points for the existing boats are the Hamble, Gosport and Falmouth. When you email me with your acceptance of this offer, please could indicate whether you would be up for helping getting the boats to Dartmouth or back from Guernsey. If you fancy the more extended cruise on Moonshot please give me a call - you do not necessarily have to sail on her during the regatta if you are interested in this.
In order to confirm serious intent, I am asking you all to send £15 immediately your berth is approved. This will go towards provisioning and, in the unlikely event of any surplus, towards modest prizes (or the Benevolent Society of Blues).
If you have any questions or suggestions, please give me a ring. Thanks to Polly Muir, I have the makings of a reception Committee in St Peter Port; should anyone know of a similar group of Old Blues in the Dartmouth area, I would be grateful if you could let me know.
Best Wishes
David
David Eastburn - Commodore CHC&SC (MdA 47-55)
Cliffside, 54 Trefusis Rd., Flushing, FALMOUTH,Cornwall. TR11 5UB
Tel: 01326 374237 Mobile: 0798 457 1052