From: Phil Walter [apwo03@dsl.pipex.com]
Sent: Tuesday,
March 04, 2003 9:37 PM
Subject: The Hunter 707 Newsletter
Hello
All,
Here is my latest
offering of news from the Port Edgar Hunter 707 fleet. You may have
noticed I have dropped the 'unofficial' from the title, not that it makes
any difference to the contents. At the AGM Geoff's Teflon shoulders
slipped the duties of sportboat representative. After arm twisting from
him and Bruce I was elected to take over (if I had refused they were going to
set Jim on to me!). I have distributed this to the boat owners (plus
potential owners), please feel free to pass it on to your
crews.
So what's
new?
New
Boats
'For Sale' has been
renamed 'Breaking Wind' is this an indication that we should keep up wind of
Stephen and his crew? I am not aware of any new 707s definitely
coming for the new season. However there is one group actively looking to
buy one and Jock has some on his brokerage page so there must be some more
interest out there. Hopefully this will result in a couple more boats
coming to swell the numbers. Let's make sure that they are
welcomed.
Coaching
Weekend
You will all have
had the various e-mails on the coaching weekend. This is still very much
'on' for the 17/18th May. There will be a short note in the forthcoming
Beamer. I know some of you may be short of crew on the day (I probably
will) so I have invited non 707 sailors provided they can find a place on a
707. Please let me know if you have spaces and I will try and match
up.
Junior 707
Sailing
Dee, who run's the
clubs youth sailing is looking for a day when she can organise some racing for
her youth sailors. In her words :
" the young
sailors are split up with one experienced and one not so. They are
allocated a yacht and race it - there should be a minimum of adults onboard and
naturally the owner retains command and can step in whenever (s)he wishes for
reasons of safety. However, although the adults may suggest tactics, sail
trim etc in order to teach the young, the "young skipper" should take decisions,
the young tactician talk tactics and so on. I appreciate depending on
conditions the owner may need to take the helm. I have the following dates on
offer : 4th May, 15th June, 13th July, 20th July and 3rd
August."
Any takers, or
comments? In particular which date(s) would be better? If someone
would like to take on coordinating the 707 involvement in this please let me
know.
One-Design
Trophy
Thanks to all who
have offered to contribute to a one-design trophy for the club. Your names
are stored away for a later contribution collection!
The comments
received in response to earlier newsletters indicate that picking a number of
existing events throughout the season and making the best 'n' to count is the
best way forward. Therefore I am proposing the following races be
nominated. I have picked a variety of races including one event at Granton
(since it will be filled with PEYC boats).
Sunday 27th April -
Bosun's Locker Trophy Race
Wednesday 7th May -
Wed A Series
Wednesday 11th June
- Wed A Series
Wednesday 16th July
- Wed B Series
Wednesday 13th
August - Wed B Series
Wednesday 10th
September - Night Series
Sat/Sun 27th/28th
September - One Design Weekend (overall to count)
Sat/Sun 4th/5th
October - Carl Dyson (overall result to count)
Sunday 19th October
- Autumn PM Series
Sunday 9th November
- Autumn PM Series
For a race to count
at least 2 Hunter 707s must be competing. Results from open events will be
adjusted by removing non-PEYC boats. Club races have been chosen to avoid
those with a 707 for OOD.
There will be 7 races to count, if 10 qualifying races sailed; 6 to count if 8
or 9 races sailed. At this time I propose to apply
equal weighting to all the events. Comments welcome on the number
of races counting and the relative weighting of the races.
I
would like to get this agreed before the season starts so we all know the rules
and they cannot be set to favour one boat or another.
While we all wish
the 707 fleet to be dominant at PEYC for many years to come, there will come a
time when another one-design fleet will take over. This is why I have
referring to it has a 'one-design' trophy and not the 707 trophy. It
should be awarded to the class with the largest number of one-design
boats.
Bell Lawrie
Scottish Series
For those who are
planning to go, a gentile reminder that there is a late booking fee that comes
into effect from the 1st April, so you should be doing something about it before
the sailing season starts.
Sails and
Compass
In case you didn't
see the e-mail from Jock, the Bosun's Locker can match the prices for the
Tac-tic compass and he listed the current prices of 707
sails.
Now where
have I hidden the anti-fouling that I had over from last
year.....
Phil
Walter
Sportboat
Representative.
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Phil Walter
Hunter 707 - Whippersnapper - GBR7043N