Racing
this season
Access Travellers’ Series races from April - September:
Melvin Kinnear, sailing the Access Liberty on loan to us from the
Ahoy Centre, came second having competed in 7 races overall. A very small
team of supporters go with Melvin while he does all the logistics.
 
Next Summer on Saturday Sept 25th we will host the finals
of the 2010 Access Travellers series.
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The
RYA Sailability multiclass 3 day event Regatta at Rutland in August:
We had 4 boats sailing and won 3 medals. It was difficult, exciting conditions – very
windy.
Four of the members were camping.
 
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Greenwich
Regatta. Sunday 4th October – the day the Barrier
is closed so the Thames is stilled for a day.
This was a glorious meeting of all the sailing Centres which have access
to the River. Tideway towed a procession of ten boats down to Greenwich
and brought them back on the Monday – this in itself is an event.
Thankyou to all the members who made that possible. The Saturday was very
windy and needed a lot of skill. The Monday was simply very wet.
 
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STOP PRESS
June 6 – 11, 2010
The Access Class Association World
Championships will be held at Rutland.
Tideway will be there! As will individuals from
Australia, Japan, America.
The preparation will be intense. Come and help.
Secret Millionaire
We were approached at the end of July apparently by a film company who wanted
to show ways in which disabled people could find new activities. They
proposed bringing along a blind lady and showing her being introduced to
sailing. Of course we said yes – we had no idea of its
involving a prize.
It was hard work doing all the interviewing over four days – and then
!!!!!!!! The effect on the Club has been amazing – very high morale and
lots of new members and lots of offers of help. It isn’t just the
money though that’s marvellous – it’s the extraordinary sense
of identity that being on television does to a club. Click on the the
following link to view the show.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-secret-millionaire/episode-guide/series-6/episode-3
Events to come:
The redeveloped Watersports Centre will be handed over to Fusion in December
and will have its grand opening on January 13th.We won’t
all be invited but some of us will.
We will have our own party to celebrate
having a sheltered space again and very grand changing rooms, showers and loos
all with hoists for disabled people – all
this is very generous. What we haven’t got is storage space
either for our equipment or boats hence our plan to have a new building to
act as our club base. We have started work on our Planning Application.
Meanwhile when the Centre’s Portacabins are removed (before Christmas?)
water and drains will be laid on to our present clubhouse. That
will be a GOOD THING!
No Christmas party this year. We’ll have a January party
to celebrate being back in the Centre building.
We’ll also have a daytime party in January to launch our appeal for funds
to build a new club base as a result of Great Guns Marketing Co promotion of
our needs, also for new volunteers from some of the City Banks.
We are also planning 3 special Sunday winter racing events in January and February
when we hope to get some City sailors to come and race with us. We are planning
to have fleeces with our new logo on them for sale at cost. Come
and see!
We will start training for the 2010 summer season in March when we hope to
welcome all the Wednesday and Thursday volunteers back to help train all the
new volunteers and groups we are now recruiting.
Remember we go on meeting every Sunday. Come and help
with the maintenance and the planning and the welcoming of new members who
are coming in all the time. We may not sail if there is ice on
the pontoons or if there is fog but we can still meet.