Newsletter: 23rd November 2020

Some Essential Reminders & Updates

Club Closed

The Club is currently closed until the Govt decides the Lockdown is finished

Roof Repairs

Please be aware that we have contractors in the Club.  The scaffolding is now up on the south face of the Club. Please take special care in that area.

 Covid-19 regulations

Just to remind ALL Members that the current Covid Regs are still in place. Even if you can’t visit.  Make sure you have a mask when you leave the house to visit the Club. It keeps you and our valuable staff, safe.

Mosimann’s Click Collect & Deliver

See here for the Menu and instructions for ordering,  or you could use the front page of the Web Site, where there is also a link.

Annual Ladies Lunch

This has been re-planned for Wednesday 16th December with a talk by Elizabeth Andrews. More details next week. Save the date.

Previous Online Lectures.

See them here 

Previous Junior and Youth Online Lectures

See them here 

Book Club

Next meeting 7^th Dec 15:30  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83892117940?pwd=ZkxhYnZXRkRhcnNJUlBGTktmS0Nodz09

Further details are Here

Art Competition Results

See all five of the winning pictures here

Photo Competition Results

For more details including copies of the photos,  Click Here

The Slipway

Don’t forget the rules around the slipway. We do not want to persuade the HM to close it.

Discount Glitch

If you have not resolved any issue with your Bill after visiting the Club recently, please call Kirsty soon, and she will sort it out  ([email protected])

Virtual 'Afternoon Tea'

Book your Table in your own Dining Room on Saturday 28^th November at 14:00 on Zoom.

Join Social Committee Chair Mary Bell and your fellow Members for a Virtual Afternoon Tea Zoom meet,  catered by Mosimann’s At Home, Click and Collect or Delivery service. 

You will also be joined by Mosimann’s Head Chef Nick Hebditch, who will be judging the best dressed table competition. The winner will receive a Mosimann’s bottle of Champers.  Nick has also written some ‘Afternoon Tea’ themed quiz questions for Mary to read and entertain you all.

All those who have placed an order will receive the Zoom link on Friday 27^th November by email.

Contact Mosimann’s directly to order & pay on 01590 671751 or [email protected]

Ensure you have Zoom downloaded on your iPad, iMac, PC or whatever you wish to use. (It won’t work otherwise). It’s a good idea to have a practice with a friend first, to make sure that the camera on whichever device you use can “see” your table.

 To see the menu, prices and all you need to know CLICK HERE

5% Subscription Increase

Earlier this autumn we notified Members that we would refund the 5% subscription increase (mandated by the 2020 AGM) to Member's cards, so that this could be used by Members to pay for goods and services at the Club.  

 Since this exercise requires a significant amount of planning to get right and can only be done once, we have been keen to do it after we have collected all (or most) outstanding subscriptions.

We are now pleased to tell you that we have had a very good response from Members to the annual membership renewal run with only a few outstanding unpaid subscriptions.  The Flag Officers are, as usual, grateful for the staunch support of our Members.   

This was run on Tuesday / Wednesday of last week.  (17^th – 18^th Nov.) If you have paid your renewal subscription you should have seen 5% of the annual renewal fee transferred to the card of each member for whom you pay a subscription.  So if, for example, Sir Francis Drake pays a subscription for himself, Lady Drake and little Noah Drake the 5% would go on all three cards, not just on Sir Francis' card.

Please check your card and should you identify any possible problem with the balance please contact: [email protected]

 Thank you once again for your support in this difficult time.

John Tudor

Vice Commodore

Winter lecture No 7. Where Angels Fear to Tread

In a lockdown induced change to our original program, the Cruising Division’s 7^th Thursday Evening Lecture will be ‘Where Angels fear to tread’ by fellow Member Nigel Lang.

This remarkable account of his 1976 single handed Trans-Atlantic race in a Contessa 26 will be presented exclusively via Zoom on Thursday 26th November 2020 at 18.30 hrs.

To watch this lecture live, simply click HERE from 18.00 hrs onwards.

You will be automatically admitted in ‘watch-only’ mode, so your microphone & camera will both be disabled. Also, we can only accommodate the first 100 viewers to log on from 18.00 hrs, so it’s ‘first come, first served’. 

If prompted you may need these: Meeting ID: 832 3207 9003 / Passcode: 938186

And if you don’t have a Zoom account already, please visit: https://zoom.us beforehand.

For a photo of Galadriel, the Contessa 26 in question  Click here

Wednesday Junior Sailing dates for 2021

We have now sorted the WJS dates for next year and are looking forward to a great season of sailing. We have left the Safety Update as late as possible with the hope things will be a bit more normal. There will be some work parties next year to sort out the boats, we will let you know when.

WJS 2021 DATES

Volunteer Training                         April  7^th

Volunteer Training                           April 14^th

Volunteer Safety Update                April 21^st

First WJS                                       April 28^th

Last WJS                                       Sept 29^th

Prize Giving/Party                           Oct 1^st

 Please put these in your diary and hopefully we will be able to start in April.

 More Info 

Take care & keep well,

Ali Husband

Junior & Youth Section Lectures

With the lockdown developments we have prepared a Junior section schedule of activity on Zoom. These will occur weekly between now and Christmas:

Mondays 17:30 - sailing fitness with Drew Barnes. 

Wednesdays  17:30- Junior Lecture 

Fridays  17:30 - VR Junior Racing

Saturdays  10:00 - fitness circuits with 29er coaches. 

For the Junior Lectures, we have some brilliant topics with first class speakers, on the following dates tune in for:

25 Nov - Racing Rules (John Doerr - Chair of International Jury Tokyo 2020 Olympics)

 2 Dec - Boat Set up (Oppie lead Coach)

 9 Dec - Tides (Graham Sunderland - author of Winning Tides)

 23 Dec - Sail Trim & Setley Cup sailmaking (Ronan Grealish of North Sails)

 These lectures are primarily for the Youth and Junior sections and they are encouraged to ask their Fleet Captains for the Joining instructions. 

However the recorded lectures will be available to all Members to review ‘later’,  when they have been uploaded to the website as detailed below

18 Nov - Vendee Globe & Ocean Adventures (Dee Caffari) is now available here

Previous Junior Lectures are also available here

Hugh Styles

Head Coach. Juniors & Youth Fleets

Report on the Cruising Lecture No.6

Our Winter Lecture last Thursday 19th November was 'Command of the Seas: The Navy and the New Forest against Napoleon' by Rosalyn Goulding of the St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery. Again, the current lockdown meant that this talk was delivered via Zoom only - and what a treat it was for our large online audience of at least 63 computers and many of them had a couple participating.

Rosalyn’s lecture described England’s early 19^th Century naval history and the parts played by Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, Captain Robert Man, Admiral Sir Harry Burrard Neale, Rear Admiral John Peyton, Captain John Whitby etc., all men with local connections.

For more information Click here

Yachting Magazines available to Members - Free

The Office have a collection of 2020 yachting magazines that have accumulated at the Club and are free to anyone that would like them, rather than being disposed of.  We have the following available:

• Cruising Association                                           
  Practical Boat Owner                                           
  Yachting Monthly                                                   
  Yachting World                                                       
  Sailing Today                                                             
  Motor Boat          
  Seahorse            
  Boat      
  Yachts & Yachting

If any are of interest to you please email [email protected] to arrange collection.

Priory Wines Discount Offer

Priory wines,  who used to provide wines for the Club before we went to Mosimann’s, are offering all Members a 10% discount on the their range of wines along with free delivery ‘within the area’, when you buy twelve bottles or more. Click here for more details.

The View from the Editor's Chair

The Junior-Youth division and WJS seem to be firing on all cylinders. I am regretting my great age, as it all looks so much fun. Tempus Fugit, as Virgil would say.

Our lead photo breaks with tradition as we have never had a painting before. Well now we have, albeit a photo of a painting.  It is also a winning painting. I wonder what we shall have next week.

Good to hear such positive comments from the Mosimann’s Team, and good to hear that they are being appreciated by our local Members. Looks like a pleasant feedback phone call goes a long way. Well Done!  to those who did.

By now all financial aspects of Membership and Payment Glitches should have been sorted out. You will get only one more reminder next week under Essential Reminders. You are advised to sort out any problems; swiftly.

Our cruising lectures are attracting an increasing audience on a weekly basis. I am sure this is because the Cruising Committee are choosing such interesting speakers and nothing to do with being locked up, or down, all day.

The Virtual Afternoon Tea is an experiment, and a precursor to the real thing once lockdown restrictions are lifted. Bookings are going well, as there is infinite capacity at the moment, more than after lockdown at any rate.

This week we have some magazines for you to take away. This is because the Office is clearing stuff out. If they do not go to a good home, it is in the recycling pile for them all.  Look out next week for some more bargains.

I do hope you enjoy the Newsletter, as I do every week. Bit pointless otherwise.

          Peter Bell – Editor 

[email protected]

How's it going so far Mr Mosimann?

We asked Head Chef, Nick Hebdich How is the Click Collect and Delivery service going?

“It’s going very well” he said “We have had lots of very positive feedback from Members, much to our surprise. So many people have phoned to say how much they appreciate what we are providing, we have never seen that before” 

What about complaints? This is the Royal Lymington after all. He laughed, “Absolutely no complaints yet received, however” he went on, “one or two guidance comments from helpful Members”. So when will you be back to normal then? “We are very keen to resume a more normal service to give the RLymYC Members what they obviously desire, but we have to be guided by Govt. advice, but be assured as soon as we are allowed to, we will be ready to go”  Thank you Nick.