Newsletter: 8th February 2021

The Commodore Reflects

As this is the last Newsletter before the AGM and the end of my three year term of office as Commodore, I felt that it was probably worth reflecting on what has happened at the Club during this period. It is certainly correct to say that the Club has had its ups and downs over the last few years. One of the highlights for me arose shortly after I took office when I received the call out of the blue from Sir Ben Ainslie asking me whether the Club would be interested in representing the INEOS challenge for the America’s Cup.

 For the full text and to find out what happened next 
 

Roger Garlick

Commodore RLymYC
2018 - 2021
 

Some Essential Reminders & Updates

Virtual Valentine’s Day- Coming very soon

Mosimann’s dining event for Sat 13^th Feb. Book before 17:00  Thurs. 11^th Feb.

Full details here

Annual General Meeting – Coming even sooner

February 13^th 11:00 put in your diary. More details have been sent out in an email.

Mosimann’s Click and Collect Service

See here for the Menu (with new items and pricing)  and instructions for ordering,  or you can even refer to the front page of the Web Site, where there is also a link. This service (Wed-Sat) is being offered to non-Members so if you know someone who would like a lovely dinner and is not a Member, why not let them know, or even put a Menu in their letter box.

Shipmates Virtual Cookie Decoration and Supper

Friday 19^th February – starts at 12:00.  Book before Wednesday 17^th Feb. Full details are here 

Real Bridge Monday 16:30

Last week’s winners were NS David & Carol Hayles and Elizabeth Turner & Christine Ellis EW Jane & Peter Kingsley and Ann & Tim Harford There were 9-11 tables. Unfortunately there was electronic disruption, but we got on with it and enjoyed the evening.  Full details on joining

Book Club

Join us for the next meeting if you can. You will be welcome on Monday 1^st March. at 15:30   It’s a new book this month. Full details are here

Social Fun Quiz

Don’t forget to fill in and send off – details are here

Details of Club based Yoga and Pilates Classes

Follow this link for classes provided by Dawn, Katy and Jenny 

Hot Link to Coffee Mornings  

Hot Link to Happy Hour    

Previous Online Lectures.

See them here 

Previous Junior and Youth Online Lectures

See them here 

Covid-19 regulations

Just to remind ALL Members that the Club house is closed, but the pontoons are open and the phones and doors “manned” from 0900-1700 hrs on weekdays.

Annual General Meeting Reminder

Saturday 13th February 2021 @ 11:00hrs

The Club’s AGM will be held virtually this year via Zoom Webinar on Saturday 13^th February at 11:00hrs. You will be required to pre-register your attendance ahead of the meeting and all voting will need to be completed by Friday 12^th February at 12:00. To view this year’s paperwork, online voting and registration, then please visit the following link: 

Kirsty Husband

General Manager - Operations

Junior and Youth Activities

On Saturday evening, we had the RLymYC Virtual Regatta finals. Ollie (Vines) and I were lucky enough to qualify for the final as the 2 representatives of the 29er sailors. Each class had a qualifying series in the weeks leading up to the final, which meant that there were 2 representatives from each class. 

 In the first race, we were sailing in Cowes in the 49ers. We had very windy conditions making the boats hard to control on a keyboard.

 For the full story and table of results

Sam Webb and Ollie Vines

29er Reps at the Virtual Racing

Cruising Update - Yarmouth Day Cruise

Unfortunately we have to announce that our February day cruise planned to take place on the 16th has been rescheduled for Tuesday 5th October.  After a morning on the water we will walk along the old railway line to the Red Lion pub at Freshwater for lunch. It’s always a great day, so save the date.

Sue Sutherland

Cruising Sub-Committee

Staff Communication Reminder

Although our doors are closed for the moment, Club staff are still working, responding to emails and telephone calls.   If you need to hand deliver correspondence may I remind you that our postbox is on the black gates to the left (North) of the Clubhouse door, in front of the crane.  Our postbox is checked daily and those on duty will respond to you as quickly as they can.

   Kirsty Husband

  General Manager - Operations

Safety Boat Training

The Health & Safety Committee have issued new guidance on the manning of Open Safety Boats for Club Activities. There is a requirement for at least one of the crew to have been trained as Safety Boat crew within the past 5 years.  At the present time we are unable to undertake the “On the Water Training” due to Covid restrictions, but we will proceed with the “Shoreside Training” and undertake “On the Water Training” when we can.  If you have not attended Safety Boat Training or a Refresher within the past 5 years it is imperative that you attend the Shoreside Training.

Roger Wilson will be conducting Shoreside Training on the following dates   18:00 on Wednesday 17^th February and 3^rd March.

 Join Zoom Meeting –

 Meeting details if required - Meeting ID: 251 552 1816 - Passcode: 100200

Results of the Art Exhibition

Well, it’s prizes all round and embarrassment for Jose, who organised our Art Exhibition as she always does. Her Port Hand Marker picture which heads this Newsletter came first with 25% of the available vote and so gets the Gold Medal – so that’s a pretty decisive result, to her chagrin, (but she was delighted really).  In second place with the Silver Medal was ‘The Fish’ by Cam Otten. There was a tie for third place, two Bronze medals were awarded to Belinda McGill for her oil painting of a Greek Window, and her watercolour of Gina, a dog. It is hoped that these paintings will feature on the front of the newsletter in time.

The results were independently checked and verified by the Editor.

Winter Cruising Lecture No.16

This week sees the welcome return of The RLymYC Junior & Youth Sailors, whose presentations will be compered by Joff McGill via Zoom on Thursday 11th February 2021 at 18.30hrs

Stop Press! For this evening only, we have increased our Zoom licence from 100 to 500 viewers so that all parents, as well as our loyal Winter Lectures audience, can watch these presentations live.

We have fifteen riveting contributions telling the stories of how our young sailors have managed to learn about & enjoy their sport in 2020 - and of some amazing successes so please log on from 18.00hrs and don’t miss this opportunity to see our up-and-coming young sailors.

 Here is the login for the Lecture –

 Here for more information –

Zoom based Race Team Training

Our thanks to Roger Wilson for his talk last week

This week’s talk is -

Course setting basics for those without modern Apps: things to consider

This is the next session on Tuesday 9^th  February at 1830 hours with Simon van der Byl.

The Zoom link to Simon’s talk is here

 If needed : Meeting ID: 896 7038 0125  Passcode: 100200 

 All the links can also be found on the club website

Several people have asked how to find the Race Team Training page on the website if they don’t have the Newsletter handy. Just go to On-the water/Training/Race Team Training. 

Mary McGough

Online Art Group 2021

As of this Monday, a new picture will be put onto the Website,to be used as the basis of - or inspiration for - any sort of creative work which the members would wish to share with their fellow Members.

Please let Josie Nieves have a .pdf or .jpg of any images you may produce from it as soon as you are comfortable with your work.  ([email protected]). We will put these images on the WebSite and then a new pictorial challenge will be presented.

When we are finally allowed out again, we hope that one of the Flag Officers will choose their favourite image from all those sent in.

 Please take out your paints and pencils, your iPads and papers. While away the hours when it is dark and rainy and cold by letting your creative juices run.... we look forward to seeing the results.

Jose Nieves

Art Czar

Cruising Lecture 15.  A Race to Scotland 

Thursday 4th February 2021 local Mudeford sailor Ken Fowler took the Cruising Division’s Zoom audience on his epic 865 mile ‘Race to Scotland’ in a 14 foot Aero.

    ‘One crazy sailor, one very small dinghy, some unfinished business and the fight against cancer’…

Setting out from Sennen Cove near Land’s End in May 2017, Ken’s challenge was to sail his RS Aero single handed to John O’ Groats in under a month and raise £50,000 for Cancer Research UK and the Oakhaven Hospice Trust in Lymington. 

For the full report and information to help donate to this very worthy cause –

The View from the Editor's Chair

Sadly, I have not received any ideas as to how we will mark the winning of the America’s Cup. It is as if we are not confident enough that Sir Ben will bring home the bacon – or the Silver. Well I enjoy a bacon sandwich, so come on Sir Ben.

Our AGM is due, and the guard changes, as is ‘roit & proper’. I expect we all wish Roger a stress free year to come. I do. Time to welcome the new Commodore too.

Valentine’s Day meal is the next offering from Mosimanns – Mrs Editor has signed us up, again that is roit and proper. Romantically I put the bins out on Sunday night. (see Quiz for that allusion – you have to keep up) My teeth cannot support the weight of a bunch of roses.

I suggested there would be no more from the Knights having completed the RORC – but having read the article cribbed from the RORC website, I could not resist,. They just looked so knackered and so pleased to be finished. It must have been tough nursing a broken rig. I am sure we all look forward to them returning home and telling us all about it.

The Art Exhibition is finally over and prizes/Medals have been awarded. Always a tricky one to judge as Peter Blick found out. If you are asked to “do a Paris” ducking under your desk is a strategy which I could never recommend. Peter Blick didn’t. Good for him.

The last time there was a Thursday night lecture given over to the J and Y section we only just managed to accommodate all that wanted to attend. The Club has bought extra places so that HUNDREDS can now see how well our J and Y section are doing in their own words – you are urged to attend. One could argue that with these young folk, the future of your Club is more assured.

The Vendée Globe race is coming to a conclusion, with 14 boats home. The weather has deteriorated recently and the next bunch (or peloton) could be affected by the weather. It is ever thus when cruising. Difficult to bet against a planet.

Soon this week the Prada Cup will restart – as you are going into the AGM I suspect – but today there is nothing to report. So there isn’t one.

Lockdown in Lymington is not that much fun, but we hear that it is even less fun in Germany where even our >70 year old Members are not offered a Vaccine yet. (ah the wonders of Zoom communications). Most >70 year old Members here in Lymington have been at least offered a vax. We all pray that science works. (Hmmm;  prayer and science in the same sentence – only in your Newsletter)  

 Stay safe everyone.

           Peter Bell – Editor 

[email protected]

The General Committee Tie

We have discovered that we have a small quantity of Club Ties in stock with the distinctive logo of three Lentune ships. (The colours are a Navy Blue background with the three ships in Gold). These are polyester ties. The General Committee have agreed that these should be made available to past and present members of the General Committee at a special price of £10 each.

If anyone who qualifies would like to purchase one of these ties please contact [email protected].

Conversion Services offered to Club Members

One of our younger Club Members is offering Members the opportunity to digitise analogue home movies onto a more stable format. Most home movies (eg. Super 8) are getting on for at least twenty years old now, and the chemical composition of the film emulsions is breaking down. Transferring your family memories onto USB stick or HDD (Hard Drives)  has been recommended for many years. Now is the time to dig out those canisters from the loft and get their contents transferred.

The Vendée Globe S.H. Ocean Race

As of today 14 boats have completed the race and are safely returned to Sables D’Olonne. Our interest is with the two Brit ladies struggling through two massive lows. Both trying valiantly to get home as quickly as possible.

Pip Hare states that she is “back in the groove” and she is pushing hard to try and get ahead of a gale coming up behind. Pip is the boat at the back of the group just north of the Azores. Miranda is the green boat at the bottom of the picture due west of the Canaries

The RORC Race - Report from the Knights

Tim and Mayumi Knight, racing a  Pogo 12.50 Kai, crossed the Antigua finish line of the RORC Transatlantic Race at 13:50 UTC (30 January) in an elapsed time of 21 days, 2 hours, 50 mins and 07 secs.  As Kai crossed the finish line outside Nelson’s Dockyard, Benedikt Clauberg’s Kali came out to greet them and guide them to their berth.

“680 mile into the race we had a problem with the rig so we have been nursing the boat for 2,000 miles,” commented Tim Knight. “However, compared to the horrible time people have been having with the pandemic, we were in paradise. We had an amazing welcome in Falmouth Marina, Antigua. Thank you so much to the RORC; Mayumi and I are very grateful, especially having Tim (Thubron) being so helpful throughout the race."

 Helen Spooner, representing the Royal Ocean Racing Club in Antigua gave Tim and Mayumi a special welcome on arrival, including fruit and biscuits as well as ice cold beer. As the last boat to finish, a bottle of champagne was in order to toast the successful conclusion of the 7^th RORC Transatlantic Race.