Dear All
The Guildford club are sad to report the loss of our Commodore Paul Midgley, please find attached his obituary.

Regards Roger

Click Here for Paul's obitury in pdf format

Hampton Court 8th November 2009

Many of you missed the thoroughly good day's racing at the Interclub at Hampton Court on Sunday. There were 14 entries from 4 clubs. The 4-10 mph wind from the clubhouse or East end was straight down the lake and varying in direction in unpredictable ways to make the racing really exciting. Hugh and I had some really cracking races. OK, you have to learn where the water runs out and forgive the weed problems, but with the wind in this direction this lake is close to Fleetwood's for quality racing over long courses.  The results are attached and if you go to HC's website there are some photos. Many thanks to Hampton Court's team, PRO peter Constable and Dennis Moss for putting it all together.

Cheers,   Roger

Click Here for the Hampton Court Results Page

2009 BOTTLE boat Championship

Before starting the report of the event there is another story that we can all empathise with. Alan Viney had spent time carefully checking all his BOTTLE boat gear before he set off for Waldringfield on Friday. However on Saturday morning he realised that he had left his rig behind in his shed in Guildford! Fortunately he contacted me before setting off home, as luckily I had brought a spare rig kit with me. We found a black bin bag and copied a mainsail, used a spare jib that Alan had brought with him and made up the rig parts and Alan’s Bb66 was back in business!
There were no Vice or Broszek families at this year’s event, so there were fewer juniors taking part and they were missed. However all those practice starts last week were very worthwhile and both Paul and Alan Morgan did better than last year. Young Paul finished a creditable 11th and was delight to collect the new Junior Champion’s Trophy.
Another super radio sailing event! This was despite a little rain at the start and a light and frustratingly variable westerly breeze blowing square across the river Deben from behind Waldringfield Sailing Club. One spectator commented that “the BOTTLE Boat Championship has become an autumn ritual and today it had a lovely colour and atmosphere.” 21 entries from all over the South and one very enthusiastic competitor who flew in especially from Toulouse enjoyed 17 races sailed in a wonderfully light-hearted, yet competitive atmosphere of fun. This was enjoyed as much by many spectators and family supporters as by the competitors. Despite being a strict one design, the fleet of small high performance radio controlled boats made mainly from recycled parts, presented a colourful sight with sails of different recycled polythene bags and 2 litre bottle hulls decorated in a most artistic and colourful way. It brought the whole beach alive.
Initially, the tide was still ebbing, so starting against the wind and tide gave no problems. However when the tide turned some of the less experienced sailors were having difficulty staying behind the line so PRO, Roger Stollery set a more off wind start against the tide.
There were still quite a few problems at the first mark when 5 or 6 overlapped boats tried to round, but there was only the occasional pile up. The racing was incredibly close with half a dozen boats often finishing within seconds giving line judge/scorers Linda Stollery and Emily Orr a hard time recording the total of 357 placings. The fluky conditions did allow there to be 10 different winners, but it was consistency that mattered and many found this very difficult! Lark sailor and previous champion Stephen Videlo started with a win followed in Race 2 by Graham Viney, who didn’t seem to be affected by any jet lag! Laser sailor, Ian Davidson won Race 3 and in the next it was a win for Graham’s father Alan. Wayfarer sailor, Bernard Kufluk won Race 5 from local Dragonfly dinghy sailor, John Fish sailing his brightly coloured harlequin pattern hull bottles. Not satisfied with second John won the next race from Ian and Alan. Then it was time for the ladies to shine and Dot Fraser won Race 7 with the final race of the morning won like the first, by Stephen. At lunch Bernard was leading with Ian second and Stephen third. The break allowed competitors to join in a superb barbecue for new WSC members, who were thoroughly enjoying the BOTTLE boat spectacle. It gave the opportunity for two independent architect judges to look closely at the boats to help select the best turned out. This award went to Dot Fraser with her striking black and white dotted hull, bottles and sails. The results of the afternoon’s racing were, like the wind, far from predictable, except for Peter Stollery who had come over for lunch and couldn’t resist having a race or two. He started well clear of everyone else at the windward end and recorded 1, 1, 1,3,1,3, showing that it was possible to be consistent. These places were not scored! Ian started well with a win in Race 9 with Alan second, but followed this with 4 poor results. Not content with second, Alan made no mistakes to win the next, followed by more podium places. Wayfarer sailor Neil Collingridge, who recovered from his technical troubles in the morning, was delighted to win Race 11. Graham Viney came back to win Race 12 and another top Wayfarer sailor, Mike Pert began to get some good places to win Race 13. Tim Norris was also getting the hang of the fickle winds finishing well with lots of podium places and winning Race 14. Bernard who was always in the top 10 also finished well with his second win in Race15. The penultimate Race 16 was good for Ian with the win taking him into a 2 point lead over Bernard and a 6 point lead over Tim. The Championship depended on the last race, which was won by Mike Pert with Bernard third, Tim fourth and Ian trailing in eighth, which allowed Bernard to snatch the Championship by just three points.
This year two new Championship trophies were presented. These were specially designed and made by ace 1960’s model yachtsman, Fred Shepherd from walnut that blew down in the 1987 October gale. These were both well received by Bernard and Junior Champion, Paul Morgan.

Results:
1st Bernard Kufluk Waldringfield SC 58, 2nd Ian Davidson WSC 61, 3rd Tim Norris WSC 63, 4th Alan Viney Guildford MYC 70, 5th Noel Fraser WSC 76, 6th Stephen Videlo WSC 79, 7th Mike Pert WSC 86, 8th Graham Viney 98, 9th Robert Norris WSC 118 , 10th Howard Ryan WSC 125, 11th Paul Morgan Guildford MYC 127, 12th  Matthew Lake WSC 134, 13th Dot Fraser WSC 143, 14th John Fish WSC 144, 15th Alan Morgan Guildford MYC 161, 16thNeil Collingridge WSC 162, 17th Simon Kernthaler 192, 18th Tim Elliot WSC 236, 19th Asher Parkinson WSC 251, 20th Malcolm Crawford WSC 299, 21st Howard Kufluk WSC 308.

Junior Champion:               Paul Morgan

Best turned out boat:           Dot Fraser

Click Here for the 2009 BOTTLE boat Championship Picture Page

RM Met & Southern Interclub #3 10th October 2009

This event was scheduled to be hosted by Reading Sailing Club Model Yacht Section on their water at Sonning Eye.  Due to unforeseen circumstances a re-venue was necessary and the Guildford Model Boat Club allowed their Abbey Meads water to be used instead, Reading Club expressed their gratitude at the skippers briefing.
The seven skippers, three from Guildford, two from Reading and two from Woodley gathered on a bright autumn day with a light westerly breeze.  Twelve races were run using a triangle and sausage course, Hugh McAdoo of the Guildford Club mastered the variable shifting wind and won the day.  Chris Brill of Woodley Club was second using a borrowed boat and Mark Mortimore of Guildford came third.
This was a friendly good natured meeting which concluded at approximately 2.30pm.

Results:

Position                       Name                                      Club
1                                  Hugh McAdoo                         Guildford
2                                  Chris Brill                                Woodley
3                                  Mark Mortimore                      Guildford
4                                  Geoff Sutton                           Guildford
5                                  Mike Mace                              Reading
6                                  Alan Oxlade                            Woodley
7*                                 Lionel Corper                          Reading
*Withdrew due to breakdown of boat.

Report by Tony Brailsford.

2009 'A' Boat Nationals at Fleetwood

At his 17th attempt Peter Stollery has won the 'A' boat nationals at Fleetwood. This is a week long event where you sail each competitor in turn and in this event with 17 entries you sail them twice after 2 rounds of the schedule.
As some of you know Peter and I have been hurriedly building a special lightweight version of my 1983 'Robot' design. Whilst I left Peter in the lead on Tuesday night he obviously didn't need my help to finish the job and win by a small margin. He was quite delighted.
Attached are the pics from the event and the Yachting Monthly Cup event on Wednesday in which we were knocked out in the first round!

Report by: Roger Stollery

Click Here for the 2009 'A' Boat Nationals Picture Page

2009 Footy Championship

Click Here for Frensham Pond Footy Info

A large fleet of tiny lightweight RC FOOTYs from 10 clubs enjoyed a brilliant championship of 15 races at Frensham Pond Sailing Club in a light variable, but gusty westerly breeze. All boats took only seconds to be measured by fitting into the foot by a foot by six inch measurement box. This simple and most inexpensive class attracted skippers from all over the country aged between 8 and 77 and all had a great deal of fun racing them.

PRO Roger Stollery’s briefing asked skippers to remember RRS rule 14 and try to avoid collisions, do penalty turns if obliged and most importantly, talk to each other whilst racing in a manner that they would like to be hailed. Note was taken and the wide start line, simple windward leeward course with a leeward gate helped, with very few collisions or raised voices. 

The 70metre grass area between dinghy launching ramps provided an ideal control area for the 300 metre long course. The westerly wind parallel to the bank became more south westerly, blowing through the trees during the championship and skippers who were able to make sense of the changes reaped the rewards. Whilst big rigs were the order of the day the gusts of 7 or 8 mph were strong enough to drive bows under briefly and make control offwind tricky.

The racing was dominated by experienced RC sailor Rob Vice sailing (17) a borrowed 2008 ‘AWK’ design, a powerful 500gram 5 plank double chine boat made of Correx stuck together with insulation tape and powered by a simple 550mm high swing rig.  He was only beaten on two occasions when he started late after seeing to his children’s boats. It was good to see three children taking part and displaying the best of sportsmanship.  Most remarkable of Rob’s wins was in Race 6 when he started over 2 minutes late and yet was able to sail through the fleet, finally overtaking a sister ship ‘AWK’(68) sailed by Frensham sailor, David Hawkins at the end of the final run to the line.

In Race 7 Paul Midgley with his own ‘GER’ single chine design(66) and beautiful double luff film sails took an early lead only to have this whittled away by Richard Alford whose consistency with previous three seconds was rewarded with a win. His 2005 design competition winner, ‘Footloose’ (3) is a very efficient 5 plank chine boat powered by a relatively small 500mm high swing rig.  At the lunch break Rob was leading with Richard second and Frensham sailor Charles Smith third.

Paul Midgley was determined to improve on his second place and in Race 8 made no mistake to win from Southwater Dabbler’s Nick Burden’s ‘HOTFOOT(16) and Cotswold’s David Wilkinson’s borrowed ‘ANT’(34).  There were some incredibly close finishes in the afternoon and in Race 9 John Birnie(180), Nick Burden(16), Geoff Sutton(53), Gary Sanderson(13) and young Hayley  Vice(118) crossed the line within seconds fighting for 8th place.

Everyone enjoyed the racing and the special ‘Frensham’ tea. At the prizegiving in the clubhouse competitors thanked the race officials, helpers and the Frensham club’s Model Yacht Group for putting on this championship at short notice when the Hampton Court’s lake weeded up. As well as the Champion’s ‘Lost Rock Trophy’, a beautiful new ‘Colt Foot’ trophy for the Junior Champion was initiated by Frensham Pond MYG and made locally by Guildford MYC’s top skipper of the 1960s, Fred Shepherd. This was much appreciated by the Junior Champion, Hayley Vice who also won a special prize for sportsmanship. Her younger brother Lockie aged 8 finished every race, improved with every race with his best result in Race 14 finishing in the top 10.

Results:
(place, name, club, design, score)
1st Rob Vice Guildford ‘AWK’ 13,  2nd Richard Alford Southwater Dabblers ‘FOOTLOOSE’ 37,  3rd Charles Smith Frensham Pond ‘ANT’ 59,  4th David Hawkins Frensham Pond ‘AWK’ 69,  5th Geoff Sutton Frensham Pond ‘BUG 3’ 70, 6th Paul Midgley Guildford ‘GER’ 82, 7th Gordon Edmondson Woking ‘AWK’ 87,  8th David Wilkinson Cotswold ‘IAMBUS’ 89,  9th Nick Burden Southwater Dabblers ‘HOTFOOT’ 102,  10th John Cadenhead Southwater  Dabblers ‘MICRON’ 102,  11TH Hayley Vice Guildford ‘ANT’ 136,  12th Gary  Sanderson Colwyn Bay ‘MONGOOSE’ 137, 13TH Bill Letten Hove Lagoon ‘MICRON’ 158,  14th John Birnie Gloucester ‘ZEPHYR’ 160,  15TH Lawrence Hartley Clevedon ‘507’ 174, 16TH Lockie Vice Guildford ‘BUG 3’ 194, 17th Andy Trewin Clevedon ‘K2’ 209, 18th Don Videlo Frensham Pond ‘BUG 3’ 237,  19th Mark Collyer Tri Forces ‘ANT’ 242.

Junior Champion – Hayley Vice

Congratulations to Paul Midgley and Gordon Edmondson on their 2nd and 3rd places in the Frensham Footy Open last Saturday. Congratulations also to Martin Crysell for winning the Marblehead District Championships at 3 Rivers a couple of weeks ago.

Met & Southern District Marblehead Ranking event 22nd March 2009
Notice of Race               
The Guildford Model Yacht Club extends a very warm welcome to all Marblehead enthusiasts for this year’s Met & Southern ranking event at our water at Abbey Meads lake, Chertsey. There will be lots of good racing, much pleasure and excitement in a friendly, but competitive atmosphere. Marblehead sailors are usually very well mannered so we would like to think that the local clubs as well as the regulars will support this event. As local clubs made up an entry of 16 for an Interclub event recently we know that you would enjoy sailing with a greater variety of club members like themselves from a wider range of clubs. Without entries there would be no event!

For those of you who have not been before, you will find ABBEY MEADS lake easily. From whatever direction you are travelling, follow the brown signs to THORPE PARK and go to the roundabout at their entrance. Then travel south on the A320 towards Chertsey and you will see the lake on your left. After a few hundred yards turn left off the road, where signposted ‘Chertsey Water Treatment Works’ and where you should also see a sign, RADIO SAILING. Alternately Use the 'Find Us' Tab for interactive directions with Google Maps.  If you are coming to watch and arrive whilst we are racing, follow the instructions on the gate and phone the number shown there to get the code to unlock the gate. Alternatively remember the 2008 code number to unlock the GMYC number padlock and replace it as you found it once you are through.

Roger Stollery will be the P.R.O and with his team will his best to give you a good day’s racing.
The current ISAF RSD Marblehead class rules will apply and the racing will be governed by the RRS 2005-2008 modified by the current MYA Standard Sailing Instructions, HMS 2007 and the MYA Regulations governing the organisation of the event.
The relevant notices are as follows:
BRIEFING - this will start at approximately 0945 hours.
RACING TIMES - the first race will start soon after the briefing at approximately 1000 hours - no race will start after 1630 hours and any race in progress at 1700 hours will be abandoned.

Please make the relevant boat certificate, PSN certificate and MYA membership cards available at the registration table in the covered area where the entry fee of £4.00 is to be paid as soon as possible after you arrive. Be prepared to have your boat checked against the length /depth measurement gauge at registration. We will inform competitors in advance if there is a requirement to add any prefix etc to modify sail numbers to avoid clashes. Please make sure that your sail numbers comply with the E6 rules, ie: except for symmetrical numbers 01, 08, 10, 18, 80 & 81 that require the prefix 1, just two digits on all your sails, unless we ask you to modify your sail number.

We would like you to enter using the MYA online entry system as this has many benefits for competitors and organisers alike. Go to the MYA website, click Racing Matters, Events searchable and the MYA calendar will appear, where there is a link shown for this event. From there just follow the instructions entering via method (3). It is very easy. Please ignore the requirement to send the entry fee prior to the event, as we would prefer the fees at registration. Please enter by midnight on
Thursday 19th March, but don’t leave entering to the last minute – enter now!

For more details or if you want to borrow a boat, or have any queries don’t hesitate to phone Roger Stollery 01483 421 801 or e-mail technical-sec-08@mya-uk.org.uk.

Next Sailing event at Abbey Meads Chertsey - 15th March Courage Cock - See Calendar

Fred's Big Toephy Postponed from 7th February to 28th February due to weather.

Marblehead "inter-club" series on Sunday 25th January 2009
Three Rivers RYC invite you and your colleagues to Rickmansworth Aquadrome for the first race in the 2009 Marblehead "inter-club" series on Sunday 25th January 2009.  The sailing lake is at its best in early winter and the jetty has recently been extended to improve the launching of boats.  Club members have also been busy laying chippings to ensure the skippers area is dry and inviting.

For those who have not been before detailed directions to the Aquadrome can be found at:
www.jlmale.freeserve.co.uk/sailwater/page1.html

Briefing will be at 09.45 and the first race will start soon after the briefing at approximately 10.00.  No race will start after 15.00.

There is no trophy for this event but there will be prizes for the winners - the entry fee is £3.00.  The closing date for entries is 18.00 on Saturday 24th January 2009
Please ring John with your entry on 01895 230707 or email him on the address above.   If you don't have a Marblehead, but would like to come please ask to borrow a boat.

The RM inter-club series is a celebration of Marblehead sailing and has always been a great day out with skippers enjoying friendly and competitive racing. 

We do hope you can come and join in the fun.

Best regards and Happy New Year,

John