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TMSC NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 3
WINTER 2015
Commodore’s chat...
Inside this issue:
“Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure
there.”
Commodore’s Chat
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Cadets
2
Windsurfers
2
Divers
3
Summer cruise
4
Social calendar
5
Quoting JK Rowling’s words was
Stolen outboards
5
Your committee
5
Dinghy news
6
President’s Potterings
6
Tuesday talks
7
Situations vacant
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not really how I wanted to start this
newsletter but it is sad to say that we
have had real trouble with thefts from
the outboard store this year and will
have to undertake significant work to
make it more secure for the future. We
aim to have the work complete by lift
in on 21 March but I ask all members to
challenge or report anybody they see
acting suspiciously around the yard.
Sport England
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TMSC congratulates
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You can now follow us on Twitter - @tmosquitosc
Just as you are preparing for this years
sailing, so too are the committee working hard to set in place our programme
for the year and provide you with the
facilities you need to enjoy your membership - be it on the water, socially or
both. As ever I look forward to seeing
you all in and around the club over the
coming months.
We continue to look at all aspects of
club business and lay down plans for
future strategies. Unfortunately our
recent questionnaire fell approximately 250 returns short of what
would have been viable for analysis. So
in future we shall be seeking a better
way to reach our members and get a
broader view of your thoughts.
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Congratulations! to our six trainee dinghy sailing instructors who passed
their course and, with some further
work to do, should be running courses
this year for children and adults to gain
RYA sailing qualifications. These volunteers will be giving their time for free
and we hope to run these courses
cheaper than elsewhere, appealing
therefore to as wide an audience as
possible. Look out for further details
and hopefully I will see you on the water.
A final sentence to say look out in this
newsletter for articles on how to further protect your outboard, a headsup on this years social programme for
your diaries and ‘situations vacant’
where you can make a difference this
year by volunteering to help out.
Steve Creek
[email protected]
RNLI Christmas cards
The sale of RNLI Christmas cards at
the club raised over £260 for RNLI
funds. Many thanks to all those
that bought cards. Ian Scott ViceCommodore
The members who have continued windsurfing through
the winter have had some
very windy conditions with
fun had by all. Many are
travelling to beaches all
over Cornwall and Devon
to try different locations.
As 2014 came to an end we were
pleased to award our cadets of the
year with their trophies at dinghy prize
-giving in November. Grace Cowd was
awarded Girl Cadet of the Year, taking
over from her sister Bethan. Grace has
a lovely attitude and always takes an
active part in sessions. This year she
took part in Bart’s Bash and the Feva
Frenzy challenge. She helped out at
our Open Day and has started club
racing. We look forward to seeing her
taking part in more events this year
and progressing her sailing skills.
Our Boy Cadet of the Year - Josef Sellors - is a delight to have in cadets. He
only joined us last season and always
has a smile on his face. He was undaunted after capsizing soon after he
joined and we've seen his confidence
build as the weeks passed. He also
takes an active part in sailing sessions
despite being one of our younger
members. We look forward to seeing
Josef back at cadets in March and seeing him get back on the water. Special
mention too, to Noah Rees who won a
trophy for the highest placed cadet in
the summer dinghy series.
Noah Phillippa & Ronnie
lost. Hopefully we will have good news
soon for those people patiently waiting for places at cadet sessions now
we have additional sailing instructors.
Phillippa Smerdon Cadet Co-ordinator
The section has sessions on
Saturdays around high tide
time all year and in the summer on Tuesday evenings
from 17.30 until 20.00. We
welcome new participants.
[email protected]
Contact Allen on
[email protected]
Grace, Phillippa & Ronnie
We finished our season at our annual
Christmas party in December. Party
games were played, hopefully lots of
fun was had and party food provided
by Kilby - rounded off our get together.
It will be great getting back to cadets
in 2015 and making the most of our
Cornish spring and summer. A huge
thanks to everyone who supports the
cadets section including Debbie in the
hut, her husband Martin, Al, Neil, Islay,
Kate, Marsha on the shore and all
those who help rig, de-rig the boats,
those who support cadets at our open
days, the safety boat crew and finally
not forgetting Ronnie Carter and Matt
Reeves without whom we would be
“Josef is
a delight
to have in
cadets”
R: Josef receiving his trophy
Don’t forget Thursday
night is quiz night
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The students are still attending weekly to try and
complete their startwindsurfing course when
the weather makes it possible.
ISSUE 3
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CUBA DIVING
“We dived the
world’s first submarine aircraft
carrier”
The dive club has enjoyed a great summer of
diving. We visited many of
the local wrecks and reefs
using the club boat which is permanently on the water in the marina.
In March we celebrated our 25th Anniversary with a dive on the Scylla and
the James Eagan Layne and an evening
of celebrations at TMSC. We had a couple of founder members attend and
this really made the evening special.
At the beginning of June we made our
annual trip to Penzance for the Kernow Dive Festival- an opportunity for
clubs from all over the South West to
dive together on the Saturday and
then have a B-B-Q in the evening. The
event raises money for the DDRC
(Diving Diseases Research Centre) in
Plymouth which doesn’t just treat divers. Hyperbaric treatment is used to
treat a range of conditions such as
carbon monoxide poisoning, smoke
inhalation, burns, sores and tissue
damage after radiation treatment.
Later in June we dived the wreck of
the M2 in Lyme Bay, Dorset. The M2
was the world's first undersea aircraft
carrier - the submarine carried a small
Join us on
two-seater seaplane in a watertight
hangar. The seaplane had folding
wings and was launched by catapult
off the deck. It was hoisted on board
and into the hangar by a specially designed small crane. It sank off Portland
in 1932 during routine exercises.
Cornwall Divers to dive the wreck of
the Sapphire. What a fantastic wreck!
Loads of fish, great visibility (15M+);
one of the best UK wreck dives we
have ever done.
Throughout the year we have been
running various training programmes.
We are currently running an Ocean
Diver Training programme for 4 Students.
If anyone wants to join us, we meet
every Wednesday evening in the bar at
TMSC.
September saw us visiting the North
Coast - diving out of Rock with Mid
Contact us for more info:
[email protected]
Saturday 21 February for our first
Diver race evening
Bet on your choice of diver.
They have been training
hard to fin the fastest and
avoid getting distracted
by the dolphins!
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TMSC Summer Cruise …avec les Français!
Will they make it across the
Channel or won’t they? This year’s
summer cruise was on home grounds
at the request of our friends from the
Yacht Club de l’Odet who were coming across to join us as we bimbled
our way down the Cornish coast towards Scilly. The French plan was to
assemble in the Yealm to rest overnight and prepare themselves for the
Club reception the following day, but
the weather was horrendous…the
Channel was rough, the winds were
violent with torrential rain but as we
searched marinetraffic.com for AIS
from the French boats we could see
Donald Duck with skipper Alain Massot underway from Benodet through
the Raz and on to Camaret then disappearing…out of range part way
across the Channel…but…there he is
again, being picked up by AIS on the
British side and heading into the
Yealm. So they made it! Donald Duck
accompanied by Talenduic, Gwalarn,
Ty Punch, Gotland and Cloudy Bay.
Once we had settled the French
boats onto Club & TYH moorings the
next day the reception for them in
the Club was a predictably riotous
affair with much merriment. Congratulations go to Bill Shimmel for
attempting to marry together Halfway Harmony and Dave Mashford
with songs that might (or might
not…) be on the songsheets we gave
them!
Then on to Fowey tacking against a
headwind. It’s a good job Tony had
booked us a pontoon as there were
twenty boats in our combined fleet
The Royal Fowey Yacht Club
provided a splendid BBQ. We
never tire of Fowey and the
French loved it. Next day we
set sail for the Fal coming
alongside at the long pontoon
before Malpas in an increasing
NorthWesterly wind, a tricky
manoeuvre for some boats.
Despite the gale blowing down
the river the French were determined that we should go
ahead with the planned pontoon BBQ and
were quite taken
with our Trago disposable BBQs….a
good commercial
venture there for an
imaginative entrepreneur as the French
claimed they had
nothing like it in
France. Talanduic had
been particularly successful on the way
and had eighteen
mackerel for the BBQ
which we insisted
must be served on
Union Jack plates which we just happened to have standing by.
The wind was still strong from the
NorthWest the next day which was
going to cause us problems getting
alongside at Falmouth Yacht Haven.
Luckily, Chris Thomas on Cosmos was
already there having called in to collect stores the previous day only to
find he was pinned against the pontoon and unable to leave. So one by
one we made our approaches and
with an ever-increasing shore crew
managed to get all boats alongside
without damage. Falmouth is great
fun, the French have nothing like the
Chain Locker and loved it, although
there was a painting of the battle of
Trafalgar on the wall and some lively
Doom Bar- fuelled debate took place
on the finer points of the battle
(Talanduic was crewed by three retired French Naval Officers!)
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We said farewell to most of our
French friends at the Helford River
Sailing Club as they headed back for
Brittany although some stayed with
us on to Penzance and Scilly. We
ended up in the Bishop and Wolf in
Hugh Town watching the World Cup
final with Christian Bolzer and Vincent Drezen from Gwalarn. Great fun
had by all!
Nigel Bunker Rode Stella
Hi Brigitte,
I enjoyed the news letter which made
TMSC seem a little closer to SYGalatea,
moored at present at Sodertalje in Sweden. I will be heading into Lake Malaren
via the one lock, not the 58 needed to get
to Lake Vanern as mentioned in my talk
during the winter. I did the sketch below
from the cockpit at Figeholm, where I
sailed to for my grandchildren's christening.
After the President's confession about
soap, I have to confess to opening up the
chart plotter in Germany only to discover
I had left the electronic charts and paper
charts needed at home!! My intention
had been to do some passage planning
during the winter. Fair winds to everybody.
Douglas Addison,
Galatea of London
ISSUE 3
31 January
Cheese & Wine
8pm
21 February
Divers Race Night
7pm
7 March
St Piran’s Day Celebrations
8pm
14 March
St Patrick’s Day Party
8pm
5 April
Children’s Easter Egg Hunt
2pm
1 –3 May
The legendary Beer Festival Weekend
7 June
Craft Fair
29 August
St Luke’s Charity Event
STOLEN OUTBOARDS
Have you any information? Four
For more info contact Laurie Barton-Ingram [email protected] or
see www.tmsc.org.uk or Facebook
Your Committee 2014/15
outboard engines were stolen in a
break-in between 9 and 19 of November. Details of three of the engines
are:
Mercury 3h.p. serial number
09877538
Honda 2h.p. number 1016221
model BF2QX
Suzuki 2.5h.p. 0025F 423670
Please let us know if you find or are
offered any of these. Ian Scott, Vice
Commodore.
What you can do. It’s not just us according to an article on the RYA
website, in January 2014 on average
one outboard motor was stolen a
DAY according to joint insurance and
police theft register
www.stolenboats.org.uk. To state
the obvious, when not in use ,try to
keep your valuables safe, hidden and
locked. Mark them permanently with
your personal details and when storing your outboard in our store make
sure it is chained to the fixings provided. Register your property with
www.facebook.com/Immobilise or a
similar online site so that if it is stolen, the police can return it to you.
There is lots more info at http://
www.rya.org.uk/newsevents/
enewsletters/Sportsboatsandribs/
Pages/Protectingyouroutboard.aspx
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From left : Bob Holder Honorary Secretary, Ralph Smith Website,
Bernard Niven Diving Representative, Ian Scott Vice-Commodore,
Jack Mann Sailing Secretary Dinghies, Brigitte Mann Press & Publicity, Graham McDiarmid Committee Member, Peter Nathan Treasurer, Nick Bartlett Committee Member, Allan Adams Windsurfing
Representative, Steve Creek Commodore. Not in photo: Laurie
Bartron-Ingram Social Secretary, Dee Casey Brown Sailing Secretary Yachts, Phillippa Smerdon Cadet Co-ordinator, Tom Crane
Committee Member, Jamie Watts Rear-Commodore (co-opted).
side the club house. We’re normally back on shore within an
hour.
What a great summer. The dinghy section has
sailed in no wind and in heavy wind; we’ve sailed with giant
barrel jelly fish and shoals of mackerel and avoided submarines & kayaks. It was a very successful year with the fleet
increasing throughout.
Anyone interested in racing, dinghy courses, or the hire of club
boats pleas contact me. I send out regular emails and race reports to dinghy sailors so again let me know if you want to go on
the email list.
Jack Mann, [email protected].
Six of our sailors have been successful in passing the RYA
Dinghy Instructors course this January. They are looking forward to helping with the cadets and running adult courses in
the New Year, and getting even more sailors on the water.
We competed in Bart’s Bash - the largest sailing event ever.
Nine boats and a safety boat sailed to Mountbatten Breakwater before competing against other clubs from the Plymouth area. Our club sailors took 1st and 3rd and along with
the four of our cadets that took part, the other boats finished throughout the fleet. Other successful events in 2014
included two pursuit races - one of about 13 miles up the
river to Warren Point and back.
We have a full sailing programme planned for 2015 including
events competing against other clubs. We start on Sunday 1
February with the Spring Series. I would like to take this opportunity to encourage all club members to come down on
dinghy race days to sail, socialize or help with race management. The Sunday races start at 1100. You will find us from
about 10.00 am rigging in the boat park and then racing out-
Look out for our race reports
in the local press
The President’s Potterings - or looking
back over the years at TMSC….
My first sailing boat was a
wooden Mirror dinghy built at home
from a kit.
"Dead easy to build" the boat show
blurb said and proceeded to have one
built in a weekend by four schoolgirls.
That convinced me; £65 for the kit
was extracted from the housekeeping
money and the car was banished from
the garage.
The novelty of this boat was that you
sewed flat panels together with wire
and glass fibred the joints. How the
four schoolgirls managed to build one
in a weekend is a mystery to me. The
project took over my spare time for
the whole winter and it was far from
easy to construct. How I cursed the
four schoolgirls!
Above: a Mirror dinghy c 1970
Below: a fleet of 30 TMSC boats
Six months later Sinbad emerged and
the proud moment came when
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How I cursed the
four schoolgirls!”
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went afloat. We had some of our happiest times sailing on that little boat and
my two boys rapidly became confident
helms. Ken Prior, our Commodore, saw
an opportunity to get our youngsters
sailing so he convinced many members to
buy the kits for our cadets. They would
repay back the debt in stage payments.
This brought our Mirror fleet up to thirty
plus boats. This club has never been short
of good ideas.!
Dave England
ISSUE 3
Winter Tuesdays at Torpoint
Mosquito - a free series of talks &
events open to all
10 February
Tony Brown, High Tide Sailing & Training Principal
TMSC – Safety at Sea
17 February
Steve Whitting, Home Office – The work of the Border Force Around Our Coast
3 March
Rob Brenton, submersible engineer – Anchors and
the Internet
Boat jumble
and yacht
and dinghy
race
registration
Tuesday 7
April 19.30
17 March
Phil Ackland, Allspars - Rigging
31 March
Meryvn Wheatly – The Ostar Race – there and back
SITUATIONS VACANT
Race team assistant
Hours Needed: Dependent on the other volunteers available but approx once a week for
around three hours.
Brief Job Description: You will be assisting the
race officer with running yacht or dinghy races.
This will involve hoisting flags, taking down
competitors’ sail numbers and lap times, etc.
Skills Required: This role requires someone to
be organised and accurate. A VHF radio licence
is beneficial but not essential.
Contact: Jack Mann, sailing secretary, dinghies
to discuss this role further: [email protected]
Ad Hoc Volunteer Team Members
Hours Needed: No set time required
Brief Job Description: We are creating a database of people who will be willing to offer their
time as and when it is needed for events such
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SITUATIONS VACANT
as open days, work parties – and just to fill
in from time to time when we are short of
people to run races etc. It is the perfect way
to help your Club while not having to commit a specific amount of time.
Skills Requested: Flexibility and openmindedness is key to this role. As we do not
know what may be required, it is important
for these volunteers to have a positive attitude towards embracing new opportunities.
Contact: Ian Scott Vice-Commodore to sign
up for the team or to discuss this role further; [email protected]
Volunteer Co-ordinator
Hours needed: Probably around a day a
week; less as the position evolves and systems are developed.
Brief Job Description: A skilled peopleperson is needed to develop the new role of
Volunteer Co-ordinator. Working closely
with the Management Committee to iden
SITUATIONS VACANT
tify volunteer vacancies and develop recruitment, reward & recognition systems, the post
holder will provide a focal point for volunteers
& volunteering within the club. He/she will coordinate the implementation of volunteer
recruitment, training and support plans, recognise & nominate volunteers for volunteer
awards, work with the social secretary to organise social & recruitment events for volunteers, attend committee meetings as appropriate and be responsible for the writing, implementation, co-ordination & evaluation of a club
volunteer development plan.
Skills Required: approachable & a good listener, confident & effective communicator, be
able to delegate work/devise work programmes, good role model, enthusiastic and a
good motivator.
Contact: Steve Creek Commodore to discuss
this important role further; [email protected].
Thanks to all those who said they could help in
our recent questionnaire. Where we have
contact details we will be in touch shortly.
Sport England - Get Inspired; An Update
When Torpoint Mosquito Sailing
Club was awarded £44,300 just
before Christmas 2012, the objective was to improve our facilities
in and around the club in order to
increase the numbers of people
participating in their chosen water sport. Whether that chosen
sport was diving, windsurfing,
dinghy racing, yacht racing or
joining our thriving cadet section,
the object was to increase the
numbers of people doing it.
In our application to Sport England we had to put forward targets and we now have to submit
achievements against those targets. The targets were worked
out based on the numbers of
people taking part over a whole
year, each section reporting its
achievements each month. The
first year started in October 2013
(when the building works finished) so at the end of September 2014 our first year was complete.
Our target for the first year was
3,856 events. An event is one
member at the club partaking in
their sport.
Target 3,856. Events achieved
5,124. That’s an amazing 33%
increase.
The sections with increases over
their targets are:
Divers +129%
the hard work and dedication of
the heads of all sections and the
support of the many volunteers
who help make it all possible.
A HUGE WELL DONE TO ALL
CONCERNED.
All we have to do now is beat our
targets for the next four years!!
That’s right; we have targets for
five years. One down, four to go.
Not much of a chore as that’s all
we have to do after the award of
so much money.
Hugh Napp Rear Commodore
(Hugh left the Committee at the
AGM in November 2014 although
he continued to act as Rear Committee until Jamie Watts was coopted to the role in January 2015.
We would all like to thank Hugh
for his tremendous hard work on
behalf of TMSC without which we
would not have achieved our
Sport England award).
“Target 3,856. Events
achieved 5,124. That’s
an amazing 33% increase”.
TMSC congratulates:
Former Commodore and Trustee David Bradford who
was recently awarded Life
Membership in recognition of
his long service.
Dog’s Jorrocks helm Steve
Wassell who was awarded
The Sir Francis Drake Statuette for the PPSA Yachtsman
of the Year which is awarded
for conspicuous and outstanding achievement in the
field of sailing.
Young club member Imogen
Bellfield who came second
in the Mirror Class African
Championships and fourth in
the Mirror Worlds at the recent regatta in Theewater,
South Africa.
Newsletter articles
If you have any news photos or small ads for a future
edition of the newsletter please email:
Brigitte Mann [email protected]
Yachts +56%
Cadets +37%
Dinghies +8%
The increase of 33% overall would
not have been possible without
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