Chichester Yacht Club Magazine January 2019 | Page 4

Club General Manager Manu Jenkin
On behalf of all the staff at CYC, I would like to
wish everyone a very Happy New Year and
hope it will include many hours spent on or by
the water, in or around our beautiful Chichester
Harbour.
You should all have received the 2019 Club
Programme that was sent to you last month
and if you have had the chance to leaf through
it, you will have seen that 2019 promises to be
another full year of activities.
On Board is the best
way to keep
informed on what is
happening in your
Club so if you are
not on our mailing
list, you can
subscribe to it via the website: the link can be
found under the information tab.
Every year, we strive to improve the
programme layout, making it easier to use and
On the water, there will be dinghy courses and more informative. There is a lot of data to
training for everyone from youth to adults,
check and process and in spite of our best
beginners to advanced sailors.
efforts, mistakes can slip through. We are
therefore very grateful to Dinghy member Pete
If you are an adult beginner dinghy sailor, we
who pointed out that the tide tables were
will be holding mini courses over four
incorrect, out by a day on most months. We will
weekends with the option of gaining RYA
be reprinting the tide tables, so you can slot
dinghy qualifications. We also have adult
them in your programme or keep them
dinghy coaching from April to October including separately.
some evening sessions.
For youth, we offer RYA 1 to 3 courses as well
as Optimist and youth coaching for improvers
and advanced sailors.
We will continue to run Power boat courses,
leading to ICC qualifications, and will hold a
DSC radio course on Feb 9th and RYA first aid
course on March 16th. There will also be
informal training ranging from technical mini
lectures, VHF refresher, land based passage
planning, tips on safe and comfortable
anchoring to name but a few. These sessions
are open to all sections.
On the social side, we have lots to look forward
to including some initiatives such as our
Themed Supper Nights on the 3rd Wednesday
of the month during our winter hours. Look out
for pie and pint, steak, Chinese, Mexican,
Italian or fish nights and let us know if you are
planning to come so the kitchen can cater
accordingly. There will be more information to
be found in our On Board newsletters.
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Club Closure
The club will be closed for staff training on
January 14th and February 5th. We apologise
for the inconvenience and thank you for your
understanding.