Chichester Yacht Club Magazine September 2018 | Page 6

Events Update – by Emily, Bar and Events Manager
What a great summer we’ve had, with the
weather enabling us to make full use of our
gorgeous garden area, and giving you time to
really enjoy our cocktails, gins and fantastic
food served by Andy, Keith and the hard-
working kitchen team.
Real Ale and Jazz
We will be asking for cake donations from you
good people, whether it’s homemade or shop-
bought, the more the merrier; to be delivered to
the club by 5pm on Thursday 27th September,
to Emily or Tara..
We will be pouring the coffee, and just ask that
you donate your pennies to this wonderful
charity. Please text the code JAM UVM2 to
70550, and it will donate £5 straight to our
Macmillan fund; where I can check on the
running total that we donate.
This was a brilliant day, which many of you
joined us for. With ales from Dark Star, a gin
and cocktail menu of great variety, there was
something for everyone to wet their whistle with
whilst listening to the wonderful jazz bands that The kitchen will provide food, so we would
encourage people to book, so they have an
played us through the day and into the night.
idea of numbers.
The Paëlla and Moules Marinières proved very
Meet the Brewery & Band Night
popular, and we served just under 400 meals
throughout the day. We are looking forward to
planning next year’s event already!
On Saturday 15th September, we have the
chance to meet one of the Brewers from Dark
Star. Daryll will join us to talk through the
MacMillan Coffee Morning
process of the beers that they make, and will
have some samples for us to try.
What better charity to support than Macmillan
Cancer Support.
We then have ‘Jack Rabbit’ playing live music
Friday 28th September, at 10.30am, we will be covers. Time to get those dancing shoes on
hosting a Macmillan Coffee morning in the top again!
end of the restaurant.
Do you have any sail clothing/wetsuits/accessories
you are just not using any more and would like to sell
or are you looking for great value second hand kit?
Based in the Sloop we have set up a CYC Sale Rail -
feel free to browse or if you are selling, simply label up
your kit with your name, a brief description and price
and hang (transactions go through the Office and 20
percent of the sale price goes to the Club).
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