Commodore’s Report
First and foremost may I thank you all for your continued support during what has been a fairly difficult
year for your Management Committee, who have all been working hard to ensure that the improvements made to the Club’s financial situation continue throughout the year. I am very happy to report
that at this stage our trading position is much improved when compared to recent past years. This
does not mean that there is not still a great deal more work to be done by us all to secure our financial
future in the long term. In particular we really do need you the Members to use the Club more often
and all to do your utmost to recruit New Members to join us.
Our social programme over the year has been very successful overall and included a wide range of new
and varied events which have generally been well attended; Thank you.
Of particular note within
the programme were our Annual Dinner Dance at the St Georges Hotel, which was again very well
attended with an excellent dinner and all the normal dancing and fun. Our President Terry Worthington
and Dot as usual organised this event and I would thank them both sincerely for their tremendous work
to make it the success that it so obviously was.
The New Year’s Eve Party organised by Martin Bushnell and Alan Courtney was also adjudged a great
success by all you “Cowboys and Girls” who attended. The “fastest draw” competition, with electronic
monitoring was won by Val “Annie Oakley” Moss! Big John Broadhead again provided the musical
entertainment; Well done all!
The ongoing social programme up to the Fitting out Party is already
posted on the club website; this will be added to with the Summer Programme in the near future.
On the Sailing front our 2014 programme was really successful with a wider variety of Members boats
than ever before participating in many interesting and varied events.
The biggest success of all
was our Bart’s Bash race; this was part of a worldwide attempt by the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation charity to break the world record for the biggest ever sailing race, with all the funds raised by the
event being donated to the foundation. I am pleased to report that our NWCC event was, in terms of
the amount of money raised for the charity the Number 1 event in Wales and 40th in the whole world
out of the hundreds of clubs that participated. Boats from all over North Wales competed in our race
and enjoyed a fantastic social event at our club on the preceding evening and a great race on the big
day. An enormous “well done” to Steve Gorst, our Sailing Captain and all his helpers for their work on
behalf of both the event and the club.
From the New Initiative perspective I am happy to report that the Cadet Recruitment drive did achieve a
measure of success and that some of the Cadets who joined have been active in sailing with boatowning Members. We are planning Ѽ