Newsletter Nov 1999
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Newsletter Nov 1999 |
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. FRIDAY, 26th NOVEMBER. The Clubs Annual General Meeting takes place on FRIDAY, 26th NOVEMBER from 8.00pm at the Clubhouse. If applicable the Notice of the Meeting and Agenda is attached (last page). Lists for Nominations for the various elected positions are on display on the Notice boards in the downstairs hall in the Clubhouse. Please remember this is your Club and this is your opportunity to have your say, hear how the Club is progressing and influence its future direction - so do try and attend. THE 1999 COASTAL ROWING SEASON The Club has an a good season - certainly an improvement on the last few years. Hi-lights were - winning the Men's Junior Senior Coxed Championship event at the Southcoast Championships Regatta, the Silver and Bronze Medals at the National Rowing Championships, runners-up for the Hants & Dorset Men's Junior Senior Fours Championship and the Ladies Novice Fours Championships - and 3rd place in the Men's Junior Fours and Novice Ladies Fours Hants & Dorset Championships as well as being the unofficial Hants & Dorset Cadet Champions for the third successive year. For more details see the "Rowing Update". Christmas Draw The Christmas draw is underway - and will be made at around 9.00pm on Christmas Eve at the Clubhouse - the usual festive prizes - please buy as many as you can so Henry dose not win them all!
New Year’s Eve Event at the Clubhouse. From 7.30pm to 1.00am (Subject to Bar extension), Friday, 31st December, 1999.
This year the Club Committee has agreed to hold a joint function with the Isle of Wight Motorcycle Club at the Clubhouse. The event is aimed primarily at families and entry will be by Ticket only - and will be restricted to Members of the IoW Motorcycle Club (who have had a restricted number of tickets made available to them) - and Club Members and their guests- and due to licensing and safety restrictions tickets will be limited.
Tickets will cost Two pounds Fifty pence each - and in addition members children, under 16 will be allowed in free.
It is hoped to provide music, children's entertainment - and a Fireworks display as well as other entertainment yet to be decided upon. Refreshment's will be in the "American Supper" style with everyone expected to bring a contribution.
Tickets will be available exclusively from Steph Hickman - 145, Great Preston Road, Ryde, IoW. PO33 1AZ - Telephone 01983 613077 - and, as advised to all members in the last Newsletter, have been on sale since 20th August, on a first come first serve basis. Apart from those allocated to the Motorcycle Club Tickets sales were restricted to Club Members until 1st October, when unsold Tickets became available to members guests.
As allowed by the Club Rules this event and the use of the Clubhouse on this evening will be restricted to Ticket holders and there will be no general entry to Club members or their Guests. --------------------------------------------------------- BAR COMMITTEE.
BAR STAFF NEEDED! Due to lack of support the Club Bar will be closed during the winter months on Monday and Thursday evenings -except in special circumstances (function etc..) and will open later - around 8.30pm on Tuesdays. The Club Bar is usually open on all other evenings - and on Sunday Dinner Times - from 12 Noon - although this relies on Members volunteering to Staff the Bar. In particular we are struggling to get staff for Saturday and Sunday evenings - if you can help - even with just one evening a month - or at Social functions this would be a great help to us. Contact the Bar Manager - Steph Hickman on 613077. If you intend to use the Club in the evening - especially - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday - it would be worth phoning the Club first on 562127 to make sure it is open.
MERRYDOWN SAILING RACE. Most of you will be aware that the Club runs an Annual Sailing Race from Appley Beach. The following E Mailed to the Club by Neville Hill is David Lloyd's (probably the Merrydown weekend's keenest fan) account for the yachting press. "The annual Ryde Rowing club sailing weekend was held over the weekend of September 11/12 and attracted an entry of 30 plus boats. The races are open to anyone sailing anything and are unique in that the weekend has had the same sponsor since the 1950s (MERRYDOWN CIDER) This year entries varied from a Mirror to a Tornado!!! The biggest classes were the Dart18s with ten and 5O5s with six. The course is always the same - Twice round the edge of Ryde Sands at high water of course. Saturday the course was East about with the beat against the tide and Sunday West about with the run against the tide. Competition was red hot with former 505 and prindle National Champions and the current Dart18 World Champion. Another major feature of the event is that the prizes are of course Merrydown Cider which everybody receives after racing. Prizes are given for any other reason as well as the results and the party then went on into the early hours. Sunday morning saw the annual pilgrimage to the 9 hole pitch & put golf course behind the club for the other major trophy of the weekend. ( Its the ideal way to cure the inevitable hang over from the night before and to wait for the tide to come in!!!) Next year sees the 40th continuous year of the sponsorship and an even bigger event is planned take this as your invite NOW!!! SEPTEMBER 16th/17th 2000 The Results:- Merrydown Cup (Sunday) 1st Dart18 Gareth Owen & Amanda Gadsby (Arthur Andersen) 5863 Dee S C 2nd Dart 18 David Lloyd & Sam May ( Easthams - Typhoon) 5891 Stokes Bay S C 3rd Tornado Stuart Gummer & Moira Dykes 5902 SBSC 4th Tornado Bob Crouch & John Stewart 5950 Portsmouth S C Vena Phillips Cup (Saturday) 1st Contender P Wilkinson 3777 Seaview 2nd Tornado Crouch & Stewart 3869 3rd Dart 18 Barry Hobbs & Gaye Robson 3873 SBSC 4th Dart 18 Lloyd & May 3893 PRESENTATION DINNER & DANCE. The Clubs Annual Presentation Dinner and Dance took place on Saturday, 30th October at the Ryde Theatre. Colin Eales the Captain of Southsea Rowing Club made the toast to the Club which Club Captain Ian Lennie responded to. The Club presentations were then made by International Oarsman - Louis Attrill and Simon Dennis who handed out the traditional "Club spoons" to first time winners and the following awards - Oarsman of the Year - Mark Young, Oars woman of the year - Anna Bateman, First Year Oarsman - Ben Ade, First Year Oars women - Louise Austin, Coxswains Cup - Dave Hanson, Coaches Cup - Nick Salter, Committee Cup - Sharmon Young and Captains Cup - Chris Walker. USE OF CLUBHOUSE & MINIBUS. The Clubhouse is available for use by Members for Parties, receptions etc.. and Bar Extensions can usually be arranged. There are a number of conditions and restrictions imposed - in most cases a small hire fee will be charged, plus the cost of any Bar extension and a returnable deposit. Catering can also be arranged in certain circumstances - first contact should be with Steph Hickman on 613077 - to book a date and discuss details. Under certain circumstances, and subject to meeting various conditions it is possible for Club members to use the Club Minibus. It may also be possible to provide a driver. Any member interested in the use of this facility should contact Mick Slasor, Club Secretary in the first instance.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS. Wednesday, 10th November - Ryde High School Quiz in Main Lounge. Friday, 19th November - Ten Pin Bowling Club AGM, Small Lounge. Saturday, 20th November - Round the Island Reunion. 8.00pm. Main Lounge. By Invitation. Thursday, 25th November, 8.00am. Talk by Adrian Searle - I.W. Folklore - plus Fish & Chip Supper. Main Lounge - all welcome.
Friday, 26th November, 8.00pm - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. Saturday, 4th December - Private Party - by Invitation only. NOTE. In accordance with Club Rules & Licensing Laws the General Committee have approved exclusive use of Large and Small Lounge’s - Club will be closed to Members. Sunday, 5th December, pm. Main Lounge. Members Birthday Party. Invitation only. Thursday, 16th December, Main Lounge - Talk on Parkhurst Prison - all welcome. Friday, December, 24th, from 8.00pm - CHRISTMAS DRAW in Main Lounge. - all welcome. Friday, 31st December - From 8.00pm until the early hours - New Years Eve Party with I.W. Motorcycle Club. Ticket Only. NOTE. In accordance with Club Rules & Licensing Laws the General Committee have approved exclusive use of Large and Small Lounge’s - Club will be closed to non-ticket holders. See item on page 1. JOHN DEAR. It is with deep regret that the Club has to record the death of one of its Vice Presidents - John Dear - John was a former Committee Member and a member of the record breaking 1965 Round the Island Crew. The Club extends its sympathy to wife Rosemary, son Steve and family.
Steve Bull. Editor. 10, Brookfield Gardens, Binstead, Ryde, I.W. PO33 3NP.
Ryde Rowing Club. ROWING Update.
The Clubhouse, Appley Park, Ryde, Isle of Wight. PO33 1ND. Tel: 01983 562127. November, 1999. NEWS FOR ROWING MEMBERS - FROM THE ROWING SUB COMMITTEE.
A SUCCESSFUL SEASON! Ryde are Southcoast Junior Senior Champions! Ryde finished a successful 1999 Coastal season with a magnificent win at the Southcoast Championships Regatta. The Ryde crew of Dom Pivonka, Lee Morey, Chris Van Wyk, Mark Young (Str) and Dave Hanson (Cox) pulled off the unexpected and surprising win (unexpected and surprising to everyone but Ryde anyway!) in the Men’s Junior Senior Championship Race at the Southcoast Championship Regatta - to become Junior Senior Champions of the South Coast. Selected to be the Hants & Dorset Amateur Rowing Association’s second representative crew, behind Hants & Dorset Champions - Vospers - in some what controversial circumstances they have more than justified their selection in what was a great day for the Hants & Dorset ARA who captured four of the five Championship events including the Bideford Bowl - for the Mens Senior Fours - for the first time in ten years. The Championship Regatta was scheduled to be held at Swanage on Saturday, 18th September - but was postponed after gale force winds lashed the coastal town making rowing impossible. It was only marginally better on the Sunday - so the Regatta was switched to Poole Harbor - for the Championship events only - a great disappointment for the seven crews Ryde had entered for the open events. However the weekend was salvaged by the Junior Senior Crew’s magnificent win - after the closest of races - with the three crews finishing within a canvas of each other and the first four crews within half a length. Indeed as the race ended no one seemed to know who had won - with the commentator originally believing Bideford Blues had won with Ryde back in third. After an agonizing wait the official verdict came through - Ryde by less than a canvas from Shoreham, with Bideford Blues third and Vospers - Hants & Dorset Champions in fourth. The win was all the more remarkable for the fact that the Ryde three man’s seat had disintegrated after half the course and he had completed the race with only half the wheels on his seat! Hants & Dorset Regattas. The Junior Senior crew won three times - at Southampton Town, Bournemouth and Milford and also recorded seven second places. The Mens Junior A Crew of Gary Ranson, Richard Adams, Chris Jenkins and Gary Walters and coxed by Ashley Maitland also won during the season - at Worthing Regatta - to gain promotion to Junior senior status for next season - and they also had three second places and were the favourites for the Open event, had it been held at the Southcoast championships. There were two men’s Novice wins - one at Worthing - with a J16 crew of Matt Coggins, Ben Ade, Matt Allsopp, Steve Salter, and cox Sam Billington - went on to compete well in the Junior status. The second win came at our own Regatta - with an even younger crew - J15 - consisting Chris Walker, Sean Dubois, Lee Bennett and Matt Bull, coxed by Ashley Maitland. We also had two Ladies Novice wins - at Poole and Vosper The winning crew was Louise Austin, Jo Cleaver, Hannha Firth and Anna Bateman, coxed by Kathryn Arnold. As a result of these point wins - Ryde were runners-up for the Hants & Dorset Junior Senior Championships and the Ladies Novice Championships and were third in the Mens Junior Championship and Mens Novice Championship. The Clubs two Cadet wins also made us the Hants & Dorset ARA’s Unofficial Cadet Champions for the third year in succession. With the Silver and Bronze medals won at the National Championships and reported in the last Rowing Update you can see this was one of our most successful seasons for several years. We have already started the winter racing program - back into the River Boats - and competing inland in a variety of boats and sections from Junior through to Veteran. More news in the next Rowing Update.
WINTER LAND TRAINING. Organized Winter land Training is underway at the Ryde High School Gymnasium - on Thursday evenings. The sessions start promptly at 7.00pm, last for an hour and cost £1 a session. Be there for 6.45pm to be ready to start at 7.00 - all are welcome. Contact Nick Salter on 614454 for more details. BOAT MAINTENANCE. Boat maintenance - on the Coastal Fleet is also underway and Squads will be contacted by their Coaches to advise them of times, dates and work required. Please respond when asked - the sooner the work is complete the better. The session and work allocation is being coordinated by Chris Jenkins - telephone number 01983 563085 - he would be delighted to hear from any volunteers! NEW EQUIPMENT. The Club has now purchased a much needed new engine for the Coaching /Safety launch - thanks in part to a legacy from the late David Plumbley. Work on the New "plastic" coastal four continues - and we hope this will be completed soon after Christmas and well in time for the new season. Finally the insurance payout on the "written-off" double scull is due any time which should allow its replacement and we have purchased a second hand coastal scull for general Club use. Hants & Dorset Fixtures - 2000. The provisional list of the Hants & Dorset Fixtures for the year 2000, all subject to confirmation at the Hants & Dorset Autumn Delegates Meeting is as follows:- Saturday, 6th May WORTHING Saturday, 20th May RYDE Sunday, 21st May SHANKLIN Saturday, 27th May NEWPORT Saturday, 3rd June WOOLSTON Saturday, 10th June COALPORTERS Saturday, 24th June VOSPER Saturday, 8th July SOUTHSEA (W/E of 15th/16th July National Championships) Saturday, 22nd July SOUTHAMPTON TOWN Saturday, 29th July SWANAGE Saturday, 5th August BOURNEMOUTH Saturday, 12th August CHRISTCHURCH Saturday, 2nd September BTC To be advised - MILFORD & POOLE. Saturday, 23rd September Southcoast Championships Appledore & Instow. N. Devon.
Steve Bull for the Rowing Sub Committee. November, 1999.
Ryde Rowing Club. The Clubhouse, Appley Park, Ryde Isle of Wight. PO33 2ND.
Telephone. 01983 562127 Web Site: http://www.salkeld.freeserve.co.uk/
Please reply to: Mick Slasor, Hon. Secretary, 64, St. Johns Wood Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight. Telephone: 01983 566481. E Mail: Michael.Slasor@tesco.net Dear Member,
RYDE R. C. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. In accordance with Rule 11 the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of RYDE ROWING CLUB will take place at the Clubhouse, Appley Park, Ryde, on FRIDAY, 26th NOVEMBER, 1999 at 8.00pm.
AGENDA 1) To read the notice convening the Meeting. 2) Apologies for absence. 3) Minutes of the last meeting. 4) To receive the Hon. Secretaries Report on the year ending 31st October, 1999. 5) To receive the Hon. Financial Secretaries interim Report. 6) To elect Honorary Members. (Rule 4F) 7) To elect Officers for the ensuing year (Rule 13):-
7) To elect Members of the General Committee (Rule 14) 8) To elect Members of the Bar Committee:-
9) To approve the following additional rule - RULE 42. In accordance with the Amateur Rowing Associations policy and rules relating to Child Protection Procedures the committee shall appoint:- (i) A Junior Organiser who has gained one of the ARA’s Coaching Awards to be responsible for the Clubs Juniors on a daily basis. (ii) A separate and senior "person in charge" to whom concerns and allegations regarding inappropriate treatment of Juniors may be made. It will be his/her duty to understand the requirements of the ARA’s child protection procedures and to act on them as necessary. He/she must ensure that their is a well established complaints procedure and that parents and children have the relevant information and thus easy access to it. 10) To consider any other business submitted in accordance with Rule 11D. Yours sincerely,
Mick Slasor Mick Slasor, Hon. Secretary.
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