Ranelagh open 29th June cancelled

[MikeDay]

Sorry to say that we've heard from Ranelagh that, due to insufficient people being available on the day to run the event, they've had to cancel it for this year.
 
Apologies to anyone who was making arrangements to be there.
 
Mike D
N3496

[Richard]

With the loss of this event, would there be a possibility of another club in the Thames area holding an "open" event on this day perhaps as an additional start to normal club racing?
No prizes involved just points for the Thames series.
Richard
N2399:)
 

[David_Wilkins]

The loss of Ranelagh this year makes it all the more important that you all get to Spinnaker this weekend to accumulate your Thames Area Scores.

Sad though - I was looking forward to it.

Cheers

[Alistair Edwards]

I am sounding out a few people at Twickenham to see whether we could offer to host the cancelled Ranelagh event. At this stage I cannot make any promises but I should be able to confirm whether this is viable within 24 hours.
Perhaps those people who planned to sail at Ranelagh could let me know whether they would be interested in coming to Twickenham?

[David_Wilkins]

Definitely interested - the winds there seem to have favoured me more frequently than at Ranelagh!
You all still need to plan to come to Spinnaker just in case Alistair doesn't manage to pull this off!

Cheers

[Richard]

Alistair, Emily and I would definately to come to Twickenham with Mr.Jones if you manage to run an event.

[MikeDay]

Alistair
 

Thanks for looking into this as a possibility. I had planned to sail at Ranelagh and would also come to Twickenham on the same day.  If your club is willing to do that, I'll approach Nick Price and ask him if he's prepared to make their trophy available for it.  In practice, this is with Dave W at the moment as last year's winner.
 
We wouldn't need to worry about place prizes - just an open meeting format and a separate start time from other club racing at Twickenham on the day would suffice.
 
Mike D
N3496

[Alistair Edwards]

Mike. I have sounded out the relevant folks at TYC and everyone is in favour of my suggestion, so lets go for it.
I am not sure if all the Open meeting regulars check the forum regularly so perhaps you could e-mail the potential participants? Any idea how many boats might turn up?

Our Sunday morning sessional race starts at 10.30 so we could start the first 12 race at 11am and run it on a slightly different course from the club racing. 2 races in the afternoon run back to back.

Launching would be done from the White Swan hard as per usual.
I can organise lunches and the bar will of course be open.

Alistair

[David_Wilkins]

Hmm!

We'd just got to thinking we could hold on to the beautiful trophy for another year without having to prove worthy of it!!!
Seriously though - a great idea. Well done Alistair.
Hopefully Ranelagh won't mind.

Cheers

[Richard]

Back to the top!!!!!!!!!!!:)

[David_Wilkins]

Does this have Ranelagh's approval now?

[MikeDay]

I have now spoken to Nick Price who has taken soundings from within the club.  They appreciate Twickenham's offer but feel that they would rather look for another date for thier meeting later in the season when they can host the Ranelgh open for their trophy.  I have given some possible dates to Nick and we'll see if we can find one that fits with the tide.
 
So, the conclusion is that we won't be running the meeting at Twickenham on the 29th in any formal sense - for a trophy or Thames Area points.  But I'm sure if Richard or others wanted to approach Twickenham to see if they could sail there as a guest on that day, Twickenham might be receptive, in the light of the way they responded earlier.
 
Mike D
N3496

[Alistair Edwards]

Further to Mike Day's post I can confirm that we would be delighted to welcome visitors at Twickenham on Sunday 29th (or any other Sunday).
As Ranelagh have now been able to reschedule their Open meeting we will just be running our normal Sunday morning race (class racing for N12, Enterprise and Solos) on June 29. Our Sunday morning races start at 10.30.
 
If anyone does fancy a sail at Twickenham on that day perhaps you could let me know so that we can arrange to meet you and help you with launching etc.

[Dave Croft]

Hi Alistair,
Rosemary and I may be free from Cadet duties that Sunday so we'll try and get along, in fact we are coming down this Wednesday to see if we can join the club and race on wednesday evenings (assuning TYC will have us!). Will you be there this Wedesday?
Cheers, Dave

[Alistair Edwards]

Hi Dave,
I look forward to seeing another 12 out on Wednesday evenings.
I will be down at TYC this Wednesday but I may not be sailing. As part of Twickenham Festival we are offering motor boat trips round Eel Pie island and I may have to help out with that. If I don't sail I will see you at the bar.
Alistair