Twickenham Open Meeting

[Alistair Edwards]

The Twickenham YC N12 Open Meeting takes place on Sunday October 10th.
As this event is part of the Youth Series we are expecting a large fleet. We have a very keen young helm at TYC who is very quickly getting the hang of sailing his 12. The TYC fleet has grown again this year so I am hoping that there will be at least 5 home boats on the water (possibly more).

There will be 3 races. One in the morning and two back to back in the afternoon.
First start 11am. Briefing at approx 10.30am.
Trophy for first overall and another for the first AC boat. We will also award prizes for the youth section.

Visitors will launch from the hard by the White Swan pub. There will be a fairly high tide (HW 17:15) and although I would anticipate that most people will have departed before high tide it would be advisable not to park cars right by the river. We will have people on hand in the morning to meet visitors and show you the best places to park.

The bar in our historic clubhouse will be open at lunchtime (London Pride + Twickenham Fine Ale) and after the racing. Lunches will be available.
I would be grateful if people who intend to come to Twickenham could let me know on this thread so that we can plan our catering arrangements!

[MikeDay]

Alistair - yes, Anne and I will be there with Rock Lobster.
Mike D
N3533

[Dave Croft]

Hi Alistair,
Current plan is that Abigail will sail Close to the Edge and her sister Caroline will crew for Arthur Henderson (assuming she recovers from a bang on the head she got in a 420 last week-end), so that's two more boats for you.
Dave

[Alistair Edwards]

Mike - Glad you can make it. I am looking forward to seeing your new boat.
Dave - That is excellent news. I was afraid that you might all be away with the Cadets.

[Alistair Edwards]

Crew permitting we are now up to 6 home boats + 3 visitors so far. Who else is coming?

It is a bit early to get too excited about the weather forecast, but windguru and xcweather are both predicting dry weather with a good easterly breeze. Easterly winds provide the best conditions on the reach at Twickenham so we could be in for some excellent sailing.

[GC]

Nick Copsey planing to be there in 3411.

[Alistair Edwards]

Thanks Gerald. Looks like we will have a good fleet and brilliant conditions.

[John T (Guest)]

Family Thornton are intending to join in too ... babysitting issues and indeterminate weather mean that it is not entirley clear who will be sailing and who will make up the support crew, but we will be there.

Cheers, John and Mandy
Probably N3522

[Alistair Edwards]

Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow.

Forecast still looking very good. Sunshine + 14mph ENE straight down the reach.

Looks like we will have a fleet of at least 11 boats.

[Alistair Edwards]

Many thanks to all our visitors for making Sunday such a great event. It is a long time since we have seen 11 National 12s at Twickenham.

There were one or two people taking photos so hopefully there will be some good shots of the spectacular conditions we enjoyed.

Well done to Arthur Henderson and Abigail Croft on their very convincing win.

[Dave Croft]

Hi Alistair,
Yes a very nice day, perfect wind and direction and lots of sun, even a high tide to confound the drinkers in the White Swan and amuse the sailors! River sailing doesn't get much better than that.
We are looking forward to reading the report.
Regards, Dave