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August 2004

The Newsletter of Spinnaker Club, Ringwood

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Chernobyl

This year the Chernobyl children came to the UK in two groups: Group One from 6 June to 14 July, Group Two from 25 July to 22 August.

Group One enjoyed their 'Sailing Sunday' at Spinnaker on 27 June, Group Two on 15 August. Apart from sailing on the lake activities included kayaking and rowing and the BBQ.

The September 2003 CentreBoard gives a full report on the Verwood link of the Chernobyl Children's Life Line. Nationally the volunteers invite about 5,000 children to come to the UK each year. To put this into perspective there were about 750,000 children affected by radiation fallout. After 17 years many are now adults, yet many children, those that come to us now, were not born at the time of the accident, and a high level of cancer is reported in this descendants group.

Peter Harper

This season has seen fantastic, well-attended racing at Spinnaker on Wednesday evenings.

The series has seen every imaginable kind of weather including a challenging force 6 in dark, horizontal rain that turned out to be more of a survival test than a race! Nobody can remember the Wednesday Evening Pursuit ever being cancelled for any reason.

The end of the second series is already approaching as we go to press. Race 10, the finish race, will be held on Wednesday, 25 August. The one-off Alice Lisle Cup will be on the following Wednesday, 1 September to be combined with the prize giving.

Remember that all start times for the race on 1 September will be 15 minutes earlier. We may be able to cope with extremes of sailing weather, but haven’t yet hit upon a formula to stop evenings becoming darker, earlier!

See you all there. Those not wishing to sail are more than welcome to come to enjoy Sue’s excellent choice of supper dishes.  Tiggy Ansell

Don’t forget we now hold a race on Wednesday afternoons at 17:30 for all comers.

Only four races are needed to ‘count’, and the second series goes on into October.

After the race, there’s usually between 45 minutes to an hour to prepare for the next race, the traditional Wednesday Pursuit, followed by supper.

Everyone is welcome. I would encourage anyone nervous about racing to come along to either of these races as a starter where you’ll be able to get maximum help and encouragement from everyone involved, together with minimal formality.

Paul Irons

John Noble is busy refurbishing Rose Cottage.

Our valiant dory has served and will continue to serve as Finish Boat in so many events, primarily team racing, at home and away. The unlikely looking craft provides a platform for 2-3 long-suffering officials, sometimes for very long periods of time, in all extremes of weather conditions, winter or summer.

The finishers will welcome John’s efforts to fit Rose Cottage with a raised sole to help keep the feet dry and lighter-weight, more durable plywood walls and roof. Ed.