An excellent first club night for 2011. Gillian Mellor organised the event using the wonderful talent of Paul Hayes to provide a novel meal. Washed down with plenty of Spitfire and pleasant conversation the evening was a great success. The roaring log fire couple with the new wall heaters kindly prepared by Hedley Blackwell in the …
Annabel is organising a work party for Saturday 26 February and as Spring is on its way there are still ‘issues’ in the clubhouse. Can you try to come along to a painting party on that day? Annabel hopes to be able to: Paint the outside if the weather is fine Paint the loos if …
On Friday 25 February Gillian has arranged for John from RNLI to do a Flares demonstration (and that’s not the sort that those of us who were fashionable young things in the late 60’s early 70’s wore). Unfortunately, unlike the last time, there will be no fantastic pyrotechnics as they are no longer allowed to …
I’m told that some people have problems viewing PDF files sent out by the committee. If you go to the following link and look to the right of the screen, there’s a button for Adobe reader which you may download free of charge. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ PDF files are a safe, legal and easy means of sending …
I thought the membership of the Club would be interested and ought to know about the status of the possible café toilet showers project at Lydney Harbour. Firstly, to refresh everyone’s memories as to where we are and what we think might happen. The Club were approached last autumn to see if we would be …
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The club website is still there and holds the latest programme. www.lydneyyachtclub.co.uk I have it on reliable information that Martin has solved the blacklisting problem so the site is safe to use. Despite what McAffee says!
Hi club members, I’ve approved some of the replies I had just to show how this can work. Of course anything that is inappropriate such as criticism of the Commode will be instantly trashed 🙂 If anyone feels really strongly about an issue and wants to blog it then as long as it is reasonably …
Delusions of Competence Phil Davies, Dave Phillips and I were lucky enough to be asked to crew on Mascotte this year. For those of you that haven’t heard of her, she is a 106 year old Pilot cutter. One of the biggest made and certainly one of the most beautiful. She is skippered by Richard …
