By the Commodore
is still just time to join all or part of the
Peterport, Carteret and St Helier during
11 – 17 July. For instance, attending the
only seems like yesterday that 63 of us (a
interested, please contact Richard Snell
of absence, and I look forward to further
A letter from John Singleton- an addition to the Club Fleet
please enter into your diary the Annual Dinner at the In and Out Club, London,
Hayling Island SC, followed by Itchenor.
wind aplenty on both weekends - at times
too much wind on the latter - but the sun
shone on the motley gang of pirates that
Simon Lister, Commodore of the RNSA. this together with the advantages of
met at the Royal Yacht Clubs‟ Golf Day
team participated for the first time, and
who made their boats available to enable
result. I gather that the club has recruited
one of the leading chefs in the area, so if
The boat is called Flying Swan on
Fuller reports on these events and photos galore can be found in the Members‟
you are in the vicinity do pay a visit and
across the stern is written Vol de
Area of our impressive, revised website,
Cygne, which stumped the surveyor!
a portrait of our Admiral, Prince Michael
initiative will enhance the prestige of the
passwords and other technical support to
John –the Club looks forward with
Club. Please do respond positively to the
unabated joy to taking refreshment on board “Flying Swan”!! Ed. Marine Diesel Fuel and Bio Diesel RNSA Gosport to Yarmouth Rally
RNSA Solent sailing events, they are great fun Alouette took part in this Annual
Round the Island Race 25 June.
Our yachts and their corrected times are:
•Talisman, Skipper Simon Harwood -
•Amoret, Skipper Robert Searle - 8 hrs
Transport has deemed “not at sea”.
•Volante, Skipper Tony Harwood - 9hrs
•Moody Blue, Skipper Mike Price - 10
Alouette sailed this under a full jib
Moody Blue enjoyed some adventures
News from Eos of Mersey A brief note from Mike Tomkinson
Gillie and I flew out 10th May, arriving
a relaxed hour or so in the morning. That
there should be high sulphur
chasing. Got rid of the bicycles- fed up
Paul Davies and Lutra
We were lucky to get a prime spot in the harbour opposite Gregory's Bar and they had to put up with the sight of us for a
Lutra has been passed to his family
One item of interest was the arrival of a
very pretty black launch with racy lines-
Singleton in Lutra conducted a brief
Aglaia ( 66m long 82 m rig) which does
(I took that as Permission Granted). The
was fresh meat and veg. for at least five
those girlie visits, new curtains, shopping
possibilities included bread making as a
what a super job for a year at that age.
and things, I‟ve wanted to do all these
get it to rise). The strategy was a 20 day
tipped off on the possible opportunity to
We need at this stage to understand what
„mates‟ bit. The guy you have recently
the batteries had died, so found one at a
met, and is very pleasant etc is allocated
with you. A lea-cloth alone separates you
starting at 28◦C. On about day 11 we hit
capable organisation to be followed. All
Spoke to skipper of local ferry who said
it was calm in the channel to Patmos- so
with advice of our crewmaster and “can
you just include this & that?”, my old kit
bag wavered on the 22.5kg line. Should I
running hot and cold shower in their own
traditional fashion on the shoulder – and
By day 4 a quote from the blog; “Still no
morning early (Gillie's birthday) to catch
wildlife to report and no fish caught. We
a path up to a farmhouse and fish or goat
The dockyard is where I found Susan
wider world and have no wish to. That is
Ayu, a Wauquiez 43 designed by Dubois.
She was berthed stern-to in front of the
– the isolation. This gives a good sense
skipper owner and wife Peter & Susan
This morning's assessment of the weather
Steed a member and clearly in control of
Airarm, Civil pilot and repeat crew. Fifth
S1, P2, S2 names already. Finally, Cutty-
fascinating looking at the various vessels
Uppy things – Scissors, Uppy-Downey –
halyard, ticcy-on-wristy – watch, clicky-
which looks like a U boat shelter but did
chose the slot after the skipper, and he
just missed it! We were all amused and I
did not see the winnings for long before
this is the way to make passage in a well
A Crew View of a Trans Atlantic Passage from the A note to all our members I am now Caribbean looking for articles, letters, opinions, An extract from Peter Stonestreet’s news, views, pictures etc to be incorporated into the Autumn Newsletter. Any format is acceptable.
“Well, say Yes” she said. “You‟ve been
Many thanks .Tom Cunningham Editor
going on about it. Now‟s your chance”.
our kit was, but that had changed. There
New Website for the Club
• Writing copy. You will noticed that all
100%. The percentage of event participants
that register through the website (no more
completely new, so this content had to be
running for nearly three months. It has a new
18% The percentage of members that log in
Flag Officers for their profile pages, and
Why Have a New Website?
pages from the Training and Sailing pages
members that log in to the website at least
The old website was built with then current,
but now dated, website development tools
90 The number of members that created their
that meant updating it was cumbersome. A
clean break would enable the website to be
60 The number of members that I created a
developed from scratch, exploiting the very
• Uploading PDF documents for members to
latest website Content Management Systems
(CMS), and delivering useful functionality to
updated their personal profile to let other
• Setting up a new website domain with the
facility, it would be good to see more use of
worked on the objectives and specification of
100% The percentage of e-bulletins now sent
the website. Some objectives or terms of
account (the photo sharing website) which
hosts all our photos of past events, which
reduces the Club‟s online storage costs.
• Setting up all the fields in the website‟s
What’s Next
As you will have noticed there are a few
pages that haven‟t been migrated from the
• Creating “friendly” URL‟s, which means
old website. These will be done over the
use and helps the website appear higher in
the search engine rankings, for example,
BUT. do YOU have any suggestions for
those that don‟t know, a favicon is the tiny
the website? Is there a feature you would like to see? Or perhaps some information How it Was Built about the Club? Have you seen something impressive on another website - whether
ideas(!), I sought inspiration from other
another sailing club or not - that you think
sailing clubs‟ websites, especially our peers
the RNVR Yacht Club site should have?
with Royal status, as well as from other,
• Setting up Google Analytics so it counts
This is YOUR opportunity to have a voice.
commercial, websites. I am pleased to say
the number of times people use the website
Please make your suggestions by sending
that, in my opinion, we have drawn ideas
an email or by
from the best prestigious sailing clubs!
found us by clicking a link or searching in
phoning me, Jonathan Otter, on 07747 865282. All suggestions will be most
Eventually a specification for phase one of
welcome and will be considered. What The Website Gives You * You need your own, unique username
• Write-ups and photos of all the Club‟s
and password to access the Members Area
to an earlier tip-off from Martin I had been
sailing and social events, within days of
of the website, to see event write-ups and
evaluating amongst others a CMS tool called
photos, register for events and access the Member’s Directory. If you have an email
Wild Apricot, which is the one we are using
• On-line registration for Club events, with
now. If you look carefully, you can see the
address, then you have already have your
Wild Apricot name buried in the footer of the
username and password (the latter you
• A noticeboard for skippers to post details
either set yourself or one was emailed to
of sailing opportunities so interested crew
Here are some of the things that I did when
However, if you don’t have an email
• An online directory of members including
address but would still like to access the
their contact details and a place to add a
Members Area, then simply contact
photo and to write a profile of themselves
Jonathan Otter on 07747 865282. He will issue a special username and password to
Designing a layout. One that is reasonably
tasteful and fits in with our blue/red colour
Who is Using the New Website - Some Key Statistics
Deciding on pages and navigation. Which
pages to include and how they should link
45%. The percentage of the members * that
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