News from Maylandsea Bay

The Woolly Hat 2008. HBSC has decided to let the Wool Hat 2008 series stay in the bottom draw due to the club holding work parties on the club jetty this winter.
MBSC are talking on restarting the Frostbite series starting in February 2008. More info to follow.

The 2008 Blackwater Icicle hosted at MBSC is looking on an upper, with a number of leading Sandhopper Helms nominating other Sandhopper Helms to represent the Sandhopper fleet in this classic winter race. And I believe that Bill Wright is keen to get out of his fireside chair and show Jacko a thing or two about sailboat racing. A hard hitting come and get me poster is at the printers. More info to follow.

Alan Jackson has landed the job of Dinghy Captain at MBSC. If the club doors had not been locked during the club AGM the job may well have not been filled at all.
Alan Jackson wishes it to be known that he expects the reader to support a drive to double the club sailing turnout in 2008 and he has no intention of doing house decorating, gardening or car maintenance and has no intention of increasing his family. So that just leaves sailing and waiting for the tide (needless to say there is a plan in the making)

I am also sad to reveal that the National Merlin Rocket committee have withdrawn the Silver Tiller status from the open meeting at HBSC for 2008. It beggars belief that this has happened as the reader will know the two islands race is well thought of by the Rocket men who have taken part in it for the last three years. The good news is that the Merlin fleet will be at Brightlingsea for a two-day meeting.

The Blackwater Travellers Trophy series will again be stepping out in 2008 and it would be nice to think that the newcomers bottleage will be competed for and won before Lorna L and Jacko get their laughing gear into play. The Marconi SC has already made contact with dates for 2008 and is hoped that the friendship and pleasure can reach out to all the muddy creeks around the river.

For those who find it just too boring to sail around the race cans I can reveal that the 2008 Adnams ice-cream tour dates have much to offer and Mr Wigg and AJ having polish Zelda’s bottom and filled the keel fixings holes will be at most of the watering hole surrounding the river. It is suggested that any persons thinking of following should raise suitable funds as the all day breakfast/boozing and tea/cakes is extensive. One should also check boat rigging and foils as the tide waits for no one (nor does Jacko and Al)

And lastly, the mud banks, so deeply scored and damaged this summer by thoughtless persons un-named will be relieved that no long term damage appears to have been done and the seals, bird life and crabs have returned; picture below.