Gunfleet Celebrates The Start Of The Season

Gunfleet Sailing Club celebrated the start of the 2016 season with its Fitting-Out Supper in the Clubhouse last Saturday.  Commodore Richard Walker welcomed a full house to the traditional fish and chips meal and thanked the record number of members that had helped with both the cliff clearance and the Club's Work Weekend.  The Committee had worked hard to put together an impressive programme of activities on and off the water, with the focus being on the wonderful new beaches as part of the sea defence scheme; the Club arranging open meetings for visiting sailors in both 2016 and 2017.  The Gunfleet Regatta, to be held on 2nd and 3rd July, was already attracting interest from sailors from outside the district and the Club's Cadet Week, always a sell-out, had several exciting new activities in the planning.  Commodore Walker then presented Ken Potts with the Winter Series Trophy for his victory in 2015 and members all toasted a bright future for the Club.

 

Sadly the rest of the Easter Holiday was disrupted by Storm Katie, with winds gusting to 71 mph; the Club's permanent race marks, all laid just the previous week, were washed ashore and several boats were blown over in the compound.  The two races that had been planned to be held will now be rerun at a later date.