Flushing Sailing Club - Mainsheet Number 20 Spring MMXXI
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Flushing Sailing Club
Mainsheet Spring MMXXI Number 20
Incorporating The Mainshed
New Quay, Trefusis Road, Flushing, Falmouth, TR11 5TZ Charity No.
1182993
The members’ area of the website can be accessed as follows:
Username: flushingsailing
Log In: CornwallFSC
AGM postponed.
Our Club AGM which was scheduled to be on 16th March has been
postponed. You will be informed of the new date as soon as it has been
confirmed.
From the Commodore
To our volunteers
Although the Building Project is not yet completed, I wanted to express our
gratitude as a club for the efforts of our volunteers. In spite of being locked down,
meetings and activities have gone on. Len Cheshire has even embraced Zoom and
overcome his Tech phobia as you will see from his work on the Programme and SI
book. Typos are an extra benefit.
Barry Kelly as our Treasurer, and I have to say total diamond, has worked tirelessly
to keep our finances on track. It has been like a full time job running our bank
accounts, particularly with the donations and membership fees coming in thick and
fast. He has issued a weekly bulletin on the state of play of our Building Fund and
regular updates on renewals and new members. Barry, Sue Clark and I have been
looking at some of the processes involved and have decided to prioritise
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transferring all our accounts to Lloyds and so benefit from the same level of
versatility afforded by the present Building Fund.
Singling out 1 or 2 volunteers for recognition is always a risky business and our
Building Group is ever in the news! However, we have been delighted to welcome
the work that David Mitchell has put in, not only with the building project, but also
on the Lockdown Lectures. How else would we have got to Peru during
Lockdown?! David will now be pulling together the programme for the Autumn
and Winter and welcomes any suggestions for speakers.
Our Club Development Plan, which is also under review, had already underlined
the need to reduce the load on, I hate to say this, an increasingly more ‘vulnerable’
group of volunteers. If anyone does want to get involved, particularly on the IT,
Social Media and Race Management sides, please get in contact.
Our new building is opening up lots of opportunities, not the least the need for a
Rear Commodore House. More to follow in the Mainsheet and on the website.
What about the Sailing? As we gird our loins for the start of racing with Mylor
Chandlery Pursuit Series on 3rd April, we are ever mindful of the restrictions
imposed by the Covid pandemic and the fact that our Club house is not yet
available. We hope to welcome as many boats as possible on the water so please
get your entries in soon, put the dates in your diaries and help us with our planning.
Roll on those halcyon days. Gaye Slater J
Justgiving
As you all know we are in the final stages of the construction of the new Flushing
sailing Club house, we are also in the final stages of the fundraising.
So far we have had an amazing response in both the local community of Flushing,
the sailing community and in the form of grant aid. So if you have already
supported us thank you very much.
To help raise the final amount we have set up a Just giving page aiming at the
crowd Funding model, we now need to get this to as many people who will support
the club. To that end can I ask that all boats circulate this further to their crews and
any friends that have an interest.
You can help raise money for Flushing Sailing Club CIO by donating online
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/FlushingSC-
clubhouse?utm_source=Sharethis&utm_medium=campaign&utm_content=Flushin
gSC-clubhouse&utm_campaign=pfp-
email&utm_term=65bf57ae23984d92b76452175cddfcf6
JustGiving sends your donation straight to Flushing Sailing Club CIO and
automatically reclaims Gift Aid if you are a UK taxpayer, so your donation is
worth even more.
Thank you for your support! Dan Tregaskes
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Tuesday Winter Talks
It will come as no surprise that the Club's programme of Tuesday evening
talks will have to take place in a rather different format as ‘Lockdown
Lectures’. Even if we were not still in the throes of Covid-19, we don't
have a clubhouse, (yet but it’s getting nearer) and more important, a bar.
We hope that all these problems will be solved in the spring. In the
meantime, we hope to be able to run some activities within the guidelines
(whatever is current at the time).
Our informative and entertaining winter talks via Zoom are still
happening. Check website and news e-mails for info. Coming shortly:
Apes (Orang Outangs and others) of Borneo with Geoff Davis on 16th
March and on the 23rd the skippers and OD’s briefing. Make a note in
your diary now. For more up to date information
See http://www.flushingsailingclub.co.uk/tuesday_talks.htm
An invitation from Royal Cornwall Yacht Club
RCYC are hosting a zoom talk by Nia Crockford on The RYA Racing Rules of
Sailing 2021-2024 on Friday 26th March @19.00hrs.
An invitation for all FSC members to join in has been extended to what should be
an informative and engaging talk.
ZOOM MEETING ID; - 969 8601 7271. PASSCODE 619021
Scoop
The lockdown lecture
on February 23rd came
live from Cusco, Peru,
Mike Lazo Gammora
took us on a live
walking tour of the
ancient city of Cusco
(Quosquo) describing the Inca origins of the city, and
the effect the Spanish Conquistadores had.
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Mainshed 5v
This issue of the Mainshed
comes in two forms. Click
picture for a quick 5-minute
video click the adjacent picture
for a walk through the new
clubhouse with David Mitchell.
See also the attached Mainshed
5 with lots of detail
photographs and a description
of the works progress. Click
this View from the Shed
The Racing Scene
STOP PRESS
Lift the Covid gloom. At last, racing skippers can leave the bathtub after
the Zoom Skippers briefing 23rd March and Start some
real racing on 3rd April 2021.
Racing commences with the Mylor Chandlery Pursuit Series on Saturdays and the
Cockwells Pursuit Series on Tuesdays.
Start times will be on the website shortly. Start times for pursuit racing will be
worked out using YTC and a combination of current handicaps to be inclusive to all.
For class racing, classes Q, E and U will use IRC handicaps. Class W, SWYTC
handicaps. Classes M, V, G, B and C will use class handicaps. Please make sure you
are entered before racing NOW, also Download the FSC QR code. See below.
Download your entry form from the website here.. SI’s can be found here 2.
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When filling out your entry form please indicate if you intend participating in the
Centenary Regatta and Sail Past on June 19th. Each boat entered and completing
both events will receive a bottle of bubbly when they come ashore. There is no entry
fee for this event.
Competitors are requested to adhere to the latest Covid Notices published on the
club Website when racing and attending the club. Competitors should monitor the
club website for latest info as changes may be necessary if the COVID roadmap is
modified.
In May the IRC CHALLENGE CUPS. You wanted challenging and
competitive racing, so a 3-race series has been laid on. This comprises 2 days of Bay
racing on Sunday May 23rd and Sunday 27th June, and an offshore race on
Sunday 30th May. Prizes for each day’s racing and an overall prize will be
presented. Entries can be made now on the Club entry form on the website.
BOATMAN VACANCY
Unfortunately, Giles is starting out on a new venture, so we have a vacancy for a
boatman to run the launch on Tuesday and Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons.
If you think you could do this or know of somebody who might be able to take on
the post, please contact Len on 01326 340425.
Flushing Sailing Club QR Code
Please scan the QR code using your phone camera and follow the instructions to
join the group via Whats App. If you do not have the ability or your phone is not
able to join Whats App please text David Mitchell on 07771 563776. Please note
this is not a chat group but has been set up to pass up-to-date information about
Flushing racing. It is unlikely to scan from the computer screen. If not, print page
3, and scan the print.
Centenary Regatta.
The regatta will be held on 19th June 2021. Details
can be found by clicking here
Falmouth Sailing week
Falmouth Sailing week is planned to go ahead in 2021.
Details can be found on this link
www.falmouthweek.co.uk/race-management
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America's Cup and the Red Moon
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team have earned the right to
race Emirates Team New Zealand for the America’s
Cup as they sailed through the Prada Cup final to win
seven races to INEOS Team UK’s single victory. The
170-year losing streak continues for British teams who
have still never won the trophy for which they first
competed in 1851.
A British win in the Americas cup remains for one day
when there is the fabled blue moon!
Finals begin 10th March in a first to seven wins series.
Centenary Brochure
from Dave Day
To celebrate 100 years of Flushing
Sailing Club and the amazing new
clubhouse we are producing a
Centenary Brochure. To include a
history of the club, articles from club
members, the story of the Big Build
and many superb images. All proceeds
go to the building fund. Copies
available May. 1st, price £5. If you'd
like to book your copy email David
Day davidgday@icloud.com. Perhaps
pay now and help the building fund?
Seasickness is a condition which is
never helped by Sherry.
But always helped by Port.
Anon
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Membership matters
Print out page 13 for a Membership Form.
A reminder for ANY Members who still
owe the very modest subs for 2021. The
club needs your money to complete the
splendid new facilities.
2021 rates
Category Full Reduced
rate rate
Single (adults over 18) £85 £75
Family (including all children aged 25 years or younger) £95 £85
Pensioner (70 and over) £65 £55
Pensioner family (both 70 and over) £75 £65
Outport (Single adult over 18) £65 £55
Outport family (including all children aged 25 or younger) £75 £65
An Outport member is a person domiciled beyond the county boundaries. The
majority have paid this year’s subs but those unpaid have missed the discounted
reduced rate, as listed above and only available before February 1st. If you haven’t
paid by now thank you for helping the building fund by paying those few pounds
extra NOW.
Please complete your membership form and confirm your address and E Mail.
Send to; Barry Kelly barryk252@gmail.com or Hon. Treasurer FSC, 12
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth, TR11 3BN. Tel. No: 01326 313606. Pay now;
Account: Flushing Sailing Club Sort Code: 09-01-51 Account No.: 99335508
Due to the Pandemic and lack of Clubhouse any delayed Membership
acknowledgements will be dispatched within days of this Mainsheet issue.
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A word from the money-scavenger.
Feb 27th. We need just a few more thousand pounds to finish the clubhouse job in
style. A lot of what we have raised has come from just asking people, members and
non-members, but because I trail the fleet round the racecourses practically out of
VHF range, let alone shouting distance, I don’t actually know a lot of members,
still less what opens their purses.
So, if anyone is feeling slightly aggrieved/offended/insulted that I haven’t battened
on you for money yet, just give me a call before it’s too late, and you won’t be left
feeling guilty.
Or, if you just want to know how it’s done, call me and I’ll show you.
Guy English 379029
Is still contributing to the
building funds from On-
Line purchases, keep it
up.
Click picture
For Sale and wanted
100% of the proceeds to the Flushing
sailing club building fund.Geoff Davis
has some useful items for sale to
the benefit of the club funds.
New yacht rope best quality good for
Halyards or sheets.
10mm braided rope with a red marker
any length .90p per mt + delivery
12mm Braided rope with a red maker
any length £1.25 per mt + delivery
Items can be collected from Geoff, Ring
him. Tel
01736754708GeoffDavies(scorpion)
Two Items below both brand
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new and unused. Contact David Mitchell and make an offer. He suggests
between £50 and £100. David.Mitchell@mitchellevans.co.uk> 0r Phone 07771
563776
Wanted
A second hand 12V anchor windlass working or not. In exchange for money and a
contribution to the building fund. Ring 07836217631
Local Sailing News
Detective Neil Andrew came back with the following information on the
photograph from Peter Crockford posted in Mainsheet 19 in an attempt to date
when it was taken.
Neil writes; - “ V11 is Harmony which was sold to Falmouth (St Mawes) from
the Solent in 1947. She was owned by a decorated war hero – Major Matthews
– who sailed in a white peaked cap (as you did in those days). It could be him
on the helm. For a short while Falmouth had its own
system for numbering new boats. FV2 is Pintail,
built for Falmouth in 1936. She was re-numbered
V35 in 1965 so the pic is before then. V4 is Mary
which was sold to Falmouth from the Solent in 1951.
I can’t make out any more numbers. So the pic is
between 1951 (Mary arriving) and 1965 (Pintail
renumbering).
However, another clue is the old hut on the quay. When I started racing at
Flushing as a teenager in the early 1960s it had already been replaced by a flat-
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roofed new building. The Falmouth Docks Sailing Club didn’t have a bar so I
remember members meeting in FSC on Friday evenings during the winter. So,
establishing from Flushing Sailing Club records the year when the old hut was
replaced by a flat-roofed building might shorten the range of dates”. Will the
date of introduction of Kickers to the fleet shorten the range of date one
wonders?
A Member also asks if there is a connection between the V on the Flushing
Sailing club burgee and the V Sunbeam sail insignia? Neil Andrew adds;
I have no idea whether it is true but local folklore is that Flushing was named
after the historic English name for the Dutch port Vlissingen because it is built
on land reclaimed from the sea by Dutch prisoners of war in the 17th century
(the Dutch were, and still are, good at doing that). So, the V on the FSC burgee
came from Vlissingen. Good story even if it’s not true.
There is no connection between the V on the club burgee and the Sunbeam class
letter.
The Sunbeam was originally a Solent class (Hamble River Sailing Club) and
was allocated a national identification letter in the sequence under the new
International Rule of 1907! that includes the 19-Metre (C), 15-Metre (D), J- lass
(J), Seaview Mermaid (U), West Solent One Design (W), XOD (X), Victory
(Z). There will be others.
Incidentally, the Seaview Mermaid was an earlier design from the board of
Alfred Westmacott who designed
the Sunbeam. The Mermaid was
commissioned by the Seaview
Yacht Club on the Isle of Wight
as a club one-design class in the
days when racing was primarily
handicap. It attracted favourable
comment at Cowes Week in its
first year (1922). Some
discerning sailors at Hamble
River Sailing Club who were also interested in starting up one-design racing
approached the Seaview Yacht Club for permission to adopt the Mermaid which
was refused. So the HRSC folk had to approach Westmacott for a new design
which was a stretched version of the Mermaid and duly named the
Sunbeam. The new Sunbeam design featured in yachting magazines and
appeared at Cowes Week in 1923. Some sailors in Falmouth were similarly
10interested in starting up one-design racing and were given permission to
establish a fleet of Sunbeams. The rest, as they say, is history.
So, had not the Seaview Yacht Club not defended the exclusivity of its Mermaid
the Sunbeam might never have been designed!
I learnt all this a few years ago when I was approached by a sailing club in
Shetland about an abandoned “Sunbeam” sitting in their boat park and would
someone like to come and take it away for free. A photograph certainly looked
like a Sunbeam. However, only 48 sunbeams were built and the whereabouts of
them all is known so it clearly wasn’t a Sunbeam. Subsequent correspondence
established that the overall length corresponded to a Westmacott Mermaid. I
contacted the Seaview Yacht Club to tell them and learnt about the history of the
class. The club still owns a fleet of Mermaids but it is now a different design.
A – boats rating above 23-Metres under the Universal Rule of 1903
B – 23-Metre
E – 12-Metre
F,G,H – unknown but may have been intended for 10M, 9M & 8M
I to S – different sizes of boats rated under the new International Rule of
1907.
Y – Yarmouth One Design
The new Sunbeam design featured in yachting magazines and appeared at
Cowes Week in 1923. Some sailors in Falmouth were similarly interested in
starting up one-design racing and were given permission to establish a fleet of
Sunbeams. The rest, as they say, is history.
RNLI Lifeboat
action
.
Falmouth Inshore
Lifeboat launched following a call from a 7m
Motorboat with three people on board reporting
it had broken down and was dragging its anchor
off Loe Beach in the Carrick Roads.
A tow line was passed to the vessel and it was towed to Restronguet Creek where it
was safely placed on its mooring. The motorboats engine had failed due to an
electrical issue.
19th February Falmouth All Weather and Inshore Lifeboats launched to assist the
police in multi-agency search for an elderly person who had not returned from an
early evening walk in the Swanpool area. The Falmouth and Porthoustock
11Coastguard Cliff Rescue Teams, Cornwall Search & Rescue Team, Police Units, Police Helicopter and members of the public were also involved in the search. The missing person was eventually located at approx. 08:00 and was taken by Ambulance to Treliske Hospital for treatment but sadly news was received later in the day that they had passed away. This was a massive multi-agency search supported by many people from the local community. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the missing person at this difficult time. 23rd Feb Falmouth Inshore Lifeboat launched following a report of a person in difficulties in the water at Maenporth Beach. The Falmouth and Porthoustock Coastguard Cliff Rescue Teams, Coastguard Helicopter and Ambulance para- medics were also tasked to assist.The Inshore Lifeboat launched and headed out of the harbour but as it was approaching Pendennis Point the Coastguard advised that the swimmer had made the shore and no further assistance was required.The casualty had self-recovered and received treatment from the paramedics for hypothermia. The casualty was later transported to Treliske Hospital for further care. At 16:34 3rd Falmouth Inshore Lifeboat be launched to assist in the recovery of a person and dog from the cliff between Maenporth Beach and High Cliff. The Falmouth and Porthoustock Coastguard Cliff Rescue Teams had already been tasked and requested the assistance of the Inshore Lifeboat. The person was lowered down to the base of the cliff and extracted by the Inshore Life- boat, while the dog was recovered to the top of the cliff in a rescue bag. The casualty was taken to Maenporth Beach where they were safely landed. The casualty turned out to be a good Samaritan who had offered to try and rescue the dog for its owner, by climbing the cliff but had then become stuck. At 08:45 4th March Falmouth Falmouth Inshore Lifeboat be launched to assist in the recovery of a dog from the cliff on the south side of High Cliff near Maenporth. The Falmouth and Porthoustock Coastguard Cliff Rescue Teams were also tasked to assist. The dog had gone over the cliff edge while out for a walk with its owner. Luckily the dog’s harness had caught around a haw- thorn branch and this had stopped it from falling any further. The owner did the correct thing dialling 999 and asking for help right away. This was the sec- ond such incident in this area in the last 24 hours and people are reminded to keep their dogs on leads when close to the cliffs. At 22:59 4th March Falmouth Inshore Lifeboat launched to a report from a member of the public who had been out for an evening walk when they had seen a person in the water near Kiln Quay. Once they had returned home, they contacted the emergency services as they were concerned for the well- being of the person. After a thorough search it is believed that the person seen had not been in trouble and had left the area prior to the arrival of the emergency services. 12
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