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Welcome to the MRSC news section, where
the club will keep you updated with news and events throughout the year. If club members have a news item, sailing story
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Contenders rule the roost in the Frostbite
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The
Contender fleet made their mark by dominating the
frostbite series, except in the light winds of the final
race, and putting the Finns firmly down the pecking order,
Peter Barr winning from Dan Taylor on a tie break, with
Paul Lincoln in third spot. Simon Notley took the slow
handicap honours in his Solo. |
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| Rod &
Sarah Till awarded the Commodore's Pot |
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Rod &
Sarah Till were awarded the Commodore's Pot at the AGM in
November in recognition of their work in organising the
summer ball. Rod had to rush away during the meeting as he
is a shore helper at the RNLI station and there was a
shout so a photo opportunity was lost. At last they became
less camera shy! |
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| 2010 Prize
Giving |
| Posted 03.12.10 |
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The Club’s equivalent to “Sports
Personality of the year” was held on Saturday 27 November with
prizes being awarded to a number of Dinghy and Cruiser members.
In the dinghy classes Neil Robinson received the Fast handicap
Season Champion Trophy, Steve Powell received the Slow Handicap
Season Champion Trophy and Anthony Parke was awarded the Junior
Champion Season Trophy. Chris Dobner was awarded the Cruisers’
Skipper Trophy in recognition of his round Britain voyage. For a
full list of prize winners click
here.
A link to a picture gallery can be viewed on the Members'
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| 60th AGM |
| Posted 07.11.10 |
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The club's 60th AGM was held on Sunday 7 November where Bill
Rowlands was elected Commodore. Click here
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| Congratulations to the
Houstons |
| Posted 27.10.10 |
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Georgie
Houston has qualified for the Topper 5.3 South Zone
Squad and Niall Houston has moved out of the Topper 4.2
squad and qualified for the Topper 5.3 Junior National
Squad. |
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| Sixties
Evening - Saturday 16 October |
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Our October Social was a 60’s evening, with the majority of members
dressing up in their 60’s finery, miniskirts, flowery
trousers and shirts, headbands and long hair, and members
of Ban the Bomb protesters, a great start....more |
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| Parke
Brothers - update |
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26.10.10 |
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Congratulations to the Parke brothers. Anthony
Parke has qualified for the National 4.7 Squad for the
second year. He is at the moment the highest ranked under
15 year old and will be GBR's highest ranked sailor going
to the Worlds next year if he both manages to qualify and
raises enough funds to attend. Conway Parke has moved on
from the Optimist and has a place in the Feva squad
training at HISC this winter. |
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| Solo Open
- 25 September 2010 |
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A 22 strong fleet representing
nine different clubs attended the Mengeham Rythe open as
part of the Solo sea series......more |
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| "Skool
Dinnurs" Evening - 18 September 2010 |
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The
September social was ‘Skool Dinnurs’ with pupils arriving
in all styles of skool uniforms, some smart but on the
whole mostly dishevelled and of course some new members of
staff, including the games mistress Miss Wolf......more |
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| Topper
Open - 28 August 2010 |
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31.08.10 |
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Twenty six Toppers arrived at Mengeham to mark the return
of summer and were rewarded with a shifting North Westerly
wind freshening from Force 2 to Force 4.......more |
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Report from
the Parke family |
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31.08.10 |
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Anthony
Parke went to the Laser Nationals in Cornwall last week.
There were 215 competitors over the three fleets; the
largest fleet was the Radials with 124 and the 4.7's had
39 entries. The wind varied considerably from none to 25
knots. After 3 races Anthony was lying 1st. After the
second day he had swapped positions with Rob Dyer to lie
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racing being completed. On Friday after one race Anthony would
have needed two firsts to guarantee beating Rob. Unable to pull
a first out of the bag he then just needed Megan O'Brian to be
out of the top 4 to succure 2nd place. Having seen that Megan
was well behind the leaders he felt it reasonably safe to swim
after his compass that had been ripped out of his boat by
another boats main sheet. The fact that he had paid £115 of his
own hard earned money for the compass might have influenced his
decision! He won a cup for winning the days racing on Monday and
finished 2nd overall. Despite registering his club as MRSC and
spelling it for them the laser Association do seem to struggle
with this and have put him down as coming from Hayling Island(
not the sailing club, just the place). |
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| Lifeboat Trophy
Race |
| Posted 25.08.10 |
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Five boats
took part in the lifeboat Trophy Race on Saturday 21st
August in damp and blustery conditions. The race was more
a measure of seamanship as the event involved not just
sailing around marks but anchoring, rowing/paddling,
raising sails at speed, collecting a stowaway from the
pontoon and a man overboard drill. The race was won
by Graeme Macdonald and Angie Tingey in Halloween,
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Lamperd & Chris Reed second in a Drascombe. Gil & Carol
Carter in Xebeque was joint third with Roger Kent &
Alison Read in Bluebell and fifth was Eddie Ault & David
Jones in Florence. Click
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| Mackerel fishing
trip |
| Posted 21.08.10 |
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On Wednesday
evening 15th August 28 members went feathering for mackerel in 8
boats from the club. A cool n/w breeze blew with rain clouds all
around but thankfully missing the fishing fleet. Over 60 mackerel were
caught. The next trip is on Wednesday September 15th at 2pm.
Please add your name to the list on the notice board. |
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Jubilee Regatta - 15 August 2010 |
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19.08.10 |
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The
club’s 60th Anniversary Open Regatta held on
Sunday 15th August had 73 entries which included 35
boats from Hayling Island Sailing Club. The main fleet had
a special course in the harbour with a blustery north,
north easterly giving a beat with the tide but made tricky
with some big shifts from the opposite direction to the
best tidal route. The wind increased throughout the race
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casualties with only
48 of the 68 entrants finishing. There was a separate race for
juniors in the more sheltered area east of the sailing club in
which all the 5 Tera entries finished.
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| Rowans
Pursuit - 1 August 2010 |
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03.08.10 |
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Mengeham
Rythe Sailing Club showed its support again for the Rowans
Hospice by hosting the 11th annual Rowans Open
Pursuit Race on Sunday 1st August.......more |
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| Junior
Week 26-30 July 2010 |
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03.08.10 |
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The club had
a very successful Junior Week with over 100 young sailors
taking part. Click here
to read a full report with pictures..
Results |
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| Laser 4.7
Europeans |
| Posted 04.08.10 |
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Junior member,
Anthony Parke, has been taking part in the Laser 4.7 Europeans.
Click here
to read his report. |
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| Family Fun
Sports Day - Saturday 24 July |
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03.08.10 |
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The club held a well
supported Family Fun Sports Day and BBQ on a beautifully sunny
afternoon in July...more |
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Wayfarer
International, Weymouth |
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04.08.10 |
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Club members, Sue & Simon
Hope, took part in the Wayfarer Internationals at Weymouth
in July and sent back a report. Click
here to
read the report. |
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| Finn Nationals |
| Posted 26.07.10 |
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Fifteen Mengeham
Finn sailors made the six hour trip to Pwllheli in North Wales
for the Finn National Championship and provided nearly half of
the 31 strong fleet. They also took the most of the honours,
both in the Championship and in the age categories.
Full report |
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| Eddie Ault's trip on Morwenna |
| Posted 21.07.10 |
| Eddie Ault has been on a sailing
trip from London to Gosport. Click
here to read his log |
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| Streaker
Open- Saturday 10 July |
| Posted 21.07.10 |
| Congratulations to Penny
Dormer who was 2nd in the Streaker Open at Bosham on 10
July 2010. |
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Tera Nationals 26/27
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Posted 06.07.10 |
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The record-breaking RS
Tera Nationals for 2010 were held at Netley Sailing Club on
Southampton Water over the weekend 26/27 June....more |
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60th Anniversay Racing 26/27
June |
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Posted 05.07.10 |
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The week end was blessed with fine
weather. Saturday saw the cruisers racing in the Bay and the
fast handicap racing round the Nab tower. OnSunday there was
someinteresting racing in the harbour ....more |
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60th Anniversary Ball |
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Posted 30.06.10 |
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As part of the club's 60th
anniversary year , a summer ball was held on Saturday 26 June on
an evening when the weather was more than kind to everyone.
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Fishing Trip |
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Posted 29.06.10 |
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On 19 June MRSC anglers went fishing
aboard "Valkarie", a forty foot catamaran out of Langstone in a cool
force 4/5 northerly wind. A good day was had by all. About 50 bream,
40 mackerel and 12 smoothounds were caught. The smoothounds and small
bream were returned to the sea. The highlight of the day was some of
the mackerel cooked by the skipper. |
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Florence |
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Posted 10.06.10 |
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Thanks to the Wrinklies at the
Monday morning work party, Florence emerged from the
Salthouse after being fitted with a new keel. |
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Richard Hart
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Posted 01.06.10 |
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Five MRSC boats attended the Finn World Masters in Split, an
event with 167 entries and races sailed in two heats.
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Junior Quiz Night |
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Posted 8.05.10 |
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More than 40
family and junior members made up the nine quiz teams who took
part in the Family Quiz and Social evening on 8 May 2010.
Everyone enjoyed the four rounds of the quiz answering questions
about films and music with a nautical theme, as well as a
technical round which included recognising knots (do you know
the difference between bowline and a reef knot?!) The winning
team was the ‘Salty Sea Dogs’ (Junior members of the team are
pictured) and they managed to achieve a very credible 45.5
correct answers out of 50 questions. The family team walked
away with a bottle of bubbly (for the parents!) and a box of
chocolates (for the Juniors). |
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Fishing trip |
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Posted 23.05.10 |
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On Sunday 9 May 12 the Fishing Section
went out on “Valkarie, a 40ft catamaran. Twelve anglers set off at
7.45am and headed for the fishing grounds. After catching bream, some
weighing up to 3.5 lbs, on the Boulder Bank, the boat moved nearer to
the Nab Tower where smoothounds were caught up to 12lbs in weight. Ted
Humphries caught the heaviest smoothound and Ralph Bodily caught the
heaviest bream. Other fish caught were mackerel, garfish, pout and
dogfish. The next trip is on 19th June. |
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2010 Finn Southern Championship |
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Posted 14.05.10 |
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A shifting southerly, south westerly
breeze delayed the start of the Finn Southerns run by Mengeham Rythe
Sailing Club on 1st and 2nd May.
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New Pontoon |
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Posted 25.04.10 |
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A number of club members have
successful replaced the east pontoon. Members are reminded about
the club's guidelines about its use. Click
here to see details. |
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Wrinklies' Luncheon |
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Posted 24.04.10 |
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The Wrinklies work force held their
Spring luncheon on Monday 19 April. The "Wrinklies" are the
Monday morning work force, club volunteers, who undertake
building and maintenance projects around the club. |
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Cruiser lift-in |
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Posted 24.04.10 |
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The cruiser season has started again
at MRSC with the annual lift-in on 17 April. The weather was
perfect and the boats were put back onto their moorings in
record time |
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Easter Boat Jumble |
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Posted 06.04.10 |
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The boat jumble on Easter Monday
raised £350 for the Jeremy Strugnell Fund. Thanks to everyone
who donated items to the jumble and to club members who
organised the sale and those who bought items. The Jeremy
Strugnell Fund is founded on a legacy left to the club by the
late Jeremy Strugnell for the purposes of furthering the sailing
experience of young club members. |
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St
Patrick's Night |
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St Patrick's Night was celebrated in
style on Saturday 13th March with music from the Davit
Tackle Whailers and jokes for the resident comedian, Dave Simms. |
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Davitt Tackle
Whailers |
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Our Summer Long
Club Crawl by Gordon & Sheila Kemp |
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Posted 27.02.10 |
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Yes, it’s true, Sheila and I visited every sailing club
in and around
the Solent
this year. All sixty-five of them!
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Congratulations Niall
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Posted 27.-2.10 |
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Congratulations to Niall Houston who
won the Sailing Solutions Topper 4.2 National Series 1 at
Rutland SC 20th/21st February 2010. |
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Chalet Mengeham - Alpine
evening |
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Posted 17.02.10 |
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The club held an aprés ski party to
celebrate the start of the winter olympics. A three course
alpine supper was served followed by a yodelling competition.
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| Freebird
summer cruise by Derek & Veronica Russell |
| Posted 14.02.10 |
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After the poor
summers of the last two years, we decided to give up our berth
at Sparkes marina on Hayling Island, and spend most of the
summer cruising on our sailing boat, Freebird …more |
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| Miles of Salt
Water by Eddie Ault |
| Posted 05.02.10 |
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In November
2009 the MRSC Cruiser committee awarded me the Log Trophy, for
the most miles sailed in the year. Engraved on it are my name,
‘2009’, and ‘5018’. I am inordinately and indecently proud
of this, and liable to go on and on about it. So when people say
to me “oh, that’s a lot of miles, was it somewhere nice, then?”
I have to try VERY HARD to sound humble and nonchalant. But here
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Well done Glen |
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Posted 03.02.10 |
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In September 2009
club member, Glen Hardy, was the first person
to circumnavigated Hayling
Island as a swimmer pulled along
by an aqua scooter, a distance of
about 15 nautical miles raising
money for the RNLI. On Sunday 31st
January Glen, accompanied by some
of his support team,
Mum, Laura and Dad, Dave, along
with Eddie Ault and Jack Watts,
presented the lifeboat station
with a cheque for £400.
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Laura
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MRSC "Wrinklies" |
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A Monday morning "Wrinklies"
work party was spotted doing some snow clearing on11th January.
The call it "green aerobics"! |
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Winkle of the Harbour |
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Posted 05.01.10 |
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The club hosted the annual "Winkle
of the Harbour" open race on Sunday 3rd January in a biting NE
wind...more |
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