Hi,

Just to clarify the race dates for Mersea Week 2016, they are as follows: Thursday 26th August, Friday 27th August & Saturday 28th August.

A member kindly pointed out to me that this was what was agreed at the AGM, but not what I put in the Spring 2016 Update.

Apologies for any confusion caused, the three dates shown above are correct. Please ensure that you are up to date with your SCA subscription before entering or I’m afraid your results won’t count!

Good luck and I hope to see many of you there. Now that I finally (almost…) have a fully functioning Stella once again I am, however, suffering from a distinct lack of crew! If any of you are at a loose end or know of someone who might be, please let me know. Thanks.

Best regards,

Peter, Centaur #100

A very warm welcome to Lizzi Thistlethwayte the new owner of #77 Shaula and Rui Ferreira & Anke Eckardt the new owners of #84 Happy Returns.

I have sailed with Lizzi a couple of times when David Copp owned Shaula and look forward to meeting up again on the water and socially now that she is a member. Shaula is in good hands and will, I understand, be based at Aldeburgh.

I look forward to meeting Rui & Anke who, I gather, will be keeping Happy Returns at Ballydehol, Co. Cork. It seems that Happy Returns has benefitted from huge amounts of work and is ready for the next few decades!

Good luck, fair winds and happy sailing to you all!

All the very best,

Peter D, Centaur #100

Sadly there are still a few of you out there who have not got round to paying your association membership fees – they were due in April! Now the last thing I want to have to do is get on my high horse about this, but although I’m sure it is due to an oversight in most cases, it is unfair to those who have paid. We are currently still only asking £15 to cover admin costs and I know that Peter Haldane has sent out several polite reminders so please pay up forthwith! Just to make it easy the bank details are as follows:

Stella Class Association.   Barclays Bank, Plaistow.   Account Number 60020192.     Sort Code 20-67-90

I have noticed that amongst the placed boats at the SYH Classics were several whose owners have not yet paid . Strictly speaking this means that they are not paid up members of the SCA and therefore the result does not count towards the Stella Worlds. As I am still of the opinion that this is due to oversight, I do not intend to apply this sanction provided that fees from the offenders are received forthwith. Going forward, however, this will apply. Put simply, if you are not a fully paid-up member at the time of competing in a points event the result will not count!

Peter D

 

I have just been speaking to Peter Haldane who reminded me that subscriptions are now due. If you could forward your payment to him ASAP that would be really helpful. I’m looking into the possibility of member benefits going forward but clearly these, if achievable, will only be available to fully paid up members. Watch this space…

Peter