OK the dates for all the main fixtures are set in stone and up on this site now.
I now need all the details of every event for the Silver Tiller Guide - which I hope will include regional and Vintage events.
Please check your clubs event details and fill in the blanks or errors.
Please save me some trouble contacting you all individually and give me: start time for the first race, entry fee if known, number of races,any other details, socials etc.
Also any changes or errors in contact details, web links etc.
Email is best but if you need to talk my numbers are home:01628 471794 and mobile:07947 644545

Thanks

Pat Blake

And if there is no map on the website, showing the way to your club, perhaps you would be good enough to hunt one down and send it to me! Might help the newcomers a bit...

Mags comments made me smile. In the late 1970's - after arriving late for an open meeting at Banbury - I wrote to the class mag suggesting maps would be helpful. My letter was heavily edited and published with a patronising comment to the effect that this was unnecessary. My, what a cliquey bunch they were sailing Merlins then.

Well Banbury seems to be a curious one. Last two open meetings there, we must have circled the club 3 times trying to find the club passing the same lost Merlins about 5 times in the opposite direction!

Ah - so that's what makes Banbury cross?!!!

All you need is the postcode and then
www./streetmap.co.uk
will give a zoom in zoom out map!

If you'd hunted all ovet WArwickshire in your yuffe like me you'd know how to find it Tally Ho!

If you'd hunted all ovet WArwickshire in your yuffe like me you'd know how to find it Tally Ho!

If you'd hunted all over Warwickshire in your yuffe like me you'd know how to find it Tally Ho!

If you'd hunted all over Warwickshire in your yuffe like me you'd know how to find it Tally Ho!

Streetmaps all well and good - but try having "Special FX" as your navigator...  he's not GPS-tastic.

Use Multimap.com and (all for free) then select "Directions" on the tool bar.  Enter your starting and destination postcodes and remember to verify them.  Click go and you get a lovely itinerary with a map (you can zoom in and out too which you can print out to take with you.  Works a treat.

Andy, as I recall I was doing the driving and you were doing the map reading when we went to Banbury last, due to spending the previous night in the Fez bar and you being too pissed the next morning to drive. Hence, it was 100% your fault for getting us lost.

Just shut up Alex you big fat old gayer.

I must agree with the last chaps point, but getting back to the topic in question. 

Isn't this need to be supplied with a map just another example of our demand to be nannied - what happened to the good old pioneering spirit of early rocketeers shown in exactly the right way be these young fellas who just drove around until they found the place.

Next you'll be saying it's too dangerous to go sailing in the winter..

Makes me mad.....

Mmmmmm - wonder how far these guys travelled?  Last year I picked up a boat in Somerton, Somerset and towed it back to Aberdeen.  Next week the trek will be repeated for another one - just down the road this time - it's Derbyshire (south!!) Pioneering or mad - all press your red buttons NOW!!!

Sailing in the winter? 
We must have been mad, pre wetsuit I even remember John Harris in shorts in February circa 1960 liss of the long hot showe at Ranelagh with a proper lunch waiting and lots of ho buttered rum.

Sailing in the winter? 
We must have been mad, pre wetsuit I even remember John Harris in shorts in February circa 1960 liss of the long hot showe at Ranelagh with a proper lunch waiting and lots of ho buttered rum.

Last Feb at Ranelagh open Adam sailed with shorts.

Andrew Mills told him off if I recall, something about hypothermia, but he is of Scottish decent I think.

probably meant shorts, not short trousers.

two fingers to them! (measure, not gesture)

As the proud owner of "White Whale" - the original White Whale and Banbury Sailing Club member, I am curious (as in intrigued, not as in "bi/curious") as to the reasoning behind the posted name "Gay White Whale Watcher".  If you are casting dount over the sexuality of my boat I can assure you that she is a she, does not wear Dr Martens and in no way resembles "Millie Tant" from Viz Magazine.

If however you are a lover of this fine breed of Merlin who simply happens to bat for the other team then please feel free to come and watch my boat any time you like.

Banbury SC is easy to find as long as you do not go to Banbury!  I manage it every week and all and anyone should be able to follow the map on our website at http://www.banburysailing.org.uk/news.htm or you can simply set the co-ordinates into your GPS.

As for White Whale, Doc Martens would be good.  We also have Purple Dreams and Love on the Rocks sailing at the club!!!!

After all that about getting lost, I forgot the advert for the Banbury Silver Tiller on Sunday, 20th March.  Only a week after the Warming Pans and the day after Shustoke so that you can make a weekend of it and for the locationally challenged an opportunity to practice your map reading skills.