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DINGHY SAILING AND WINDSURFING
ON THE 80 ACRE UPPER BITTELL RESERVOIR. A SITE OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC
INTEREST (S.S.S.I.) SET IN BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS. ESTABLISHED IN 1918.
For 2014
membership & subscription information
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Click flag for Bart's Bash BGSC
page, shows who's entered the race. Come on, enter, it's easy ~
Latest update
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Early
summer junior training three day event is on the 28th, 29th and 30th
of July, details via the training
page
The time has come
for individual club members to sign up to the race. Visit the website
(click banner above) and follow instructions to make your profile, remember
to enter under the Barnt Green SC burgee. Good luck! Entries so far
as of 12/7/14 are Chris Pack, Gordon Padmore, Paul Cross, Rob Lennox
and Robin Brown. JOIN US PLEASE.
Wednesday
evening Lisa's supper menu for 30th July: Chicken curry, naan bread,
popodoms, rice and mango chutney. £6.50. Dessert: Lemon meringue
pie, cream/ice cream £2.50 or cheese, biscuits and grapes, £2.50.
Order on the sheet in the clubhouse or by telephone to Lisa on 0121
445 1226 by Tuesday early evening latest.
29/6/14.
The Ladies race for the June Lennox trophy was won by Julia Powell,
the Junior helm race was won by Rachel Cross. More to come with a photo
album by Bob.
The
images above were taken by Bob Suggitt.
Update
to Boats for Sale page, a Solo for sale at a bargain price,
more....
NOW SOLD.
The
once famous BGSC Salmon & Strawberry supper was held on
Friday 13th June and raised over £700 for the Cadet
World Championships, to be help in Weymouth and Portland in
August. Visit the Cadet Worlds 2014
supporters page to see our club logo showing that BGSC
are official supporters of the event, all thanks to Di Larkam
and family's efforts. Read more about the supper HERE
On
Saturday 31st May we held our combined Seavets and UKWA Windsurfing
open meeting. A reasonably steady breeze from the north west
gave good racing to 16 sailboarders. 12 Seavets and 4 in the
West Midlands fleet. See Seavets results HERE
and Ruth's photos HERE.
An album by Bob Suggitt to follow.
Enterprise
Open meeting at BG on 18th May, official report
HERE.
WATER
TEMP. @ 17 DEGREES. 15/6/14.
The
2014 club handbook is now available for personal collection
from the clubhouse, they are in a box on the table opposite
the main entrance door.
Sunday
morning junior training and start racing sessions are announced,
details on the training
page.
2014
Junior Training Poster (updated dates) and Application Form
are to be found on the Training
Page.
The
Snowflake series ran from Sunday 5th January to Sunday 30th
March 2014 and the races were run on a handicap basis. View
final results for seniors and juniors here,
An
update on the Under 21 Enterprise Championship to be held on
30th/31st August, it is now the Under
25 Ent.Champs, sponsored by Noble
Marine Insurance and Zhik
(racing apparel), read more HERE.
Definitely not an event to miss! ENTRY
FORM.
The
2013 Enterprise Under 21 Championship report, results and gallery
are HERE.
Barnt
Green Waters Ltd. have been awarded £50,000 in the latest
Inspired Facilities funding round. Sports England have announced
an extra £40m will be invested through Inspired Facilities
to 2017. This grant is specifically awarded for changing room
refurbishment. The application was steered to success by club
members Gordon Padmore with the aid of Carl Taylor and John
Arrowsmith. The announcement was confirmed on BBC TV in Midlands
Today after the main early evening news. The club is grateful
to Gordon, Carl and John for the efforts they have made in securing
this grant. Well done! Read Stuart Howe's press release HERE
and MORE
HERE from the RYA.
Our
lakeside clubhouse is for hire and is ideal as a venue for meetings,
training events, seminars, parties, wedding receptions.
Visit The
Boathouse Venue to find out more.
Frostbite
Series Final Results updated to end of series on 22nd December,
see Results
The club is grateful to Chris Pack for compiling the series
results.
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The
BRATs club held their second aquathlon of the season on Thursday
26th June. Approx. 70 people attended and the evening was a
great success.
NEW
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guide, Richard Seal has kindly written
a guide to help members understand what Webcollect can do for
them and for the club. Please find time to read this
excellent
manual.
The
Fishing and Sailing Clubs organised a pig roast and social evening
on 21st June. Over eighty people attended and it was hailed
as a great success.
Ladies'
Mondays are progressing well. Click image above to find out
more.
The
small yellow BRATs swim course bouys have been placed in position
close to our bouy positions 4, 6 and 9. These MUST not be
moved, they are set to give a 750 metre course, please observe
this and share if you see anyone attempting to move them.
Thanks.
27/4/14,
from Richard Seal. Barnt Green Sailing Club is moving over
to a new, secure online system called WebCollect
to manage our membership database, club emails, the collection
of annual club subscriptions and our club events. You can
read more on page 4 of the new club handbook which is now
available in the clubhouse.
WebCollect
enables club members to order club subscriptions, update personal
and family details and book event tickets. You can visit the
club's WebCollect
page by clicking the web collect logo in the left hand margin.
A
regularly updated 2014 club calendar is on WebCollect
Using
WebCollect
will significantly reduce the amount of time we need to spend
keeping the organisation's records up to date, and should
make life easier for members
too. If you have any questions about the system or your account,
please feel free to get in touch with the club
secretary.
- THE LARGEST DINGHY SAILING RACE EVER - WILL BE HELD WORLDWIDE
ON SEPTEMBER 21st 2014 at 11.00 BST. OVER 300 CLUBS HAVE ALREADY
SIGNED UP. IN HONOUR OF THE LATE ANDREW SIMPSON THE PROCEEDS
RAISED WILL GO TO CHARITY, DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED
We
are delighted to announce that Barnt Green Sailing Club has
applied to be part of Bart's
Bash. Details are now announced via the official
launch document. There is also a map
showing all the participating clubs. We are on there of
course! This whole event will be great for sailing and we
can make it be great for our club. Watch this space for updated
details.
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Left
is an image of an RS200, one of the asymmetric 2 man boats that
make up our most recently formed fleet. Non trapeze in the PY
range 1057 to 1099 are the basic requirements for this fleet.
Click image to enlarge. Portsmouth Yardstick
(PY) numbers list in pdf format here
Read our
introduction article for the new class here and
a report on a test days sailing here
Rob
Lennox report with Andrew Weedon reply here RS200 gallery here
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A
great offer from the Committee to prospective members.
Anyone joining who does not own or wants to postpone buying
a boat, can use a club LARK free of charge for a while
to give them time to decide which fleet to join !
Vacancies currently exist in all our fleets, we would welcome
your enquiry. Follow the links on this page for more information
or visit the club on a Sunday to see our fleets in action.
We also have club owned Laser Pico, Optimist and Cadet dinghies
plus a beginners sailboard for new members to try out sailing
in/on.
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For
2014 membership & subscription
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Our
superb rural situation is close to the City of Birmingham
, not far from the famous Lickey Hills National Park
in North Worcestershire with easy access from the
M42 motorway, junction 2. We are a Royal
Yachting Association (RYA) "Volvo" Champion Club and
an RYA Recognised Training Establishment.
Left
: Junior windsurfer Lewis Barnes enjoying
club racing. In 2010, 11, 12, and 13 Lewis won our
overall Sailboard fleet summer series trophy, a very
worthy achievement which required persistently high
performance racing throughout each season. Many of
our young sailors achieve high standards both within
the club and further afield in regional and national
events. Click on "Training" to find out
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Our emphasis
is on friendly, family orientated sailing. Expert tuition is arranged
for children, youths and adults and we have fleets of Optimist and Pico
dinghies available for training purposes. Healthy competition is encouraged
through a strong class sailing structure.
Our
club is independent, run by the members for the members. We all take
part in helping to run race days and events such as Open Meetings, each
class sailed at the club hosts one of these each season and they attract
visitors from far afield.
Merlin Rocket
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We
sail ten classes in our racing fleets. Click the images to visit their
pages
We welcome new members,
experienced or novice and membership is open for all classes
plus crewing only and parental non sailing for young sailing
juniors, see our membership
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REGULAR CLUB SAILING
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
SUMMER SERIES
| Sunday
mornings - Sailboard points and handicap racing series
for our fleet of 7.5 Raceboard windsurfers and Sailboard Allcomers
plus dinghy training opportunities for juniors and adults.
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| Sunday
afternoons - Dinghy points and handicap racing series
for adults and juniors. Each class of dinghy has its own start.
(No menagerie fleet) |
| Bank
holiday Mondays - as for Sundays |
| Wednesday
evenings - in spring and summertime. A pursuit race
for adults and juniors plus a class race for sailboards. Followed
by a social evening in our lovely sandstone clubhouse - with
hot suppers and licensed bar. |
| Saturdays afternoons
- Leisure sailing, training sessions and impromptu racing. Safety
boat cover for many summer months.
Monday evenings
- We run Ladies and Mens only courses. Organised
by Mandy and Bob Suggitt
WINTER
SERIES |
| Into
the winter with our "Frostbite" handicap series for
all dinghy classes and points series races for sailboards.
Through
the winter with our "Snowflake" handicap series
for all classes. (A special Winter only membership is available)
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sailing at other times subject to observance of the
club safety policy. |
Our
now famous junior training programme, with
early (Easter) and mid season (July and/or August) three
day events and regular shorter sessions, has produced many
fine achievements with young sailors obtaining magnificent
results at National, European and World events.
We are justifiably proud of our younger members. Click
here
for more details.
Right
we see Optimist dinghies at a club training event.
Click image to enlarge. |
Optimist
dinghies sailing at Barnt Green during a training session |
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Full
details of all our events can be found in subsequent pages. We hope
you enjoy our website.
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