IMPORTANT NOTICE
Race Officers are essential to a good day's racing. If you are unable to do your Race Officer duty it is your responsibility to swap your date with another officer.
You can use the BMYC WhatsApp Group to find a willing person to swap with.
Race Officers are essential to a good day's racing. If you are unable to do your Race Officer duty it is your responsibility to swap your date with another officer.
You can use the BMYC WhatsApp Group to find a willing person to swap with.
2025 Trophy Presentations
Summer 2025 Trophy WinnersFooty Allan Coleman
Micro Magic David Nickerson Tuesday DF65 Allan Coleman Thursday DF65 Graham Tite Tuesday RG65 Bill Culshaw |
Thursday RG65 Roger Hopper
Tuesday DF95 Adam Scace Thursday DF95 Adam Scace Tuesday IOM David Nickerson Thursday IOM Adam Scace |
November 2025 TrophiesDF65 4th November Adam Scase
IOM 6th November Colin Billington Micro Magic 11th November David Nickerson DF95 13th November Graham Tite Footy 18th November Allan Coleman RG65 20th November Bill Culshaw |
2nd December 2025 AGM minutes
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1 Members Attending
Kevin Alcock Ian Apps David Baker Peter Best Colin Billington John Burgoine Eric Clewer Allan Coleman Bill Culshaw Peter Evans Paul Gutteridge Clive Hartland Roger Hopper Steve King David Nickerson Stephen Philpott Dave Ridley Graham Saunders Sid Sims Alan Skitt Graham Tite Stephen Ward Roger Williams 2 Apologies for absence Ian Cooke Barry Mayer Barry Rolfe Adam Scase 3 Minutes of the 2024 AGM The minutes were read out and agreed. 4 Matters arising It was suggested that in future the previous minutes and officer’s current reports, should be distributed with the AGM notification. It was stated that Group Emails were sent out with the Email address of all recipients visible. It was agreed that in future Group Emails should be sent using the Blind Copy feature. 5 Officer’s reports Commadore report: No real issues to report. Committee Member’s contact details had been removed from the Web-Site as the data had been misused for scam Emails. The new contact Email for the club is: [email protected]. |
Membership report:
We currently have 36 members. A new “personal details” form was issued to everyone to complete and return. Finance report: A full description and balance sheet was distributed to all present. The club finances continue to grow. Currently stands at £3699.12 It was agreed to make the £100 donation to the Air Ambulance an annual event. Sailing report: A good year. General standards of sailing are improving. Some more training foe 2026 would be a good move. 6a Tea Club It was agreed that: Those who purchase goods for the tea club should be able to be imbursed for their expense if the wish. Claims to be entered in the Tea Club cash book. The price for a cup of tea should be considered as a minimum donation of 20p to the club funds. 6b Membership Fees It was agreed that the fees for 2026 should be: BMYC = £5. SSC = £50 MYA = £10 6c Club Meal tt was agreed to have a club meal, probably at the Parson & Clerk, on a Tuesday in January at 13.00. Members will self-fund themselves. Partners are welcome. David Nickerson to arrange. 6d Safe Guarding Declaration Steve gave a presentation on the known implications. It was agreed that we will have to comply. We await further instructions from SSC. 6e Should we have 8 races in the Winter season It was agreed to standardise our sailing all year. We will start 2026 Sailing 8 races per session and have a 13.00 start time. 7 Election of Officers All existing officers were re-elected on the basis that that there were no offers for replacements. Colin Billington and Eric Clewer were elected to be additional SSC reps. 8 Payment of fees David reiterated the cost of membership. Some people paid cash on the day others agreed to pay by bank transfer |
2023 Trophy Presentations
5th December 2023
5th December 2023
Commodore's Report 2022You will recall that last AGM I was appointed to this post, having been a member for only a few months and had absolutely no sailing experience.
• My report therefor reflects my own limitations. • What has been achieved is down to the committee. • In order to understand what is required of this report I consulted with Alan Skitt. We have had 2 major incidents in the year. • Firstly Graham Tite. Simple but devastating accident. Pleased to see him here today. • Secondly Robin Webb. Passed away recently. He was a great mentor to me, I miss him. 1 minute reflection. We have had 1 great innovation this year. Graham’s tug boat and new buoys. • This has simplified course set up and retrieval. . • It is my wish that we could adopt “Custom and practice” that ensures, at the end of the last race every one stays pool side and recovers the buoys and the tug boat, then places them back in store. This would only take a few minutes, as opposed 10-15 minutes if left to the faithful few. Change. We have had 5 incidents this year, that have influenced behavioural practices. 1. Graham Tite’s accident. The review of Health & Safety, found that we should not use the Slip Way to launch or recover boats. This has yet to be formally added to the rules. 2. Tom Duggins experienced unfair treatment when he obtained approval for fiddle time. Only to return to find that the heat had started without him. Although there was a resulting “Blame Game”, the fundamental cause was a lack of clarity about fiddle time. The outcome is that Fiddle Time is a max of 5 mins. Starting from the time the last competitor finishes a heat. As there are discard heats, a competitor who wants a longer Fiddle Time must take a discard. This has yet to be formally added to the rules. 3. Ian Ash has reacted to being regarded as the “Tea Maker” he feels his good will has been abused and taken for granted. Previously Robin had been a regular Tea Maker. It is my wish that before racing commences someone ensures the urn is switched on, cups and biscuits etc are out. The winner of the last heat before tea – makes the tea. We need to agree a process that ensures that set up, wash up and milk supply works and involves everyone taking their share. 4. John Burgoine introduced the programming of Race Officer for each event. This has generally worked well and saved a lot of confusion. The only weakness was the inclusion of defunct members. 5. The committee has agreed that the rules in appendix E , regarding not giving or receiving advice whilst racing, can be interpreted as “Coaching in club only events can take place”. Thus enabling people like myself to develop skills. This has yet to be formally added to the rules. We have 1 action point from last year not addressed. We need to address it by involving everyone as it affects everyone. • Alan Skitt stated last year that “Our biggest challenge is to increase the number of members who are willing to become involved in running of the club” etc. Read out full Text from last year’s minutes. • My observations show that although most tasks are still undertaken by a few. Most members appear to get involved at some time. Too many look after their own interests before offering to help – by which time it is too late. • My opinion is that root cause is that we all turn up and expect everything to happen – and it usually does. John's introduction of rostering the “Race Officer” has gone a long way towards improving organisation. It has been readily accepted by members, this implies that some form of organisational change to distributing tasks may be accepted. • What we need is an operations plan or system, which ensures that all required tasks are undertaken and that those tasks are shared fairly between all present on the day. • I don’t know the answer but welcome suggestions. Action Points: • Update rules page on web site • Agree plan to deal with Tea making and wash up. • Agree plan to organise tasks fairly. |
Minutes of the 2022
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2022 Trophy Presentations
7th November 2022
Alan Coleman receives the DF95 Trophy
David Nicholson receives the DF65 & Micro Magic Trophies
John Burgoine receives the IOM trophy
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Barry Mayer receives the RG65 Trophy
John Burgoine receives the Footy Trophy
In recognition of his service to the Club Graham Tite is made an honorary member
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Winter 2020 Series Winners
Trophies awarded by Commodore Alan Skitt at the 2018 AGM
 Graham Tite receiving the ‘Lady Bea Clissold Counterblast’ Footy plate on 3rd February 2022.
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The winning team Roger Atkins, Neil Pearson and Clive Hartland with Commodore Alan Skitt
90 Years Celebration Pictures
Celebration Cake donated by Hahttps:// www.weebly.comzel Hartland .
AGM 2019 Trophy Presentations
Clive Hartland and John Wilber cut the ceremonial cake made by Hazel Hartland
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First three individual winners John Burgoine, Peter Moore, behind the camera and Ian McDonald
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Club members present on the 22nd August 2019, sadly some half a dozen or so were on holiday during the celebrations.
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Presentation to John Wilber Commodore 1999 at the time of joining with Sutton Sailing Club
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Graham Tite suggests you have a look at this.
