North Haven Yacht ClubNews and Views

Through 2016

March Edition

Someone commented recently that I hadn’t been seen around the club for ages.That’s true, I have been busy on all sorts of things, including getting a year olderand a trip to Hertfordshire to be with the family. Since then I have been strugglingto get the boat ready for the new season. One of the jobs took much longer than Ithought and was not helped by the weather. Anyway now I’m almost ready. Didthe antifoul last week with Brian Stapely’s help, the job I hate most. Naturally I waswell protected in the spirit of the threat to stop us Doing it ourselves. Brian washelping me get out from under the trailer when I moved into a bad position andlaid my head against the paint tray. Of course I had removed my hat by then! Agenerous amount of white spirit and I had a wonderful blue rinse to come homewith.

The next job is to check and add my strop to the mooring. Checking our mooringsis something we are all required to do and not just assume the mooring team havedone all the work. These jobs might be mucky but they have to be done to keepthe boats afloat!

THE END… The final dayof the Club’s 50 yearcelebration.It has certainly been a busy year with lots ofactivities both on the water and socially.Now with the 50 year Time Capsule lockedand ready to insert into a prepared space inthe store, all we can do is wonder if thesetwo young people will be able to rememberwhere they put the keys in 50 years time.Must seem impossible to them now, butWilliam Brooks and Sienna Hanson by thenwill be in their 60s. The rest of us oldies willjust be a distant memory.

One of the interesting items in the box was aphotograph of the parking ticket machinesfrom the car park opposite. What on earth

will the charges be by 21st. February 2065? Infact will we have our own cars by then and ifwe do will developers have built over everycar park in town… As they say, “He who liveswill see.” I’m not planning to be driving thenso I’ll leave it to the youngsters to find out.

21st. February in photographs

Club members and guests

gathered in the clubhouse onSunday 21st February, tomark a special event. Notonly was the occassion heldto mark the end of the clubsGolden Jubilee Year, but alsoto officially present chequesto the clubs nominatedGolden Jubilee charities. .The Deputy Mayor of Poole,Peter Adams and his wifeBrenda, who had officiated atthe Club’s Golden JubileeWeekend last year,presented cheques ofdonations from clubmembers, to BrianPemberton, Chairman of thePoole Lifeguards, Royal LifeSaving Society, and Eric BlythPresident, of The New Forestand District Sailabilty, IvyLane, Ringwood. Largereplica’s of these chequeswere displayed in theclubhouse, for all to see..The presentations weremade at mid day, and themayoral party were providedwith light refreshmentsbefore departing to CanfordSchool for their next

engagement. Refreshmentswere also provided tomembers of both charities,who presented ongoingpractical demonstrations ofthe valuable specializedservices that theirorganizations provide.On behalf of themembership, CommodoreBarry Swaffield, thanked thedeputy Mayor and Mayoress.He presented the DeputyMayor with a framedphotograph of the deputymayor, in his capacity asMayor of Poole, at last year’sNHYC Golden JubileeWeekend, absorbed whilstoperating a navigationsimulator.Caroline Leppan presentedthe Mayoress with a posse offlowers.Club Founder Member,Donald Small, was presentedwith a computer tablet, bythe vice Commodore,Andrew Page, in recognitionof his work for the Club’sGolden Jubilee subcommittee. After the DeputyMayor’s visit, in the midafternoon, the Club’s ViceCommodore, Andrew Page,introduced two juniormembers of the club, SiennaHanson and William Brook.Each received a key andceremoniously locked a

double lock, purpose made,time capsule, containing clubarchives and memorabilia, ofthe clubs history, past andpresent. The ‘BBC Dr Who’background music, thataccompanied this ceremony,was certainly appropriate forthe occasion. After closingand locking the contents, byeach of the junior members,the capsule was concealed inthe fabric of the building,with the expectation, that infifty plus year’s time, theyoung pair, then in theirsixties, would meet anddisclose the contents of thecapsule, to a new generationof members.Following the event allbunting and bannersdisplaying the clubs GoldenJubilee Year were removedfrom the clubhouse and theopinion of members werethat the year’s celebrationhad been a great success.A video compilation wasplayed in the clubhousethroughout the day,arranged by David Segal, andlight refreshments wereavailable.A selection of photographswere taken by several of theclubs photographers and it isintended to display aselection of these in theclubhouse.

Lots of social events have taken place, the team scrabble night was a bigsuccess , sprat supper 13th March cooked 500 sprats. “Haywire” was agood night!

Make sure you have this date in your diary.. EGM will be 15th April.All the normal Fishing competitions and Sailing racing plus another attempt at thephotographic competition so brush up on your angling skills, get the crew trained for theracing and just take lots of photos. Dave Butcher will add some more about that and perhapsshare some ideas. A big thank you to all that helped with getting the taxi ready for service , and to the memberswho helped with getting the club ready for the deputy mayors visit at the close of the Jubileeyear event.

Past & Present

2016 Photographic Competition.Rules.

Competition open to all club members including family members.Anything relating to the club or club activities can be photographed, also anything to dowith Poole Harbour itself.The photographs must be suitable for ‘family’ viewing.

Any photograph of children requires the parent/guardian to sign the print to say that theyhave granted permission for the photograph.

Club activities, you and your boat, fishing, racing, wildlife, sunsets (not too many please), children, anythingthat has a link into NHYC.The copyright always remains with the author but the photograph can be used in NHYC newsletter, displayedat the club or in some instances, possibly on the web site.Initial entries must be in print format with entries from adults to a maximum size of A4 and for children underthe age of 16, A5. You can enter as many as you want.There are three categories. Under 16, Adult beginners, Adult intermediate/advanced.

Technical quality, (while encouraged) is not totally important, in other words a £10 camera is as likely to win asone costing £1000.At the end of the season the prints will be displayed for a short while.The judges decision is final and we will not tolerate any judge or judges being thrown off the T Piece, mostly be-cause they would have already fallen in a few times through the season. The club takes the whole ‘water quality’issue seriously.Prizes… Whatever we can squeeze out of the committee.Entries, please put into a suitable envelope and mark clearly, Photo Comp, PLEASE DO NOT BEND. Arrange-ments will be made for a suitable box for the entries to be posted in.

15th. APRIL An important date for all membersExtraordinary General Meeting at 1930hrs.