News & Reports Archive

Steve’s Laser Tip of the Month 01-Apr-17

Tip of the month – using the Cunningham upwind in a blow! Andy Southall, a regular and experienced club racer at Chew, recently had his ‘cunningham epiphany’ moment at the [...]

Welcome to Chew Valley Sailing Club Limited 01-Apr-17

A new season - a new structure.. Welcome to Chew Valley Sailing Club Limited As all of you who have recently renewed your membership will know, you are now members [...]

Sailing and Social Report 31-Mar-17

Membership RenewalsThanks everyone who has renewed. The new team are beavering away - please be patient, boat stickers, membership cards etc. will be forthcoming. You can view the calendar on the [...]

Sailing and Social Report 24-Mar-17

Sailing in 2017/18 - Toby Peacock, Joint Sailing Sec. The new season – our 50th! - kicks off in April, with a host of events to take advantage of the [...]

Chew Crew Members and Parents March 2017

Dear all Parents, Guardians and Younger Members of CVLSC. As promised I am now getting to the stage of getting more information out to you about Chew Crew for 2017. [...]

Sailing and Social Report 17-Mar-17

Membership Renewals Membership renewals are flooding in. Mike Pearce has run a couple of WebCollect clinics (more to come) and Sarah Benfield, who only recently joined the membership team, is [...]

Sailing and Social Report 10-Mar-17

Membership Renewals More than 100 members have now successfully renewed their membership and boat subscriptions using the new online system. Please get in touch with Sarah Benfield if you have [...]

Sailing and Social Report 03-Mar-17

IMPORTANT Membership Renewals You should have received an email on Wednesday 1st this week from cvlsc@webcollect.org.uk inviting you to renew your membership and including the login details for the online account we [...]

Steve’s Laser Tip of the Month 26-Feb-17

The psychology of gybing in strong windsHow many times have we all approached the gybe mark on a windy day with trepidation? How often have we validated our concerns by taking [...]

Sailing and Social Report 24-Feb-17

Sailing Report - Helen Martin, Vice Commodore Wednesday sailors were disappointed this week with strong winds causing the sailing to be cancelled, even the universities and schools didn’t appear, presumably [...]

Training Day and Some Great Results in the Class Race Day 18/19-Feb-17

Dear Solo Sailors, We were treated to almost Spring like conditions for our double billing weekend of sailing. Saturday’s Training Day was superb: very professional and lots to learn – [...]

Sailing & Social Reports 17-Feb-17

Sailing Report - by RO Simon ChapmanWith a wind chill making the temperature -3 and a forecast of a blustery easterly, it was with some trepidation that I arrived at the [...]

Membership Renewals 17-Feb-17

Membership renewals move into the 21st Century! Membership renewals this year will be handled through an online system called WebCollect. This system will be familiar to those people who have [...]

The Biggest Fleet on the Lake Today 12-Feb-17

Dear Solo Sailors, With a wind chill factor of minus 2 and a stiff north easterly gusting up to a spine chilling 20 knots, today’s forecast was enough to put [...]

Sailing & Social Reports 10-Feb-17

Sailing Report - Helen Martin, Vice Commodore Once again the club was full of cheerful, enthusiastic university teams competing in the BUSA Western Region Team Trials for places in the national [...]

Sailing & Social Reports 03-Feb-17

Sailing & Social Reports - Helen Martin, Vice Commodore While we were away looking for some sunshine and warmth, a lot was going on.... I thought I’d use some quotes [...]

Thank you so much working party 21-Jan-17

Thank you so much to the laser fleet members and others who helped out on Saturday 21st January with our dinghy park working party – we moved an impressive amount of stone with a [...]

Steve’s Laser Tip of the Month 01-Feb-17

Join us at Rock! Easter weekend 14th-17thApril Steve shares his personal experiences from our annual laser fleet holiday to Rock – and why you should join us this Easter! Rock [...]

The Latest Solo Racing in the Frostbite Series 29-Jan-17

The Latest Solo Racing in the Frostbite Series 29-Jan-17 Back again at Chew after his fantastic results at the Nationals, Alex Corby led from start to finish in the first [...]

Sailing Report 20-Jan-17

Working Party - Allen Marsh & Laura Smith This weekend, Saturday 21st January, 10:00. Warm up, meet some different people, get some exercise and help stop part of the southern [...]

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