Popular Sailing Times

 Popular Sailing Times

Although all Club members can sail at any time, a number of newer Club members have asked which days and times are the most popular for sailing so that they can visit at times when there are likely to be a number of other members on the water.

Listed below are details of those days on which particular groups normally meet up at the lake, and when a fair numbers of members are likely to be on the landing stage:

Sunday

The Yachting Group meet to race at 10.00 a.m.

    Second Sunday of month          International One Metres

    Third Sunday of month             Fiestas and DF65s

    Fourth Sunday of month           DF65s

    Fifth Sunday of month              International One Metres

On the First Sunday of each month, the steering Competition series is held at 10.00 a.m.

Tuesday

   The Yachting Group meet from 10 a.m. each week.

Wednesday

    The Powered Boat Group meet from 12.00 noon each week.

Thursday

    The Yachting Group meet from 10.00 a.m each week.

    They can also sail on the big lake with the larger sized yachts.

Saturday

    The Powered Boat Group meet from 12.00 noon, each week.

    Twice a month, usually on the second and fourth Saturdays, the Club 500              Group race fast electric boats at 3.00 p.m.

For day to day information, there are two active WhatsApp groups: To join either group, contact the relevant group organiser:

EMBC Yachts:                                John Berry             07842 194 626

Etherow Powered Boat Group:        Bob McMenemie      07527 306 859

New Honorary Treasurer

 New Honorary Treasurer

At the AGM on 11 December, Geoff Garside stepped down from the position of Hon. Treasurer of the Club after 16 years in office.

Chris Galloway was elected to succeed him as Hon. Treasurer, and will also take over the position of Membership Secretary.

Geoff will continue to act as webmaster for the Club Web Site.

The formal hand over of duties is scheduled for 01 January 2025, when all the formalities of changing bank account access permissions have been completed. Until then, Geoff should still be contacted about any financial or membership matters.

For those members wishing to pay their membership subscriptions for 2025 by direct bank transfer, our banking details will remain the same, and subscription levels for 2025 remain the same as 2024, namely:

            Standard                     £35

            Concession [65 plus]    £30

            Family                         £40

A further announcement will be made at the end of this month with contact details for Chris Galloway.

Competition Winners - 2024

 Competition Winners 2024

At the Club AGM on 11 December, 2024, Trophies and prizes were presented for the various Club sailing and model building competition winners and runners up.

Competition Winners are:

Commodores Challenge Trophy                      Chris Galloway

Club 500 Racing                                           John Senior

Eddie Outen Trophy - Steering                       Alan Bennett

Cyril Driver Trophy                                       George Bennet

Graham Harling Trophy - J Class Yachts          John Berry

JB Trophy - IOM Yachts                                 Alan Bennett

Cliff Dootson Trophy - DF65 Yachts                Allan Bennett

Eric Chester Trophy - Fiesta Yachts                Alan Bennett

DF65 / Fiesta Joint Sailing                             Trevor Redford

David Swain Trophy - Fiesta One Day             John Berry

Most Improved Sailor                                   George Bennett

Scratch Built Model                                      Bob McMenemie

Congratulations to all of the Winners.

Photos by Dave Lee

Frostbite Sail

 Frostbite Sail

Shake off the excesses of Christmas !! 

The annual Frostbite Sail will take place this year on Friday 27 December, from 10.30 a.m.

All members and families are welcome, so come and join in the festivities.

Hot soup, coffee and mince pies will be served, courtesy of Mike H.

Club AGM

 Annual General Meeting

Please remember that the Club Annual General Meeting and prize giving for all of this year's competitions will be held in the clubhouse on Wednesday 11 December at 7.45 p.m.

All Club members are urged to make an effort to attend.

New Club 500 Boat Design

 New Club 500 Boat Design

In order to potentially attract new members to the Club 500 fast electric racing  boat series, John Senior has designed a new Club 500 racing boat, which he has published for other members to use.

As John is one of the Club's most successful racers, this should be a very competitive boat, and reasonably easy to build. The design and building instructions comprise 14 sheets of A2 [Full Size] and A4 PDF drawings which are available for free download from the Club 500 Racing page of this website. The download is in the form of a single .ZIP file, which will need to be unzipped after downloading.

Quiz Night

 Quiz Night

The Annual Quiz Night, postponed from earlier in the year, will now be held in the Clubhouse on Wednesday 9 October, starting at 8.00 p.m.

All members are welcome, with teams of four [maximum]. Prizes for the winners, and hot dogs will be served, courtesy of Mike Hodgson.

Beware - EMail Scam

 EMail Scam

Several members have reported that they have received EMails purporting to be from Chris Platford, attempting to persuade the recipients to part with money.

This is a scam. Somebody has gained access to Chris's EMail address book. Delete any such EMail immediately, and do not respond.

Don Beswick

 Don Beswick

Many of you will already know that Don Beswick, a long standing member of the Club, died recently.

His funeral will be at 10.45 on Monday 01 July, in the Rowan Chapel at Stockport Crematorium, SK2 6LS.

Don's family have invited all Club members attending to the reception afterwards, which will be held at the Alma Lodge Hotel, Stockport SK2 6EL.  If you are intending to join Don's family at the reception, will you please let John Berry know, so he can advise the family of numbers attending, for catering purposes.

Marple Carnival

 Marple Carnival

A big thank you to all those members who helped with the EMBC display at Marple Carnival yesterday.

About 30 boats were on display, of all types and sizes

The weather was a bit mixed, with occasional heavy rain showers, but we had quite a lot of interest from visitors.

Throughout the day there were boats sailing on the lock pound, with one having to be rescued from the middle by Howard M's noodle tug when its propeller got fouled by weed.

Quiz NIght Postponed

 Quiz Night Postponed

We regret to announce that the Quiz Night advertised for Wednesday 22 May has had to be postponed.

We have just heard that Mike H has been taken seriously ill, and will be out of action for a while, so it will not be possible to provide catering next week.

The Quiz Night will be re-scheduled, and a new date announced in the near future.

Apologies to everybody.

Quiz Night

 Quiz Night

The next Club Night on Wednesday May 22 is Quiz night, with Hot Dogs.

Teams of four, and prizes for the winners. Questions set by Geoff and Hot Dogs served by Mike.

Come along and join in.

 Commodore's Challenge - 2024

Details of this year's Commodore's Challenge have just been released.

This year's Challenge is to build a model of a WW2 landing Craft - with a difference.

See the Commodore's Challenge page for full details, and links from where you can download copies of the plans in .PDF format.

If any member can not print the plans themselves, Chris Galloway or Geoff Garside can supply paper copies.

Judging will take place on a date yet to be announced, but will not be before the end of August.

Happy Building !!

A Date for Your Diary

 Marple Carnival - Saturday 15 June 2024

The club has accepted an invitation to put on a display of boats at Marple Carnival on Saturday 15 June.

Last year's event in the Memorial Park was a great success and the organisers are hoping for even greater things this year.

Sailing will be available on the top lock of the canal.

Make sure you put this date in your diaries. George Barrett, the Exhibitions Secretary, will be asking for entries of boats in due course.

Club Directory

 Club Directory

The first edition of the Club Directory for 2024 has now been published. This lists contact details of all Club members who have consented to be included.

For data protection reasons, this information is available only to Club members and can not be published on the Web Site, but if you would like an electronic copy in .PDF format, please EMail the Hon. Treasurer, Geoff Garside. Contact details are on the Contact Us page.

Membership Subscriptions

 Membership Subscriptions

All members should by now have received a subscription renewal request, either by post or Email. If for any reason you have not received your renewal request, please contact Geoff Garside, the Hon. Treasurer. Contact details are on the Contact Us page.

Subscription renewal rates for 2024 are the same as 2023.

The renewal date for all members is January 01 and, under Club Rules, subscriptions must be renewed by the end of February.

Model Boat Mayhem Show

 Model Boat Mayhem Show

We have received an invitation for the Club and all Club members to attend the sixteenth annual Model Boat Mayhem show at Wicksteed Park, Northamptonshire on Saturday and Sunday 25-26 May 2024.

This is claimed to be the biggest dedicated model boat show in the world, and there will be free sailing on both Saturday and Sunday.

There will be a number of traders attending, along with the RNLI,  a huge bring and buy sale and onsite catering.

On site camping is available and Kettering town centre hotels and shops are nearby.

For full details and news, click HERE.