Recent News Items

Requests For Nominations 2014

In accordance with Rule 25, we are now requesting nominations for the Flag Officer, other officer and committee member positions. All officers and one non-officer elected member of each of General, Sailing and House Committees must retire at each Annual General Meeting . . .

The new appointments will take effect at the AGM on 19th October 2014.

Members are encouraged to put themselves forward for all the positions (see link below) including those where the current incumbent has indicated his willingness to re-stand.

We would like to see as many people as possible come forward to undertake these roles which are key to the running of the Club.  It is also a great opportunity to use your experience, talents and energy to shape the future of the Club. 

If you might be interested and want to know more about what is involved, you are welcome to have a chat with the current Commodore, Chris Gordon, or any other Flag Officers who would be happy to give you more information to help you decide.

Chris Gordon can be contacted by email at -  gordon.chris@hotmail.co.uk or by phone on 01730892781.

To see full details of the positions available Click Here

Cock of the Harbour Cancelled

Strong winds and heavy rain have forced the cancellation of today's (Sunday 10 Aug) Cock of the Harbour open pursuit race.

Beach Games Cancelled

Due to the bad weather forecast for Sunday 10 August the Beach Games have been cancelled.

SEALS Cancelled this Sunday 10 Aug

Due to the possibility of high winds, and torrential rain we feel that even our toughest SEALS might not quite enjoy the day to its full potential, therefore we have regrettably decided to CANCEL SEALS on Sunday 10 Aug ( tomorrow ) . . . We will try and put in another date a little later.

A celebration of a special life!

As many of you will know, Maggie Hunt sadly passed away last month. An intimate funeral service was held with just her immediate family, but now we want to celebrate a life well lived! . . .

All who knew and loved Maggie are invited to join us in celebrating her life at;

The Oaks, Havant Crematorium, Bartons Road, Havant at 1345 on Friday 22nd August 2014.

Afterwards, you are invited to join us and enjoy a drink or two at HISC.

Full details click here

Chichester Harbour FED Week - 11 to 17 August 2014

Chichester Harbour Federation Week, sailed under the burgee of Hayling Island SC from Monday 11 to Friday 17 August, provides racing for a wide range of dinghies and small keelboats in Chichester Harbour . . . Including events for Fast, Medium and Slow handicap, Fast & Medium Asymmetric handicap, RS200, RS400, Flying 15, Finn, Solo, Laser, Laser Radial & 4.7, RS Elite & Artemis 20, RS Feva, RS Tera, Topper and Optimist . . .

For more information on FED Week including Entry, Race Programme, NOR  and general information see the FED Week Event page here

HISC 2014 Youth Open Race Week

Final results for Hayling's 2014 Youth Open Race Week are now posted . . . Over 130 boats took part . . . Class winners : 29er Crispin Beaumont and Tom Darling - RS Feva Rory Odell and Josh Bonsey - Topper Ollo Catton - Handicap fleeet Alex Butler - RS Tera Gold Will Orringe - RS Tera Silver Tom Gorringe - RS Tera Red Ribbon Grace Fisk - Optimist Phoebe Peters - Optimist Red Ribbon Rosie Thompson . . .

The event attracted strong fleets of Optimists, RS Teras, RS Fevas, 29ers and handicap fleet of Laser 4.7s, Laser Radials, Toppers, 420s and RS 200s. The sailors enjoyed glorious, ‘champagne’ sailing conditions with winds varying from 11 to 20 knots and bright sunshine. 

New for 2014 were the daily coaching sessions for the 28 strong Red Ribbon fleet of novice racers in Optimists and RS Teras. They enjoyed two hours of coaching each day with qualified instructors, and advanced enough to complete two races a day by the end of the week.

Full results available here

See the event page for more information.

What's on in August - Youth!

School's Out for Summer - Summer Holiday and August are upon us - always a busy time at HISC - especially in this lovely weather! . . . Here is a quick run through of 'All Things Youth' . . . Please note there is no monthly series, but different events each Sunday . . .

RS200 National Championship at HISC

Entries NOW OPEN for the Volvo Noble Marine RS200 National Championship at HISC 16 – 21 August 2014 . . . Show your support for the event, encourage others and claim the early bird discount by signing up NOW . . .

Entry before 27 July is £147 (or £125 if you are under 20). For more information on the entry click here

Click here for the HISC RS200 Championship Event Page with links to accomodation etc

500 Club Monthly Draw . . .

The 500 Club July draw has taken place . . . Congratulations to our winners. It's ever so easy to join our 500 Club, and very painless! All you new HISC members - just ask at HISC Reception for a form - go on - please do it now, and thanks . . .

And the winners are as follows:

As always, many congratulations to our winners, and many, many thanks to all of you who take part so generously each month

The 500 Club Committee

Partytime at HISC exhibition

The "Partytime at HISC" exhibition is taking shape, and as a taster we are now showing some of the Archive Collection's original documents and memorabilia in the Dining Room . . . These are in the right hand cabinet for safe keeping and cover a large number of years . . .

We are very fortunate to have these original items to show. The complete exhibition will feature HISC organised Parties from the early 1950s, ranging from Summer Balls, Fitting Out and Laying up Suppers, Christmas Parties, Barbeques and themed parties such as Halloween.

We have a huge collection of Party photographs which we will be showing in the next few months. These have taken a considerable time to gather, identify, date and subsequently display.

One of the earliest files we hold is the former Secretary Manager, Paul Covell's organising file for the Golden Jubilee Ball in 1971, and this has produced some fascinating information for the exhibition. We have also collected many stories of other Parties.

Please take time to look at the cabinet in the Dining Room in the meanwhile.

Belinda Cook and Léonie Austin.

Power of the Internet

The recent Moth World Championship at HISC was a example of the power of the Internet to distribute news and information worldwide . . . An International event such as the Moth championship, involving a cutting-edge dinghy that attracts the worlds top sailors to compete, is of great interest to sailing enthusiasts everywhere . . .

The difference in the world of instant communication is that "spectators" around the world can, in almost real time, follow events that only recently they would have waited weeks to hear about - and sailing being an almost media free sport as far as the general news media is concerned - months.

An example of the difference a major event has is seen in the figures for the Moth Worlds. HISC website attracts betwwen 500 and 600 visitors a day, looking at 3,000 to 4000 pages of information at this time of the year.

With the start of the Worlds that number went to 1,875 on the opening day, 2,500 when Mike Lennon won the Nationals and stayed at around that figure for the entire event, looking at up to 10,000 pages per day.

Most of this of course was in the Moth Event pages area: news, results, entries, videos etc. Over the ten days of the event 20,000 vists to the website looked at 83,000 pages of information.

HISC also runs a Facebook page and images and brief items were posted there each day. Before the event the average Total Reach was 789 per day, and during the event this averaged 18,000 per day. On the 17 July we hit an amazing peak of 70,562 for that one day, with a total reach of 186,000 for the ten day period of the event.

Figures like this, of dedicated sailing enthusiasts, are gold-dust to sponsors. And these are just the club website. The class had an official worlds site and sailing media around the world was receiving daily press releases and images.

It is difficult to imagine a world before the Internet but the quality of sailing event reporting still varies widly, with some big events having suprisingly poor Internet presence - one major dinghy championship event this week resorted to Tweeting images of pages of the results. - GJN

Notes:

HISC has had a website since Nov 1997.

Visits to date this year are 117,957 viewing 992,361 pages.

Total Reach is the  number of people who were served any activity from the HISC Facebook page, including posts and posts by other people,

BBC Sailing Show live from HISC

Sir Robin Knox-Johnson presented his BBC Radio Solent programme, The H2O Show, live from the Hayling Island SC balcony on Thursday . . . Among his guests were the Race Officers for the International Moth World Championships and two of the top competitors, Mike Lennon, the new British Champion and former World Champion Nathan Outterridge, who is leading the 2014 championship with one day to go . . .

Bridging the gap - HISC Get Racing Club

The new HISC Get Racing Club has been hugely successful in bridging the gap between the experienced, core group of racing members and those standing on the shore wishing to get into racing for the first time . . . Launched at the start of this season the club relies on experienced member volunteers to assist those members keen to have a go at racing by offering tips, skills and coaching as well as putting on a series of informal races on selected Saturday’s . . .

The last two weekends in June saw another two highly successful Get Racing Club events with a good number and mix of boats attending including RS 200’s, RS Qubas, Lasers and RS Visions. Both weekends saw sunshine and good winds which enabled the participants to build their confidence and develop their racing skills in a fun and friendly, learning environment.

The volunteer mentors, all highly experienced racing members, focused on key themes including getting to the start line in time and use of outhauls, downhauls and kicking straps; a real improvement was seen amongst the Get Racing Club participants in terms of their race starts and sailing skills by the end of the sessions. 

Mentoring tips and advice have progressed at the most recent event, to working on helming skills to achieve a more efficient line through the water and moving around the boat more dynamically in response to wind changes to keep the boat speed consistent.

The racing last weekend was fun and relaxed with several capsizes due to the shifty and gusty wind conditions; the 200’s dominated the day and were the overall winners. 

Special thanks go to the HISC Mentors Andy and Karen Partington, Nick and Kate Peters, Jude, Steve Storey, Graham Williamson and Mark Pollington who gave up their time and teaching skills to put on the most recent HISC Get Racing Club events.

See the full Press Release Here

Forthcoming dates for the Get Racing Club events are as follows:

Saturday 19 July & Saturday 26 July

Saturday 16 August & Saturday 30 August

Saturday 13 September

Saturday 4 October

For more information please visit the HISC website at www.hisc.co.uk or contact Leah at sailingsecretary@hisc.co.uk to register your boat or book a place in an RS Venture for the event.

Hisc Tera Squad Winter Training

It is already time to start planning the squad activity for winter 2014/15 . . . We are delighted to announce Julian Pearson as the head coach for the HISC Tera Squad. Julian is an experienced coach who works with the Feva Class regularly and is helping to put together an exciting winter programme for the HISC Tera squad . . .

This years training will take place over 5 weekends.

Dates are:  15/16 Nov, 6/7 Dec 2014 and  24/25 Jan, 21/22 Feb, 7/8 Mar 2015

Open to all HISC Tera sailors, who are not members of other Tera squads. It is aimed at regular HISC Tera sailors keen to sail over the winter months looking  to move up to the next level of sailing.

It is suitable for all sailors who are looking to become better club sailors or looking to move up to Regional and National squads in the 2015 season. It is not suitable for beginners.

Spaces will be limited and priority will be given to HISC sailors who have shown they meet the required standard and regularly take part in club racing and events.

If you are interested in taking part this winter please email: teracaptain@hisc.co.uk  with any questions or to register interest.

See the HISC RS Tera Page click here

HISC Fireball Fleet

HISC’s rejuvenated Fireball fleet is looking for people who’d like to crew either on an occasional basis or to ‘hook up’ more regularly . . . Ideal opportunity for all - including the HISC teenagers who would like some more crewing experience . . .

The Fireball is an established international class that has a long association with HISC. World, European and National championships are held annually and it is anticipated that many HISC boats will attend the 2015 Worlds at Pwhelli, North Wales.

If you interested in sailing a Fireball at HISC and, ideally, have trapeze and spinnaker/gennaker experience please register on the ‘Hayling Island Fireballs’ Facebook page and let the fleet know.

If you’re not on Facebook, please contact Chris Turner (Fireball 15111) – contact details may be found in the club’s handbook - - give Chris a call!

See the Fireball Class page on HISC - Click here

 

HISC Clothing available on-line

New Online Booking

The Club has a new online booking facility which will allow members to book any of the Club Events that are organised . . . Most events will go live on the system six weeks before they occur and each booking is completed with an online payment . . .

Members will receive an email message (from Golf  Leisure . . .) which will have your user name and password to access the online portel. Once you have received this you can change your username and password to something more memorable via My account. NOTE: This has been delayed but should go out by the end of this week (11 Oct).

You will also be able to change your contact details registered with HISC.

Note that cancellations and refunds cannot be done through the online system. You will need to phone the Club office if you change your mind.

Non members will also be able to book certain events e.g. Accommodation.

Members will be able to book:

• Accommodation
• Training Courses
• Ticketed Events
• Dinghy Hire.