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October Newsletter
Kingsbridge Estuary Boat Club
I am pleased to be able to report that the first KEBC meeting since Covid changed our lives was a success in spite of torrential rain and flooding in Kingsbridge. Thirtytwo of us enjoyed the presentation from Dave Halsall, with a drink and nibbles from the club. All those present were happy to endorse the use of the Regal Club for future events.
The proposed increase in mooring charges for berths on the Kingsbridge pontoons was discussed briefly. The subject will be examined at the next committee meeting on November 8th and members with comments to make are requested to email them to committee@kebc.co.uk It is important to remember that the Kingbridge charges are being brought into line with those for the pontoons in Batson Creek and at Victoria Quay. None of these pontoons has water or power laid on, the Kingsbridge pontoon mooring arrangements are superior to those in Salcombe and while Kingsbridge berths are available for 12 months each year, the Salcombe berths are seasonal.Your events organiser, Linda Lee, has confirmed the club activities for November and her report follows:-
CLUB MEETING WEDNESDAY 17th NOVEMBER 2021
The Regal Club, Kingsbridge at 7.00 for 7.30pm
Illustrated talk by Rupert Kirkwood ‘The Lone Kayaker’
‘ALL AT SEA ……. WATCHING WILDLIFE FROM A KAYAK’
His talk is about the amazing marine creatures that he has observed whilst clocking up over 27,000 miles of paddling around the S W England.
He has always had a fascination for natural history, complemented by his profession as a farm veterinary surgeon in Holsworthy, West Devon.
Following injury to his knees Rupert took early retirement and took to the water!
Showing photographs and videos of Seals, Sharks, Sunfish, Dolphins, Whales. Porpoises, Peregrines and Puffins as well as the best coastal scenery of Devon and Cornwall.
If you are planning to attend what should be a fascinating evening, please email Linda Lee events@kebc.co.uk just to give us a guide as to how many members to expect on the night.
KEBC CHRISTMAS DINNER 2021
Our Christmas Dinner is at The Cottage Hotel on Wednesday 15 December at 7.00 for 7.30/7.45pm (sitting down). If you wish to make up a party with other members it would be helpful if you would use ONE booking form with your meal choices and send in your monies together. (12 maximum)
A table plan will be available on arrival.
The Menu is for Three Courses and includes Coffee/Tea and Mint at a cost of £29 including a Tip
Wine can be ordered on the night. House Red, White, Rose £21.00 per bottle.
KEBC CHRISTMAS 3 COURSE DINNER 2021 STARTERS
A. Home-Made Soup of the Day
Crusty Bread
B. King Prawn and Clam Risotto
C. Guinea Fowl Terrine
Spiced Apple Chutney and Sourdough Toast
D. Fricassee of Red Lentils, Butternut Squash (vg)
Winter Vegetables and Gorgonzola
E. Poached Pear in Red Wine (vg)
Pickled Physalis, Toasted Walnuts
MAIN COURSES
Stuffing, Bread Sauce and Gravy
Crushed Peas, Chantenay Carrots, Red Wine Jus
Dry Pancetta, Wild Mushroom Tarragon Cream
Chilli and Orange Broth
Sage and Crispy Kale
Goan Spiced Rice with lightly Curried Vegetables
Served with a Selection of Seasonal Vegetables and Potatoes
DESSERTS
A Trio of Home-Made Sweets
Coffee/Tea and Mint
It is planned to lay on a Coach from the Quay leaving at 6.45pm at a cost of £10.00 per person return.
The Cottage Hotel have offered Bed & Breakfast Accommodation at £40.00 per person (Sea View)
Book DIRECT with the Hotel.
Booking form follows below, we look forward to seeing you all soon.
September Newsletter
Kingsbridge Estuary Boat Club
Kingsbridge Estuary Boat Club
Autumn is with us and the Covid pandemic seems to be fading. Your committee met face to face for the first time since early 2020 in a very comfortable room within the Regal complex, Ebrington Street, Kingsbridge. They decided that future club evenings and committee meetings would be held there. The first members’ evening will therefore be in the Regal Club on October 20th, 1900 for 1930, and you will be greeted with some tasty nibbles and a drink. The room is big enough to give plenty of space between members, face coverings should be worn while moving around and they may be removed once seated. We have a speaker, Dave Halsall, a KEBC member, proprietor of Singing Paddles and a National Coastwatch officer. Dave has been involved with the KEBC/South Pool Boating Club initiative to introduce primary school children to the joys of boating.
Enter the meeting room from under the arch, the door next to the stairs. The bar is at the top of the stairs on the right but they will deliver to tables via an app and your smart phone. The lift opposite the entrance doors will also take you up, keep the button depressed until the lift reaches its destination. It would help greatly if you emailed your acceptance of this invitation to events@kebc.co.uk
Other subjects discussed at our committee meeting included Linda Lee’s report on the school children’s introduction to boating. KEBC contributed £400 to the costs of the scheme and over 100 primary children were taken afloat in canoes. Linda was congratulated and thanked.
Membership numbers continue to rise slowly with 192 family memberships at the latest count, five of them joining within the last month.
The question of whether a new Boatwatch Coordinator is needed came under review. While the scheme is capable of running itself without intervention, we do need a central figure to liaise between the teams, Salcombe Harbour, the Police, KEBC committee and new volunteers. Consequently we repeat our plea for a volunteer with a little spare time to become our Boatwatch Coordinator, a rewarding post.
I look forward to seeing you all in the flesh again, put October 20th in your diary.
Tony Watson
July Newsletter
Kingsbridge Estuary Boat Club
Even on the water it is hot. The sea breeze just about works in the Bag; it brings little relief but enjoy the summer while it lasts.
Your committee met last week, again using the Zoom platform which I hope we can abandon soon.
Our events organiser, Linda Lee, in conjunction with the South Pool Boat Club, has introduced 122 primary school children to boating so far this year. Singing Paddles provides the canoes, KEBC conrtibutes £600 to costs, S.Pool provides the balance and Linda does the organising. This scheme has been running for some years and is something we can be very proud of. Congratulations once again to Linda.
Boatwatch has been running well with no serious incidents being reported on the WhatsApp group. Richard Benton established an efficient scheme which needs little or no adjustment by whoever volunteers to take over his job as Boatwatch coordinator. Please consider putting your name forward for this role. You don’t need to become a committee member, although it would help if you do. Boatwatch is the core reason for the Club’s existence and is respected by the Harbour Authority and the Police. In the meantime a big thank you to Peter Rendell for temporarily taking Richard’s place and to the members carrying out patrols.
Much discussion took place about publicity and the autumn programme with constant awareness that Covid hasn’t gone away. Eventually we decided to put the social programme together, publicise it and cancel if necessary. Similarly training couses, particularly VHF courses which Andy Thomson expects to be running this autumn, will be organised. Members wishing to participate in any courses should contact Andy direct via www.devnav.co.uk At present the Seven Stars meeting room is undergoing a refit and we will know whether it will be useable in September.
The Members Adverts pages on our web site are full of useful items. Look there first if you need any kit or have stuff you want to get rid of.
On a completely different note, we understand that Kingsbridge in Bloom is in need of waterers. If you can help please contact Piers ( treasurer@kebc.co.uk )
I am off to water the garden and actually looking forward to a wet weekend!
Tony Watson
May Newsletter
I am sorry to start this message with the sad news of the death of Richard Benton, our Boatwatch coordinator. We extend our condolences to Adrienne and all his family. Richard will be missed throughout the Kingsbridge community as he did not confine his efforts only to this club. His work on the Boatwatch scheme has been exemplary, and he will be a hard act to follow.
Our secretary, John Elliott, will be leaving Kingsbridge next month to return to the Midlands for family reasons. John has been an excellent secretary to your committee and would like to hand over to a replacement before he leaves.
Consequently we now have a need for two new committee members, one to take over Richard’s work with Boatwatch and one to become secretary. We really need volunteers from among you, the membership; please get in touch just to talk over the responsibilities and discuss possibilities.
Since my last letter we have had a very interesting evening with Asia Pajkowska, solo round-the-world non-stop yachtswoman. Asia’s description of her trip displayed her mastery of the understatement – when asked to describe the worst moment of the trip she couldn’t think of one. Only a couple of minutes earlier she had described losing her electronic self-steering system, having to manually steer for around fifteen hours until the storm force winds dropped to a mere gale and engaging her Aries wind vane system. This involved working outside the rail, over the stern and assembling intricate parts to put the vane in action. At the other end of the scale the best part of the trip was sailing in calmer waters in the company of albatrosses, whales and dolphins. Asia kept her audience totally engaged for a couple of hours, including questions.
Our next event is our post lockdown lunch at Salcombe Yacht Club on Thursday May 20th. SYC has shown an interest in cooperating with KEBC and we will be exploring possibilities. The lunch is a first step; it will be interesting to see where this leads us and your committee will be happy to hear any comments members might have.
Stop Press! Your events organiser, Linda Lee, has just released the following:
LADY MARY EVENING CRUISE
SATURDAY 26th JUNE leaving The STEAMER QUAY Kingsbridge at 6.30pm
(no boarding before 6.15pm)
£18.00 a head
to include a Pasty and Estuary Cruise
Please bring your own tipple!
Limited numbers so MEMBERS ONLY until THURSDAY 10th JUNE
after that date if any spaces NON MEMBER friends would be welcome
Tickets on Sale from MONDAY 24th MAY
from Linda Lee, The Barn, Coronet Place, Fore Street, Kingsbridge TQ7 1PT
Please enclose
1. Cheque payable to KEBC
2. Choice of Vegetarian/Meat Pasty
3. Stamped Addressed Envelope – tickets will then be sent
Thank you Linda. I look forward to seeing members face to face on Thursday and afloat in June.
Tony Watson.
April Newsletter
Asia (Joanna) Pajkowska, an old friend of mine, completed a solo, non stop, circumnavigation under sail between September 2018 and April 2019 and will be giving an illustrated talk on her experiences at 1930 on April 14th. This will be on Zoom and invitations will be sent to all members nearer the date. She worked in Salcombe for many years but will be talking from her home in Poland and will be well worth listening to. Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Pajkowska or https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/sea-you-later-60-year-old-sailor-becomes-first-polish-woman-to-sail-around-the-globe-three-times-5743 for more details of this amazing sailor.
As we move into May and June we expect Covid restrictions to be further reduced so that we will be able to hold social gatherings out of doors. As we can’t, at this stage, be really certain about this I can’t predict which events will take place, but mark May 19th and June 25th in your calendars.
Boatwatch patrols have started and there will shortly be updated guidance notes and a calendar on the web site. I did the first one on my bike yesterday lunchtime, nothing much going on – it was cold but youngsters were swimming at Bowcombe!!
Talking of the website, we have done some housework and tidied up some loose ends. Members Advertisements are much easier to find: there are some bargains there – do please have a look.
The following is an invitation to members to enter the Eddystone Charity Sailing Pursuit, Sail for St Luke’s event, which will be held on Saturday 24th July 2021. This is an incredibly prestigious event with prizes for local charities totalling £30,000 plus any sponsorship donations organised by the entrants. Registration is now open and continues to 19th July. Full details can be found on: https://www.eddystonepursuit.com/ and https://www.stlukes-hospice.org.uk/sail-for-st-lukes/
Salcombe Harbour Authority continues to keep its website updated with Covid restrictions as they apply to Harbour users. Please check on current conditions, using the link on the KEBC website before going afloat. Unfortunately this virus hasn’t completely gone away yet, hopefully some sort of normality will return before the autumn, allowing us to meet in person again.
I look forward to seeing you next Wednesday.
Tony Watson
March Newsletter
Hello all, mad March gales are here with a vengeance and I hope you are all still keeping warm in front of the fire.
Your committee met on March 10th when we welcomed another volunteer willing to be coopted. Ben Harris joined us and so, with the addition of Rosemary Speed who joined at the AGM, we are up to full strength.
Our treasurer had little to report, likewise our member responsible for charitable events has started this year very quietly. Boatwatch however has kept Richard busy with the placement of some new volunteers and the replacement of some long serving members taking a well earned rest. The Boatwatch calendar for 2021 is virtually completed and watch leaders have received their patrol dates. There was some discussion about the safety of Boatwatch members when on patrol. Richard will make reference to this in his instructions but I can’t emphasise enough that KEBC members, when out on Boatwatch, should always put their own personal safety above all else. A boat in danger of harm is an inanimate object that can be replaced, you are not.
After losing a few members at the end of 2020, numbers have started to rise, at present we have 175 paid up family memberships. Penny Masters has now taken over responsibility for membership from Piers Rogers who has now settled in as Treasurer.
We are about to do some tidying up housework to our web site. In general it has worked well over the last 12 months but some small changes will hopefully improve matters. The members’ adverts have been well received, insider information tells me that a very good Plymouth Pilot might be appearing soon, charts and clothing are already for sale, so keep your eye on this column.
On March 24th at 1930 we have another Zoom event. Roger Barrett is to give us a talk entitled ‘The US Navy in Salcombe 1943 – 1945’. Not to be missed. Again Zoom will be used on April 21st, speaker to be announced but I am hopeful that another ‘local’ hero will step up. The events calendar on the web site will be kept up to date as we start to organise outdoor events from May onwards. Watch this space. Covid and weather permitting this is going to be a good year.
Talking about the pandemic, and I am afraid we must, Salcombe Harbour Authority, https://www.salcombeharbour.co.uk/, has published its latest guidelines on its web site. Please check before indulging in any boating activities until the emegency is over.
For now then, keep warm and get ready for a year which might see us returning to something like ‘normal’. Of course it might not, but your committee will do their best to keep nautical events high on your calendar.
Tony Watson