The Lifejacket Clinic is on Saturday 21st April
The RNLI will be at the RFYC Clubhouse from 2pm onwards. Pop in to get your lifejackets checked for the season.
All welcome
RNLI Lifejacket Clinic
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Boat Maintenance
A subject dear to all our hearts – Martin Palmer has put together a video of Robin bleeding diesel & changing the oil & filter. The first of many perhaps?
RFYC services offered to FCYC 2018
Members may be interested in the attached notice (see link below) which gives information about the services offered by RFYC to FCYC members.
RFYC Winter Talks
Corinthians are invited to attend the RFYC winter talks, more info in this RFYC Winter Talks 2018 flyer.
Sails: Come and find out how to manage them
The Sail Doctor Team from Port Edgar are coming along to lead our Training……
7:30pm Tuesday 27th March 2018 in the Bell Block
At our first Off the Water Training in January, we discussed our next session which is on Sails and how they work! There was a lot of enthusiasm and lots of questions put forward:
We will have 30 minutes very basic chat. There will be something for everyone!
Here are some of the questions:
- How do you set up a rig?
- Light wind sailing…Is it best to have the main outhaul on tight…Downwind or outhaul eased?
- Best way to increase luff tension in foresail: Tighten halyard or pull on backstay?
- When do you employ kicker?
- Tips for light airs sailing…..
- Do you have to do anything different when trimming a furling foresail than you do when using standard genoa?
- How do all the different tell tails work?
- How do you get the best out of old sails and what can the Sail Doctor offer to do to upgrade old sails, if anything?
David Cox & Moonshine – Saturday 10th February
Lift-in 2018
Burns’ Night Hoolie by the Water – Friday 26th January
RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Station – Saturday 13th January 2018
Come along to RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat station on Saturday 13th January to hear about one of Scotland’s busiest inshore lifeboat stations. Our talk/tour will start at 11am and will last 1 – 1.5 hours – pub lunch after perhaps!
Meet at Hawes Pier, Hawes Brae, South Queensferry, EH30 9TB at 10.50am.
Please let me know if you can make it by emailing libbygunn@blueyonder.co.uk If anyone needs a lift get in touch.
Prize Giving and Christmas Party 2017
Christmas jumpers at the ready, our Annual Prize Giving and Christmas Party is on Saturday 2nd December at Trinity Bowling Club from 7pm.
Come along to find out who’s won the prizes, eat your way through the buffet and catch up with your fellow sailors over a drink or two. There will be party games for the kids (and the big kids).
Donations for the raffle welcome, tickets will be on sale on the night – money raised will go to the RNLI.