The Winter Events Programme has now been published – you can find it here. 
The next event is the visit to Forth Ports Control Room at Grangemouth on Wednesday 2nd December – if you plan on coming along please remember to let the Social Secretary know as for security reasons we need to give Forth Ports visitors names in advance.
Our 2015 Prize-giving and Christmas Party will be held on Saturday 5th December at Trinity Bowling Club, Lomond Road, Edinburgh.
A buffet will be laid on, please let us know if you can make it as this helps with the catering. RSVP to forthcorinthians@gmail.com
Ahoy Corinthians!
You’re all invited to come along to the Corinthian Creative Cafe on Saturday 7th November at Trinity Bowling Club, starting at 7pm.
As discussed at the AGM earlier this month, now that yard space has been secured it is a good time to look ahead to the future for FCYC.
The purpose of the evening is to give all members the opportunity to share views on how you would like to see the club develop so it would be great if you can make it.
See you there!
From Patrick Angier at RFYC:
The East Sailing Festival is on this coming weekend. The racing series starts on Wednesday but over the weekend are a series of events and parties for those not so interested in racing. Port Edgar are offering over night moorings for £10 per night and there is a fleet of boats from both clubs at Granton who intending to sail up on Friday evening to join in the fun. Boats that I know of intending to come up start in size at 12ft.
Some well organised folk have put in applications via kwww.ecsf.org.uk but there are may who are still thinking about it. I understand that Port Edgar will make space available for everybody, even those who haven’t booked, but it is worth while ringing Port Edgar and booking a space if you are intending to come. There is a cruise down to Burntisland Sailing club on the Saturday for a lunchtime Hog Roast. If you would like to join this please let George Scrivener know asap so the caterers know how many to expect.
On Friday evening high tide is at c19.30. We have scheduled a cruise in company up to Port Edgar starting at 17.00 in the calendar. Given the tide and that it can take a couple of hours to get up to Port Edgar we should aim to leave Granton by 17.30. It would be nice to sail together as a fleet of both Royal Forth and Corinthians so if we can all congregate in Wardy Bay and aim to leave a line between the H racing mark and the old white starting hut on the Granton Harbour wall at timings as follows.
Small Boats – i.e. dinghies and slow small yachts – 17.10
Slow boats – i.e. cruising boats 22 to 28ft – 17.20
Faster Boats – 17.30 and if you are very fast then 17.40.
Most skippers should have a good idea of how fast they can go.
It is not a race and there will not be official starting guns etc – skippers should cross the line via their own watch.
Appreciate that for many 17.00 will be too early given tedious other activities that get in the way of sailing, so do come along later, or intercept and join the cruise on Saturday.
For those who use the RFYC taxi, note timings for the Boatman on Friday. John Spencely is driving the launch from 16.00 to 17.00 and then Dylan is on from 18.00.
Ahoy Corinthians! The RFYC have put together a programme of talks over the next couple of months are all members are invited to attend.
Helen and Charlie Pank, members, RFYC
Although new to our club, the Panks are not new to adventure. Between November 2007 and November 2008, they sailed from Gran Canaria to New Zealand as crew on a wide range of yachts and with a wide range of people. The talk will describe their adventures, the wonderful places they visited, and the what its really like on long ocean passages.
Matt Barnes, Sea Champions Co-ordinator Scotland, Marine Conservation Society
An introduction the work of the Marine Conservation Society in Scotland, including the themes of biodiversity, pollution and fishing with a Forth estuary perspective.
David Sweenie, Mainstream Renewable Power
David will describe the proposed Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm, which is due to be located some 15km east of Fife Ness, distributed over an area of approximately 100km2. Mainstream was awarded the site in February 2009 by the Crown Estate as part of a competitive bidding process, and granted consent by the Scottish Government in October 2014. Construction offshore will commence in 2016. The project has the potential to generate 450MW of renewable energy through Torness, enough power to supply around 325,000 Scottish homes – more than the whole of Edinburgh. ‘Neart na Gaoithe’ is Gaelic for ‘strength of the wind’.
