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Spring and Autumn1989.

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Launching in the far bay.

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Spring 1989. Lunch outside the ‘galley’.

AGM 2009

Mention of an upcoming event that is remarkably under publicised and often under attended. It’s an event where you can find out if your hard earned cash is being squandered, or even whether the Club will be here next year!
It’s our A.G.M. It’s the one time a year you can find out exactly how the club’s been doing from the horse’s mouth – issues about spending, sailing arrangements, events, the building, the compound, other water users. The meeting will be taking place on Sunday, 17th May, at 17.00. If you have questions you want to ask, or want to take issue with the running of the club, in true parliamentary style you need to submit your questions to Lynn, in writing, before the event.

Do come if you want to find out about the sort of boats the club wants to buy, replacement RIBS and engines, running courses, and what other things we’re going to be doing differently in 2009.

Do come if you have new ideas, and want to push the club forward.
Alternatively, you can always just sit at home!

News

Icicle 2010

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What looked like a day that potentially had no wind at 09.00, at least
filled in with enough to cover the lake by the begining of the race
and stayed throughout.

This year there were 21 entries with a welcome return of the MRX
travellers and now a phantom, from Wembley SC.

The two hour persuit started at 12.00 with an Otter start. This spread
the starting times to nearly 30 minutes later for the fastest boats.

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As the race progressed there was a tussle between the Taser of Howard
and Barney who were valiently trying to get past the Phantom of
visitor Ken Daniels. However it was not to be. And in the last few laps John Carron in the RS managed to pass the Taser and Phantom to make a close end to the race. Special mention should go to Quinten in his Otter valiently leading the field for most of the race and it was only in the last lap that the final winners got past him.

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In the end the final result was:

1st: John Carron, RS300, MKSC
2nd: Ken Daniels, Phantom, WSC
3rd: Howard and Barney, Taser, MKSC

Thanks go the race team, the rescue boat drivers and the galley crew
for running such a successful event.

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Lynn Allen - The Secretary’s scribble

As I drive into Caldecotte on a Sunday morning, I often think of all the changes there have been in the area since the Club first “camped” on the edge of the lake in 1989/90 while Willen lake was drained, and it was so quiet and peaceful. Now there are all the new roads, huge housing developments – some of them almost up to the edge of our boat compound – but our lovely stretch of water is still, arguably, the best in Milton Keynes. After a break between 1990 and 1993, we re-established at Caldecotte and are still here and flourishing. There are lots of new faces, and quite a few of the old originals
from Willen days. The city continues to expand at quite a pace so, hopefully, we will welcome still more new members to the Club in the coming year. Very belated congratulations to Nicki Purdue and Paul Croft, who were married last September.
I wish you all good sailing in 2009.

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Summer1989. The sun seemed to shine all through the summer.