Dear members
 
Highbury College (Chimes) Restaurant have opened a new dining facility in Southsea, where meals, to a high standard, are prepared and served by catering students.
 
To provide a new social function for members, a provisional booking has been made for 40 places on Thursday 31st January.  The cost for a three course meal will be £12.00 per person, plus £1 for coffee.  A sample menu is shown below.
 
If you would like to attend this interesting and modestly priced event would you please let Karen Thompson know “names and numbers” by the evening of Monday 3rd December so that she can gauge the level of interest and confirm booking arrangements.  Please email Karen on red.herring@ntlworld.com.
 
Thanks
 
Portsmouth Sailing Club
 
Sample menu:
Poached pears with a stilton filling
or
Ham hock terrine
or
Veloute of mushroom and leek with smoked chicken
or
Smoked haddock and leek tartlet

Then
Baked salmon on spinach
or
Pan fried turkey escalope
or
Beef and shitake stir fry with noodles
or
Red pepper and bean tagine with chickpea and cous-cous
All with vegetables

Then
Sticky toffee pudding with ice cream
or
Apple tart with cinnamon cream
or
Cassis fromage frais delice
or
Creme Brulee
or
Stilton and port potted cheese conserve

The results and report from Sunday's Race 5 in the PSC Frostbite are now available to view on the Dinghy Racing page.

PSC’s Christmas Party will this year be taking place on Saturday 8th December at the Club House – 8.00pm for 8.30pm.
 
Tickets, at £15 per person, will be on sale at the Club House from 8.30pm on Monday 26th November.  This is strictly a members only event – because of space restrictions we regret that tickets may not be bought for guests who are not registered as Club members. 
 
Mulled wine and canapés will be available on arrival.  The evening’s menu includes a main course with Roast Beef, Turkey and Smoked Gammon, followed by cheeses, puddings and Port.  There will be a festive raffle with hampers, seasonal gifts and wines, etc as prizes.
 
Come along and kick the season off with PSC!

We regret that it has been necessary to postpone the Quiz and Bangers & Mash meal planned for Saturday 24th November.  This will be re-arranged for early in the New Year. 
 
We are very sorry for the short notice and for any disappointment.  Refunds for tickets purchased will, of course, be readily available from the bar. 

Race 4 – 18th November 2007 was cancelled:

Conditions – SE wind gusting 38 knots.

The weather is not being kind to the Series, this being the third race we have lost. Hopefully the competitors will not be disheartened and still turn up for remainder of the series, which has been extended by two races finishing on 16th December with Prize Giving at PSC after the last race.

Yola Veck

Addition to Programme

3 of the 6 races originally programmed have now been lost due to the weather so the Sailing Committee have decided to extend the programme by adding 2 more races:

Race 7 – 9th December
Race 8 – 16th December

Prize Giving will take place in PSC after the last race.

The Sailing Instructions for the Frostbite Dinghy Series 2007 have been amended to read:

"Shortening Course: The course may be shortened when the lead boat approaches any mark of the course. This shall be signalled by displaying of Flag S accompanied by 2 sound signals by the committee boat. A safety boat will, if possible, be positioned at the mark to advise competitors of the shortened course. After rounding the mark boats must then proceed to the finishing line from the direction of that mark."

The amended Sailing Instructions are available on the Download page.

Conditions - N.W. wind of F6 gusting F7. It was not possible to use the option of Course D and race in the waters adjacent to the Royal Naval Sailing Centre (as in Race 1) because due to the wind direction these waters were far from sheltered. The OOD in consultation with Ken Bichard of the RNSC made to decision to cancel the race.

Yola Veck OOD

Just a reminder that our next PSC Social Event is a Race Night on Saturday the 10th of November. Start time is 8.30 pm. As usual, Ken Bichard, Lynne James and their expert team will be running proceedings.  John Hughes will be serving a Sausage & Mash supper with sausages provided by Buckwells of Southsea. Cost is £ 4.00 including supper.  Please add your name to the list behind the bar or call John Hughes to avoid disappointment.

An error has been found in the results for the last two races of the series which has affected the final places for Club Class only. The IRC class is not affected. Although Stargift won the last race, because her handicap had not been included and that fact was subsequently missed, it affected the tie-breaking for third place between Just in Time and One More Knot. Consequently when the handicap is included and Stargift is placed first, the Appendix A8.1 and 8.2 tie-break rules resolve the tie in favour of Just in Time over One More Knot.

Rules included for reference:

A8 SERIES TIES 
A8.1  If there is a series score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s 
race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first 
point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of 
the boat(s) with the best score(s). No excluded scores shall be used.

A8.2 If a tie remains between two or more boats, they shall be ranked 
in order of their scores in the last race. Any remaining ties shall be 
broken by using the tied boats’ scores in the next-to-last race and so 
on until all ties are broken. These scores shall be used even if some of 
them are excluded scores. 

The first two places in Club Class are not affected. All the scores in all the races for the series are recalculated after each new race and any changes to fleets. Revised results have now been posted on Yacht Results page.

The latest results for the 51st Frostbite Dinghy Series are now available on the Dinghy Racing page. Today's race was abandoned due to lack of wind, but the results have been amended to include a correction from race 1.

The final results for this year's Parhelion Autumn Series are now online on the Yacht Results page. A full report will follow soon.