Portugal Training Camp February 2013

Time to relax but don't miss an opportunity to show off your guns to the girls.

Jack and Ed together with juniors from other clubs spent half term at the Milfontes Canoeing Village near Lisbon in Portugal. There are two hotels, one right next to the training facility and the other a few miles away which is also on the beach and has a gym, spa and two swimming pools.

"With three training sessions a day we were glad to be at the second hotel to relax in the pool and where we could step out of our room straight onto the beach! Ed Cox and Ian Wynne kept us boys hard at work with three sessions a day which included 16 km distance training sessions in our K1s then K2 sessions with different partners."

The boats were supplied by Plastex so it was so only necessary to bring along paddles, spare kit your coach and a toothbrush, although if you can't bring along your own personal home-grown olympic medalist to coach apparently Birgit Fisher is there to put you through your paces.

Ollie Harding UK distributor for Plastex took out a group from Longridge for a training camp at the same time. Perhaps we are missing a trick.

Wey Kayak Club 2013 AGM Documents

Reminder: The WKC AGM will be held this Thursday, 28th February at 8pm at the Guildford Waterside Centre

Instead of the usual Club supper that evening there will be a light buffet from 7.15pm available for a small donation and the bar will be open.

The AGM agenda, proposed committee, final accounts, 2012 AGM minutes and proposed rule changes can be found under the members section of the website (under AGM information).

See your email for a reminder if you don't remember the password to see this section.

Summary of proposed rule changes following committee review and update :

Rule 5 amended to reflect membership secretaries role
Rule 7 amended to sixteen
Old rule 8 which referred to associates removed and replaced with new rule 9 referring to student members
All references to Chairman changed to Chairperson
All references to his changed to his/her
All references to him changed to him/her
Rule 11 Chairperson added to second sentence
Old rules 16, 17 & 18 and all references to Trustees removed
Old rules 19 onwards renumbered eg old rule 19 is now 16 etc.
Rule 16(was19) Student added
Rule 24(was27) junior & student added to give them voting rights
Rule 26(was29) All references to postal ballots removed
Old rules 30,31,32 & 33 removed
Old rules 34 onwards renumbered eg. old rule 34 is now 27 etc.
Rule 32(was38) Rewritten to clarify process where allegations of miss conduct are made.
All references revised to reflect new numbering.

See you Thursday!

This month's winner of the GWC400 Club Draw: Ticket 158

The GWC 400 Club draw was made on 21 February by James Robinson from the Surrey Uni. Canoe Club.  The monthly draw winning ticket for the £50 was No.158 .

We would encourage all members and friends of the GWC clubs to join the GWC 400 Club. All profits go to paying off the Waterside Centre's loans and proposed developments at the Centre.
Full details on how to join can be  found on the Wey Kayak Fundraising page.  Each 'ticket' costs just £2.00 a months and can be paid for by monthly direct debit if more convenient.

Awards for the Hare & Hounds series are on the results page

The complete set of 2012/13 series Hare & Hounds results are also available on the website too.

Club Senior      Darrin Hawkins       WEY

Club Junior      Cesar Falco          WEY

Visiting Senior  Lea Hodgkins         RIP

Visting Junior   Adrian Meikle-Briggs RIC

Best Lady Dawn   Richards             WEY

Best Veteran     John Rac             RIC

Best U16         Laura Ruff           ROY

Best U14         Guy Willoughby       ADS

Best U12         Isabel Madden        WEY

Well done everyone!

Richmond Sprints

Just in, details for the Richmond Sprints on Good Friday at Littleton Lake (post code TW17 0NF).

Hare & Hounds 5 results now available

Results from the race on 10th February are now posted on the site.  Trophy results coming soon.

13th January results are also confirmed.

National (Nottingham) Regattas 2013

Important News: although the first regatta this year is 13/14 April, entries have to be in to your Teamleader a week before Easter, by Monday 18 March.

So don't get caught out!

Click here for the April regatta plan.

More information on the series can be found here on the BCU website.

As there are only four national regattas this year, there will be a mini-sprint programme in April with a 500 metre Lightning K1 race on Saturday and Hody K2 and Rocket K4 500 metre races on Sunday. More info here..

New stable boats...

We have just taken delivery of five new kayaks. There are made by Elio and have stability similar to a Hobbie / Sceptre. They are finished in the Wey colours.

‘PLEASE NOTE THAT THEY HAVE A HIGHER COCKPIT AND CAN ONLY FIT ON THE TOP RACKS OF THE CLUB SHEDS. COULD YOU PLEASE ASSIST ANY JUNIORS WHO MAY USE THE KAYAKS TO PUT THEM AWAY ON THE TOP RACKS’

We have also noticed that a number of the higher stability kayaks have damage which seems to have been caused by people sitting in them on the grass area. If you see any beginners / club members doing this could you ask them to carry out these checks by putting the kayak on to the water.

The Boatswains

WKC AGM 28th Feb 8pm

To all members of the Wey Kayak Club. 

This is a formal reminder that the Club’s AGM (link to poster) is on Thursday 28^th February at 8.00pm.

Nominations for posts on the General Committee should be with the secretary before 15^th February 2013,proposed and seconded by a current club member.  In addition any motion for consideration by the meeting or for changes to the Club Rules should also be with the secretary before 15^th February.

We hope to see all members there for an enjoyable evening.  Dinner will be served from 7.15pm that evening.

Linda Heath

secretary@weykayak.co.uk

6 Dunsdon Avenue

Guildford

GU27NX