2019 prize giving

Published 20:33 on 17 Feb 2020

The Club celebrated another successful year on and off the water at their annual prize giving at Weymouth's Hotel Rembrandt.The sellout black tie event was attended by the Towns Mayor Graham Winter and the Coxswain of the Weymouth Lifeboat Andrew Sargent and his wife Helen as guests of honour.With the room appropriately decorated with colourful spinnakers hanging from the rafters, members and guests were welcomed with a glass of bubbly, whilst entertained by Julie on her piano.There was a minute silence before sitting down to eat for long serving club member and popular local man Mike Saunders who had recently passed.After a sumptuous meal and the commodore Stephen Dadd's summing up of the year which included a section on the importance of volunteering and the raison d'etre of the charity, to get the citizens of our area out on the water in Weymouth's Olympic waters.Class captains, Gary Owens, Jim Mitchell and Gavin Poulloin addressed the membership and presented the trophies for their relevant classes.Trophies were awarded not just for racing, but for cruising, both for distance sailed and ports visited, plus awards to club members who had been recognised for their contribution to the club.Richard Woof walked off with a haul of silverware from the cruiser class, although Passion, a Grand Surprise boat owned by Tom Rees who has come up through the Club's youth programme along with his crew had their fair share of success. The Squib class had a spread of trophies as is right with a one design class.The dinghies had their heroes in Phil Norris and John Talbot.After the prize giving, the clubs photographer Richard Bowers captured the event in the 'selfie zone' an area created by organisers Adele Strachen, Jo Woof, Celia Rushton, Nick Frampton and Sarah Owens.Depicting a South Sea island sunset and with appropriate props, members were snapped showing off their silverware.Entertainment was supplied by local musicians who had the party up and dancing till the early hours.These events do not just happen, there is a team of people that make it work, if you would like to become involved in the clubs social calendar please go to social@wsc.org.uk

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