Wigan Sailing Club

February Newsletter and a duty rota until Jan 2010 available on the Downloads Page.

Wednesday evening at 7pm. 

Sally Kirkpatrick from the RYA contacted the club to see if we would be interested in discussing ways of increasing / sustaining adult participation in sailing and how the RYA can help us?

They have a newly formed team of Adult Regional Club Coach's available to go into clubs and discuss / plan and implement ideas of how to increase / sustain adult participation, There will be an initial meeting on Wednesday between members of the Committee and an Adult Regional Club Coach.

That is Wednesday 10th Febuary 7pm.

Last year members visited this fascinating place early on in the year. Dave marsh is trying to put together another trip on a Saturday  in early to mid March. If you are interested or would like further details please see Dave or leave a comment on the Social Forum and Dave will get back to you.

As you may know there is a huge effort to continue improvements to the club to regain it's former glory (three times 24 hr race winner, large youth section etc) this can not be done without feedback as to what needs to be improved.

The club produced a survey a few months back and had very little response the time for whatever reason. The time has come again and the committee are interested on your views about several aspects of the club; facilities, services, racing, training etc.

Although questions are mainly applicable to members there is scope for visitors to fill the questionaire in as well.

Please take the time to complete it fully to provide the best information posible.

To complete the survey go to the "Survey" page or click the link below: (right click and click "open in new tab" if you want to browse this site at the same time)

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFhiREZpOVFFLVVsdVQtVlF4LTdtcWc6MA

Thanks in advance

Now I like a walk as much as the next man - unless of course the man happens to be Kevin Foy. Kevin has made a lifelong passion out of walking the great trails of the world.

On Wednesday, 20th of January, Kevin treated us with an account of his 2000 mile journey along the Appalachian Trail. It was a tale filled with incident and laughter and Kevin's fund of stories and anecdotes had the full clubhouse spellbound.  He had close encounters with a variety of creature including skunks, mice and a whole host of evil smelling co-walkers wih bizarre names such as Scar Tissue and Wide Load.

 Great story, great bloke, great evening!

Kevin's lecture was just one of the third Wednesday series of Social events.