House Secretary needs your help Our house secretary (Richard Woolf) is looking for a member that has the skills to construct a stud wall with a doorway. If you can help please can you reply to this email and we will pass your details on to Richard so he can contact you. Many thanks …
Felixstowe Ferry Sailing clubs Bart’s Bash will be held on Sunday, 13th September 2020. Meet 9.45am for registration and briefing of race details. Race starts at 10.30am. Saturday, 12th September is set for Bart’s Bash Race Training. Meet 2pm with briefing and hope to be on the water by 2.30pm This is the largest sailing …
Wednesday night Racing We have two wednesday evenings remaining. Depending on light we may try to run an additional race to make up for the race lost due to poor weather last wednesday. All the results from the wednesday evenings sailed can be found on the website. Please click this link https://ffsc.co.uk/sailing/results/ Cat open meeting …
Oh no don’t stop the Carnival or Ferry Floats Way back in 1967 the social committee asked me if I could design and build a float for the Club to enter into the Felixstowe Carnival. Over the years I built a number of floats and here I have tried to remember what was what and …
Pete Ballam and me had been racing in Squib 83 “Easy” for several seasons in the early 2000s. Pete is a very talented sailor and with him in the boat it was always entertaining and a guaranteed fun experience. We had attended a few national and area championships over the seasons and, in this particular …
September 1995 Colin Bentley was our Commodore Commodores’s Log The purchase of the club freehold for £28,000 is progressing. It will be paid in part by a loan of £20,000 from a charitable trust, Godfrey Mills. The freehold includes the land upon which both the clubhouse and the public toilets are built and the embankment, …
April 1992 Betty Smith was our one and only lady Commodore. Ann White – Secretary Guy Pearse – Treasurer Robert Wright – Membership Tim O’Leary – Sailing Captain James Modder – Water Ski Captain Commodore’s Log Talked about new double glazed windows and that congratulated David and Kate White on the safe arrival of their …
1994 Lifeboat Day I was working on behalf of FFSC alongside the East Suffolk Water Ski Club preparing for a big RNLI fundraisng day. The event was set to be a big one, we were hoping to raise lots of money for the Harwich Lifeboat. Our RNLI committee decided to ask the Red Arrows to …
Story from Peter White. 1972 With the 505 fleet at Felixstowe Ferry becoming more and more competitive, John Davies and myself decided that early summer in La Rochelle was a good place to go, to try our luck. The French 505 federation were giving some sponsorship towards the Ferry crossing and free entry to any …
More Memories from past Newsletters. By I R E Member Since the publication of the article “Origins of the Club Newsletter” I have done some research into the authors of various contributions and their names. In two editions of Flotsam date 1986 and 87 I came across The following. “Pseudomorphois” by one “Emma Penny”. In …