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This winter the Upper Thames Motor Yacht Club (UTMYC) RYA Training Centre intends to run the RYA Day Skipper Theory course, and ROSC members are invited to join in.

When asked to do a write up about film night I was a little taken aback as the evening had passed some while before and although I had enjoyed it (as had everybody attending) it was fading into memory.  However, here goes and apologies if I miss out a favourite bit or it’s not the evening you remember.  Firstly a huge thank you to the “Producers” who went to such trouble to dig out clips of a favourite sea-related movie and to talk about it.  If you weren’t there then this should give a taste of a fascinating evening and if you were  I trust it brings in some great memories.

It seemed that the movies chosen could also have shown some insight into the character of each person proposing it – judge for yourselves.

Yours

Ship’s Rat

For a non-owner, the Spring Rally is a great opportunity to get on the water, and to do that early in the season. Having a specific date makes it so much easier to focus, and differs from those ‘Yes, I will crew for you’ discussions that so often unintentionally fade into history.

‘The Ship, the Lady and the Lake’ was not the most obvious title for a ROSC talk but Meriel Larken’s presentation of the extraordinary life and rescue of a Victorian steamship based on Lake Titicaca in Peru proved to be one of the club’s most fascinating talks.

Fifteen members met on a slightly dreary and wet day between Christmas and New Year to blow away the cobwebs.

On Monday 4 December fifteen members and their guests visited the Pinewood Raceway for an evening of slot car racing. 

Half of the club's members together with their guests came along to the flagship event at UTMYC clubhouse - the laying-up supper of 2023.

We had a great attendance at this year's AGM. 

Following a long run of poor weekend weather fingers were crossed for a change of fortune for boats and crews intending to gather in Lymington for the Autumn Rally.  For once the weather gods obliged with a few days of settled warm, sunny weather and two motorboats and two sailing boats planned to converge on Lymington Yacht Haven for a planned meal at the Mayflower Inn on the Saturday evening.

Not only was there an excellent turnout by ROSC members for the end-of-season BBQ, but the sun was there too to add atmosphere to the event taking place in the riverside garden of our shared club house.

What a fantastic event ROSC's first rally of 2023 was!