Dahab – Le Meridian resort
August 20th, 2010 | 
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Club Mistral @ Le Meridian
The week I’d booked in April was in jeopardy thanks to the ash cloud and we were lucky to fly out on the first day that UK airports reopened to outbound flights. I’d booked the holiday as a package tour through Thomson and had booked board hire separately through Club Mistral’s on line booking tool. Top marks to Thomson’s on their efforts to get us out which as it turned out worked to our favour as we’d gained an extra 4 hours in the resort. The first few days were really quiet due to effects of the flight bans & I had the centre to myself with only the centre manager to sail with but numbers picked up later in the week to 6 or 7. Conditions were good with wind in the mornings that typically for Dahab drops off in the afternoon. Sail wise 7.3 down to 4.7 was the order of the week however on the day of arrival I was told the centre manager had been waiting for it to drop to 3.5 weather before going out.
Sails beach bar
Le Meridian hotel is widely recognised as being the best in Dahab and despite being nearly empty on arrival still had a full fresh buffet spread on at mealtimes. The hotel and grounds were spotless, rooms well decorated & furnished and grounds as well maintained as you’d expect from a 5 star hotel.
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Two new members
Welcome to TWC guys. Tony Downes (left) and Richard Holmes (right) along with Brendan Hall, the three members with the club hire gear were out on the water at Noble’s Demo Day at Rutland Water yesterday.
NOBLE’S DEMO DAY – 25th July 2010
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Camping on the Saturday night. Keep an eye on the forum to see who’s going. Last year quite a few members camped over.
Camping on the Saturday night. Keep an eye on the forum to see who’s going. Last year quite a few members camped over.
Big weekend coming soon. Don’t miss it……
May 2009 Club training day with Jim Collis
The weekend of the 31st July/1st August sees Jim Collis coming to the club on the Saturday for a training day, beginners/intermediates in the morning and advanced in the afternoon. Free to club members make sure your name is down, places are limited. Contact Gordon to see if there’s any spaces left.
Saturday evening we will be having a BBQ (bring your own bangers, we’ll provide the heat), bonfire, music and camping so you can have a few beers and not worry about driving home. Great atmosphere, great company, come and join us, friends and family welcome to join in. Toilet block will be open and functioning if your other half was worried about having to use the bushes!!!!!
Then on the Sunday, Rich White of Nobles will be bringing a van load of new demo gear for us to try out. Last year this was a big hit with lots of people trying loads of new kit in great conditions.
Also on Sunday we will hold a ‘WINDSURF KIT CAR BOOT’ so bring all your old unwanted kit down and see what you can sell.
El Tur trip May 2010
Club members Gordon Roach, Richard Holgate (temporary honorary member), Hywel Harris and Dave Mycroft
Nice and warm, mid to high 30′s, first two days were very light winds and since then its been planing every day. All are suffering from blisters, tired muscles and taught tendons.
Sailing in shorts and rash vests the water is really warm and unfeasibly blue. Boards by RRD and Severne sails and our own personal slave, Dan, to carry them to the water and replace them with smaller when requested.
Gordons blisters after the first days sailing
Forecast is good for the rest for the rest of the week.
windguru forecast
Planing on big freeride kit is the norm in the afternoons.
Gordon and Hywel on RRD z-Ride boards and Severne NCX sails
Maintenance day
Many thanks to those who came to help out on Sunday 25th April. We did get all the ruts in the rigging area filled so it should now be possible to mow it when the grass starts to grow and the area will be fit for the campover on the last weekend of July.
We were only partially successful in making the racking for the hire boards in the equipment store since the generator wasn’t powerful enough to run the welder. However, 8 of the rack brackets have been finished off site and we now need to do a small amount of welding to the container.
Pruning the shrubs
A very big thank you to everyone who came down to help out these last two weekends. We have managed to clear masses of willow from the spit area which was the principal source of the windshadow problem.
We will be asking for help again to move and burn the cuttings as soon as the weather has allowed the track to dry out so cars can get down to help drag it to the rigging area.
We need a nice warm windy day now to test out the improvements!
TWC Annual AGM
Put this date in your diary!! 4th February 2010 at 8.00 PM at the Friesland Leisure Centre.
Don’t forget to bring your cheque book to renew for the 2010 year and get your membership sticker in the cool new logo..