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3rd Winter Talk – Sailing Exploits by our Cadets – Postponed
Bere Alston Bowling Club – Monday 16th March at 19:30 [bar open from 19:00] ALL WELCOME £1 payable at the doorFood available too! Cadets will be selling savoury and sweet food this evening to raise money for their next trip (on Johann Lucretia). Our Cadets will recount their adventures on the Tall Ship, the Brixham Trawler Leader.
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Exciting opportunity to improve our Hub!
After a short pause in the work being undertaken in the Boat Club, we can now improve the area to the rear of the interior. We will all benefit from further loos, changing areas and showers, making our Club even more useful to all members of the sailing club and gig club. We have ordered
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Coffee and Cake at the Edgcumbe!
Update! The fund-raising coffee morning at the Edgecumbe Hotel on Saturday morning was a great success and raised an impressive £235! It was organised by Beth West, who is one of the cadets going on the sail training trip aboard Johanna Lucretia in April. She was assisted by fellow cadet, Richard Platts and members of
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Cadets bake to sail!
As part of their fund-raising towards the cost of their sailing trip on Johanna Lucretia in April this year, some of our cadets organised a cake stall at the Bere Ferrers Saturday Shop on 1st February. Cadets Rosie and Daisy Duncan, Izzy Hatton and Lucas Hopkins served on the stall and did a wonderful job
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2nd Winter Talk – ‘NOT a Voyage for Madmen’
A Talk by John and Sue Chadwick Bere Alston Bowling Club – Monday 17th February at 19:30 bar opens from 19:00 ALL WELCOME £1 payable at the door (to cover room hire) ‘NOT a Voyage for Madmen’ is about an ordinary sailing couple going long-distance cruising….if ‘ordinary’ is a 21,000 mile, 3 year voyage across the North
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1st Winter Talk – The Last Journey by Dog Sledge Across Antarctica
A Talk By by John Killingbeck Bere Alston Bowling Club – 13th January at 19:30 bar opens from 19:00 ALL WELCOME £1 payable at the door John was the last person to drive a team of huskies in Antarctica. He worked for two and a half years as Base Leader in the South Shetlands and
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New Year’s Walk Photos now available in the Events Pages
Images from the annual New Year’s Day walk are now available in the Events Pages. We are indebted to Mike Street and Doug Hinge for providing the photography! This year’s event was kindly hosted again by Jim and Pru Barnes. The day was grey, but warm and dry with good visibility. About 30 members walked
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Hub Club End of Year Newsletter
The Weir Quay Community Watersports Hub Club Ltd Winter Newsletter has now been published. This edition covers some of the latest work taking place at the facility along with the (what is rapidly becoming) rather controversial issue of what colour the shower and toilet cubicles should be……… You can download your copy of the newsletter
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Join Us On Our Annual New Year’s Walk Around South Hooe.
Our annual New Year’s ramble around South Hooe is a great way to blow away the festive cobwebs and work off any seasonal over-indulgences! We meet at South Hooe at 10:45 am on Wednesday 1st January for an 11:00 am start. The plan is to walk round the beautiful South Hooe peninsular followed by a get-together at Jim and
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WQSC AGM 2019 – Draft Minutes
The draft minutes of this year’s AGM can now be found on the Member’s Pages of this website. This link will take you there; https://wqsc.org/members-pages/ Any amendments should be sent to the Club Secretary at the address accompanying the draft minutes. Members who have forgotten the 2019 Member’s Pages password can find it in their