AGM 2011

The Committee of the Victoria Nyanza Sailing Club invites all members to the Annual General Meeting, scheduled for the 21 October 2011 at KatiKati Restaurant, Lugogo, from 19.00 hours onwards. The Agenda of the meeting is, as usual:

• Opening
• Minutes AGM 2010
• Report from the Commodore
• Report from the Sailing Secretary
• Report from the Treasurer
• Adoption of the audited accounts 2010/11
• Selection of the Committee 2011/12
• Any Other Business
• Closure

The documents for the meeting can be downloaded from here: minutes AGM 2010, proposed committee, commodores report, sailing secretary report, accounts.

For planning purposes (no of document copies, food etc) please let us know with how many people you are going to attend, by clicking here.

After the meeting there will (Indian) food served, during which we will slowly move into a social event, with a rules quiz, and the screening of the boat whisperer Tactics Video. We hope the close the evening at around 10.30.

Looking forward to see you on Friday

Rob Whitwam

Commodore VNSC

Stephen Luswata 10th in All African Games

VNSC's Stephen Luswata finished in 10th position out of 17 boats in the10th All African Games Sailing Regatta in Maputo in the Laser Standard category. While Stephen made a good performance on the first sailing day with a 9th and a 7th, strong winds on day two pushed him a bit back in the fleet. During the last 3 races on Saturday, he maintained his position, behind Kenya's Alfred Okoth, Angola's Wassim Zian

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Sign up for the January/February 2012 Adult training course

You have always wanted to sail, but you never dared to take the jump. Well, this is your chance. The Victoria Nyanza Sailing Club organises already for 17 years professional sailing courses in the single handed Laser dinghy. After two weekends of hard work, you will be able to sail a Laser, and therefore any other small sailing boat, safely around any inland water body. And you will learn this in perfect and very agreeable sailing conditions: warm water and weather, moderate winds, a beautiful setting and a friendly atmosphere. So sign up!

Our next Adult Beginner Laser Course takes place in January/February 2012 over the weekends of 29/30 January and 4/5 February. You can sign up for this course by clicking on this link.

Training manual (now completely redesigned!), Training presentation (based on the manual), Registration form, Training pictures

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Uganda Laser Open Trophy goes to Dar

Tom Vanneste of the Dar es Salaam Yacht Club narrowly won the Uganda Laser Open 2011, sailed on 19-20 March 2011. He was with 15 points after 7 races (one discard) 2 points ahead of runner up Gordon Bell, and had three points on second runner-up Reint Bakema. The final ranking was decided in a nail-biting last race, which was thought to be a fight for the 1^st place between Tom and Reint. However, the two messed each other so up that Gordon got away and squeezed into second position.

Out of the 23 entries, the two big surprises of the regatta were Maaike Joenje, who became 1^st Lady, and Jelmer van Lieshout who was 1^st on club handicap.

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