Summary 'Z Class' AGM...

For those of you who couldn't make it to the 'Z class' AGM, here's what you missed:

• Gary Warr and Bill Barker have swapped rolls, Gary is your new 'Z Class' captain.

• Handicaps for 2012 will continue to be based on the Portsmouth Yardstick principles while new measurement based alternatives are investigated.

• There will be a new 'double handed' Sunday morning series which will also incorporate the Cove Cup and Allen Welling events.

• The Basso Cup will be a 'fully crewed' event and (for keel boats) one day only (Sunday).

• There will be a new long distance 'Passage' series to include races to Poole, Cowes, Cherbourg and Alderney.

• The reviltalised 'Single Handed' and 'Ladies' races will continue as stand alone events.

• The J24 fleet will race with the fast PY fleet during the first and third series but have their own start for the summer series.

Full report to follow, look forward to seeing you all at the Prize Giving Dinner dance!

Dinner Dance (11th November) & Bonfire Night (take a guess!)

Dinner Dance...

Just two weeks to go the the annual dinner dance and awards presentation.

This year it's being held be at the Pavilion and promises to be a magic night for all involved. If you've won an award this year you owe it to yourself, your crew, and the little team who've worked their socks off to put the evening together to come along and collect it.  If this wasn't your year please come along anyway, support the winners, and just enjoy the evening!

Where and when: Weymouth Pavilion, Friday 11th November 2011 7.15pm for 8pm (Carriages at 1.00pm)

Tickets: £28.50 each from Richard & Debbie Bowers

Dress: Black Tie or Lounge suits

Band: "Mostly Harmless"

Menu:...

STARTERS

• Chicken & Port Tower with sage and Mozzarella stuffing with tomato sauce 

• Pan Fried Scallops Wrapped in Bacon with mustard butter and rocket salad 

• Baked Flat Cup Mushrooms filled with vine tomatoes and cheese herb dressing

MAIN 

• Spicy Stuffed Butternut Squash with spinach and goats cheese served with lemon herb dressing

• Trio of Fish – Cod, Salmon & Sea Bass with tomato glaze and crispy leeks 

• Oven Roasted Beef Steak topped with blue cheese mushroom and port wine sauce 

• Pan Flattened Chicken with Parma Ham and herbs on garlic mash with blue cheese sauce 

DESSERTS 

• Crème Brulee with amaretti biscuits 

• Lime & Lemon Bavarois with savoy cream 

• English Cheese Plate with roasted onion pickle and biscuits 

• Followed by coffee and mints 

Please confirm you menu choices to rick.bowers861440@gmail.com by 30th October. 

If you wish to book a table (which seats 10) please send all names together and a combined cheque payable to CCSC and remember to include your wine order. 

Please send cheque and application to:

Debbie Bowers
8 Gypsy Lane
Weymouth,
Dorset
DT4 0BZ

Tel: 01305 767775 or 07974 202668

Add your name and address and we will post your tickets to you.  See you there!

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Bonfire Night:

Bonfire building from 3pm. If you have any combustible materials that you would like to put on the fire then please bring it to the beach around 3pm

The fire will be lit on the on the east beach at 6:30 with hotdogs available in the Galley afterwards.  Come along and enjoy perhaps bring some sparklers!

Richard Bowers

Kathy & Kay's Fastnet evening...

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