SQUIB NATIONAL ENTRIES HAVE BEEN CLOSED AT 108 BOATS (27 June - 3 July) 

This is the highest number of boats that has been achieved in a National Squib Championships and is a sure sign of the popularity of Weymouth as a sailing venue.

Well done to Peter Hopford and team the  who have been working hard to put the show together and to the sponsors for supporting the event.

The Squib despite being a boat of some vintage continues to attract top sailors and regularly achieves high turnouts for Club racing - 20 boats were on the start line on Thursday evening.  Good luck to the Weymouth fleet in the Championships.

In wonderful sunshine, club member Dr Geoffrey Bath gave a demonstration into how gravitational fields are formed in cataclysmic variable or CV stars, which consist of a primary white dwarf and a secondary mass transferring star.

Doctor Bath has lectured in physics at Merton and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford University, and worked as a research fellow with Nasa at Princeton University in America.

His complex experiment, using vessels containing water, elastic and a siphon, attempts to simulate and explain gravitational anomalies found in certain types of stars.

Dr Bath admitted that his work has no practical applications and isn't going to make him into a millionaire.  Commodore Melita Biggs thanked him very much for a very interesting and informative talk. 

The weekend of the 9th and 10th May saw Weymouth Sailing Club YOBs (youth on boats) sailing a bigger boat than normal when they were invited to act as crew on the Tall Ship resident in Weymouth Harbour - TS Pelican for their day excursions in the bay.

Five young Club members were put through their paces as they were sent up the mast to sort the sails etc.   All 5 left the ship ready for an early night after a two hard days work but full of enthusiasm asking when they can do it again, and the ones that didn't get to go are waiting the next opportunity.

One took a photo of them having break from climbing the rigging, luckily they all had a good head for heights. All of the youngsters recommend this as the best day out ever and if you see it advertised you should try it for yourselves.