AGM

Denholme Sailing Club's AGM was held on Sunday 12th November at the Great Northern Pub in Thornton.

Members gathered for the meeting and dutifully studied the agenda.

Barbara welcomed Reservoir Blogs readers to the meeting.

The serious business of the meeting was conducted as the Commodore and Treasurer presented their reports.

A new committee was elected, or rather, shuffled. Members could be forgiven for thinking that the new committee looks surprisingly like the old one but there are significant differences. In particular, we have a new Commodore, Treasurer and Secretary.

After the meeting, food was served.

Due to a mix-up with the catering, the promised pie and peas did not materialise. Instead the Great Northern served up a fine buffet of pizza, chips, bhajis and rolls. The meeting provided an excellent opportunity for members to catch up!

Thanks to Melanie for organising the meeting and to all members of the committee for their work over the last year.

Roads and Spoil

The preliminary work at Doe Park has finished and the real construction work is underway. The slipway has been completely blocked by an access road allowing heavy traffic to access the dam and the pontoons are looking very forlorn. There is a walkway for pedestrians on the inside of the dam wall but the public footpath has been closed.


There is another road giving access to the spillway. Bags of materials have been moved onto the site...

and the big yellow digger is still... well, big and yellow.

The excavated spoil has to go somewhere, and here it is. I presume that some of it will go back onto the dam in due course, but what will happen to the rest?

Derwent Water

Kind of late; sorry!

Sunshine, scenery, sailing... what more could anyone want for a day out?

Some people preferred to investigate chocolate buying facilities in Keswick or to climb Catbells. The remaining twenty of us piled into five Wayfarers hired from Nichol End Marina. We sailed around the lake, not forgetting to shout "STARBOARD" when required. We lunched at a nice little cafe (well, log) on an island after which we paddled back to the marina. Yes, it was DSC on a day out so, of course, the wind had vanished!

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Back at the marina we had a cup of tea and handed fistfuls of cash to Tim. Actually, it was only £12 each: excellent value! Many thanks to Tim for organising everything. Please can we have some wind next time though?

See all the photographs at the Denholme SC Flickr gallery.