Jeanneau Owners’ Fun Weekend
Jeanneau Owners’ Fun Weekend 21-22 July 2012
After being held at our other offices around the East Coast, the Jeanneau Owners’ Fun Weekend will be held at Suffolk Yacht Harbour, Levington on 21-22 July 2012.
For those of you who have not joined us before, it is a great opportunity to meet other owners, families and crew with similar boats and to swap ideas and have a good time. All Jeanneau Owners are invited to come along and join in the fun. Entry forms will be posted to all owners who express an interest, alternatively please click here to complete an on-line entry form.
Jeanneau Owners’ Fun Weekend 2011
Clarke and Carter Interyacht held their Jeanneau Owners’ fun weekend on the River Medway for the first time over the weekend of 25th and 26th July.
The visitors to the Medway arrived on the afternoon’s high tide with some having battled 30 knot headwinds whilst sailing down the East Coast from Levington, Burnham and Benfleet. Yachts and powerboats ranging in size from 20ft Merry Fisher to a Jeanneau 53 joined in the weekend’s fun.
Those Jeanneau owners based on the Medway along with the visiting Jeanneau owners enjoyed an afternoon’s sailing and motoring out on the Medway following a set of treasure hunt clues. A number of clues kept the younger participants engaged searching for what they thought was sunken treasure in the Medway for several hours.
The evening started at the Medway Yacht Club with Pimms on the terrace in warm sunshine. This was followed by an excellent meal in the yacht club restaurant. During the evening everyone participated in a quiz with five prizes for the top answers. Everyone enjoyed their evening and complimented the club for the great surroundings, food and atmosphere.
Next morning with a very light breeze the yacht fleet set off on a one and half hour pursuit race down river. The Powerboats set-off on a predicted log trial over a measured course. Skippers and crew from both events were kept busy with the light airs trying to work out the best location to maximise the benefit of the outgoing tide.
The pursuit race started with Chris and Carol Twinch’s lifting keel Sun Odyssey 32i “Zarco” leading the fleet, however she was soon overtaken by John Weedon’s fin keel Sun Odyssey 32i “Lady Diana” who lead for a fair time. When the pursuit race came to a finish at 11:30 there was no more than 50 yards between Jeremy Davies’ Sun Odyssey 37 “Papillon” in first place, “Lady Diana” in second place and Rob and Alison Scriven’s Sun Odyssey 40.3 “Rollercoaster” in third place. The largest boat to compete in the race was Ashley Davis’ Sun Odyssey 50 Deck Saloon.
The winner of the powerboat predicted log event was Brian Trice’s Merry Fisher 625 “Amity II” who finished the course within 10 minutes of his predicted time. Some of his time was lost whilst the skipper checked out an oil warning light that came on.
Well done to everyone who took part in the weekend and thank you for participating. Clarke & Carter Interyacht would like to thank our generous suppliers including English Braids, Gillingham Marina/Chandlery, GJW Insurance, International Paint, Mantsbrite Ltd of Maldon in Essex and Raymarine for some great prizes.
Jeanneau Owners’ Fun Weekend 2010
Clarke and Carter Interyacht Ltd held their Jeanneau Owners’ fun weekend at Burnham in 2010 over the weekend of 10th and 11th July, based at the Yacht Harbour and the Crouch Yacht Club.
The visitors arrived on the high tide at lunchtime and five of them took advantage of the RNLI SEA Check which was well organised by Clifton Warry and ably assisted by his inspectors Russ Cashel, John Pawley and Bob Tubbs. Everyone who took part thought that it was well worth doing and learnt a lot about improving the safety of their boat.
The evening started at the club with Pimms in the bar downstairs and then Kerry and Adam served dinner upstairs in the newly opened Moorings Restaurant with an excellent meal. Everyone there enjoyed their evening and complimented the club for the great surroundings and atmosphere.
Next morning the breeze was up and Tony and Chuffy in Amazon, as committee boat, sent the fleet on a two-hour pursuit race up river and then back through the town. To keep the crews busy they also had to answer a quiz with twenty questions where the answers could be found on either side of the river. Mike and Barbara Grayburn in Ocean Spirit II surged to the front of the fleet early on and stayed there until the time expired thus winning the race from Rob Scriven in Rollercoaster, who was the only yacht to fly a spinnaker.
The bottle of champagne was won by Howard and Brenda Walkden in Sulis who answered the highest number of questions in the quiz and who also signed up to become Yacht club members. The prizegiving was held at the Swallowtail immediately after the race with prizes for all, so that Jalousea and Rollercoaster could leave on the tide for their homeports. More photos.
