Wikipedia describes Richard Hannay, the hero of John Buchan’s murder and mystery novel as “An all-action hero with a miraculous knack of getting himself out of sticky situations”. Anyways Richard Hannay (aka HonSec)

Well life is not all about the boat club is it? Having a great weekend in Wales with school friends and enjoying our victory whilst it lasts! We called in Bath on the way down, and really enjoyed our time in the city. It reconfirmed that it should be a great place for a club…

Recent tradition (if that’s not an oxymoron) has it that Commodore should prepare a light lunch for any members that turn up to the Riverside Bar on a Sunday. Well as most of you know Andrew and I have a very happy marriage where he drives and I cook .

A number of us decided that Day 2 in Dusseldorf would be best spent touring the city. Luckily we had a guide book which directed us around the main areas and down some rather bizarre streets. The Rhine was flowing very fast, and barges moved very slowly against the tide. Lots of trees were trunk…

  A dozen TMYC-ers got up very early (well for me anyways, and not even a tide to catch) to board a BA flight from Heathrow to Dusseldorf.. Everything was very seemless with us arriving at the boat show for lunchtime. Especially good that some ‘temporary’ members – Paul and Marnel from the RYA courses…

The next week was a busy one for us. Andrew had a rather long presentation to prepare for the Welcome to my Year. Ann Braine and the Ladies Committee had an even busier Saturday cooking a meal for 90 on time.

After 6 months of planning and organising, reading the ‘standards and traditions’, finding out a lot more about bands and caterers than I ever wanted to know, not to mention no time to do anything else Andrew’s year as Commodore was ‘rubber stamped’ at the AGM and off we go to Commodore’s Lunch at The…