Royal West of Scotland Amateur Boat Club: Club: Main Page

Welcome to the Royal West of Scotland Amateur Boat Club Web Site . The club caters for a number of water sports including canoeing, sailing and rowing. The club is located in Greenock on the scenic Clyde estuary. The scenery in this area is outstanding and the water is ideal for water sports. The club is easily accessible by road and rail and is only 22 Miles from the centre of Glasgow. See our location page for directions and our contact page for details how to contact the club.

Notice of Special General Meeting

There will be a Special General Meeting of the club on Thursday 26th August 2010 at 8pm. The purpose of the meeting is to update members concerning the St Ayles Skiff Project, to adopt the audited accounts for year 2009-10 and to present proposed Constitution changes to the membership.

Message posted on behalf of Alistair Black, Hon Secretary, RWSABC

Work has started on the club slip. As you can see from the photographs it is in a poor state and can only be used at the highest tides. The intention is to extend the slip to make it usable for all but the lowest of tides. The slip fund stands at £1,000 due to Ian Clark and his fund raising schemes and generous donations by Andy Taylor and Al Black of a £100 each. If you would like to donate to the club slip fund then make a cheque out to the Royal West of Scotland Amateur Boating Club and write on the back Slip Fund. The repair of the slip would make a big difference to the club and would in courage more people in the area to take part in water sports. If you would like to help or provide expertise then contact the club through the contact page. Andy Taylor and Ian Clark will be organising the work and will contact club members by email with times and dates when work on the slip can take place eg low tide.

Kayaking and paddle sports club nights will start for all members on the 19 th of April 6.00pm

Looking for someone to row with? Need another person to take out on a pair? Lots of people work on shifts or have unsociable hours or work away from home and do not have a regular work pattern. In order to help put such people in touch with each other, we are compiling a list of people who want to help in making contact with other rowers. If you want to go onto the register, please email your name and contact details together with any information on your general availability to ianandsusie.greenock@btinternet.com. We will put the register on the club noticeboard and post it on the web site. If you want to row but don't know how, please contact Ian Clark on 01475 729289. Ian will be please to help you to learn.

Because of the recent prolonged cold spell we have fallen badly behind in varnishing our pleasure boats before the start of the season. If you are able to spare a couple of hours at any time on any day, and you are willing to sand or varnish a boat, please let me know. Ian Clark 01475 729289.

The Open Day was a busy and successful day see pictures. "Thank you" to all the people who took part in yesterday's event, and made it such a success. We took in almost ₤300 and, just as importantly, we had 13 membership enquiries.
The final total of monies is not settled yet, because we have a few things left over, which we might be able to sell or raffle, viz The signed T-shirt of Katherine Grainger donated by Maggi Blair, and the ship's wheel, which I forgot to bring, as well as the 10p I found on the beach this morning.
It is unfair to single any one person out, because everybody did their bit, but I would like to say a special thank you to the ladies who stood in the cold and made tea, coffee, pancakes, soup. Marion, Yvonne, Maggi, Frankie, and to the folk who brought Jumble, especially Pat Johnston, Keith Clague and Gordon McKenzie, whose jumble donations were really generous.
It has to be said that ₤84.70 is a lot of cups of tea, soup and pancakes.
I think that the afternoon was a social success too, we had visitors from other Clubs, notably Royal Gourock YC, esplanade promenaders, one Swedish lady, one Norwegian, as well as families from RWSABC. On Friday there were 4 ladies from Helensburgh who got the date wrong, but couldn't come back.

Thanks are due to all the people who came and bought, there will be a short notice on the website for them together with some photographs, and for people who advertised the event, notably Inverclyde Now, The Telegraph, CVS Inverclyde,Clyde1, Rev. Sorensen and others who displayed posters.

We now have approximately ₤800 in our Fund for the Sailor's Slip, which should give us a good start. Future Events are planned for the Fund, notably a "Busker's" evening and a "Big Band" Night Out........... details of which will be revealed. We hope that you will support these events also.

Win an autographed T-Shirt worn by Katherine Grainger, MBE, Silver medalist at Beijing Olympics, 2 other Olympic Silvers. World Championship, 4 Golds,1 Silver, 1 Bronze. Born in Glasgow 1975, she is Britain's finest woman rower.

The T-shirt from Katherine Grainger is mounted in an elegant frame and is on display in the sailing club main hall. We hope to raise the maximum of cash from the sale of the T-shirt, so it will be sold in a silent auction, sealed bids should be sent to:

Bids must arrive by 3pm 20th March. The winner will be announced at the AGM on the 25th March, and published on the RWSABC.com website the following week. Please tell as many people as possible about the Sale and the T-Shirt.

If you have an email address, but you are not receiving club information emails. Then please send your up to date email address through the contact page on the web site and the information will be passed to Julia Darby, Membership Convener so that she can send you any mails about membership, and Notifications of AGM’s, Club Notices, etc.

Four boats from the club took part in the Albacore Internationals in very exciting conditions. For a full writeup see the Yachts and Yachting web site. Results

Three club boats and another three Scottish Boats took part in the Albacore Northern Championships. The regatta was held on a inland lake which provided very tight racing and shifty conditions resulting in mixed results from the club boats.

1st Neville Herbert and Mark Fowler (Tewkesbury Cruising and Sailing Club)
2nd Stuart Gibson and Gavin Berry (Clyde Cruising Club and Strathclyde Loch S C)
3rd Crawford Reid and Issy Martin (Strathclyde Loch S C)
4th Paul Lennie and Pam Gott (WFSC)
5th David Hammond and Andy Smith (Ogston S C)

Can you help the Club recruit new members? First of all by telling people about the Club and our facilities. Secondly by printing out the poster and having it displayed in your office, work place or where ever you think would be suitable. Thirdly by telling the committee Members about any ideas you have to improve the club. The contact details of the Committee Members are given at the bottom of this web page.

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