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Flag Officers NEWSLETTER

March 2025

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Welcome to the February Edition of the CHPSC e-newsletter in 2025.

Annwyl Aelodau / Dear Members

Dydd Gwŷl Dewi Hapus and welcome to our March newsletter! I hope you all join me in feeling Spring is not far away, and the last couple of weeks have seen a buzz of activity getting the harbours, the pontoons, boats and our club ready for the season.

Thanks to the volunteers who have already spent time cleaning the Plas Heli pontoons, they are looking great!

‍New CHPSC Starting Hut

A sad victim of last year's Storm Darragh was our race starting hut, situated on the roof of one of our previous club buildings over by Gimblet Rock. We received the devastating news the next day, that the hut was destroyed and all our comms, signalling and racing equipment had been scattered and exposed to the elements. A work party of our racing members quickly rescued what they could, and we set about exploring options for a new hut.

We are immensely grateful to announce that thanks to very kind sponsorship from Gimblet Rock Holiday Park, a new hut is in the final stages of being completed in time for the new racing season.

The hut, designed and built very swiftly by Nefyn sheds, was lifted into place last week, and erected on site. Graeme and Tai Harrold, and Paul Kitteringham worked tirelessly, for hours in tidying and prepping the site and afterwards re-laying the floor slabs. We are now simply awaiting windows, which will be here in good time for the racing season.

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I’d also like to say a huge thank you on behalf of everyone in the Sailing Club, to Wil Partington of Partington Marine for his help with his cherry picker in lifting the hut into place. All the equipment has been collated, assessed, tested, washed, repaired and stored by Peter Dunlop and Vicky Cox, and will by winging its way back into the hut soon, ready for the forthcoming season. It truly has been a great effort by members and sponsors to turn round, what seemed like a devastating situation at one point.

If anyone would like to volunteer to help with our race management, in our new starting hut, training can be given. Please send me a message at flag.officers@pwllhelisailingclub.co.uk.

Thank you!

Racing in the Caribbean.

CHPSC was represented on the World stage with Pata Negra and Mojito competing in the prestigious RORC Caribbean 600 - a classic non-stop 600nm race around 11 Caribbean islands, starting and finishing in Antigua. There were 53 boats competing in the IRC Overall Class.

Pata Negra, Andrew and Sam Hall, and team were 14th Overall and 3rd in IRC Class 1.

Peter Dunlop and Vicky Cox, and the Mojito team, were 18th Overall and Second in Class 2.

Both of our  Pwllheli teams also dominated the podium in CSA class 2, with Pata Negra in top spot and Mojito 3rd, missing out on 2nd place by just 1 second. Both teams certainly put Pwllheli sailing club on the map resulting in a few lessons on how to pronounce Pwllheli. 

Mojito, also enjoyed several wins in the RORC Nelsons Cup and 4th in the Antigua 360, finishing as runner up in the series…. no mean feat considering Mojito literally only arrived with hours to go before racing commenced! Well done Team Mojito!!

‍Pwllheli Sailing Club welcomes the Westerly Owners Association (NW)

The Westerly Owners association (NW Group) has chosen Pwllheli Sailing Club to be the host of its spring lunch and meeting on 15th March.

Mark Pearson visited recently, and we are expecting around 20-30 members to join the meeting and lunch, who will also be given a tour of Pwllheli Lifeboat Station.

Any local Westerly owners are welcome to get in touch and find out more, or pop along and say hi! Email northwalesgroup@westerly-owners.co.uk

‍Annual General meeting

A brief reminder of our annual general meeting on 29th March at 10am in Plas Heli, and a relaxed social evening at our Fitting Out Supper to follow in the evening.

Details and menu will follow on the CHPSC website and on our WhatsApp groups, but please get in touch anytime to register your interest.

Dingy Compound

Good progress is being made by the new dinghy compound management team.

Please make sure that your dinghy is registered, boats that have been paid for will be issued an annual sticker, affixed to your boat, so please ensure you let us know the make, position and colour of your boat if you have paid, or if you wish to claim your boat before scrapping, please contact flag.officers@pwllhelisailingclub.co.uk

Calendar 

2025 calendars are still available for collection by members, and once again features some amazing photos of our boats, harbour and marina.

Please contact the Flag Officers to collect your calendar.

We extend our thanks to our generous sponsors.

‍Work Party - Saturday 8th March 

We are planning a work party to lay the beach mat next Saturday - come along to help, build up a thirst ready for the Rugby!

‍Six nations Rugby 

The Six Nations Championship continues throughout March and Sean is showing all matches in the bar.

Haggis is being served at half time for the Scotland Wales game on 8th March - sponsored by Plas Heli. KO 1645hrs!

Everyone is welcome! 

‍Looking forward to the season getting busier and seeing more faces as March goes on!

Warmest regards - Hwyl

‍Lyndsay Harrold

Morlywydd

‍the 2025 Membership Fees are now due

Please help us by renewing your membership early. 

Please refer to our web site to renew or join.

Only 2025 members will receive the uplift on the card at the bar. 

Log in first (in the gold coloured box) Username is usually your e-mail, and password is your membership number (all 5 digits).

‍IRC WELSH NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

‍ ‍2nd to 4th May 2025

Great Racing and for IRC Classes, YTC, Sonata and J70's Welsh National Championships.‍

The IRC Welsh National Championship is one of four events counting for the Irish Sea Nations Cup 2025.  

‍PLAS HELI NEWS

Plas Heli Cyf – The Welsh National Sailing Academy and Event Centre, a volunteer not for profit distribution community enterprise company, with charitable aims and where all surpluses are reinvested back into the facility for everyone's benefit.

‍We are making progress on venue preparations for the busy 2025 season.

‍Caban Hwylio has been removed!

We have cleared more room in the compound by the removal of the redundant Caban Hwylio Cabin. 

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New ground level area in Main Compound

The 'big stairs' and lower slope have been removed, and now we start work on Monday on finishing the ground works: drains, electricity hook-ups, and emergency lights for this new ground area. 

‍The next part of the project is a replacement balcony on the First Floor with associated stairs from the new flat area on the ground floor, and then onwards to the second floor balcony, which will become more usable after completing this project.

The works will be completed before the RYA UK Youth Championships in early April, when we expect to see more than 250 competitors and supporters on site.

Care must be taken in the compound, and on all balconies. Please observe the exclusion areas set out for these works. 

Your cooperation whilst the works are on-going would be greatly appreciated.

‍New Committee Boat.

We are delighted with our new Committee Boat, “Dylan Ail Don” which is now on the Plas Heli pontoons.

This strengthens our fleet of committee boats to three and our 12 strong RIB safety fleet. Read more link button below.

‍New CCTV

There will be additional CCTV to cover the new balcony and ground space created in the main compound. This is in addition to the extensive coverage already installed.

These are required for crime prevention and detection, everyone's security, welfare and for insurance purposes. We also have site-wide fast Wi-Fi.

‍Dinghy Wash-down Area.

This area has been upgraded again with a retaining wall with new taps and hook-ups for power washers. This work also incorporates a beach shower.

‍New Toilet Block

The new toilet and shower block has now been connected to all services. This adds to our event facility toilet/shower options.

‍New Entrance to Plas Heli

The two new front doors have now been fitted. This has greatly enhanced the arrival experience at Plas Heli. This project included three new media screens so that we can share information. 

‍Plas Heli Pontoons. 

Following the reconfiguring of the pontoons, berths have now been allocated for the 2025 season.

•  See the Plan here 

‍Plas Heli 10 years -

As we approach our 10th anniversary in May 2025, we celebrate the growth in events and overall activity at Plas Heli.

‍Events in 2025 -

We are now planning for 2025 with an exciting diary of events, starting with the RYA UK Youth Championships in April and then the IRC Welsh National Championship and the Topper NS4 Coastal Championship in May.

We will host the Welsh National ILCA Championship in July. In August we will host the UKLA ILCA National Championships and the Techno World Championship.

The RYA CW Youth and Junior Championships will again be in September. 

See all our events listed here.

‍Events in 2026 

Event are now being booked in for 2026. See the calendar on the Plas Heli website

We continue to work closely with RYA CW to provide facilities for training camps, storage, and activities, and we respect the strategic importance of the facilities for events, training and boating in Wales. 

Community engagement works continues and included our work with clubs and associations, assistance with facilities for a disability boat, fundraising events, classrooms for community groups, meetings, teaching and our work with children in-need.

Catering at the centre is with our franchisee operator Sean Devlin Ltd. 

We are reliant on volunteers and are of course, grateful for all assistance provided by our stakeholder groups and clubs and in particular the Commodore and Flag Officers of Clwb Hwylio Pwllheli Sailing Club.

There is more about Plas Heli in the updated Plas Heli - Prospectus

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