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during this time. If there is anybody, or any organisation, you would like to Rig it with two sheets totally independent of the boom, one to each stern quarter.
nominate to be recognised in this way, please send details to the Clerk, on experiment with snatch blocks to get the best sheeting angles. (The leeward sheet
bereregispc@gmail.com. does all the work ‘off’ the wind, but you need both sheets deployed to pull the
clew both aft and inboard when ‘on’ the wind.)

Ponies The results are most comforting. viz.
The 2 ponies should be back in the Nature Reserve at Souls’ Moor in the coming The yacht behaves better as the centre of effort has been brought inboard and
days and we are looking forward to seeing the continued progress and benefits nearer the centre line of the vessel. The size and shape of the trysail allows more
their grazing brings to the wildlife there. The ponies are regularly monitored and "clean” air onto the jib, giving it more drive.
have a constant supply of fresh water. If you are nervous around horses or have the yacht is "pulled" rather than “pushed” so steering stability improves and the
dogs that might bother them, we advise walking around the outside of the nature more efficient jib enables speed to be maintained.
reserve. If you do have any concerns about the horses, please contact the Clerk.
You can gybe - even accidentally - with virtually complete safety as no boom is
Bryan Benjafield deployed. this allows less-experienced crew the opportunity to helm (thereby
gaining the skills of downwind helming in rough weather), without putting the boat
or other crew in jeopardy.
BERECONNECT - COVID19 UPDATE
You now have an effective downwind sail plan, which is immediately viable
upwind in the case of an emergency. (Most 'man overboard' incidents occur
whilst sailing downwind).
As the rules have changed slightly, but lockdown continues for many, here is an
update about our local response to the pandemic.
The colour of the trysail (usually bright orange) adds to your vessel's ability to be
seen by other shipping.
BereConnect Volunteers It's great fun to use and easy to set providing it is sheeted free of the main boom.

Our volunteers continue to provide a wonderful service, collecting and delivering The flexibility and safety aspects of the trysail will increase the enjoyment that you
prescriptions for people in isolation, and undertaking occasional shopping trips for and your crew will get cruising downwind in breezy weather. It also means that
those who can’t get out. All the volunteers deserve our thanks for being ready and you (the captain) have no excuse for being "glued" to the helm. It's the crews’ job
willing to undertake these tasks. If you need any help from our volunteers, Brenda is and no place from which to command a boat!
the coordinator on 01929 471255.
No trysail? Try hoisting your #3 jib on the forestay and hoisting your storm jib up a

taut main halyard (wire). A storm jib designed for a forestay foil may go up the luff
BereConnect Food Bank groove of the main mast.
Our local food bank continues to be run by Pop in Place volunteers led by Alison The next time you are out there in the sort of weather when you wish you were
Bennett. They have asked me to give a huge thank you to all those who have back here, don’t treat your trysail like a liferaft and hope you never have to use it.
donated through the boxes in the village shop, and outside the Drax Hall and the hoist it, blow out those years-old creases and have some fun with it!
Church. Thanks are also due to residents in Briantspuddle and Affpuddle, whose This 'mainsail effect’ can be emulated by attempting to push a full supermarket
food gifts are added to ours. About a dozen parcels are being provided every
trolley in a straight line with only one hand at the outboard end of the handle. It
week, so please continue to give if you can. At present, the food bank has
doesn’t want to go in a straight line.
sufficient of the basics such as rice, pasta and UHT milk, but would welcome gifts
of baked beans, crisps, cereal bars and other snacks for children, and biscuits and Footnote: the poem ‘Christmas at Sea’ by Robert Louis Stevenson is probably the
part-baked bread. Congratulations, too, to Pop in Place for their community best way of realising the fear what a ‘lee shore’ means to a square-rigged ship.
initiative this week in handing out about 80 parcels of tea and biscuits to older
residents. If you need the help of the food bank please make contact on 01929 David Gray
472023 or email popinplace@gmail.com

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