EDITORIAL

Merhaba . . . .      

     HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone. We hope that one and all had a great Christmas and New Year and are now trying to get back to some boat work – weather permitting. The population of the marina should start to increase again now and we look forward to the return of all our friends.

The one thing we must not forget is to say a huge ‘Thank-You’ to all the marina staff for looking after us so well over the festive period. This includes not only the Navigator staff but also the operations guys who are there for us during bad weather, the office staff for putting up with all our queries – in fact every single one of them.

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Our Swedish community (plus other willing volunteers) performed the Santa Lucia celebrations for us. Superb assistance was given by the Kemer Khorale especially as most of them were singing in a new language.

Everyone gathered in the Navigator on Christmas Eve to join in the Christmas Carol singing. Very ably led by Bob the Kemer Khorale kept us on the straight and narrow with some old favourites and some new carols (for some of us at least). Food was provided by the Yotties and all I can say is “WOW” – superb food.

Unfortunately we didn’t start off the day too well. Bad weather meant the cancellation of Ross and Sue’s B-B-Q Brunch though we do look forward to the re-scheduled time. After a long night with gale force winds and heavy rain everyone was just a touch tired but nonetheless everyone seemed to enjoy the rest of the day. Christmas dinner including of course deserts provided by Sue, Len, Jean plus many others was well enjoyed and was followed by a few games organised by Ron and music from our Christmas DJ – MC Ross.

Navigator with Soup, Salad Buffet, Salmon or Roast Beef and Apple Crumble. Thanks to the marina management for paying for some of our entertainment (the Belly Dancer) and very good she was too. Just ask Roger, Ted or Jim none of whom have got the smiles off their faces yet. Many thanks to the Scottish Country dancers for the excellent entertainment,  and to Ross for looking after the music. Unfortunately the weather forced the cancellation of the early morning Gulet trip but; maybe next year.

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 Atlantic Records (Sail)

 The Atlantic crossing from New York to the Lizard Point in Cornwall has always been viewed as the best guage of a boat’s speed, and its history is a demonstration of the advances in yacht design. Here are some to the key times and dates;

1866: James Gordon Bennett’s 107ft Henrietta wins the ‘Great Race’ in a time of 13d 21h 55m

1905: Scotsman Charlie Barr, a hugely successful America’s Cup skipper, sets what still stands as the most famous Atlantic record, sailing to the Lizard from Sandy Hook, New York in Wilson Marshall’s 185ft schooner Atlantic  in 12d 4h 12m. His record was to stand for 75 years.

1980: Eric Tabarly succeeds in completing the course in 10d 5h 14m on his radical foiler trimaran Paul Ricard.

1990: Serge Madec and the crew of the 75ft catamaran Jet Services V cross in 6d 13h 3m.

record. Ludde Ingvall sails the 80ft Maxi One design Nicorette across in 11d 13h 22m.

1998: Mari-Cha III crosses in just under 9d.

2000: Bernard Stamm set a new record in the comparatively small Open 60 Amor-Lux of 8d 20h 55m 35s. His was the smallest boat and smallest crew to claim the record, with only four on board.

2001: Steve Fossett and crew on the 125ft catamaran Playstation break the 24-hour and transatlantic records, with a time of 4d 17h 28m – a blistering and as yet unbeaten average of 25.52 knots!

2003: Mari-Cha IV becomes the fastest monohull to complete the course in 6d 17h 52m 39s also setting a new 24-hour speed record covering 525 miles.

2003: Richard on 46ft Contest Hula crosses East to West in 20d 9h 3m. Well done Richard.

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Soap Meeting

Sea Fare 

Cut off spinach roots, wash and drain, then chop finely and set aside. Sauté onion in butter until soft and golden.  Add meat.  Cover and cook over low heat until meat releases its moisture and reabsorbs it.  Add tomatoes, sugar, salt, pepper and ½ cup of water, simmer for 15 minutes.

Place spinach in a big saucepan.  Cover with meat mixture and rice.  Pour ½ cup hot water over.  Cook covered on medium heat until rice and spinach are cooked and most of the liquid absorbed.  Hot water may be added if necessary.

Sunday Outings 

Meadow – Ron & Julie

Walk to Kiris – Bob & Jean

Meadow and on – Ron, Julie & Trish

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A Sandwich walks into a bar. The barman says, “sorry, we don’t serve food in here” 

Trouble at the Palace

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Knotty Wind Problem 

A quick formula for converting knots to Beaufort and vice-versa:

This works on centre range up to Force 8.

CAPTION COMPETITION

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SMS MESSAGES

SMS stands for Short Message (or messaging) Service and is the name given to the system that enables mobile phone users to send and receive text messages.  On most mobile phone networks each text message is restricted to about 150 characters, so abbreviations are used to allow maximum use to be made of this limited space.  Apart from this, the increasing popularity of SMS stems from the fact that messages are quick to write and can be a source of entertainment to both sender and receiver; the same kind of language is becoming quite standard in emails and conversations in Internet chat rooms.

The basic principles governing the abbreviations are quite simple.  Certain words or syllables can be represented by letters or numbers that sound the same but take up less space.  For example, the letter ‘C’ sounds the same as the word ‘see’ or ‘sea’, while ‘U’ sounds the same as ‘you’, and the number ‘8’ can be substituted wherever the sound /-ayt/ occurs in a word.  So, ‘see you later’ can be abbreviated to CUL8R, to which the response

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might be GR8.  Another way of shortening words is simply to omit certain letters, especially vowels.  So, ‘message’ becomes MSG, ‘please’ becomes PLS, and ‘speak’ becomes SPK.  But the majority of SMS abbreviations are derived from the initial letters of familiar fixed phrases, like FYI ‘for your information’, or TTYL ‘talk to you later’, some of these can look puzzlingly obscure when first encountered, but regular exposure soon breeds familiarity. Some examples:

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MEMORIALS

Some people who died during 2003:

Maurice Gill, Sir Peter Saunders, Barry White, Nina Simone, Walter Sisula, Katherine Hepburn, Strom Thurmond, Bob Hope, Elcinorch Remek, Sergio Veirio, idi Amin, Anna Lindh, Robert Palmer, David Hemmings.

Poet’s Corner

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Definitive Definitions:

SAILING:  The fine art of getting wet and becoming ill while going nowhere at great expense.

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