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Cadets - Are you coming to the Lord Amory - Friday 25th May - 27th May £70 RSVP 31st March Number One 

Cadet Dolphin Challenge 12th - 13th May - Sutton Coalfield - Teams of 4 please RSVP Number OnePrice TBC

Leading Sea Ranger chatroom Beaufort Scale song!

to the tune from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WujIzsn4ues&feature=related

Calm the sea and slack the sail, zero on the Beaufort Scale

With light airs small wavelets come, beaufort calls the wind force one

Light breeze makes force two and three, crested waves you'll start to see

Force four's called a moderate breeze, waves get longer on the sea

?? F5

Force six tosses you to and fro, Condor ferries will not go!

complete the missing windforces on the crew fb page!

Spindrift comes with a near gale, force eight and a very small sail

Nine is a gale strong as can be... and it will uproot a trees

When mph reaches 53....be prepared for a dangerous sea!

When the scale hits eleven, doomed is young boy sailor kevin.

When it's twelve on the Beaufort scale, hatches down for wind and hail.

Congratulations - well done

 SRS Mermaid Rangers & Cadets winners of 

The Flotilla Swimming Gala 

28 January

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Betty Kitt Trophy 2012 for Cadets ....

Make a 'bug house' - see details under contents

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Olive Richardson Knotting Trophy 2012

'tie as many different knots as possible using 1 metre of rope'

Mount the rope, label the knots and give examples of their use

closing date 28 April 2012

open to Crew, watches or individuals ...... ask Skipper or No1 for more information .....

Dutch sailor Laura Dekker completes her epic 27,000 miles, 500 days solo voyage – and she's just 16 (don't try this at home!)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/27000-miles-500-days--and-shes-just-16-one-girls-epic-solo-voyage-6292610.html

This is a cool lady ...Roz Savage is a British ocean rower and environmental campaigner. Coupled with her solo row across the Atlantic in 2005-6, she has rowed over 11,000 miles see more .. http://www.rozsavage.com/

..... did you follow the row for freedom team over Christmas? - the first 5 women team to row any ocean ... they broke the time for an all female crew rowing the Atlantic arriving - in 45 days 15 hrs 26 mins - they arrived 22 Jan 2012 .. mad or inspiring??

http://www.taliskerwhiskyatlanticchallenge.com/team/row-for-freedom

January - the Sea Rangers and Cadets have places on a boat in the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant and at Battersea Park - see more in events and .....

http://www.thamesdiamondjubileepageant.org/Default.aspx

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Chatroom dates now on the diary below ....these dates are now monthly and attendance is VERY important 

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SRS Mermaid is starting their London Olympic build up - follow the rowing girls as they prepare at the world championships

http://www.bled2011.org/

see the latest sailing team update

http://www.rya.org.uk/programmes/sailforgold/Pages/default.aspx

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Lord Amory - we had great times in 2011 ..... next opportunity

Open Day April 28/29 2012

SRS Mermaid will have places for next years weekends - see dates in diary below booked -  find directs and see about the boat at:

http://www.lordamory.org/

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three more 'waterery' things ...

David Walliams has swum the Thames from it's source to London for Comic Relief - see more and donate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sportrelief/bigsplash/

and find out about the Blue Mile for WWF on

http://bluemile.wwf.org.uk/

if you thought dinghy sailing was exciting have a look at the America's Cup .........

http://www.americascup.com/

Fancy starting swimming in the Thames? - safety information available in the encyclopedia

A new logbook is available to track you progress -

find it at http://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/index.php?p=home

(make sure you are a strong swimmer, not alone and have asessed the risks!)

Penny & Sophie completed the last leg of the 2011 Tall Ships race on TS Tomidi their boat came 1st in Class and Fastest Vessel Well done to Dirk the skipper and crew of Tomidi - There is a picture of Dirk and Sophie under the photo gallery of Halmstad (3)on the following link http://www.sailtraininginternational.org/home

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Ranger off-shore sailing 2012 dates to  be published soon- contact Skipper for detail www.dsp.uk.com

see July's photo!

http://www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/press_centre/news_releases/news_release_detail?articleid=706714

Rose Cottage - mini & new girls day

September 7 2012 contact Anne for details

:) :o :D

By popular request ....SRS Me sizes rmaid Hoodies

Navy - srs-mermaid.org.uk embriodered on front  - nick name on the back

£20 - order to Skipper with your chosen nick name .............

: Aged 9-11, 12-13, Small 34/36, Med 38/40, Lrg 42/44

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Please read all the way to the bottom

Welcome to our new members please ring Tessa or Anne if you need help with anything

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Sarah Outen's - one of SRS Mermaid's heroines has written a book - "A Dip in the Ocean" - available to borrow from No1 - see more on her website as she goes London2London via the world

 http://sarahouten.co.uk/

CHATROOM 2012 EVENT DATES AT BOTTOM OF PAGE.

ALWAYS SCROLL DOWN!!! 

helpful video how to capsize and right your sailing dinghy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5M8GK3SqGM

Thinking of more dinghy sailing??

then watch this exciting video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDToL593cmU

Tall Ships 2012 - Thermopylae Clipper

places available - various cruises leaves Southampton 30 June - St.Malo, Lisbon, Vigo, La Corunna, Dublin, Penzance and home

fancy going?  - conatct Carol and look at 

http://www.dsp.uk.com/

We all love Dame Ellen MacArthur for her excellent sailing NOW she explains why she has gives up the ocean to save the planet see more at

http://www.ellenmacarthur.com/

AT SRS MERMAID WE KNOW THERE ARE SOME CRAZY LADIES WHO DO SOME WILD WATER THINGS - SARAH OUTON - ELLEN MACARTHUR ....... to name but 2 ...... IN 2010 ............. BLUE PETER"S HELEN SKELTON KAYAKING THE AMZON FOR SPORTS RELEIF AND CHRISTINE BLAKELEY WENT ACROSS THE CHANNEL ON WATER SKI  ......... SEE MORE

http://www.sportrelief.com/whats-on/challenges/blue-peter

http://www.sportrelief.com/whats-on/challenges/water-ski

 
NEW!!! ......DEE CAFFARI going again in the Vendee Globe Race 2012
.....follow her build up  www.deecaffari.co.uk

The crew has a copy of Longitude - 'the true story of how the longitude problem was solved - a problem which sailors and astronomists had struggled to solve and many died when they got lost!'

It's a good read - if you would like to read it - let Skipper know

The great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin sailed on the clipper Stad Amsterdam http://www.stadamsterdam.com from Devon to recreate the journey which inspired his theory of evolution.See more on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8232034.stm 

  NEWS!  ..... Chatrooms Tuesday 19.15 - 20.15

  winter and spring dates to below

2012 - things Mermaid's are organising

Skype dates from Rangers TBA

When                  Who               What              Where

2012

date to be found    Ranger      Sth Coast Path Walk   Dunster

 Jan 31     19.15    jnr cadets      Bronze             chatroom

Feb 7    19.15      snr rangers      LSR         facebook chat 

Feb 21    19.15    snr cadets      Silver               chatroom

Jan 28            all crew       swimming gala    CofL Freemans

17 Feb          all crew    Greenwich & Bell Foundry  London 

April 2-15      EASTER BREAK

April 28/29       all     sail, row & canoe   Lord Amory openday

April 28 SRA AGM & Olive Richardson Knotting Trophy closing date

May 12              Cadets       Dolphin Trophy         Midlands

closing date for Betty Kitt Trophy

May 25-27         Cadets        all boating           Lord Amory

June 1-5             all       rowing/canoeing        Paxmead

          & jubilee pagaent

Jun 16 - 17       all crew       regatta practise  Rose Cottage

Jun 30               all        National Regatta    Thames Ditton

Sept 7    mini's (under 9's)    general boating fun    Rose Cottage

Sept 21-23         Rangers        all boating         Lord Amory

note some 2012 dates are provisional and will be confirmed as soon as possible

Mike Perham became the youngest person ever to sail round the world - in August 2009 Mike completed his journey at Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth. 16-year-old Mike Perham set out on 18th November 2008 to sail around the world single-handed in his yacht, TotallyMoney.com. 

See his website

http://www.challengemike.com/welcome.htm

FOR ANY RANGERS INTERESTED IN TALL SHIP RACING. LOOK HERE TO SEE PENNY'S Past EXPERIENCE!

Mermaid Penny completed  the Talls Ships Race2 from Turku to Kleipieda on board the sail training boat Moosk they finished 6th in class. She successfully secured this years 'Founder President's Bursary' which has help to fund her - Penny see (we have a picture) - and more info on http://www.cremyll-sailing.org.uk/tall_ships.htm or www.tallshipsraces.com/baltic.

'String, is a wonderful thing, rope is thicker, but string is quicker! ....... by Spike Milligan

GO ON THE RONA SAILING PROJECT WEBSITE TO SEE WHAT THEY ARE UP TO. OR CHECK OUT THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE!!!

IF UNLIKE MOST PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY READ ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM. WELL DONE! TO PROVE IT NEXT TIME YOU SEE SOPHIE BULLIMORE. TELL HERE ABOUT THIS.