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There was a suitable area near the main road, but\nit was occupied by the Curling Club’s bothy. Yes, a Curling\nClub! The ice must have been much thicker in those days! That Club\ninitially agreed to lend their Bothy to the would-be sailors, but\nlater agreed to sell it. \n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sailors started\nafloat with ‘Swallow’ – a home built dinghy with a heavy iron\nkeel – but soon came to realise that the GP14 class were much more\nsuitable boats. The safety rules being different in those\nnot-so-far-off days the first rescue boat was powered by oars, and\nsuch things as buoyancy aids for the crew were somewhat slow in\nadoption. Nowadays, buoyancy aids are required just to go onto the\njetty, and the most powerful rescue boat has a 30 hp outboard motor\nand Royal Yachting Association power boat qualifications needed\nto helm it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Club\nprogressed, membership increased and better facilities than the\nCurlers bothy could provide were needed. So, a purpose designed\nClubhouse (the electrics come in at high level and the ground floor\nis concrete) was built in about 1970, with the bothy remnants now\nbeing beneath it. Have a look some time at the various flood level\nmarkers \u003cu\u003einside\u0026nbsp;\u003c/u\u003ethe Clubhouse.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoarding the\ndinghies being an obvious problem. A ‘T’ shaped double line of\nscaffolding poles were somehow sunk into the loch with a\nsemi-floating jetty between them. Alas wind and weather attacked\nthat jetty, to the extent that at one time a small plastic dinghy, on\na double ended rope line, had to be used to reach the jetty head. \nHowever, sailing was flourishing – more GPs, a few Lasers and\nMirrors and a powered rescue boat. Actually, a slightly leaky little\ninflatable with an outboard motor of a full 4hp!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy May 1989 a new\nfloating jetty had been agreed on, but the remnants of the old one –\nparticularly those scaffolding poles [in fair condition above jetty\nlevel, badly corroded twixt wind and water, and in excellent\ncondition in the mud] had first to be removed. A lot of planning, a\nlot of outside help e.g. divers and a tractor with a hefty winch, and a\ngreat deal of manual effort saw that entire jetty pulled out, cut up\nand totally off-site in one memorable day.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn later years, the\nClubhouse was twice enlarged, more boat park land was bought/leased,\nthe garage/workshops were built and then, later, extended, more types\nof boats, including many single handers appeared in the dinghy park.\nand the jetty frontage was rebuilt [see the plaque in the Clubhouse\nabout the help offered for that major work]\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, smooth running\nfor 70+ years? Generally, ‘Yes’, but there was one exception\nwhen the Club came within a few days of eviction from the entire site\n- and with no alternative home to go to.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Club had taken\nover the lease of land we were using from the Dowager Lady Annandale\nand Captain Maitland Carew at a peppercorn rent (which she didn’t\ncollect anyway). After her death, ownership of the land was taken\nover by a family member in the Borders – who promptly gave us a\nyear’s notice to quit, or to purchase the land at a never-stated\nprice. We borrowed and scrounged for money, but offers were met by a\nlawyer’s answer of “More”. Being within a week or two of\neviction and closure, we called on the help of our local M.P. Hector\n[later Lord] Monro a long-time good friend of the Club. He\nspeedily made a sale, albeit\u0026nbsp;at a high price, possible, and the Club\nsurvived, although deeply in debt to its members. Finances were\nexceedingly tight for a year or two, but most of the member-creditors\nconverted their loans into gifts and normal service was eventually\nresumed.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Club is now an\nR.Y.A. training establishment, and provides summer courses, weekend\nlessons and Tuesday practice – all organised and run by members\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo active\nmembership really does matter.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Club is run not just for its\nmembers, but by those members.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e New members are always welcome but with the proviso that if they just sail and then go home the\nClub will slowly fade away.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e If they sail and then help with\nplanning, organising and just ‘doing’, then the future will be a\nfresh breeze and sunshine!\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e And it was for that that present members\njoined.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCredits to Alasdair Cook\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","ContentConfig":{"Caption":null,"Icon":null,"IconColour":null,"CaptionColour":null,"UnderlineColour":null,"TextColour":null,"FontSize":null,"LineHeight":null,"RequiresLoggedInUser":false,"BottomMargin":0,"PaddingLeft":"0px","PaddingTop":"0px","PaddingRight":"0px","PaddingBottom":"0px","PhoneVisible":true,"TabletVisible":true,"DesktopVisible":true,"CssClass":null,"PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null},"ComponentCode":null,"ComponentError":null,"BottomMargin":"0px","PaddingLeft":"0px","PaddingTop":"0px","PaddingRight":"0px","PaddingBottom":"0px","CssClass":null,"ResponsiveClasses":"","PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null,"Background":{"Colour":null,"ImageURL":null,"Filter":null,"IsParallax":false,"Image":"","Tint":""},"ImageConfig":{"ImageURL":null,"ObjectFit":"contain","ImageHeight":null,"FrameStyle":null,"BorderRadius":null,"Caption":{"IsActive":false,"Text":null,"SubText":null,"Font":{"Size":null,"Colour":null},"SubFont":{"Size":null,"Colour":null},"Alignment":null,"Position":null,"Margin":null,"BackgroundColour":null,"Blur":false,"Hover":false},"AltText":null,"LinkURL":null,"BottomMargin":0,"PaddingLeft":"10px","PaddingTop":"10px","PaddingRight":"10px","PaddingBottom":"10px","PhoneVisible":true,"TabletVisible":true,"DesktopVisible":true,"CssClass":null,"PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null},"IgnoreCache":false}]}],"ColumnSpacing":"0px","BottomMargin":"0px","TopPadding":"0px","IsFullWidth":false,"IsBackgroundFullWidth":false,"Background":{"Colour":null,"ImageURL":null,"Filter":null,"IsParallax":false,"Image":"","Tint":""}}],"PageURL":"https://annandalesailingclub.myclubhouse.co.uk/Cms/Spaces/DEFAULT/CLUB+HISTORY?version=2","AllVersions":[],"Comments":[],"UpdatedComments":[],"Spaces":[],"IsWatching":false,"LastViewTime":null,"CanEdit":false,"CanPublish":false,"CanCopy":false,"CanCreateTemplate":false,"CanComment":false,"CanReadComments":false,"CanModerateComments":false,"CanLike":false,"CanWatch":false}
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