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Volunteer fundraisers needed for the Elche Children’s Care Home Charity
Can you space a few hours each month? Have fun, make friends, meet people and help the children. Contact
echcharity@hotmail.com. Tel: 634 361 887 or visit our Facebook page
www.facebook.com/elchechildrencarehome
Introduction to the MOBO group
Have you ever looked at the sea on a lovely day and thought wouldn’t it be great to have a boat? Then you thought about the cost of purchase and the running costs and the maintenance involved and you rejected the idea.
Well, MOBO group may have the answer for you. MOBO group is one of the boat share groups within the Sailing Association Mar Menor. SAMM is based at the Santa Cristina centre in Los Narejos on the Mar Menor and has several groups covering a range of boating
activities. MOBO group owns ‘FEFI’ a 22ft Spanish built fishing boat (Artaban) which is moored on Santa Cristina’s secure pier. She has an inboard diesel engine, 2 forward cabins, and can carry up to 6 people.
The owner members share the running costs, the maintenance and, most importantly, the sailing. Generally we sail on the delightful Mar Menor, but sometimes venture through the La Manga canal to the Mediterranean.
Entry and running cost are very reasonable and there are vacancies at present. If interested, you could telephone Mike on 678 145 674 to find out more and make a date to come down for a trial run. If you can’t get down sooner, SAMM has an open day on 11th May - put it in the diary now! See us on the SAMM website at
www.sailingmarmenor.com. To contact Mike by email –
michael_phillips1@msn.com.
SAMM Spring 2016 racing starts
The crews of seven boats arrived at the CTD ‘Infanta Cristina’ Los Narejos at 10am for the first race day of the Spring 2016 handicap series to find that something was missing – the wind. It did not appear until late morning, delaying the start from 11am until 12.30pm, but then blew steadily at between 8 and 12 knots.
This meant that only one six lap race could be scheduled. The larger boats were away first, with the two Sailfish (Mistral and Sirocco) crossing the line just feet apart. The dinghies followed 10 minutes later and all four crossed within a few seconds; overall a very good start for all boats.
Mistral held the lead for the first four laps until she was caught by the faster dinghies. The catamaran ‘Hamour’ had a bad race and was lapped by all the other boats. At times there was some very close racing between ‘Mistral’ and ‘Hamour’ and then ‘Mistral’ and the Gamba ‘Shoestring Cuatro’, the later boat taking over the lead position with a lap and a half to go which she held onto till the end, finishing the race in 1hr, 16mins, 38secs. The last boat to finish, other than poor ‘Hamour’, completed the course in 1hr. 35mins 16secs.
Final positions once handicaps were applied were first ‘Shoestring Cuatro’, second the other Gamba ‘Shoestring Uno’ and third the Sailfish ‘Mistral’.
An unwanted bit of excitement occurred at the end of the race when the crew of ‘Sirocco’ went overboard while picking up the mooring buoy, but a prompt reaction by the skipper, Julian Pering, had him back on board before the support boat arrived.
Race days this month are 10th and 24th April. For information about SAMM go to
www.sailingmarmenor.com.
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