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Flag Officers NEWSLETTER

February 2025

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Welcome to the February Edition of the CHPSC e-newsletter in 2025.

Annwyl Aelodau / Dear Members

As January draws to a close, I’m sure you’ll all join me in crossing our fingers for the end of the winter storms that yet again have been battering our corner of Wales and the rest of the UK. It’s good to be able to finally see visible signs of the days getting longer, and that can only mean one thing…boating season is finally getting closer! 

Social

The Plas Heli bar is back open this weekend, just in time for Friday's Guinness Six Nations rugby game France v Wales. All are welcome and a good atmosphere is usually guaranteed!

Sean will also be showing the Scotland v Italy and Ireland v England matches over the rest of the weekend. Look forward to seeing you all there! 

Work parties

I’d like to thank the work party members that turned out a couple of weeks back, on a cold and wet Saturday morning to help dismantle the parts of the step down Versadock on the Plas Heli pontoons. This work has allowed a reconfiguration of the pontoons and opened up space for an extra couple of berths, including the new committee boat, Dylan Ail Don, that arrived recently.

The pontoons, however, are now quite slippery in places, after a rather wet winter and so, during the week commencing 24^th February, Plas Heli have rented a commercial power washer, and this will be available for the week for berth-holders / crews to use to jet wash the areas around their boats and communal use areas. Your assistance in keeping our pontoons safe and clean is much appreciated. Please contact ops@plasheli.org to arrange your time to use it.  

A date for the diary

This year, at the request of several members, we are breaking the tradition of hosting our AGM at the Easter weekend. Easter has become a popular time for some families to head for an early overseas break, and with this year’s somewhat late Easter, and should the weather allow, we have lots of members wanting to get boats out racing and cruising instead of attending meetings, so this year’s AGM will be held on Saturday 29^th March.

As this weekend should be a popular boat work and launch weekend, we are also planning an informal fitting out supper, that evening, in Plas Heli ... it should be a great chance to catch up after the winter and plan the year's activities! Watch this space for more information soon!

Compound

I’m pleased to announce that we have a new dinghy compound management team, who will be addressing the clean-up and tidy of the dinghy compound area, which has been rather battered by wind. After repeated attempts to contact owners of boats that have been left there for years, with no storage fees paid, arrangements are now in place to start removing and scrapping these boats to make more space for new boats. 

Boats that have been paid for will be issued an annual sticker, affixed to your boat, so please ensure you let us know the make, position and colour of your boat if you have paid, or if you wish to claim your boat before scrapping, please contact flag.officers@pwllhelisailingclub.co.uk

‍Pata Negra - Transatlantic success

Congratulations to Andrew, Sam, and all on the Pata Negra team who completed the RORC Transatlantic race - second in Class and 5th Overall - very well done.

Calendar 

2025 calendars are still available for collection by members, and once again features some amazing photos of our boats, harbour and marina.

Please watch the CHPSC WhatsApp groups for times when your flag officers will be around to assist with collection or again contact us and one of us will be happy to arrange to meet you at the Plas Hali at a mutually convenient time. 

We extend our thanks to our generous sponsors.

‍I’m very much looking forward to seeing many of you around and our beautiful harbour and marina getting busier again.

As always, there is a warm welcome in the bar, after the chilly days of boat work. 

Warmest regards - Hwyl

‍Lyndsay Harrold

Morlywydd

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‍PLAS HELI NEWS

Plas Heli Cyf – The Welsh National Sailing Academy and Event Centre, a volunteer not for profit distribution community enterprise company, with charitable aims and where all surpluses are reinvested back into the facility for everyone's benefit.

‍We have started work on venue preparations for the busy 2025 season.

‍New Committee Boat.

We are delighted with our new Committee Boat, “Dylan ail Don” which is now on the Plas Heli pontoons.

This strengthens our fleet of committee boats to three and our 12 strong RIB safety fleet. read more link button below.

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New South Facing Balcony

The 'big stairs' and lower slope are being removed. A new balcony is being created on the First Floor with associated stairs from the new flat area on the ground floor, and then onwards to the second floor balcony, which becomes more usable after completing this project.

‍This project will be completed before the RYA UK Youth Championships in early April, when we expect to see more than 250 competitors and supporters on site.

Care must be taken in the compound, and on all balconies. Please observe the exclusion areas set out for these works. 

Your cooperation whilst the works are on-going would be greatly appreciated.

‍New CCTV

There will be additional CCTV to cover the new balcony and ground space created in the main compound. This is in addition to the extensive coverage already installed.

These are required for crime prevention and detection, everyone's security, welfare and for insurance purposes. We also have site-wide fast Wi-Fi.

‍Site Clearance

We have cleared a large area within the main compound with the removal of one container and further works ongoing.

Again, we ask for your co-operation whilst we undertake this work.

‍Dinghy Wash-down Area.

This area has been upgraded again with a retaining wall with new taps and hook-ups for power washers. This work also incorporates a beach shower.

‍New Toilet Block

This has now arrived and connected to services. This will add to our event facility toilet options.

‍New Entrance to Plas Heli

The two new front doors have now been fitted. This has greatly enhanced the arrival experience at Plas Heli. This project included three new media screens so that we can share information. 

‍Plas Heli Pontoons. 

Following the reconfiguring of the pontoons, berths have now been allocated for the 2025 season.

•  See the Plan here 

‍Plas Heli 10 years -

As we approach our 10th anniversary in May 2025, we celebrate the growth in events and overall activity at Plas Heli.

‍Events in 2025 -

We are now planning for 2025 with an exciting diary of events, starting with the RYA UK Youth Championships in April and then the IRC Welsh National Championship and the Topper NS4 Coastal Championship in May.

We will host the Welsh National ILCA Championship in July. In August we will host the UKLA ILCA National Championships and the Techno World Championship.

The RYA CW Youth and Junior Championships will again be in September. 

See all our events listed here.

‍Events in 2026 

Event are now being booked in for 2026. See the calendar on the Plas Heli website

We continue to work closely with RYA CW to provide facilities for training camps, storage, and activities, and we respect the strategic importance of the facilities for events, training and boating in Wales. 

Community engagement works continues and included our work with clubs and associations, assistance with facilities for a disability boat, fundraising events, classrooms for community groups, meetings, teaching and our work with children in-need.

Catering at the centre is with our franchisee operator Sean Devlin Ltd. 

We are reliant on volunteers and are of course, grateful for all assistance provided by our stakeholder groups and clubs and in particular the Commodore and Flag Officers of Clwb Hwylio Pwllheli Sailing Club.

There is more about Plas Heli in the updated Plas Heli - Prospectus

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