QUIZ NIGHT POSTPONED. Alas the inaugural St Andrews Inter Club Quiz Night has been postponed as some of our visiting teams (and probably some home ones too) would struggle to make it to the club. New date tbn. By way of a taster, without looking it up on the t’internet - Q. What is a Scuttlebutt?

Just arrived thanks to the RYA OnBoard scheme - 2018 will see our junior & youth sailors looking good! #getonboard #onboardstandrews

Don’t forget to come along to your local ceilidh tomorrow night for some good time reeling and stovies.

There's still time to grab your tickets for St Andrews Sailing Club's Ceilidh of the year. THIS SATURDAY 7pm to 11pm. Scottish traditional wheeling and reeling, magnificent plates of homemade stovies and a cheap bar! Hope to see you there!

Time to renew your First Aid or interested in doing the course for the first time? Then please get in touch to book your place on the course now.

RYA First Aid Course on the 18th of March. The course will cost £55 and run all day. If you would be interested in doing the course then please get in touch. What does the course cover: The one-day course covers all the usual first aid subjects, but from a boating perspective. It is aimed at anyone who goes afloat, whether on inland waters, rivers, estuaries or on cross channel passages. In a medical emergency a little first aid knowledge and immediate action can save lives, especially in remote locations. This one-day course is designed to provide a working knowledge of first aid for people using small craft and to support skippers. It fulfils the requirements for: professional skippers working under the Maritime and Coastguard Agency Codes of Practice for Small Vessels Operated Commercially; the Senior First Aid certificate needed by offshore racers subject to World Sailing's regulations on first aid training (OSR 4.08.4); the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations, 1981 for the purposes of Emergency First Aid at Work. The subjects specific to boating include: -the recovery position in a confined space -CPR, including the drowning protocol -cold shock and hypothermia from immersion and/or exposure -seasickness and dehydration -medical assistance or advice by VHF -helicopter rescue

Come along to St Andrews Sailing Club's Valentine's Ceilidh. Live band, stovies, raffle and bar £10 adults, £5 children. Friends and families welcome. Raffle donations most welcome! Come and support your local sailing club and enjoy a great night of dancing and fun. Tickets from Kirsty and Lorna.

Congratulations to Alex who came 8th and Maisie who came 17th at the RYA Scotland Winter Regatta! It must have been a chilly weekend on the water! https://gbrtopper.ourclubadmin.com/fetchEventDoc.php?e=450&eventdocument=1121

Overnight standings - 7th for Alex (& a 3rd in one race ) and 19th for Maisie. Well done and all to play for tomorrow - ffffffreezing ffffforecast! https://gbrtopper.ourclubadmin.com/fetchEventDoc.php?e=450&eventdocument=1120

Maisie flying the St Andrews SC flag on the west coast.

For anyone who has ever, or think they might, get tangled in unmarked fishing gear... https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200001

Congratulations to everyone on passing their dinghy instructor course yesterday! That’s four new Dinghy Instructors for St. Andrews and some new Dinghy Instructors in Dundee too!