Christmas Assemblies 2011

A team of 7 from CYE went to 16 Primary schools over the last 2 weeks. 3500 young people and teachers have heard the Gospel message and got a free glow in the dark wrist band with "John 3 v 16" written on it.

We did a secondary assembly with Cranleigh Baptist Church too so about 4500 people have heard what Christmas is all about from CYE in 2011!

Thank you for your prayers and financial support.

Please Pray for all those who heard the message and have a wristband, that God would meet them this Christmas time.

Bring on 2012!

Kev's Leaving Do

It was an emotional evening at the the 'Memories of India' curry house where over 50 of us gathered to say a fond farewell to Kevin Kindleysides. For 14 faithful years, Kevin has been the Maintenance Manager here at CYESC but has always been so much more to so many people. As well as making the place run smoothly, Kev over the years has been a wise counsellor, raconteur of the highest calibre, fixer of all things, but most significantly - a great friend to everyone.

Amongst the leaving pressies were a Watch, a History of CYE (with comments and pictures) and a 'Congratulations on your Retirement' framed letter from Dr. Ian Paisley (who Kevin used to protect during the 80's).

We are indebted to you Kevin in many ways, and look forward to seeing you back here soon.

JB

New Office!!

After a huge amount of work, we have now completely re-vamped the downstairs office area and classroom. In a bold move as suggested by Kevin Kindleysides, we have said goodbye to the old classroom in order to create a larger office area, food store for Denise and extended Sail Store.

1 CLASSROOM INTO 3 AREAS CONTINUING

New Ship update on Radio Solent

Radio Solent have followed the progress of the new ship project on their breakfast show with Julian Clegg.

Yesterday morning they checked in with us, to ask how the new ship has gone down with the first groups using it.

Play the interview below...

THE NEXT PROJECT!

Having commissioned RESOLUTE, attention turned to the shore buildings and some problems of space. The Classroom has been largely superseded by new meeting spaces on the ship, and so it is being reconfigured with new windows, doors and dividing walls to creat a bigger office, equipment store and new food store. CYESC never stand still!!

In addition the fuel store is being moved and a new shed erected for team building equipment, opening up more space elsewhere.

CYE gets OnBoard

We are now into our 4th week with our Friday afternoon Sailing Club in partnership with the RYA OnBoard Scheme. Headed up by Senior Instructor Jake Elsbury and assisted by former Centre Manager Gavin Jones, a number of local youngsters are improving and honing their dinghy skills during the 2 hours from 4.00pm - 6.00pm every Friday. Amazingly, every week without fail has provided amazing conditions for sailing, so if you want to enjoy decent guaranteed weather, just come to CYE every Friday afternoon!

Our OnBoard club has a small number of spaces left, so if you are Year 7 or above and would like to join us, please email Chris Adams on chris@cye.org.uk

Young Ent's Camp

As usual the Young enterprisers summer camps was full this year: Full of children, 40 which is our maximum; Full of fun, we did almost all of CYE's regular activities plus a few bonus ones based around our theme of Charlie and the Chocolate factory; Full of God, With Terry Bateman giving a talk each evening after worship and Lorna presenting the Gospel message over breakfast time; and Full of weather we had everything from gorgeous sunshine to heavy downpours. But we didn't let that dampen our spirits and everyone had a fantastic week.

Families Weekend

This year, due to popular demand (as the saying goes) we ran 2 separate Families Weekends both of which included various activities tailored to Families or all ages and sizes. As well as an array of watersports, crabbing competitions, quiz nights and land activities to get stuck into, the families benefited from some great thought-provoking talks from various speakers. As always, there was competition built into the House Challenges with the August weekend in particular taking the 'friendly competition' to new heights!! Well done Team Killer Whales.

Alpha 2011

Alpha 2011 had the theme of "Elections" which could sound bit dull, but it was awesome. The three teams thought up their own party names, with the "Rah" party, "Partay" and the "Bland" party all competing for who would rule over the new ship!

As well as the normal activities, we had bacon and sausage sandwiches for breakfast on the beach on Sunday morning, we went on a late night walk from Bosham back to CYE and had an awesome day trip which involved canoeing all the way to the very top of the Harbour at Fishbourne (where the high reeds make it seem like you're canoeing down a small river in the Amazon!) and then walking into Chichester to try and get members of the public to sign the three party's petitions - the winning team came up with a petition to ban people in Chichester from asking members of the public to sign random petitions... pure genius!

Ralph Buckingham (a past CYE staff member) gave the talks, which were really interactive with loads of video clips and followed the election theme and asked "Who's in control" of our lives?

The new ship was incredible to stay on, with the en-suite cabins and SO much space, one camper said "it's 10 times better than the old ship, I'm definitely coming next year"

If you want to get in early, Alpha next year will be 28th July - 3rd August 2012 and we can already take bookings.

We hope to see you there.

Bravo 2011 was nothing short of EPIC! A great bunch of campers, a brilliant team, crazy activities and awesome worship.

The competition was intense, Blue team eventually triumphed after a slow start, by 1 point to claim the chocolate.

Highlights were the mud assault course, no one came away looking good! We had CYE’s first Grand Prix won by the Reds and our very own version of ‘Total Wipeouts’ big red balls!

As well as some great times on the water a BBQ on the beach and where at least 3 of us turned up looking like drowned rats!

Each evening we had a time of worship which literally blew the tent away, God moved powerfully and the talks by Dave and Emma were challenging and relevant for everyone. We all crowd surfed at the end of one meeting as a blessing!

All in all a brilliant week of fun, fellowship, friends, food, mud and lots of laughter!

See you next year!

Kids at CYE

We have just one more school group before the Summer groups kick in over the next few days. Since April, we have had numerous Primary and Secondary schools enjoying the wonderful new facilities. Comments like 'It's like a -star hotel" and "It's so spacious" sum up the general feedback. With lots of "Get Sailing" courses about to start plus the Summer Camp residentials to come, it has been a fantastic first season with 'Resolute' in place.

Retirement of Key Trustee

David Edwards, on the left, is one of the founding trustees of CYE Sailing Centre and has been a key figure from inception until now. David was first RYA principal, and instrumental in the building and development projects over 26 years. Latterly he was project manager of RESOLUTE.

Here he is being given a framed photo of RESOLUTE in the CYE berth as a token of thanks for his dedicated service.

He hopes to spend more time on his own yacht "Tinkerbell".
Thank you from all his fellow trustees.

The site, the kids and ducks ...

With the site now looking great, we are fully into our schools programme. As you will, not much stops the pupils from their tasks, although in this case, the competition was put to one side as Mum and her chicks were allowed to walk through the activities. Good job 'Smokey' the cat is no longer at the centre otherwise these little fellas would be diminishing in numbers by the day.

Get Active

Our recent 'Get Active' week was great fun. Kids from the local area had a fun-filled pirate themed half term including rafting, sailing, canoeing, assault course, team games and more.

In particular, our new assemblies were a real hit where at lunchtime, the kids participated intelligently and enthusiastically with discussions about Christianity.

Christine McLeish (Mrs Power) joins Denise

We are delighted to welcome Christine McLeish (right) to CYE. Christine is helping Denise (left) with the ever-increasing demands of feeding guests, menu planning, shopping, paperwork etc.

We know that she'll be fine working with the crazy gang here - after all, she is directly responsible for bring our Bosun into the world - but then none of us are perfect.

New Bomb-proof shelves

As the saying goes at CYE, in the event of a nuclear war, take cover under one of Dave Moseley's shelves. Dave has replaced our tired lockers with these great new lockers and shelves as part of an overhaul to the briefing room. Our thanks and gratitude go to Mr. M for a cracking job.

Hello Toby

Our schools manager Matt Winfield and wife Sarah have produced our newest and by far - cutest new CYE recruit. Toby Zac Winfield was born on 28th March and after a few worrying days involving heart surgery, seems to be going from strength to strength. Matt and Sarah would like to thank everyone for their best wishes and prayers and are hoping that Toby will be home for the first time around 12th April.

Bye Bye Ben

After all the official Grand Openings of the past fortnight, it was good to get back to what we do best - throwing our friends in the water. Ben Ritchie got the usual send off along with some decent pressies, for his amazing work for CYE over the past 3 years. Ben is starting a new job in Edinburgh next week. We will miss you Ben, God bless and good luck.

Jon Bennetts

The Great Commissioning - 26th March 2011

With over 250 friends and volunteers in attendance, the 'Great Commissioning' of TS Resolute was the last and biggest of a series of opening events during the week. The sun shone, the boat was busy, and all went smoothly - we think!

Jon Bennetts

Operational Changes for the new season

As part of the recent commissioning events, the day to day operational duties of 'Resolute' were handed from Norman Doney (Executive Director) and David Edwards (Project Manager) over to Jon Bennetts (Centre Manager).

Official Opening of TS Resolute - 25th March 2011

On 25th March, TS Resolute was officially commissioned. The guest list comprised of local heads of industry, organisations, supporters and contractors - many of whom have helped us with the whole 'new ship project'. The boat was commissioned by Captain John Clink - OBE and former Captain of HMS Ark Royal.

Jon Bennetts

Official commissioning of our Jetty

On 23rd March, friends and family of the late Lord Gregson, met to officially open the new Jetty in his name. As head of the Veolia Trust, Lord Gregson was a keen sailor in his lifetime as well as being a prominent and passionate supporter of British Industry. We would like to extend our thanks to everyone involved in making this such a memorable and significant day.

Jon Bennetts

THE FINAL STRAIGHT

We are all working away at different areas of the ship and around site getting ready for the opening events later this week. If you are planning to come to the Great commissioning on Saturday 26th March, from 1-4pm, please let us know on admin@cye.org.uk.

Works include: Restoration of the assualt course, ship levelling- see plumbline, completion on the platform and steps, deck painting, site tidying, final electrics, snags and Turfing.

The first school group comes on 30th March and then all the fun and mission fulfillment begins!

Solar and ground source energy

Eventually, after much negotiation we have an efficient and discrete Solar Vacuum Tube array on the wheelhouse roof, providing Resolute with hot water at 50 degrees even now. The Ground source heat pump system is also fully installed, and runs to top up when there is insufficient heat from the sun. Solar tubes have been providing hot water for the underfloor heating and domestic use during the day recently. There is a very clever automatic energy management system.

We had a visit from the teams of St Georges House and Fellowship Afloat Christian centresrecently. This was a training conference and here is a picture of a group using the DAY ROOM for a canoeing exam.

We have a commissioning event on 26th March from 1-4pm including buffet lunch, tours and commissioning event at 2.30. Please join us if you can and advise us on admin@cye.org.uk

Norman Doney

PILOT GROUP AND SHIP LEVELLING

Contractors are here this week jetting high pressure water at the mud and clay ledge that is causing Resolute to list a few degrees to port. This needs to be rectified to ensure all the drainage systems operate. They are making inroads and hope to correct the list over the coming weeks, working around the tides.

Last weekend RESOLUTE hosted the first ever residential group of 40 people from "Boiler Room" in Guildford. They had a great weekend and were very positive about the new facilities .

One on the way - three to go

Bore hole drilling commenced today (see rig in corner of the field) and over the next two weeks, three more will be drilled to provide ground source heat for the Ship heating system. Areas of the site are slowly being recovered. Trimline are back completing the snagging list, and by early next Monday all connections will be made, except the heating which will follow in a couple of weeks.

The stern gangplank will be fitted later this week, and the Jetty framework will be ready for the connections to run alongside.

Step by step we are getting close to completion.

The staff and Kogs have been working on the site, slowly recovering areas e.g. turfing the area shown above and proving hard standings for safety boats and at the entrance.

Norman Doney

Executve Director

Ship Photos

JETTY REPAIR UNDER WAY

The jetty repair is the main activity at the moment and you need to make a leap of faith to cross it!

Upcoming programme:

week of 17th January

- Jetty work continues

- drilling of 4x100m boreholes begins - 3 week programme

- Iso enery fit immersion heaters

- Stern gangplank attached
- Staff ground works programme

Week of 24th January

- Trimline return to work on snagging list to complete the ship

- final connections are made for water waste and electricity

First test group arrive on 11th February!

Norman Doney - Executive Director