Kippford s Solway Yacht Club holds virtual prizegiving to mark 2020 season
Daily Record 29/01/2021 Stuart Gillespie
Solway Yacht Club still managed to hold its mid-winter prize-giving to celebrate the previous season’s winners despite the current restrictions.
This year, it had to be an online virtual event and, as well as honouring the winners, Club Commodore Robert Dinwiddie arranged a clever, sailing-themed cartoon competition that attracted entries from adult and cadet members.
Welcoming quite a crowd of members who’d joined online, the Commodore thanked everyone who’d helped organise the event. Using a power point presentation, he talked about the main trophy awarded for the club championship – the Tordoff Cup.
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Planned over twelve months ago when hardly anyone had heard of Corona virus, the Solway Yacht Club in Kippford still managed to hold its mid-winter prize-giving party on 23rd, celebrating the previous season s Club winners.
Not in the Village Hall, shared with Kippford RNLI after their SOS Lunch as is now tradition, but, of course, now it had to be an online virtual event. As well as the winners on the water, Club Commodore Robert Dinwiddie had arranged a clever, sailing-themed cartoon competition that had attracted entries from both adult and cadet members.
Welcoming quite a crowd of members who d joined through the wonders of the Internet the Commodore thanked everyone who d helped organise the event and using a Powerpoint presentation, he then talked about the main trophy awarded for the Club Championship, the Tordoff Cup. It had been presented to the Club by David and Anne Tordoff after they d returned from the voyage of a lifetime late in the 1990s, sailing their yacht Sta