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Welcome to the Phoenix Marine Model Club We are sorry to say that club activities are curtailed until further notice during the current Coronavirus Pandemic. Please see the following links for more details Coronavirus update Calendar

News

5 January 2021

Covid 19 - update on restrictions and further national lock down

• Monday evening 4th January 2021 the government announced a further national lockdown. See here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-announces-national-lockdown Silvermere has now closed for the duration of the lockdown, with none of their facilities open. Please do not use the lake during this period. Stay safe and well.

4 January 2021

Club Meeting - Cancelled due to ongoing Covid-19 Tier 2 restrictions 11 January 2021

25 December 2020

Happy New Year! General Sailing - Covid 19 - Tier 4 restrictions maximum of two at any one time. 01 January 2021

• Tier 4 sailing - please observe the guidance and remember a maximum of 2 people socially distanced at the lakeside at any one time. Please make you fill in the track and trace book kept in the PMMC locker. Weather and lake conditions permitting bring your boats along for a general sail to greet the New Year. All boats and craft welcome apart from the usual club restrictions. Bring anything - electric, steam, sail and start the year the way we would like to continue.

20 December 2020

Silvermere moves into Tier 4 - please observe the Government guidelines for this tier and stay safe.See details here on specific guidelines for Tier 4. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tier-4-stay-at-home

• As of 20th December 2020 Silvermere Lake was moved into tier 4 along with rest of Surrey apart from Waverley. The golf course and driving range are still open. There are facilities available including a limited takeaway food service. The government message is stay at home, but club members who are in Tier 4 can still use the lake for recreational use with one other member only. Please make sure you socially distance and complete the track and trace log in the PMMC locker. Please do not travel to the lake if you are outside of Tier 4.

2 December 2020

Important please read - PMMC Christmas Lunch cancelled due to Tier 2 restrictions on the number allowed to gather indoors. 16 December 2020

• PMMC Christmas Lunch cancelled- Unfortunately due to the restrictions imposed by Tier 2 Covid-19 actions, Silvermere - Inn on the Lake have advised us that they are unable to accommodate our group inside the restaurant. Although we could have dined outside on tables of six, we have decided given the current situation to cancel the event. We hope to be back for next year's event.

30 November 2020

End of lockdown Wednesday December 2nd and return to Tier 2 for Silvermere Golf Course. Full details here:https://www.gov.uk/guidance/full-list-of-local-restriction-tiers-by-area

• The current national lockdown will end on Wednesday December 2nd 2020. We will be returning to a Tiered system across the country, each area with it's own specified tier. Currently Silvermere in Surrey will be Tier 2. That means that we must follow all the guidelines and restrictions for that tier. For our club that means a return to sailing but a maximum of six, socially distanced, at the lake and continuing to use the diary for track and trace purposes. Please make sure you follow the guidelines published by the government here:https://www.gov.uk/guidance/full-list-of-local-restriction-tiers-by-area

26 November 2020

1st - 3rd December at 9pm on Channel 5 - Documentary about the bouncing bomb with film shot at Silvermere. A link to information on the programme here: https://www.channel5.com/show/the-dambusters/

• Some of you may remember that there was a film crew at Silvermere earlier this year filming scenes for a documentary about the bouncing bomb, part of Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid) Silvermere was used by Barnes Wallis in the development of the 'Upkeep' bomb used on the raid. In 1942, Barnes Wallis and his secretary, rowing champion Amy Gentry, rowed out onto the lake where Wallis fired differently-shaped models from a catapult and Gentry then rowed to retrieve them. Later, in 1943, George Edwards, the manager of the Experimental department used the lake to demonstrate the mechanism for spinning and releasing the bombs.

Last updated: 2021-01-16

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