Teams 2018-2019
Yellow Team (First)
Alisdair Ireland and Olivia Von Pein
As if they didn’t spend enough time together - live together, business together and relationship together - they now want to be in a boat together; so it makes sense that they should have a joint profile! He spends about as much time in America now as she does, so it’s getting pretty difficult to tell them apart by their accents!
Have you heard of “your book list”? I wish I hadn’t! They are gracing us with their presence on teams this year and will be sailing for us on first team at Grouse 2018 to represent us magnificently and… oh wait nope, never mind, they’re sailing RNCYC…
Cameron McCosh
ZimCam, this is your one and only profile, you’re just going to have to deal with what your face looks like! He most recently spent £110 on snooze cruise (almost as much as he spent on freshers fayre leaflets last year) but we're sure he won't snooze through his races.
ZimCam is one of our Captains this year so we hope this will give him the motivation to finally finish the last two years of Finals reports for you all to read and enjoy. (DO THE FINALS REPORTS CAMERON!)
#crewsactuallymatterzim #didyougetthatoutofyoursystem
Sarah Ramsey
2P is our blonde who isn’t so blonde anymore! She is a stereotype unto herself, and is unable to ignore tequila or corgis in any situation! She’s been on a one year sailing hiatus, but she is now back and on first team, in the middle of the messy sailing extravaganza that is SSS! She can get you free drinks at Sanctuary, because she has a special relationship with our sponsor club! Oh, she also said that her favourite helm ever was Isla… very important fact about her!
James Campbell
The year has finally arrived where Frostbit hasn’t chased off his crew! You can generally find him at training if you listen close enough, just follow the loud Northern Irish shouting of the rules and maybe the occasional "Protest!". That's how we know he’ll whip first team into shape with his RYA approved rules and standardised mechanisms of success! I also acknowledge the reuse of your profile picture, but it's just class!
Imogen Smith
Imogen's been in the club for a year in an attempt to run away from the slightly less dangerous sport of Rugby and has made her mark by becoming Social Sec already! Is it her rugby or gossiping skills that are the reason she's the only crew Frostbit's kept around for more than a year? We think he's taught her some helming tricks and tips as she'll be helming for us at SSS Women's this year.
Black Team
(Second)
Emma Fowler
Our most organised Captain is such a pale-ginger we call her strawberry-blonde occasionally so that she’ll be able to hang out with the sailing club. Don’t get on the wrong side of her or she'll make you do spins during training! She’s been sailing since she was an ickle baby and she’s been advocating women helms since she became captain last year, making her very worthy of this power! Fowler is a big fan of the Glasgow Warriors.
Izzy Burroughs
If you want to know the mockery of Izzy further than this humble post, I’d suggest just searching for shocked cat gifs on Google. After a year of failing at sailing hiatus, Izzy has admitted defeat and returned to teams on second team as a crew and will be joining the smashiest team Glasgow has ever seen at women’s this year with her fellow blondes! Our finance coordinator and our littlest blonde, Izzy will attack if provoked with cheques at socials. She needs to get that anger out of her system, so don’t judge her.
Fergus McGowan
After finally breaking out of Strathclyde and actually getting into his dream uni, Fergus has this year relocated his university to be closer to his flat!
The boy has been voted in as freshers rep this year, despite not being a fresher to sailing or a fresher to uni in general! He wasn’t going to come to the EGM, but luckily his job as a Hollister model must have permitted his attendance! Have you ever met a boy in a bar in the highlands? That is like how you are, Fergy!
Erika Anderson
Big fan of autocruise, she doesn’t have have much respect for driving safety! Her yoga instructors qualification we imagine comes in very handy while she's diving about as a crew! Fergy’s new crew this year, she looks like she has a lot of potential, but we’re hoping she won’t try auto cruising in a firefly…
Alexander MacKinnon
Boat-boy (he has a boat and he is a boy, we're very original) had been in the club for four weeks before he ripped a 50 foot yachts sail, and broken an engine! Danger helm may not be a strong enough label for him! He's new to team racing but picking it up quickly, though hopefully not as quickly as he can break a yacht or our bosuns may have a breakdown themselves...
Alex Lammie
Lammie (There's so many Alex's this year) joined the sailing club as a way of making friends, because maths and Cairncross aren’t very helpful in that regard. After making it onto teams, she decided that sailing friends weren’t enough (either in quantity or quality) and has now associated with dreaded shinty. We hope we’ll win her over and see her more often than the occasional training and across the dancefloor in sanctuary!
Blue Team
(Third)
Matthew Davies
As elusive as his profile picture! Matthew is helming for Lammie this year on thirds! His school was so posh that of course he ended up on a sailing team, although I don’t think we usually meet the sailing stereotype! We’re all backing him to go as Posh Spice for Halloween... Mind over matter; he’s probably the only person who can testify to hive sober! Although he would probably still get lost, a trait which once got him wandering around Downing street!
Katy Taylor
She left for a year, but she’s back now! Slowly coming over to the darker and cheaper side for GUSC’s dinghy team over yachting!
She is good craic and hangs out with us at socials! We're looking forward to seeing her and Ciaran sailing together this year at SSS
Hugo Duncan
Where did he come from where did HUGO? Probably to Zimbabwe to follow the love of his life ZImCam! This summer after heading out to Zim, Hugo stopped pretending he was a vegetarian when his sweepy fringe kept falling into his tofu. Our resident sailing vet has managed to tame everything from rats to second year sharks! He’s happy to be hospitable to all of this wildlife in his flat too…but not mice, never mice! Are HU-GO-ing to laugh at these jokes this time? You know you, Dun-Dun...Dun-CAN!
Emily Borst
Always up for a night out, but she can’t hack the cold in Scotland apparently, and is partial to a warmer climate! She’s also a Doppelgänger of Erica from strath so be careful not to get them mixed up! Emily is sailing as Hugo’s crew in thirds this year, so we look forward to seeing her more at SUSA events when she’ll be forced to spent lots of time out with us. We’re not a clingy club, we promise!
Who Am I?
I’m tall, but I’m not a Phelan
I’m blonde, but I’m not “A blonde”
I ask questions, but I regret it
Who am I?
Alexandra Brown
Her sunglasses weren’t the only things she left on a boat on summer sail week! Known as Sesh monster, our Yachting Captain is branching out into dinghies, sailing for thirds this year! Alex and Emma frequently have massive wars to decide which of them gets to be resident red head, so look out for that on the water this year!
Beige Team
(Fourth)
Anna McLullich
Yayyyy, more vet people! We have so few people able to fix boats, but if anyone ever crashes into a swan, we’ll be fully equip to save it! She is our only other female Helm, other than our beautiful captain this year, so we’re looking forward to seeing her in action at SSS! Resident horsey gal!
Laura Cranston
The biggest saint in sailing club (sorry frostbit), because nobody could find anything to savagely mock her about! She’s proof that beginners training does work as she’s now a smiley member of our fourth sailing team! She makes it an entirely Vet boat and you can always spot her out in the water with her bright orange puffer jacket and brilliantly curly hair!
Sarah Marie Kelleher
We have finally secured A NEW HELM ON BEIGE. After a lot of confusion about who would be sailing for the coolest colour, Sarah (our study abroad girl - I know it’s confusing, we have too many) has stepped up. We really look forward to having her join us for SSS2 and 3 this semester. At her first ever sailing social, she managed to save the life of one of our oldies outside Sanctuary, so we don’t just want her on teams, we may need her in all sailing related things… but we will need to come up with a nickname for you! Good Luck :D
Harrison Amatt
Our NEW BEIGE CREW (blimey it was difficult getting this team sorted this year)! Harrison is a fresher this semester, so we don't have any odd facts about him yet, but we do have facebook...! After a brief FB stalk, we now know that Harry likes Machester City, the CATHOUSE and wearing sunglasses indoors! We look forward to getting to know him better though and seeing his skills on the water. We are also curious to find out whether he'll wear sunglasses when it's storming on Bardowie. GOOD LUCK, HARRISON!
Lachlan Morrison
Lakeland doesn’t understand sailing time, and is only ever a maximum of half an hour late to anything, but i guess we could call that manners! As one of our Beginners Secs, Lachlan will occasionally disappear at trainings to help our newbies develop their skills to make their way on to teams next year. His first year on beige is looking like it will be very exciting, and we are grateful he'll never be late to a race!
P.S. We really hope you get your ID back soon!
Rhod Evans
We’re upset he’s not in RidRod anymore, but his new crew is Lakeland and we’re looking forward to Rodland, even if it isn’t quite as catchy! When he’s sailing fast he’s HotRod, but at training we’ve heard he’s DampRod. His spectacular capsize last week fully initiated him into fourth team. ANOTHER VETBIO STUDENT! He has two vetbio mothers who will be ensuring he is at every social this year, so you’ll be seeing a lot more of him.