Drymen Curling Club

It may be hot and sunny outside, but our curling season starts next month. Yes, in August curling in Stirling starts with a “Bounceback” week, which also incorporates the annual Doune Rosebowl competition. Drymen CC has one team entered into the afternoon session of the Doune Rosebowl. The rest of this week is designed to encourage curlers back onto the ice, with a variety of sessions including funspiels and coach assisted practice sessions. If you are interested in joining any of the Stirling Curling Group organised events, click on the link below.

https://www.cognitoforms.com/StirlingCurlingGroup/BounceBackWeekEventsIndividualCurlerEntryForm

Dates of our upcoming competitions will appear in the Club Calendar soon, along with team lists.

It is with great sadness that the Club wishes to inform members of the passing of George Gibb.   George was a loyal member of Drymen Curling Club for many years.   Our thoughts and sympathies go out to his wife Margaret.

Welcome to Season 2021/22.

We are making plans for Curling to re-start in September. To help with our planning we need to know how many of our members would like to play.
Please note – you must complete this form once for each member wishing to join for the current year. You have the option to let us know which position you wish to play in for both the League and Clachan Cup competitions.
If you just wish to be in the Pool then please type that in to the preferred playing position field.

Please complete by Tuesday 2nd March 2021

In these unprecedented and uncertain times, I wish you all well in the coming months. The vaccine is the only bright light in the not too distant future, hopefully with everyone getting the chance next year!! At the moment any curling seems very unlikely this season.

On behalf of the committee I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.

Kind Regards

John Steel, President

Instead of curling, our Secretary has been busy sorting through the old Club files and come across a few interesting bits that have been added to the History section. See tab above to read some amusing and interesting facts.

Well the spike in Covid19 cases has brought all curling plans this autumn to a halt. Plans are progressing to start curling in January, but only if the Central Belt moves down to at least level 2. The Stirling Curling Group are planning to run leagues again from January to March and if you wish to play in these, either in a team with Drymen or as an individual, please email our Secretary, Janet

As Summer is coming to an end, you may be thinking of dusting off those curling shoes.

It is still very uncertain as to the exact timing of the opening of The Peak for curling.   The NCA has opened for the elite curlers and some restricted club curling may take place in September.   Air conditioning in the Peak is being modified to meet new requirements and a tentative date for ice opening in the main arena has been suggested as mid October but many people view this as optimistic and subject to Government rules and community outbreaks of Covid not increasing.

When it does open for curling, session times are likely to be altered to allow for cleaning of stones etc so there is likely to less ice available to serve all the clubs who use the Peak.  Clubs will soon be asked to submit revised ice requirements, so over the coming weeks we will be looking at what competitions we would like to keep, depending on ice availability and willingness of players

Scottish Curling’s guidelines to resume curling include the following conditions:

• arriving well in advance already in curling gear apart from shoes
• no socialising on or off the ice
• wearing a mask
• one sweeper only
• opposing skip unable to sweep a stone through the head
• all players standing at socially-distanced marked spots on either side of the rink
• travel to and from separately

Updates will be posted when available.  In the meantime stay safe.

Due to the very strange times we are currently living through it has been decided to hold our AGM “virtually”.  All the papers for the 2020 AGM have been emailed to members.  Please email the club if you have not received anything.  Deadline for comments and/or concerns is 26 June 2020.

Sadly, due to the Coronovirus and recent Government guidelines on minimising social contact, all our remaining curling games are cancelled.  The AGM is also postponed until later in the year.  We do however need to prepare for the next season and our application form will be available soon on this website.