RSYS Logbook 2019 Volume 62 Issue 4
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RSYS Logbook 2019 Volume 62 Issue 4 Official Magazine of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron Club Information Contents Flag Officers From the Helm 1 CEO/Club Secretary & Committees William Pettigrew – [email protected] Australian Sailing Honours Sailors of the Year 4 Commodore Reception On the Road to the Olympics 5 David Ward House Operations Manager Vice Commodore Pierre Miller – [email protected] Defender at the 2019 12 Metre Christian Brook Monday to Friday – 8am to 6pm World Championship 6 Rear Commodore Saturday & Sunday – 9am to 4pm Hamilton Island Race Week 8 Russell Taylor Phone: 9955 7171 Fax: 9956 6218 Captain Email: [email protected] A Spectacular Success! Ladies Of The Sea Karyn Gojnich Website: www.rsys.com.au Coaching Regatta 12 Finance Department Manager Honorary Treasurer Dragon 90th Anniversary regatta 14 Ross Littlewood Jane Crispo – [email protected] Phone: 9017 0135 David Albert Cruising Division News 16 John Prentice Functions and Events Manager Youth News 20 Michael Lindsay Frances Allison – [email protected] Phone: 9017 0156 John Taylor Opening Day 2019 24 Membership Enquiries Etchells News 25 Sub-Committee Chairs Michelle Baeza – [email protected] Sailing Committee Phone: 9017 0157 Barranjoey Pin Recipient 26 Karyn Gojnich Executive Chef Bridge Players’ News 28 Waterfront Committee Ian McInnes Russell Taylor New Members 29 Sailing Office MarComms Committee Monday to Saturday – 9am to 5pm Club Life 30 John Prentice Phone: 9017 0152 Cruising Division Declan Brennan – Sailing Manager, [email protected] RSYS Activities 31 Committee Email: [email protected] Card Players Calendar 32 David Henry Waterfront Cruise Committee House Information 33 Yacht Repair & Waterfront Service John Taylor Ned Brown 9017 0161 [email protected] Election Committee Monday to Friday 7.30am-4pm Robert Albert AO RFD RD Logbook submissions Tender Service The Logbook committee welcomes articles from History and Archives Mobile and VHF Members. These should be up to 800 words, Committee VHF radio Channel 73, mobile phone 0405 971 800, with high resolution photos for print production. Peter Bradford land phone 9017 0161 CDs and/or USBs can be left at Reception. House Committee Address Please contact Isabel Wartho Marketing and David Ward 33 Peel Street, Kirribilli NSW 2061 Communications Co-ordinator for assistance with Intermediates Committee PO Box 484 Milsons Point NSW 1565 your Logbook articles, email [email protected] Jono Carroll Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron or call 9017 0177. The deadline for the next Logbook Committee ABN 40 000 002 693 edition is 15 January 2020. Chris Harper Special thanks to those who contributed material for Membership Committee this issue: David Albert Commodore David Ward, Will Ryan, Paul Cottee, Bridge Committee Charles Curran & David Kellett, Stuart Pollard, Jill Elsbeth Hodgkinson Henry, Karyn Gojnich, Sara Ladd and Amanda Hicks, Youth Sailing Committee Richard Franklin, Kari Svensen, John Hancox, James Sophie Hunt Merrington, Youth & Dinghy Sailing Committee, Speakers Committee Richard McLachlan, Xavier McLachlan, AJ Whitnall, Stephen Wall Paul Thackray, Gordon Lavery, Elsbeth Hodgkinson, Patricia Howes. Asset Management Front cover: Hooligan at Hamilton Island Race David Ward Chris Harper, Chairman Logbook Committee Week. Photo © Salty Dingo. From the Helm 1 11 September AGM Address by Commodore David Ward Good evening fellow Members and welcome to for this Fund with a great result of $185k raised the 157th Annual General Meeting of the Royal to date. Thank you to all those Members who Sydney Yacht Squadron. I would like to provide contributed to this long term fund development. you with a brief summary of the activities of your – We have reviewed our training programmes Committee and operations of the Squadron over and are going to rename all our training pathways the past year, plus highlight some plans for the under the umbrella term ‘The Academy’. More future. than 490 youth came through our programmes We have had a positive year at the Squadron, last year, including over 80 from Redlands School and it has been a year of our usual strong focus whose sailing programme we now manage, plus on running our operation within budget, with 90 adults who undertook our courses. prudent financial management. The headline – We have also finalised our waterfront lease achievements are that we have managed to with Maritime and I can announce that we signed achieve a surplus and also reduce our debt our new 20 year maritime lease last week. to zero. All of these issues have been achieved while We have achieved a growth in membership ensuring the Club still delivers quality services in numbers from 2,876 back up to our pre GFC our operational areas for our Members across magical number of 3,000 and seen membership both sailing and social activities. activities increase to help drive revenues up by I would like to acknowledge the diligent efforts 8%. A special thank you to Michelle Baeza for of our CEO/Secretary Will Pettigrew in controlling a great effort in running our member services all aspects of the Squadron’s expenditure while so professionally. helping to deliver premium services to Members. The Honorary Treasurer Ross Littlewood will Will and his executive team have done a great deliver a more detailed report on our financials job and I congratulate him on his leadership shortly. throughout the year. In addition, we have achieved some key strategic Our Honorary Treasurer Ross Littlewood has results for your Club such as: been working closely with Will and he spends considerable hours each week overseeing all – Our governance and compliance review aspects of the Squadron’s financial obligations. which included a Board Charter, and Terms of I would also like to thank Ross for his great Reference and standard operation processes for contribution. all Committees. Further work will continue this year to finalise this project of work. A special The Squadron is arguably one of the most diverse thank you to Vice Commodore Christian Brook, sailing clubs around Australia and we are proud of our focus and dedication to supporting and Captain Karyn Gojnich and David Albert for their promoting the sport of sailing while delivering effort to drive this project. premium services for all Members, both sailors – New sponsorship guidelines which will and non-sailors. respect our culture and help provide some We run more yachting events over the year than cover for operational costs. We will be first any other club on the harbour. Last season saw inviting Members who wish to sponsor events a total of 28 Saturday races and 13 short inshore before going outside the club community. races on alternate weekends. Our Twilight races – In the context of the findings from our number 24 and our Ladies twilights 12 races – membership survey and a refresh of our strategic and this is just the Club racing, on top of which plan, we have developed a Master Plan for our are all the regattas we host as well. asset development over the next 10 years plus We celebrated our 50th annual cruise to Pittwater which we will be presenting to you over the next and it was a special week for all involved. We had few months. 65 boats attend! The Cruise Committee has done – We have reviewed our Foundation processes a terrific job in building our cruising interests at and procedures including the Endowment Fund the Club including organising some well supported which has been renamed the Future Fund and ‘cruising in company’ trips and some interesting successfully kick started a seeding programme speaker nights. 2 AGM Address 11 September by Commodore David Ward Our usual busy sailing year achieved some top accordance with the rules. His dedication to the results across Youth and all our sailors. Squadron has been outstanding, particularly in – We had Youth sailors in Europe and North helping turn around the Waterfront operations. America over winter and match racing teams in I’m encouraged by the number of enthusiastic New Zealand and New Caledonia. Members who attend the many special evenings – Who could forget our victory in the Sayonara including wine tastings, dining-in nights, theme Cup when we claimed it back from the Royal nights, Commodore’s Ball, the Christmas Yacht Club of Tasmania. Dining-in nights and many others. We also have a vibrant Bridge group whose numbers have – We are proud of our Club’s team led by David increased over the year. Plus, our Book Club Chapman who recently took out the Sailing remains popular, as well as other activities such Champions League - a club-based competition as yoga classes. It is certainly a Club full of which now is a global racing programme. wide and varied activities outside of sailing. The – We wish a couple of our Members well as House Committee continues to do a great job they vie for selection for the 2020 Olympics: in working with management: Pierre Miller and good luck to Nathan Outteridge and Will Ryan. Jamie Dickinson, to deliver quality House services – We also wish our Squaddie team well for a for all our Members… and of course many good result in the upcoming Invitation Cup in thanks to our wonderful Chef Ian McInnes and his Newport at the New York Yacht Club starting team who deliver such a quality range of dining tonight. experiences. I would also like to acknowledge Overall a very strong year in our sailing Kim Smith who does a superb job in running our performance. We have a very busy sailing award-winning Fort Denison Cellar. schedule ahead and I wish everyone a most The Waterfront operation, including minor enjoyable season. ship repairs, slipping for anti-foul and painting On behalf of the Trustees I would like to thank of boats, mechanical and electrical repairs, those Members who contribute to the RSYS continues to be in strong demand, and following Foundation each year in order to assist a structural review, we are now witnessing a predominately our Youth and Intermediate sailors boatyard which is run professionally.