PLEASEFREE TAKE ONE September 2016 IN THIS ISSUE Marit me VHF channels changing Social events this month Olympic sailing wrap Membership News Lemon Self Saucing Pudding ‘Spot the Yot’ and win a prize ‘House’ Update Farewell to Annie Perkins Community Not ces 2 | Tell Tales IN THIS ISSUE... If you have anything you’d like to see published in here, Community Notices Commodore’s Report..........................3 or letters, articles, stories etc. please Racing news .......................................4 email [email protected] Marit me VHF channels changing........4 Lets get Social...............................5 & 6 Olympic sailing wrap...........................7 Membership News..............................8 Marina update....................................9 Lemon Self Saucing Pudding..............10 ‘Spot the Yot’ and win a prize............10 It’s curtains for you...........................11 Farewell to Annie Perkins..................12 Craig Gurnell Community Not ces...........................14 DIRECTOR September Calendar...........................16 [email protected] Loft: Norfolk Place skype: willissails PO Box 453, Kerikeri On the cover: Annies Bench Outside Opua 09 407 8153 Hall. 021 786 080 www.willissails.co.nz Photo Credit - Kerry Payne Advertise in Tell Tales ...and be seen by hundreds of people in Opua and Paihia every month. Rob 1 year - $300 ($25 per advert) Galley 6 months - $150 Northland Spars & Rigging 3 months - $100 We provide expert services to local 1 month - $50 and overseas yachts. You can rely on +64 (0)9 402 6280 our expertise and products. Our +64 (0)273 322 381 Call Sheila on 09 402 6924 complete range of facilities allow us 2 Bafn Street, Opua, NZ to service all of your spar and [email protected] or email [email protected] rigging needs. www.sparsandrigging.com Tell Tales | 3 COMMODORE’S REPORT Following on from the decision to With Daylight Saving beginning this upgrade the Club’s Computer Systems month, our popular Twilight Racing gets advised last month, installation of the new underway for the summer with the Spring Membership and Point of Sale systems is Series Race 1 on Wednesday 28th and the now complete. Your new OCC Member- f rst Rum Race on Friday 30th September. ship Card is available for you to collect at In the meantime, we have the f nal race of the Bar and as promised it is more than the NSR Winter Series and our usual social just another useless plastic card, so remem- activities. ber to keep it with you. On 17th September we have our Mem- New OCC Membership Cards provide bers Night when current f nancial members your Member Discount at the Bar so if who are on the premises can win some you are yet to pay this years’ Subscription, great prizes and enjoy Live Music with the now would be the best time for you to do popular band Scarlet Fever at the Club to so. In addition to providing your Mem- entertain you. So we have plenty hap- ber Discount, your new Card may also be pening and I’ll look forward to seeing you used as a Bar Card by pre-loading a credit soon. balance to it and in doing so you enjoy an additional bonus. Bar Cards have, in the past, been reserved for Full Members but now Social Members may also pre-load their cards. As a result of the work needed to perform the upgrade, a number of pricing errors have been corrected and some cost price inf ation will be recovered, there is however the odd pleasant surprise that has also been passed on! T e new system enables the Club to better manage its business and compliance with our obligations under the provisions of our Liquor Licence. As part of the Computer upgrade, the Back Of ce Computer has been replaced – the ‘old’ machine will still be available for printing racing forms, raf e and bingo sheets etc. as the ‘new’ equipment will not be available for these uses. 4 | Tell Tales RACING NEWS Kevin Akast Hi All We have not seen a great deal of racing this last month, although it was nice to see a new boat out there last race day, welcome Jigsaw. We have been working on next years program and there will be some changes. An example or two are Interclub with Russell will be three races spread throughout the season, two hosted by Russell one by Opua, also a scheduled long distance race that we may invite the other clubs to take part in. We have also reduced the winter sailing schedule. As members you would have received an email inviting you to take part in a survey, we had 36 people respond and from this information we have made these decisions. For example 15 boat owners indicated they would participate in the long distance race and only 10 percent indicated the desire for winter racing which makes it a little unfair on sponsors. We are very aware that we will not make everybody happy BUT please if you would like to see changes, or have any more ideas, please come along and let us know so we can try and make it work. MARITIME VHF CHANNELS CHANGING Maritime radio channels will be changing on 1 October 2016 New Zealand, along with a number of other countries, is required to change some maritime VHF repeater channels to make space for newly allocated international services for ship track- ing and data services. On the 1st October, New Zealand will be moving a few private VHF repeater services, most Coastguard VHF repeater services, and all NowCasting weather services. An updated radio handbook and frequency stickers are available with the new changes. Although some maritime channels will be changing, the existing marine Channel 16 used for safety, distress and calling purposes will not change. Current radios will be able to access all the available channels after the changes take place. However, you may need to switch to a new channel number to continue to access your local repeater or listen to the weather forecast. Te biggest change is the new 4 digit maritime channels for the Coastguard and privately provided weather service. Tese 4-digit channel numbers are allocated internationally to new maritime channels. New Zealand will be using some of these new 4-digit maritime channels for the Coastguard and privately provided weather information services. You will still be able to listen to the weather channels on your current VHF set by simply dropping the frst two digits, and using the last two digits of the 4-digit channel number. For example, in the Waitemata Harbour where the new weather channel number is 2019, you only need to use channel 19. For more information, and to fnd out which repeater and weather forecast channels you should be using from 1 October 2016, go to www.retune.co.nz Tell Tales | 5 On Saturday 17th September when we have great pleasure in hosting the fve piece popu- lar band ‘Scarlet Fever’. Get your dancing trousers on and come on down, Te Membership Draws for great prizes will be made at 7.30 and 8.30pm so make sure you have paid your Membership Subscription for the year so you can be in to win! Other events for the month:- Darts every Wednesday evening starting at 7.30, Bingo starts at 7pm on Tursday 8th Fathers Day BBQ Cruise on Sunday 4th keep an eye on your emails, the notice board or facebook to fnd out where we’re going. Quiz night starts at 7.pm hosted by Lorraine on Tursday 22nd 6 | Tell Tales Let’s get Social Membership Draw and Live Music night Saturday 17th September 2016 18:00 – 21:30 (music from 18:45) LIVE MUSIC WITH FREE ENTRY – Food available from the Galley (Members and Non-Members welcome) Tell Tales | 7 What an amazing Olympics for NZ Sailing! T ere was a medal rush for New Zealand sailors in Rio but the medals came in vastly dif erent circumstances. Blair Tuke and Peter Burling had the luxury of sailing their medal race in the 49ers knowing the gold medal was theirs no matter what, because they had built up such a commanding lead earlier in the competition. Tuke and Burling, silver medallists in London four years ago, were heavy favourites going into the Rio Olympics and fully justif ed that rating with a superb series. T ey proved their point by winning the medal race and f nished their competition with just 35 points, way ahead of Australia on 78 and Germany, 83. Polly Powrie and Jo Aleh were the defending women’s 470 champions and in truth looked the best team in Rio. However, they were hit with disqualif cations in two races they dominated and it proved to big just too big a hurdle in retaining their crown. T ey went into the medal race in second place, but with several teams nipping at their heels. T e New Zealanders sailed beautifully and came through late to snatch third place, which was enough to conf rm the silver medal for them. Great Britain won the gold with 44 points. Aleh and Powrie were next on 54, and then France, the Netherlands and Japan were close behind. Alex Maloney and Molly Meech in the women’s 49ers began their medal race in an unusual situation. Four teams were within a point of each other so it was a matter of who raced best on the day. T e medal race was a thriller, Going into the last leg, either Brazil or New Zealand could have won the gold medal. As it was the Brazilians were popular winners, the New Zealanders were second.