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RSYS Logbook 2019 Volume 62 Issue 2 RSYS Logbook 2019 Volume 62 Issue 2 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] Sweet Chariot’s trip to Hobart 2 Commodore Reception Maintaining the Tradition: David Ward House Operations Manager the Australia Day Regatta 4 Vice Commodore Pierre Miller – [email protected] Christian Brook Monday to Friday – 8am to 6pm Australian Wooden Boat Festival 6 Rear Commodore Saturday & Sunday – 9am to 4pm Stepping Stone House Regatta 8 Russell Taylor Phone: 9955 7171 Fax: 9956 6218 Tuesday Twilights Season 2018-19 10 Captain Email: [email protected] Karyn Gojnich Website: www.rsys.com.au Historic Sayonara Cup returns to Honorary Treasurer Finance Department Manager the Squadron 12 Ross Littlewood Jane Crispo – [email protected] Sailing to Success an Intermediate Recap 14 Phone: 9017 0135 David Albert 50th Annual Cruise 16 Richard Hammond Functions and Events Manager Michael Lindsay Frances Allison – [email protected] RSYS wins the inaugural Phone: 9017 0156 John Taylor National Sailing League 20 Membership Enquiries Youth Sailing 22 Sub-Committee Chairs Michelle Baeza – [email protected] Sailing Committee Phone: 9017 0157 Barranjoey Pin Recipient 24 Karyn Gojnich Executive Chef New Members 26 Waterfront Committee Ian McInnes Club Life 27 Russell Taylor Sailing Office RSYS Activities 27 MarComms Committee Monday to Saturday – 9am to 5pm John Prentice Phone: 9017 0152 Card Players Calendar 28 Cruising Division Declan Brennan – Sailing Manager, [email protected] House Information 29 Committee Email: [email protected] David Henry Waterfront Cruise Committee Yacht Repair & Waterfront Service Logbook submissions John Taylor Ned Brown 9017 0161 [email protected] The Logbook committee welcomes articles from Election Committee Monday to Friday 7.30am-4pm Members. These should be up to 800 words, Robert Albert AO RFD RD Tender Service with high resolution photos for print production. History and Archives Mobile and VHF CDs and/or USBs can be left at Reception. Committee VHF radio Channel 73, mobile phone 0405 971 800, Please contact Isabel Wartho Marketing and Peter Bradford land phone 9017 0161 Communications Co-ordinator for assistance with House Committee Address your Logbook articles, email [email protected] David Ward 33 Peel Street, Kirribilli NSW 2061 or call 9017 0177. The deadline for the next Intermediates Committee PO Box 484 Milsons Point NSW 1565 edition is 15 July 2019. Jono Carroll Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron Logbook Committee ABN 40 000 002 693 Chris Harper Membership Committee Special thanks to those who contributed material for David Albert this issue: Bridge Committee Rear Commodore Russell Taylor, Jill Henry, John Elsbeth Hodgkinson Jeremy, Philip Brown, Max Connery OAM, Captain Youth Sailing Committee Karyn Gojnich, Matt Whitnall & David Chapman, Nikki O’Shea Jono Carroll & Simone Francis, John Taylor, Trish Speakers Committee Stanley, Ryan Littlechild & Jack Ferguson, Otto Henry, Stephen Wall Richard McLachlan and Gordon Lavery. Asset Management Chris Harper, Chairman Front cover: Stunning Smiths Creek, David Ward Logbook Committee 50th Squadron Cruise. Photo Murray Spence From the Helm 1 by Rear Commodore Russell Taylor My early days of RSYS sailing started in the late 70s and early 80s with neighbour John Rosenthall (Rosie). This was well before meeting my lovely wife Melissa. My earlier sailing was on Manly Juniors and Hobie 16s. I still remember vividly the first turtle and capsize and the difficulty of righting the boat as a very light weight young man... I wouldn’t have difficulty now! I’m a keen beginner Bridge player and have just completed a beginner’s course at the Squadron, trying to keep up with Melissa who plays regularly. We love dining at our Club and sharing these facilities and experiences with our friends and family. I also love snow skiing and started aged six at Charlotte’s Pass. I have found it interesting that many RSYS Members are also skiers and members of similar ski clubs. I want to warmly welcome our Members to this edition of Logbook. We’ve had a very busy Our four children completed the Youth sailing summer sailing season at the Royal Sydney programme from age 12 and they still sail today. Yacht Squadron. Many sailing Members and I have built many long-standing friendships from their crews are looking forward to a quieter volunteering on Sundays as RIB driver, launch winter season to recharge their batteries and and retrieve, committee boat duties, and even boats and enjoy the more social side of our progressed to Officer of the Day. I remember Club’s activities which continue year-round. when we were virtually all parent volunteers with Marj Colman and Ben Castle as sailing On behalf of the General Committee and coaches. Parents brought portable thermoses Members, I would like to sincerely thank the so that volunteers could enjoy a cup of coffee in staff of the Sailing Office and our race volunteers between duties, with camaraderie strengthened for their continued dedication to the success further during the annual Youth camps at Point of our sailing events. Thanks also to the House Wolstoncroft. To this day, my family and I continue staff for their excellent service during our busy to have very close friendships with many other sailing and other Club activities. Club families from those Youth sailing years. For those who don’t know me, I am very much I’d encourage all Members to take advantage the typical RSYS Member. I just love sailing. of our Club’s facilities during the quieter winter My wife Melissa and I race our boat Coco in period. There are still many activities to attend both Twilight series and we really enjoy the and it’s hard to beat the view from the CCA on camaraderie these competitions generate. a crisp weekend morning as you’re enjoying In summer we sail on Wednesday afternoons brunch. We have the best location and view of at the Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club and one any yacht club in the country: why not enjoy it? of our favourite activities is the annual RSYS Cruise to Pittwater, which this year celebrated See you around the Club! Come and say hi, I’m its 50th anniversary. always happy to have a chat. When choosing our yacht, we deliberately kept to a maximum of 35 feet so that the whole family could feel comfortable taking her out without Melissa or me on board. A larger boat could cause drama. My father allowed me the same latitude with his boats too. 2 We love stopping at islands, and Bass Strait has Sweet Chariot’s many gems on offer. Most sailors seem to plan to cross Bass Strait in the minimum amount of Trip to Hobart time because of its well-known tantrums. But if time permits and the forecast is suitable, the by Jill Henry Kent Group makes a satisfying and interesting stopover, offering safe, alternative anchorages, splendid scenery, untouched coves and great hiking. This group was discovered by Matthew We had every type of weather during our latest Right: Cape Pillar. voyage down to Tasmania and, as the saying goes, ‘four seasons in a day’ – most days – whilst we were in Hobart. We ‘Charioteers’ and our guests, fellow Squadron Members Jo Dan and Peter Lawson, took a leisurely 17 days to reach Hobart, having made stops at various places along the way: Jervis Bay, Bermagui, Eden, Bittangabee Creek, Kent Island Group, Killiecrankie on Flinders Island, Bryan’s Corner on Freycinet Peninsula, Triabunna, Maria Island, North Bruny Island and finally Hobart Town, always one of our favourite destinations. Flinders in 1798, initiating further exploration We have made several trips to Tasmania in of Bass Strait. Indeed there are several island Sweet Chariot – David many more when counting groups further west in Bass Strait, and during doing ‘That Race’ on friends’ and our son’s boats our circumnavigation of Australia we visited – but Hobart never fails to delight. Unfortunately most of them. the word is out and real estate prices have soared... trust a Sydney-sider to comment on This spectacular Kent group with three main real estate! islands – Deal, Erith and Dover – lies SE of Wilson’s Promontory and NW of Flinders Island For those of you who haven’t experienced the and rarely appears on conventional maps. We joys of Bittangabee Creek, it is 11 miles south took 30 hours in an overnight passage from Eden of Eden and provides a delightful, almost to these islands including our stop in Bittangabee hidden, anchorage. Alan Lucas describes it as Creek. A watchful eye must be kept proceeding ‘A fair-weather anchorage only, although it gives west to the Group as you cross and remain very remarkable protection considering its aspect.’ close to Australia’s major shipping lane. Below: Deal Island Sweet Chariot II, our Swanson 32, spent a week towards Dover Island here riding out a SW gale whilst David was The Kent Group, politically part of Tasmania, is delivering her to her new owners in Adelaide way virtually uninhabited. A world away from modern Right: Deal Island life, it is Tasmania’s most remote National Park. signpost – a girl from back in 1980. So some 39 years later with Sweet the ’Gong. Chariot having grown some 50%, she delighted There are no mod-cons and mobiles only work in this tranquil spot once more. when the wind blows in the right direction. The Western Isles, Erith and Dover, are connected For the first time ever for Sweet Chariot, 3 at low water via a natural causeway called the anchoring in Wineglass Bay was untenable.
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