Kerikeri Cruising Club Invites All Owners and Charterers of Eligible Monohull and Multihull Boats to Enter the 2017 Kerikeri to Vava’U Yacht Race
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Kerikeri Cruising Newsletter November 2016 Postal Address: 346 Opito Bay Road, RD 1, Kerikeri 0294 Website: www.kerikericruisingclub.org.nz Phone: Club & Marina: 09 407 9434 Club E-mail Address: [email protected] Newsletter E-mail address: [email protected] COMMODORE’S CORNER From DOUG FRANCE - COMMODORE Suddenly with spring, the club has it seems, burst into life! Thanks to all the new hands and old hands working hard in their sub committees. Craig Jones with many helpers have hosted the 5.9s over 3 blustery days resulting in near collisions round ups and generally a good time had by participants and helpers. The 2 handed and rum races have started again, adding to the view while dining on Charles’ excellent fare. Likewise, centre board sailing following Blair Tuke’s win has had an explosion of interest in learning to sail, with some adults and children ranging from 6 to 16 filling the lake each Saturday morning with 8 coaches. To add to those 26 we have another 10 sailing at Doves Bay on Thursday after school with Averil and helpers. Great for the future to have sailing as a sport, which has, after all a longer span of possible participation into old age. Hope you are all booking Sunday 11 December in your dairies, it is the Commodores Christmas Party in the Bay. We hope as many families as possible will come to enjoy the fun. We will have the barge for the barbecue and bar, thought if everyone bought a salad or desert then Charles could have a day off too. Remember those members who do not have a boat and invite them along, time for young old and those in between to celebrate the joy of living in such a great place and belonging to a vibrant yacht club. Page 2 THE GOOD OLD DAYS… Elliots 5.9 Winner Rough and Ready and a shot of the fleet. See page 9 for results. At the foot of the stairs at the marina office is a gold mine!! A large cardboard box has a great pile of older NZ boating memories which has proven to be a real lucky dip. While the paper and printing quality is poor the content is far superior to the present day offerings. It brings back memories of the reasons why we all first became interested in boating and rather than a surfeit of photos and very little actual writing these older magazines show us just what we are missing now. The first mag I put my hand on was an early 90’s combo of Sea Spray and Power Boat and rather than the usual quick skim as I sat on the throne I kept coming across little gems that kept me there long past the time I should have been out and about. The opening piece was an in depth study of just why we lost the Americas cup challenge against Italy without the usual glossing over the faults. Turn the page and a similar piece by Paul Cayard on why they won. Following that was that old favourite Diesel Diary by Len Gilbert. Still relevant today after a decade or ______________________________________ two. A real rib tickler by an American couple who hauled out their yacht in Whangarei which would As space allows the ‘stories on the sea’ will have the regional council turning in its grave with be published; out-of-date transcripts are just their casual number eight wire mentality. Should be as interesting for their adventures. required reading for Melanie to see how far we have If you have something to share, feel free to come. send it along. The prices in the second hand boat market was an Cheryl Rymer eye opener with yachts like a Reactor going for $25K Editor and a 30ft Townson for $47k. A small piece about the Townson 32 NZ champs Page 1 Commodore’s Report Page 2 The Good Old Days/Elliot 5.9s where the late Barry Gunn’s name featured in Bird Page 3 -4 Vava’u Race Report of Dawning bought back having him on Golden Deli- Page 5 -6 Keelboat Report cious and my soaking up his great knowledge. I had Page 7 Centreboard Report hoped to find an old Seaspray where I wrote a col- Page 8 Marina Report umn called Cruising but alas it was not be, but it Page 9 Spotlight on Mark Beauchamp/Elliot 5.9s Page 12 Cruising Award Feature: Simon Willis just might be at the bottom of the pile Page 13 Melanoma Awareness Week Page 14-15 Keelboat Report continues For those of us who are getting on and live on mem- Page 16-17 Bay of Islands Sailing Week ories that cardboard box has proved to be a joy. Page 18 Day Skipper Course Drop in and have a rummage, you may just learn Page 19 Contacts something . Brian White Page 3 The Kerikeri Cruising Club invites all owners and charterers of eligible monohull and multihull boats to enter the 2017 Kerikeri to Vava’u yacht race. This race is organised and conducted by the Kerikeri Cruising Club. The Cruising division’s starting window will be weather-dependent between May 3rd and May 5th 2017. The Racing division’s start will be on May 6th 2017. Start times for both divisions will be at 1400 hours. The start line will be opposite the Kerikeri Cruising Club in the Kerikeri Inlet, Bay of Islands. Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UspNIm8wiQ for more information on this tropical destina- tion. The 2013-2016 Racing Rules of Sailing and associated Yachting New Zealand prescriptions and Safety Regulations of Sailing have been referred to in this document but will be superseded by the relevant World Yachting and Yachting New Zealand 2017-2020 documentation. 1 Rules This race will be governed by the rules as defined in the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) in force at the time of the race. The relevant Yachting New Zealand (YNZ) Safety Regulations Part II Category 1 will apply, as will the Yachting New Zealand Prescriptions and Safety Regulations of Sailing. The current rules of the YNZ Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (PHRF) handicapping method using the Passage tcf. The IRC Rules in force at the time. 2 Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions The Notice of Race will be published on the race web site later this year. The Sailing Instructions will be issued at, and may be available prior to, the race briefings. 3 Eligibility The race is open to all sailing monohull and multihull boats whose owners or charterers are fi- nancial members of a club recognised by the competitor’s national authority, and shall: Meet the requirements of YNZ Safety Requirements of Sailing Part II, Category 1. Have an overall length (LOA) not less than ten (10) metres. Be a New Zealand registered ship, or for overseas entrants an equivalent registration. Further eligibility requirements will be detailed in the Notice of Race. Continued next page... Page 4 Continued from previous page 4 Entry Register you interest for this race on the event web site, where the Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions will be posted in due course. 5 Categories and Classes The race will be conducted in two categories; monohull and multihull. Multihulls will race using the Multihull Handicap system while Monohulls will race under IRC and PHRF Passage. All Cruising Division yachts will be evaluated by the Handicap Committee and issued with a Gen- eral Handicap. 6 Sponsors’ Prize All owners/charterers of yachts starting in this race will be eligible for the drawn prize of a trip for two to Vava’u including return international flights ex Auckland and internal flights in Tonga, staying seven nights at the TONGAN BEACH RESORT courtesy of MONDO TRAVEL Kerikeri, REAL AIR Tonga and the TONGAN BEACH RESORT. This prize will be drawn at the race prize giving in Vava’u. Race prizes will be advised in the Notice of Race. 7 Further Information For further information regarding the 2017 Kerikeri to Vava’u yacht race please contact: Race Director: Mark Beauchamp 0274 858207 Email: [email protected] Kerikeri Cruising Club: 346 Opito Bay Road, RD1, Kerikeri (09) 4079434 Email: [email protected] Event Web Site www.kerikericruisingclub.org.nz/vavau Page 5 KEELBOAT REPORT From Craig Jones We are finally into another season, having had a few weeks off (most of us anyway) and looking for- ward to the warmer weather. While we were sleeping one of our long time club members, Simon Wil- lis, was recognised by Yachting New Zealand. Some time ago Simon started out on what was the fulfil- ment of a dream that quickly turned out to be an epic journey, one that both he and the rest of us will remember for a very long time. Simon features in the current Yachting New Zealand annual awards, being the winner of the Cruising Award. Read what he got up to here: http://www.yachtingnz.org.nz/news/201610/cruising-award-feature-simon-willis 2015-2016 season prize giving A great evening was had by all, especially for the junior sailors who enjoyed having Olympic gold med- allist Blair Tuke there to hand out their prizes. For the slightly older among us the winners of the various race and series trophies were already known through the postings on the KCC web page, but here is a list of the trophies that were presented for series that were not so obvious: Summer points A Division: Physical Favours – Pete Woods Summer Points B Division: Aalita – Andy August Most Fastest Times A Division: Deep Throttle (10 wins) – Tony Dalbeth-Hudson Most Fastest Times B Division: Mean Streak – Murray Williams, Stray Cat – Peter Hooper and Vim – Gar- ry Colebrook (all with 9 wins each) PHRF club champion: Deep Throttle – Tony Dalbeth-Hudson Also presented on the evening were: The Simon Wallace Memorial trophy (crew member contribution): Ric McCready (Physical Favours) The Youth Crew Member trophy: Samantha McSweeney (Cotton Blossom) The two Scottronic Technologies drawn prizes: Draw 1 – a GoPro camera: Aalita (Andy on strict instructions which prize to take) Draw 2 – a 27” computer screen: Physical Favours (NOT a set up despite Ric being a crew member) Lost and Found Following the above evening a finger nail covered in a silver-sparkled glitter was found.