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Panmure Lagoon Sailing Club Newsletter September 03 Website: www.plsc.org.nz Commodore Sharon McKee Tel: 09-292-4893 Vice Commodore Chantal Grass Tel: 09-625-2644 Website: www.plsc.org.nz Commodore William Perry Tel 021 663 024 Vice Commodore Chantal Grass Tel: 09-625-2644 Club Captain Ian Wallace Tel: 021-216-5417 Secretary Jeff Coffin 6346789 Newsletter February 2012 Commodore’s Report It is proving to be a busy summer for our sailors, some of whom are new members of the club. The early summer sail training programme has now finished and we look forward to seeing the graduates of the training on the water, honing their newly-acquired skills and competing against the more- experienced sailors. Some of you have already had a couple of races and one of has bought his own Laser. We have also recruited some more new members with previous sailing experience, who have heard that Panmure Lagoon has a fantastic dinghy sailing club where you do not necessarily have to own your own boat. We are also looking forward to seeing the colourful hulls of the Optimists back on the water with the return of the enthusiastic young sailors who completed the junior training programme. We welcome all these new members, experienced and novice, young and Dario Motta, being presented the RSA trophy by our mature. Commodore Although most of our sailing is on our home waters of We shall be happy to see even more visitors from other clubs Panmure Lagoon, we do venture to other clubs’ events and next year, our 50th anniversary. I want to reiterate the thanks regattas. A number of our members took themselves and their from Chantal to all the sponsors who supported this regatta – boats (including a couple of club boats) to Worser Bay, we are grateful for the support and appreciate the prizes that Wellington for the Laser National Championships in late you donated. January. None of them returned with any trophies but all acquitted themselves well in variable conditions against Some of us are nursing injuries that prevent us from sailing at competition that included current Olympians. We have also the moment. It is very frustrating to be just a little bit less than been represented in the Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta fully fit, knowing that you could sail if you had to but also out of Tamaki Yacht Club and at the OKI 24-hour race on knowing that you need to look after yourself. Lake Pupuke in February. So, look after yourselves and we shall Our most recent event has been the RSA Regatta on Sunday 26th February. This event was organised largely by our Vice- See you on the water. Commodore, Chantal Grass and attracted a number of visitors from other clubs in spite of competition from other regattas in William Perry, Commodore the Auckland region. Perhaps they were keen to make a bid for the main prize – a Laser mast top section. Wind conditions were a bit light early in the day but the wind strengthened through the 5-race programme and we had a great day’s racing. See other reports for the detail on this regatta. The big prize was taken out this time by a member of Panmure Lagoon Sailing Club, Dario Motta. Vice Commodore’s Report This year started with Ian and I participating at the New Year's Day Clark's Beach Regatta, it was a fun day, finishing off with a nice warm meal prepared by Shaaron. What a nice start! So 2012 promised for us some memorable sailing events, it started with training courses and great students and fun and challenging regattas. I hope 2012 has been and will continue to be a great fun sailing year for you all as well. The Optimist training course (6 sessions) went really well, I was very proud of my students on their first sailing day it was I would like to thank as well the weather gods, the sailors for gusting 30 knots and they all managed however short a little some great competition on the water, our visitors and outing, so when the other sessions had 20 knots or less it finally our many generous sponsors, who provided some became a breeze for them. They are real experts at capsizing fantastic prizes. A hearty thank you to all our regatta (maybe not beating me as yet), they loved getting wet and sponsors: the Panmure/Wellington RSA, The Waipuna, The hiking out and I am looking forward to seeing them racing with Water Shed, Auckland Marine, Joy Adams Sails, Yeehah, us. They all received a Green belt level. Ian's lasers were Boating NZ, Coromondel Cacti, Sugarcraft, YMCA, Wettie doing equally well. I would like to thank all the helpers at the Wetsuit, Hubbards. Your prizes were coveted by many and training sessions: Don, who stood in for Ian, while he ensured that this remains a special event in all sailors’ was vanquishing a new peak, the Kilimanjaro, Jeff, Jock, calendars. Graham, Akemi and finally the parents. Club members this year have been representing our Club at many events, Worser Bay, the Auckland Anniversary Regatta and the OKI 24 hour race, which is great to see. Claire and Shaaron shared their experiences of some of these events in the Club Member's Story section, so if you would like to share your experiences let me know and we will add them in the next newsletter. We are in discussions at the moment with Yachting New Zealand so that from our next new financial year, members from our club can finally race to major points regattas under the Club's name. I myself will be looking forward to this day as I am very proud to belong to such a nice family oriented and friendly club and I know we have a huge amount of talent at our Club so it will be great to see us all represented under our Club’s name, when racing at these events. This will entail a slight raise in membership fees, which is reflected on the membership form for 2012/13. Club racing days has seen some tough racing and the addition of new members and visitors to our racing fleet, which we would like to welcome. I am really pleased to see the number of woman laser sailors has grown to six; there will We were very fortunate now be good competition for this fleet on the water. I better to receive from the get practicing!! Telecom Foundation a generous amount of Our 35th RSA Regatta was a huge success due to all the $1,000 as part of their leadership grants. The people involved. So I first want to thank our helpers, those behind the scenes, who did a tremendous job in preparing for Telecom Foundation the regatta on the working bee: thanks Akemi, Claire, Morgan, has been set up as the umbrella for all charitable and community activity - focussed on encouraging generosity Don, Graham, Ian Y., Ian W., Jeff and Will. and building a better future for Kiwi kids. Grants are available to not-for-profit organisations where Telecom Employees are Thanks to our helpers on the day for giving out your time: in leadership positions, which includes membership of sports Maree, Holly for taking the registrations and organising the and community organisations. As a Telecom employee, I was BBQ. Andrew and Paul for peeling those onions and I did not very fortunate to receive this grant for the Club in my role as see any tears. Our photographers of the day Maree and Hala, Vice Commodore. The Telecom foundation as well allowed who captured for all some fantastic memories. Thanks Hala me to take a volunteer day to assist on Club duties. So thank for taking a day off work especially for this event. Merlin, you so much to the Telecom foundation for your generosity, all David and Julian for getting those results out so quickly. Will, your help has assisted and will assist our Club. as patrol boat officer and finally Ian and Phil as Officers of the Day and running a successful regatta. Page 2 of 13 The Panmure Fun day was a fantastic well run event and assisted us in raising funds for the club as well, thanks to some great helpers, we have in this newsletter a rundown of that day. What about the PLSC Social Calendar, well this is dependent on your ideas, Paul mentioned that we should add to our social calendar this Winter a pot luck dinner with partners and children. This is a fantastic idea and we will circulate a date for this event closer to the time but in the meantime if you have any other ideas on any other social event, please let us know. Our Club Golden Jubilee is next year 2013 (50 years of great sailing), we have already got a date for the next RSA, 3rd March 2013, so the celebrations will be definitely around this date, so pencil it in. Do let us know if you are interested in helping out to organise this event and any ideas, club logo PLSC Worser Bay Nationals Team from left to right - Shaaron th for the 50 ? McKee, Emlyn Perry, Ian Wallace and Dario Motta – Click here for more pictures. Lastly, our website, if you have any ideas on how you would like to improve it, let me know. End of January saw six of us enter the Anniversary Regatta at Tamaki. Paul, Ian Young, Don, Dario, Chantal & I taking Looking forward to seeing you all on the water part with Merlin as OD.
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