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C N Y I A B C H U T C L March 2010 MTYC OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER CRUISING CCRRUUIISSIINNGG RACING RRAACCIINNGG SSSOOOCCCIIIAAALLL MMMEEELLLBBBOOOUUURRRNNNEEE TTTRRRAAAIIILLLAAABBBLLLEEE YYYAAACCCHHHTTT CCCLLLUUUBBB Melbourne Trailable Yacht Club Inc Registration No A2058 Website: www.mtyc.yachting.org.au Jibsheets March 2010 MTYC 1 - MTYC COMMITTEE - 2009-2010 Commodore Geoffrey Onions Vice Commodore Lloyd Graham Rear Commodore Ron Parker Hon Secretary Doug Whitby Hon Treasurer Jan Reeves Safety Facilitator Alistair Owens Sailing Officers Steve Holligan Peter Gheller Adrian Cassar Greg Hall Mark McLellan Auditor Darrell Reid Newsletter Editor Phil Monk Calendar –The next few months Date MTYC Events Location or Starting Point Thur 25 Final Twilight Race St Kilda Marina - Briefing 5:45pm, Start 6:00pm MAR Fri 2 to Mon 5 MTYC Easter Regatta Yarrawonga Yacht Club- Details page 6 Thur 8 Committee Meeting Bells Hotel, South Melb. 8:00 pm Summer Series Race 9 – 2 heats Sun 18 Includes 2nd half of Farr and Castle St Kilda Marina - Briefing 9:45am, Start 11:00am APR Championships Sat 24 to Port Phillip Cruise To be advised Mon 26 Sun 2 Summer Series Race 10 – 1 heat St Kilda Marina - Briefing 9:45am, Start 11:00am Fri 14 AGM and Dinner Venue to be advised Sun 16 Summer Series Race 11 – 2 heats St Kilda Marina - Briefing 9:45am, Start 11:00am MAY Sun 30 Stern Chaser St Kilda Marina - Briefing 9:45am, Start 11:00am Cover photo – Denis and Sue surfing back to St Kilda after the Docklands cruise last weekend in O’Really II a Noelex 25 – Photo by Ron Parker More photos needed: – I always need more good photos for the newsletter and Doug Whitby is looking for some for the website – (check it out – Doug has done a great job). Any offerings from the Marley Point Race or the Club race/Farr Championships/Castle Championships on Sunday 14 March would be appreciated Jibsheets March 2010 MTYC 2 - Commodore’s Report We have Easter at Yarrawonga as our next event. Please see the flyer in the last newsletter .Welcome to the March newsletter. They seem to for the details and also in this newsletter a come around very quickly. It is now the busy Yarrawonga set of rule for us at Easter. The YYC period of our sailing, and generally the best has asked us to remind all members that their weather is around March & April. club is under increasing scrutiny, and accordingly they have asked us to ensure the weekend is a The MTYC had several members yachts Never sailing regatta with maximum participation Again, Tainui, and No Excuses participate in the requested in our sailing events. It can’t be seen Trailable championships up at Yarrawonga on the as just a camping weekend. weekend of the 20th & 21st of February. The racing was enjoyable and our members had a I hope the weather at Easter is good to us and mixed bag of results. those going enjoy some good racing. Summer race number 7 scheduled for the 28th of Keep safe and look forward to seeing you again February was blown out due to the forecast of a on the water over the coming weeks. strong wind warning for the morning with winds forecast to increase to over 25knots By late Geoff Onions – Commodore morning the wind was gusting up to the predicted maximum, again proving we made the correct decision to abandon racing. From the Editor Next we had Marley Point on a long weekend of thunderstorms and floods in Melbourne, followed Phil Monk by light breezes throughout most of the weekend. The MTYC had 13 members’ yachts participate in Newsletters by email the race, which saw the start delayed an hour due Have you considered receiving your newsletter to local thunderstorms and torrential rain at the scheduled start time. via email. If you do, you get it in colour (of course you have to print it yourself) and you Once the race got underway, it was long and slow with the light winds most of the night. will get it earlier. That’s because as soon as I Congratulations to Greg Plumb for finishing 11th finish it, I email it out. Even before I print in Division A in his Hunter 18 Second Wind, with and post it. I admit the real reason I want you Doug in his TS16 Sunray, being the first TS16 to take this option is so I don’t have to stuff home. Also well done to Alistair in his new re- so many envelopes because I am basically lazy. named Castle 650 Court Jester, for finishing 14th in Division C, and to Lloyd in his RL24 The Sting, But really - think of the trees you would be for being the best MTYC line honors finisher in saving not to mention the paper cuts. Division C. Well done to all who completed the race. A more detailed story will follow. Let me know if you want to take this option. My phone number is on page 2 Last weekend we held Heat 8 of our summer series and also hosted the Farr’s and Castle 650’s. It was great to see 17 starters on the water, and commiserations to Dennis in O’Really Jessica Watson II who had a chain plate breakage, luckily before Jessica is halfway across the Indian Ocean and the start and not while out on the water. Racing heading for home. She has proved tougher and more was initially OK with a light northerly, which able than a lot of people gave her credit for. eventually died out to towards the end of the first race. Unfortunately, 3 yachts failed to finish race 1. A shortened race 2 was eventually started, with Come Racing the remaining 14 yachts managing to finish. It was good to have some new boats Emocean & It’s a good excuse to go for a sail. It improves Roller Coaster join us on the water. your sailing skills like nothing else. It’s fun. And the RL24s really hate it when you beat them on A special thanks must be give to Derick Warne of handicap Rolly Tasker Sails who sponsored our race the with prizes for the CBH places. He has also provided prizes for the second of the combined races with the Farr’s and Castles. Thanks Derick. Jibsheets March 2010 MTYC 3 - Summer Triangle Series - Race 8 – 14 Mar 2010 PHC Race 1- PHC Race 2- PHC Corr. Place Corr. Place Elapsed Elapsed Boat Name PHC Time Race Boat Name Time Race Time Time Race 1 1 Race 2 2 Tainui 0.702 1:38:25 1:09:06 1 No Excuses 1:16:20 0:53:21 1 Night Crossing 0.665 1:44:47 1:09:42 2 Almost Too 1:34:04 0:54:47 2 Colduck 0.734 1:40:36 1:13:51 3 Court Jester 1:15:50 0:54:59 3 Emocean 0.725 1:45:03 1:16:10 4 Emocean 1:16:10 0:55:13 4 Impulse 0.655 1:58:37 1:17:39 5 Rollercoaster 1:16:35 0:55:31 5 Rollercoaster 0.725 1:49:33 1:19:25 6 Colduck 1:19:43 0:58:31 6 No Excuses 0.699 1:54:35 1:20:05 7 Taipan 1:32:52 0:58:46 7 Never Again 0.779 1:42:56 1:20:11 8 Never Again 1:16:00 0:59:12 8 Monkey Business 0.593 2:16:45 1:21:04 9 Night Crossing 1:30:21 1:00:06 9 Court Jester 0.725 1:53:30 1:22:17 10 Tainui 1:30:39 1:03:39 10 Liaison 0.712 1:56:20 1:22:48 11 Liaison 1:29:50 1:03:57 11 UnFarrGetable 0.660 2:12:44 1:27:37 12 Impulse 1:41:25 1:06:24 12 Almost Too 0.582 2:35:56 1:30:48 13 UnFarrGetable 1:43:34 1:08:22 13 Taipan 0.633 2:23:57 1:31:05 14 Monkey Business 1:59:33 1:10:52 14 Laguna Starlet 0.620 DNF DNF 17 Laguna Starlet DNS DNS 15 Sunray 0.577 DNF DNF 17 Sunray DNS DNS 15 Farrari 0.640 DNF DNF 17 Farrari DNS DNS 15 COMBINED - PHC Place Combined Boat Name Skipper Type Race Place Place Combined Overall 1 Race 2 points Corrected Place Emocean Simon Dubbn Castle 650 4 4 8 2:11:23 1 No Excuses Mark McLellan Castle 650 7 1 8 2:13:27 2 Colduck Geoff Onions RL24 D 3 6 9 2:12:23 3 Night Crossing Peter Gheller Noelex 25 2 9 11 2:09:49 4 Tainui Ron Parker Noelex 25 1 10 11 2:12:44 5 Rollercoaster Stephen Reardon Castle 650 6 5 11 2:14:57 6 Court Jester Alistair Owens Castle 650 10 3 13 2:17:16 7 Almost Too Colin Clark Farr 6000 13 2 15 2:25:35 8 Never Again Gary Sawyer Elliott 7.4 Mod 8 8 16 2:19:24 9 Impulse Malcolm Knight Farr 7500 5 12 17 2:24:03 10 Taipan Merv Murphy Hartley 24 14 7 21 2:29:51 11 Liaison Adrian Cassar RL24 D 11 11 22 2:26:45 12 Monkey Business Phil Monk Farr 6000 9 14 23 2:31:57 13 UnFarrGetable Andrew Johnston Farr 7500 12 13 25 2:35:58 14 Laguna Starlet Luis Feliciano Castle 650 17 15 32 NA 17 Sunray Doug Whitby TS16 17 15 32 NA 17 Farrari John Howdon Farr 6000 17 15 32 NA 17 Jibsheets March 2010 MTYC 4 - Summer Triangle Series - Race 8 – 14 Mar 2010 CBH Race 1- CBH Race 2- CBH CBH Corr.