THE PANMURE LAGOON SAILING CLUB INC Spring NEWSLETTER 2016 “Sail fast, sail hard” Commodore Chantal Grass Tel: 09-625-2644 Vice Commodore Blair Park Tel: 09-528-7384 Club Captain Ian Wallace Tel: 021-216-5417 Secretary Andrew Coffin Tel: 09-634-6789 Contents Contents ........................................................................................................ 1 PLSC Movie Night 19th August .............................................................. 12 th Commodore’s Report .................................................................................... 2 Tamaki Estuary Clean up – 20 August ................................................. 13 st Club Captains Report ..................................................................................... 4 2016 Mad Hatters Regatta – 21 August ............................................... 13 External events .............................................................................................. 6 Father’s Day Race - 4th September ....................................................... 14 th Port Ohope – Queen’s Birthday Regatta ................................................. 6 Rules Night at Panmure Yacht and Boating Club – 16 September ...... 14 Weymouth Winter Madness Regatta– 19th June .................................... 6 Parking area re-development at PLSC ................................................... 15 Brass Monkey Regatta Lake Ngaroto – 10th September .......................... 7 LiteClub .................................................................................................. 15 Limestone Island Race Whangarei – 25th September .............................. 8 Volvo Sailing...Have a go! – Point England School................................. 16 Laser Women coaching at Tamaki – 29th October ................................... 8 New Members, Committee Members and life membership ................ 16 Club Member’s stories .................................................................................. 9 Final Club Race Results .......................................................................... 18 Where in the world? ................................................................................ 9 PLSC Teams Racing begins! .................................................................... 18 PLSC in the news ......................................................................................... 10 Gossip column........................................................................................ 20 Club News .................................................................................................... 11 Upcoming Social Events .............................................................................. 21 Winter Olympics Panmure Style - 14th August ...................................... 11 Upcoming External Laser Events and important dates ............................... 22 Finishing Gun ............................................................................................... 22 The Pre-start Commodore’s Report Like a house guest that has outstayed its welcome, winter has finally packed its bags and slunk out the door. Daylight savings is here and As the sun rose in all its splendour this morning it slowly the temperatures are inching upwards awoke 14 dedicated members from slumber for which can only mean that the balmy days of the Early Bird Series, all there to admire it at summer sailing are just around the corner. 6:30am. What a glorious day, sun, wind, great racing! You would have forgotten that only a few To prime you for the sunny Sundays ahead we weeks ago it was Winter. We are one of the few have prepared yet another edition of the PLSC clubs that does not hibernate over Winter and newsletter guaranteed to be at least 23% more wow was the Club bustling with activities during entertaining and 47% more informative with at these winter months, you can just read it in this least 12% more fibre than other sailing club fantastic newsletter from our amazing publicist newsletters*. In this edition we have must read extraordinaire, Andrew Dare. updates from our dynamic Club Commodore and our indomitable Club Captain as well as all the club news, events, controversies plus all the Not only did we have some great racing on the exciting stuff ahead for the summer sailing water these last few months but we achieved as season! well quite a lot on tidying up Club affairs, which is (*Individual results may vary). quite easy when you have a fantastic group of officers and committee members. Ian Wallace, Your editor our Club Captain, of course, who was awarded life membership at the AGM, trusty Merlin keeping us honest not only at the starts but with the Club Andrew Dare accounts, Andrew our dedicated secretary, Blair our Vice Commodore organising a successful rules night and the rest of the committee for their valuable input. We have two new fresh faces on the committee, Bernard Sonck, Vice Boat Captain and Sam Scott, Health and Safety Officer and they have taken to their new role like ducks to water. Bernard has been helping Ian fixing boats, he has cleaned up the rubbish in the boat lockers with the help of Ryan ensuring it is no longer a Hazard as everybody knows you do not want to cross paths with Sam on Health and Safety breaches. He has compiled a dashboard that allows us to visualize the health status of the club's health and safety. This dashboard is very popular and is checked by 2 most members weekly as it includes as well the seasoned Treasure hunter, victorious finding any top 10 capsize count of members for the season. little article on the RSA regatta or on the Club. I do still need your help as I need to unearth more I have not yet included in the club’s new Sailing treasures about the RSA so if you were a Club Instructions that reporting capsizing is a must; I member in the late 70s to 2002 and have any will wait for Sam to approach me. I finally memory, anecdotes, photos of a past RSA regatta, managed to get all electronic club records onto I would love to hear from you, this will help me Dropbox allowing the club to have a central immensely. document repository for its records. This You appreciate how important it is when you read compliments nicely Wunderlist (our task about the transformation of the area and our management tool) and Flickr (our photo basin over the last 40 years how we need to repository). So we are now truly on the Cloud. ensure the basin and its facilities are still there to We still value immensely corresponding by non electronic mail and we are very grateful to New enjoy for the next generations. So when the Zealand Post for providing us with postage Tamaki Estuary approached us to host the basin included envelopes. clean-up, we jumped at the occasion. It was such a successful event with so many volunteers coming to clean-up the basin that we enjoy, that this is now to become an annual event. As you all know this year is a big milestone for our annual RSA Regatta as it will be 40 years young The carpark has now been preserved as well. The and it promises to be as vibrant as it was back on council has done a tremendous job improving the that 23rd April 1977 for its first edition. Our carpark, it is now such a delight to wheel your generous sponsors have all come to the party to ensure it will be a real success. So make sure you boat down to the water, it is so smooth with no book this date in your calendar: 5th March 2017, cracks. there will be some fantastic racing. So if you have not seen it as yet, it is time to dust off the wetsuits, join the racing, it promises to be a fantastic Summer Season. See you on the water. Chantal The Maungakiekie Tamaki Local Board has generously provided some funding for the compilation of a historical brochure of the regatta throughout the years, this will be a great memento for you all. During these Winter months, I have been digging through the Archives at the Auckland Library, Manukau Library, Auckland Museum hunting for any clues pertaining to discovering a treasure of information on the RSA regatta. I felt like any 3 way so as not to damage the boat. We will at Club Captains Report some point need to make another cage for the Delighted to say the Winter Series has seen some motor of the second Rib. fantastic fleet numbers the best being 19 boats and averaging around 15 all winter, which bodes Equipment care well for the Summer. Yes, there are plenty of Club I would like to thank you all for taking care of the boats still sitting in the sheds for our Summer Club boats as the only repairs have been Sailors. I have been really impressed by the maintenance jobs, only run of the mill wear and numbers of keen sailors dragging themselves out tear. of bed to race in the many Early Bird Series. Can I just remind you all and our newer members Congratulations to you hardy souls and while I am to follow the 5 GOLDEN RULES: about it can I congratulate you all on making this a very friendly family Club where members can, not only enjoy the thrill of tight racing but light hearted banter after a day on the water. Refurbishments Apart from the very successful Winter we have had the entertainment of months of earth works while the contractors rebuilt the car park which is 1. if there is a problem with a boat or its now completed to a very high standard complete equipment, could you please let me know with a concrete footpath along the shore line for before the next sailing day so that I can have the public to strut their stuff so remember “gulls”