Groundswell September 2017

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A r e g u l a r J O UR N A L f r o m t h e C r u i s i n g Y ac h t C l u b o f So u t h A u s t r a l i a

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Board of Management President Treasurer

Chris Wood Dominic Rinaldi Peter Hall David Murray Hillar Puvi Andrew Saies Glenn Spear

Flag Officers Commodore Vice Commodore Rear Commodore

Geoff Boettcher Jacqueline Heffernan Adrian Wotton

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Patron The Honourable Kevin Scarce AC CSC RANR Staff Chief Executive Officer Craig Evans Admin & Operations Manager Jenny Krogdahl Finance Manager Marina Segodina Comms & Member Services Mellissa Vahoumis Leasing Coordinator Kirsty Winstone Marine Academy Coordinator & Boating Administrator David Royle Food & Beverage Manager Andrew Kerr Head Chef Amanda Gutte Port Vincent Marina Rob Marner Association Chairpersons Cruising Fishing Racing Social

Adrian Wotton Vlad Humeniuk Rob Sellick Pam Humeniuk

Life Members Arthur F Carolan Geoffrey R Catt Richard H Fidock AO Graeme L Footer John D Gerard James A Henry (Dec’d) Malcolm A Kinnaird AC (Dec’d) Peter J Page (Dec’d) Editors of Groundswell Gay Footer, Mellissa Vahoumis, Owen Mace, Terry Lockwood, Bryan Mellors, Libby Stephens, Trevor Paynter Contributions to reception@cycsa.com.au Advertising in Groundswell Mellissa Vahoumis: Telephone 08 8248 4222 Groundswell is the official journal of the Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia Inc. Lady Gowrie Drive, North Haven PO Box 1020 North Haven SA 5018 Telephone: 08 8248 4222 Facsimile: 08 8248 5888 Email: reception@cycsa.com.au Web: www.cycsa.com.au Phone Port Vincent: 0414 611 110

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CONTENTS 4 The president

Chris Wood presents a comprehensive report on the Club’s year past.

6 the ceo

Craig Evans provides an insight into his past 15 years at the Club.

7 the commodore

Geoff Boettcher has some advice for visiting yacht clubs OS.

8 boats at the club

Libby Stephens chats with members bringing new boats into the Club.

19 Come fishing day

David Royle reflects upon the Marine Academy’s activities for the past year.

11 Racing news

A band of five association volunteers have been trained under the National Equipment Auditing Scheme.

13 personality profile

Rowley Richardson is widely regarded as a great bloke and known to all for his outstanding service to the Club.

14 quizmas in july

Graphic design by Trevor Paynter Printed by Newstyle Printing

16 pearson island cruise

The Social Association accommodate 176 people for a rollicking fun night.

Alan Noble sails down to the ‘jewel’ in the Great Australian Bight.

Cover Photo: Arriba at anchor at Western

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The Fishing Association called the day and 38 people joined in on a cold but beautiful winter’s morning.

20 school’s out delivery

Adrian Wotton takes his boat east for both adventure and competition.

22 agentario sailing week

Bill and Kerryn Coutts experience a wonderful sailing opportunity in Italy.

24 cruise in company

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River Cove, Pearson Island. Photo by Alan Noble.

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The Cruising Association take a warm bus down south for the winter Sea and Vine Festival.

27 maritimo launch

Amazing big boats for those lucky enough to have deep pockets.

28 native oysters

Owen Mace looks at what the Estuary Care Foundation of SA is doing in our Marina West.

29 australian women’s keelboat regatta

The all women’s crew tackle the national regatta aboard School’s Out.

30 from the galley

Head Chef Amanda shares another recipe from her collection that will appeal to the kids.

From the President

Chris Wood

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would like to take this opportunity to reflect upon the Clubs performance over the past year and to report to members on the activities of the Club for the 2016/17 year, which is fully detailed in the Annual Report. At the time of writing this report, the AGM has not yet occurred. However, I feel that it is important to communicate to you from the Board our objectives for the forthcoming year.

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It cost $1.47m to build.

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The Club has incurred new debt (as at 31/5/17 - $1.349m) to support the build. The debt has been carefully modelled into the Club’s financial plans.

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It enables functions to be segregated giving more flexibility.

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It’s seriously modern and sets the Club apart from many other Clubs.

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It was supported by cash donations from The Admiral’s Club fund raising over $83K.

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It was further supported by previous fund raising activities of the Club’s Associations to the tune of $260K being funds formally set aside in the Club’s balance sheet (these funds were non cash at the time of build).

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The project caused significate upheaval to the Club at the time and seriously affected the financial performance of hospitality during the build including forward function bookings. Some of this was contemplated but not all.

The main slippage in 2016/17 has been the hospitality trading as a result of the building works associated with the new Patio Development and the loss of key hospitality staff at the same time.

This area for the business is currently under review by The Board and Management.

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The CEO, Craig Evans played the lead role in this development and with careful planning bought the project in only about $20K over budget, a fantastic outcome. Thanks to all involved.

Club membership fees and corporate fees for the 2017/18 year have been increased only slightly above CPI. The Board is still extremely mindful of the very difficult prevailing economic climate especially within this state and is currently looking carefully and seriously at all the opportunities to grow the business activities of the Club and its membership base, whilst keeping a very close handle on all costs.

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Marina East is a 37 year old floating marina system.

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The amount spent on labour and materials this year was $333K

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A diagram of the refurbishment has been published in Groundswell and is updated regularly and posted on the Club’s notice board. It’s really worth looking at.

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There has been significant progress to date, and at the end of the 6 years all major fingers and damaged / worn out pontoons would have been refurbished.

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It is not known exactly how long the refurbished marina will last.

It will however buy the Club significant time. The option to replace Marina East together with its associated logistics was beyond the Club’s financial capability at the time.

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The cost analysis to refurbish as compared to replace was materially cheaper and is being handled from Club cash flows and supported by financial performance of the Club’s business activities. This is a seriously worthwhile project for the Club and an area where members can see exactly how and where Club monies are being applied.

Financial Performance The trading / financial performance of the Club slipped slightly when compared to the previous record year. Consolidated Net Profit for the year was $406,929 as compared to $483,916 in 2016. When compared to the results of the last ten years it’s still a reasonable result! The Club finances remain in good shape, with a robust balance sheet, and strong and positive cash flows.

Almost all the surplus cash from business activities of the Club is being carefully applied to capital works including Marina East refurbishment and other essential capital replacements.

The Marina East Refurbishment - This is year two, of a six year plan to refurbish Marina East.

Key Achievements during the year The Club had lots happening during the year, let me summarise: The Patio Redevelopment - It took over twelve months of detailed planning by a committee consisting of Members and Management.

Members were kept informed of the development and were presented with plans and costings.

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It took approximately 6 months to build / complete.

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The design is world class and fully enhances the existing facilities of the Club.

Strategic / Long Term Planning - Earlier this year the Board held a Strategic / Long Term Planning session and included representatives from each Association, the Flag officers, past Board members, the Club’s legal advisors and key management.

Mid gulf meeting with our President and Commodore 4

The items discussed included the following; • The current 6 year long term financial model.

• How to increase and expand business activities to fund aging assets and support ongoing capital projects.

• Future / estimated capital expenditure.

• The unsold marina berths in the Western Basin.

Andrew Saies, the previous Club President, invited the past Governor of South Australia The Honourable Kevin Scarce AC CSC RANR to become the Club’s patron. We were honoured when Kevin accepted this position, his appointment is for a fixed term and I am sure this appointment will be great for our Club. Kevin opened the new Admirals Bar and Patio development earlier this year.

The Board

• Membership and future membership categories.

The Club currently has a united Board, with a blend of volunteer Director’s all with specific skills to enable timely commercial business decision making. The skills include; High Level Business, Accounting / Finance, Legal and Engineering. I believe the Board operates with high governance standards and is forward thinking. The focus of the current Board is clearly on delivering a stable business model to progress the Club into the future to benefit all Members, whilst at the same time clearly recognising that it’s a ‘Members Club’.

• The Ramp asset and how to maximise its value.

• Marina assets and their estimated life.

• The ability of the Club to establish a formal sinking fund.

• The Club’s legal and corporate structure.

• The Club’s constitution and its suitability.

• The new Patio development.

• Hospitality - its performance and what members expect.

• Slipping and the long term outlook.

• The Port Vincent asset.

All of the above is being carefully prioritised by the current Board, and work on many items has already commenced.

The Marine Academy As the only accredited Australian Sailing and Royal Yachting Association in South Australia our Marine Academy provides highly recognised training in our state for the benefit of our members and the wider general boating public.

It is pleasing to report that the Marine Academy had a very positive year, the contribution from trading was the best on record after allocating all relevant operating costs. Reports confirm that demand for courses currently exceeds our ability to deliver and the Academy is now a proven source / feed of new members into the Club. Let me formally thank all involved in this important part of the Club.

The Associations and Volunteers The Associations form the back bone of the Club; they hold numerous functions (on water and off water) during the year and knit the fabric of the Club together. To those members who have not participated in an Association yet, I highly recommend you give it a go. Not only can you get a chance to experience lots of different things (racing, fishing, social, cruising) but it’s a great forum to meet other likeminded people in a friendly Club environment.

The role of the CYCSA Board is slightly different to many other boating clubs and sporting clubs and is structured to run and oversee all the commercial and business activities of the Club. It does this through a corporate / entity structure that serves the members well and has many built in legal advantages. The Commodore and Flag officers report to the Board, as does the CEO / Management. The Board does not directly get involved in flag activities nor the running of any of the day to day activities of the Associations’ (apart from their budgets and financial commitments). This clear delineation of duties was carefully designed by the Club founders and works extremely well. The Board does however, set the directions for Management. Thank you again to all the very dedicated and hardworking Directors.

Retiring Board Members I wish to recognise two outstanding Board members who retired during the year or will retire at the AGM. Firstly, Andrew Saies; Andrew has been a member of the Club for 36 years and his achievements and commitment to the Club and sailing are considerable. Secondly, I would like to acknowledge Wayne Coonan. Wayne has been a member of the Club for 24 years and has contributed significantly to the Club. On behalf of the Board and the Club, thank you.

Summary I look forward to my role as President and I will be focusing clearly during the forthcoming year or two on the following: -

The key items in the Strategic plans.

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Progress strategy for Ramp Asset.

There are lots of people / members who volunteer to assist others within the Club. There are too many to mention. Annually, the Club and the Associations nominate members for Volunteer of the Year positions; these Volunteers are recognised and awarded at Opening Day. Thank you to all those hard working Association Chairpersons, Committee Members and Volunteers. The Club would not be what it is without you!

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To carefully build and try to grow the business activities of the Club and the membership.

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Continue to review internal costs.

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Continue to review the management structure.

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To continue to provide transparency on Club matters to Members.

Flag Officers and The Patron

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But most of all - to benchmark our Club’s performance against not only the very best in Australia – but if possible, the best in the world.

The role of Flag Officers in a boating club is a not just a ceremonial role, they represent the Members of the Club, and act as a go between for all the Associations and the Board. Geoff and his Vice Commodore Jacqueline Heffernan along with Rear Commodore Adrian Wotton make a fantastic team, the Board thanks them all for their support and all the efforts they put into the Club, they represent the Club at other affiliated Clubs with distinction and arrange functions such as Opening Day and the Commodore’s Dinners.

I hope to see as many of you as possible on 16 September for our annual black-tie event, the Commodore’s Dinner, an evening not to be missed with stellar entertainment and for the highlight of our Club calendar, Opening Day on 28 October. Happy and safe boating for 2017/18.

Chris Wood, President

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Photo courtesy of Geoff Wiggins

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to apply for reciprocal ‘free of charge’ membership and the take up by our members has been outstanding with around 60 members to date applying for this added benefit to their CYCSA membership. Should you wish to find out more please contact the Club.

he Club’s financial year end on 31 May and the period between then and the AGM in August is very busy with audits and preparation for the presentation of accounts. The external audit team spend considerable time looking through accounts and checking figures and processes. It is always a telling time for management as to how we have gone over the year and if there are any discrepancies. I am very pleased to report the Clubs audit for 2016/ 2017 went very well and our staff and in particular our Finance Manager have done an outstanding job with our auditors being extremely satisfied.

July 26 marked my 12th anniversary in the role of Chief Executive Officer at the Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia and this followed 3 years as a Board Member of the Club. The 15 years have been both an interesting and rewarding journey and a great deal has been achieved over this period above and beyond just the ‘usual’ running of a yacht Club. Some of the main highlights have included the approval and building of Marina West, the opening of Port Vincent Marina, the North Haven inner breakwater extension approvals and construction, successfully challenging land tax for the Club, having changes made in parliament to the local government act dealing with the application of council rates on marina and hardstand berths, dealing with the global financial crisis and the impact it has had on recreational boating, the approval, design and construction of the Club’s new Admirals Bar and Bistro facility, planning and implementing a program to refurbish Marina East, being awarded with the first Clean Marina Level IV accreditation in Australia and being the first Marina internationally to achieve all 3 accreditations in ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and AS/ NZS 4801:2001 (or international equivalent), and personally was the recipient of the Australian scholarship for the Intermediate Marina Management Course, International scholarship for the Advanced Marina Management Course (Poole, Dorset UK) and achieved international accreditation as a Certified Marina Manager (#313 internationally in 2013). Chosen as a national board member for the Boating Industry Association, received the 2014 Environment Award from the EPA for services to the boating industry, graduated from the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2015 and awarded best Club Manager in SA in the same year.

The financial result for 2016/ 2017 was a positive one and even slightly higher than budgeted for. This was a great result given the physical turmoil the Club was in with the Admirals Bar and Bistro building project and the impact this had on trading and wages over this period. We also have an income from our boat ramp operation at North Haven that was severely impacted on last year due to the horrible weather conditions we experienced in the winter and spring of 2016. Despite these two areas of Club operation which both achieved below budget surpluses we managed to end up with a good result by carefully managing expenditure in many areas.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank members who have once again donated to the Marine Academy Foundation. The Marine Academy had a great year in 2016/17 and with the new structure we have in place we are confident will further develop in 2017/ 2018. The funds in the Marine Academy Foundation are extremely important to us and are used to purchase items to improve our training vessels, safety and training equipment for both shore based and on water courses and the education and training of instructors.

A survey to members was recently conducted about our slipway operation with some surprising results. Over coming weeks we will be analyzing this data and reviewing our slipway operation to make it more attractive to members to use. I look forward to sharing that detail with you soon.

There are always challenges in any occupation and managing a yacht club certainly has its fair share, made less difficult by having great staff, Board, Flag Officers and members who are always around to lend a hand and offer support. Thank you all and I look forward to the next 15 years!

Membership is also currently being reviewed at the Club. The various categories that exist are being looked at, together with the possible introduction of new categories to address the changing market place.

An MOU was recently created between the CYCSA and the Naval Military and Air Force Club allowing Senior Members from each Club

Safe boating.

Craig Evans, Chief Executive Officer

Our patio area looks great with the new functional and durable clears, thanks to CYCSA Club Sponsor Ziptrak®. Ziptrak® outdoor blinds are commercial quality and purpose-made for years of tough conditions in exposed seafront locations. These 4.5-meter-wide clear PVC blinds allow the great view of our marina to be enjoyed whilst the wind and rain are completely blocked.

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young contemporary jazz musicians in South Australia and is responsible for the most respected jazz studies program in Australia. Please ensure you reserve a table early, as this year, seating will be in demand.

The ‘Die Hards’ who participated in the club winter series should all get trophies for enduring the cold conditions. The six series racing began in late May and finished at the end of July. PHS Division 1 was won by Julian Newton in Game On from Jason Coonan’s Dr. Feelgood with third Derek Morrison in Asylum. PHS Division 2 was won by Sandy Higgins from BSYC in Scorpius, second Ken Abbot from ASC in VostokEurope and third Doug Watson in Rank Bajn.

From the Commodore

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t seems this year many of our Board, Flag Officers, Committee members and members escaped the Adelaide winter by venturing overseas. Sue and I probably picked the wrong month to travel, as June weather was very mild at home this year. Our trip was to celebrate a big birthday for Sue but the trip did give us the opportunity to visit, mainly at lunch time, many yacht clubs in Europe and the UK. As a member of the RORC (Royal Ocean Racing Club) we take advantage of staying in their Clubhouse in London.

Unfortunately, the CYCSA does not have reciprocal rights with the RORC but our Club does have affiliations with many other clubs worldwide, who can offer friendly affordable accommodation. I find yacht clubs worldwide make you feel welcome and both management and staff always seem delighted that you made the effort to visit their club.

AMS Division 1; first was Dr. Feelgood second, on equal points, was Ian Metcalfe in Magic with Asylum third. AMS Division 2 winner was Vostok-Europe, from Rank Bajin and Trevor Conyers in Rock On. It was good to see entrants from Brighton Seacliff Yacht Club sailing at the CYCSA. On the Combined PHS results it seems the Squadron and BSYC boys got the better of our CYCSA crews. Hopefully the summer series will straighten things out as I don’t want to hand the Commodore’s Trophy back to the Squadron at the end of the season.

Our Opening Day is on Saturday 28th October. The One and All will again be our saluting platform for the Sail Past. This year we will have the high profile band ‘Gumbo Ya Ya’ to entertain us in the afternoon.

Our Vice Commodore has met with band members at the Club and has reported the band is very excited to be playing at such a prestigious event. Flag Officers are working diligently to ensure we offer a new and more exciting format on the day.

On this trip, we found one of the nicest lunch spots was the Royal Malta Yacht Club. Perched right on the water, the ancient backdrop offered a unique Club experience. After visiting Clubs in Normandy and the Channel Islands, I now appreciate our moderate tides. After watching the tide drop over nine metres, planning your day on the water has a whole new meaning. Sailing time is a logistical nightmare governed by the depth of water getting your boat in and out of the marina. Another great lunch location to escape from the city bustle is the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. When planning a visit to any of these yacht clubs, other than a few drinks at the bar, I always find it easier to phone ahead for a booking.

We have also been fortunate in acquiring Kevin Scarce to open this year’s CYCSA Season. Kevin Scarce AC, CSC, RANR is a retired Royal Navy Officer achieving the rank of Rear Admiral and the 34th serving Governor of South Australia from August 2007 to August 2014. Kevin is also Patron of the CYCSA and it is a great honour to have him officiate this major event.

Geoff Boettcher, Commodore

From the Vice Commodore Winter at the Club could not be a better place to be. With the new patio area finished and looking stunning many members and guests took advantage of the spectacular views from inside the cosy clubrooms. The Jazz nights and other theme nights have been extremely popular and well attended.

Geoff Catt has been instrumental in negotiating reciprocal rights with the Naval, Military and Air Force Club of South Australia in Hutt Street Adelaide. I have attended many functions at this club over the years, including the traditional Yachties Friday Lunch. Although reciprocal rights are limited at both clubs, to be fair to members, the idea of being welcome at a highly desirable club location in the city has merit. Also, to be able to offer Naval, Military Members access to our facilities increases our presence as a great alternate dining destination. CYCSA Senior Members must nominate to be eligible for this reciprocal arrangement so I strongly recommend you contact our office to initiate your membership.

Five women from various South Australian boating clubs (including our own Jenny Krogdahl and Shevaun Bruland) were fortunate enough to be invited to Perth to attend a workshop, ‘Women and Leadership Australia - The Leadership Journey’, jointly funded by Australian Sailing and the Department of Sport and Recreation. The purpose of the workshop was to “Provide women at all levels of their career and engagement with our sport, to learn new skills, reflect on our own thinking and actions and develop ways of dealing with others to achieve better outcomes.” The course focused on values, communications, influence and resilience, all benefit to creating stronger individuals to help in creating sustainable clubs, as well as the growth of our sport.

The Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race proved difficult for all competitors this year. I had the pleasure of watching the start from the comfort of our Admirals Bar and not from the deck of Secret Mens Business for a change. Our Club representative yacht Concubine, had an excellent start and looked a glamour heading out of Sydney Heads. Light fluky winds prevailed and Concubine’s expected Monday morning finish at the Gold Coast, stretched to Tuesday morning. The race was almost totally upwind with light shifty breeze, strong currents and many wind holes that becalmed much of the fleet towards the finish. Concubine used a spinnaker for only five nautical miles of the 384 nautical mile race, much to the frustration of the crew. A disappointing result was attributed to the frustrating conditions. The race did become a lottery and not a true indication of Concubine’s ability.

The workshop was held at the beautiful Royal Perth Yacht Club and our wonderful hosts did an amazing job of looking after us. One of the highlights for me was to meet Kylie Forth – an amazing young woman who has been blind since she was three and at just nine, an amputee.

One of Kylie’s many notable achievements being Captain of the Blind Women’s Sailing Team bringing home medals from Italy and Japan in 2013 – a truly inspirational woman Back to our sensational Club and never a dull moment. The weeks have been full of activities including the REX AGM on the 13th July and on the 23rd July the Associations AGM which I was fortunate to chair on behalf of Commodore Geoff Boettcher.

This year’s Commodore’s Black Tie Dinner is on Saturday 16th September. Pam Humeniuk and the Social Association have again excelled by acquiring Rachael Leahcar as our feature act. Rachael was born and raised in Adelaide and was a highlight and finalist on the popular television show ‘The Voice Australia’. The Bruce Hancock Quartet again will bring us a night of great dinner dance music. Bruce Hancock, Head of Jazz Studies at the Elder Conservatorium from 1990 to 2015, has been responsible for the development of the majority of

That just about sums up the past few months, now looking forward to the Club AGM on the 23rd August and then the Commodore’s Dinner on the 16th September which promises to be a spectacular night.

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BOATS at the club This is the first in the series of articles by new editor Libby Stephens aimed at providing you with an insight into a few new boats and other boats of interest at the Club. Contact Libby through the Club if you are interested in having your boat featured here.

We thank Terry Lockwood for his editorial contributions.

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Robert Winter is a relatively new Club member, joining late in 2016. Rob has just imported a new motor yacht, Merribelle, from France. Merribelle is made by Jeanneau and is an NC11, where NC stands for ‘New Concept’. She is about 37ft (11 metres) long overall and has twin Volvo-Penta diesels, each 200HP.

Last Christmas Shaun Gurney and his wife Jayne McCarthy were having such a good time soaking up the atmosphere in the Club dining room they decided to invest in the whole package membership, a boat and a berth! They ended up buying the yacht Nemo, a 31 ft Van De Stadt Maestro to put in their berth at A16. Nemo was built in 2006 in South Australia and has a Volvo Penta diesel sail drive.

Rob has dabbled in boats for most of his life. He built his first boat, a 12ft plywood dinghy with 4HP Seagull outboard, while still at school. His family did a lot of fishing in this little boat, both locally and on Yorke Peninsula. There were plenty of fish to be caught back in those days and whiting hauls of four or five dozen or more were common. Since then he has owned several other boats (some bought, some built) including a 30ft offshore racer/cruiser sailing yacht that gave him and his family much pleasure cruising in both gulfs and Kangaroo Island waters.

Rob says his most challenging project was designing and building a 17 foot clinker (overlapping planks) wooden boat — a traditional half cabin ‘putt-putt’ fishing boat with a 7 HP Blaxland inboard. She cruised quietly at about 6 knots and provided many enjoyable days on the water with family and friends. A cabin cruiser, converted from an old government work boat, owned together with his father, gave a different kind of boating experience, cruising the River Murray and Lake Alexandrina.

Rob plans to use Merribelle mainly for pottering around Outer Harbor, doing a bit of fishing here and there, but mainly just relaxing on board with family and friends.

An occasional trip across the gulf to Vincent, Stansbury, etc. will probably also tempt him in the warmer months. His mother (98 years old, 99 years by the time this goes to print) is especially keen to see if she can still fish. Rob tells us “she does everything wrong when it comes to fishing; she holds the rod wrong, she baits up wrong, she casts out wrong, holds the reel wrong and winds the fish in wrong. She is hopeless really, and the only reason I let her come fishing is that she catches more fish than me - life isn’t fair sometimes!”

The attached photo is Rob’s favourite to date because it reminds him of the sudden rush of excitement he felt when he first saw the boat ‘in the flesh’. This was just after the protective plastic wrapping (some of which can still be seen in the photo, on the ground) was removed on arrival here, following eight long months of waiting for it to be built and transported out to Australia.

Having joined the Club late last year, Rob says he is still a bit of a newbie to the Club. Years ago he was a member of the Yacht Squadron (where he moored the 30ft yacht), and was very happy there, but he thought he would have a change this time and try the CYCSA. He says he was also impressed with the facilities of the Club and the general friendliness of its members when he visited the Club last year.

Rob tells us he is still trying to work out how he has come to own this boat. About eight years ago he sold his last boat (a 16 foot trailer boat) believing that he was getting too old at 66 years of age for boating. But he made the mistake of attending one of the recent boat shows at Adelaide Marina and before he knew it he had signed a Bill of Sale for Merribelle! He suggests that when you have salt water in your veins the boating bug just comes back to bite you in the backside every so often!

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They have both dabbled on the water in the past, with Jayne sailing dinghies 30 years ago and Shaun doing a bit of windsurfing 20 years ago. Shaun tells us “we have no idea what we are in for as we have limited sailing experience but have been warned we should take some sailing lessons before starting our trip around Australia, ha-ha”. They are making good use of the Marine Academy, with Shaun taking part in the Introduction to Sailing Course and they are looking forward to a full day lesson with Hugh Longbottom in August.

Their immediate plans are quite modest and include not sinking the boat! Eventually, though, Shaun and Jayne would like to get up enough experience to circumnavigate Australia. Jayne is also looking forward to sailing with her 85 year old dad, Mike Parker, who loves the sport and has sailed around the Greek Isles. Mike used to be a sailmaker in the UK. Shaun runs a landscaping business and his many hobbies include fishing, crabbing, snorkelling and golf. He says he is very much looking forward to fishing from Nemo rather than his experience to date bobbing around in a kayak waiting for a shark to get him! According to Shaun, Jayne will need to keep up her work as a banker to pay for his hobbies - probably until she stops breathing!!

They are both enjoying being new members at the Club and say they’ve found the staff and other members extremely helpful and welcoming. It is great to hear they plan on being members for a very long time.

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t the start of a new financial year it is worthy to reflect upon the Marine Academy’s activities for the past year. Also, 2016-17 marks the Academy’s tenth year of operation. It is pleasing to see how far it has come over these years in meeting the purpose of increasing enjoyment, safety and knowledge for boating for both members and non-members and for attracting new members to the Club.

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Matts’ knowledge of Australian Sailing and the Royal Yachting Association requirements and his setting up the administrative systems for the Academy has been essential in the Academy’s development. Matt is sincerely thanked for his significant contribution. The introduction of the Boating Administrator role has meant that David Royle’s involvement has increased with him being appointed as the Principal effective from April 2017. Brett Yardley has maintained his position as Chief Instructor with John Edwards, Andy Shipp, Rod Hunter, Hugh Longbottom and Vernon Schulz as instructors.

In the 2016-17 year the Academy had 185 students an increase of 11.5% on the previous year and 198 enrolments an increase of 14%. Of those attending 39 (21%) were members, 146 (79%) were non-members with 66 (36%) being female and 119 (64%) male. A total of 11 students took up Club membership, comprising of seven Racing Members, three Senior Members and one Standard Member.

Our main training boat, Academy 1 continues to be maintained to ensure compliance with Sailing Australia and the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure survey requirements. An annual maintenance program has been completed by appropriately qualified contractors or club members and the appearance of the boat above and below decks has been enhanced by a team of volunteers. The recent involvement of trainees in maintaining the boat is also a welcome development along with numerous volunteers who assist in keeping Academy 1 on the go. Moreover, donations from senior members with equipment and/or services also plays a significant role in our ability to deliver a wide range of training opportunities.

The most popular courses were Start Yachting, Discover Sailing and 3 Day Live Aboard. The goal of offering courses for women only was achieved through a collaboration with the organization, Ladies Looking for Adventure. The Club hosted a luncheon for 30 women who wished to try sailing, while two fantastic female CYCSA members spoke about their journey into sailing. One gave an account of her sailing experiences in international waters while the other spoke of opportunities that had arisen having completed Marine Academy courses that led to her participating in the Adelaide to Port Lincoln race this year. Following this Rod Hunter and Hugh Longbottom conducted four Women’s Discover Sailing sessions with 24 from the group. Some have since been in contact about further training options.

The Academy is currently endeavouring to further broaden its training base with the addition of the Australian Sailing Keelboat Course and a number of Women’s Discover Sailing Days. A new calendar of courses, through to January 2018, is now on the Club website and we look forward to providing relevant and timely training to members and the public this coming season.

This year has seen significant changes within the Marine Academy.

After seven years as Principal of the Academy, Matt Young has stepped down as Principal but will continue as a senior instructor.

David Royle, Boating Administrator

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REPOWER WITH THE NEW VOLVO PENTA GASOLINE RANGE

Give your boat a winter birthday bonus volvo penta jacket! with every engine ordered

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RACING ASSOCIATION

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t the time of writing, we’re down to only one race left in the Port River Marine Winter Series. There are 20 boats in the CYCSA series, with close to even numbers in Division 1 and 2. The combined series with RSAYS is comprised of 39 boats. The results are fairly evenly poised between the CYCSA and the RSAYS. In the CYCSA results sports boats are on top of the leader board with Game On (Julian Newton) currently at the top of Division 1 followed closely by Asylum (Derek Morrison) and Dr Feelgood (Wayne and Jason Coonan). In Division 2 it’s the Melges 24 Vostok Europe (Ken Abbott) with a clear lead over Rock On (Trevor Conyers) closely followed by Kinetic Energy (Andy Shipp).

Weather so far has been kind by winter standards with just one race having to be abandoned due to no wind and a cold and wet day at the office on Sunday 16 July for Race 5.

The Canegrass Short-Handed Series has seen continuing growth over the past few years and has gone from just 2 boats per week in 2014 to 12 nominated last year and again this year. The atmosphere of this series is boosted by the post-race BBQ provided

by Greg Patten and Canegrass Saltbush Lamb, which continues to draw the fleet together socially. A group of cruising boats who sometimes follow the race (with no official status) has developed which may entice some cruisers into low key racing at some time in the future. At the half way mark of the series Freedom (Bob Schahinger, RSAYS) leads from Runaway (Daniel Turner).

Some of the Short-Handed fleet have also just completed their annual Port Vincent Dash and were joined by one fully crewed entrant to make for 5 boats. The 20-30 knot forecast for the race reduced the participation rate significantly.

Following the Racing Association AGM on 13 July the racing program has been ratified with minor changes, in particular to the IRC and AMS State Championships based on feedback from members. The Club will also be holding the Melges 24, Etchells and J24 State Championships this season and it’s great to see more interest in one design racing.

Recently a band of five association volunteers have been trained as Equipment Auditors under the National Equipment Auditing Scheme established by Australian Sailing. These auditors will be undertaking mandatory safety audits on all boats before racing in the 2017-18 season. More details on these arrangements will be available shortly.

During the off-season the Racing Association Executive has also had several other focuses, these include greater uptake of the TopYacht system that will now be used for race nominations in 2017-18 and the introduction of a club based IRC rating system including half price certificates for club racing. More information on these initiatives will be provided by newsletter to Racing members as they become available.

David Royle, Boating Administrator

The Australian Sailing Equipment Auditing Training took place at the CYCSA in May. Our five auditors, David Royle, Adrian Wotton, Rob Sellick, Tim Cowen and Steve Power are amongst the larger group trained on that day.

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Profiling Club members who, through their long term commitment and outstanding support, have contributed significantly to the life of the Club.

Rowley Richardson

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owley and Glenyss Richardson have been members of the CYCSA for 25 years. They are well known much-loved faces around the Club and so are their many, sometimes far afield, cruising exploits on their yacht Geordie Bay.

Rowley has made a significant contribution to activities at the Club over many years. He served with distinction as Rear Commodore (2011-12) and as Vice Commodore (2012-16) representing our Club at other yacht clubs’ functions on numerous occasions. As a Flag Rowley played an important communication role as a liaison between the members, the adminstration and the Board, as well as assisting with the organisation of many Club events such as our 40 year celebrations and the annual Opening Day. With a background in education and training it may have been inevitable that he would also become involved in the CYCSA’s new training venture. In 2006 Rowley was asked by the current Board to join a select group to establish the Club’s Marine Academy. He has served continuously as a committee member and is currently Chair of the Marine Academy Advisory Committee – although planning to step down after the August AGM. Rowley grew up in Adelaide attending Linden Park Primary School and Unley High. He then trained as an art teacher at the South Australian School of Art and Western Teachers College. An early appointment was to Mount Gambier where he built an Arafura catamaran in his class room. Although the school Principal looked in on the class he never did question why half the room was taken up with a boat. When completed, with the assistance of other teachers, a window was removed on a weekend allowing the boat to be relocated. He raced the boat at Port MacDonnell and on Lake Leake before returning to Adelaide. After five years as a teacher he resigned, later to return to the TAFE system as a lecturer then manager at the North Adelaide School of Art and at the Adelaide College of the Arts from which he retired in 2007.

His love of the sea began with surfing before RSAYS member Rick Ottaway and he bought a Rainbow dinghy that they sailed out of the Brighton and Seacliff YC. They were on a steep learning curve and quickly learned about ditching and re-righting and spent as much time swimming as sailing but never did manage better than a seventh place. However, they were hooked on sailing. While sailing on a Lightweight Sharpie in Sydney with Brian Quigley he was introduced to his brother Alan. He had recently built and launched the yacht Youth and the Cruising Yacht Club in Rushcutters Bay was his first stop in Alan’s remarkable 18 year global cruising marathon. An afternoon and evening sailing on Youth wetted Rowley’s appetite for keelboats and cruising.

Fortuitously Bruce MacFarlane introduced him to the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron and he was soon sailing with many well-known squadron members including Ion and Marg Ullett and Bryan and Helen Price. Ion was an adventurous cruiser and Rowley gained much of his cruising knowledge and skills sailing on Cooroyba and Archenar with them. Bryan a former World 505 Champion was a skilful and competitive sailor and great raconteur.

Racing on Sundowner in which Rowley completed a Sydney to Hobart in 1973 and on Ruthean. These years provided many memorable experiences and life long friends.

After an 18 year commitment to crewing he bought a 23 foot trailable yacht that became the heart of many family holidays and with children Sally and Tim, who were introduced to sailing from the age of two weeks, cruised Kangaroo Island, Coffin Bay, Gulf Waters and the Lower Lakes. As the family grew bigger it was time to look for a keelboat that could extend the family’s cruising capabilities. He settled on Geordie Bay an S&S 34 that although not spacious and is missing some of the mod cons of newer boats has proven to be a well founded and easily handled vessel for two people. Now Sally and her husband Daniel have two children, while Tim and Heidi who live in Sydney have four. While most are too young to enjoy boating, Thomas who is six loves a day out or a sleep over on Papa’s boat.

Tim very much misses the easy access to boating and fishing that our Club provides and looks forward to the day when he too, can introduce his family to the joys of a life on the water.

Rowley’s favourite cruising ground is the lower Spencer Gulf region for its good sailing, anchorages and fishing. A regular pattern for summer cruises was to sail to Port Lincoln with Glenyss, enjoy the region for two or more weeks before she flew home and Club members Trevor Paynter, Gerry Colella and Ken Woof joined him for a leisurely cruise home along the way enjoying island beaches, plentiful fishing and playing poker. Memorable trips include Tasmania and the West coast of SA. Rowley says the Club has meant a lot to him over his years of membership but it is the people and the activities that have given the most enjoyment. Whether that be a crabbing day, a Commodore’s dinner, a twilight race, serving on a committee or as a Flag Officer.

He is particularly gratified with the growth of the Marine Academy and sees it continuing to play an important role in the Club as a means of attracting new members and for basic and advanced sail training. The continual upgrading of the facilities over this time he regards as truly outstanding. This he credits to the strong governance of the Club and is grateful to the successive Boards for their vision, their business skills and high level of management.

His passion for the arts remains strong and since retiring 10 years ago he has rekindled his visual arts practice. Now at the age of 73 it is sailing with family and friends, the joy of a remote anchorage, meeting like-minded people and sharing a glass or two of red that makes him want to continue sailing for as long as he can.

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Six rounds of questions were played with a lot of jockeying for top position. The first prize of a limousine tour in the Barossa Valley was won by One Nation, and Stephen Bone will be organizing his table to enjoy this great prize. We hope to see an article in Groundswell from this lucky group following their trip to see how it all went.

Second prize was a draw between two tables and it settled with a sudden death question time, won by Still 40, Adrian Wilson’s group. This lucky group won a $500 Phil Hoffmann travel voucher, and can either find something to do locally together or perhaps find a way for one of the table members to be the ultimate holder of the voucher!

We won’t name the wooden spoon winner, to save any ribbing amongst friends.

Sufficient to say they won a supply of Tim Tams which will last through many morning teas…. and they did tell me it “was the best wooden spoon ever”!

Many thanks to everyone for coming along to make this a fun and memorable night.

Pamela Humeniuk, Chair Social Association

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Pearson Island

Jewel in the Great Australian Bight Cruising with Alan Noble

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pproaching the Pearson Isles at sunrise was magical. One could imagine how Captain Matthew Flinders might have felt when he stumbled across these remote islands in 1802.

The main (north) island rises spectacularly to a height of 238 m and is visible 20 nautical miles away. The isles are also among SA’s most ecologically important islands, having been isolated from the mainland for over 10,000 years and remaining free from any introduced pests.

fluctuated between 5 and 12 knots, we were able to maintain the same course through the night. By 07:00 we were immediately off the north coast of Pearson Island, having sailed 105.3 nautical miles from Port Lincoln. I decided to circumnavigate the islands to take a look at the rugged windward side. The islands comprise of three groups: the Pearson Isles in the north, the Veteran Isles in the middle, and lonely Dorothee Island in the south. They are part of the Investigator Group of Islands, covering ~280 Ha (~700 acres) in area. The islands and surrounding seas are also part of the Investigator Marine Park.

Our journey started 26 hours earlier at 05:12 on Friday 20 April when we departed from Port Lincoln with 4 persons on board (Helena, Cathie, Diego and myself). The early start was for 2 reasons: firstly, to get through the notorious Thorny Passage at slackwater and secondly to allow plenty of time for detours and the vagaries of weather. Our plan was to sail through the night and arrive around sunrise, taking advantage of the forecast SW winds. We motored through Boston Bay in darkness. At that hour, there were only a few commercial vessels out and about. We had all the hungry fish to ourselves too! Between Cape Donington and Taylor Island we caught four large snook, three within ten minutes of each other.

We furled our headsail and motored, passing north of Dorothee Island, before stopping at Anchorage Cove. This east-facing cove between the main (north) island and the lighthouse island is the preferred anchorage. There is a small beach and it is possible to anchor in 5m over sand with good holding. We anchored briefly, however I was keen to explore the anchorage on the NE coast that we had passed earlier, known as Eastern Cove (33°56.4’S 134°16.1’E), so we continued around.

We anchored in the SW corner of Eastern Cove in 9m of water.

Although the holding seemed secure, I think it would be an uneasy overnight anchorage. In particular, any easterly wind shift would swing one very close to the rocky shore. We took it in turns kayaking (Arriba carries two), which the sea lions found very amusing. They jumped from the rocks into the water whenever we approached and followed us for some distance.

At 09:55 with the wind from the NW we started sailing with main and jib, but 25 minutes later the wind shifted to the WSW and we raised our gennaker instead. We were now sailing at 6 knots (SoG) in 12 knots of wind at 60° to the wind. At 10:55 we tacked NW towards Fishery Bay and at 13:30 we anchored there for a lunch stop.

The bay offers a pretty sandy beach flanked by cliffs and is popular with surfers. The SW side of the bay is the best spot to shelter from W/SW winds. Swells wrap around Cape Wiles (34°56.74’S 135°41.06’E) so it’s important to anchor well offshore to stay out of the surf. We anchored in 4.2m of water and promptly fired up the barbie. Half an hour later we weighed anchor and shortly after spotted our first dolphins of the day as we approached Cape Wiles. At 15:50 we set our course for Point Whidbey (34°35.29’S 135°6.56’E), the SW extremity of the Coffin Bay Peninsula.

We could find no easy way to access the land from Eastern Cove, so after exploring for two hours we returned to Anchorage Cove, and anchored in 5.5m over sand. Going ashore we were greeted by dozens of sea lions, who were incredibly curious. The pups were irresistible. In the water, it was possible to get up very close to them providing one kept low and did not intimidate them. We then hiked up to the lighthouse which afforded us spectacular views.

Near the lighthouse we spotted several Pearson Island Rock Wallabies, which are a subspecies of the Black-footed Rock Wallaby and unique to the Isles.

Now would be a good time to mention that I had signed up for the Adventure Science Global Microplastics Initiative and offered to collect water samples during our trip into the Great Australian Bight. I had taken my first water sample shortly after passing Cape Donington, and I took my second sample at 16:06, five miles WNW of Cape Carnot (34°56.78’S 135°37.54’E). The water samples will be sent to a lab in the US for analysis.

Back at the cove there was more kayaking, swimming and exploring.

Dinner that night was barbecued whole snook with baked yams. Note that fishing is not permitted around Pearson Island so it is BYO fish.

At 03:55 I awoke to the anchor drift alarm. Phew! Arriba had not drifted but the wind had swung to the ESE and we had swung at anchor. We were holding fine though and, as it was only blowing 7 knots, I reset the alarm and went back to sleep. By sunrise the wind had picked up, and our previously idyllic cove was starting to get a bit bumpy. I did not wish to tempt fate by going ashore and leaving Arriba untended, so instead we decided to feed the fish from our stern. We had fun peering underwater with our masks and snorkels and marvelling at the great assortment of fishes that congregated.

The star of the occasion was a large smooth stingray.

After passing Whidbey Point we set a course of 315° for the north coast of Pearson Island (33°56.4’S 134°16.1’E), 57 miles distant. We were now sailing in the Great Australian Bight.

Two of our morning catch of snook went into a tasty seafood curry for dinner. A curry surely has to be one of the easiest dishes to prepare at sea and leftovers taste even better the following day for lunch. BTW, the trick to enjoying snook is to gut and clean it as soon as possible after catching it.

We would have loved to have enjoyed Pearson Island longer, especially to explore the main island, but unfortunately the easterly wind shift had ruled out that option. So, with some sadness we weighed anchor at 09:55, Saturday 22 April.

Helena and Diego took the graveyard watch from midnight to 04:00, after which Cathie and I relieved them. The wind and seas were following us making for a dream run. Although the wind speed 16

Approaching Pearson Island at sunrise

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The crew (L to R): Alan, Cathie, Diego and Helena with Pearson Island in the distance

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fter a short blow at the beginning of this winter came days of light north westerlies, clear skies and calm seas. Perfect to get out on the water and fish. Whiting weather. A Sunday had been chosen weeks previously by the Fishing Association Committee to give the FA Come Fishing Day another crack. Somebody on the planning committee didn’t look at the tide tables too closely though as that day was a dodge. Only mugs fish a slack tide is the old blokes’ view.

On the Friday before the weekend and with the weather report so favourable, nine boat crews had registered on the Club website to participate. Also members with a yacht or those wanting to go in company aboard other members’ boats had registered with the FA Committee who arranged a ride for them. By Saturday night we had 38 people attending this event, the most well-supported FA one of this type since the ‘good old days’.

Poor tide yet perfect weather? A day out with friends on the water won. So blokes fished with other members whom they’d never met before but shared a common interest.

On that Sunday morning and with the temperature recording 1.70 a couple of boats left the marina as light broke. It’s all very well to be enthusiastic but the sensible blokes waited until after 8am and the jug had boiled.

Given that we were laying on a BBQ at 12.30pm, skippers stayed close in around the local spots that had reports of whiting, like the Norma Wreck and inshore Semaphore and Grange. Some fish were caught including gummy sharks and fiddlers, a lot of red mullet and those #@^&* leather jackets which it seems are always hooked in their sides! – it’s weird! At least plenty of squid was boated and even some crabs.

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half decent bottle of red wine for the biggest fish – a 36cm whiting.

We thank Andrew Kerr, our new Food and Beverage Manager, for supporting our Fishing Association by donating some wine for the event.

A possible sponsor didn’t eventuate for the BBQ and since we’d blown our budget a few of those attending donated a few dollars more to help affray costs. Thanks must go to Leica Theodore and Jenni Paynter – while we planned a Bunning’s style sausage sizzle, Leica and Jenni shopped and worked hard to present a lovely feed with meats and salad, well worth the small amount charged to non FA members.

All FA members pay an annual membership fee of $23, an investment they more than recover should they attend the FA organised events during the year. However, we will be actively seeking a sponsor for the next beginning of winter Come Fishing Day with a view to making the event more attractive and encourage more members to participate.

Thanks also to Owen Mace with his Riviera Esprit and Vlad Humeniuk with his Riviera Splendido for taking other members out on their luxury boats – Owen even supplied Nespresso and lamingtons. Other members took their fishing mates and also offered their boats which was both generous and great to see. It augers well for next time.

One wit was heard to murmer, as he watched in awe as Owen fired up all his big Riviera’s electrics prior to leaving the marina, that on his boat “all I need to do is check the bungs are in”.

Trevor Paynter

John and Alla Kenny aboard Miami Vice fished east of the wreck buoy from very early catching squid at will but nothing else wanted to take their bait. Late in the morning while the squid float drifted away in the current as the tide turned, the whiting suddenly came on the bite. Plentiful legal size fish took bait as soon as it was presented. John confessed they left the whiting biting to come back in to be in time for the BBQ. It was rudely suggested he was possibly crackers, but he rationalised that they had enough for a few feeds and the fish will be there again another day. That attitude is so good to hear. John is some fisherman – he won this year’s Crabbing Day trophy and prizes as well. On this occasion we only awarded him a

John Kenny claimed the prize for his 36cm whiting.

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School’s Out Delivery from the CYCSA to Hamilton Island Part One – Adelaide to Sydney

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n 1 June 2017, School’s Out departed the CYCSA for a cruise to Hamilton Island Race Week to be held in late August. Along the way, she represented the CYCSA in the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta, explored the waters of the Pittwater-Hawkesbury region and will be competing in the Airlie Beach Regatta.

After a enjoyable June long weekend, acting as shore crew for the CYCSA Women’s team competing in the Australian Woman’s Keelboat Regatta, it was time to set sail for the next leg. The crew was Mary Ann Harvey, Peter Guilhaus, Rowan Edwards, Paulina Glass and skipper.

We departed St Kilda at 1100 on Tuesday 13 June and after re-fuelling at Queenscliff Marina we once again made our way through the Rip. Safely outside the bay the overnight cruising was largely uneventful but we did encounter several large merchant ships in the busy shipping lane.

We were thankful for having our Automatic Identification System (AIS) onboard giving us early warning of commercial vessels in our vicinity. The next morning we passed the southern most point of mainland Australia, Wilson’s Promontory, during a beautiful sunrise and sailed past the spectacular rock formations of the area. We then sailed into the tranquil and picturesque Refuge Cove, an isolated local haven for yachties. The forecast of a nasty storm front, predicted to hit the east coast in the next few days, meant that our visit was short before completing our crossing of Bass Strait.

Adelaide to Port Fairy (319nm) This was to be a relaxed delivery but, as we had a few immovable commitments ahead of us, the aim was to maintain an average speed of 6.5kts, with either full sails or motor sailing with mainsail only. After a lot of preparation in the preceding weeks, School’s Out set sail from the CYCSA at 1000 on a calm day, with clear blue skies and little wind. The crew for this leg was David Wotton, Ross MacDonald, Peter Gibson, and the skipper. We motor sailed early but winds gusted to 21kts after midnight, so we shook the sails out and maintained 7.5kts of boat speed throughout the night. It turned out to be a very chilly night at sea but a hot tuna casserole for dinner and a regular supply of hot drinks warmed the crew up.

Refuge Cove to Bermagui (258nm)

We arrived in Robe around midday the next day. We had initially intended to stay the night but the entrance to this delightful little marina is very tide dependent. The boat’s 1.9m keel and a significant low dodge tide meant that we would have been unable to depart for two days. We decided on a quick stay, and after an excellent lunch and showers ashore at the Surf Club, we refuelled and made our way to Port Fairy in the late afternoon.

To this point we had been sailing in light conditions but early on this leg the winds increased to a good sailing level. A very keen Mary Ann persuaded the skipper to fly our spinnaker in winds that were now gusting to 25kts and we had lots of fun reaching boat speeds of 9kts.

That night saw us traversing the Bass Strait Oil field with huge rigs that were lit up like Christmas trees. As we departed the Strait and arrived at Gabo Island in NSW, we were greeted with a brilliant red and purple horizon, our most stunning sunrise to date! The fun reached new heights off the island with our first sighting of a migrating whale breeching spectacularly, who we named ‘Greta of Gabo’. Many other sightings of these magnificent creatures were to follow throughout the next few days.

That night, the calm seas and light winds continued but the temperature at sea dropped significantly, with the crew resorting to wrapping ourselves in blankets and sleeping bags in the cockpit. We arrived in the beautiful seaside town of Port Fairy late afternoon for a well earned hot meal ashore and overnight stay. The next morning was busy with breakfast at the skipper’s favourite Port Fairy cafe Rebecca’s, and then an early dip for crewman Peter Gibson in icy waters to clear the propeller of thick kelp wrapped around the rudder. All had hot showers in the Harbour Master’s building and a walk around Griffith’s Island and the Port Fairy Lighthouse. We were sad to leave but a forecast of an impending severe cold front arriving in a few days gave us sufficient motivation to set sail early.

We had been at sea for two nights but decided to bypass the commercial wharves of Eden and sail for the lovely seaside village Bermagui which we reached after sunset. We moored in the lovely new marina overnight for a well-earned rest but kept asking ourselves - “when will the rocking stop?” A good night’s sleep, a great breakfast in the marina café and hot showers left us feeling refreshed for our final leg to Sydney Harbour.

Bermagui to Sydney Harbour (168nm) At sunrise the next day, we could make out the shapes of skyscrapers in the far distance. Dark clouds, loud thunder and bright jagged bolts of lightning greeted us as we approached the Harbour City but fortunately the storm bypassed us. We arrived in Sydney Harbour on Saturday afternoon 17 June after the long sail from Melbourne. What a truly magnificent Harbour it is. As Governor Arthur Phillip noted, “we’ve had the satisfaction of finding the finest harbour in the world!” We moored at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, in Rushcutters Bay - a beautiful part of Sydney not far from the CBD. That night we made our way to a local restaurant in Elizabeth Bay to celebrate the successful completion of our journey and to find our ‘land legs’.

Port Fairy to St Kilda, Melbourne (155nm) We had another calm and biting cold night at sea and timed this leg to coincide with favourable tidal conditions at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne. The “Rip” can be notorious for yachts and if you get the timing wrong, you may have to contend with a strong current, up to 6 knots or more multi-directional waves, whirlpools and overfalls. The aim should always be to arrive at slack water. There are several guides available on-line or through the Ocean racing Club of Victoria, should sailors want to seek advice on navigating this stretch of water.

Over the next few days, we took advantage of everything Sydney Harbour had on offer. We joined in a Cruising Yacht of Club of Australia exhilarating winter series race on Sydney Harbour. We sailed to the Sydney fish markets and picked up fish and chips with some beautiful sashimi for lunch and we had a night harbour sail for the crew’s last night in Sydney. Another great delivery had ended – we all had learned a lot, saw some magnificent sights and had many great laughs along the way.

To our relief, we managed to negotiate the entrance without incident and sailed into the bay via the “four fingers west” channel. Some five hours later, we came alongside the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron in St Kilda at 1400 on Monday 5 June. Within a couple of hours, the cold front hit Melbourne with strong winds and rain that lasted for the next two days. It was great sailing with the crew of three guys; lots of laughs and good companionship at sea.

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Sunset in Bass Strait

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A CLASSIC YACHT EXPERIENCE

by Bill Coutts

nce in a while as sailors and yachties we have an outstanding experience that stands out over all others. My partner Kerryn and I have just had such an experience in Porto Santo Stefano, on the West coast of Italy as we were there for the Argentario Sailing Week Panerai Classic Yacht Challenge. Four days of racing onboard Cambria, a classic 34 metre racing yacht built in 1928.

Kerryn and I had already planned to be in Europe in June and July culminating in a couple of weeks sailing in the Sporades islands off the East coast of Greece. Chris invited us along to take part in a regatta if we could work out the dates. Needless to say we altered our plans to fit the regatta in June.

A little bit of history - Cambria Cambria was commissioned by Yachting World magazine owner and media mogul in the Rupert Murdoch mould, Sir William Berry. Cambria, (40 metres in length with her bowsprit) was built as an international 23 metre class.

She was fitted with a motor in 1932 to enable her to cruise as well as race.

During the 1930s when similar yachts were being reclassified as J classes, the decision was taken to allow her to remain the only 23 metre class afloat. The next few years were busy and she ended up in Turkey when she was bought by a Belgian owner. She was lucky to be in neutral Turkey during WW2 as most yachts with 40 plus tons of lead on their keels were commandeered to have the lead turned into bullets! Once that was done most large yachts fell into disrepair or were scrapped as the alterations and wartime austerity combined to make it impossible to restore them to former glory.

How we came to be there is an interesting story‌.

In the 1980s and early 90s I taught at Prince Alfred College as the Director of Scotts Creek Field Centre and Head of Outdoor Education. Late last year the students who finished at PAC in 1986 had their 30 year reunion. Because a few of my teaching colleagues from that time had a lot to do with that particular cohort we decided to go along and see what 30 years had done to those young men! One of them stood out amongst the ties, suits and more casually dressed old scholars.

Chris Barkham was wearing a very colourful Hawaiian shirt and looked very tanned. He spoke to the group about where his career has lead him from sailing across the Pacific to being the Captain of Cambria for the last nine plus years.

After the war, she was dis-masted in the Canaries and sailed across the Atlantic before spending four years in the Caribbean. She then worked as a charter yacht in New Zealand. After that she was sailed to Australia where she underwent a refit and restoration. On returning to Europe she took part in the America’s Cup Jubilee at Cowes in 2001. In 2006 her mast was rebuilt in France. Since that time, she has been taking part in the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge around the Mediterranean. She underwent a 12 month complete restoration in 2014/15. Her German current owner is the custodian of a beautiful, original, classic yacht. Her Captain, Chris Barkham, has been

We talked about having his early outdoor experiences and adventures including his introduction to sailing with myself and other staff at PAC. I tried, probably unsuccessfully, to hide my jealousy at someone making a career out of sailing in Europe! Some of you may have had dealings with Chris when he was Captain of the One and All for a time.

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with her for more than 10 years as Captain. She currently sails with a professional crew of six along with the 16 volunteers to make up the 22 or so needed to race her.

The Argentario Sailing Week Classic Yacht Challenge One day of practice followed by four days of racing in a ‘picture postcard’ location with about fifty classic wooden yachts moored Mediterranean style, ‘stern into the dock’.

Waterfront Italian tavernas, cafés and restaurants all with colourful umbrellas and outside tables inhabited by sailors and holidaymakers along with multitudes of motor scooters made an exciting setting for the regatta.

Our Cambria was the biggest of the yachts in the event by ten metres or so but all of them were pristine and obviously a lot TLC and money had been lavished on all the boats, the oldest of which was well over 100 years old.

The first 24 hours was spent meeting the six permanent crew along with the other 15 volunteer crew members, some of whom had raced on Cambria many times and a few like me who had never been on board. I had never been on a yacht this big much less raced on one so our practice day was spent in familiarising ourselves with the boat and our roles. Chris was kind to me and placed me midship as the starboard staysail trimmer where I was less likely to get washed overboard. Cambria is a relatively narrow boat and has her gunwales under for much of her upwind sailing, making it very wet for the jib trimmer. He/she wears a harness. To give you some idea of the scale, the boom weighs about 1.3 tonnes and is about 10 metres long. The mast towers 48 metres off the deck.

The sails are huge and not lightweight making it a job for five or six crew to repack the spinnaker.

The thing that struck me on day one was how quiet the boat was. Hand signals and quiet instructions are the norm on Cambria, a tribute to Chris and the way he and Dave ...continued over page

Bill and Kerryn Coutts

Porto Santo Stefano, Italy Photos by James Robinson Taylor

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Cruise in Company to the Sea and Vines Festival

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he Cruising committee had once again arranged a bus on Monday for the June long weekend to go to the Sea and Vines Festival in McLaren Vale. This year a smaller group of 12 people gathered at the Club ready to enjoy some delicious wines, nice music and not least, good company. Meeting as early as 9:30am at the patio area we were soon all ready to go and our friendly bus driver Geoff got us under way punctually heading toward our first stop. Making good speed we were destined to arrive a little early.

At Cradle of Hills, they were little a surprised to see us when we crashed through the gate 15 minutes early. But there were plenty of spare seats to sit down on while enjoying the sea view and some splendid wines. With names like Darkside and Old Rogue some of us were definitely in the right place. The cheese platter was the winner among the variety on offer. A good hour later, with the guitarist still tuning his instruments, we were heading off to our next stop at Leconfield.

Here the party had certainly started with high energy rock n roll, swing dancers and vintage cars. It was time for lunch with a choice of street food enjoyed with Leconsfield, Richard Hamilton and Syn Wines. Hugo Wines, our next stop was more of a family affair and with the acoustic music less invasive we soon chose to move on to our last stop at Coriole, where the theme was my Big Fat Greek Winery. Most of us were appropriately ready for the delicious desserts.

A big thank you to all the happy participants with a delightful mix of new and ‘old’ CYCSA members: Evelyn and Karen, Margaret and John, Sue and David, Terri and Des and Carol and Andrew. All in all, a very convivial day and most importantly for any cruising, the weather was holding up nicely for most of the day.

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(First Mate) have trained the professional crew, and what a volunteer crew. We had ex-world champions, professional boat builders, a guy who rebuilt the mast out of a whole spruce tree sourced in Canada, a yacht broker who loves old 12 metre yachts, (he currently has Gretel 1 in his shed in Northern Germany and is trying to get interest from someone from Australia to take on the project of restoring her).

Others included the sailing master for the King of Norway together with a local young Italian girl who hadn’t sailed much but was given the experience, they were keen, passionate sailors just like myself.

Cambria sails beautifully and is a very powerful boat with mainsail, staysail, jib and jib top sail and an asymmetric masthead spinnaker.

The boat has a theoretical hull speed of 11.4 knots but we reached 13 knots on a couple of the days during racing. The four days of the regatta were sailed in light to moderate winds but lovely and warm.

As for most regattas, the days consisted of the pre-race briefing and coffee, getting out to the start line, waiting around for the wind to stabilise and then about three to four hours of racing. Then head back in, pack up and maybe a swim next to the boat and then the après race drinks onboard followed by dinner which was prepared each day by the cooks and permanent crew. What more could we ask for?

A ‘non-racing sailor’s’ experience of the Regatta In her words “I am not a sailor…” my partner Kerryn feels more at home in the après sailing scene. You know, with a gin and tonic in hand sitting at anchor in a beautiful bay with the sun shining and dolphins playing with maybe a rod or net trying to catch the odd fish or crab. I was concerned that although I was in yachtie heaven, four days of racing plus a training day would be too much even though Porto Santo Stefano is a beautiful old fishing village which has morphed into a wonderful historic Mediterranean seafront holiday destination. I needn’t have worried as Kerryn got to know more sailors than I did and loved the whole experience as much as me.

Some of Kerryn’s impressions and ‘likes’ were: The beautiful weather, balmy nights and warm seas for swimming.

The amazing people and the sailors who know so much about sailing with great stories if you wanted to ask them. However these characters are pretty modest and didn’t overtly talk about themselves unless asked.

People like: Woody, a 79 year old passionate sailor and ex Flying Dutchman world champion in the 60s. She loved his posh accent and sense of humour.

“I couldn’t understand a lot of what he said but I loved hearing it.”

Tim who is a lifelong sailor in his early 70s and is passionate about Cambria and all classic yachts. One of the things Kerryn really loved about these lifelong knowledgeable sailors is that they felt privileged to be on board this beautiful, historic yacht. Tshel, a ponytailed, somewhat quiet Norwegian who turned out to be the sailing master to the King of Norway. The King owns eight or ten classic yachts and motor sailors as well as an assortment of modern racing yachts.

the German owner in being a custodian of this beautiful piece of history.

He wasn’t there for the regatta although one of his sons was on board as a crew member. The owner still enters Cambria in the regattas around the Med. She loved the camaraderie of all the sailors in other boats in the regatta and their love of sailing and particularly classic yachts. The way they socialise and enjoy the competitive banter.

Footnote to Kerryn’s impressions: We were at a book launch for James Robinson Taylor, a professional sailing photographer on the second night for the regatta. We bought a signed copy of his book which featured photos of many of the boats in the regatta.

Kerryn then proceeded to get as many people from the various boats to sign the photos. Including Griff Rhys Jones, the Welsh comedian who owns Argyll, a classic yacht. She went onboard to get signatures and had a lovely time drinking with the crew, having no clue that he is a well known showbiz person! Other ‘famous’ people who own and race classic yachts are Simon LeBon (Duran Duran) and Pete Townsend (The Who). What a great way to socialise and get a look on other people’s boats.

How did the racing go?

Cambria was in the ‘big boat’ class along with two other boats, Halloween and Moonbeam of Fife but we had a very severe handicap. Our rating of 2.1 compared with 1.1 of the next closest handicapped boat meant that in our tactician Woody’s words, “For Cambria to win with this handicap we would have to finish before we start.”

We were first over the finish line in every race but came third each time on corrected time. That didn’t matter, to me at least. Just being out there on a boat like Cambria in the company of many other classic yachts on a beautiful stretch of water not far from the island of Elba was a fantastic experience. Sharing it with Captain Chris Barkham and the wonderful Cambria crew who were aged from 17 to 79 was a once in a lifetime event.

If you get a chance to even be at a regatta like this in the Mediterranean and you love classic yachts then we suggest you make the effort.

Bill Coutts (Bill has been a Senior member of the CYCSA since 1995. Despite now living in Melbourne, still sails out of the CYCSA on their 34 foot Van de Stadt yacht, Work in Progress.)

(L to R): Tim, Kerryn, Woody and Oliver with Dave the First Mate (in the background).

Captain Chris whose quiet manner set the culture and tone for the whole crew and ‘the fact that Bill taught him at school’. The experience is a good demonstration of ‘paying it forward’. Twenty three year old ‘Boss of the Foredeck’ and permanent crew member Fleur who started her sailing career as an 18 year old and is now sought after all over the world as a highly competent and skilled sailor with a great sense of humour. The amazing generosity of spirit of

CAMBRIA SPECIFICATIONS Built 1928 Shipyard and designer William Fife III and Son

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n Friday the seventh of July Port River Marine Services, a well-known sponsor of the CYCSA for many years hosted a launch to celebrate their formation with luxury boat brand Maritimo.

Whilst overlooking the marina views across the stunning eastern basin with two large luxury powerboats on display including Maritimo’s Flagship M70, guests were invited to indulge in champagne and delectable canapé creations in the CYCSA’s new Admirals Bar and Bistro.

Once again thankyou from all of us from the team at Port River Marine to all the guests that attended the night, it was a pleasure to spend the night with you all. A big thankyou to the Maritimo owners that lent their boats for the evening, Maserati for the fantastic cars on display, Central Audio Visual for the lighting and visual and the CYCSA for their fabulous venue and food on the night.

Working with one of Maritimo’s long term partners, Maserati, Port River Marine had two glorious cars on display on the night as well. An exceptionally well laid out audio and visual display, Port River Marine had a 5x5 meter LED lighted TV screen with running footage of all of Maritimo’s current models for guests to view, along with stunning blue and white wash lighting over the boats and cars on display.

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Guests said the food was fantastic and congratulated Port River Marine for securing the prestigious dealership. Overall the event was a huge success with about 100 guests attending, including some from interstate. Port River Marine looks forward to growing the Maritimo brand in South Australia further through their industry leading waterfront service facility and are working with the current owners to further enhance their experience with the brand.

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native oysters

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hen the uncle of my great, great grandfather landed at Hobart in 1804 as a guest of King George III, there was plenty of food for him to catch - kangaroos in abundance and shellfish waiting to be picked up.

Likewise, around Australia, native oysters were in such numbers that they formed massive reefs. A century ago in South Australia, for example, each year boats from Port Lincoln brought in a hundred thousand native oysters each. Today there are no native oyster reefs in South Australian waters. Fortunately, the native oyster itself is not endangered, so there is hope that they can be restored to their former numbers, reefs re-instated and the natural balance of life on the sea floor returned.

Our Club is doing its bit to help study the native oyster, whose formal name is Ostrea angasi. The Estuary Care Foundation of SA is a not-for-profit organisation that is growing 300 of the native oysters across the CYCSA, the Squadron, Flinders Ports, ASC and in the Inner Harbour to better understand them, their biology and the potential for local shellfish reef restoration. The oysters were sourced from Stansbury and initially about 60cms long.

When we inspected the native oysters in their two baskets in the Western Marina recently, we found the forty native oysters were growing well. The image shows me holding a friend – the white is the new shell growth since they have been in our Marina, just over nine weeks! Even more exciting is the fact that there are some baby oysters, each around two centimetres across, growing on the oyster.

The observation makes a good point since the old oyster reefs were made up of many generations of oysters growing on top of each other.

Interesting. We will explore the world of Ostrea angasi further in the next edition of Groundswell.

Owen Mace

NEW MEMBERS Over the last three months the following people have joined the Club.

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Photo courtesy of Steve Reynolds

Even more exciting is the fact that there are some baby oysters, each around two centimetres across, growing on the oyster.

School’s Out Competes in the Australian Woman’s Keelboat Regatta 2017

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he Australian Woman’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) is the only all-female keelboat regatta in Australia and is held annually at the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron in St Kilda over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend in June.

The AWKR is a notoriously fun, often cold and always very competitive regatta. Established 28 years ago, two female sailors were inspired to create a women’s only regatta after attending the New Zealand Women’s Regatta. Their goal was to encourage women to get involved in the sport of sailing. This goal is still very much at the heart of the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta. While sailing is a sport where men and women compete side by side as equals, the AWKR serves as a vehicle for women to try out new positions, expand existing sailing and leadership skills and become more actively involved in yacht racing.

School’s Out crew

Encouraged by the RSAYS Woman’s team (skipper Helen Willmer), who have competed in the AWKR for many years, a group of keen CYCSA women sailors hatched a plan to compete in this year’s regatta. An agreement with the skipper of School’s Out was reached; if the team could raise their racing skills to a high and autonomous level, he would hand his boat over to them to enable them to compete.

Crew training was centred around the RSAYS Combined Woman’s Series conducted each year over eight races.

Focussed one-off training sessions, such as spinnaker handling and start line tactics, were also held. Helmed by Mary Ann Harvey, the team began to take shape over a six month period and became more and more confident as the year progressed. Winning the Combined Woman’s series for the first time was an added bonus and then in May, it became official – the CYCSA would have its first boat competing in the AWKR. School’s Out was delivered in the week prior to the regatta on her way to Hamilton Island and joined a fleet of 24 boats and over 150 competitors from all over Australia and New Zealand. There was enormous excitement on the opening day of the regatta; School’s Out had been allocated to the unfamiliar Division One and the crew were primed to go.

Unfortunately, the forecast of very light conditions came to fruition and were not kind to their 9.5 tonne cruiser.

Although sailing mistake free races, School’s Out struggled to keep close to the faster boats in the five to eight knots of breeze present throughout the first two days of the regatta.

On the final day, winds finally cracked 10 knots, and to the absolute delight of the CYCSA crew, after sailing an excellent race, they snared a fifth place, only a minute off a place on the podium.

School’s Out crew totally focussed

School’s Out leads the fleet

The crew had lots of fun and gained enormous experience and have vowed to return next year. The team consisted of Mary Ann Harvey (skipper); Sharon Lienert (cockpit boss and spinnaker trim); Kirstin Norris (tactician); Kerry Parker (bow); Mary Beth Aiken (strings); “Aussie” Jo Pilmore (bow); “Scotty” Jo Wilson (mainsheet and headsail trim); and Helen White (winch queen and spinnaker trim). The team would like to thank and acknowledge the generous sponsorship of Musto Australia and the support of CYCSA Racing Association.

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