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MEMBERSHIP MATTERS

GARY MCNALLY COMMODORE

The Summer Season is in full swing at RFBYC, the Club is alive with activity. We will follow our many members competing in events around the globe during the Championship Season with our Club social media campaign, #rfbycCompetes. RFBYC will host the Dragon Australian and World Championship off Fremantle and the WASZP Australian Championship and 2019 WASZP Games at the Club. From your Membership Committee, have a safe and happy festive season and here is a little something from us.

See you at the Club.

rfbyc.asn.au Membership Outreach: (by John Walsh) The unique fabric of Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club is woven into the colourful membership at the helm of our active and dedicated Club.

Many members enjoy a historical link dating back to the 1940s. During those years sailing tested the skill of owners and crew to build their own yacht and stitch together sails at a time when the popularity of the Cadet Dinghy became the design of choice.

In contemporary years sailing and boating continues to attract ladies and gentlemen across the spectrum of dinghy sailing, Swan River class racing, power boating on the Indian Ocean through to the finest offshore vessels flying colossal asymmetrical spinnakers on the waters between Geraldton and south around to the Sydney Hobart classic.

Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club occupies a spectacular site on the banks of the Swan River.

As a Club - a continuing flow of new members is the one indispensable duty current members naturally inherit to ensure the longevity of Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club. One great source of new members is progression through the Junior Club. One other is through encouraging casual crew to join this outstanding Club and engage with its facilities.

Sailing at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club is open for all to enjoy with training programs from Tiny Tackers to seniors. The summer sailing program covers, the traditional Wednesday Twilight, mid-week sailing, weekend mid-river fleets and the Division fleets across the Club Start Line.

During winter the Club conducts competitive power yacht time trialing in addition to the Frostbite sailing series. Indeed, the power yacht owners provide valuable support at local, National and International yachting events as Start Boat, Mark boat or Jury boat.

Rowing, too, is an option at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club with a ceilidh group regularly on the water rowing the two Club owned St Ayles skiffs, Dotsie and Ripple.

Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club is a welcoming family environment.

The Club facilities are equal to the best in the world. Check with your friend or crew who may welcome an invitation to join and share the membership of a maritime connected world.

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UR 122ND OPENING DAY was a fantastic spectacle which showed our Club in it all its glory both on and off the water. Congratulations to all staff, volunteers and of course you the members that made this day such a success.

For the fourth year in a row we were nominated as a finalist for the Australian Sailing Club of the Year. To continually be in the top three clubs of Australia is an outstanding effort across all facets of our Club. I would like to acknowledge Zach Littlewood who was awarded the Australian youth Sailor of the Year 2018, Alan Polglaze who was awarded instructor of the year and John Longley was awarded the Australian Lifetime Achievement Award. Susan Ghent was a finalist in the sports professional award and Romë Featherstone was also nominated for the Youth Sailor of the Year. I would like to congratulate them all on their achievements.

As our normal summer sailing season prepares for the holiday break we will once again have members travelling locally and interstate to compete in regattas and championships. The annual rfbycGoesEast campaign has been modified and is now known as rfbycCompetes. It aims to achieve the following: • Connecting members of Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club with our sailors competing away over the sailing championship season.

• Raise the awareness of the sport of sailing in the local community.

• Present sailing as a sport for all ages.

• Sharing, creating a feeling of being part of a

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team for the whole Club membership.

We encourage travelling sailors to share their news/photos/results using our Club team social media hashtag, #rfbycCompetes.

Further information is available on our Club website.

The Dragon Nationals and World Championships are being sailed this December and January 2019 in Fremantle along with the WASPZ International Games being sailed in Freshwater Bay in January 2019. There will be a large contingent of competitors and families from interstate and overseas that will be utilising our Club for various functions and sailing events. We wish them all a warm welcome and trust their memories of Western Australian sailing conditions, our Club and members’ hospitality will be long lasting.

In the last three months General Committee has: reviewed and released the independent review of the 70th Bunbury and Return Ocean Race; issued the tender documents for the C Jetty redevelopment and formalised a “Code of Conduct” for members, guests. In addition, I am pleased to announce that we have completed the Master Plan for the Club and grounds along with the proposed Dinghy/Junior Clubhouse facility. Over one hundred members attended the two information evenings which were held, December 10 and 11.

The response from members was

overwhelmingly positive. “This site is a unique and treasured asset for all members. A 40 year+, generational approach is appropriate.” The plans can be viewed on the Club website.

Completing these projects in a three-month period would not have been possible without the assistance of 28 volunteer Club members, some whom have offered their time and others their professional services, thank you.

Our Training Centre Principal, Jenn Suffield has tendered her resignation in order to take up an exciting position at Australian Sailing (WA Office) as a Clubs Services Officer.

Jenn has been with the Club for 8 years and under her leadership, our Training Centre was identified as the No.1 Discover Sailing Centre in the Country for the 2017–18 season. Jenn was suitably recognised for her hard work in 2017 and was announced as the Australian Sailing Sports Professional of the Year.

We are fortunate Jenn will be here over the next couple of months, finishing up at the end of January 2019. She goes with our very best wishes for the future.

The Club has now commenced a recruitment process for Jenn’s replacement.

To those members competing in Championships or interstate I wish you all the best.

To all members have a Merry Christmas and a Happy Prosperous New Year.

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ROBERT PARKER VICE COMMODORE

PETER CHALMER REAR COMMODORE SAIL

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S ALWAYS AT THIS TIME of year the Club is very busy.

Having just opened the season, we have hosted the WA State Youth Championships, the WASZP and Moth State Championships, the Dragon State Championships, the ICR Regatta, JESS Match Cup, O’pen BIC State Championships and the Rockingham Race Regatta.

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INCE LAST WRITING TO YOU we have had Opening Day and what a wonderful day it was. Despite a late shower, the spirits of sailors and socialisers were not dampened, and post-race enjoyment went on till late.

It was a privilege to have the Hon. Julie Bishop attend, and her close knowledge of the Club was impressive as always. On-water activities are nearly 7 days a week, and the flow on to House activity is readily apparent. With Sailing Season now well underway, activity around the Clubhouse is high.

We continue to find our feet with the in-house Food & Beverage offering and appreciate members willingness to try new menus, ambience and other measures being trialled etc. Gregg Wild (our F&B Manager) is working closely with House Committee to ensure we have the right offering and quality, consistent with members expectations. I ask all members to continue to complete the feedback cards – both positive and less positive, so that we can respond promptly to member’s needs.

These cards can be used for any feedback, not limited to food and beverage alone. In the “old days” we had the bar “Suggestion Book” but I think a well-worded feedback card, or email to CEO, if warranted, will suffice.

I am pleased that career opportunities have arisen for 2 of our wait/bar staff

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being Vanessa Knowles, and Nick O’Callaghan. Nick has left and will be working in Sydney, Vanessa leaves in December to pursue a teaching career in Geraldton.

Both Vanessa and Nick have served members efficiently and always with a smile.

They will be missed. I am pleased to welcome Michael Swift and we are actively recruiting for the other position(s).

UPCOMING EVENTS

With Christmas imminent, we have only a few events left to run for this calendar year: • Freeze Frame Opera, 14 December • New Year’s Eve, 31 December By the time of print, we may only have New Year’s Eve remaining. Please book early as this is a very popular function and numbers are high.

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RECENT HOUSE ACTIVITIES

On the social side, we have held many successful events including the following: • Champagne Masterclass, 25 October • Melbourne Cup, 6 November • Remembrance Day Service, 11 November • Sunday Session, 11 November • Beatles/Stones Tribute Night, 16 November • Seafood Buffet, 25 November As seen by the broad range of activities above, we hope to cater for all members off-water interests, in both age and gender! Substantially, all the above events were well patronised and commended.

Applications and elections continue to be strong. I am delighted at the number of family groups wishing to join us. Feedback from those that have done their “research” into us, shows we have a compelling offering, compared with many other clubs.

Membership Committee are continuing to evaluate ways to attract and retain members at all ages and genders. I remind members to make every effort to attend New Members’ nights. The next is on Friday, 8 March.

It is always inspiring to meet and get to know our new members.

For those that I don’t get a chance to see in the bar or on water, best wishes for the festive season.

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Over the holiday period we will host the Dragon Nationals and Worlds, the WASZP Nationals and also Games. I give full credit and thanks to our great staff and volunteers for their club spirit in managing and supporting these events.

If you are interested in becoming part of our volunteer team and contributing by being trained in any of the roles of race management please email the Yachting Operations Manager, Debbie Blaauw.

The Australian Sailing Awards saw Matt Wearn, Zac Littlewood, Alan Polglaze and John Longley honoured in their respective categories.

A SOLAS Bravery Award was awarded to Phil Somerville-Ryan & crew from Huckleberry. Congratulations and respect to those deserving winners.

The first offshore race on our calendar, the Rockingham Race Regatta which includes the IRC Youth Cup

Series, was a very successful weekend. The format changed this year with the course following the coastline to a turning marker just off Cottesloe Beach, this initiative allowed us to showcase racing to beachgoers and the café strip.

In recent offshore events RFBYC teams placed well in the Rockwater Coventry Reef Race as well as the Westcoaster Ocean Race.

The recent JESS Match Cup is a World Sailing Grade 4 event and was contested hotly by seven teams in Open, Youth and Women’s categories. The overall winner was the Redline Racing team skippered by Matt Jerwood.

Calypso Racing, skippered

by Ethan Prieto-Low, were runners-up. Congratulations to all teams who competed, including the ones that originated in our October Summer Squad match racing course.

Whilst still on the Match Racing theme, Will Boulden

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has received an invitation to the prestigious Long Beach Congressional Cup in California next April.

The backbone racing of the Club is never forgotten and participation levels are at a healthy high. Our weekend and mid week racing calendar continues to include old favourites and embraces new events. I look forward to a strong second half of the season.

Yachting Committee’s recent review of safety requirements on the river have seen some changes in our management of racing. These changes include rolling safety audits, the use of the Y flag and refinement of our race policy documents at a Committee level. I am happy to report that these have been well received and, whilst it may have appeared a bit daunting initially, I thank all sailors for embracing these changes so thoroughly.

I look forward to seeing you at the Club.

below left: volunteering at the recent JESS Match Cup. below middle: the commentary team – local identity Ed Fethers (centre) with his co-hosts Will Boulden and Mark Lovelady. below right: volunteers Sandra and Ross.

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BARBARA-DENE JONES REAR COMMODORE JUNIORS

MARK TREMAIN REAR COMMODORE POWER

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HE JUNIOR/DINGHY SECTION has been and continues to be the most active section of our Club. During the Winter months there was sailing and training activity happening every day except 21 April and 4 July.

There were 7,283 individual sailing or training activities.

105 volunteers enabled this to happen. Most sailors were Club members. These figures are truly staggering and a credit to the on water team and the junior/dinghy members. The summer figures are proving to be significantly higher.

In September, our Juniors held their Annual General Meeting where they elected the 2018-19 Junior Committee. Congratulations to the following members on their appointment: CAPTAIN: TOM HODGE

VICE CAPTAIN: MIA LOVELADY

SECRETARY: AMY MOORE

TREASURER: ROHAN DEAN

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: SAM ROSE BEN LANE SOPHIE LANE ELISE MOORE DOMENIC BEER

It was a busy start to the 2018 – 19 Summer Sailing Season. The Club welcomed many up and coming talented sailors as they attended a four day intensive training camp and then the 2018 Western Australian State Youth Championships.

Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club will again be hosting Westsail and the State Youth Championships in 2019.

The ICR weekend in November was another huge success with over 150 boats entered in the Regatta. We 6

were delighted to welcome members from other clubs to our regatta. They loved participating alongside our Opis and Bics. Our thanks to the On Water Team and volunteers who made this event a huge success.

As we continue to encourage different fleets we were delighted to host the Moths and WASZP State Championships. The Moths were very popular in the 1970’s at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club. They were the boat of choice for the 16–25 year olds. Perhaps we will see this fleet become significant once again. Congratulations to Tristan Brown for winning the inaugural Western Australian WASZP State Championships and Nick Deussen the 2018 Moth State Championships.

Many of our sailors are venturing East for National and World Regattas over Christmas and the New Year.

Our Junior Administrator Chelsea is escorting eight 29er sailors to the Nationals and Youth Nationals in Tasmania. A container full of Mirrors is going to Sydney for the Nationals and Worlds. We wish all our sailors and the families who support them a lot of fun and enjoyment from their adventures. To follow their progress please follow the RFBYC Dinghy Sailing Facebook page.

Our Fleet Captains, parent members, are contributing a huge amount of time to help grow participation of their

respective fleets. Sailors and parents are encouraged to talk to their fleet captain to get support and information that is particular to their fleet. The Fleet Captains are: 420 – RICHARD BOUGHER LASER – JAMES STEWART MIRROR – ALEX O’BEIRNE OPTIMIST – SCOTT MUNRO 29ERS – MARTIN WEBSTER 49ER/ 49ER FX – LACHY GILMOUR O’PEN BIC – CAROLINE ELMS WASZP – MICK HONAN 505 – ANDREW CAWLEY CONTENDER – SIMON BARWOOD

Junior and Dinghy sailing during January will be the “Coaching Series” with our coaches organising fun events which will improve the skill levels of our sailors who are not travelling for regattas. Sunday 10 February we will be back into consistency racing for all fleets, with competition heating up for the second half of the season.

In the new year RFBYC will host the WASZP National Championship and International WASZP Games (18 – 28 January). With entries in excess of 80 boats it is going to be a spectacular event.

Our Junior and Dinghy sailors are grateful of the hard work and tenacity of the Commodore and his team who have done a great job in progressing the redevelopment of the facilities they depend on. We are looking forward to this project continuing to move forward.

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NCE AGAIN POWER CLOSING DAY — held on 15 September — was a great success. We had a wonderful group of time triallers compete in the final time trial of the season. The competition was followed by Closing Day Presentations in the Athol Hobbs Room.

Season Results were as follows: THE NAIAD TROPHY MOST IMPROVED SKIPPER

Evan Moore – Kizuri CHARTER DAY TROPHY

Andrew Jordan – Breakaway AVALON III PERPETUAL TROPHY

Andrew Jordan – Breakaway WM SCHOFIELD SHIELD

Tim Cummins – Havana LEM SHENTON MODEL

Ken Stevenson – Havana PAT HEALY SEXTANT

Rory Vinnicombe – Key Largo THE BERNADENE TROPHY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP SKIPPER

Tim Cummins – Havana THE PAT HEALY BAROMETER CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP NAVIGATOR

Ken Stevenson – Havana RUNNER UP CLUB CHAMPION SKIPPER

Hamish Beck – Queste RUNNER UP CLUB CHAMPION NAVIGATOR

Cameron Cox – Queste.

The Rockingham Race Weekend was held on the weekend of 8 and 9 Decem-

ber, with 15 power yachts registered to participate. A wonderful time was had by all. Some met us in Rockingham and others watched the yachts round the turning mark in North Cottesloe in front of Barchetta beachfront café before heading to Rockingham. A number of boats then set off to Garden Island on the Sunday for a BBQ lunch before heading back to the Club on Sunday night or Monday morning.

This is a great opportunity for both power boat owners and yachties to get together for a great weekend on the calm waters of Rockingham and enjoy the hospitality of the TCYC. The Twilight Time Trial will be held on the 15 February 2019. This event has been very popular among all the time trialling Clubs over the last two years since its reintroduction so please get your nominations into Casey and we can aim to have to largest numbers yet! Invite some friends to come along and stay for the BBQ afterwards and make a night of it.

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Also coming up on the 31 March is the Camp Quality Family Fun Day. This is a very rewarding and amazing opportunity to give some families a wonderful experience and a break from the trying times of supporting their children with cancer.

We are looking for volunteers for this day. All volunteers last year thoroughly enjoyed the experience and we hope to see you all again next year. Families are allocated to power boats and they go on a cruise on the river followed by a picnic lunch on the lawn at the Club. Many kids and their parents and siblings had never been on a boat before and it is a privilege to give them this chance.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my Power Yacht Committee and Club staff and volunteers for their support and contribution throughout the 2018 season.

I’d also like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year!

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NSW COUTA BOAT CHAMPIONSHIPS 26–28 OCTOBER 2018

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WO RFBYC CREWS SAILED IN THE NSW Couta Week, Andrew McMillan (Roulette, WA) sailing Couta Tah (Andrew in shares with Sydney syndicate) and Jim Wilshire (Eclipse, WA) in Southerly (Sydney based, just purchased by Jim).

It turned out to be a NSW and WA event as no Melbourne boats made the trip.

Fortune favoured the brave with the weather, and despite strong winds from the south be-

above: NSW State Championships 2018 right: Southerly – Muriel Trophy Winner far right: Couta Tah – Thistle Cup Winners

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ing forecast the Pittwater convoy had a near perfect motor sail to Sydney Harbour with a spectacular whale show off the heads.

Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club was the host club with

Sydney Amateur Sailing Club providing moorings and hosting the Muriel Cup. It was a windy long weekend necessitating a lot of waiting for suitable conditions but the time wasn’t wasted by enjoying the splendid Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club hospitality.

The WA crews featured strongly with Couta Tah winning the two-race Thistle Cup on Friday 26. On Saturday 27, Southerly won the Muriel Trophy with Couta Tah 2nd.

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For the Championship race on Sunday 28 the overall winner was a very well sailed RPEYC syndicated boat Makama; Southerly was the scratch boat and missed out by 5 seconds clean sweeping overall fastest and handicap honours.

Whilst this year’s event on the Harbour missed the competition from the Melbourne based Couta Fleet, it was a great event and spectacular fun sailing on the Harbour.

The race organisation, starts, courses, catering, hospitality could not be faulted and everything was arranged and provided by a team of volunteers.

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FLYING FIFTEEN RACING THE WORLDS ARE COMING

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FLYING FIFTEEN RACING THE WORLDS ARE COMING

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OR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON’T KNOW, the Flying Fifteen is a onedesign, two-man, fleet racing boat. Its design has been fine-tuned over many years to provide close racing with dinghy like characteristics in a fixed keel boat.

It is essentially one of the first sports boats; there have been over 4,000 boats built worldwide. Fifteen’s are easily trailed by road, transported by rail or sea to venues around the State, around the Nation and around the world.

A Fifteen provides something for everyone across many levels of sailing expertise. To be at the front of the fleet you’ll require technical and tactical savvy however many mid-fleeter’s are happy to simply hone their sailing skills whilst racing against likeminded, competent sailors who enjoy a good time both on and off the water.

You can tell that a major regatta looms when boats start changing hands and orders for new boats start flowing. RFBYC has been selected as the Organising Authority for the 2021 Flying Fifteen World and Australian Championships to be sailed out of Fremantle Sailing Club early February. It is predicted that there’ll be between

80 and 100 boats competing in the Australian Nationals, vying for the 80 places available in the open category of the subsequent World Championships. The Championships will likely be the largest one-design keel boat fleet assembled in Australia for many years… Sound tempting?

Season 2018/2019 is upon us. The Freshie fleet welcomes crew combinations Margot Matthews and Clive Beeton, Adele and Drew Jackson, and Peter Mudford and Hamish Carnachan to the ranks of regular Flying Fifteen sailors. It’s both notable and pleasing that we now have four experienced female sailors amongst our ranks. With sadness, fleet Godfather Bruce McGeorge has retired from sailing, we hope to see him filling in when-ever the opportunity arises.

We have a busy sailing program in 2018 / 2019 with several metropolitan regattas bringing together the Freshie and SoPYC fleets; the National Champion-

ships in Adelaide; an offshore regatta at Mandurah; the State Championships at the ever popular Esperance Bay YC – expected to attract around 40 entries from Geraldton, Perth, Mandurah, Albany and Esperance, and finally the 2019 Worlds in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. The Freshie fleet continues its high calibre status, we look forward to our club representatives performing well at these various events.

SO, IS THIS YOU:

• bored of Division style handicap sailing?

• want dinghy like sailing but had enough of capsizing?

• want one-design fleet racing without the hassle of finding multiple crew each week?

Then try sailing a Flying Fifteen.

You’ll quickly learn why Fifteens have long been part of Freshie one-design sailing fabric, you’ll also be hooked for life!!

left: 2018 Flying Fifteen States – South of Perth Yacht Club. opposite page: 2016 Flying Fifteen States – FSC.

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John Low

DRAGON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP JANUARY 2019

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HE RFBYC DRAGON FLEET IS currently experiencing an influx of new owners and crews in the lead up to the upcoming National and World Championship regatta’s to be held off Fremantle in early January 2019.

FAMILY TIES STRONG IN RFBYC DRAGON FLEET

The local fleet of 20 boats currently has an unprecedented five (5) father and son RFBYC member combinations participating on the following yachts: Hotspur (AUS 144): Ethan Prieto-Low & John Low; Relentless (AUS 191): David & Jack Lynn; Scoundrel (AUS 214): Willy & Jock Packer; Saphira (AUS 221) & Scoundrel (Aus 214): Jasper & Julian Harding – albeit on different boats; & YRED (JAPAN 56): Peter & Sam Gilmour.

Other family connections in the fleet include Jennie & Ben Fitzhardinge on Aeolus (AUS 109) and Ray & Karen Chatfield

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on Wizardry (AUS 201). Interestingly the above teams filled 5 of the top 6 places at the recently concluded WA State Championships. (See write up and link to results in Sail World article – www.sail-world.com/ news/212336/Dragon-StateChampionship-at-Perth).

Additional family connections include WAIDA Life Member Peter Hay as measurer with son John Hay sailing on Saphira and club Vice Patron Ron Packer sailing French Connection.

The 2019 Dragon World Championship will be conducted in conjunction with the Australasian National Championship (Prince Philip Cup) from the 27 January 2018 through until the 9 January 2019 in the pristine waters off Fremantle.

above right: Team Hotspur left: Team Scoundrel

RFBYC in conjunction with WAIDA are co-ordinating the regatta’s under the stewardship of John Longley as event Chairman including provision of race management, logistics, measurement & administration in conjunction with our host Fremantle Sailing Club.

Regatta sponsorship has been sourced from Events Corp, Tourism WA and Yanmar Diesel.

This will be a memorable two week regatta for the Dragon fraternity with the last World Championship conducted here in 1995 & we encourage all RFBYC members to join and support us on the waters off Fremantle early in the new year.

Please check the event website (www.dragonworldsfremantle2019.com) for further details.

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ATT JERWOOD AND HIS REDLINE RACING team have made their Perth, returning to keelboat match racing for the first time in years. The old and his team of Niall Morrow, Mark Whittington and Alex Landwehr ed the Round Robin Series of the JESS Match Cup with a clean score card

above: the JESS Match Cup–made

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Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club’s Grade 4 event was named in honour of the JESS programme, a unique event that nurtured 160 young sailors from 1988 until 2016.

The original concept was developed

by RFBYC’s coaching co-ordinator at the time, Huck Scott. His vision was to offer young yachtsmen and women the opportunity to not only improve their skills as sailors but to develop their character and leadership qualities through planning and embarking on a tour of Europe, competing in 420 class championships in a team of six sailors and two support staff. He said “the JESS Experience is demanding on the sailors, clubs, parents and team leaders, but the rewards are

rich. The experience for the sailors is a once in a life time event”.

Raced in BW8 yachts, the JESS Match Cup is an open match racing event with an overall winner in the Open, Youth and Women’s division.

Jerwood, racing for South of Perth Yacht Club commented after the event, “Redline Racing had a great time at the JESS Match Cup after a long time between keelboat match racing hit outs after shifting focus to the cats and foiling. We love match racing, it’s so honest and brutal in how it shows your weaknesses.”

With six straight wins in the Round Robin Series he chose to match Liam Wilson in the Semi-final Round. Liam and his older crew of Dave Spearman, Margot Mat-

JESS MATCH CUP RFBYC SAILING INSTITUTE left: Jerwood and Redline Racing – a return to the local match racing scene

mark in 26 year dominatof wins.

thews, Clive Beeton / Neil Clegg formed their team through training in the RFBYC Summer Squad and are relatively new to match racing.

Their coach Ryan Donaldson was delighted to see this new team make it through to the final four after a steep learning curve to get to the event. They had defeated two more experienced younger teams of Intrepid Racing (Luke Dobrich) and Australis Match Racing Team (Murray Buchan) as well as the women’s team skippered by Sandy Anderson.

In the other match, Ethan Prieto-Low (Calypso Racing) was up against Marcello Torre (Columbus Racing). Prieto-Low was fresh off the plane from another match racing event in Sydney and both teams

bottom right: Torre and Columbus Racing

were hoping to qualify through this event for the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta in January.

Ethan and his crew of George Boulden, Adam Brenz Verca and Andrew Henderson took their youth rival 2-0 and were through to the Final Round. They would be up against Redline Racing.

The Petit-Final was contested by Liam Wilson and Marcello Torre with third place overall awarded to Torre and his crew of Conall Hansford, Oliver Mavrick, Owen Ready and Raffael Torre.

During the Final Round a good crowd of spectators had gathered on the lawn at RFBYC to listen to the race commentary by local identity Ed Fethers and his co-hosts Mark Lovelady and Will Boulden, ranked 9th in the World Sailing match racing rankings. Prieto-Low and Jerwood provided some excitement for the crowd in the first to score three points round, Ethan taking the first win. Jerwood evened up the score card in the next race finishing the race with a clear lead and took the next win too. As the light began to fade and the breeze weakened, Prieto-Low was not giving up. Jerwood entered on port and hoisted a spinnaker. His effort to cross Prieto-Low failed and he was too

late to get rid of it and enter in to a dial up manoeuvre. Jerwood waited until the last possible moment in an attempt to get across his bow but had to gybe to keep clear letting Prieto-Low get control of the prestart. With very light winds it was a test of boat speed for the teams and eventually Jerwood managed to break free. As they approached to start, Jerwood made a surprise break for the pin end of the start and tacked on to port. Prieto-Low opting for the boat end on starboard looked like he would be in a better position until he was called over the line.

Both teams entered a dial down situation, Jerwood’s Redline Racing on port tack and Calypso Racing on starboard. There was a close situation and a call to the umpires, the penalty was to Jerwood. It was almost sunset when Redline Racing managed to gain enough distance in the fading breeze to complete their penalty turn and beat Prieto-Low across the finish line in an exciting end to the Final Series, 3-1 to Jerwood.

RFBYC would like to thank the volunteer team led by Race Officer John Taylor and Chief Umpire John Standley for putting their time and skills in to another successful and enjoyable JESS Match Cup.

OVERALL RESULTS:

1ST REDLINE RACING MATT JERWOOD, ALEX LANDWEHR, MARK WHITTINGTON, NIALL MORROW.

2ND (YOUTH) CALYPSO RACING ETHAN PRIETO-LOW, ANDREW HENDERSON, GEORGE BOULDEN, ADAM BRENZ VERCA.

3RD COLUMBUS RACING MARCELLO TORRE, RAFFAEL TORRE, OWEN READY, OLIVER MAVRICK, CONALL HANSFORD (LUCY ALDERSON).

4TH SEND IT LIAM WILSON, DAVE SPEARMAN, CLIVE BEETON / NEIL CLEGG, MARGOT MATTHEWS.

5TH AUSTRALIS MATCH RACING TEAM MURRAY BUCHAN, GRANT BOX, BEN WALSH, ANDREW BUCHAN.

6TH INTREPID RACING LUKE DOBRICH, GRAYSON DOWNES, KAI COLMAN, BROCK PITCHER.

7TH TEAM VS SANDY ANDERSON, JENNY SPEARMAN, CAROLINE GIBSON, LEONIE ROCHFORD, JODI EARNSHAW.

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THE PART ONE OF THIS ARTICLE I mentioned a very innovative and effective freighter which is prevalent on the river at this time of the year. I think that the plastic sheet cargo barge would have to be among the front runners in the competition.

The world’s Humanitarian Organisations supply to communities an enormous amount of a standard, strong, high quality plastic sheeting, primarily intended for creation of shelter.

That may be its intended use and much of it is used in that way but it is also a raw material for a variety of other innovative applications.

On the Pibor one of its more common uses is to fabricate cargo barges like the one below left.

An array of sticks are stuck in the mud hard against the bank at the point of loading. These sticks serve to hold the edges of the future freighter up in a, for want of a better word, flexible waterproof bowl. Into this bowl the cargo is loaded gradually and as the freeboard diminishes the sides are pulled up and eventually secured across the top of the cargo thus.

This one isn’t the best one I have seen. I have included it because the cargo is dried fish being freighted from a fishing camp

(the river teems with fish) to a big town for sale. If one happens to be downwind of one of these cargos it isn’t necessary to look up to identify it. They have a fragrance which is pervasive and difficult to mistake. These barges are towed (they always seem to be going upstream) by two people, one on either bank, using a thin but sturdy cable plaited up using strips of mosquito net which, no doubt, has been supplied by an NGO in a bid to counter malaria. The myriad uses for mosquito net other than for protection against mozzies are a topic for another story.

Because the tow people are a long way ahead of the vessel it’s hard to get a photo including them, so I ask you to imagine them—usually a couple—walking along the banks scrambling over fallen trees and negotiating tributary creeks and numerous other obstacles as they freight their goods to market. Occasionally one will see a single engine version. In this case the mariner

will be wading shoulder deep close to the bank either pushing his barge or towing it on a short hawser. Not all of these vessels are as poorly constructed as the Dried Fish Express. Some of them are really well made like the bulk carrier below right.

This cargo is building materials probably being carried to a village where good materials aren’t available or it is considered too dangerous due to tribal or political tensions to go out into the bush to collect them.

As we pass these barges we are careful to minimise our wake. They have limited freeboard and it would be easy to send a hard earned cargo to the bottom.

I suppose that I should include at least one recreational vessel in the mix.

Materials which we would consider an environmental landfill problem in Australia when transposed to the Pibor River can provide a fun recreational vessel for a Pibor River teenager.

below left: the Dried Fish Express, a roughly made example of the plastic sheet cargo barge. below right: a wellmade bulk carrier with its hard-earned cargo of building materials. overleaf: an effective ‘seahorse’ made from polypropylene bags and empty plastic bottles.

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continued from page 21 Take two woven polypropylene bags about the size of a wheat bag, Accumulate about 25 or 30 empty plastic bottles ( the 1.5 litre size are considered best) for each receptacle and stuff each of them well. Tie the necks of each bag together strongly (possibly with cord made from mosquito net) and, voilà, as shown below it is now a very serviceable and effective—what we called when we were kids—Seahorse.

These vessels are not only used for recreation. In 2015 when I was in Mayom, South Sudan I was advised that a fisherman had been taken by a crocodile while using a vessel similar to this to set his nets. We have recently had a cattle keeper admitted who was attacked by a croc while swimming his cattle across the river. Fortunately he was able to fend it off and it turned its attention to one of his cows.

I’m not sure why I thought that members would be interested to hear about these water craft but nevertheless I have sent this newsletter off. This is my fifth mission volunteering with Médecins Sans Frontieres and (apart from Syria) it has been the most physically and mentally challenging. Having said that there is so much to see and learn that I have been very grateful for the chance to serve. While not perfect, MSF is a wonderful organisation which is careful to husband the donations of the millions of people worldwide who contribute to the work of providing medical assistance to people in need.

This aid is offered without consideration of political, religious or ethnic affiliation to people affected by disasters around the globe whether man-made or natural.

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Call Manfred Speicher (RFBYC member) on 0416 018 407 to find out more.

Following my Irish adventures last year, it was time to spread my wings and cross the Atlantic with Cunard, a shipping line Editor’s note: Eric is away on a posting in Yemen at present. Eric suggests that members who would like to know more about the work of MSF, visit the MSF website. He would be more than happy to talk to anyone interested when he returns from his field assignment. He can be contacted at peneric@git.com.au or through the Club.

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some nervous chatter at dinner! The fog horn was sounded every so often and a chilly frosty feeling fell over the ship. But of course with the latest navigation on board we really had nothing to worry about.

It was early morning as we approached the port of New York, passing the Statue of Liberty on our starboard side. Her eery green color from the copper was an amazing site, with all the guests taking pictures.

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LAWRENCE ROLAND SMITH BALLROOM

Nokomis was built in 1923 by W & S Lawrence & Sons as a 40 foot English timber river launch.

She was commissioned by a prominent businessman, WJ WJ Winterbottom – a Commodore of the Royal Perth Yacht Club. Craig Grundmann (pictured here stepping on board) bought Nokomis in 1991 and has been faithfullly restoring it to its original condition ever since.

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REUNION

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awrence Doran (later William Lawrence) was born in 1824 in an almshouse in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In 1843, he signed onto the whaling ship, Florida, under the name William Lawrence – one that he would keep for the rest of his life. He was apprenticed as a ship’s carpenter. The pay and conditions on board were poor, so William and another man, John Smith, jumped ship in Albany. They decided to walk to Perth, but Smith died along the way.

William reached his destination, but was too afraid to enter Perth or Fremantle, so he made his way to Point Walter. There, he wandered into a halfway river house, Watermans Retreat, that sold alcohol and supplies to river men. The owner, Samuel Caporn, befriended William and gave him a job. In 1947, William married Caporn’s daughter, Elizabeth “Bessie”, with whom he had 10 children.

William also befriended David Jones, who was a shipwright with a yard at Point Walter. Jones continued William’s boat building training. In addition to boat building, William plied a trade as a licensed river boat man – rowing a gig from Perth to Fremantle and return, carrying mail and passengers.

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he extraordinary life of pioneering boat builder, William Lawrence, was celebrated by many of his descendants at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club.

The event was organised by RFBYC members Trish and Bob Lawrence. Trish is a genealogist, who has extensively researched the family history. Her husband, Bob, is a great-great-grandson of William Lawrence. Trish and Bob spoke about William’s life. There were two other speakers: Peter Birch, who is William Lawrence’s great-grandson, and Ross Shardlow, who is a world-renowned maritime artist.

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ircumstances changed for William in 1856. He and his brother-in-law, Henry Caporn,

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above and right: Kiewa (1913). inset: Kiewa’s nameplate.

were charged with stealing 36 gold sovereigns from a clerk, Richard Wells. Wells was so drunk that he had no recollection of how his sovereigns went missing. The pair were convicted on the basis of dubious testimony from a third co-accused man, “Cranky Joe” Ferney. William Lawrence always denied having stolen the money. Bob Lawrence, a retired magistrate, told the family audience that, based upon the court transcript, this case would not get up today.

William was given an eight year prison sentence, of which he served four years before being given a ticket-of-leave for good behavior. While in prison, William was appointed a “Prison Constable”. He took time 26

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icket-of-leave holders were not permitted to “be employed on whaling or other vessels”, so William Lawrence was unable to resume work as a river boatman.

Instead, he repaired boats upon his release. In 1862, he formally set up his boatbuilding yard, Waterside, on Bazaar Terrace (now Mounts Bay Road/The Esplanade), Perth. He trained three of his sons to become shipwrights: William Jnr and Samuel (who later continued the business into the twentieth century) and Andrew (who was my great-great grandfather and Bob Lawrence’s

great-grandfather). As the boat building business expanded and passed to the next generation, numerous commercial and pleasure craft were built under the names William Lawrence, Lawrence and Sons and then W&S Lawrence.

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illiam Snr had diverse business interests; besides shipwright, steamboat proprietor and estate manager, he was in partnership with the Peninsula Brick Company, and was the first to introduce gas lighting to Perth. He was also a pioneer of gold prospecting in Western Australia.

This interest began in 1864 when he joined an expedition to Camden Harbour, in the Kimberleys, in the schooner New Perseverance.

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No gold was found, but William’s boat repair skills were put to good use, after the ship ran onto a reef.

William participated in and funded many gold prospecting syndicates, including one that, in 1887, was the first to discover payable gold on the Eastern (Yilgarn) Goldfields. Shortly after William Lawrence’s death, one of the syndicate members, Dick Greaves, described him as “the Father of the Eastern Goldfields”.

William Snr became a rich and influential man. He had substantial landholdings in Perth city (in St George’s Terrace, Mill Street and Bazaar Terrace) and in Northbridge (in Aberdeen and Fitzgerald Streets).

This prompted Bob Lawrence to ask the assembled family members “why aren’t we all rich?”.

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William Lawrence Snr is interred in the East Perth pioneer cemetery with his wife Bessie. He insisted that his coffin be made out of jarrah – his favourite boat building material.

He requested that an American flag be draped over his coffin and that mourners were to walk from Mill Street to the cemetery in East Perth.

The Lawrence family boat building enterprise came to an end in 1942 with the passing of Samuel Lawrence, the last remaining partner of W&S Lawrence. Stuart Ward, father of RFBYC’s Steve Ward, began his shipwright’s apprenticeship with that firm.

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or boating enthusiasts, the family reunion was also memorable, due to the presence of

three beautiful timber boats built by W&S Lawrence – Winnilya (1939), Nikomis (1923) and Kiewa (1913).

All three boats have been lovingly restored and/or maintained by their current owners: RFBYC members Meikle Meecham and Craig Grundmann, the owners of Winnilya and Nikomis respectively, and Ron Lindsay, a great-great grandson of William Snr, the owner of Kiewa. Before Ron purchased Kiewa in 1999, the unrestored boat resided in Chris Mews’ boatshed in Claremont. The three owners kindly took guests out for a lovely afternoon cruise on the Swan, once the lunch and formalities were over. This was a boating experience from a different era in the most comfortable of surroundings.

above: Meikle Meecham – proud owner of Winnilya, which was believed to be the last vessel launched at a Lawrence boat building yard in 1939.

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THE WARREN JONES STORY

arren Jones of “Australia II” fame died suddenly on 17th May, 2002. His sudden and untimely death was a bitter blow to his many friends throughout Australia and around the world.

Warren made a fabulous contribution to local and international yachting with perhaps his greatest achievement occurring in September 1983, when as Alan Bond’s lieutenant, he led a group of Australian yachtsmen to victory to win the 1983 Americas Cup from the New York Yacht Club for the first time in 132 years of competition. This feat brought Australia to the forefront of international sailing competition.

Warren also became one of Australia’s leading businessmen and community leaders and played a big role in the development of young sailors.

He had a down to earth nature, enormous amounts of energy, a competitive spirit, great courage

and determination to reach his goals and was always ready to give the younger generation his words of wisdom and moral support.

The aim of this yachting regatta, named in Warren Jones’ memory and started by his many friends and associates, is to give a new generation of yachtsmen and women the chance to live their dreams – just as Warren did his.

The Warren Jones Regatta trophy was gifted by the “Australia II” Jubilee Committee who was awarded the New York Yacht Club’s trophy in recognition of “Australia II’s” achievement as being the “Greatest Benefit to the Sport in 150 years of the America’s Cup”.

The “Australia II” Jubilee Committee decided that the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta could use this prestigious award as a perpetual trophy for the event, named after Warren Jones, in a similar way that the America syndicate in 1851 was awarded their 100 Guinea’s Cup now called the ‘America’s Cup’ for future generations to race for. g

2018 Warren Jones International Youth Regatta Champions (left to right)- Matt Stenta, Harry Price (Skipper), Corey Hamilton, Murray Jones & Cam Seagreen representing DownUnder Racing from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia.

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2019 CITY OF PERTH FESTIVAL OF SAIL CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE COMMODORE’S WELCOME Welcome to everyone involved in the Warren Jones

International Youth Regatta for 2019. This event will be

conducted in Perth Waters for the third year running, as a major feature of the City of Perth Festival of Sail. This brings the thrills of the sport right in front of the city and Elizabeth Quay.

The spectacular standard of sailing is equally matched by the

standard of race management and umpiring. It will once again prove to be an exceptional event.

provide competitors with the opportunity to gain the experience and competitiveness necessary to advance to the world stage.

There is strong evidence that the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta has achieved that aim, and more. Indeed, it is

pleasing to see such strong interest in the regatta bringing in a mixture of Local, National and International teams.

The Regatta is hosted in alternate years by Royal Perth Yacht

Club and Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, and this year it gives me great pleasure on behalf of Royal Perth Yacht Club to invite everyone to enjoy all that our Club, the Regatta, and Perth have to offer. I wish all competitors

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2019 COMPETITORS

It is extremely encouraging to see a highly energised Warren Jones Regatta for 2019 with over 29 expressions of interest to compete

in this year’s event, which was over double the number of positions available. The vibrancy and energy in and around the regatta

INVITATIONS Nine Invitations sent out on Friday 26th October 2018

is evident with the wide array of interested local, national and

international competitors. It is due to this success that the Colin

Mullins Youth Regatta will be back in 2019 as the decider for the

last qualifying entry position into the 2019 Warren Jones Regatta.

With the Colin Mullins Regatta returning, after not being held since 2012, it is an exciting time to be a young match racer in Western Australia. Local export Cam Seagreen, who was a part of Torvar

This regatta is often thought of as an event which aims to

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from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, after winning the Warren Jones Regatta last year, topped the World Match Racing Rankings in July this year, and has consistently been in the top eight over

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You have all done a remarkable job.

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N SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER, the offshore yachts raced from Leighton Beach to North Cottesloe where they featured for spectators ashore, viewing from Barchetta beachfront café.

The power fleet cruised to Rockingham and were joined by the sailors on moorings in the bay later that afternoon.

A beautiful sight on Sunday morning with Classic and modern power moored in company of the racing yachts. Sailors contested a windward-leeward race in Cockburn Sound followed by a fast run back to Fremantle in a fresh breeze

with spinnakers flying. Black Betty reporting holding over 20 knots for the trip back.

The weekend event is part of the RFBYC Farrawa Cup Series, now in its 42nd year and the Ocean Racing WA Series. To encourage young sailors in to keelboat and offshore racing the annual IRC Youth Cup Series is part of the activity. Full event media at rfbyc.asn.au

AERIAL IMAGES © JOHN CHAPMAN – SAILS ON SWAN

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TRAVEL GRANTS INFORMATION

CLUB BEST REGATTA ETCHELLS CROWNED 2018 FLEET CHAMPIONS

RFBYC Travel Grants are awarded to assist and encourage our members to participate at national and international competitions. The funds are derived from member donations and are awarded to help offset the costs incurred when travelling away. The following members received travel grants between September and November 2018: APPLICANTS

BOAT/TEAM

EVENT NAME

AMOUNT

BARWOOD, SIMON

MIRROR

MIRROR NATIONAL & WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, NSW

$400.00

BARWOOD, TYSON

MIRROR

MIRROR NATIONAL & WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, NSW

$400.00

BOULDEN, GEORGE

MATCH RACING

MUSTO INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MATCH RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS, NSW

$300.00

BRENZ-VERCA, ADAM

MATCH RACING

MUSTO YOUTH MATCH RACING REGATTA, NSW

$300.00

BUCHAN, ANDREW

F18

F18 CATAMARAN NATIONALS, SA

$300.00

BUCHAN, MURRAY

F18

F18 CATAMARAN NATIONALS, SA

$300.00

GILMOUR, LACHY

49ER

ENOSHIMA SAILING WORLD CUP & SAILING WEEK, JAPAN

$600.00

LANE, BEN

MIRROR

MIRROR NATIONAL & WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, NSW

$400.00

PATERSON, LUKE

ETCHELLS

ETCHELLS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, QLD

$400.00

ROSE, SAMUEL

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29ER NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, TAS

$300.00

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ON Worsley

SUNDAY 9 SEPTEMBER, eight teams representing their fleet or division contested the 2018 Club Best Regatta for the Tom Perpetual Trophy at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club in Perth.

It was a perfect day for a sailing event with plenty of sunshine and moderate winds in Freshwater Bay. Teams sailed in a qualifier round with the team ‘Oceaneer Marine Brokers’, representing the match racing fleet, leading the round and closely followed by the ‘Etchells’ team. Both teams gained an automatic entry in to the Final Series and sat out the next round. The Semi-Final round would knock out the bottom two placed teams and they were the ‘J24’ team and ‘Athena’, representing Division One. It was an exciting final series for the top six with all teams racing in three fleet races with all scores to count. This gave any of these teams a chance at a podium place. Sandy Anderson’s ‘Dragon’ fleet team got better and better through the day and sailed very

well in the Final round lifting themselves to second overall, ahead of the young adults in the ‘49er/FX’ team.

It was the ‘Etchells’ team who won the day, crowned the Club Best for the 2018-2019 season and bragging rights as the top ranked sailing division at RFBYC. At the presentation ceremony the Tom Worsley Perpetual Trophy was presented. Alan Fisher said a few words on the history of the Club Best Regatta and his delight that this tradition has been relaunched as an annual Club challenge. The event was originally created as a fund raiser for the JESS programme.

Tom Worsley was a member of RFBYC for 42 years; his service as a volunteer for the Club was unbroken through the entire time.

Alan says “his time with the Club

saw many changes evolve around his volunteer service.

Back in the early days the legendary Thames river boat Neriad, as owned by the Hobbs family, was used as the mid-river start boat and Tom carried a small part of his Army life into his role of sitting atop the cabin roof firing the gun for each fleet start, hence his nickname of “Gunner Tom”…Tom Worsley’s name lives on in the history of RFBYC and the trophy “RFBYC CLUB BEST” represents not only the best in sailing but perpetuates his memory as being among the best in the spirit of volunteering as a lifeblood within the Club.”

Get your teams ready for the next challenge, September 2019.

OVERALL RESULTS: 1ST

‘ETCHELLS’ MARK LOVELADY, GORDON BLAAUW, GUS MCBRIAR, LUKE PATERSON

2ND

‘DRAGONS’ SANDY ANDERSON, JOHN LOW, BRAD STOUT, JOHN MONCRIEFF, HARRY COULSON

3RD

‘OCEANEER MARINE BROKERS’ (MATCH RACING) ADAM NEGRI, JUSTIN WONG, TOM BLAAUW, TOM LOVELADY

4TH

opposite page: the winning Etchells team receiving the Tom Worsley Perpetual Trophy – now an annual Club challenge.

‘49ER/FX’ RYAN DONALDSON, HAYLEY CLARK, LIAM SEAGREEN, CONOR NICHOLAS

5TH

‘AUSTRALIS RACING’ (SAILING INSTITUTE) MURRAY BUCHAN, ANDREW BUCHAN, GRANT BOX, BAILEY IRELAND, BROCK PITCHER

6TH

‘REAL BW8’ TONY JACK, DAVE SPEARMAN, JENNY SPEARMAN, CAROLINE GIBSON

7TH

‘J24’ JOHN CASSIDY, DON BOWDEN, JO WILSON, AARON KANTHER, DAVE BROADLEY

8TH

‘ATHENA’ (DIVISION ONE) PAUL STARK, ROWAN MUNCHENBERG, MARTIN ASHBY, NAT WADDELL

Sponsored by One Sails Perth.

Pre-event coaching day provided by Paul Eldrid.

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VOLUNTEERS’ SUNDOWNER

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VOLUNTEERS’ SUNDOWNER

Basil Twine

ASTERN MY THOUGHTS

ASTERN ROYAL CHARTER

M

OST MEMBERS WILL BE AWARE THAT the Club was granted permission to luse the prefix “ROYAL” on 13 June 1934. The evidence of this is in the form of a pair of framed letters above the fireplace in the Edward Keane library.

H

AVING BEEN BORN SOME YEARS before the start of WWII, I remember some of the problems we, as a people, faced during that conflict. My father (also a member of RFBYC) served in the Militia for over 20 years but was found to have a heart problem and was medically discharged in 1940.

He continued to do what he could with various civilian defence bodies like ARP and ATC while being moved around the State by his employer (the Union Bank of Australia).

That meant disjointed schooling and many broken friendships for my sister and me.

The very strong ties with England at that time and pressing demands from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meant many young men rushed to join up and help defend what was regarded as our “Mother Country”. While those young men went “overseas”, we on the home front tightened our belts with rationing of food, clothing and fuel so that we could help feed the British. This was exacerbated later when some of the US forces were stationed here and requisitioned much of our beef, pork, chicken and dairy products.

In the country we all kept “chooks” for eggs and the occasional roast and we all had a “vegie garden”. Farm labouring was often done by the Women’s Land Army which was superb, and most farms kept a “house cow” for milk and home-made butter. There was a plague of rabbits so most young lads had a couple of rabbit traps which supplemented rations. Mutton was the prime source of meat if it was

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available. Offal was eaten again with some very innovative recipes and we all survived.

In the city and coastal towns, the ARP, Air Observers, Home Guard and similar organisations were all very active. Everyone had an air raid shelter in their back yard or access to one and we were encouraged to learn first aid and carry gas masks.

RFBYC became the core of the HMAS Leeuwin II and Keane’s Point the base for the Naval Auxiliary Patrol. But we all survived.

Not only did we survive but we were bound together with a great camaraderie. While some of our traditions suffered due to shortages, the “innovative and creative streak of the Aussie” blossomed. The black market flourished, a large quantity of “stuff” was re-cycled and a certain amount of “liberating” and “souveniring” activity took place.

But we all survived.

It is only in more recent years that we have become aware of the real danger we faced and how close we came to invasion.

So where am I coming from?

The camaraderie which emerged, the team philosophy and general attitude of supporting those in need were some of the real positives.

We also learned to appreciate what

really mattered: our background and heritage became more important.

We came to appreciate what we had, and did our best to preserve it so there was something for the returned service personnel to come back to.

Several generations later now and the philosophy seems to be: it is old and worn out; it doesn’t work as fast as we want; I haven’t got time; knock it down and build something more up to date and cheaper; move over and make room for the modern world! And worst of all: I have done my bit so don’t expect me to help any more or back you up! (It may be of interest that the rallying call of the “Hitler Youth” was: “The future belongs to me!”)

Wouldn’t it be great to build on what we have: preserve our past, our traditions, our heritage and support the people working so hard to make things work now and in the future.

Let us see some consideration for other people, discipline, adherence to the rules, formality where it is appropriate and perhaps just a little pomp and ceremony.

We belong to a superb club; one of the finest in the land if not the world. Let us work together to preserve it for all time.

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Recently the Commodore requested to see the “Royal Charter” document…embarrassed silence followed. We don’t have one!

So, the questions arose: why not?

What happened to it?

There is a somewhat romantic Legend that, during the removal of Club property, documents and artefacts from the old premises at the foot of Irvine Street to our current site at Keane’s Point around 1935 – 1937, there was a minor catastrophe. The story goes that it was decided to transport some items across the bay by dinghy which capsized and spilt some important treasures into the river, never to be

recovered. One long standing member is convinced this is fact and Ken Tregonning’s book also mentions rafting of some timbers from the dinghy grid at Irvine Street across the bay to Keane’s Point, so there is substance to the story.

Those in “the know” would know that a Commodore’s request is a bit like a beheading in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Mikado”—it shall be done! This inspired a search through Minutes from General Committee meetings from1933 to 1941 and there is no mention of such a sad episode. Maybe embarrassment at such carelessness caused some reticence in its recording.

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However, the search also failed to find any record of a “Royal Charter” document ever having been received. Surely an acquisition of this magnitude would have been recorded.

Still curious, I contacted Archivist Extraodinaire at RPYC, Jonathan Readhead who informed me that they did not have their Royal Charter document either and their enquiries had resulted in being informed that such documents were not issued during “that period”.

Sometimes what could have been a great story with a great ending just finishes with a resounding anticlimax!

Nathan Stronach

THE BOSUN’S LOCKER AROUND THE GROUNDS

below right: bilge socks may be disposed of in the Club’s oily rag recovery drum, located behind the tender racks in the marina car park.

Oily rags and absorbents

RECEIVED SOME GREAT FEEDBACK from my last topic regarding mooring line checks.

It’s nice to know that members do read and take note of the published information.

Freshwater Bay Shipwrights also indicated that they had received a higher than usual number of mooring gear enquires. So, once again, it’s nice to be heard.

Thankyou.

This time, I would like to stay on the house keeping topic. Recently, it has been noted that the storage of flammable liquids on vessels has been occurring.

Although this practice may be convenient for the vessel owner, it is strictly forbidden. Please note the following extraction from the Club’s Marina By-Laws 5. MARINA AND HARDSTANDINGS 5.1 General …

5.4.7 No paint, thinners, kerosene, methylated spirits or other flammable liquids other than engine fuel shall be stored on board any vessel moored in the marina.

Engine fuel shall only be stored in a vessel’s normal tanks as used when under way. Bilges will be kept clean and free from any flammable liquid.

It is essential to abide by this ruling to reduce the risk of fire.

DIRTY BILGES

Next topic, dirty bilges. In a perfect world, all engine rooms and bilges would resemble something like an operating theatre. Unfortunately, this is not the reality and there are a few things that can be done to ensure that bilges remain free from oily residues and more importantly that these pollutants are not discharged overboard with bilge water.

• Have the engine serviced regularly and tighten fittings and filters.

• Regularly clean the area under engines, tanks and filters so small drips can be quickly identified.

• If a drip cannot be stopped, install a drip tray with absorbent pads.

• Block limber holes to prevent areas below engines from draining into the bilge.

• Oleology provide bilge water filtration solutions— check them online at https://oleology.com.au/ case-studies/bilge-water/ • On a recent trip to the chandlery to buy a new bilge pump, I noted that

Rule offer a new Eco-Friendly bilge pump.

When water enters the bilge and reaches a certain height, 2-3/4” (70mm), a sensor turns the pump on.

After the water is pumped out, another sensor shuts the pump off.

The sensors’ unique “field effect” technology is eco-friendly because they only sense the dielectric constant of water. In the event of an onboard oil spill, straight motor oil that enters the bilge will not turn the pump on. Note: this is not an oil overspill system or a safety measure device.

• Oil-absorbing “bilgesock” fitted in appropriate location. Note: bilge-socks should be inspected at least once a month and replaced as necessary.

I personally find a spotless engine room and bilge very satisfying. A bit like a freshly cleaned car.

A lot of time is spent polishing fiberglass and stainless-steel rails, do you need to spend a little time below decks?

Non-flammable oil and bilge water only

Old oil filters

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IMPORTANT DATES FOR MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS

Membership applications (with signature and endorsement of two Members with five+ years membership) must be submitted to the Membership Coordinator by post, deliver to the Club, or email to, membership@rfbyc.asn.au • Submit completed application forms to the Club by the last Monday of the month.

• General Committee reviews applications on the last Tuesday of the month.

• Ordinary membership applicants will be invited to attend an interview with the Membership Committee on the second Monday of the following month or thereafter.

• Membership applications are placed on the notice board for a period of 26 days (except Juniors).

• All membership applications which progress to the final stage of the membership process will be ratified

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30 MARCH

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