March 2023

Ms Zhou Shu

ABSENT MEMBERS

Ms Meike Goessling

Miss Arabella Faith Reddington Green

Mr Thomas Benedict Melville Green

Ms Winnie Johnson

Mr Yukinori Kirihara

Mr Wolfgang Kleiber

Mr Peter James Chasser Moores

Mr Yeung Ho Yin

Mr & Mrs Cheng Fuk Yiu

Dr & Mrs Chiu Lai Hong

Mr & Mrs Dennis Edgar Dakin

Mr & Mrs Simon Philip Powell

Mr & Mrs Martin Tornberg

Gabriel Leon Echevarria Tornberg

Lukas Sebastian Echevarria Tornberg

Auguste Williams

Demelsa Williams

RESIGNATION

Ms Lesley Helen Jamieson

Mr Ip Ho Lam

Mr Lai Cheuk Yiu

Mr Thomas Frederick Watson

Mr Sebastian Wiehe

Miss Xu Mujue Sherry

Mr & Mrs Edward A J Bagnall

Mr & Mrs Ho Kwok Cheong Roger

Mr & Ms Ng Chi Keung

Chan Hiu Yu Nicholas

Gabrielle Rose Dickinson

Alexa Rachel Jamieson-Jones

Francesca Jamieson-Jones

Georgia Ann Jamieson-Jones

Annabella Maloney

Ng Huen Kiu

Jack Charles Oatway

Nicholas M Rodchenko-Highfield

Sim Sui Hien

Ethan Somerville

Damian Tang

We share the sad news that Peter Jolly passed away on the night of Wednesday 1 March at aged 79. Peter had been a member since 1972 and returned to UK in 1992. He had served on GenCom 1984–86 and also in the capacity of Honorary Secretary, Balloting Committee 1981–87, Chairman of Full Membership Sub-Committee 1983–84 and Sailing Committee 1981–82.

Peter arrived in Hong Kong in spring 1970 and joined the law firm of Deacons. He was persuaded to go sailing one weekend by his senior partner and immediately caught the bug. He went on to spend the next 45 years racing and cruising various boats. He took part in 10 China Sea Races, numerous San Fernando Races. He also raced in the Sydney Hobart nine times altogether.

In 1982 Peter and Andy Soriano co-purchased a 43 foot racing yacht and called her Bandido Bandido. They campaigned her for the Sydney Hobart 1982, the Pan Am Clipper in Hawaii and the Big Boat Series in San Francisco in 1983. Peter also took part in the Admiral’s Cup and did three Fastnet Races, numerous races around Hong Kong and the Philippines as well

John Brennan 1940–2023

John Brennan, a keen member of the Hong Kong sailing community for almost 40 years, died on 5 January 2023 aged 82. He was well known and popular in the sail training programmes of the sailing clubs and the Hong Kong Sailing Federation and he was especially active in youth sail training. Originally from the north of England, John’s first career was as a merchant navy engineer. After several years at sea, he returned to land and married Marion. He joined the Durham police and much enjoyed the patrol car duties. Thereafter, he and Marion trained as teachers and taught in the UK during which they travelled extensively in school holidays and the travel bug strongly took them. They taught in several places, eventually coming to Hong Kong in the mid-1980s, which they loved and has been their home ever since. Both taught in secondary schools and, with his engineering background, John was a design and technology teacher at Sha Tin College for the next fifteen years or so until his retirement. His major enthusiasm was youth sail training, for his own school’s students and for many others in Hong Kong, as a senior instructor, in Hebe Haven, RHKYC and the HKSF. He also taught on PVOCC courses, as several Raja Muda and King’s Cup events. Peter also did a transatlantic with ARC with a return delivery from Antigua Race Week to Lymington. Also along the way he did over 20 Antigua Race Weeks and in 1980 a great friend Gay Lynn decided Peter should become a sailing judge and coerced him on to the panel in Antigua. Thereafter he served for more than 20 years as an International Judge in various places around the world. continuing until very recently. John was a great favourite with all age groups, renowned for his professional, helpful and forthrightly amusing style of teaching. Today, round Hong Kong and, these days, globally, many people remember John as their, or their children’s, most beneficial sailing instructor. Several parents have remarked that he made schooldays both tolerable and fun for their children. The mark of a great teacher is the way his former students remember him so fondly and he introduced many people to sailing as a lifetime sport.

In 1978 Peter met Vanessa at RHKYC and they went on to marry at St John’s Cathedral on 30 June 1979. In 1992, Peter and Vanessa returned to the UK on a permanent basis. Peter continued to race on and in the water and joined the Royal Lymington Yacht Club where he helped out on many protest panels. He and Vanessa continued to live in Lymington and had some wonderful holidays including discovering big boat cruising to many places around the world.

Our condolences go out to his loving wife Vanessa and to his family and friends.

In the Yacht Club, in addition to sail training, John sailed with a number of classes, most recently with the Flying Fifteens. He was greatly appreciated for his laughter and good companionship on and off the water. His thoughtfulness, appreciation of sailing as fun, his bonhomie and his northcountry sense of humour will live on in the memories of many friends and sailors young and old.