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SQUADRON Quarterly

Volume 32 Issue 1 Autumn 2018 www.rsays.com.au

Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron

ROYAL SA YACHT SQUADRON PATRON AND MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Patron His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le AC Commodore Bruce Roach Antares Vice Commodore Peter Kelly Home James Rear Commodore Elect Ken Case Stardust Treasurer Vacant Committee Members Peter Boyd Dux Nuts Scott Mutton 3 Cool Cats Phil Stump Erica General Manager Don Will

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Editor: Sally Metzer Production: Roger Oaten Regular Contributors: Commodore, General Manager, Treasurer, RSAYS Ltd Chair, Foundation Chair, Hospitality & Events Manager, Committee Chairs, Trailer Sailers, Women Racers, Dis-Able Sailing Writers and Proof Readers: Barry Allison, Anne Arnold, Gill Baker, Fay Duncan, Rae Eldridge, Peter Hansen, Dinah Harcus, Gill Hogarth, Marion Holden, Steve Kennedy, Lynda Walsh.

Office Hours 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday - Friday 9.00am - 6.00pm Wednesday during Twilight Race Season 9.00am - 4.00pm Saturday and Sunday Closed public Holidays and Easter Weekend Between Christmas Eve and including the first week of the New Year the Squadron Officewill be open only for short shifts. Dates and times will be advertised in a December eBulletin. RSAYS Foundation House and Social Committee Racing Committee Sailing Co-ordinator Etchells Fleet Captain Cruising Committee Trailer Sailers Juniors Committee Seaweed Gardening Group

Chris Mandalov 0417 847 836 Sue Buckley Chris Mandalov 0417 847 836 Annette Turk 8341 8600 Andrew Waterman 0408 856 012 Michael Rossiter 0414 379 460 Steve Lewis 0418 275 710 Mitch Mead 0447 333 001 Robert Henshall 8332 0889

Finance Manager Joann Galios 8341 8600 Accounts Administrator Kathy Bernhardt-Loechel 8341 8600 Member Services Alexandra Freeman 8341 8600ß Hospitality & Events Manager Chef

Kevin Grant Brett Coldwell

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Slip Master

Julian Murray

0414 365 294

Opening Times Dining Room, Jimmy’s Bar & Quarterdeck: The dining facilities are positioned beautifully, overlooking the majestic view of the marina from all locations. The attractive setting provides a warm and relaxing feeling all year round

Opening Hours: Lunch from 1200: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays when advised. Dinner from 1800: Wednesday (Twilights), Friday, Saturday (and Sunday on long weekends). Sunday lunch Special - Seafood Platter (pre-order required) Page 2 SQ Autumn 2018

Squadron Quarterly Deadline for the Winter Issue is Sunday 13 May 2018 Advertisements, editorial and photographs can be sent to • • • •

Sally Metzer, Editor (sallymetzer@hotmail.com) or member.services@rsays.com.au left at the Squadron Office. e-Bulletin material can be forwarded to the Office at any time.

Notes for Contributors • Articles submitted should be typed as a Word or plain text document.1500 words and four to six photos will cover two pages, 750 words and two or three photos will cover one page. • Photos should be (a) in focus, (b) JPEG format at high resolution (300 dpi) and (c) sent separately and not embedded in a Word or text document. • Articles and photos can be submitted to the Office for distribution to the Committee if contributors do not have computer access.

Disclaimer With exception of statements made by duly authorised officers and the editor and members of The Squadron Quarterly Committee, all other statements and opinions in this publication are those of contributors and advertisers. The Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron, its Management and Members accept no responsibility for statements by non-authorised personnel.

Front Cover Super Foiler Grand Prix, Outer Harbor, February 2018. Photo: Chris Mandalov

Autumn 2018 Vol 32 Issue 1 Published Quarterly ISSN 1037-1133 Print Post Publication No. PP532154/00016

CONTENTS REPORTS

FEATURES

From the Commodore �� 4 From the General Manager �� 5 SesquiCentenary celebrations �� 6 RSAYS Ltd Report �� 7 Member Advisory Panel Report �� 8 House & Social Events �� 10 Racing Report �� 12 Cruising Report �� 16 Juniors Report �� 20 Functions Report �� 21

REGULAR ARTICLES Women on the Water �� 11 Sponsor Profile- Bethany Wines �� 19 Sail Drive �� 22 Member Profile - Mark Sinclair �� 28 Senior Member - David Binks �� 34 In Tranquil Waters �� 44 Berths for Sale & Rent �� 46 Events Calendar �� 47

Membership Survey �� 9 Nature - Port River Shellfish �� 18 One & All Update �� 23 Superfoilers Grand Prix �� 24 My Boat - Mauna Kea �� 26 Rebuild Independence �� 27 Chicken, the Happy Sailing Cat �� 30 Taking Tymara to Tasmania �� 32 Coconut’s Golden Globe Race �� 36 Like Father Like Son - Father & Son Commodores �� 38 Ship Shape �� 40 Squadron Crabbing Day �� 41 Squadron Snippets �� 42

ADVERTISERS Kaleidoscopic Travel �� 5 Solar Depot �� 6 Adelaide Timber Boatworks �� 7 International Communication Systems �� 21 Flinders Ports �� 21 Haese Marine �� 39 Port River Marine �� 45 Main North Renault �� 48

EDITORIAL

By Sally Metzer

LOHA! Having spent two weeks with my family in heavenly Hawaii this summer, I’m now fluent in the local lingo (‘Hau’oli Makahiki Hou’ – that’s ‘Happy New Year!). I’m also mad about Mai Tais, in love with frangipani leis, can do the hip-gyrating hula and ride the Waikiki waves.

Of course there were a few downsides to our tropical getaway … like nearly being annihilated by a ballistic missile (luckily it was just a scare!); bitten by a jellyfish and an iridescent yellow spider (and they say there are no ‘nasties’ in Hawaii!); lost while canoeing around the Outer Reef; attacked by a lifelike dinosaur at Kualoa Ranch (where they filmed all the Jurassic Park movies); and were shocked when two diners near us at a magical luau in a fake volcanic with strobe lighting, had to be carted off to hospital after having a fit and a heart attack! The Griswald Family Vacation has nothing on our holiday! However, a warm welcome at the Waikiki Sailing Club from the General Manager Randolph B. Ahlo and waitress Piilani made up for all the negatives. Thanks Annette for our letter of introduction, sent prior to us arriving at their door, and thank goodness for the friendliness of yachties around the world. While we were having fun far away, other members were racing and cruising and celebrating New Year in style! Others were preparing for an epic round the-world-race, cheering on the cyclists at the Tour Down Under, crabbing, socializing and dancing on the Quarterdeck. Read what’s been happening at the Squadron during these summer months, and be glad you’re part of the life at our truly great Club. And now it’s ‘Mahalo’ from me (which means ‘thanks’, and is not just the name of our Past Commodore’s yacht!) Sally

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FROM THE COMMODORE Pacers into the Port and organising the Juniors to sail in front of the Lighthouse. Saturday 21 January was a momentous day for me with the formation of the Membership Advisory Panel, which I had promised I would establish. Ken Case was voted in as Chair, with contributing members Phil Colebatch, Helen Moody, Barb Beacham and me. The group has met twice now and is planning monthly meetings. If you have any ideas on how to increase member numbers, please contact the group. Your thoughts and ideas will be well received.

Bruce Roach

REETINGS! For the first time ever, Jill and I spent Christmas in Hobart, and were there for the arrival of the Sydney-Hobart fleet, including two super maxi yachts Wild Oates X1 and Commanche to Constitution Dock at around 2130 hrs. Having never before experienced the arrival of the fleet and all the festivities in Hobart for the winners, we walked to the finishing line and waited in what was quite a user-friendly time of before midnight.

It was a pity the results went the way they did for Wild Oates XI. However, rules are the rules, and the elite sailors need to keep safety and good seamanship in mind at all times. This is especially true when it is a major sailing event, with the media providing coverage and everyone watching closely for any infringement. The buzz question in Hobart was how long will it be before the Super Maxis finish the race inside 24 hours? Time will tell. We returned to Adelaide on Friday 29 December, so there was not enough time to sail to Kangaroo Island for the traditional New Year’s Eve celebrations. Instead we sailed Antares to Port Vincent and enjoyed the company of the Club members who were there, and also made phone calls to other members celebrating at Rocky Point and on the Quarterdeck at the Squadron. On 15 January we attended the Tour Down Under in the Port. The event was a huge success for the Port Adelaide Precinct and Council which had dressed the streets up to provide a festival theme of bikes up on walls, roofs and balconies, as well in the riggings of the STV One and All! A dedicated group of our members braved the 30 kt winds to take their vessels into the Port and stay in the Council marina pens. It was a great vista seeing the Council’s pontoon filled with RSAYS vessels, all dressed up and adding to the spectacle of the event. Thanks to Keith Teagle and Phil Stump for towing the three Page 4 SQ Autumn 2018

Sunday 22 January was Crabbing Day, unfortunately in 40 degree heat! It was organised by Steve Kennedy who provided instructions on the preparation and cooking of the huge number of crabs caught on the day. Australia Day informal celebrations on the Quarterdeck went ahead, despite the 40 degree temperature. We sailed Antares to Semaphore where the fireworks were a highlight and worth the effort of cruising there. The high profile major event at the Squadron from 22 January to 4 February was the SuperFoilers Grand Prix. This was the inaugural event for these ‘machines’, originally planned by father and son Bill and Jack McCartney. It is expected to be a world-wide event. Friday afternoon 2 February experienced strong winds so the scheduled start at 1700 hrs was postponed nearly an hour until the winds calmed down to 18-20 kts. The Race Officer advised that further decreases in wind strength could be expected, so the boats were able to show us their capabilities. A single race eventually took place, but Tech2 sustained major structural damage which prevented it from further racing in Adelaide. Saturday 3 February had ideal conditions with winds of approximately 15 kts. About 60 vessels moored along the breakwater to watch the event. The SuperFoilers Dinner was held that night in the Squadron Dining Room. Jack McCartney gave an overview of the development of the SuperFoilers and then introduced Glen Ashby. Thanks to David Eldridge for asking Glen to tell us a bit about himself. Over an hour later, the audience was in awe of this man’s past and what he has done in his sailing career, including winning the America’s Cup for the Emirates Team New Zealand. Sunday 4 February was the final and most exciting day as the teams became more knowledgeable about their boats and more competitive, with some near misses. It was held in ideal conditions with another great attendance of between 60 and 70 vessels. Well done to Euroflex for taking out the Series with a convincing win.

The SuperFoilers were over the moon with the Squadron’s assistance and our enthusiastic staff. Just ask to see Catherine’s signed polo shirt that she has as a result of chasing down the crews and helping them. The prize-giving saw the usual spraying of champagne from Nathan Outteridge and Glen Ashby, with Nathan taking a swim on his walk back to the Clubhouse! The course finished at about 1400 hrs with many of the group staying on for the afternoon on the Quarterdeck and the balcony. The Juniors’ Clubhouse was also a good vantage point as it was a bit closer to the action. The next big event was the Adelaide to Port Lincoln Race which started on 16 February. The Squadron was well-represented and took out some awards in the First and Second Divisions. On the business side of the RSAYS, there are various projects that are in the system and progress is as follows: • Alterations to the Flinders Ports Berthing to accommodate a second pilot boat due into Adelaide in the next month are being reviewed by RSAYS Inc and RSAYS Ltd. • Maintenance works to Marinas 1 and 2 are being reviewed by RSAYS Inc and RSAYS Ltd. • The Game Fishing Club has requested approval to build an addition to the Squadron Clubhouse and this is to be presented at the March Quarterly Meeting for members to consider. • An overview is underway of the slipway sheds as the older sheds are not in good condition. • The condition of the wave breaker at the end of the ‘Toblerone’ breakwater is being reviewed by the Development Advisory Panel. • The north-east corner is now being considered as the prime launching area for the Etchells and further improvements are being investigated by DAP. The Etchells yellow crane area now has improved lighting and pavement transitions. Our traditional Easter programme at Port Vincent will take place from 30 March to 3 April, during which time you will need to turn your clocks back to ‘winter mode’. I am looking forward to the Easter events that the House and Social Committee have planned and expect them to be up to the excellent standard that was set last year. Jill and I hope that you are all enjoying the Club activities that are on offer and that we’ll see you out on the water soon! In Seamanship and Fellowship

FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER

O answer the many queries raised with me, the permanent appointment of the General Manager role has been advertised, with a decision likely in the near future. Elsewhere in this publication are the initial reactions to information gleaned from the recent survey undertaken of Membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; opinions on an array of issues, mainly connected to the Clubhouse operations. It is pleasing to report that 192 members took part in the survey making it a meaningful cross-section of views of the Squadron membership. The lucky draw winners for the Super Foiler Dinner Tickets were Louise Hoffmann and Clive Arnold, who kindly donated his to Junior member Lachlan Mann.

Hosting the world premier racing of the Super Foilers was certainly a significant undertaking by the RSAYS, and the feedback from the Grand Prix Sailing organisation has been glowing on how welcoming we all were to the event and their needs. The media footage of the event, beamed around the world, showed off South Australia, Outer Harbor and the Squadron in a fabulous light. Such publicity is priceless. With the expectation the event will become annual, and that we will be invited to again host, we will now be much more prepared to capitalise further in the future. In recent weeks the Management Committee has done a lot of work in financial modelling for the next five or more years to enable project review and decisions to be taken in a much more informed manner. I suspect all Members know that there is no shortage of possibilities, but to be certain essential work is carried out in the required timetable, we need to be aware of prior and past financial commitments. This Financial Model is also being utilised in the budgeting process for 2018/19 which is well underway. Alexandra Freeman has recently joined the Squadron office team as our Member Services Coordinator. Coming from an events, administration and customer service role at Gymnastics SA (after representing Australia in trampolining), Alex has a confident and capable persona with a lot of initiative. In addition to the traditional duties of her role, she in quickly taking a proactive role in the Squadronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social media. I ask those members heavily involved in social media to engage fully with Squadron blogs and share them as widely as possible. Maintenance is a constant requirement at all Clubs, and with the RSAYS Marina this is doubly important. For it to be appropriately coordinated in a timely manner, I ask that EVERY observation you make of matters requiring attention be reported at the Office for

Don Will inclusion into the Maintenance Book. In this way I am able to monitor progress, and allocate priorities if required. Members may have noted that the long-awaited improvements around the yellow crane to improve safety have recently been completed. In addition the upstairs cool room in the kitchen has now been replaced with a slightly larger, much more efficient unit. The power savings in the next few years will effectively pay for this replacement, which was funded by Ltd.

Kaleidoscopic Travel

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SESQUICENTENARY CELEBRATIONS By Colin Doudy

Planning is underway for our RSAYS Sesquicentennial Celebrations! A draft program has been submitted to the Management Committee for approval and budgeting, although most events are expected to be cost-neutral. The program is comprised of both on-shore and water-based events. Our contacts in Port Vincent have been approached and they are keen to participate in our celebrations, possibly by combining their Salt Water Classic event with our Easter cruise in 2020. It will be a great opportunity for our wooden vessels to ‘strut their stuff’! A range of commemorative clothing and memorabilia is planned, suitably embossed with a 150 year motif. Members’ suggestions for the commemorative 150 year logo have been passed on to a graphic designer and we are confident of an exciting design being produced. Peter Kelly and a team of Club authors have been co-opted to produce an entertaining record of the Club’s history in the form of a commemorative book. This huge project is well underway.

Peter Kelly, Lindy Taueber, Sally Metzer, Helen Moody, Colin Doudy Absent: Steve Kennedy

OUR Sesquicentennial sub-committee has developed a

draft program of events and activities to celebrate the Club’s 150 years of existence. We plan to commence some of the events in early 2019, although the actual birthday is on Opening Day, 2 November 2019 and the celebratory season will span the 2019-2020 sailing season.

Solar Depot

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The sub-committee is keen to capitalise on the 2019 SALA (SA living artists) and History Month events as vehicles to promote our celebrations to the wider community. How can you play a part in helping us? We would like Club Members with an artistic or historical ‘bent’ to volunteer to help organise these two events. Our 150th year will be cause for a big Club celebration , and we need as many Members as possible to contribute. Please contact Colin Doudy to register your willingness to participate in the planning of this historic Squadron achievement.

RSAYS LTD REPORT By Richard Smith, Chair RSAYS Ltd that time many great minds in yachting organisations around the country, led by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, considered their responsibilities and the consequences of the losses which had the potential to wipe them out. RSAYS was not alone amongst those who concluded that the separation of the Club’s assets from the organisation running the day-to-day activities was required to control the liability of the organisation. Subsequent legal considerations have determined that the solution was not that simple, but the Squadron was not alone in going down this path.

HILE the roles and responsibilities of RSAYS Ltd and RSAYS Inc are different, the two entities have a common goal of ensuring the long-term success and well-being of all those in the Squadron Community. Members will be pleased to know the Board of Directors has now had two recent working sessions with the Management Committee (MC) with the common objective of improving the way the organisation operates and serves its Members. The Ltd Board has already nominated two representatives to work with two MC representatives on each of the following key topics:

• Memorandum of Understanding • Development Advisory Panel • Finance and Reporting Other key areas such as a Master Plan and a Financial Plan will be the focus of future joint review. Many Members ask why the Squadron needs RSAYS Ltd, resulting in a Ltd Board as well as an Inc Management Committee. It was initiated following the unfortunate loss of lives in the 1998 Sydney-Hobart Race. At

RSAYS Limited was registered with ASIC in June 2001. This resulted in the Limited entity holding the title to the Club property which it, in turn, leases to the Incorporated body. The RSAYS Ltd Board has a long-term strategy to protect and enhance member assets which are managed by RSAYS Inc through the MC under the terms of the Lease. It believes it is beneficial for the Squadron to pursue this model. This requires an open and close working relationship between the Ltd Board and the decision makers managing the day-today activities under the control of the Flag Officers and Management Committee. As reported above this has commenced, and some opportunities for improvement have been identified and agreed to be actioned. Keeping an open mind on how the Squadron can improve the efficiency of its operations while still providing high quality service to its members is always high on the Ltd Board’s agenda. In considering this it is worth looking at successful medium and large businesses which survive in the long term. A consistent feature of their structures is a Board with diverse experience, looking after the long-term strategy, planning and protection of their assets. They also feature the establishment of a management group which ensures that it manages its defined responsibilities, in this case the Lease, and that they are

able to respond quickly to the day-to-day management responsibilities, activities and demands of its customers. In our case, it is also essential to ensure that the traditions of the Club are maintained. The Board is convinced of the benefits this structure brings to the Squadron and has been meeting frequently to discuss many issues, particularly asset management and the future financial needs of the Squadron. Ltd needs to take the responsibility for long term-planning with joint inputs from Ltd and Inc, but always be moving forward in accordance with a Five Year Master Plan and a matching Five Year Financial Plan. The Board’s focus is to look after the long-term interests of the Squadron rather than the day-to-day activities. We are very conscious of the need to respond to responsibilities and opportunities in a timely manner. Currently the Board is working with the MC on the following projects and is anxious to see early commitment to: • Agreement to incorporate a new Game Fishing Club facility at the western end of the existing Clubhouse building • Upgraded Berthing for Flinders Ports new Pilot Boats • Upgraded facilities for launching Etchells, sports boats and small keelboats • Agreement to replace some of the existing buildings in the Slip area • Agreement to a Maintenance Plan for Marina Stages 1 and 2 The Ltd Board looks forward to continuing the working relationship established through the recent Joint Meetings of the Board of Directors and the Management Committee, and through the working parties established from time to time for specific projects. Both entities are focusing on improving communications at management level and with the Members.

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MEMBER ADVISORY PANEL REPORT By Ken Case The Panel believes events at the Squadron should be seen as opportunities for marketing membership and capturing interest and is investigating how to go about this. It is also aware of the following underlying principles that a leadership development trainer, Phillip Van Hooser, believes create a sense of belonging to a community: ‘There are two elements members need – education and community. What we can control is the second aspect – community. This is true for every organisation. Creating a magnetic, dynamic community need not be costly but is critical to organisational health and growth.’

Alexandra Freeman, Philip Colebatch, Ken Case, Bruce Roach, Helen Moody, Don Will Absent: Barbara Beacham

OLLOWING on from the Commodore’s report at the December Quarterly meeting, the Membership Advisory Panel (MAP) was formed early in the New Year. Members of the MAP are: Bruce Roach (Commodore), Ken Case (elected Chair), Helen Moody (Minutes Secretary), Barbara Beacham, Philip Colebatch, Don Will (Acting GM) and Alexandra Freeman (Member Services).

At the time of going to print, two very productive meetings have been held, and it has been agreed to meet on the second Tuesday of each month. We are all very excited about the opportunity to place a significant focus on membership growth at the Squadron. At the most recent meeting of MAP, the members prepared a Charter for its future workings. We will be requesting that the Management Committee provide input into formalising the document soon. Our next priority is to develop a strategic plan to grow our membership in activity, community and numbers. We aim to set targets and timelines. A close look at membership statistics shows that, as with all clubs and associations, there is a steady decline in membership and participation over recent decades. We all recognise that to be sustainable, and to enjoy the benefits we currently do, we must build and retain our membership. It should be a priority for us all. The MAP members believe that to achieve this we must focus on two areas simultaneously: building and celebrating member activity, and developing a marketing and growth strategy.

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Neither of these will be effective, however, unless we initiate some simple practical steps such as procedures for capturing enquiries about the Squadron. Thanks to Phil Colebatch’s submissions, MAP has already agreed on the need to establish a flowchart for dealing with enquiries for Club membership, and methods for recording and following them up to the point of a membership nomination. MAP has put a recommendation to the Management Committee to that effect. Related to this is the fact that currently no one can nominate to join the Squadron without two members as a proposer and a seconder. Existing members are encouraged to be prepared to act in this crucial capacity. We are also suggesting the reinstatement of following-up resignations and lapses of membership, primarily so that we can learn from them, and also with a view to trying to retain members. It should be that, as members, we invest so much in each other that we would not like to lose any of us. Recently, when Rotary sponsored an adventure on the One and All for a number of young people, they were presented with a certificate inviting them and their family to come along to the Squadron to a ‘Try a Sail Day’. With this and other opportunities in mind, we are asking any members who are willing to take a visitor or visitors on board for an event to register with the Office. This could also include inviting visiting members from Reciprocal and other Clubs to join you for a sail, as happened recently with some visitors to the Squadron from Ireland and from Denmark.

Van Hooser poses the question: ‘What makes an association’s community vibrant and members want to belong, talk about their association’s values and invite their colleagues to join? He defines what he sees as vital components, citing that these essential elements create the sense of belonging needed to keep members enthusiastic about their association, its values and opportunities. • Welcome. People need to feel welcome from their first visit. They go back to places where their presence was appreciated. [Should there be a Squadron Welcoming Committee?] • Caring. Nothing can substitute for members caring for each other beyond professional goals. • Involvement. When people are involved in the general welfare of their association, their involvement keeps them renewing their membership and talking about their organisation to others. • Relationships. Are members provided with opportunities to develop lifelong relationships? • Responsibility. People act on specific responsibilities and are more inclined to engage with others. It is with these thoughts in mind that the Membership Advisory Panel is examining the nature of the current Squadron membership and how we wish to be perceived as a Club. Members of the Panel wish to thank all Squadron members who have already contributed ideas and suggestions. If you have any other ideas that you wish to share, please contact us. *Editor’s Note: Reference: http://www. evancarmichael.com/Leadership/4327/ summary.php)

MEMBERSHIP SURVEY

ANY thanks to the almost 200

members who completed the recent survey on operations of the Clubhouse, including upstairs dining, downstairs bar and meals, as well as Club events and external events. The Management Committee’s aim was to get an overall consensus on the present operations, and the appropriate balance between member trading and use of the facilities for outside events and dining. It has been deemed that such a number of completed surveys is representative of the membership. Detailed analysis of the survey is still being undertaken, and will be reported to members in due course. There are, however, a number of findings that are clear, and can be shared at this early stage (ie less than a week after the survey closed). [Comments on the results are in square brackets.]

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Observations include: • Less than a quarter of members support the upstairs Dining Room more often than quarterly. • Half the times members dine upstairs they do so as a couple, with smaller numbers dining as a foursome. Less than a quarter dine with a regular group. [Elsewhere in clubs, the proportion dining in a foursome or larger would generally be a lot higher.] • 55% of member diners do not prebook. [By necessity this makes it more difficult to manage staff rostering, and smooth delivery of service.] • It is pleasing to report that over 85% of members reported that their last dining experience in the Dining Room was

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‘pleasant’, and that average scores for the seven aspects were all around 7 out of 10 (nil below 6.2, and highest 7.8). [Disappointingly] Only one-third of members have recently recommended the Dining Room to family and friends. A minority of respondents expressed concerns with either the Dining Room acoustics, or sun glare at certain times. The acoustics are seen to be a problem when there are big events and meetings, but not when the room is used for a-la-carte. Those who experienced discomfort by sun glare were forceful in their comments. [A number of suggestions have been made for Management Committee to consider.] Members see the downstairs area as predominantly a Bar, rather than a casual dining area. The exception to this are those who compete in Wednesday Twilight races. Two-thirds of patrons on Wednesdays agree with the price charged, and 80% described their last dining experience downstairs as ‘pleasant’. Average scores for the seven aspects were marginally lower than upstairs, with menu options being the lowest scoring aspect. Almost 70% of respondents support the concept of enlarging Jimmy’s Bar into the Dinghy Shed. A vast majority of members believe that all events at Squadron should as a minimum break even. [Disappointingly] Less than a quarter of members have ever organised a private event at the Squadron, although

the majority that have attended a private event here report a high level of satisfaction. • Support for private external events at the Squadron was surprisingly high, with the following provisos: • There must always be a profit for the RSAYS • Contribution from external events should be higher than member pricing • There must be an alternative area for members to enjoy hospitality at the time of such events • Answers and attached comments regarding the House Credit, Birthday Vouchers, Happy Hour deals and Member Swipe cards, will require much more detailed analysis in due course. Some members have made some useful and constructive suggestions which the Management Committee can refer on to the relevant Committee. The most satisfying answer came from one member who said: “We find our social dining experiences at the Squadron to be enjoyable, the food to be creative and delicious, and the Food and Beverage team to be efficient and pleasant. The service they provide is of great value to the Squadron members, their guests and those who choose to hold their functions at our wonderful Club!” Let’s hope that with the benefit of the information the survey has collected that the majority of members will feel the same way in the near future.

Queen Mary 2 in front of the Squadron. Photo: Jane Harris

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HOUSE & SOCIAL EVENTS By Sue Buckley

TRUST members have had a good summer with lots of time on their boats

enjoying our local waters.

Once again we are planning Groove on the Deck, and by the time this goes to print the first of these will have happened successfully. Another is planned for April so if you missed the February event, make sure you save the date in your diary for the next. Easter is early this year and we are in full swing organising another great Easter Regatta. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to book your marina berth with Rob at Port Vincent as the marina always fills up early, especially if the weather shapes up to be good. This year is also the 20 year Membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dinner when we celebrate those members who have achieved 20 years of membership. We also recognise each decade after, so 30, 40, 50 and 60-year members are presented with a badge too. This is a lovely evening where long-time members have the opportunity to catch up with each other and tell tall tales of their sailing and racing endeavours. While the focus is on those members who have made a long-term commitment to the Club, we welcome all members who would like to come and celebrate their achievements too. There are many other exciting events scheduled in the calendar that we are working on for the coming months, so keep an eye out for more details as they come to hand. See you at a club event soon!

Groove on the Deck

BOUT 100 members and guests attended Groove on the Deck on Sunday 25 February. This popular, return event featured the Groove Brothers and Soul Sisters who played many old favourites. By late afternoon, everyone was up on the dance floor having a grand time. Overall, it was a great success and a great way to while away a warm, slightly breezy afternoon at the Club. Another is planned for April so if you missed the February event, make sure you save the date in your diary for the next.

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WOMEN ON THE WATER By Helen Kearney

Go girl!

ANET Thornley, owner and skipper of Balancing Act 2,

an 11 m one-design yacht, has been leading the pack this season. She has had the boat for four years and has raced the last two seasons. Recently, she came in second in Race 15 of the Bethany Twilight Series, was first over the line ahead of both divisions in Race 16, and achieved first for the Women’s Series Race. She may be the first ever to enter and helm her own boat in an RSAYS series. Let us know if you know of any others. Janet loves being out on the water and recently completed a sailing trip up and down the east coast of Australia with her partner Alan. She is keen to introduce more women into sailing. Talk to her about getting a ride on her fast boat if you are keen to try. Janet (second from right) and her team

Mucking about with big boats

SAYS Club members Jacqui Cole and Helen Kearney headed to Melbourne at Christmas to volunteer for the Volvo Round the World Ocean Race. Leg 4 of the race saw the seven competing boats arrive in Melbourne from Cape Town for a pit stop in the Docklands for a week. The race has been staged in various guises since 1973, and became a onedesign competition in 2014. The 2017/18 race commenced in Alicante, Spain and will finish in The Hague in the Netherlands. The Volvo Ocean 65 is built to a single, tightly controlled set of plans from Farr Yacht Design.

Women are well represented in the race, with all current crews having two or more women on board. The boat, Turn the Tide on Plastic, is carrying four women, with Dee Caffari as the skipper. Club member Jacqui Cole was lucky enough to go out on the PR boat as it arrived in Melbourne. Turn the Tide on Plastic carries a special message about the issues facing ocean health. Apart from the sustainability message, inclusivity around age and gender is also promulgated. Dee’s aim is to build a 50-50 male-female squad with the majority less than 30 years of age.

Preparing to move under the Bolte Bridge

Part of Helen’s volunteering duties was at a Sponsor event at the Williamstown Sailing Club, which meant going under the Bolte Bridge. Getting their 30 m masts under the 28 m Bridge was not an easy task, requiring canting the boat over, pulling down on a halyard, and edging the boat along a pontoon. Unfortunately, unfavourable weather on the day prevented the boats’ arrival. The event was cancelled, leaving 180 disappointed sponsors. As compensation, they were lucky enough to hear an interview with Melbourne-born Sophie Ciszek on Maffre. She also participated in the 2014/15 Volvo race in an all-female team. Leg 5 of the race took the boats up to Hong Kong and Guangzhou, and now they are heading to Auckland. There is great app to download to watch the progress of the Volvo Ocean Race with daily reports and interviews, and some great photographs and drone footage. Worth a look!

Volunteers (Helen Kearney left) with Sophie Ciszek - Maffre

Here we go again!

HE Squadron will once again be putting together a team, skippered by Helen Willmer, to compete in the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta on the June Long Weekend in Melbourne. More details in the next SQ issue.

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RACING REPORT Sea Safety Day The Sea Safety Day was attended by 23 willing participants. The course is offered each year to ensure as many people as possible are compliant with the racing rules, especially for Cat 3 races where a minimum of four able crew is required and a minimum of four of the crew shall also have a current Sea Safety Course Certificate or a Safety & Sea Survival Certificate (SSSC). Full details are on page 83 of the 2017/2018 Year Book.

Annette Turk

HE end of the first Racing Series

and the Christmas and New Year celebrations are now all a distant memory. So onward and forward with the start of the new year’s racing, the Adelaide to Port Lincoln Race including Lincoln Week, the King of the Gulf Regatta and the Easter Regatta at Port Vincent. All of these are exciting events which should get you out on the water enjoying the warm summer days over the next few weeks. The preparation for Presentation Night will be starting soon and that will be a gala night, especially for the trophy winners. It will be a fun event for everyone in attendance, as well as a good excuse to ‘glam up’ for the evening. Dress to impress everyone, so dust off your suits boys and bring out your party dresses girls! Save the date – Saturday, 5 May.

The Sea Safety Day was run by Safety Officer Bruce Macky. It started in the classroom with our participants being given an introduction to marine safety basics. Dr Andrew Ramsay covered medical emergencies, such as dealing with hypothermia and sea sickness. It was followed by theory for dealing with a ‘man overboard’ situation. The medical session was followed by theory dealing with a man overboard, and then participants went down to the marina to put this knowledge into practice, with most donning all their wet weather gear and life jackets to jump/fall into the water. One point to remember is that your life jacket should never allow you to float facedown. For peace of mind, it may be worth trying it out yourself next time you’re on the water. The day was quite hot so the opportunity to be in the water, even fully clothed, looked very enticing. I decided against joining them as looking like a drowned rat until I dried out probably isn’t the best look for a staff member! Once in the water, the group was listening to Safety Officer Bruce Macky giving instructions on what to do in the

water, such as huddling in a group to try to conserve body heat. Then it was time for the difficult task of getting back out of the water. A couple of members were hoisted aboard Salacia to demonstrate how to retrieve onto a vessel while the others tried to get out of the water onto the marina. Most found this quite challenging. A ladder was placed nearby to assist if required. Once everyone had changed into dry clothes they were rounded up and some had a turn at letting off flares. This was to demonstrate how to use flares safely as they get white hot when they are burning. Gloves and goggles were worn for protection. I’m sure the Super Foiler people wondered what was going on with flares going off in the marina! Sea Safety Certificates are valid for three years from the date of issue. For the convenience of our Members and guests, RSAYS runs a course at least once a year. The course isn’t just for racing skippers and crew. Everyone who sails should do the course to make sure they know how to deal with situations both on and in water – your life or those of your loved ones could depend on you one day. The warm weather makes it a great time to be out racing or cruising. The Twilight racing has continued for the second series of the season with a good number enjoying the buffet dinner after the race. The dessert is always popular! It’s a good time for camaraderie over a meal and a drink after the race, to chat about having won or how to beat the winners next time!

Man overboard Drill

Instruction on flares

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Man overboard retrieval on Salacia

SuperFoiler Grand Prix Comes to the Squadron By Chris Mandalov

T started with the arrival of three innocuous white shipping containers. Over the next two weeks, the Squadron became a hive of activity as large teams of ground crew prepared six SuperFoiler yachts for their first ever regatta. The tranquil South-East corner of the basin became a 24 hour a day workshop and a launch area for the boats.

SuperFoilers are a new, experimental class of yacht which normally ride up on foils. They are sailed by a three person crew on trapeze and have a very high power to weight ratio. Some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best sailors came to the Squadron to race the SuperFoilers over the weekend of 2-4th February. The Outer Harbor was transformed into a windward-leeward race course with as many as 60 spectator boats lined the Western bank of the harbour. Watching the SuperFoilers can be breathtaking. The boats can do a little over 20 knots in something like six to seven knots of breeze and have cracked 33 knots sailing downwind. The regatta was streamed onto the Internet for live viewing and will be formed into a television series next month. Tech2 pulled out of the regatta after it clipped a mark at high speed, damaging a hull and losing a rudder. Launching from the South-East Corner As a race competition, the regatta was disappointingly once sided. Euroflex, which won every race, boasted a crew of Nathan Outteridge, Iain Jensen and Glenn Ashby. The crew have 24 world championships between them and Glenn is the current Americas Cup winning skipper. The other boats were on a steep learning curve and hopefully will be more competitive if they return next year. Glenn Ashby was also guest speaker at a dinner put on for the benefit of the Squadron.

Tech2 hits a mark at the top gate

Euroflex on foils being followed by an ambulance

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RACING REPORT (CONTINUED) King of the Gulf – bigger and better every year!

Carbon Credit - Peter Hawker

HE 2018 King of the Gulf Regatta, held on the weekend of 16-18 February, with 26 yachts competing in four divisions, was a resounding success once again. The organising KOG Committee and volunteers were given a standing ovation at the Ventnor Hotel presentation dinner, after some kind words from Regatta stalwart, Lloyd Cushway from Quarante-Deux. It must have been a good Regatta to get that sort of spontaneous feedback from yachties. The Regatta did begin on a bit of a downer when popular yacht Blue Diamond (Mal Denton) was forced to withdraw from the Regatta seven days out with a broken mast. It was fantastic that the majority of the crew from Blue Diamond were able to crew with Garry Brown on Horopito in a special late entry into the Regatta. The passage race over to Port Vincent had the multihulls travelling via the Wonga Shoal buoy and the Long Spit beacon, while the monohull racing division had to go via Wonga Shoal and the Northern Silt beacon. The men and women in the cruising division had a great sail via the Wonga Shoal beacon. The racing in all divisions was very close with Aquitaine (David Eldridge) and Witchcraft (Peter Hastwell) in the cruising division being within 50 metres of each other for the entire race. David Brooksby on King Jo Jo was the mother ship accompanying all the boats across the Gulf. On the Friday evening the welcome dinner was held in the Regatta marquee on the beautifully refurbished lawns at the marina. The new KOG yachts and crews were welcomed by the Multihull Yacht Association of South Australia president Iain MacDougall. In the Easy Fuel team’s competition, multihull, monohull and cruising yachts were evenly distributed to represent five land-locked countries, Admiral Cup style. This fun competition was devised to encourage the fact that all those competing are ‘sailors’, no matter what type of boat they sail. The winning team was the best performing team, based on its handicap results as a group. Iain also acknowledged the new trailerable yacht division which was competing in the Regatta for the first time in their own division. The King of the Gulf Regatta was sailed in a wide range of winds from 5 kts to 25 kts. As usual, the racing was conducted on the best and flattest water in the state, with Fury Road, a DIAM 24 trimaran from Queensland, finding conditions very favourable for their lightning fast boat. The large multihull racing division was spectacular with Carbon Credit (Peter Hawker) and Crosshair (Gerald Valk) both finishing on the podium. The carbon fibre Farrier trimarans thrilled the spectator fleet with nail-biting racing. These speed machines were never far apart, with some races being decided by mere metres at the finishing line. Fury Road, the current Yachting Australia multihull champion after having won the recent

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By David Eldridge

Sandringham event, was expertly raced during the Regatta by the multiple national championship winning skipper, George Owen. The King of the Gulf win gives George another $1,000 North Haven Marine voucher and his third King of the Gulf crown. A pleasing result saw other Squadron boats Tearaway (Geoff Kneebone) and Dux Nutts (Iain MacDougall) finishing fourth and fifth with The Tribe (John Hardy) and Cicala (John Muirhead) close behind. A highlight of the series was watching the multihulls literally flying across the water in the Orontes Beacon race. In this race Carbon Credit averaged over 18 kts, with Crosshair and Fury Road very close behind. Next year George will be back with possibly the fastest boat ever to race in South Australian gulf waters with a new fully-foiling trimaran, a TF10 from Holland. This yacht is designed to sail at double wind speed and does 17 kts in 8 kts of breeze. A top speed of 30 kts plus is a given. MYASA is currently negotiating to have this creature sailing in a Twilight race in February before the 2019 King of the Gulf Regatta. The monohull division was dominated by Taurus, a Ross 9.5 m sailed superbly by Adrian Lawrie from the CYCSA. Taurus was sailed on the edge for the entire Regatta with some of her crew coming from the Port Vincent Sailing Club. Adrian and his crew were deserved winners of the $1,000 voucher from the North Haven Marine chandlery. Quarante-Deux was the model of consistency in second place, with every position in the Regatta a third or better. G-Wizz (Greg Patten) from the CYCSA finished in third place. This was a great result seeing Greg and his crew hosted a fair percentage of the Port Vincent Sailing Club on his beautiful yacht in the second race. Fourth position was an honourable result for Garry Brown and Horopito. Sailing such a credentialled yacht with a new crew must have been a challenge indeed. The results were rounded out with Circe (Colin Doudy), the 2017 King of the Gulf winner, and Liesl (Chris Mandalov), who had to return to Adelaide a day early. The cruising division saw the local Port Vincent yacht Misty Blue, skippered by Mark Hickman, win the $1,000 voucher from a new and welcomed sponsor, Southern Cross Marine. Misty Blue was very consistent with two firsts and a fourth in the three race series. New entry Cerulean (Michael Lane), a Seawind catamaran from the CYCSA, was one point behind in second, with Four Seventy (David Rawnsley) third followed by Aquitaine and Witchcraft. The new trailer sailer division saw a runaway win by Fifi V, a classy Noelex 25, skippered by Brian Lawrie from the CYCSA. Fifi V finished with four wins and a second from Tantalus from the Goolwa Regatta Yacht Club, and our RSAYS yachts Magic (Theo Strecker) and Musetta (Kevin Kelly). The South Australian Multihull Championships were held in conjunction with the KOG Regatta and this saw Carbon Credit winning from Tearaway (Geoff Kneebone) with Dux Nutts (Iain MacDougall) third. The Easy Fuel team’s trophy was won by Zambia (Carbon Credit, G-Wizz, Crosshair, Horopito and Cerulean) followed by Bolivia, Bhutan, Mongolia and Paraguay. Each skipper received a $50 fuel voucher. The two Quantum Sails random nomination prizes of a $500 and a $300 voucher were won by Robert Price in the trailer sailer Tantalus and Adrian Lawrie in Taurus. Ben Kelly, a design director of Quantum Sails and a long-standing supporter of the King of the Gulf, presented the vouchers. Principal race officer Nives Vincent and her team of Miss Robyn volunteers were a great support to the racing, as was the race mark vessel Amelia with Rod and Michael all the way from Goolwa. As tradition dictates, each competing yacht received three complimentary bottles of King of the Gulf wine, thanks to the generosity of Mario Minuzzo, again a long-time supporter of the King of the Gulf Regatta.

Adelaide to Port Lincoln Race on board Aikin Hames Sharley

By Caillin Howrd

We managed a fifth position over the line and fifth overall on IRC, with a victory of both AMS and line honors for the RSAYS. Most importantly, we made our dinner reservation, which was quite secure as many of our usual dinner partners were still very much out at sea! The presentation on Sunday was a little rainy and it took a while to warm up, with many crews still unpacking boats and catching up on sleep. This was caused by the late finish, but by the afternoon there were the usual catch-ups and fun being had. The Regatta started on Monday 19 February with a bang! 18-23 kts blew the dust off from the celebrations on Sunday and Saturday night. With two windward leewards, it was great fun spinning around the flat water in the dense shifty breeze. At the cocktail party that night, Nick Bice from the Volvo Ocean Race gave an excellent, insightful view of the current race and its future. Tuesday was another very light day. The long race was held out of Boston Bay, down and around Taylors Island and back, with 3-6 kts for all but the last few miles. The lee of the island was very difficult for some of us to negotiate before a gentle breeze came in.

HIS year’s race was filled, not with anticipation of the

usual drag race to Lincoln, an early finish and two big days of celebration before the Regatta starts on the Monday, but rather with the knowledge that we were all in for a slow one. This was as a result of a big high pressure system sitting centrally over the race course, thanks to a couple of cyclones pushing the usual system a long way south. But being ever the optimist, there were opportunities that came with this. It was evident that the most dangerous part of the forecast was not to get trapped under Cape Spencer as the wind rotated into the north-east and dropped, leaving a very big shadow that would almost be impossible to sail around. So, if we wanted to get to our 1900 hrs dinner reservation at Del Giornos in Lincoln, we had to get past Spencer before 0400 hrs! The race started with more breeze than we’d all expected, but didn’t move left as fast as we’d hoped, leaving a short tack needed to get around Marion Reef and set up along the foot of the Peninsula. Our plan along the foot was to keep under the biggest sail possible and drive down into each bay for both tide relief and additional pressure from being closer to land. While a slightly longer course, it paid off to be quicker, and we were able to make up five to six boats along the foot and then cut inside The Tribe (Farr 40) under Spencer Gulf and set up for the long run to Dangerous Reef in a dying breeze. From 0500 hrs through 1200 hrs we had 0-5 kts with the wind directly down the rhumb line making a tough period at times, with sailing due north and 1-2 kts for hours our only option to keep rolling. The breeze settled in the afternoon to around 6-8 kts and we had a brilliant race with The Tribe as they slowly tried to reel us in. This ended with a gybing duel across Boston Harbor and line honors victory against them by only 43 seconds at a little before 1700 hrs.

Wednesday is always a special day. It involves a good long race on the Bay course, finishing up at Spalding Cove for the annual Mega’s barbecue. This is always an opportunity for all competitors to catch up and remember Mega, a former ex-navy Special Forces diver who was a well-known Port Lincoln personality. He was a big man (around 150 kg), who spent much of his time delivering racing boats and teaching seamanship to many. He died a few years ago in Thailand while delivering a RSAYS boat to Hong Kong. There’s nothing better than sitting back in a plastic chair, eating a great barbecue with a few drinks, overlooking the Bay from a remote beach with the Regatta fleet hanging off anchor in front of you. (The view from the toilets is pretty special too!) Wednesday night’s highlight was sharing some ‘Aussie Kulture’ with a couple of our English guests, with a showing of The Castle and a ‘squidding session’ off the marina bridge. The Castle was a hit, but no squids were harmed in the fishing expedition, although it was crashed by a drunken nude sailor with an inflatable flamingo – thank you Jessie Mitton! Thursday was a tough day for us, with 10-12 kt winds making the more cruising orientated boats very hard to get away from, not helped by us picking up the biggest plastic bag I’ve ever seen on the bulb of our keel midway through Race 1, requiring someone to dive in to check and clear it. The last race was a beauty, and very tight, with the end result deciding the Regatta under AMS (Australian Measurement System) by four seconds between the top three boats (Aikin, Wicked and Magic). We were lucky enough be on the right side of the result and were able to go back-to-back AMS Regatta winners. This further supported colloquial comments that ‘AMS’ stands for ‘Aikin Measurement System’! Thank you to the Port Lincoln Yacht Club for hosting and organising the event, to Peter Teakle for sponsoring the race, to the Port Lincoln locals for welcoming and/or putting up with us, to our fellow competitors who create the push on the water and the camaraderie on the shore and, most importantly, to the bunch of legends who continue to sail with Oli and me and allow us to look a lot better than we actually are!

RSAYS Adelaide to Port Lincoln Trophy Winners Winner of the Clive Fricker Memorial Trophy for the fastest time: Aikin Hames Sharley - Caillin Howard and David Oliver . Winner of the Keith Flint Memorial Trophy for the AMS Winner: Aikin Hames Sharley - Caillin Howard and David Oliver. Winner of the Matthew Flinders Trophy for the PHS handicap: Taniwha - Ron Parker. Winner of the Wooden Spoon Award for coming in at last position at 0525 hrs on Sunday morning was Reprieve - David Barnfield. The huge effort he put into attaining this result was duly noted; his award is awaiting him at the Squadron.

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CRUISING REPORT By Michael Rossiter A somewhat historic occasion occurred when the Tour Down Under cycling event commenced in Port Adelaide on Tuesday 16 January. It was a most encouraging sight to see the enormous crowds of visitors for this well supported and unique occasion. Both the RSAYS and CYCSA were well in attendance to show the world that the Port could still show a sail or two in memory of what had been so many sails a century or so before.

E are pleased to announce a new member of the Cruising Committee. At our first meeting of the New Year on 26 February, we welcomed Peter Wickham to our ranks. Well done Peter!

Barbara Adams was invited as a guest to address the Committee on the subject of the World Map in Jimmy’s Bar. She has been responsible for updating this map with the changing position in the world of Squadron boats cruising the globe. This is not such a simple task as Barbara has found. She is in need of a well earned rest and Trevor Manoel will now pick up this task as the official ‘keeper’ of the map. Our thanks to them both. The 2017 cruising year was planned to conclude with the traditional New Year’s Eve Party at Browns Beach on Kangaroo Island. As it turned out Marionette IV was the sole Squadron boat there. Others opted to gather at Strawbridge Point. Best wishes were communicated via mobile phone between scattered Squadron members in Adelaide, Port Vincent and Kangaroo Island.

Many visitors walked along the line of boats while watching the most commendable display of precision sailing put on by the RSAYS Juniors – well done Juniors! The weather remained very hot after this event and continued well into January including the Crabbing Day held at RSAYS on Sunday 21 January. The Australia Day cruise to Stansbury might well have been cancelled due to the inclement temperatures of over 40°C, but you can’t keep a good sailor down. The Holdens on Marionette IV intended to moor close to Troubridge Island to find cooler conditions. As it eventuated, this was not necessary. The Australia Day barbecue was held on Saturday 27 January, attended by crew from six boats. A rather warm but good time was had by all.

Others labouring in the sun were Kingsley Haskett and his team who were building the mechanical steel cradle to transport Mark Sinclair’s Coconut, by way of a container cargo ship from Port Adelaide to the UK, for the re-enactment of the Golden Globe singlehanded round the world race. Coconut is well on her journey to the northern hemisphere and Mark is contemplating what stores he needs to load aboard before leaving. Mark and I have computed, (from the stores list published in the Appendix to Sir Robin KnoxJohnson’s book, A world of my own), that Suhaili was loaded with approximately 1.6 tonnes of foodstuffs etc, including drinks, to sustain him during the journey made 50 years ago. Coconut has a lesser beam than Suhaili and therefore we conclude a lesser internal volume in the hull for stores. The name of the game is to provide everything that Mark will need for his wellbeing for about 10 months. He is taking advantage of modern food processing to provide extended shelf life, as well as a reduction in weight and volume. Wishing you safe sailing and enjoyment throughout your summer cruising activities!

Coconut packed and ready for transportation to the UK

Escape from Planet 43º – Australia Day long weekend Cruise to Stansbury By Ken Case

HE regular crowd made its way

over to Stansbury this year, escaping from the sweltering Adelaide heat to bask in a mere 36º. Six boats ventured over, namely Marionette IV, Kooringal, Last Tango, Mojo, Cygnet and Stardust. The early boats, Marionette IV and Kooringal, took on the role of organisers and planned the barbecue for Friday 26 January. We all gathered in the usual spot beneath the shades for a very pleasant afternoon’s fellowship. Afterwards we retired back to our vessels for a snooze (at least some of us did!), followed by dinner on one or other boat. Saturday we all made our way ashore to wander the Stands at the Stansbury Fair

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and then on to lunch at the Dalrympe Hotel where we enjoyed a fine meal. That evening saw us all gather on Stardust for drinks and nibbles and many funny tales. Luckily the Bimini and fill-in prevented us from being blinded by Last Tango’s new LED anchor light nearby and Stardust’s Skipper was kept occupied pouring drinks to avoid him wandering around in his bright new tender. Sunday morning saw some boats departing early to avoid the predicted afternoon blow, gently motoring back in a sea of molten glass. Others stayed until later to enjoy a pleasant sail back in the breeze, arriving after the Adelaide heat had somewhat lessened.

Just the usual tremendous weekend cruise with all the fellowship and camaraderie that is the hallmark of the Squadron!

Tour Down Under Flotilla By Phil Stump

HE Bike Race that stops Adelaide returned to Port Adelaide for the first time in 20 Years on Tuesday 16 January. The event gave the boating fraternity a real chance to showcase boating and the Squadron seized the opportunity!

The race started in St Vincent Street and then headed over the Birkenhead Bridge and on to the Tom ‘Diver’ Derrick Bridge. It is the only Tour Down Under race that almost circles a body of water that is accessible by large yachts and motor boats. It was akin to the Melbourne Grand Prix circling Albert Park Lake, where the restricted 21’s raced during the Grand Prix – and how great was that! This was an opportunity not to be missed, but how do you get 30 large vessels and our Juniors on the water on a Tuesday - it was harder than you would think! We had a joint planning meeting with Yachting SA, CYCSA, Largs Bay SC and the Squadron, who took the lead. There was general enthusiasm to make it happen, even though a few problems were identified. In the end, it was the Squadron cruisers and a group of our Juniors, with support from CYCSA, who showed the potential for what a showcase this could be if the opportunity arises again in 2019. So how did it go? There were 16 Yachts and Power Boats (ten Squadron and six CYCSA) and three Pacers with Junior crews and their support team. This was a fantastic turnout and really made a spectacle on the day. The weather on the morning could not have been better with warm conditions and a light breeze - just ideal as the Juniors weaved in and around the Birkenhead Bridge as the crowds on the Bridge swelled. The Birkenhead Bridge turned out to be the best spot to see the bikes and the panorama of boats in the Port. Boats needing a bridge opening had to arrive before Tuesday, (no bridge opening that morning) and it was great to see Stardust, Erica and Hullabaloo brave the stiff breeze and arrive on Saturday. Numbers swelled significantly on Sunday with the arrival of the beautiful Andante and the always reliable Iluka and many others. Everyone got into the ‘Flag Flying’ competition and, as boat numbers swelled over the weekend, our Flotilla became its own tourist attraction in the increasingly popular Port Precinct.

A Juniors boat and Gusto waiting for the peleton On the Tuesday morning the Juniors (Alistair, Lachlan and Nick) were on the water early, with Keith Teagle holding it all together from the Squadron rescue boat - huge ‘thank you’ to them all as it really made the day to see our Juniors sailing in the Port. Ray and Gail on Iluka managed to leave the marina before the race start to supervise the on-water action with the Juniors. This was really appreciated, but meant that they missed seeing the riders in lycra up close. The winner of the Council’s best dressed boat was Miss V and the Mayor of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield, Gary Johanson, came to the marina to congratulate them and thank all flotilla participants. The judging of this award was close, and it was great to see all that all sailors really know how to put on a show and dress ship. After the bikes left the Port and we had all enjoyed a relaxed lunch, the bridges opened at 1400 hrs to allow Ivory Lady lead us out of the Inner Harbor and try to catch the Juniors who had left an hour earlier and were enjoying a brisk sail back to the Squadron. You’ve gotta love boating...

New Year’s Eve - Port Vincent Style By Noelene and Pete Cooling. Photo: Trevor Hamlyn

ORT Vincent this year had a healthy contingent of RSAYS vessels to bring in the New Year.

Commodore Bruce and Jill on Antares were joined by the Magic Beach crew (including special guest appearance from adventurer Rick Cluse, Airwaves), Crusader, Ellös (who arrived on New Year’s Eve for the celebrations then sailed back early the next morning, unfortunately missing that night’s fireworks display!), Amarina, Grey Nurse and Last Tango. A couple of Port Adelaide boats including Oatsea joined us also.

celebrations, which prompted Phil Tassicker to call the Quarterdeck back home and wish good cheer there also. The evening ended late with a boat load of happy sailors on Crusader, with a bottle of Port and chocolate chaser. Another fab New Year with good friends and great memories.

We were well supported by ground crew Anne and Steve Lewis (Odette) with Auntie Joy and friend from neighbouring Port Julia. The trip across for Last Tango was very calm, arriving around 1430 hrs on 31 December, unlike the voyage on Magic Beach which was almost a swim through with water tank issues! An afternoon catch-up and dinner were organised and the celebrations were underway. After calling an early New Year’s Eve at 2015 hrs we decided to phone Phil Stump who was with the Kangaroo Island contingent to share some New Year cheer. The entire group was on Four Seventy (it sounded like dozens of them) and were well into the

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NATURE - PORT RIVER SHELLFISH By Catherine McMahon, Estuary Care Foundation as swimming, kayaking, snorkelling and its vulnerabilities, given rising sea levels and more vigorous storms.

Native oysters reside off a Squadron pontoon N 31 May 2017 when forty chilled

live native oysters from Stansbury came to the Squadron, they weren’t delivered to the kitchen, though they could have been. Instead they were given new homes in two oyster baskets on a pontoon. The Squadron Management Committee had agreed, in October 2016, that RSAYS would be a pilot site for the Port River Shellfish Restoration Project. The deployment of the oysters was the beginning of the trial to see if native oysters (Ostrea angasi) could again survive in the Port River. 316 Ostrea angasi in 16 baskets were relocated in six sites ranging from the Gulf to the Inner Harbour. In the eight months that the oysters have resided at the Squadron, all have shown considerable shell growth, and this was obvious within two weeks of their arrival with new translucent white shell. Two oysters are now deceased from causes unknown. Individual oysters were weighed, measured and photographed at the outset and further measurements were undertaken in July and September 2017. Since September, the oysters seem to have gained considerable weight and this is consistent with them developing gonads and spawning. In January spat of the Ostrea angasi (and of other shellfish) have settled on the oyster basket surfaces and on the terracotta tile that is being trialled as a settlement plate. Some of the spat has been transferred to a sock within another basket to see if they too can survive and grow. We know from middens uncovered during construction for New Port Quays, and on Torrens Island, that native oysters were consumed by Kaurna people. Native oysters were once an abundant food resource in South Australia, with about 1,600 km of shellfish reefs along our coast. Colonial records indicate that individual boats brought 100,000 native oysters at a time from Port Lincoln to Port Adelaide.

Following the field trip, an ASMS teacher developed a case study style assessment for the Year 12 Biology students, generating a very positive response from students and the SACE Board. We look forward to continuing our engagement with ASMS students in 2018. Pinna and Angasi retrieved from Taperoo Beach Aug-Sept 2016 has been heartening to learn that they are surviving and growing across all six sites. Community members became interested in shellfish restoration in mid-2015, after learning of the capacity of shellfish to form reefs that can protect coasts and estuary shorelines, and of the fantastic capacity of oysters to filter water. An Ostrea angasi can filter a bathtub of water per day and accumulate heavy metals in its tissues. Of course, given stormwater in our waterways and our history of contamination, our trial oysters aren’t now suitable for eating. The Port River Shellfish Restoration Project is one of the projects coordinated by the Estuary Care Foundation SA and involves volunteers from environmental and marine organisations. The Foundation is focused on the conservation and restoration of the Port River and Barker Inlet Estuary and seeks to engage the community with the Estuary, with its beauty, its pleasures such

While Ostrea angasi reefs didn’t survive dredging and harvesting, Ostrea angasi do still live in SA waters. This is apparent on Taperoo Beach after winter storms, when Ostrea angasi on razorfish (Pinna) wash ashore. The improvements in water quality of the Port River have made it feasible to undertake trials with Ostrea angasi and it Page 18 SQ Autumn 2018

The Foundation undertakes community education and engagement with schools. In September 2017, 46 year 12 Biology students from the Australian Science and Maths School (ASMS), came on a one day field trip hosted by Project volunteers. At the Squadron, the students undertook the measuring, weighing and photographing of our oysters. They also took water quality measures to compare with other sites, including the Inner Harbour, where they observed masses of mussels and Pacific oysters.

Helen Macilwain and Michael Weir

Squadron members may have met, or might meet, the two key volunteers, Helen Macilwain and Michael Weir, who are tending the oysters and baskets at the Squadron. The gloves are protection against blue ring octopus, which volunteers encounter at other sites. The brush gets regular use cleaning the baskets of silt and the invasive pest Ciona intestinalis. The oysters need to be closed when they are brought to the surface and not stressed by extensive periods out of the water and/or in the heat. Approval is currently being sought from PIRSA to undertake small scale reef development in the Inner Harbour and north of the Snowden’s boat ramp, learning from the experience of Ocean Watch in Sydney Harbour. The Port River Shellfish Restoration Project is a community-led initiative and has joined other shellfish restoration projects developing throughout Australia, as part of the national Shellfish Reef Restoration network. Visit https://www.shellfishrestoration.org.au for more information.

SPONSOR PROFILE- BETHANY WINES By Tania Schrapel

Bethany Wines gets right behind the Twilights!

HE Twilight Races, held during the summer months, have long been a staple of the Squadron, balancing competitiveness with a great time to be had by all. The races exist for the pure joy of sailing while the sun sets, and that’s exactly why Bethany Wines has proudly sponsored them for eight years. Sails against a setting sun are worth raising a full glass of Bethany wines to!

Robert Schrapel has been a sailing enthusiast most of his life. His passion began in his teens, sailing with friends at Seacliff on 22 ft catamarans. This introduction sparked a love for the sport that led him to sail training and an inshore navigational course in his midtwenties. Since then, he has taken part wherever and whenever he can. “It was a no-brainer to get involved in sponsoring the Twilight Races,” says Robert. “Not only are they fantastic events to take part in personally, but they also open doors for people to develop their interest in sailing. As someone who has been interested in sailing most of my life, it’s great to see others also nurture and grow an enthusiasm for the sport.” The same can be said for Bethany’s ranges of table wines. Crafted with care and love on the Schrapel Family Estate, their wines are an expression of Robert and his family’s passion for making premium wines. The property has been passed down through generations of the Schrapel family since its establishment in 1852, and has long been a landmark in the village of Bethany. Robert couldn’t be happier to combine his two interests: “To be able to combine my love of sailing with my love of wine is a delight. It makes sense for us to sponsor an event that is open for everyone, as we believe we craft crowd-pleasing wines.” Initially, Bethany’s sponsorship began with the Plympton Cup, but Bethany eventually decided to move across to the Twilight Races because of its inclusivity. Differing from the hard-nosed competitive off-shore racing or Plympton Cup racing, the Twilight Races’ recreational component appealed to Robert. “The evening races give people the opportunity to jump off from work, head down

to the water and compete in a race for the evening, then gather together and have a glass of wine and wind down afterwards. What a fantastic way to get people involved with the Squadron.” The sponsorship is not an act of pure charity, either. Bethany Wines and the Squadron have mutually benefited from the relationship. An awareness of the brand and its products within a clientele that are in a good position to enjoy the wine is one major feature of the sponsorship: “Getting our wine into people’s glasses is only ever a good thing for us. We are hugely proud of the wines we make, and believe that once you try them, you’ll love them. So that has been a fantastic aspect of our sponsorship of the Twilight Races.” Just recently, in appreciation of their sponsorship, Robert joined the Commodore, Bruce Roach, and his wife to watch the new Super Foilers at their first official race of the new series in Adelaide. A most enjoyable day and another fantastic perk of the sponsorship. Our sponsorship is a small way to show our appreciation for the community and the sport. “Watching the Squadron grow over the past eight years has been quite amazing. Their success breathes life into the sport, and it’s wonderful to be surrounded by a community as excited and enthused as we are. And to be able to introduce people to our wines as well – what a privilege.” It’s all smooth sailing from here!

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JUNIORS REPORT By Stuart Davis In January, the Juniors joined other Squadron vessels at the Tour Down Under which, for the first time in 20 years, started from Port Adelaide. Alistair, Lachlan, Nick and their support crews enjoyed this unique experience on a different stretch of water. Sailing back to the Squadron proved to be exciting, with the increasing wind making the journey a thrilling and testing one.

waters, rescue boats, safety gear and many supporters. If you know any girls or boys aged 8 to 18 who would like to learn to sail, just contact the Squadron or one of the Junior Sailing Committee members.

* Editor note: See the detailed article by Phil Stump on the Tour Down Under on Page 17.

T’S been a busy time for the

Squadron Juniors! The traditional Pacer Cup, held on Saturday evening 9 December, saw Juniors racing against more senior members and a couple of coaches, with expert commentary provided from the Deck by Phil Stump. The event was taken out by skipper, Juniors’ Chairman and Sydney-Hobart sailor Mitch Mead and his crew, including me! Despite close racing and a very average crew allocation, Mitch’s mastery prevailed.

The highlight of the Juniors sailing calendar, the sailing camp, was held on 9, 10 and 11 March at Clayton Bay, with generous support from the Clayton Bay Boat Club. The camp is always a great opportunity for the Junior members, friends, families and supporters to enjoy great sailing, good company and share many tall stories. This year’s camp was no exception, with the much treasured trophy, the Crusty Cup, up for grabs. Winners will be announced in the next edition. The Squadron has a fleet of Pacers, Yachting Australia accredited coaches, sheltered

The action from the Pacer Cup

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Mitch Mead winner of the Pacer Cup

FUNCTIONS REPORT

T has been a busy time so far this year, with a number of significant events keeping our kitchen and table staff on the go!

SuperFoilers Regatta The recent very successful SuperFoilers Regatta provided us with the opportunity to showcase our Club to the public. Our bars and dining facilities were available every day of the event. The climax of the event, the SuperFoilers Celebration Dinner, was held on Saturday 3 February. Our Chef Brett and his staff produced wonderful food options, while special guest Glenn Ashby, recent America’s Cup winning skipper, captivated the audience with his stories. The following day the presentation of the race winners took place, and the SuperFoilers crews stayed back for an hour to meet and mingle with the public. Channel 7 streamed the event live, which will no doubt increase the profile of sailing, and hopefully also of our Club.

Sporting Car Club Dinner After a Classic Car run to the Squadron, the Sporting Car Club held their annual dinner on 5 January, with 80 car enthusiasts enjoying our hospitality in the Dining Room. The evening was so successful that this eminent Club has rebooked for the same event next year.

Valentine’s Day Dinner The Valentine’s Day Twilight Dinner on 14 February was a really fun night. With 220 guests, including some from the Cruising Yacht Club and the Port Adelaide Sailing Club, it was the biggest Twilight night in memory! Food was served in the Dinghy Shed and everyone enjoyed their meals on the Quarterdeck, with entertainment from a two-piece band. There were special Valentine prizes, red roses were handed out at random, and special prizes were given to any boat that crossed the finish line with a woman at the helm! The Chef played his part by decorating the desserts with love hearts. Thanks to our Sailing Coordinator Annette, and all the staff who worked hard to make the night a success.

Kevin Grant Hospitality and Events Manager

Other Recent Events: Groove on the Quarterdeck. This popular event returned to the Squadron on Sunday 25 February with the Groove Brothers and Soul Sisters attracting a crowd. Shared platters were available. The Wine Tasting. The next in our series of tastings, scheduled for Friday 16 March, is yet to happen when this edition goes to print. Featuring Robert Oatley wines and at only $8 per person including nibbles, these events are always popular. Come to the

next one and stay on for dinner afterwards! Book for dinner and the entry is free.

Come and try our new menu! An exciting range of innovative, new food selections was introduced for our Dining Room guests at the end of February. Make a booking for lunch or dinner and come and taste what we have on offer. It’s always our pleasure to serve you!

Flinders Ports

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SAIL DRIVE By John Phillips

Milang to Goolwa Freshwater Classic Birbeck lives at Clayton Bay, and neither of us had flown a spinnaker for some years, the opportunity for a spinnaker run from Clayton Bay to Milang the day before was welcome. The race turned out to be one of the most arduous I have sailed since a 14 hour marathon Tripolis race from Port Pirie to Port Augusta many years ago. As the start line was heavily biased to the pin end, the rest of the yachts in our division chose to begin on port tack. In the very light conditions the race start was delayed by 30 minutes so we made the decision that clear air would be more important than bias. This proved correct and, being the only yacht to start on starboard tack, we found ourselves in the lead by the time we reached the gate.

Light airs rounding Point Sturt

The Event

N December 1966, to settle a bet as

to whose yacht was the fastest, Bill Appleby and Bill Ballard raced from Goolwa to Milang. The race became popular with other yachts joining in and in 1974 the Goolwa Regatta Yacht Club (GRYC) formalised the race, making it an annual event on the Australia Day long weekend. Two years later, in the interest of safety, the direction of the race was changed to start at Milang and finish at Goolwa. Just a few short years ago the race was cancelled for a couple of years due to low water in Lake Alexandrina. Fleet numbers have now rebuilt somewhat with 145 starters for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event, but it is nothing like its heyday, when in 1986 I crewed on a TS16 trailer-sailer and there were 584 competitors. The anticipation of the race builds the day before as most competitors sail to Milang and moor in the reed beds and on the shore in front of the shacks. A boat/taxi service transports sailors from boat to shore and return, for a gold coin donation.

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The race this year had 10 divisions from vintage River boats, including five Restricted 21s, some still carrying their original RSAYS numbers, to sports boats, multi-hulls, off-the-beach dinghies and trailer-sailers from 5 to 8 m.

The fleet banked up, falling into a large hole at Point Sturt where we wallowed listlessly and fried in oppressive heat for an hour and a half. This effectively became another race favouring the boats with better handicaps when we started sailing with spinnakers flying in a zephyr breeze. The wind built to about 10 kts providing a very pleasant spinnaker run to Clayton Bay, where the effect of a light and fluky sea breeze then had us working hard the rest of the way to Goolwa. Out of 21 starters in our division, we finished 4th over the line and 8th on handicap. A satisfactory result given the conditions in which we sailed. About a quarter of the fleet retired or did not complete the race within the time limit.

The race is 25 nm long with the start line about 500 m out from the Milang jetty, to a gate half way to Point Sturt preventing boats sailing too far into Lake Alexandrina, on to Point Sturt, then along the Murray River past Clayton to the finish line opposite the GRYC at Goolwa.

The race was followed by a party at GRYC with a good variety of food and live music providing opportunity to meet with old friends and talk about the race. We stayed for the results and presentation of trophies, then enjoyed a pleasant evening sail with a beautiful sunset back to Clayton Bay.

The sleepy village of Milang comes alive as chairs, tables, barbecues and eskies appear from the tiny shacks and line the grassed lawns. I remember the atmosphere in 1986 when the road in front of the hotel was closed and a huge party raged, the merry makers playing bugles and bagpipes well into the night, making sleeping on the boat that night nearly impossible.

The Race

For the last five years I have crewed on Temeraire a 7.1 m Van de Stadt trailersailer. With light conditions forecast we had nominated to sail in the spinnaker division and only two up. As my Skipper Craig

John Phillips and Criag Birbek on Temeraire

Dux Nutts (RSAYS) multihull winner

ONE & ALL UPDATE STV One and All – Still Sailing Her Magic!

By Annie Roberts ship on the last two days at sea on their watches. At this point, accountability for their actions becomes paramount. Some students will rise to the occasion, and for others it will be a first-time experience of the pressure of responsibility, especially of a large vessel and the welfare of all on board. But it’s not all hard work on deck. There is time ashore with team beach games and swimming at remote bays found along our great South Australian coastline. Time ashore is like Castaway Island … no wonder they don’t want to go home! And what have our previous Youth Voyagers had to say of their time on board? “Friendships; I personally made some amazing friendships that I will value and continue to respect throughout my life.” “I discovered that when halfway up the mast I realized that I had a fear of heights.”

RANSFORMING lives of our youth is a great privilege to see, and our State’s ship still keeps casting her magic, even after 30 years of service. As the Operations Manager and a sailing crew member of STV One and All, I am in the fortunate position to see this many times in a year. When a student embarks on one of our Youth Voyages, they are guided and transformed into confident and resilient young adults by our dedicated team of volunteers and crew. After five days at sea, new friendships are formed, challenges and teamwork are mastered, and many of the youth are heard to say they don’t want to go home! To date, approximately 10,000 students have experienced these unique Youth Voyage programs on the ship.

The next five-day Youth Voyage will be during the school holiday break, 15-19 April 2018. Youth Voyages are a way of promoting personal development during which lifelong skills are learnt through challenges and adventures. It is an intensive work and social experience with an emphasis on team work, where all the youth are presented with the challenge of acquiring skills to operate the ship safely at sea. A key element of the Youth Voyage program is ‘A person cannot walk away from a challenge at sea,’ and meeting that challenge is a highly motivating experience. Each student is given training for the safe operation of the ship. Safety is paramount on board at all times and full body harnesses are worn whenever the students are on watch. While many of the voyages scheduled on the ship are part of community or school programs, this one in April is open to all youth aged 15–19 years wanting an adventure in the term break. Here is the chance to be at the helm of a 210T tall ship, at one with nature, the ship surging over the waves, and wind in the sails. All on board will help with the workings of this great ship, keeping watches at sea, navigating, sail handling, and so much more. No sailing experience is necessary; as they say on deck – “We will teach you the ropes!”

This next Youth Voyage on STV One and All will include the following: • 5 days sailing ex Port Adelaide and returning to same port • All meals and accommodation on board • Sail handling, navigation and ship husbandry training • Team activities and challenges • Use of heavy wet weather clothing protection and safety harnesses • Event shirt and Achievement Award certificate • Award presentation on deck of ship at end of voyage • And the best part – fun and life-long memories! An additional benefit for those participating in a five-day Youth Voyage, is that it can be used towards the Duke of Edinburgh Award. This Award is nationally and internationally recognised by employers as an indicator of a young person’s commitment to the activities, the community, and their attention to detail. The objective of a Youth Voyage is to pass on to the students the skills and responsibilities of operating the ship under minimal but appropriate supervision. The most empowering part of the voyage is when the students take command of the

“Teamwork was another highlight for me. Being able to get to know other people whom I hadn’t known previously in a way like the One and All allows was a huge positive.” “There are times in life that you need to get along with people, this means putting aside personality differences for the benefit of the whole group/team.” “Opportunities come along in life that you need to jump at, because they might just be a chance to surprise yourself with what you can truly do.” Even though she was launched in 5 April 1987, the ship has sailed to Rio and back, has lapped Australia and, in her 30th Year of service, is still giving back to the community more than ever, with a team of dedicated volunteers and crew, and partnerships with community groups, schools and businesses. As the STV One and All ship builder Bill Porter says, “She may be 30, but I built her for 100 years so go sail her!’’ And Bill – that is exactly what we are doing! If you have a son, daughter, grandchild, or want to provide sponsorship for a youth aged 15–19 years looking for an experience of a lifetime, you can encourage them to join this voyage. While it’s a voyage booking today for a youth, it’s an investment for tomorrow in resilience and wellbeing, and memories for a lifetime.

For more information or to book passage on this voyage: Phone: 0432 495 603 email: hello@oneandallship.com.au Download voyage information & booking pack: www.oneandallship.com.au

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SUPERFOILERS GRAND PRIX Photogrpahy: Chris Mandalov

They swooped, they sheared, they caused gasps of delight! The arrival of the SuperFoilers, on the weekend of 2-4 February, caught everyone’s attention when they chose to show off their prowess. The Squadron was delighted to welcome these yachts of the future, together with some of the world’s best sailors. Here is a photographic collage of these amazing flying ‘machines’ in action.

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MY BOAT - MAUNA KEA By new member, Charles Coffrant Canal. Peter settled in New Zealand, and then sold the boat. Over the years, Mauna Kea changed hands three times. Needless to say that we quickly abandoned the idea of finding another name – it had to go back to Mauna Kea!

ERY often, when one buys a boat, he or she enjoys it for a while, and then eventually sells it. In some rare instances, a boat has such history and heritage that the owner feels like a custodian. Mauna Kea is the boat I have been looking for since I was 13 years old, when I first started sailing. My dream boat had to be in aluminium to be light, be designed by one of the great designers, rigged as a schooner and ideally have a clipper bow.

By chance, during the Christmas break in 2003, I saw the advertisement for a schooner called Sheila, for sale in Yeppoon. After a thorough survey, a deal was struck. She was not seaworthy, and I had it trucked to our factory in Wingfield. Some information came with it: the original name was Mauna Kea, and it was a Phillip Rhodes design built for a German sailor named Peter Kammler. Not realising the rich history of the boat, my wife Kerryn and I started considering a few names like Little Escapade (after P Rhodes’ most famous yawl Escapade), and Charles de Fleurieu (my Greatgrandfather Charles had a country house in Fleurieu sur Saone, north of Lyon). One day, out of the blue, we received an email from a German admirer who wanted to know how we were going with the boat. This was followed by another admirer who had made a very accurate scale model of it. We decided to get onto the previous owner Peter Kammler. He was very supportive of our restoration project, sending us a DVD of the TV series, a movie of his voyages around the world, and a beautiful book retracing the genesis, the construction and the voyages of Mauna Kea. In late 1970, after an around-the-world trip on their Nicholson 38 (the first Mauna Kea, just to confuse everybody!), Peter Kammler and his wife returned to Germany as celebrities. Their book, Come with me, let’s sail around the world, had made them famous. Peter wanted to go back to sea with a larger boat. He acquired the rights to build the ketch Gouden Draak, design No. 745 from another Philip Rhodes design. The ketch became a two-masted staysail schooner, with the centreboard replaced by a long keel. The schooner was built in aluminium by Turbotechnik, a Hamburg shipyard which builds ships for the German Navy. It was completed in 1981, and was baptised Mauna Kea. Mauna Kea specifications are: OA length: 16.3 m; Deck length: 14.5 m; Water length: 10 m; Draft: 1.8 m; Displacement (with water and fuel), 12.8 t; Sails: Yankee 34 m², Fore staysail: 17 m², Main staysail: 18 m², Main: 35 m², Fisherman: 34 m², Spinnaker: 96 m². Mauna Kea was trucked from Hamburg to the Mediterranean Sea for a TV series which Peter had secured with German Television Station. Imagine the convoy going down the steep and narrow mountainous roads of the Alps! During the next five years sailing around the world followed, including a crossing of the Panama Page 26 SQ Autumn 2018

With the boat next to our factory a refit, when time permitted, of 13 years followed. We worked on her every Saturday, public holidays, sometimes from 0600 hrs to 0800 hrs, before our staff arrived for work, and of course after work! Family and friends were enrolled as well. The stainless screws fastening the 1” thick teak deck planks had caused extensive corrosion. The aluminium of the deck had to be treated before re-laying it with 18 mm thick teak planks. This time some Sika glue was used. With our son Christian, we drew every plank and joint on the deck, and handed it to Rick De La Mater, the carpenter who most accurately cut it to our marks. In order to avoid steaming the planks, I decided to lay them in straight lines (rather than following the gunwale curve). However, the gunwale teak capping in 3” x 1” would test us - it was the first time we used the steaming in the plastic sleeve technique. It worked a treat. Our daughter, Laurence, focused on the inside, and became an expert at installing the ceiling panels. We have tried to keep everything as original as possible, although adding some comfort features, such as a diesel-fired heater with five outlets (including one in the head!), a double berth cabin on the port side, and a black water system. Above deck, an asymmetrical spinnaker will complete the wardrobe. Mauna Kea was relaunched in late November 2017, with her first sea trials conducted in February. Unfortunately, the relaunch happened very quickly and Peter Kammler could not be there. However, he is planning a trip to Adelaide for Christmas in 2018, with a special gift – the original bell that will once again sit under the boom rest portico. Going back over the last 13 years, a ‘close call’ comes straight to mind. Late one morning on 13 March 2012, the factory of one of our neighbours, literally 15 m away from Mauna Kea, caught on fire. Ninety-five fire fighting vehicles turned up, only to find out that north of Cormack Road the water supply was insufficient! The original gunwale capping, and the shade canopy, ended up with a dark tan! Thankfully no firemen were seriously injured and nor was any damage caused to the boat. By the end of the day Elvis, the fire-fighting helicopter, managed to extinguish the blazing inferno, and we could all finally breathe a sigh of relief. We came to the RSAYS gradually. In 2007, Caillin Howard took me for a race on his Mum30, which he won. Later on, Adrian Donald showed me his yacht Exodus, and then Catriona. The decision to become members of the RSAYS came naturally, with Adrian and Kingsley Haskett as sponsors. The next two years will see us fine-tune the boat in Australian waters, before heading to Polynesia and beyond.

REBUILD INDEPENDENCE By Trevor Hammond, Rebuild Independence Group

SAYS members would be aware that a group of boat enthusiasts on Kangaroo Island are currently building at American River a copy of the 45 ft schooner Independence, built at the River by American sealers after establishing a temporary base there in 1803. When finished, it will be surveyed for charter to do cruises out on the Bay with interested visitors.

Funding and Building The project is heavily dependent on donations – materials, equipment, labour and cash. Most are gathered through the energies of RIG’s hard-working members. Many donations come from two recurrent sources: • The $20 ‘Buy a Plank’ program has raised over $30,000 to date. That equates to 1,500 individual donors, who have been given a guided tour of the project and the boat’s history. That’s a lot of enthusiastic presentations from volunteer ‘guides’. • The frequent visits of cruise chips to Penneshaw. These ships disgorge between a few hundred and a couple of thousand cruise passengers each visit and, as well as swelling Boathouse visits, RIG has a stall at the special Cruise Ship Markets. Other valuable donations come in the form of useful items, machinery or materials. One donor recently presented RIG with a 65 kg anchor, ideal for the 35 tonne Independence, and a compass that had served on SA’s last trading ketch, Falie. Perhaps the most valuable donation, and hardest to quantify, is the time and effort of RIGgers. Whether it be building the boat, talking to visitors, manning the fund-raising stalls, tending the Boathouse precinct, making simple souvenirs to sell, serving on committee or cooking the ubiquitous barbecues, the project is wholly dependent on their input.

Progress of the build has been less than ideal. While volunteers are willing and able, coordinating that labour has been difficult. A change in strategy has proven effective with a declared work schedule enabling volunteers to plan ahead. With several set tasks undertaken by small teams, the combined enthusiasm is producing measurable and visible progress.

Ballast Head Cup Squadron members will be familiar with the annual Ballast Head Cup, run in the welcoming waters of Eastern Cove. The New Year’s Day race draws many entrants and is intended to be light-hearted … but sailors will be sailors! RIG conducts a fund-raising barbecue on the beach for weary, returning tars*. It provides a happy scene where visiting and local sailors can relax and chat face to face, rather than gunwale to gunwale.

New ferry service RSAYS members may be aware of the new passenger ferry service, the James Cowell, operated by KI Connections, to

run between Cape Jervis, Penneshaw and American River. Minor complications with the docking facilities at Cape Jervis have delayed the start but it is expected to be underway within weeks. RIG is especially excited by this because the morning/evening ferries will dock at the American River wharf, not 100 m from the Boathouse. Needless to say, this will place a sharp focus on the Independence project. In conjunction with this enterprise, an Air Village is planned for the airstrip just above nearby Pelican Lagoon. So if you want to fly in fresh crew …

St Ayles Skiffs The Boathouse is also currently home to another boat-building endeavour, the St Ayles Skiffs, with separate funding and workteam. Simply described as a small surf-boat with four staggered rowers and a steersman, the attractive skiffs add a complimentary flavour to the maritime focus of the site. Once the two skiffs are finished, many keen oarsmen and women (‘oarspersons’ doesn’t really work does it?) will bend their backs to the ‘Heave-ho’ of the skipper. Things are happening at the River. Come and see us at the Boathouse next time you’re driving/sailing/flying to KI. For further information see www.rebuildIndependence.org

*TARS. An affectionate name for a sailor, derived from their habit in the days before the issue of official uniform of treating their canvas coats and hats with tar as a protection against the weather. It was a contraction of tarpaulin. Source: The Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea Edited by Peter Kemp

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MEMBER PROFILE - MARK SINCLAIR

My life so far!

By Mark Sinclair

D’Entrecasteaux Channel Tasmania

WAS born in Manchester in 1958 and emigrated to Australia in 1960 aboard the MV Fairsky. Early life at sea seemed to appeal to me, as I ate my way to Australia, despite my parents’ seasickness. On arrival at Station Pier in Melbourne, we were adopted by an Australian family from Beaumaris. We then lived in the bayside suburbs of Frankston, Mentone and Mordialloc where I gained a love of the beach. I have an image from an early age of the old wooden boats in Mordialloc Creek. Later we moved to Dandenong and Noble Park.

As a youngster, I was an avid reader. Books that particularly influenced me were Robin Knox-Johnston’s A World of My Own and Erskine Childer’s Riddle of the Sands. Interestingly, both cover single-handed sailing. I developed a love of the sea, and also lapped up the action adventure television series Sea Hunt, the documentary The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, as well as the TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and for some light relief McHale’s Navy. We moved up to a Top Hat, a 26-foot keel boat, which we named Boadicea. We sailed this out of RMYS and later moved it to Chinamans Creek in the Gippsland Lakes. At this time I started to sail her single-handed around Metung and in Lake King. I went to primary schools in Frankston, Lyndale and Yarraman Park and then Noble Park High School. After Form 6 (Year 12) I joined the Royal Australian Navy as a midshipman and moved away from home to the Naval College at Jervis Bay. This period involved plenty of marine activities including sailing in a bosun dinghy, Endeavour 24, and the 40-foot boat Franklin. The summer north-easterly sea breeze in Jervis Bay can be fresh, which created many exciting and close match races around the bay.

Our family bought a Hartley TS 16 in 1968 and we fumbled our way into sailing. Later we moved up to a Red Witch, a 19 foot 6 inch trailable keel boat, which we named Topaz. We initially sailed out of St Kilda marina and then Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron and also made trips by road to the Gippsland Lakes. I remember sailing in an overnight race from Marley Point to Metung – ghosting through McLennan Strait between Lake Wellington and Lake Victoria with about 100 other yachts, being carried by the current in the middle of the night under the light of the moon.

I completed a degree in Physical Oceanography at the University of New South Wales and after my initial naval training joined the tanker HMAS Supply for sea training, which included the multinational exercise RIMPAC 80 out of Hawaii. Following this posting I completed more shore training and was sent back to sea for my Bridge Watchkeeping certificate. I was seconded to the Royal Navy and joined the icebreaker HMS Endurance in the Falkland Islands. There I participated in hydrographic surveys in Port Fitzroy and sailed on two trips to Antarctica, where I met David Attenborough. At this time, I developed an interest in Antarctic exploration, lapping up

Learning to sail on a Hartley TS 16

Midshipman in HMAS Watson - 1978

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books by Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen and Mawson. We then sailed back to the UK where I joined HMS Alderney conducting fishery protection in the North Sea. On return to Australia I joined the destroyer HMAS Swan as a watchkeeping officer and sailed back to Hawaii for exercise RIMPAC 82. On return to Australia I joined the minesweeper HMAS Curlew as navigating officer for two-and-a-half years. This was a great experience, navigating visually using bearings and horizontal sextant angles, radar, astronomical observations using a sextant, and dead reckoning (DR). We circumnavigated Australia and participated in exercise Cakrawala Baru 82 in Indonesia. On return to Sydney I joined the destroyer HMAS Yarra as navigating officer. I aspired to be a specialist navigator and attended the Long Navigation course and was posted to HMAS Vampire where we conducted specialist navigation training. Unfortunately, I failed a practical navigating test through Torres Strait at night and without radar, which was extremely challenging. This was a major setback because I had set my heart on becoming a specialist navigator. What should I do? I decided to change streams and become a hydrographic surveyor and attended hydrographic training at HMAS Penguin. I was then posted to the survey ship HMAS Moresby as navigating officer and conducted surveys in WA off the Kimberley Coast. I was then posted as the navigating officer of the oceanographic ship HMAS Cook, and we conducted research cruises in the South Pacific. I really enjoyed this period as the technical aspect of the hydrography and oceanography reawakened my undergraduate studies in these areas. At this time, we sold Boadicea and purchased a Roberts 39-foot ketch Kaleidoscope in Sydney. Depending on where I was posted, we would sail Kaleidoscope between Metung and Cairns.

Navigator aboard HMAS Curlew

In 1984, I sailed her single-handedly to Lord Howe Island to qualify for the Yachtmaster Offshore certificate. I then sailed her singlehandedly from Eden in NSW to Westport in New Zealand, and returned from Nelson to Sydney, to qualify for the Yachtmaster Ocean certificate. I was then posted to HMS Drake in Plymouth for specialist hydrographic training. My partner Rae and I lived just off the moors in Keaton near Ivybridge and often went tramping. During this period, we hired a boat in Ardfern in Lochcraignish Scotland, sailed her up to Oban and then back down and across the Mull of Kintyre, through the canal between Crinan and Lochgilphead. We tried to sail to Tobermory on the Isle of Mull but the winter weather defeated us. We experienced some hard sailing and often faced four seasons in a day but some evenings were easier, secured alongside a pub in the Crinan Canal. On return to Australia I was posted to the landing craft HMAS Brunei as Commanding Officer. Brunei was fitted out as an interim survey ship, and we conducted surveys off the north coast of Papua New Guinea. Following this I was posted as CO of the landing ship HMAS Tarakan to fill in a gap, and then as CO of the new survey ship HMAS Paluma. Paluma is a 37 m catamaran built at Eglo Engineering on the Port River and was commissioned in February 1989. While she was being built I lived at the Largs Pier hotel. Also at this time I married my partner Rae and over the next few years we had three children, Cameron, Haydn and Bridie. I completed a graduate diploma in Land Data Management at RMIT in Melbourne, and then joined the hydrographic school in HMAS Penguin as the Officer-in-Charge. We often sailed Kaleidoscope in Sydney Harbour and fitted two baby car seats in the cockpit. Following this I was posted to Cairns as the Commanding Officer of the Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) between 1994 and 1996. We conducted large hydrographic surveys around the Australian coastline. Life became too busy at work and home and reluctantly we sold Kaleidoscope. In 1997, I retired from the RAN as a Commander after 20 years of service, and joined Vision Systems in Adelaide as the survey manager. We developed a new LADS system and operated this for commercial surveys around the world. Over the last 20 years we worked extensively overseas, including in remote areas such as the Alaska Peninsula for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in Svalbard (Spitsbergen) for the Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS), in the Outer Hebrides for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and off Macquarie Island for the Australian Hydrographic Office. During this period, we formed LADS Corporation, were acquired and became Tenix LADS Corporation and later Fugro LADS Corporation, during which time I became

Commmissioning of HMAS Paluma by Admiral Mike Hudson (Chief of Naval Staff) Survey Director then Managing Director. We are now part of Fugro Marine Australia and my role is the Director of Hydrography for the Asia-Pacific region. Fugro is a diverse company which collects data regarding the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface and subsurface. Recent Fugro activities include the initial search for MH 370 and the recent discovery of the wreck of AE1, the Australian World War I submarine, which was lost in a diving accident off Rabaul in 1914. During my time in Adelaide I have been able to reawaken by dormant sailing aspirations. My father, John Sinclair, passed away in 2003 and we inherited his trailer-sailer Okera, an Adventure 23. I sailed her out of North Haven Marina and Wirrina Cove, including trips to Kangaroo Island, through Backstairs Passage and around The Pages. I soon discovered that Okera was probably too small for this type of work and after an extensive search, replaced her with Starwave, an aluminium S&S 41. I initially sailed Starwave from Wirrina Cove but when I badly broke my leg in a bike-car collision in 2012, I moved her to Adelaide and joined RSAYS. I sailed Starwave in Gulf St Vincent but was interested to read about more remote places. I made a number of trips to Kangaroo Island along the north and south coasts and further afield to Port Lincoln, Wallaroo and Port Augusta. In 2013, we followed the tall ships to Melbourne, down the west coast of Tasmania to Hobart and onward to Sydney, but had to shelter from bad weather in Flinders Island. We then ran out of time and retreated to Beauty Point, and later sailed back to Adelaide. More recently I sailed along the west coast to Ceduna. During some of these trips I conducted small sketch surveys which have included Snug Cove, Althorpe Island anchorage, inside Souttar Shoal in

Hardwick Bay, Goose Island anchorage at the northern end of Wardang Island and Pearson Island in the Great Australian Bight. I also surveyed Masillon Island in Nuyts Archipelago, a protected key hole anchorage south of Ceduna, but have not had the time to plot out the soundings. Some of these trips are documented in articles published in SQ magazine editions from Autumn 2015 to Spring 2016. I was now getting more adventurous and entered Starwave in the single-handed trans-Tasman race from New Plymouth to Mooloolaba, which commences in April 2018. My plans became completely disrupted when I read an RSAYS e-bulletin on Friday 10 June 2016, which included a report on the rerun of the 1968 Golden Globe Race in 2018 on the 50th anniversary of the original race. I found this captivating and within a few days had sent in my application, purchased the Lello 34 cutter Coconut, which was one of the allowed designs for the race, and put my beloved Starwave on the market. Since that time, we have been refitting and trialling Coconut, which is covered in the SQ Spring 2016 and subsequent editions. I am taking 10 months off to participate in the 2018 Golden Globe Race. I have had a huge amount of help from the local community and members of RSAYS, for which I am very grateful. My aim is to finish within 300 days; I may even do a Steven Bradbury! Wish me luck. *Ed Note: Of course we all wish you well, Mark! Any chance of quickly training some carrier pigeons to keep delivering your fascinating articles to us while you are away?!

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CHICKEN, THE HAPPY SAILING CAT By Alan Dowler and Janet Thornley Two RSAYS members, Alan Dowler and Janet Thornley, left our shores in February 2016 in their 40 ft Van de Stadt Caribean Blue Dog. They had just finished crewing in the King of the Gulf Regatta and were headed in an easterly direction for a lengthy adventure. They sailed up as far as Yorkeys Knob north of Cairns, returning via Recherche Bay on the southern tip of Tasmania, before heading back to Adelaide via Port Vincent, just in time to crew once again in the King of the Gulf Regatta exactly a year later. The following are extracts from a blog on Facebook, written during their travels from the perspective of their accompanying cat Chicken. These entertaining snippets kept family and friends informed of their adventures. thing in case no other slaves turn up. But in the meantime I’m keeping this diary so cats wherever I end up will read this and look out for me.

DAY 1 My slaves are bringing more stuff from the last house to this stupid floating one. I can smell it, something is up. They are all happy which usually means trouble for me. I don’t even know where I am now and I hate to think where this house is going this time.

Janet with Chicken

Let me introduce myself.

I everyone – my name is Chicken. I am the long-suffering and unfortunate cat overlord of the two renegade slaves known by the humans as Alan and Janet. I have had them serving me for many years and they have, for the most part, provided for me quite well. Their infidel dogs aside, they are otherwise trained to feed me every morning, clean my toilet and provide me with laps, backrubs, chin scratches and the odd cardboard box and paper bag to play in. Yeah, life was rather chilled and comfortable in the first couple of their houses, that is until now.

My stupid male slave built a floating house that moves around. They have shanghaied me to sea and every time I look outside, there’s a different world. No cardboard boxes here, and when I find a hole to hide in, the slaves laugh and pull me out. It took me three days to work out how to poo on this moving house but I sorted it out eventually. Whenever the wind comes up there are creaks and bangs on the roof, and the slaves have to fight with the snakes outside to stop them coming for me. They have given me a hiding place where the banging snake ropes can’t get me but they still laugh at me. I’m working on a plan to make them take me back to the last house! If that doesn’t work I might have to get violent or even homicidal – yeah that’s probably the best way, but only after I work out how to use that can opener Page 30 SQ Autumn 2018

It’s late at night, we’ve been rolling around with the engine going all night. I’m writing this from my secret hole. The slaves are too tired and seasick to look for me, so damn, it doesn’t look like there’ll be any laps or scratches for a while. I think I’m seasick too. The house is rolling all over the place and I couldn’t quite get a quick poo into my toilet (I only just missed). Sadly the lady slave cleaned it up before the male one stepped in it, which would have been a highlight while he was seasick, but I’ll get him next time. The sun is up now and the house isn’t rolling so much. The slaves have tied the house up at somewhere called Robe and all is quiet. But so much for that – two hours later the wind is up. There’s howling and screaming wind and rain. The house is rolling again, even after the slaves tied it up and the snakes are banging on the roof. Sometime in the middle of the night there was a huge wind and snakes banging. I ran into the slaves’ bedroom and the male slave went out in the wind and rain to fight them off. It must have worked because the banging stopped. I’m back in my secret hole listening to the rain and the screaming wind. I think the slaves were happy to have their floating house tied up and this morning they were giving me laps and chin scratches again. So we survive for another day – now for some more can opener practice while they go for a walk.

– the house is flying way up and down and rolling side to side – there are crashes and things falling over. Something just missed me so I ran out into the cockpit where the slaves were out there steering the house, all wet and cold, only to be humiliatingly thrown back inside and they locked me in. It was all wet out there and the male one was throwing up a perfectly good meal over the side. Stupid slaves seem to like this or maybe they have a learning memory problem, because they keep doing this to themselves. The day is breaking – we are coming in to a place called Beachport South End – God knows why, because there is more and more seaweed being caught in the propeller and steering as we get closer and closer to shore. I just hope we make it because I’m so hungry and I’ll need the female one to feed me soon. The engine is working harder and there is black smoke. The male slave is so messed up by now he seems to only say one word over and over – starts with F – I can hear him out there. The female one is a bit better but she isn’t saying much either. 7 am. Things are quieter now - I’ve found an awesome hiding place behind the fridge hehe – nothing can get me here! The slaves are calling and looking for me all over the floating house. They can’t find me and I’m not saying anything. They think I must have jumped out of a window – I can’t tell you how dumb these slaves are – can you imagine jumping into a cold sea at night – the thought of it indeed! Anyway, it’s been a couple of hours now and things are pretty quiet with the anchor down and the house is still. The female slave thinks I jumped out and drowned –

DAY 4   Rudely awakened at 1 am by the engine (yes this stupid floating house has an engine on the inside). The sneaky slaves are moving the house again and didn’t tell me – what the hell! It’s cold and they have so many clothes on they can’t even give me a lap or a scratch – how can this go on! I think I’m going to miss breakfast.  It’s 4 am and dark

Alan at the helm

she is pretty sad and has tears rolling down. The male one thinks it’s probably his fault – they are talking about giving up and going home – at last!!! – back to a proper land house – free of this stupid floating one – woohoo. Suppose I’d better wander out and get some scratches and a bit of breakfast while they’re feeling guilty. It seemed to make them happy anyway and the female one had even more tears – really!! What gets into these humans? – and they had to phone everyone to tell them I was still alive . But I think if they really appreciated me they would take me straight back to the last house immediately and not wait till tomorrow. Today they told me I have only eight lives left – meh! What would they know. I’m glad they’re giving up on this stupid holiday – I think I’ll sleep well tonight.

DAY 5 OMG OMG OMG !!! They are going the wrong way. They brought another slave on board this morning to help them sail the house to…… to……. MELBOURNE – aghrrr! Shanghaied again. I’m back in my secret hidey-hole. The slaves are drawing something in gibberish on my door and laughing. The house is sort of floating more smoothly this time, with no ups and downs – and the sun is out. I’m not going to show myself for the whole day and the whole night if I have to, I’m so disgusted with my slaves. It’s been a long, long time out here now in the sea, nearly 24 hours I think, but the sun is coming up and it looks like we’re coming into yet another world. This one is called Port Fairy. The slaves are all tired and wobbly and will be sleeping soon – I’d better get out there quickly and get some lap time and breakfast before they disappear.

DAY 7  Wooohoo! A treat – woke up to find a piece of cardboard today – awesome things happen when the slaves are feeling guilty. Not quite a box but good enough to tear to shreds all over this stupid floating house’s floor. The slaves hate me prickling the seats – I sooo want to, but they look at me and hiss, and I’m not sure what they’d do if they caught me since there still aren’t any slaves or cat sisters turning up to rescue me. They all went out and left me alone at home today – peace at last, and just chilling in my little warm house with my cardboard. We are still in Port Fairy – the slaves have been out hunting for food at the markets again with their bags. They came back smelling of eggs and bacon and a touch of paella and had more bottles of coloured water in their bags – what are they up to?? This whole place smells like fish. Some slaves have been bringing huge tuna fish in on their floating houses – their cat overlords should be impressed and happy – meanwhile I’m stuck with my two useless slaves who haven’t caught a single fish yet – so I’m still forced to eat the little dry Whiskers ration biscuits. Something is

The floating house, Blue Dog, moored at Swan Bay Boat Haven, Queenscliff Vic up – there are lots of Pringles packets on the table. They have put all the bottles of coloured water in the fridge, the female has lots of Tim Tam packets, there is a TV and wires, with some special clothes being laid out – worried for tomorrow!!!

DAY 9 Worried again! Some of the slaves from the other floating houses joined my two slaves for dinner. There is one of the floating houses with two infidel fluffy white dogs who are actually told what to do by humans – how they could humiliate themselves so, I wouldn’t know. They are leaving this Port Fairy world with their floating houses tomorrow and I fear my slaves might be planning to follow them. Damn Damn! – just when I get a bunch of good scratching slaves around the place we’re leaving. They are putting diesel in the tanks and hunting for food with their bags again – this is all getting too familiar. Apart from the whole place smelling like fresh tuna and me not getting any, I sort of liked this world with lots of humans walking by, lots of weird white birds I imagine I’m going to catch and rip to shreds but never actually do anything about. The male went surfing today and then they all got the maps out again, probably looking for the next world. I hope they get it right this time is all I have to say. But enough writing for today – I’ve packed up my laptop and I think I’ll sleep right on top of it for a while so the slave can’t watch his silly little football men running around. Hehe!

DAY 11 Well, how right I was again. Sure enough, just before the sun came up the humans started getting out of their beds and groaning into their clothes for the day. My male slave started the engine while the other two untied the floating house from the land before I’d even completed morning stretches – I mean, days are ruined like this too often with these slaves. They are all happy because it’s the last leg to a world they’ve been calling Melbourne – well I can tell you I’m on my last legs too if they don’t stop this sleep disturbance.

The wind is strong today and they have turned off the engine. The house is leaning over while it moves along but there isn’t much bouncing going on. I had given up expecting it, but am actually being fed this morning by the female one – I think the male one is still pissed off about getting my kitty litter stuck to his feet. We are approaching giant houses. The humans here build huge shiny houses and they have shops – everywhere shops – up and down the water’s edge with thousands of slaves just sitting around drinking coffee with little numbers on sticks in the middle of the tables. Hundreds of infidel fluffy white dogs through these parts – not a cat to be seen. We tie up and the slaves all just leave me here while they wander off muttering words like ‘beer’ and ‘parma’ and ‘kebab’. Female slaves run up and down the river’s edge between the coffee shops in their ‘active wear’ and shiny old men ride their bikes from coffee shops to bakeries to toilets all up and down the waterfront and park their bikes in big clusters. The third slave Brian is saying goodbye to me and telling me he’s flying home – as if he could fly! So I’m left here amongst the giant shiny houses that smell like food 24/7 with my two retarded slaves. Can’t go outside yet, too many new things and new smells – I’m staying in for now. The water in this Yarra River smells like fish and food and sometimes even poo. Little men catch the fish up and down the riverbank – I don’t think they know the fish eat the poo – I hope they’re not feeding any to their cat masters. The slaves have come back to the floating house smelling of beer and meat and fat – it’s dark, they are tired and sleeping, so I thought I’d go climbing outside up into the sails, only to be grabbed and brought back inside by the male slave who snuck up on me in his underwear – awkward – I hope none of the fluffy white dogs were awake to see THAT!

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TAKING TYMARA TO TASMANIA By John Wickham

Tymara at Currie Jetty

From the RSAYS to the Mersey Yacht Club in Devonport Towards the end of last year John and Veronica Wickham sold Tymara, their son Mat’s boat. A Fjord MS-33, this pilot-house motor-sailer was built in Norway in 1975. It was bought by Captain Jacques Sapir, former owner-captain of the ketch Hawk which had traded in the Pacific Islands in the 80s. Jacques now lives in Devonport, Tasmania so a delivery trip was planned. John recounts how the trip went.

ACQUES invited me and his

friends Lance and Alan, both from Devonport, as crew. We agreed to leave on Sunday 5 November. As it turned out, the following Wednesday was a better day to leave, giving us an early start with light easterly conditions. This made for a very pleasant motor sail down Gulf St Vincent, with a fuel stop at Wirrina Cove. We made Christmas Cove, Kangaroo Island by 1700 hrs and had a meal at the Penneshaw Hotel, planning to head south to Robe the following day. I was somewhat uneasy with this plan, as Lance had been seasick crossing Backstairs Passage, due to the usual rock-and-roll across this notorious stretch of water. We had an early start on the Thursday morning but, by the time we were leaving Cape St Albans, the ebbing tide was flowing at 2 kts. With light winds, and predominantly SE swell, the passage was very uncomfortable with the tide causing the sea to stand up. As I had suspected, it was not long before Lance became seasick again, and he thought he had better not continue with the voyage. We decided to return to Christmas Cove, Page 32 SQ Autumn 2018

and he made bookings to return home. Alan was running out of time so he too decided to leave as it looked like the weather would deteriorate over the next few days. The crew was now just me and Jacques, who was a little apprehensive that there were just the two of us on board. Jacques’ health was a little restrictive. He could not do a lot physically, and became tired quite easily. I suggested that we would always wait for calm weather, have a few days rest when we were at each port of call, and that I would put my head down after him. As it happened, this plan worked out fine.

Under sail off North Haven

By 11 November the weather had improved, so we once again went to the Penneshaw Hotel for an evening meal. It was a beautiful evening, sitting outside looking across Backstairs Passage to Cape Jervis. All was flat calm, with the setting sun lighting up the mainland. I don’t recall how many times I have crossed this stretch of water – probably most years since putting our first keel boat in at the Squadron in 1983. We left on Sunday 12 November, knowing that being in a dodge tide period the tide would not be a problem. On clearing Cape St Albans once again, we had a little help with an ebbing influence. We quickly settled into a routine, with Jacques putting his head down whenever he felt tired. A good day and night saw us nearing Robe in the early morning. We had decided to go into the port to top up fuel. Robe now has a 24 hour fuel service, as we have at the Squadron. There are now also two red port and two green starboard buoys to help guide you through the narrow channel into the breakwater. We refuelled, and were under way by 1030 hrs. The weather was supposed to be easterly winds 10-15 kts on BOM Marine Weather, but we had south-easterlies all day and night, until midday Tuesday.

On approaching Currie Harbour, the sun was still very much blinding us. With 25-30 kts coming straight at us, and dodging cray pots, it was a very nervous approach. Jacques had spoken to one of the cray fishermen who had given us invaluable information. After navigating the narrow entrance and the rocky outcrops within the Harbour, we tied up on the south side of the jetty which had a good ladder, water and power. We hired a car and went to Grassy on the east coast and north to Cape Wickham. I had to visit this place, thinking it may have been named after a relative! Then of course we had to visit the King Island Cheese Factory! It was a short walk to the supermarkets (yes, there were two!), a chemist, hotel, car rental and a few restaurants.

Tymara at Port Fairy From Southend to Port MacDonnell we went through what seemed like fields of cray pots; we went over a minimum of five during the night. Fortunately, due to Tymara’s hull and keel shape, we just went over the ropes and marker buoys without hooking on to any. Once past Cape Duquesne, just before Portland, we had a blast of NE wind to 30 kts funnelling out of Bridgewater Bay, which lasted until we passed Portland. This bay is known for this effect with NE winds. We were finally sailing. The state of the sea was okay, so all was fine to go through to Port Fairy where we arrived on Tuesday 14 November at 1530 hrs. We tied up in front of Jasus, a cray boat. It was to the day in November 2014 that I had last been there, going east to west with Last Tango, Noelene and Peter Cooling’s yacht.

okay, but now, three years later and wishing to go east, we had a high pressure system projecting an easterly into Bass Strait. It remained there, varying in size and strength, for eight weeks through all October and November. I noticed, after returning home, that this high finally dissipated and was followed by the normal weather cycle.

We settled in at Port Fairy, not leaving until Sunday 19 November. Our planned next leg was to Grassy on King Island, and then to continue on to Devonport. As we all know, the best made plans often don’t happen. I had suggested this time of year for the trip because, in 2014, when going from east to west, we had battled against westerly weather. I thought we should have been

We were up early on Sunday 19 November, engulfed in a thick fog with visibility down to 100 m. We set off, cleared the breakwater and found the marker buoy which you must leave to starboard before heading out to sea. Not having radar, we were relying on the AIS system. We made a course to Cape Wickham, which was in a SE direction. We were in the fog for 40 nm. We had a light SE wind, until close to Cape Wickham where we finally had what was forecast, ENE. By sundown we were close to Cape Wickham which has the highest lighthouse in the southern hemisphere. It projected a very welcoming beam. The wind had picked up to 18-20 kts, increasing for the next few days to 30-40 kts. We decided the best option was to go down the west side to Currie, as this was a shorter distance, and we were finally able to ease the sheets.

John at Cape Wickham Lighthouse

At the Mersey Yacht Club

We had arranged for a fuel tanker to come and refuel us. By 1030 hrs on Friday 25 November we were rounding the southernmost tip of King Island, Stokes Point, giving it a 3 nm mile clearance and then heading in a NE direction to pass north of Reid Rocks. When we were east of Three Hummock Island we were able to set a course to Devonport. Not long after we had passed Reid Rocks, we were engulfed in fog for most of the day. We went into the night with calm seas, light winds and some rain. When dawn was upon us at 0600 hrs on Saturday 25 November we were two hours from the entrance to Devonport, with light rain falling, an overcast day, calm seas and no wind. We entered the Mersey River Entrance breakwater at 0830 hrs, passed the Spirit of Tasmania in its berth, then sailed a little further up the river to the Mersey Yacht Club, the new home of Tymara. Jacques’ wife Cathy, Lance and some friends were there to greet us. I stayed with Cathy and Jacques and on Monday 27 November caught the afternoon flight from Devonport to Melbourne, connecting to a flight to Adelaide. It was a very enjoyable trip and Tymara is now safely in her new home.

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SENIOR MEMBER - DAVID BINKS By Barry Allison

This is the next in a series of articles by Barry Allison which records some of the experiences and adventures of our many prominent Senior Members of the Squadron. This time we review David Binks who has had wide experiences in yachting and particularly in the design and building of many of our Squadron yachts.

David onboard Enterprise

AVID began his long sailing career at the Brighton and Seacliff Yacht Club in the early 1950s when he crewed in a 12 foot Cadet Dinghy Sirius with Alan Pearce on the helm and Chris Hough on sheets. They competed in the Stonehaven Cup in Perth over the 195354 Christmas-New Year holiday period and sailed very well, finishing in the middle of the fleet and learning much about the infamous Fremantle Doctor. One of the memorable events during that season was participating in the Queen’s Regatta at the Squadron on Saturday and Sunday, 20 and 21 March 1954. Several Cadets sailed to the Squadron from Brighton to compete over the weekend, camping overnight with other young yachties in the sandhills at the eastern boundaries of the Squadron. Saturday’s racing on the Port River was in very light winds, and during the race required drastic measures of using the steel centreplate as

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an anchor to counter the fast flowing tide of the Port River. Two divisions raced – A Class comprising Sharpies, 14 footers and Cadets, and B Class comprising Rainbows, VJs and Trainers. The Sunday race was a combined start at 1415 hrs and provided some fun as a strong sou-westerly came in and provided a wild sail back to Brighton for the Cadets. Through the 50s and into the 60s David became very involved in the building of yachts – initially as an apprentice at J P Clausens at Port Adelaide where he learnt the basics of boat building. With the advent of fibreglass technology, and some strong influence from Harold Lightburn, he became part of the team to introduce the first fibreglass fishing boats into Australian waters. In 1960 David commenced his own boat building business and with growing interest in the 505 class built this craft first in moulded plywood and then developed a mould to make them in fibreglass – the first fibreglass sailing boats to be made in Australia. Bryan Price and Chris Hough ventured across to the1963 World 505 Championships being sailed in Larchmont, New York with a new fibreglass Binks boat Sundowner. The craft attracted many interested yachties viewing the innovative ideas not seen before on 505s. They won the series from many highly qualified international skippers, and Sundowner was later sold to a French yachtsman, Michel Briand. In 1964, John Parrington and Chris Hough decided to compete in the World 505 Championships in Cork, Ireland in a new Binks craft Waltzing Matilda. The series was closely fought and the winner declared only after the final heat, with Parrington winning from Englishman Derik Farrant. At this time the International 505 Association decided to allow the 1966 World Championships to be conducted from the Brighton and Seacliff Yacht Club, the first world sailing championship in an international class to be held in the southern hemisphere. During the early 60s David sailed at the Squadron, a few times on Colin Haselgrove’s Seavogel, and gained valuable deep sea experience. Then David Judell asked David to build a lightweight 30 foot ocean racing yacht. She was to be a plywood hull based on the Black Soo design of Dutch naval architect E G Van de Stadt. Jedda was to be one of the first of the plywood ‘butter boxes’ to be raced at the Squadron and was generally frowned upon as the traditional yachts could not keep up. Jedda won the point score trophy for the fastest yacht in the 1963 offshore

competition, and again in 1964. One race on Jedda always remembered by David is when they were able to plane on a wave with a stiff sou-westerly the full length of the run from Stansbury to Port Vincent, averaging around 16 knots. Dick Fidock showed intense interest in these hulls and asked David to build a 32 foot Dogger, which was a modified Van de Stadt design. Van de Stadt had designed these hulls for the short seas of the North Sea and they tended to suit the waters in our Gulfs. Kareelah competed in many Squadron ocean races with Dick on the helm and with Jim Hall, Peter Sievewright, John Harrington and David as crew, and had no problems with the Neptune Island and Haystack Island races. She also competed in the 1964 Sydney to Hobart race and the Queenscliff to Port Lincoln race. Kareelah was later sold to Peter and Jenny Last in 1967 and spent the next nine years cruising our waters. Meanwhile, David’s business was growing and the World 505 Championships to be sailed from March 12 to 26 March 1966 were fast approaching. With many competing countries not financially able to transport their craft to Australia, David’s company was contracted to build 14 identical boats for the international crews and these were to be drawn from a hat by the visiting crews. The Australian and World Championships were a great success, attracting many famous overseas and Australian skippers – 50 entrants from Australia and 18 entrants from overseas countries. The World Championship series was closely fought between Paul Elvstrom from Denmark and Jim Hardy (later Sir James in 1981) and was won on the last heat by Jim in Black Bottle. This was the third World title won by a Binks-built boat and led to David at 28 years of age being awarded an inaugural Churchill Fellowship later in 1966 to study boat design and building in overseas facilities.

Sundowner sailed by Bryan Price won the 1963 World 505 Championship

David Judell’s Black Soo, Jedda being launched at Outer Harbor While overseas, he was able to study the more advanced techniques in fibreglass boat building and also to study the latest designs in stainless steel and aluminium boat fittings. While visiting the Cape Cod Shipbuilding Company in America, David became friendly with owner Les Goodwin’s daughter, Pam. This friendship continued as David moved around the northern hemisphere with constant letter writing between them. On his return to Australia, he found his business thriving, with many orders for timber and fibreglass craft. Dick Fidock ordered a Super Dogger which was built using David’s latest ideas in constructing wooden hulls. Cedalion was built to compete in the 1968 Sydney to Hobart race and performed well, but would have preferred stronger conditions to show off her planing hull. Cedalion went on to win many local and offshore races in the 60s. During 1967, the Squadron ran a fundraising raffle with the first prize being a return trip to Newport, Rhode Island to watch the 1967 America’s Cup. David felt obliged to buy a $10 ticket, having had so much support over the years from the Squadron. Later that year when partying with old friends, he was summoned urgently to appear at a Squadron Dinner being held in those days in the T&G Building in the city. Upon arrival, David was presented with a small package which contained the return ticket to the America’s Cup. Contact was made with Pam of course, and David set off overseas again – this time with a ring in his baggage. An adventurous period in America culminated in David’s proposal to Pam and subsequent wedding arrangements for December 1967. On return to Australia, Pam took on the bookkeeping role in the company and David became very involved in the 420 Class. John Gilder and Doug Giles had won the 1970 World Championships in Israel, and the Australian 420 Class Association decided to defend the title to be sailed off Cherbourg in France. David built three new hulls to be shipped across to France which were sailed by John Gilder and Doug Giles, and Peter and Steve Sievewright from South Australia, and Greg Melody and Ian Ross from Victoria. After much controversy from the French officials regarding the hull

The B25 dominated the ocean racing scene in the 60’s

design and structure, it was finally agreed to allow the Aussies to sail in the Worlds competition. John Gilders and Doug Giles defended their title and the Sievewright brothers came in second. The Brighton and Seacliff Yacht Club was then given the right to hold the 1973 World Championships. This was very successfully conducted with a win for Anders Wangel and Doug Giles – the third World Championship for Doug. The business was now thriving with David attending overseas boat shows where his new design, the Sea Mate, was being promoted, along with 420s, Fireballs and Contenders. Into the 70s, he began designing and building the Binks 25 (B25) and later, the B30. He entered a B25 in an Adelaide to Port Lincoln race and this particular year conditions were fairly wild, with half of the fleet of 50 boats retiring. David’s B25 handled well and crossed the finishing line in 16th place, which upset a few of the traditionalists. The B25 and B30 became a very popular trailerable boat and competed at many clubs as an off-the-beach yacht. David’s crew in those days comprised Jim Hall, Bill Troubridge, Peter Sievewright and Craig Rooney. David remembers one particular Haystack Island race which began in fairly light conditions. Nearing Haystack Island the sky became dark and overcast preceding a storm. A gale hit while rounding the Island and, with a spinnaker still set, they managed 17 knots going across to the Beatrice Islet beacon before dropping the spinnaker. When flying up the coast towards the Squadron, David noticed that the rigging was very slack. On closer examination, it was discovered that the fitting on the base of the deck-stepped mast was slowly disintegrating. By using some clamps around the base of the mast, they were able to stop further problems and by tightening the rigging, were able to sail home with a much shorter mast. David’s yachting involvement decreased during the 80s and 90s with more pressure in developing the business, and he began focusing on the design and construction of cruising yachts. Well known and successful yachties, Fred Neill and Bob Lanyon, worked for David in these years and formed a very formidable team in building,

rigging and commissioning many yachts in this State, as well as for interstate and overseas yachtsmen. His services to sailing were recognised when he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2013. He was also awarded three Australian Design Awards and the Boating Industry Association Boatman of the Year. Over several years Trevor Gill, a former chairman of SA Tall Ships, has written a book on the life of David Binks which was launched in June 2017 by his close friend Sir James (Jim) Hardy – it is a truly great read. His involvement in the Glenelg Rotary Club over 50 years has assisted many young people in Rotary programs. The most recent program directed through District 9520 is to take a percentage of the sale of his book and to direct funds towards a program to provide life-changing experiences for at-risk or financially disadvantaged teens on board the STV One & All. The first of these voyages was completed at the end of January. As Pam had raced and cruised with her family extensively in the New England area, it was not surprising that when their daughters Alison and Kathy were young the family started cruising around our Gulfs. This was initially done in a B25 before graduating to one of David’s B30s Rainbow. Rainbow remained on the Squadron register doing some of the ocean races and cruising until 1994 when it was replaced by an updated version of the B30 Ranger. David now keeps Ranger at Goolwa where the family enjoys winter cruising in the Coorong. In 2007 David built himself a Farr 41 Enterprise. In addition to extensive cruising in South Australian waters David has sailed around the coast to the Whitsunday Islands, to Lord Howe Island and to Tasmania. Both David’s daughters still do some racing. Alison, who lives in Melbourne, sails from Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, and won the Australian Women’s keelboat Championship in 2013. Kathy is currently crewing on a J24 at the CYC.

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COCONUT’S GOLDEN GLOBE RACE By Mark Sinclair

Luke Burrow (Bravo Sails) with Mark Sinclair

OCONUT has departed! She was

loaded on MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) Luisa at the Flinders Ports container terminal on Saturday 27 January. When she was secured up near the bow between two stacks of containers onboard MSC Luisa, her stern was clearly visible from RSAYS – one of the benefits of being located within the port! MSC Luisa sailed later that evening and after a trip across the Bight berthed in Fremantle the following week. In Fremantle, the other Australian entered vessel was then also embarked: Kevin Farebrother’s Trade Wind 35 Sagarmatha. Sagarmatha means ‘Everest’ in Nepalese, which Kevin has summited on three occasions. As it turns out the entire Australian contingent for the 2018 Golden Globe Race is now heading to Europe in company. At the time of writing MSC Luisa was berthed in Singapore.

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The plan is for Coconut to be disembarked in London on 8 March where she will then proceed by road freight to Plymouth; Sagarmartha will be disembarked in Le Havre and will travel by road freight to Les Sables-d’Olonne for her final preparations. Later, both boats will rendezvous with the rest of the fleet in Falmouth for the Suhaili parade of sail on 14 June 2018, the date of the 50th anniversary of Sir Robin KnoxJohnston’s departure on the original Golden Globe Race. The parade will be followed by the SiTRAN charity race to Les Sablesd’Olonne. This warm up race will take the entrants across the English Channel and past Brittany and into the Bay of Biscay, covering a distance of 320 nm, and passing through some interesting waters. The 2018 Golden Globe Race will start from Les Sables-d’Olonne on 1 July. Since the last update published in SQ, final preparations for shipping have been made at a hectic pace on the slip at RSAYS. These

Repairs to the rudder

include work on the keel, rudder, tiller, life-raft and toe rail. Down below was also substantially finished and Coconut was painted inside and out. Sails were taken ashore, checked and bricked for tight stowage in the bow. Importantly, the shipping cradle was made and Coconut’s mast was prepared and secured for transport. While on the cradle, the starboard side of Coconut’s keel was cut open for inspection to determine the cause of constant dripping of water from the back of the keel. The inside of the aft part of the keel was cleaned out, made good and resealed. Coconut was then repositioned over the pit to enable the rudder to be dropped to inspect the rudder shaft and tangs. Unfortunately, the rudder shaft had corroded at the top where it exits the rudder and the rudder itself had also deteriorated; the foam packing inside had disintegrated and the fibreglass casing was delaminating. The decision was made to

replace the rudder stock and rebuild the rudder, including cutting a hole in the top of the rudder to attach lines for emergency steering. Coconut’s hull was also prepared and anti-fouled below the waterline. Above the waterline, the tiller bearing at the aft bulkhead in the cockpit was replaced, and resin was poured into the transom gudgeons which support the emergency rudder, to remove slop in the pintle which was detected during shakedown trials in the Gulf. The liferaft was moved aft from the foredeck to the cockpit to reduce cockpit volume in the event of seas boarding from astern, and so that the raft will be close at hand if required. A new timber bracket was made to raise the life-raft off the deck and facilitate cockpit drainage. The toe rail was also resecured to the bulwarks by tapping and bolting and is now securely fastened. The deck was painted in non-skid orange for visibility from the air; there is a race requirement for a minimum of 2 m2 of orange on the deck, but we just kept going. Minor shipping delays also enabled the hull to be repainted, also bright fresh orange. Once this was done the Coconut’s race numbers, lucky ‘88’, were attached to the hull. Down below the main bulkhead was painted and Coconut was cleaned from stem to stern. New bunk cushions were made of high density foam with new hard-wearing synthetic covers fitted. High adjustable lee cloths were also made up for the port and starboard berths. Covers with mesh were made for all shelves, bookcases and voids to keep things secured for sea down below in heavy weather. These are secured by Velcro and toggles. One of the most important activities was to modify the shipping cradle base to support Coconut on her journey by sea and road. The base was inverted and longitudinal steel beams were welded in position to stiffen the floor. Steel uprights were then welded onto the corners of the base and were braced by diagonal steel beams in both the fore and aft and athwartships planes. Props were reattached to the uprights to brace Coconut’s hull and heavy duty lifting lugs were also attached to the base of the cradle. The keel was chocked in the centre

Coconut being loaded onto her shipping cradle of the cradle, and timber supports were attached to the stanchions to provide a mast crutch above the deck down the port side of the hull, but lower than the top of the doghouse. This was necessary to keep the overall height below 5 m when Coconut is loaded on her cradle on a semi-trailer in London to be transported to Plymouth. I had never experienced the process of sending a boat overseas by sea freight and so we learned the steps to ship Coconut out of Flinders Ports. Firstly Coconut was lifted by crane onto the steel cradle base and the cradle was then built around her. The mast was then craned onto the deck where it was secured on the timber crutches. A larger crane was then used to lift Coconut on her cradle onto a low loader to move her to the port, where both were loaded onto a flat rack container. Then the flat rack container containing Coconut and her cradle which weighed a total of 12.5 tonnes were then moved around the port and finally loaded onto MSC Luisa by 70 tonne crane. She is now on her way. I remain very grateful for the expert workmanship of all the people who have helped me prepare Coconut over the last 18 months. I am also highly appreciative of the continued support provided by RSAYS and members to enable me to prepare Coconut at the Club. Although she is no longer in Adelaide, all are

Deck painted to enhance visibility from the air

welcome to drop by and inspect Coconut during final preparations in Plymouth, Falmouth and Les Sables-d’Olonne. Important dates in Mark Sinclair and Coconut’s calendar: • 8 March 2018 - Coconut arrives London - then road freight to Plymouth • 28-29 April - Mark travels to the UK to begin final race preparations • 7 May - Mark and Ken Banwell re-rig Coconut at Plymouth Yacht Haven • 11 June - Coconut sails to Falmouth and the fun begins! • 14 June - Suhaili parade of sail and start of SiTRAN charity race (crewed) • 1 July - Golden Globe Race day singlehanded for 300 days to cover 30,000 nm • late Nov 2018 - Mark passes through the Storm Bay gate - come to Hobart and wave as Coconut sails on! • 30 April 2019 (300 days from the start, plus or minus 50 days) - Mark expects to cross the finishing line in Les Sables-d‘Olonne - and a wellearned drink.

Athur Vandenbroek working on bunk cushions and lee cloths SQ SAutumn 2018 Page 37

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON - FATHER AND SON COMMODORES The first of a series focusing on fathers and sons who, in turn, have all proudly worn the Commodore’s cap! He was an active Junior member of the Squadron, always willing to help with the many various Club activities from Opening Day tender duties to storm management assistance during the chain mooring period. He learnt to sail 12 foot International Cadets as crew then progressed to skippering his first yacht, the International Cadet Corroboree, to a couple of ‘Cock of the Walk’ and ‘Club Championships’ in the RSAYS Junior racing program. Peter crewed on Laurie Deacon’s (The Baron) Dragon class yacht Eros in Squadron racing, including the National ‘Prince Phillip Cup’ Dragon Championships held at the Squadron. Max and Joan Cooling

Peter Cooling taken in 1979

There have been three sets of father-and-son Commodores in the Squadron over the years. One set is the Cooling Commodores! Max Cooling was Commodore from 1974 to 1976 and his son Peter was Commodore from 2013 to 2015.

AX Cooling was a General Practitioner and led a very full life, being on call to deliver babies and attend all the myriad emergencies which such a calling encompasses. He had a very hands-on practical bent. He had a passion for all things mechanical including model trains, as well as making home movies and was involved in a Movie Club. He was President of the Unley Lions Club. He built the family home in Highgate that housed his surgery and also entertained many Squadron members in the home theatrette, so he was a man of many parts.

Max and his wife Joan were invited to the Squadron by members Harry Cook and Harold McDonald in the early 1960s. They went on to purchase their first boat Marlin which they launched from the adjacent Trailer Boat Club before keeping it permanently on RSAYS chain moorings. The family, four girls Annie, Josie, Julie, Kate and son Peter, outgrew Marlin and the traditional 38 foot motor-sailer Glenn Mona was purchased from Harold McDonald in 1966. Max and Joan renamed her Carinya and she was moored in the second row of the Squadron chain moorings. The family made very close bonds with Dean and Norma Paterson and always cruised in company with the ‘motorboats’. They loved to get away from it all on the boat with their

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family and enjoyed the special ambience which the Squadron provides. They were regulars for Saturday night dinners in the dining room and Sunday barbecues. Carinya was often seen out early snooking in the Gulf, returning to the moorings before the sea breeze set in. Max and Joan were very active Squadron members with Max serving on Standing Committees and progressing to hold the offices of Rear and Vice-Commodore and finally Commodore in 1974-76. Max was a motorboat man with a love of sailing. It was rare to have a RSAYS Commodore who owned a ‘Stink Boat’ in those times. He earned the respect of the Squadron and was a much loved and respected Commodore. Peter graduated in Industrial Design and is working in the hobby industry. As a young boy and throughout his childhood he spent weekends and school holidays mucking around in boats at the Squadron. From learning to row in the old timber club dinghies, learning how to sail in International Cadets, having regular weekend sleepovers and school holidays at the Squadron, spending the annual month of September painting Carinya on the Searles and Squadron slipways, racing in Dragons, and cruising both Gulfs and Kangaroo Island, Peter feels fortunate to have had a very special and unique youth at the Squadron which he joined at nine years of age.

He became a joint owner of Carinya with his mother after Max sadly passed away in 1981. Carinya was sold in 1986. During the 1980s Peter also built and campaigned three 16 foot Mosquito Catamarans, achieving several Club Championships at the Glenelg Sailing Club and became the National Mosquito Champion with his sister Kate. He achieved his 20 year membership in 1988 and resigned from RSAYS due to family commitments in 1990 after 23 years continuous membership. Peter re-joined as a member of the RSAYS in 2003 with his wife Noelene and they relocated their Ross 780 trailer-sailer Seven Eighty from the Goolwa Regatta Yacht Club to the RSAYS hard-stand. They introduced daughter Maddie to the Junior sailing program in 2004-13 and she is currently an Intermediate member. Peter and Noelene’s current yacht is Last Tango, a Jeanneau Sun Fast 40. Last Tango was purchased in Townsville and after shakedown cruises with Phil Stump, Helen Moody and Keith Teagle she was handed over to world cruisers Roger and Marion Holden to bring her home to the RSAYS with the help of Warrick Willams and John Wickham. Noels and Peter are forever grateful to them. Peter has been an active member of the RSAYS including Junior Development Committee Member, Yachting Australia Sailing Instructor, Chairman of Junior Development, Rear-Commodore, ViceCommodore, culminating in his role as Commodore 2013-15.

Sailing Regatta Blue off Largs Bay He acknowledges that his term as a Flag Officer was a direct result of former Commodore John Butterfield’s encouragement. John and his father were also father-and-son Commodores, and John encouraged Peter to follow in Max’s footsteps. Other members of the Squadron community joined John with the ‘Pete for Commodore’ campaign and finally Peter

Carinya on the chain moorings at RSAYS Kelly’s persuasive powers resulted in Peter’s commitment to the Club. A direct quote from Peter: “I feel privileged, as the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron has played a very significant part in my family’s life, and it has enriched our family with a vast number of Squadron friendships, unique experiences, boating, yachting and life skills for which I will be ever grateful.”

This son following his father in the role of Commodore of the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron has been a wonderful achievement for the Cooling family and of great benefit to the Club over many rewarding years of membership.

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SHIP SHAPE By Peter Kelly

S a successful keel-boat racing skipper, and a 50 year Member of the Squadron, Brian Snowden has encountered a wide range of nautical hazards in his life. Despite Brian’s wealth of knowledge, a small oversight of having a loose rope on the deck of his yacht Redback II, led to a very unwelcome encounter at the southern Outer Harbor breakwater in February 2017. Like many tales of maritime woe, the circumstances began innocuously. In mild conditions, Brian was motoring his vessel from the Squadron back to the berth in front of the beautiful over-water home that architect Brian, together with his late wife Jan, designed and built at North Haven. After rounding the channel beacon at the end of the southern breakwater Brian noticed a loose mooring line on the starboard deck which had the potential to fall overboard and catch in the prop blades. At the same time he moved to secure the line a wave broke against the starboard hull pushing Redback II northward and causing the keel to hit a submerged rock. After using the engine to manoeuvre the boat clear of the breakwater there was no noticeable change in boat movement so Brian completed his short passage back to North Haven. Subsequent inspection by the team at Blue Sky Marine, however, revealed significant damage to the keel and adjoining area of the hull. Apart from his pride, Brian sustained no injuries. As a result of this avoidable accident, Brian has taken it upon himself to publish a skipper’s pocket guide, “Ship Shape”, part of which is illustrated here. Complete copies of Brian’s guide are available from the Squadron Office, and from him personally when he drops in to the Quarterdeck at around 11am on Saturday mornings. I encouraged Members to introduce themselves to Brian and hear his advice first hand when you see him around the Club.

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SQUADRON CRABBING DAY

By Steve Kennedy

UE to unforeseen circumstances, nobody had been designated as Coordinator of this popular event. However, after a phone call from Trevor Manoel, I stepped into the role; I had everything we needed! A few phone calls were made, our former Commodore Rae Hunt whipped up a poster, and it was on for young and old!

The morning of Crabbing Day dawned, and the weather was perfect! The crabs were madly crawling into all the nets, and the boats then slowly meandered back into the basin with their catch. I had the fresh seawater boiling as they arrived and an esky full of ice water in which to cool the cooked crabs. I had the pleasure of showing some people how to clean their catch before they were cooked, and they felt quite chuffed that they were actually learning a bit more about crabbing than they had thought. We had boiled crabs, steamed crabs, and chili crabs. Trevor Manoel’s daughter Susan used my crab burner after I was finished with it and put her Wok on to cook the chili crabs. The whole south-east barbecue area had so many delicious aromas drifting around inside that, even if you weren’t hungry before you walked in, you would instantly want to try a bit of everything! With only one week’s notice, it is a credit to our Club, and all the people involved, that this day was still a great success. We ended up with about as many cooked crabs to take home as we had eaten, so I don’t think there were any complaints! I look forward to the RSAYS Crabbing Day next year, and I hope that many more members will be able to participate in this event, which begins with fun, and ends up with a feast!

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SQUADRON SNIPPETS The Arnolds are off to the USA!

NNE and Clive Arnold have left Adelaide and are now

in Florida; their goal for this year is to complete what is known as ‘America’s Great Loop’. The Loop is a cruise of approximately 6,000 miles, on predominantly inland or sheltered waters, from Florida up the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway to New York, up the Hudson River and Erie Canal to the Canadian Great Lakes, and then to Chicago and down the inland rivers to Mobile, Alabama and across the Gulf of Mexico back to Florida, to complete the Loop.

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They intend to finalise the purchase of the boat by the end of March. Their preferred boat is a Mainship 390, a ‘trawler-style’ motor boat, 35’ long, fibreglass, ideal for the Loop in terms of accommodation, as well as air and water draught. For more information, The American Great Loop Cruisers Association (AGCLA) has an informative website at www. greatloop.org

Anne Arnold

Ian’s Last One a winner! By Di Moncrieff

AN Moncrieff has built, partially built, or restored lots of

sailing boats in his long life, but this last vessel is different. An Alan Witt designed 18 ft Derwent Skiff, Last One is a swishing, slithery performer on water, delighting all who row her. She was launched at Ian’s old rowing club, the Adelaide Rowing Club, on the River Torrens on 11 January, with Ian being first to take to the oars. Grandson Jack, a rower at school, took to her easily, on both the Torrens and Huon Rivers where she currently resides in Tasmania. Others have had a go and acclaimed her performance. Ian has rowed her on both rivers too, trying to emulate the oarsmanship he had earlier, in the 1940s and 50s. He says that Last One is his final beauty. But his wife Di wonders whether there will be a Last One II? Ian and Di are currently cruising Tasmania’s east coast in their Jeanneau 38, Pied Piper 2. Page 42 SQ Autumn 2018

Clive Arnold

The James Cowell to the rescue!

FTER a slow start this summer, a new catamaran

service between Penneshaw and Cape Jervis is about to commence. The James Cowell, a speedy 25 m Crowtherdesigned $1.6m catamaran, has strong links to the Squadron; it is named after former RSAYS Commodore Jamie Cowell, author of Anchoring and Anchorages in South Australia. (*Ed. Note: The third edition of this authoritative guide was revised in 2005 and is ‘a must’ for local cruisers.) The Cowell family has an unbroken association with Kangaroo Island, with three generations having farmed there. Jamie died in 2003, but his wife Anthea still has a house at American River. Their daughter Jane and son-in-law David Harris, both prominent Squadron members, are behind the venture.

The James Cowell ferry leaving Port Adelaide after refurbishing for American River, with Jamie’s great-granddaughter, Chloe Hargraves, on the foredeck with her parents Jess and James Hargraves (Jess is Jamie’s grand-daughter who lives in HK). Anthea Khutagt (another grand-daughter) was also onboard with her husband Ayanga.

The ferry is capable of delivering 95 passengers from Penneshaw to Cape Jervis in 30 minutes. It is being operated by Kangaroo Island Connect (KIC) and will be based at American River, with an integrated hire car service for travellers. KIC plans to develop the recently purchased American River Airpark into a sport aviation, scenic flights and general aviation service at American River. A future freight service is also in the pipeline. Jamie was a fierce critic of the current operator’s monopoly. No doubt he would be very pleased with his family’s new venture.

The happy Harmans are back on the water!

AYE and Mike Harman knew

something was missing in their lives – they didn’t have a boat! This very experienced, world-cruising couple recently rectified their problem by buying Sentient, a 2001 Beneteau Oceanis 411, and are cruising sailors again. This luxurious cruising yacht had spent the last eight years in Moreton Bay. Her owners had only taken her out on day sails, but had maintained her exceptionally well. Sentient is the three-cabin, two-head version of the Oceanis 411, with a pullman master cabin and an alongside galley. Finished with cherrywood joinery, she has good ventilation, generous 6’4” headroom and an efficient use is made of her space. “She handles rough weather much better than we do,” Faye laughs. There is an in-mast furling main and a roller furling genoa, plus a sugar scoop, a dinghy on davits, stern boarding ladder, wind generator, solar panels, watermaker, chartplotter, autopilot, AIS, new AGM batteries, dodger, full cockpit covers … all the cruising luxuries the Harmans were looking for. “We’re enjoying the experience both on and off the water,” says Faye, who was in Coffs Harbour waiting for the swells to dissipate when this SQ went to print. She and Mike hope to bring her home to their recentlypurchased berth at the Squadron by Easter. SQ SAutumn 2018 Page 43

IN TRANQUIL WATERS John started sailing in 1934 when his father made him a member of RSAYS and bought him Wyruna, a 36’ wooden-hulled, gaff-rigged cutter on which he had many adventures (see SQ Winter 2014).

John Beresford Wills Rischbieth 17 August 1917 - 29 October 2017

ECAUSE of anti-German feeling in 1917, John was given a second surname so he could use Wills instead of Rischbieth if needed. Some of his early years were spent in England but he was in Adelaide in time to start at St Peters College when he was 12. It was on a Scouting expedition to Kangaroo Island that he fell in love with the place and eventually persuaded his father to buy a property there in 1933. This started a very long association with the Island.

In 1936 he had the opportunity to go on an Australian Schoolboy Trip to Canada, England, Sweden and Germany. He met King George VI and shook his hand, stayed with the Hitler Youth in Germany and went on a Rover Scout Moot in Sweden. What experiences! On his return he worked for George Wills & Co as an office boy, rising to be a ‘rep’ in two years, and joined the RANR. He was mobilised in 1939 and served in the Navy throughout WWII, first as an Ordinary Seaman. After a couple of stints of officer training, he rose to be First Lieutenant by 1944. He served on ships in the Mediterranean and all over Asia, including the Battle of the Coral Sea. He met Joan Stephenson in Perth and they married in 1944, with a son, Ian, and daughter, Peg, arriving in the mid-1950s.

After their children became self-sufficient, the Ulletts were attracted to cruising the east coast, first in Achenar. The much more ambitious journey in Alpha Centauri was to mark Ion’s retirement. They left Antechamber Bay with a forecast for a strong westerly change and were lucky to survive successive gear failures in storm conditions.

He started at the Squadron as crew on Alan Jordan’s Albatross Celeste.

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John was able, industrious and sociable with a great sense of humour. He left his mark on many over a very long life.

participate in governance. He readily served on committees, and was frequently elected to office. He was a popular and successful Commodore (1970-72).

up in Sydney with their widowed mother. His first job when he was ten years old was a paper round, and he started full-time work as soon as he was old enough to leave school. In the early 1950s he was transferred to Adelaide, where he knew nobody but he had one huge asset: everybody who met him liked him, with his equable good humour, cheery personality, and genuine interest in other people and their activities. He also had strong integrity and determination to do the right thing.

The Thiems were hospitable hosts on Kudos, and Ion became a regular participant in post-race activities, culminating when he and Margaret became happily married in an intensely strong union.

As well as being an active member of RSAYS (55 years from 1960 to 2015 plus his 1930s membership), he was an active member of the Adelaide Club serving time on various committees and remaining a member from 1960 until his death. He was also active in Legacy from 1963 and, was still a member at the time of his death.

After the war, John worked in Sydney where he, Joan and friends had much fun sailing a 15’6” Vaucluse Senior dinghy around Sydney Harbour.

ON and his elder brother Dick grew

Margaret Thiem and her sister Helen began sailing at Largs Bay in a Cadet dinghy. They graduated to a Tumlaren at the Squadron, but at that time only members could enter boats in races, and a Squadron member must be a British gentleman, so everything had to be in their father’s name.

The family returned to Adelaide in 1960 for John to head the company. Tasman Isle was bought in Hobart the same year and shipped back to Adelaide. Then followed nearly 30 years of sailing, cruising, fishing, companionship and many adventures.

Ion Gordon Ullett 30 March 1930 - 14 November 2017 By Peter Last

The first few years included family cruising in company. I treasure the memory of Achenar off Blyth Island, with uncounted children jumping from the bowsprit, while Ion was learning how to use the hooker to seek scallops. Each year, on 5 January, we gathered for Bill Jolly’s birthday. I remember Ion in his white topee hat being rowed ashore by Bruce McFarlane, carefully carrying Marg’s freshly cooked birthday cake. Wherever Ion’s interests lay, yachting being only one example, he offered to

In due course, Jenny and I flew into Rabaul to progress through New Britain to the Solomons, departing from Honiara. I sailed hundreds of miles with Ion and Margaret, mostly in Fine Romance. Several times I saw his great strength of character in a potential crisis – calm, controlled and outwardly placid. Ion and Margaret richly deserved the Youth cruising trophy they were awarded in 1995 for their accounts of some of their cruises. To be elected a member of the Squadron, Ion was presented as a British gentleman. I know nobody who better displayed those qualities, and he enriched the lives of all who knew him. Ian Moncrieff has Ion’s charts in his possession, and is happy to donate them to anyone one who can use them. Contact Ian on 0407 781 261

Port River Marine

BERTHS FOR SALE & RENT Berths for Sale - February 2018 Length (metres)

Berth Type

8.2

Price From

Price To

Hard Stands $3,000.00 $7,000.00 Best Deal - HS10 or HS12 $3,000.00 10 Marina $30,000.00 $80,000.00 Best Deal - I24 (Double) $30,000.00 11 Marina $35,000.00 $55,000.00 Best Deal - D17(Single) $35,000.00 12 Marina $30,000.00 $67,000.00 Best Deal - C06 (Double) $30,000.00 Neg 13 Marina $25,000.00 $95,000.00 Best Deal - E04 (Double) $25,000.00 Neg 14 Marina $60,000.00 $100,000.00 Best Deal - A06 (Single) $79,000.00 Neg 15 Marina $50,000.00 $145,000.00 Best Deal - F08 (Single) $50,000.00 All offers considered 16 Marina $55,000.00 $195,000.00 Best Deal - G05 (Single) $55,000.00 Reduced. All offers considered 18 Marina $110,000.00 $175,000.00 Best Deal - SI14 (Double) $110,000.00 All offers considered 20 Marina $130,000.00 Best Deal - H01 (Cat) $130,000 Neg 22 Marina $160,000.00 $220,000.00 Best Deal - SI11 (Single Super) $160,000.00 Reduced. All offers considered 25 Marina $120,000.00 Best Deal - SI07 (Single Super) $120,000.00 27 Marina $370,000.00 Best Deal - I27 (T-Head) $370,000.00 30 Marina $320,000.00 Best Deal - SI06 (Single Super) $320,000.00 For further information please contact the General Manager Email general.manager@rsays.com.au or Phone 8341 8600 Price & availability are subject to change without notice. All Berth Sales are subject to Terms and Conditions

Berths for Rent - February 2018 Length (metres)

Pen

Berth Type

Berth No

$ Per Week

Notes

8.2

Single

HARDSTANDS

VARIOUS

$23.96

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Double

MARINA

I24

$85.00

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Single

MARINA

D16

$93.50

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Double

MARINA

A03

$102.00

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Double

MARINA

B02

$102.00

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Double

MARINA

B08

$102.00

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Double

MARINA

C07

$102.00

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Single

MARINA

C10

$102.00

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Double

MARINA

D08

$102.00

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Single

MARINA

D12

$102.00

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Single

MARINA

E02

$110.50

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Single

MARINA

E11

$110.50

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Double

MARINA

A06

$119.00

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Single

MARINA

F07

$127.50

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Single

MARINA

F08

$127.50

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Single

MARINA

SI08

$250.00

AVAILABLE AFTER 30 DAYS NOTICE

Single

MARINA SI09 $354.54 AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY For further information please contact Kathy Bernhardt Email marina.services@rsays.com.au or Phone 8341 8600 Price & availability are subject to change without notice. All berth rentals are subject to terms & conditions

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EVENTS CALENDAR April 2018 (Continued)

March 2018 Fri 2 Sat 3 Sun 4 Tue 6

Racing Cruising

Racing Racing Meetings

Friday Afternoon Sternchasers - Fixed Mark Portobello in the evening

Sun 8

Inshore Series - Fixed Mark AMS Club Championship Series Div 1 & Div 2 State IRC & AMS Div 1 & Div 2 - Fixed Mark Women’s Series - Fixed Mark

Tue 10

Meetings

RSAYS Ltd Board Meeting Juniors Committee Meeting House & Social Committee Meeting

Sat 14

Racing

Sun 15 Tue 24

Social Meetings Cruising Special Events Racing Juniors

Racing

Twilight Series 2 - Set Course (Ladies Helm)

Juniors Cruising Juniors Cruising

Juniors Camp Black Point Cruise Juniors Camp Black Point Cruise

Juniors

Juniors Camp

Mon 12

Cruising Special Events

Tue 13

Meetings

Black Point Cruise Adelaide Cup Holiday RSAYS Inc Committee Meeting Racing Committee Meeting

Wed 7 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11

Special Events Juniors

Wed 25 Fri 27 Sat 28

May 2018 Tue 1

Meetings Special Events Special Events Racing

Racing

Twilight Series 2 - Set Course

Thu 3 Fri 4 Sat 5

Social

Wine Tasting

Tue 8

Meetings

Racing

Friday Afternoon Sternchasers - Fixed Mark Offshore Series - Island Cup

Fri 11

Special Events

Wedding - Dining Room

Sat 12

Sat 17

Racing

Club Series - Fixed Mark; Tri Series - Fixed Mark

Social Cruising Racing Special Events

20 Year Members’ Dinner Combined Committee Chairs Meeting

Sun 13

Tue 20

Special Events Meetings

Wed 21

Racing

Twilight Series 2 - Set Course (Series 2 and Overall Presentations)

Thu 22

Meetings Cruising

Quarterly Meeting of Members Brighton Seacliffe Yacht Club Cruise

Sat 26 Tue 29

Racing

Inshore Series - 2 x W/L AMS Club Championship Series Div 1 Div 2 Commodore’s Shield - W/L State IRC & AMS Div 1 & Div 2 Premier’s Cup

Cruising

Brighton Seacliffe Yacht Club Cruise

Racing

State IRC Div 1 - I x Triangle, 1 x Fixed Mark State AMS Div 1 - 1 x Fixed Mark State IRC & AMS Div 2 - 1 x Fixed Mark Premier’s Cup - Fixed Mark

Meetings Social

Cruising Committee Meeting Easter Regatta

Racing

RSAYS Trophy Races - Easter PFL Hussey Memorial Race

Tue 12

Meetings

Social

Easter Regatta

Fri 15

Social

Racing

Easter Correll Memorial Race; Easter Germein Memorial Race

Sun 17

Racing

Sat 23 Tue 26

Cruising Meetings

Wed 14 Fri 16

Sat 24

Sun 25 Tue 27 Fri 30

Sat 31

April 2018 Sun 1 Mon 2

Special Events Social Racing Social Racing

Tue 3

Meetings

Fri 6

Racing Special Events

Sat 7 Racing

Daylight Saving Ends Easter Regatta Easter Harold Dicker Memorial Race Easter Regatta Easter Return Gulf Race RSAYS Ltd Board Meeting Juniors Committee Meeting House & Social Committee Meeting Friday Afternoon Sternchasers - Fixed Mark York Peninsula’s Saltwater Classic; Wooden & Classic Boats Offshore Series - Kintore Cup SA Champion of Offshore Racing - Kintore Cup Club Series - Fixed Mark

York Peninsula’s Saltwater Classic; Wooden & Classic Boats Grelka Cup; Long Race & Beach BBQ RSAYS Inc Committee Meeting Racing Committee Meeting RSAYS Trophy Races - Inkster Memorial Sternchaser Groove on the Quarterdeck Cruising Committee Meeting Lunch Cruise Anzac Day Other Events - Skippers & Crews Meeting Junior & Youth Presentation Night

Sat 19 Sun 20

Meetings Social Racing Social Racing Special Events Meetings

RSAYS Ltd Board Meeting Juniors Committee Meeting; House & Social Committee Meeting Trophy Polishing CYCSA Presentation Night Other Events - Presentation Night RSAYS Inc Committee Meeting; Racing Committee Meeting Wine Tasting City of Adelaide / Failie Dinner Cruise Shorthanded Series Mothers’ Day Squadron Quarterly Winter Edition - Deadline for articles Movie Night Combined Winter Series - Fixed Mark 20 Year Members Dinner Shorthanded Series Welcome to New Members Cruising Committee Meeting

June 2018 Sat 2 Sun 3

Racing Racing

Tue 5

Meetings

Sat 9 Sun 10

Cruising Cruising Cruising Special Events

Mon 11

Dining Room Fridays: Saturdays: Sundays:

Shorthanded Series Combined Winter Series - W/L RSAYS Ltd Board Meeting Juniors Committee Meeting; House & Social Committee Meeting Garden Island Yacht Club Cruise Garden Island Yacht Club Cruise Garden Island Yacht Club Cruise Queen’s Birthday Holiday RSAYS Inc Committee Meeting; Racing Committee Meeting Wine Tasting Combined Winter Series - Fixed Mark & Plympton Cup Cruising Night Cruising Committee Meeting

Restaurant

Lunch Menu and Happy Hours 12pm to 2pm Lunch Menu from 12pm; Dinner from 6pm Lunch Menu from 12pm; Seafood Sundays: Seafood Platter Special for 2; Dinner on Long Weekends

Jimmy’s Bar and Quarterdeck

Fridays: Menu Specials and Happy Hours 5pm to 7pm Wednesdays: Dinner during Twilight Racing season

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