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The LOG
October 2014
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Commodore’s Report
Dear members,
It had seemed like an eternity since we last spent a Saturday afternoon bashing
around the Bay but the new season is upon us with several races having been
completed so far. Unfortunately 2 races have been abandoned due to marks having
moved. However the RC will comment in his report.
Things have been very quiet around the club since the 50th Anniversary dinner was
held a couple of weeks ago and therefore there is not a lot to report in this LOG. Our
General Meetings held in July, August and September were well attended by
members, the highlight being a sailing rules seminar conducted by our own Tony
Dillon who, as most of you know, is a highly qualified and experienced yachtsman.
Tony fielded many questions from members on all matters relating to yacht racing
ranging from barging at the start to how many VB’s can be consumed during a race.
Judging by member’s comments after the meeting, the Rules night can be regarded
as a success. Tony has kindly consented to give a repeat performance at our next
General Meeting which should be a highlight. On behalf of our members, to Tony,
thank you for your time.
Many thanks to all those who organized the 50th Anniversary dinner and in
particular our Vice Commodore Karen and Board member Grant who both put in a
great deal of their time into ensuring that the evening was as successful as it turned
out to be.
For those members who have not attended the General Meetings this year, you will
no doubt be pleased to learn that our various Flag Officers’, together with the
Treasurer’s and Secretary’s reports have been very positive regarding matters
involving the wellbeing of the BBYC. Their reports confirm my comments in the last
LOG that the club is financially sound, that on water activities are proceeding well,
and that membership is stable with a bright future.
You may be aware that there is general concern among boat owners at the reluctance
of insurance companies to insure yacht’s on swing moorings. Many, if not most,
insurers have either quit the swing mooring market or increased premiums
substantially. Therefore, at a future General Meeting it is proposed that a
representative from the Club’s insurance broker be in attendance to outline the
current state of marine insurance. Should you have any queries on marine insurance,
I am sure you would find that meeting to be of value.
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Our starter, Ian McKay, has left St. George hospital and is at home recovering from a
knee operation and we look forward to seeing him on deck soon. I note that our Rear
Commodore Brian has been busy overhauling various marks around the Bay,
particularly Brighton and Airport marks, which should make our race navigation
much easier.
Finally don’t forget the commencement of the Flying Fifteen regatta sailed twice a
Month on Sundays commencing 26th November where sailors will get an
opportunity to Skipper and also crew on one of the yachts
See you around the club
Greg Lerond
Commodore
New Life Member
At the recent 50th Presentation Night, Chris Mifsud was declared Life Member. We
thank Chris for his continuous support of the Club over the past years.
Our newest life member, Christopher Misfud enjoying the celebrations
with wife Connie.
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Vice Commodore’s Report
Summer Friday twilights are back!! Welcome to
Hop Step & with Terry and Michael out on the
water for the first twilight race and most
Saturdays. The first race of the summer was a
gorgeous evening and it’s great to see some new
crew out on the water, including our newest life
member, Chris, back sailing. Please make
anyone you don’t recognise welcome and start a
conversation by simply saying hello and asking
if they’re coming for a sail. Twilight races start
at 6pm during October and 6:30pm from
November.
First Summer Twilight
Discover Sailing Day is coming soon. We’d love your help to welcome potential new crew
on Sunday 26 October. Please let me know if you’re available as a skipper, crew or part of
the friendly registration team welcoming new sailors from the age of 8 to 80. Please promote
the event to your networks – there is a link from www.bbyc.com.au to register online, or
send us an email to let us know who’s coming.
There’s no cost to discover sailing or try twilight sailing. After a couple of twilights or bay
races, it’s time to join the Club. BBYC crew membership enables you to comply with the
racing rules of sailing (Rule 56) for just $130/year.
I hope you enjoyed the celebrations of our Club’s 50th anniversary at our presentation
dinner. It was a Stella night indeed! I was delighted to meet ‘Peter Young – son of Frank
Young and our first junior member’ (The Log, December 1967) and to catch up with old
friends like Bobby & Kimlei who came back to Sydney for the occasion.
Thanks to the fantastic volunteers that made the night such a success, especially to Grant,
who only stepped out from behind the bar to collect some silverware, Fred for helping set
up and Greg for turning up the morning after to set the Club back to rights.
To mark the occasion Tony Brauer has also produced a special 50th anniversary blue book.
Ordinary and crew members - don’t forget to pick up your copy! It includes sailing
instructions, course maps and the schedule of events for 2014/15. It would be awful to get to
the first mark and not know where the second one is (you know who you are!!).
Congratulations to our 2 newest RSA holders - Fred has just requalified and yours truly. If
you and your crew have ever found yourself waiting at the bar, maybe it’s time to do yours?!
Let me know if you’re interested or if you secretly already hold an RSA.
See you on the water,
Karen
World E26 champion (it’s all about the crew )
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NSW Youth Championships
Thanks to our race officers for volunteering
to support the NSW Youth Championships
over the long weekend. There were 8 classes
including optimists, lasers, 420s and 29ers
and the kids look like they had a ball
Discover Sailing
Sunday 26 October 2014
Know someone that might like to try sailing?
Encourage them to come along from 10am on
Sunday 26 October. Anyone as young as 8
years
old
can
register
online
via
www.bbyc.com.au. Kids should bring along
mum or dad.
Volunteers and boats wanted to support
discover sailing day, including people to
welcome new sailors to the club and talk
through their questions, skippers, crew and
someone to man the bar- please let Karen
know your availability from 9am to 4pm.
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BBYC in the News
Secret Suburb: Sydney’s Sans Souci is bathed in a
rich history of saltwater, surf and sailing.
‘“Rock up on a Friday evening, introduce
yourself and you’re certain to get a ride on a
boat with anyone headed out for a twilight
cruise,” explains Colin Cole, former
Commodore of the Botany Bay Yacht Club.’ A
great article in the Sunday Telegraph about
the secret suburb of Sans Souci featured our
Club and a cracking photo of Col. Visit the
Club's website for a link to the story. Not to be
outdone, our Vice Commodore will shortly be
interviewed by BBC radio in connection with
Bart's Bash!
View the full article at:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/secretsuburb-sydneys-sans-souci-is-bathed-in-a-richhistory-of-saltwater-surf-and-sailing/story-fni0cx121227001412619?nk=ba3871659337681d5080668e8c
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Photo credit: Jenifer Jagielsk.
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Presentation Night
Winter Series 2013
Wundurra
Brian Christenson
Stingray
Greg Lerond
Planit
Tony Passmore
Spring Series
Stella
Wundurra
Red Ned
Tony Brauer
Brian Christenson
Brian Leverton
Summer Series 2013/14
Stella
Tony Brauer
Stingray
Greg Lerond
Tic Tacs
Peter Ashton
YANSW President’s Trophy
E. Merrington Trophy
John Slattery Trophy
Founder’s Trophy
A Stella
performance
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New Year Series 2014
Stella
Tony Brauer
Stingray
Greg Lerond
Tic Tacs
Peter Ashton
Sprint Series 2013/14
Red Ned
Brian Leverton
Limerick
Grant Ballantyne
Stingray
Greg Lerond
Eric Gamble Memorial Trophy
Jim Mitchell Trophy
Transit Series 2013/14
Planit
Anthony Passmore Tass Economos Trophy
Red Ned
Brian Leverton
Stockade
Team Stockade
Endeavour Series 2013/14
Tics Tacs
Peter Ashton
Blys
Warren Browne
Wundurra
Brian Christenson
Gardner Trophy
Flying Fifteen Series 2013/14
Miss Behaving
Kelly Ryan
Our fantastic MC John with
Dorothy
Dorothy accepting plaque for
2nd place in the 50th
anniversary non spinnaker
division for Tarni II
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Twilight Series 2013/14
Limerick
Grant Ballantyne Larry Lucock Trophy
In the Mood
Marc Van Dinther
Miss Concepcion George Reed
A boat once sailed in the twilight
But that was not really the highlight
She had a young crew
Of which there were two
Plus an old fella steering by moonlight
Spring Twilight Series 2013
Miss Concepcion George Reed
Jim Burrell Memorial Trophy
Limerick
Grant Ballantyne
In the Mood
Marc Van Dinther
New Year Twilight Series 2013
Tics Tacs
Peter Ashton
Limerick
Grant Ballantyne
Blys
Warren Browne
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Commodore’s Trophy 2013
Planit
Anthony Passmore
David Holloway Trophy 2013
Tic Tacs
Peter Ashton
50th Anniversary Race (spinnaker division)
Vaya Con Dios
Ian Anderson
Red Ned
Brian Leverton
Stella
Tony Brauer
50th Anniversary Race (non-spinnaker division)
In the Mood
Marc Van Dinther
Tarni II
John Clingan
Windy Point
Peter Bennett
James Morgan was “In the Mood” to
collect the 50th anniversary race and
twilight trophies on behalf of AusSea
Sailing School
Australia Day Regatta 2014
Councillors’ Cup 2014
Wundurra
Ron Bezic, Rockdale
Red Ned
Geoff Stevenson, Randwick
Vaya Con Dios
Peter Towell, Sutherland
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Division A
In Tune
In the Mood
Endless Summer
David Craddock
Marc Van Dinther
Justin O'Bryan
Division B
Juanita
Dreamtime
Ludichris
Glyn Jones
Barry Elliott
Chris Warner
Division C
Panther
Red Ned
Stockade
Stephen O'Rourke
Brian Leverton
Team Stockade
Endeavour Division
Wundurra
Brian Christenson
Tic Tacs
Peter Ashton
Limerick
Grant Ballantyne
Single Handed Race 2013
Miss Behaving
Kelly Ryan
Miss Concepcion Jeremy Manion
Alan Duffield Memorial Trophy
Kelly ships a heavy
gun – the Alan
Duffield Memorial
Trophy.
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Double Handed Race 2013
Miss Concepcion George Reed
Miss Behaving
Kelly Ryan
Crew Member of the Year
Tom Dwan
Club Member of the Year
Garry Ford
Club member of the
Year Garry Ford
appears very
pleased to receive
an award from the
Vice Commodore
Improvers Trophy 2013
Grant Ballantyne
Roy Gilkes Trophy
Mud Crab Award
Wundurra
Brian Christenson
Youngest in Club?
Peter Young (first junior
member), Colin Cole
(former Commodore) and
Kyle McKellar (junior
member).
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Galley Roster
October
Thank you to the following
galley crews:
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 Fri 10: Spring twilight #1 18:00
 Sat 11: Transit Series race #1
13:30
 Fri 17: Spring twilight #2 18:00
 Sat 18: Sprint series races #1&2
13:30
 Fri 24: Spring twilight #3 18:00
 Sat 25: Spring Series race #5
13:30
 Sun 26: Discover sailing day
from 10:00
 Fri 31: Spring twilight #4 18:00 novice skippers race
Sat 25 Oct: Planit
Sat 1 Nov: Hop Step &
Sat 8 Nov: Rhumbline IV
Sat 15 Nov: Dreamtime
Sat 22 Nov: Windy Point
Sat 29 Nov: Limerick
Can’t do this date? Please
arrange a swap and let me
know.
Thank you
Karen
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Calendar
November
 Sat 1: Spring series race #6
13:30
 Sun 2: F15 match racing 1300
 Fri 7: Spring twilight #5 18:30
 Sat 8: Spring series race #7
13:30
 Fri 14: Spring twilight #6 18:30
 Sat 15: Spring series race #8
13:30
 Sun 16: F15 match racing 1300
 Fri 21: Spring twilight #7 18:30
 Sat 22: Transit series race#2
13:30
 Sun 23: Ladies day 13:00
 Sat 29: Sprint series races #3&4
13:30
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Rear Commodore’s Report
Hope you all had great sailing in the various series including those members of the
Twilights - a non-spinnaker series. This series is for those who wish to gain
experience, and possibly to sail in the Saturday races. However, from my experience
it is anything but that, with the calls of “starboard”, “up” and loud expletives that
make the Saturday fleet seem like a bunch of pussies.
All the previous series – Winter 2013, Spring, Summer and Joint, and most of the
Twilights - were pretty well favoured by good sailing weather but not the Winter
2014 series with some of the last races being cancelled because of the weather
warnings. Kelly Ryan was the winner with excellent sailing and showing the
potential of a little yacht over the much bigger boats - not much help for older and
not so athletic skippers and crew. Stockade came in second on a count back and
Wundurra scraped in third place.
The Presentation night 19th July held after the last Winter race was a great success
the Vice Commodore must be congratulated on being the spearhead of organizing
this event and top marks to those who assisted in the preliminary setup of the dining
room, the catering, Grant in the bar, John Clingham for being the MC, Gary Ford and
all the others she had in helping - for once I never heard a complaint.I was asked to
hand out the Trophies and it was a pleasure as I had been Commodore in that year.
In the off season it is difficult to arrange
much activity however we have serviced
the 2 buoys used for the twilight series,
and hopefully will have the 5 marks in
the bay serviced before the first race and
it is anticipated the tall YA type mark
will be laid at the airport No.3 mark
making it easier to find.
I have discussed and consider changing
the mark at Captain Cook to a small mark and when refurbished the other YA mark
could be installed at the Novatel No.2 which is another mark difficult to pinpoint.
We have our Aquatic Licence for the ensuing season.
Doug Warner is looking after us as starter with assistance from John Crouch & Ian
Anderson
Brian Christenson
Rear Commodore.
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Little Buoy Lost
The tireless efforts of the Rear Commodore behind the scenes to help our club run
smoothly are appreciated by all, especially the maintenance of our five fixed marks
scattered around Botany Bay.
However, a small issue arose during the 'Bart's Bash' race, which was held on
Sunday, 24 September. A number of our members enjoyed a fantastic afternoon
racing against 763 clubs in 68 countries in the world's largest sailing regatta! A race
course was set from the Club to the Quibray Bay Mark (#5) and back again to the
Club.
The problem? Mark #5 was missing in action!
Like true sportsmen and women, however,
the participants agreed to turn together
somewhere near where our mark should
have been and race home. After some close
racing, Limerick was champion of Botany
Bay on the day. Congratulations to Karen
Ballantyne, who is now officially the fastest
Endeavour 26 skipper in the world, with
Nick and Grant doing some nifty crew work.
Awesome sailing too from Finn and Louisa Van Dinther, with a little help from
James Morgan, this trio are the world's fastest rookie J24 sailors on the planet,
helming Riff Raff to fifth place in the Australian J24 division!
As evidenced by this photo, we are very fortunate that
Paul Tranter, a former rugby mate of Tony Brauer,
happened to be taking a romantic stroll along Kurnell
Beach with his wife that afternoon and spotted what
looked like "a very lonesome looking buoy" that
obviously needed rescuing from the shallows. Our #5
"little buoy lost" had been found! Thank you Paul and
Tony.
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The Endeavour Regatta - A Slightly Different View
Well, the 49th Endeavour Regatta is
well behind us and next year will be
the 50th tilt at the windmill. In
hindsight, some will rant about the
wonderful weather we had, the (yet
again) magnificent volunteers, the on
water competition, and they will no
doubt crow about the BBYC boats that
graced the winners circle. All true.
On the other hand, a cynical man,
when referring to the racing results,
would say that considering that we
are the home of the Endeavours, that
one of our members helped build
many of them, that we were on our
home water and that we have oodles
of experience sailing them.....well, we
did no better than should be expected.
But I’m not known throughout the
Club as a cynical man. Or am I?
There are lots of things that go into a
successful regatta and to push an oft
quoted statement of late “If you don’t
get it right on the water....”
Sure there is the background work,
notably by the Honorary Race
Secretary Steve Hall, but the real
action on the water is critical and that
means the Starter (or Starting Team to
be totally correct). Ian McKay’s name
may not be synonymous with the
great Tass Economos but he is way
ahead of whoever could challenge for
third place! And as expected, but
rarely happens, the old curmudgeon
is training Will Hamilton, Brett
Cooney and, of late, Doug Warner in
the traditions and black arts that he
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has learnt during his enormously long
association with the Club as a Starter’s
Assistant, Starter, Director or Flag
Officer.
I had the privilege of being at the AGM
when Ian was granted Honorary Life
membership. Amid the standing
ovation, I saw tears in his eyes, red
embarrassment on his face and they
were not needed for the honour was
well deserved (and perhaps I’m just
beginning to understand that!).
Our new Race Officials have much to
learn but have taken the bit between
their teeth and will perhaps eventually
stand on the podium beside the like of
Tass and Ian. It is a long road ahead
but they are willing, show great
devotion to the Club and to the “Art of
the Starter”. My forecast is that all will
be well “on the water” and the Club will
continue to be served by a great Starting
Team.
I would have thrown Brian Christenson,
Steve Hall, Kelly Ryan and myself into
the mix as the twilight race starters but
we usually manage to muck something
up! Don’t knock it - it’s rapidly
becoming a Friday night tradition!
Rex Jarman
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Hamilton Island Race Week
There was plenty of sunshine for
the BBYC members that headed up
to Hamilton Island this year. Grant
McKellar, Kyle and Trevor had a
great regatta on and off the water
sailing Stephen Barlow's Farr 40
Forty (pictured) to win IRC
Division 2.
Photo: Andrea Francolin
They were far enough in the lead to sit out the final race, a lucky break as the day
before they had a damaged rudder bearing and had about 100 buckets of water in
the bilge, so they spent the day on the hardstand for repairs. Even more fortunate
they had a crack Endeavour Marine Services shipwright on board :)
Stephen O'Rourke's Panther took second place in the Melges 32 division, with
Anthony Passmore's Planit in 6th place in the performance racing division.
Boat Licence Course
Congratulations to the 25 members
who recently passed their power
boat licence course. Thanks to the
team from Roads and Maritime and
volunteers Fred Garside, Will
Hamilton and Gary Ford who
coordinated the training and
hospitality. Practical boat handling
training is available most Saturday
afternoons on the Club's sharkcat.
If you'd like to put your boat handling skills to good use, consider volunteering as a
race officer. There are two half day club race officer courses coming up, Sunday 19
October or Sunday 16 November at Middle Harbour Yacht Club.
Register at http://www.nsw.yachting.org.au/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-10106-0-0-0&sID=317633 or
talk to the Rear Commodore or Race Secretary.
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Cruising Division
Barry & the crew of Dreamtime took advantage of a non-rainy winter’s weekend and
cruised to Jibbon for a picnic.
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