A family boating club & Home of
Toyota OptiNats Easter 2004
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December 2002Saturday 21st December Club Picnic December 2002: 63 club members and family
supporters were joined by a further 22 people from our neighbours
Worser Bay Surf Life Saving Club for our picnic on Ward Island. The
adventure in going somewhere different, meeting with non-sailing
members of families, and the chance to socialize over a hot dog or two,
meant it didn’t really matter that the weather was not quite good enough
to sail over this year.
This is for everyone. We will sail in convoy to Ward Island
(if the weather is right) escorted by a number of power craft who will
take over the non-sailors. Ask anybody who went last year what a great
event it was. Mark you diaries now.
..More details
here ...
If you have a power boat or keeler that can held with the
convoying we would welcome your assistance.
WBBC Senior Christmas Party
Xmas Social party for our Senior members
Is it possible for us to have a party even
better than Top of the Pops last year?...... Of course! This years party
will be held on Friday 13th December at the Club. The theme for the
evening is "Musical Movie Madness" so shed your inhibitions and come
dressed as your favourite Tinseltown movie star ready for another star
studded Oscar winning evening of fun and frivolity. There will be a
cabaret of the best musical films for your entertainment and after last
years discovery of stunning talent we can guarantee you will be
entertained
Time : 8.00 pm Cost $25. Tickets available from Catherine Lloyd or Ali Middleton Supper provided and buy your own drinks at the bar Saturday 14th December 0900 hrs Opitsquad and Racesquad
FINAL REMINDER OPTISAIL 2003
Hi all
those intending to attend OPTISAIL at
PLIMMERTON 21 through 24 January 2003
are
asked to remember that
Registration Closes 6 December 2002.
Registrations may be obtained off the website (just click on the below
site)
http://www.yachtingnz.org.nz/files/Optisail%20Info%20and%20Application%20form2003.doc For further information see the WYA website http://www.wya.wellington.net.nz/
Nearly 30 years ago a little known dancer burst onto the world stage with a stunning performance in a movie which kept the disco dream alive. John Travolta became an overnight sensation. Last night at Worser Bay Boating Club, another disco dancing phenomenon was discovered near where he has been living quietly in Seatoun, Wellington, New Zealand. Brett Linton stunned the crowd with a fabulous display of hip-swinging and gyrating dance, When asked why it has taken so long for him to discover his unbelievable talents, Brett replied "for the past few years I have committed to my rythym and swing routine but I always knew where my real talents lay - I just had to find the right event to unveil them. Elvis Presley, when asked of Linton's potential, predicted a big future
for Linton: "Just like skateboards, hoola hoops
and spinning tops, he will be responsible for a worldwide resurgence in
disco and bad white suits".
See more of our very own Paparazzi's
products!
Optisquad has started.
Saturday 7th December SIR PETER BLAKE MEMORIAL REGATTA (Torbay) A great result by Aaron Hume-Merry. Results here
WYA Starling Match
Racing Selection Trials WYA
Club Teams Racing Knockout
Competition
Schools Week at Worser Bay Wellington
Primary Schools Optimist Regatta
Inaugural meeting this Wednesday 7.30pm until
9.30pm.
Membership free - everyone invited! Inspired by what was achieved over winter in renovating the club rooms Glenn Stanley has offered his time and services in leading a different team of club members and friends each Wednesday night (excepting October 9 and November 6) over the next 6 weeks or so, to finish off a number of small painting and carpentry jobs etc that still need to be done. Andrew Paterson has offered to assist in co-ordinating the work to be undertaken.
What we need is as many of our senior members as possible
to give at least one night to helping them - particularly those who, for
one reason or another, missed out (or largely missed out) on the fun,
sense of achievement, and comradeship in our pre season efforts.
A big thank you to Glenn and Andrew who are giving up a
considerable amount of their time to get the small things that still need
to be done finished off. Please see if you can make it down to the club
Wednesday night to help. Just turn up, or if you would
like to "book in" or like further details email Glenn at
Island.bay@paradise.net.nz.
This club house group is for everybody (what better way to
meet and socialise with other members) but if everybody
leaves it for somebody else we will have
nobody - so to speak.
November 2002"A" Class Catamaran South Island
Champion
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New Zealand Community Trust |
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“The Grand & ‘J.J. Murphys” |
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“The Local” re boat # 6 rigged for specialist coaching |
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Grant Bourke – supply of hulls |
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Swanson Rigging – rigs & trolleys |
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Linton Sails – sails |
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Barton Marine – fittings & running rigging |
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Alex Drysdale – foils and rudderstocks |
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Craig Taylor – fitout |
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All our suppliers have been great in progressively supplying components when called on at short notice, and to the same specification, enabling us to keep all boats identical and meet our budget for the project.
Optimists in
Apia Samoa.
I.O.D.A
4th Oceania Optimist Championships 7-10 October
Results Page Worser Bay juniors
are doing fine!
Labour Weekend
Saturday October 26th
10:00hrs Junior Gen H'Cap
13:00hrs Senior Gen H,Cap
13:00hrs Sunburst Ladder
14:30hrs Gen H'Cap
Other Labour Weekend Options:
HOROWHENUA SAILING CLUB
Labour Weekend Regatta
RACE PROGRAMME
Saturday 26: 2 races start 11.00 am
Sunday 27: 3 races start 10.00 am
(Wellington Sunburst Association race will be the first afternoon race, will
not start before 1.00 pm)
Monday 28: 1 race start 10.00 am
SPOT PRIZE
Enter the Regatta and you can be in to win a GPS.
MEALS
Lunches available each day.
Saturday & Sunday evening meals.
REGATTA ENTRY FEE
Junior $15, Intermediate $20, Senior $25
Sponsors:
Mitchpine Products, City Marine, The Frame Shop Classic Design Prints, TRC
Toyota.
Club House Appreciation Group Regular Wednesday Evening Maintenance Working Bees 7:30pm - 9:30pm. Started several weeks ago ..
WYA
COACHING PROGRAMME
19 AND 20 OCTOBER 2002
Plimmerton Boating Club. For junior and youth sailors who are attending nationals this season.
Click
here for more information
Click
here for the registration form
Saturday October 19th
10:00hrs Junior Gen H'Cap
13:00hrs Senior Gen H,Cap
13:00hrs Sunburst Ladder
14:30hrs Resail or Gen H'Cap
Friday 4th October 2002
Club members informal lunch meeting at 12:30pm
@Sportsbar cnr Courtney Place & Tory St.
All welcome
We are open for the 2002-2003 season.
Have you paid your sub yet? Don't forget to do so before November 2002. ..
the price goes up!
The new Almanac is out. Get one from the Club. Check when you are on duty
for PRO, Lunch & bar roster.
27-29 September 2002
Winchamps for all junior classes at Murrays Bay.
Friday 27th September 2002
NZ Yachting Excellence
Awards Dinner at RNZYS Auckland. How will our Worser Bay nominees Greg
Wilcox and Andrew Phillips get on?
Saturday 28th
September 2002
1000 hr Junior Gen Handicap
1300hrs Senior Gen Handicap
1300hrs S/B Ladder
1430hrs Series 1 Race 2
Still no results .. sorry ... having problems with our upgraded software!
This site has an interesting selection of free downloads .... http://www.ukdinghyracing.com/store/download.htm
Former Sunburst National Champion Andrew Brown has come 24th at the 2002 470 Class Worlds. at Cagliari on the south coast of Sardinia. Team mate Simon Cooke is now 470 World Champion, and in doing so has qualified the NZ 470 team for the next Olympics. The photos of Cagliari during the 470 Worlds look wonderful.
But compared to Worser Bay on a good day ...? We could host a Dinghy Worlds no problem!
Worser Bay Boat Club Easter 2001.
Up and coming sailors may be eligible . "for tertiary education and elite sport development". More here.
The club is proud to advise that Greg Wilcox has selected as a finalist in the Sailor of the Year award category and Andrew Phillips as a finalist in the Junior Sailor of the Year Award Category.
The Excellence Awards Dinner is to be held at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland on 27 September.
An intersting site ... an alternative to
MetService. ... Wellington Weather www.wunderground.com
Pacific
Sea Temperatures
New Zealand Regatta organizers are setting new standards using the web for communications and information for both competitors, supporters and spectators. Two web sites I have been impressed with are the NZ Herald 2002 Auckland Aniversary Regatta and the P Class & Starling NZ Nationals.
And web site for the first test event for the Athens 2004 Olympics is Athens 2002 Regatta . NZ board sailors did particularly well at the August 2002 event.
A fascinating free lecture series about the discovery and navigation of the Pacific, held in association with the exhibition "Voyagers: discovering the Pacific"
CAPE HORN TO PORT: NAVIGATING THE OPEN SEA
Veteran America's Cup campaigner, navigator, and experienced sailor
Mike Quilter (Team New Zealand) talks about his experiences on the open sea with a particular focus on crossing the Pacific en route to Cape Horn from a navigator's perspective. More at the Te Papa website.
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/whats_on/se_beyondx2.html
(04) 381 7000
Time
to revise your technique and tune up for the season?
Here is site with those reminders for beginners
and champions alike http://www.boating.co.nz/sailing/index.html.
Massed start Mumford Holiday Trophy 14 September
2002
The Mumford Holiday Trophy and the 2002-2003 Worser Bay Opening Day Regatta was held on Saturday 14th September 2002. There were fair winds and 40 boats on the water! We are in for another great season. Simon Mannings new Sunburst "Envy" was on the water.
Traffic around the bottom mark. 14 September 2002.
I will get the results up soon. We are updating our club PC Windows and Results Software ... for the new season
R Class Skiff "Stagecoach" on Opening
Day .... and right infront of the Clubhouse! .... oh well ..
Who wants to go
sailing?
We
do!
WBBC
Openning
Day
Regatta
2002 / 2003
Saturday
14 September
Got
your winter maintenance done yet? It is nearly too late!
Mumford Holiday Trophy
Combined start 1330 hours.
Official Opening: 1600 for 1630 hours - irrespective of the weather..
We would like to see as many non-racing members and supporters joining those sailing down at the club for the official opening.
Congratulations to new Sunburst Chairman! Worser Bay's Glen Stanley was elected Chairman of the Wellington Branch of the
Maurice and Greg Scott were second
in Good Times. Nigel Lloyd and Mandy Sturge won the Handicap Championship in
Vagrant Complete
results
The meeting acknowledged Russell Jenkins and David Mclean
for their great work for Sunbursts over many years.
Sunburst owners ..... have you registered your boat for the new season yet? Don't forget! Only $37 to both register and join the Association. You get a quarterly magamzine "NZ Sunburster" ... full of interesting stuff. Crews can be Associate Members too for $15, and get thir own copy of "NZ Sunburster". email David Mclean
Teams racing in Sunbursts looks to be the "next big thing"...again ... Already Muritai YC and Heretaunga BC ( sites are a bit out of date as at August 2002 ) are planning an InterClub event. Week night club teams events at Worser Bay are being discussed. It is going to be a great season! Does your wet suit still fit?
Interesting Web Sites:
Your webmaster found these interesting as they bring back
memories of his sailing adventures past .... in Jarkata, Manila, Galle and
Port Louis
Jakarta Offshore
Sailing Club.
Offshore Oil Driiling in Java Sea was the connection ...
departures from Pantai Mutiara
This next one is a 2001 voyage by an Austrailian
Built replica of a 1606 Dutch East India Co (VOC) called the
"Duyfken". It called at Galle, Sri Lanka and Port Louis,
Mauritius. I have visited both these. I sailed into Galle from Thailnd as
navigator on a 52ft Ketch and briefly became the chaffuer for the
Postmaster of Galle. Duyfken
Manila Yacht Club ... I owned and sailed a Dragon in Manila for 2 seasons .... this site is not active ...They still have a fleet of war time Dragons sailing. Sailing every Wednesday night at 8pm. ... tropical nights .... ahhhhh!
Open Forum
Thursday 5th September 19:00hrs
at Sport Wellington
Level 2 113 Adelaide Rd
for INTERESTED
PARENTS of Junior
and Youth SAILORS Information
Flier
Contact: Neil Verry
The "Clash"
Canterbury v. Wellington
Sunburst
Teams Racing. 17-8-02
in perfect conditions on Wellington Harbour in front of our
capital city. .... Wellington on a good day!
Very close racing ... but we were piped by the Canterbury Team. But what
about the rugby?
Congratulations Canturbury sailors ... it won't happen again!
Wellington sailed in Yellow .... and Canturbury in Red .... obviously. But
in the afternoon it all changed ... confusing!
I have some great video of agressive tacking duals and starts ... anyone
got a USB AV video capture cable I can borrow so I can share it on the
web?
Email me webmaster@wbbc.wellington.net.nz
Wellington was represented by:
W1. Steve Pyatt & Aaron
Hume-Merry
W2. Brett Linton & Penny Kerr
W3. Phil Williams & Adam Emirali
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Working Bee
Sunday 25 August
at 08:30hrs onwards
Task
List for Working Bees as at 17 August 2002.... look here.
This is the BIG working bee! Involves a big clean-up (sheds and
clubhouse) and some mainteance work on the Opti fleet ready for opening day on 14th September.
Midweek Working Bees
Thursday 22nd August
19:00hrs painting and picture
hanging
All welcome.
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Wellington Sunburst
Association Annual General Meeting
@ Worser Bay Boat Club
Friday 23rd August 18:00 for 19:00hrs
Finger Food will be served
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"The Clash"
Teams Racing.
Wellington Sailors
v
Canturbury Sailors
When? Saturday 17th August
3 Races starting 11:00hrs
(backtoback)
3 Races starting 14:00hrs
(backtoback)
What? A
regional teams racing regatta in Sunburst
Dinghies. Two teams of three identical boats try to thwart each others
efforts to get over the line first.
Where? Off Te Papa between Overseas Terminal , Lambton Harbour and
Queens Wharf. A spectators event. Great viewing from the breastwork!
Can our sailors do what the
Hurricanes could not do to the Crusaders?
More info from Neil Very WYA
Notice of
Race.... here
Virus
in Web qmail?
There has been some feedback suggesting that
emails redirected through the www.wbbc.wellington.net.nz
web "qmail" system ( eg to secretary@wbbc.wellington.net.nz
) may have had a virus attached.
I have recieved this from Tim Jordan , our web host at Wellington
Community Net.
"Sorry Andrew,
There is no virus checking on Qmail at present.We will explore the
possibility of implementing virus checking but we will need to get funding
for this as it will have to be a commercial product. As far as I know, the
virus must have originated in the source emails and has not been added by
Qmail itself.
I guess it might be of use to add a small message (or
a link to a help page) which gives some general anti-virus advice such
as...
"Don't open attachments unless:
A: You know who they are from:
B: You are expecting the attachment.
C: You have scanned it with an anti-virus program"
regards,
tim
What actually happened is likely to be the result of a virus "Email Address Spoofing" . This article from the LavaSoft site may explain what has been happening to some of our members. Here.....
Webmasters Note: At home we use THREE different FREE packages to protect our machines.
ANTIVIRUS:
"AVG" a good, free, Anti-Virus package . It has a
function to automatically keep the virus signatures uptodate and scan all
emails .. in and out. It can be downloaded from http://www.grisoft.com/
FIREWALL:
We also use a free fire wall to protect our 2 machine micro network from
hackers listening to us or invading us when we are on-line. Essential if
you have a broadband connection. "ZoneAlarm can be downloaded
from CNet
here
SPYWARE:
Another useful free spyware protection is AdAware from LavaSoft. This
package strips out those nasty bits of software often embedded in free
downloads that tells the vendor what you are up to!. Get it from LavaSoft
Evening Working Bees
Monday 12th August 19:00
Tuesday 13th August 19:00
Varnish Toilets, painting touch
ups, rehang all the photos and other small indoor tasks. Join us for a fun
and productive evening. Task List
Dominion
Post 31 July WBBC Members in Youth Scheme Elliot 6m.
Bec Dunn, Sophie Lloyd, Hayden Swanson. Click for
big picture
WBBC Newsletter July 2002:
Latest Newsletter was published 11th
July 2002. You can see it here .....
WBBC Prize Winners
2001-2002 Season
another wonderful season with World
Championship success, great club racing and fellowship, and a rejuvenated
club house.
Look at the list of prizes and achievements
here
Optimist World Championships
Corpus Christi, Texas
Web page to
look at....
ISAF
World Sailing Games 2002
Marseille, France
Web site...
NZ 2nd in Women's J22, NZ 4th in Women's
Laser Radial, NZ 22nd Hobbie 16s, NZ23rd in J80s
Kiel
Regatta 2002 Kieler
Woche
in Kiel, Germany, Greg Wilcox 6th of 45 in OK Dinghies. Well done!
Find Greg's photo and the
results listing
his Club as WBBC!
Youth
Yachting Scheme:
Worser Bay Sailers selected to participate are highlighted:
Rebecca Dunn, Amanda
Hargreaves, Mathew Hibbard, Matt Littlejohn,
Sophie Lloyd, Theo McDonnell, Matthew
McDowell. Steve McDowell, David McGahan, Sam Melville, Andrew Phillips,
Katherine Tonks, Hayden Swanson, Daryl Wislang
You will see them out in the four Elliot 6m yachts on the Harbour
every weekend, Saturday and Sunday for the next few months.
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NI Champs Pics
Phil Williams and Bec
Dunn at Paraparaumu Beach, Kapiti NI. Sunburst Champs.Photos
by Chris Dunn. Click for big
picture.
Team New Zealand
Only a few months to go to Americas Cup events
Keep up to date at the Team
New Zealand WebSite
Also Louis Vuitton Cup Website
also Americas
Cup 2003
and other
Americas Cup Links
The J Classes are coming too. Shamrock V and Endeavour will be in Auckland in February for the Classic Yachts Regatta just before the defence starts. www.jclassyachts.com
Book Review
Deborah Paterson (12yr) reviews a book "Fired
up" about a young New Zealand sailor .... did she enjoy it? Find
out here.
Club Instructors Course:
Sport Wellington
Evngs 25 & 26 July
Evans Bay 27th July
This course is
for those wishing to teach groups through the learn to sail stage up to capable
of racing. Julie Worth is running the course at Sport Wellington
evenings 25/26 and then at Evans Bay on Saturday 27 July.
Please confirm immediately any people who wish to attend this course. Cost
is $110 inclusive. Most who have said they are attending have not returned
the application form to Neil Verry fax 04 479 3066.
Please do not hesitate to ring Neil Very if you have any queries.
Yachting Wellington Development
Phone 64 4 479 3088
Fax 64 4 479 3066
Mob 025 540 700
Email neil@wyachting.org.nz
Website www.yachtingnz.org.nz
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76th Annual General Meeting
is our next club Event:
Friday 19 July 2002 @19:00hrs
Notice is hereby given that the Seventy Sixth Annual
General Meeting of the Worser Bay Boating Club Inc
will be held in the Clubhouse on Friday 19 July 2002 at 1900 hours.
Apologies.
Confirmation of the Minutes of the 75th Annual General Meeting held on 20 July 2001.
The bar will be open! There are
sure to be important issues to discuss at length over a drink.....
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Auckland to Noumea Race
Starts 25th May 2002.
Follow it on these WebSites
Royal Akarana Yacht Club
Sail-World.Com
Did you know that PrettyBoyFloyd still has the race
record?
SPA
Regatta,
Starts 22 May 2002
Medemblik Holland
on the Ijsselmeer
Young New Zealand dinghy sailors are competing. Follow
their progress. It has neat option on the Results page .. you can
"select country" to see how our sailors did ....
here Andrew Brown was a recent Sunburst
National Champion.
Wellington
Yachting Association
Development
Elementary Race Management Seminar
18 June 17:00-21:00hrs
at Sport Wellington Level 2
113 Adelaide Road
Expressions of interest are sought for this proposed course. Please enroll
by 31st May. Places will be confirmed by 4th June.
This is purely and introduction
to the skills of race management and the programme is designed to
enlighten and show the necessary skills required helping your club and its
sailors hold races.
The course will be run by YNZ qualified Race Officers.
More here ...
Advise Neil Verry,
Yachting Wellington Development
Home 04 479 3088
Email neil@wyachting.org.nz
before 31st May!
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Winter Series Titahi Bay (Sundays)
Starts on 26th May 2002
1st Race Starts 10:00 hrs
Please be early for registration for
the racing and the coaching. As always Titahi Bay will put
on some excellent racing and you will also see their new rescue craft.
NOR ... Here
Coaching Clinic Registration .... here
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Rowie's Autumn
Sunday Series
And the winners are:
Opitmist: Cushla Hume-Merry Opti 3686
Optimist Green: Elvin Else Opti 3587
P
Class: Aaron Hume-Merry P266
Starling:
S Thomas "Alibi"
Sunburst: Phil Williams "Nimrod 1209"
Sunburst H'cap Matthew Hibbard"Kaotic
Barbie"
Monohulls: Aloec McWhinnie OK
The series is
now complete, based on only 2 races. Last Sunday's races were abandoned
after some of us had finally rounded the 2nd mark. The optimists did not
even get to the first mark!
A glorious autumn day ... with almost no wind.
We have the same recipe again this Sunday 26th May - a great chance for Opti, Sunburst, and other
newcomers to practice 10am onwards and then participate in the racing at
noon.
The Autumn
Series is a relaxed fun event and if you are new to sailing come down and
we will help get you on the water. The race is relatively short and
the course(s) tailored to individual classes &/or abilities.
2ZB Wellington
Sportman of the Year Awards 2002
Greg Wilcox
World OK Champion 2002 is our nominee for this prestigeous
event on 29 May
Press release .... here
Youth Yachting Scheme
For youth sailors 16 to 20 years old.
Course starts in MAY 2002
The Lion Foundation Youth Yachting Scheme is an intensive year long
programme for young sailors. It will be run by the RPNYC Sailing Academy
using 4 Elliot 6m yachts provided by RPNYC. .
Read more about it l
One of these Elliot 6m
Boats will be at Worser Bay on Sunday 21st Hebtro Trophy Day
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30
May 2002
18:30 hrs at
Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, Ward Room
WELLINGTON CLUB MEMBERS INVITED TO HAVE THEIR SAY
Yachting New Zealand's President Geoff Thorpe, and Chief
Executive Simon Wickham, will be in Wellington on May 30. We invite
club members to an open forum organised by the Wellington Yachting
Association's Development Co-ordinator Neil Verry.
The forum is an opportunity to hear what Yachting New Zealand is planning,
to ask those questions you always wanted answered, and to find out what
the W.Y.A. can do to assist clubs, work towards and achieve a stronger
path yachting in Wellington.
All Commodores, members of W.Y.A., all sailors, and club members are
invited to attend.
This event will be held at 1830 hours on 30 May, at the Royal Port
Nicholson Yacht Club, in the wardroom
Wellington
Yachting Association
Parents Information Evenings
14 May Session 1&2 19:00hrs
22 May Sessions 3&4 19:00hrs
For parents of young people starting sailing .... what is
involved in the sport?
Subjects to include “What do Parents know” /
“A little bit of knowledge” and “My sailors getting the bug” / We are
off to a National Regatta”.
To be held by a number of guest speakers
Open to up to fifty each evening
Open to up to fifty each evening.
To advise numbers by
10th May
Information
Sheet here ...
Time:
19:00 hours at Sport Wellington Region Conference Rooms Level 2 113
Adelaide Rd Newtown. No charge.
Contact: Neil Very
neil@designhardware.co.nz
Phone: 04 479 3088 or 025 540 700
The
Last Shall be First!
The Burglar of the Bay
It took a long time to decide!
Pig headed persistence and some help from the on-course judges the Burglar
is ...... ? Phil Williams reports on the events of the day ...Read
on....
The teams:
Maurice’s Maestroes
(Good
Times, Nimrod, Mi-Stress, Club1)
Heleen's Heroes
(Rossco, Dr Who,
Firefox, Chinook)
Lynette’s Loonies
(Top Gun, Vagrant,
Santa Maria, Indulgence)
The marks were named after historical permanent bouys
that used to be moored in the bay. McIntyre's, Arkley's, Moody's, and
Wharf.
And the course around them was complex. Navigation was a challange!
A nice light northerly wind and out of the blocks Rossco (Heleen and
Deb), lead the fleet. A good mixture of team placings as the top mark
(Mcintyre's) was left to port. Club 1( Martin & Dave) went
really well and also Indulgence (Chris & Ashley) to the first
mark and Good Times (Maurice &Greg) although nearly last round
the top sailed magnificently down the first run to cut out a whole lot.
… Rossco lead all the way down to the bottom mark (Arkley's) followed
closely by Vagrant (Nigel and Mandy) from the Lynette's Loonies and
Nimrod (Phil & Rebecca) from Maurice’s Maestroes. Maurice,
the analyst, figured the shortest distance between two points is near
enough a straight line as the others sailed some sort of great circle
course and he cruised Good Times up to 6th place behind Santa Maria (Tim
& Neil).
Maurice’s Maestroes suddenly looked like it was in with a chance. Nimrod 3rd, Good Times 6th, Mi-Stress 7th, and Club1 looking like the possible Burglar. Lynette’s Loonies looked really good on points, with Vagrant in 2nd, Top Gun in 4th and Santa Maria in 5th and Indulgence the burglar.
However Heleen's Heroes were not to be discounted with their strong closely packed team of Rossco 1st, Firefox, Dr Who and Chinook.
Well anyway the upwind saw the team racing begin to come in to play with some tactical or rule infringements (Shoving boats – or was it fending off to minimise collisions) at the Moody's mark between Top Gun, Mi-Stress and Nimrod. Later Nimrod (the rotten buggers) sat on first Top Gun and then Santa Maria in effort to disrupt Lynette’s Loonies the danger team and get a Maestroe further up the field. With some brilliant sailing by Mi-Stress (Ken & Catherine) Maurice’s Maestroes had a 2nd placing with Nimrod 4th.
However some interesting teams racing was also occurring between Santa Maria and Good Times and Santa Maria (Lynette’s Loonies) managed to disrupt (not such) Good Times with a full luffing match complete with spinnaker inside out, more than Nimrod could disrupt Top Gun and Santa Maria. Top mark scores were something like:
Lynette’s Loonies (Red)
35610 =24
Maurices Maestroes (Green) 24912 =27
Heleen's Heroes (Yellow) 1,7,8,11 =26
Dr Who (Eleanor and Steve) hung in there as did Chinook (Andrew and Arlene) and Firefox (Kevy and Eliot) all in the Heleen’s Heroes, helping each other along the way and waiting to pounce.
That’s about the best any of us could do against the superior power of the red team…. Maurice’s Maestroes lost the plot as the wind died. Club 1(Martin and Dave) in the learn to sail yacht, struggled with no spinnaker,
Maurice called it "Quits" and went ashore, as did Mi-Stress, just as the course was shortened. Nimrod although had the course written down correctly on the boat must have been affected by the light conditions or maybe over did the thinking in the brilliant display of tactical teams racing on the previous beat.. Well any way the clowns went the wrong way Maurice’s Maestroes attack crumbled like Jericho and Lynette’s Loonies broke through in a wave of annihilation with placings of 2nd 3rd and 4th. But wait what happened to the last boat in the Loonie team… that would have been the burglar…. Alas Indulgence had had enough … and a DNF destroyed the points margin.
Congrats Lynette’s loonies. You sailed well, so far, so close. ... but ....
Heleen’s Heroes were the heroes of the day with all boats finishing. 1st 5th 6th 8th. Just goes to show the winning team really does depend so much on the last boat. And "last boat" Burglars also depend on help from their friends! As the total lack of wind and out-going tide made the last few meters to the final mark look impossible, the mark inexplicably moved down stream by the necessary number of boat lengths and the finish was in sight. And the Boat Master was able to take his mark home and put the crash boat away before dark!
And
who is the Burglar?
"Chinook" ( Andrew
& Arlene ),
the yellow boat in the yellow team, the last boat in the winning
team: Heleen's
Heroes.
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Club Sign goes up in Car Park.
Thanks to Phil Williams
and Dave of Action Signs. Our club now has a very refined
presence on Marine Parade.
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ADVENTURE !
April 2002: Club Member David McGahan has just spent 10 days as a trainee aboard
"Spirit of New Zealand" and has
some awesome photos. He has promised us more, but
here is one to remind you what it is like out in Cook Strait in a southery.
. He has promised us more, but
here is one to remind you what it is like out in Cook Strait in a southery.
Read his full report and see his fantastic photos
.... here
David calls this a "phatwave"
The website for the Spirit of Adventure Trust is www.spiritofadventure.org.nz for the links page
Selamat
Jalan, Rowie dan Suzanne.
Kita semua, mau jalan-jalan ke Pulau Bali.
Itu pulau yang paling indah di seluruh dunia.
Terimah kasih Suzanne suratku di tulis dalam Bahasa Indonesia.
( Webmaster: Suzanne is studying Bahasa Indonesia ...it is my 2nd
language too)
Hi to Julie Teagle from South Wales!
WBBC and Other Events summary up till Christmas
... a handy 1 page summary of whats on ...there is heaps ! ...
WBBC Children's Christmas Party
