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The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race kicked off on 26th December, they are now on the third of their six days of racing - have a read through the below article By Di Pearson and Rupert Guinness that captures a race within a the race.
Alive and Wild Oats X’s private raceWhile the super maxis were hard at it from start to finish in the Rolex Sydney Hobart, two Reichel/Pugh 66s were also hard at it not too far behind them; Phillip Turner’s Tasmanian Alive and the Oatley family’s Wild Oats X, skippered by Stacey Jackson. In the end, and much to the delight of the locals in Hobart, Alive was victorious over the line and overall from the pro all-female crew by a nick under 13 minutes when she finished fifth over the line at 2.40.36 this afternoon. Currently the Taswegians are second overall in the standings, but will have to wait it out to see whether others still racing can beat their time in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 628 nautical mile race. Nevertheless, Alive’s skipper, Duncan Hine commented, “We’re ecstatic – all of us – of course we are.” Following her finish, Alive did her lap of honour past the Taste of Tasmania, something the entire fleet get to do on finishing. It was crowded with locals and visitors alike. The cheer was more a roar, when it was announced Phillip Turner’s 66-footer was a local. “It was amazing – wonderful – hearing the cheer from our hometown,” Hine said. Of the race with Wild Oats X and in general, Hine said: “We had a fantastic race with them. Both of us have a competitive nature and the interest in the two of us was great. We swapped the lead once or twice and were never far apart for the entire race. “It (the race) was a lot of hard work – before and during. The conditions were not exactly ours – we like it light (the breeze), but I guess there were reasonably light areas. But you never know whether your competitors are going to go through the same conditions as you – so you don’t know how you will finish up until a lot of the fleet are in.” However, Hine did concede: “We are over the moon. We’ve had a wonderful couple of days. Phil and I put together a wonderful crew – and it’s not that easy to get a such good one – so we couldn’t be happier. On board Wild Oats X, Stacey Jackson believes the crew she skippered should return to next year’s 75th edition in another bid to win the race overall. Jackson signed off on her 12th Sydney Hobart this afternoon when she and her crew on Wild Oats X, owned by the Oatley family, crossed the Derwent River finish line. She was sixth boat to finish - five behind Wild Oats XI, which is also owned by the Oatleys, and won line honours earlier in the day. “I reckon we have probably proven our worth this week and it would be a shame to not continue (as a crew),” Jackson said. “I imagine all the girls would come back. We’ve had an amazing time together. We’re really looking forward to doing some more sailing.” Jackson said there was nothing in the race that surprised her or her crew: “Other than that it was such an easy race weather wise and you’ve got to be happy with that, every single time you get it. “It’s hard to pick a bad bit in this race, to be honest … probably listening to the memorial to the guys who were lost 20 years ago (on Thursday during the 5pm radio check) was probably the sad part of this race. But (it was) nice we could acknowledge what happened and nice that the conditions were very different to that this year.” She said that Wild Oats X’s only set back was losing an A2 spinnaker on the first night. It would have served them so well in the 7-10 knot southerly as they sailed up the Derwent River under glorious sun. “That hindered us a little bit this afternoon,” Jackson said. “We came here to try to win it. We have done pretty damn well.” As Jackson and her crew celebrated on board at the docks, they were joined by the Oatley family, including Sandy Oatley and several members of the Wild Oats XI crew, including skipper Mark Richards. Also joining the crew was former Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop, an ambassador for their campaign for ocean sustainability. Jackson praised the Oatley family and the Wild Oats Racing team. “The boat is an amazing vessel for the job,” Jackson said. “We couldn’t be happier that the Oatleys have loaned it to us and that we got to team up with Wild Oats Racing to get the job done.” Jackson said she had hoped that hearing that Wild Oats XI had won line honours would be a precursor for Wild Oats X’s handicap hopes. “It was nice to hear our big brothers on Wild Oats XI got the line honours,” she said. “We hoped that might have been an omen for Wild Oats in general and that we could come through, but we are sitting in fourth (as they had finished) and we are happy with that.” Jackson said she and her crew were held in suspense as they waited to learn the fate of Wild Oats XI as it fought a thrilling race for line honours with Black Jack, Comanche and InfoTrack, which finished in that order. “It was a little unclear for us initially,” Jackson said. “The last position we heard said they were 100 metres before the finish line and nobody else had finished. “We were assuming that in some point in time they were going to be the winners.” The Wild Oats X skipper will be awarded the Jane ‘Jenny’ Tate Memorial Trophy for the first female skipper to complete the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race at the official prize giving on 31 December in Hobart. There are 72 yachts still racing, after 2 Unlimited retired after hitting a sunfish and breaking their rudder; they are heading to Triabunna. The fleet is at 79 yachts. For all information and to follow the race on tracker: http://rolexsydneyhobart.com/ Article Link: http://www.rolexsydneyhobart.com/news/2018/day-3/alive-and-wild-oats-x-s-private-race/mna/ RNYC hosted a Christmas cocktail party for our members on Friday 21st December 2018. The event was a perfect opportunity for us to unveil the amazing HMS Victory Memorabilia that was donated at the gentlemen’s Trafalgar Dinner in October this year (on display in the Trafalgar Room for all to see). The night was fun, festive, and very merry!
Have a browse through a few photos from the event on our Facebook Page @RNYCDurban: December 2018 Events
Sun 23rd Keelers Offshore - there’s set to be a cool overcast NE! Mon 31st New Year’s Eve Party - BOOK NOW! For bookings and more information on events, please contact us: [email protected] or 031 301 5425 MUSIC Every Saturday: Soundwave Sessions - Open Mic with Auburn Sound! Sunday Line-Up: 23rd - Shades of Grey 2019 SAILING EVENTS January: Sat 05th FF/Dinghy Racing Sun 06th Offshore Summer Series Race 3 Wed 09th RNYC Wednesday Night Fun’d Sailing Fri 11th WOZA Friday Sat 12th FF/Dinghy Racing Sat 19th FF/Dinghy Racing Sun 20th RNYC Offshore - Squadron Series Race 1 Wed 23rd RNYC Wednesday Night Fun’d Sailing Pacer Team Sailing/Racing - EVERY Saturday Pacer Ladies Twilight Sailing - EVERY Tuesday Have a read through the article below for some quick tips from an article published on Sailing World by Andrew Campbell .Quick Tip: Practice Makes PerfectEven the best sailors are never too good for practice. Sail in tough events as often as possible to maximize your learning experience.
February 6, 2017 "Practice, Practice, Practice!" This is the common theme among all sports and is equally true for sailing. "But, who has time to practice? Who has the chance to get organized, get a coach?" No more "buts" about it. The simple fact of the matter is that practicing is much easier than people think, and the amount of time you practice is directly proportional to the amount of success you earn. One of the easiest ways to improve is to sail against people who are equal to or better than you. In many cases it’s hard to find sailors better than you who are willing to spend time and practice with you. Frequently, the best way to sail against better sailors is to race in big events. Going to national, state, or district level events can be great practice. For the less experienced sailor going to a big event may be the best "practice" that he or she can get. Sure, sailing in your local yacht club or interclub event may be fun because youre winning, but the only way to increase your level of ability is to get beat up by skippers better than you. I can relate my story of 1998 CORK, the Canadian Olympic Training Regatta at Kingston, Ontario. I sailed with my team as a 15 year old in the YouthFestival, held annually before the regatta. There were about 85 youth Laser sailors on the line and, to my own amazement, I went out and won all three races held. I came out of the event confident and cocky, ready to take on the "big boys" at CORK. As it turned out the "big boys" included names like Robert Scheidt, at that point a three-time World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist. It blew hard, and I was glad to make gold fleet much less 46th place in the event. During one race, the breeze came in from the west at 20 plus knots. Sailing upwind to the second windward mark of three beats, I looked over my shoulder and saw Scheidt bearing down hard on me, out on my starboard hip. I rounded the top mark only to watch Schiedt sail upwind 50 more yards to the finish. At that point, I realized I had much more to learn. Sunshine, smiles, and sugar!
Our 2018 Kiddies Christmas Party took place on Monday 17th December on our Ndongeni Lawns. Father Christmas braved the heat in his great red suit (we later cooled him down with a chilled glass of wine...shhh), the children were more than eager for his arrival and of course even more so for the gifts he had waiting for them! There were plenty of games and activities to keep everyone busy thanks to Santa’s DJ, Rob Main-Baillie, and the pool was overflowing with divers, mermaids, and future sea captains! We also had a visit from Hug a BunnyKat, who brought along a great assortment of games for all to enjoy. All in all it was a fantastic, fun-filled fiesta! Be sure to join us the same time next year. .A few snippets of Club House History from our very own Salt on the Sails:
DECEMBER 21st December 1891 A special General Meeting was held to discuss the erection of a clubhouse. (Page 104) This would be the first of three different Clubhouses to be built. 15th December 1990 A formal flag ceremony was held to mark the move of our Clubhouse from “Fenton Lane” to where we are now at the Yacht Mole. The commemorative plaque for this momentous occasion can be found on the landing before you enter The Britannia Room. (Pages 389 - 396) Did you know: The clubhouse was designed by our very own Mr Willy Vandeverre and Commodore Graham Rose was the young man who carried the flags across for the ceremony! 1st December 1997 Geoff Hilton-Barber. The first blind yachtsman to successfully cross the world’s ocean, sailing 6000 nautical miles in 50 days. Hilton-Barber sailed solo from Durban to Fremantle (Australia) from December 1997 to January 1998 in his Charger 33, Abacus. (Pages 213, 419, 429-431) Calling all sailors!
The article below is from the Cape2Rio2020 Website, it is full of adventure and is a great read for all who would like to know more about this exciting opportunity! The NOR is available on the Club Sailing Notice Board, as well as the official event website: www.cape2rio2020.com “The Cape to Rio is an Ocean Race across the South Atlantic between Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. It dates back to 1971. It is the longest single transcontinental race in the world, and attracts club and professional sailors alike. The race connects the iconic, exotic and historic into an incredible cocktail of deep blue water sailing. Whether you are a hard-core racer, a family cruiser, or an avid adventurer, a memorable voyage awaits… The next edition of this Ocean Classic will be incorporated into the centenary celebrations of the Iate Clube Rio de Janeiro. It will also include a visit to St Helena Island, for those electing to enter the Cruising Class. For the Cape to Rio 2020 Ocean Race, there will be two starts. The first start, scheduled for 2 January 2020, will be for cruisers and lower handicap boats, and will be routed via a compulsory stop at the island of St Helena. The island is also now accessible via a commercial passenger airline, which adds the opportunity of a pit stop visit from non-sailing family and friends. The island stop is almost half way to Rio, being 1700 miles from Cape Town, and about 2100 miles from Rio. Sailing via the island will route yachts away from the heart of the windless South Atlantic High. By connecting the mid South Atlantic dots, the offering of a stop at St Helena adds considerable interest, value, and safety in numbers for the cruising community, and is sure to be popular. The mandatory 48 hour stop will be deducted from the cruisers elapsed time for the overall race, but there is no reason not to stay longer on the Island if you so choose. Either way, just 48 hours will be deducted. The second start, scheduled for 11 January 2020, will be for racers on higher handicap boats, racing directly between Cape Town and Rio. This is a more technically challenging route as yachts will need to negotiate and navigate the fine line between “cutting the corner” around the South Atlantic High, in a constant dance to save on overall distance sailed while keeping sails full and flying in reasonable wind. For the less conventional and eccentric adventurers, there has always been talk about sailing the other way around the windless South Atlantic high pressure system, especially in the seasons when it has moved further north, but remember that for safety reasons there will be a latitude limit set as to how far south you may sail. Boats in both starts may be eligible for the overall handicap prize of the South Atlantic Trophy for monohulls and the SAR&H Trophy for multihulls. There will be a line honours prizes for both starts, but the official race line honours accolades will go to the racing class only, being the De Beers Line Honours Trophy for monohulls and the SA Marine Corp Trophy for Multihulls. The ORC rating platform will be used to calculate handicap times for monohull entries, and the Texel rating system will be used for multihull entries. The race time limit is set for noon on 1 February 2020. Response to the Preview to the Notice of Race, which was posted on the Cape to Rio Facebook page, has been very positive. The post reached 7850 people, was shared 48 times, and the page has an ever growing following numbering 5670 at the time of writing. A number of boats from the last and previous Cape to Rio Races have committed to entering again, and there are very strong indications that the Royal Cape Sailing Academy will enter their very own team aboard the refurbished One Tonner, Archangel.” Luke Scott Chair: Cape to Rio 2020 December:
Sun 16th: 08h00 - 18h00 Mon 17th: 08h00 - 18h00 Mon 24th: 07h00 - 16h00 Tues 25th: CLOSED Wed 26th: 08h00 - 16h00 Mon 31st: 08h00 - 01h00 (Tues 01st) January: Tues 01st: 08h00 - 16h00 A friendly reminder to book for our Christmas and New Year’s Eve Parties! [email protected] / 031 301 5425 It is hard to imagine that our CLX anniversary year is drawing to a close and as I write this message from the “spiritual home of yachting” in Cowes I am struck by a number of thoughts which are perhaps appropriate to share with members.
While enjoying some sailing in the Solent over the past few weeks I have been privileged to visit a number of yacht clubs including the oldest yacht club in the world, and fellow International Council of Yacht Clubs member the Royal Cork Yacht Club, where my crew and I were warmly welcomed and treated to a very royal reception. In Cowes I have been honoured to pay a courtesy visit to the Royal London Yacht Club, the Island Sailing Club and perhaps the highlight was a visit to the Royal Yacht Squadron which included a guided tour of the Castle and hosted drinks. During my travels I have been overwhelmed by the reception we have received at each club and it is wonderful to see the high regard with which our Club is held in international yachting circles. Members can be proud of our heritage and standing amongst the other Royal clubs. Equally, members should be proud of our facilities, which despite being somewhat modest when compared with the San Francisco Yacht Club and St Francis Yacht Club or the Royal Danish Yacht Club, which I visited earlier in the year,they are nonetheless a superb venue which is not easily found elsewhere in the world let alone affordable and they provide a true “yachting home” for members and their guests. Our range of offering, service levels and general standards represent good value for money and are thanks to the tireless efforts of our General Manager and her team. It is therefore surprising that members do not make more use of these magnificent facilities for entertaining family and friends, whether it is beside the water on the Ndongeni Lawns and adjoining Lower Deck or upstairs in the refined atmosphere of the Britannia Room which is so elegantly furnished with commanding views of the bay and compares favourably with similar venues of our sister clubs abroad. Despite the ongoing efforts of the staff to market the club via all forms of electronic and social media and with repeated appeals from the General Committee for members to patronise the clubhouse and support club functions we continue to find that the facilities are underutilised. It is even more surprising when members then complain that too many non-members are enjoying the facilities of the club and fail to realise that it is the non-members who are in fact subsidising the operations enabling us to maintain the facilities to the standard which members have become so accustomed. Regrettably unless members make a concerted effort to support our magnificent club the General Committee will be forced to make some uncomfortable decisions in the New Year. Another thought that occurred to me while beating to weather in a stiff breeze and choppy sea is the lack of enthusiasm which members seem to display with regard to sailing. While the prevailing weather conditions here can only be described as less than ideal and with most of the fleet on the hard for the winter layup there are still more boats sailing on any given day than we see in Durban even on the best day. With our fantastic sailing conditions one would think members would be more enthusiastic to sail especially when we have a fleet of club owned boats at our disposal. I do hope that members will take advantage of the wonderful summer weather and Christmas holidays to patronise the club and make an effort to take to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. As it is the festive season we should not forget the efforts of our loyal staff throughout the past year under the direction and guidance of our General Manager, Meleney Cunniff. Even if we have not visited the club recently these amazing staff members have ensured that our Club remains open and are ready to serve the needs of members and their guests 364 days of the year, often working under some very trying circumstances. I would like to appeal to members to donate generously to the Staff Gratuity Fund which as usual will be distributed at Christmas as a token of our appreciation. It is customary for members to donate 10% of their annual spend in the club to the Staff Gratuity Fund and I hope that even those members who have not frequented the Club much during the past year will at least still find it in their hearts to donate generously so that the staff may be able to bring some Christmas cheer to their families. While I will be enjoying a Northern Hemisphere Christmas this year it is my Christmas wish that members will make full use of the Club over the festive season and I hope your New Year’s resolution will be to continue to actively support the Club during 2019. On behalf of my fellow Flag Officers we wish you and your families all the very best for the festive season and a prosperous New Year. Cowes, December 2018 Graham Rose [email protected] |
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