FYC West Headings December 2013

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Commodore’s Report for December
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Dear Fellow Members
Wow hasn’t the year gone fast and Christmas is almost upon us. Hopefully this Festive Season will bring
much joy and celebration to all members of Flinders Yacht Club.
After Christmas, the Summer Sailing Season begins in earnest, highlighted by the Junior Training Program.
Again this has been a sell-out success, thanks to the fine ground work of Warwick Mitchell. As Warwick is
away, Rick Barker in conjunction with Mark Cramond will run the week. They will be ably supported by all
members of the Sailing Committee.
We encourage all parents of children involved in the JTP to spend some time at the club when they bring
their children to the club in the mornings to meet Committee members. Tea and coffee will be served
each morning. The week is usually extremely busy for Juniors with lots of sailing and fun and usually not a
mobile phone in sight !!
The week will be further highlighted by a Cocktail Party for New Members. This is combined with an open
invitation to all parents of children attending, as well as adult participants in the sailing school, to attend
the party. The Cocktail Party will be held on Saturday, 28th December at 6pm at the Club.
The Junior Beach Party is also a major attraction during the week and will be held on Monday, 30 th
December, commencing at 6pm. We look forward to all children attending the sailing school taking part
in this traditional and most popular party. Details of the party will be announced during the week of
sailing school.
I do hope that Santa is busy for you this Christmas and delivers many lovely presents, including tips on
how to win yacht races !! The Club will show some welcome new additions including the resurfacing &
extension of the front deck, new rollers for the front sliding doors and the opening of the archway
between the two rooms in the clubhouse.
The clearing of the weeds area behind the club, a clean-up of the driveway by Maladdiction Surf board
Riders working bee & the season grass cut of the compound will make the club look pristine, & set for an
excellent summer ahead
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COMMORDORE’s Report – Continued
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Prior to closing, please be aware that the club has now moved to full digital communication. The club
website http://www.flindersyc.com.au will act as the hub where all information about events can be
found. This will be backed up by emails and SMS closer to events. Additional posters will be displayed both
within West Headings & on the club noticeboard. A great new website booking system is to be used for all
event! http://www.trybooking.com.au
I would ask you to download from the web & emails, all important things, such as the club Sailing and
Social Program, and West Headings. Whether these are printed out in colour or black and white, it is
extremely helpful to have them immediately available for ready reference at anytime. Personally I keep
copies of the Sailing Program & West Headings on our coffee table at home and find this extremely useful.
Highlights of the social calendar are listed below:
Saturday, 28th December
Monday 30th December
Thursday, 2nd January
Saturday 4th January
Saturday 11th January
Cocktail Party for New Members
Junior Beach Party
Women’s Lunch at Flinders Golf Club
Commodore’s Cocktail Party
Flinders Yacht Club Jazz Dance
The Cocktail Party for new members is free however all other functions need to be booked online through
Trybooking. If you have not booked prior you may be excluded on the night or may need to pay an increased
fee. Finally please encourage all your friends to come down to the club over January especially on the
additional Saturdays when the club will be open for casual use, so that members and potential members can
relax & mingle in a friendly and relaxed manner. Already there has been a surge in new membership, the new
Pacers fleet is ready to go, and the keel boat fleet has two and possibly three further additions.
I would like to wish everyone a Very Happy Christmas and prosperous New Year and look forward to a
fabulous Summer Sailing season ahead.
Geoff Barnett
COMMODORE
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SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS
this is the first of our articles on our great sponsors
Like most small sporting clubs, Flinders Yacht Club relies on a number of sources for its funding.
Members’ annual fees is of course the single most important source of revenue for us, however, funding
from sponsors plays a particularly important role in our operations and activities. Were it not for the
generous support of sponsors, it would be far more difficult for us to purchase equipment like the new
Club Pacers and the Optis, or run activities such as our very successful Training Programme. So, our
Sponsors are very important to us.
Sponsorship should not be a one way relationship however; we should support our sponsors as much as
we can, just as they support us. As a Club we do this by providing exposure on our web site and in our
Newsletter, it is important that we do so, but there is another far more significant way we can recognise
our sponsors and it is by us, as members supporting them….using their services, buying their products.
Each time you, as a member, support our sponsors you are in effect supporting your Yacht Club, and you
are doing so in a way that should be very easy for you.
To this end, we have decided to feature one of our sponsors in an issue of West Headings. This month we
are asking you to support
The Balnarring Branch of Bendigo Bank (The Balnarring & District Community Bank to be more precise)
has been a very generous supporter of FYC, and in particular our Summer Sailing School. We rely on their
support to provide this important training school .So, we would urge you to open an account, invest
some money, apply for a credit card with the BALNARRING BRANCH of the Bendigo Bank. Call or visit the
Bank (which is situated in the Balnarring Shops) and speak to the staff there. Jason (Branch Manager)
and his staff are simply lovely to deal with, and remember to tell them that you are from FYC.
You can find Jason and his team at – Balnarring Village Shops - Shop 28, 3050 Frankston Flinders Road,
Ph. 5983 5543.
Thank you for supporting our sponsors.
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Balnarring & District Community Bank – Bendigo Bank
Check out this great photo with many community groups represented
who are supported by our community bank. Can you pick the FYC
member in the photo?
Email the editor of West Headings (maryiles@bigpond.com) and win
your self a bottle of wine donated by our Vice Commodore, Rod Slater!
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SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS
Our other generous sponsors are:
Montalto Wines – Montalto Vineyard & Olive Grove – 33 Red Hill-Shoreham Road, Red
Hill South, Ph. 5989 8412. Stunning wines, great food (Café & Restaurant) and beautiful gardens filled with
wonderful sculptures. www.montalto.com.au
The Red Hill Baker – Balnarring Shops – Frankston-Flinders Road, Ph. 5989 2733. A great bakery and
café, serving wonderful food and coffee (and the odd glass of wine). Or browse in the delicatessen if you are
looking for something special. On Sundays Ray Johns and his friends play wonderful jazz over lunch, but be
sure to book it’s always busy. Call in and see Ray, Jill or Jess, you will always be welcome.
www.redhillbaker.com.au
Oxley Nets – 20 Network Drive, Port Melbourne, Ph. 1300 730 731. Australia’s leading manufacturer of
nets, and key supplier to Clubs and Businesses alike…and very important to keelboat owners with
Cormorant problems!! If you have any netting needs, then Oxley are the people to speak to.
www.oxleynets.com.au
The Flinders District Lions Club – c/o PO Flinders, 3929. The Lions Club of Flinders plays an
important role in many community events in our district, and we would urge you to give them your support,
or for you to support some of the activities that they run.
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The off-the -beach results for the Spring Series are
the final results as the last race was cancelled due to heavy weather
CHAMPIONSHIPSERIES (Club Handicap)
Boat Name
Race 2
Race 3
Points
Place
Master’s Apprentice
Spindrift
1
2
2
3
3
5
Rocket
3
1
4
2
Ginger Cat
4
4
8
4
Chase
A
A
Bonus
A
A
1
3
CLUB AGGREGATE SERIES (Club Handicap)
Boat Name
Master’s Apprentice
Rocket
Ginger Cat
Spindrift
Chase
Bonus
Race 2
2
4
1
3
A
A
Race 3
2
1
4
3
A
A
Points
4
5
5
6
Place
1
=2
=2
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Have You Heard the news????
There will be 4 new Keel Boats in Flinders this Season!!!!!!!!
Forbes Smith with a Folk Boat, "Alto 2", coming from Queenscliff, Rod and Sue Slater’s
X-Yacht 382, "Foxy Lady", from Brisbane and Andy King, (new member )and Eamonn
Cook, returned member both with boats to set sail very soon!
Looking forward to seeing everyone out there on the water!
- Sue Slater
Club Captain
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DIVISION 3 RESULTS –
DATE:
01 December 2013
RACE:
Spring Series Race
COURSE:
S-B-A-CH-B-A-F
WIND:
Calm – N,5-10 kts. – with stronger N gusts
RACE OFFICER: Clay Manners
Boat Name
Class
Skipper/Cre
w
Elapsed
Time
Y/S
Master’s
Apprentice
Chase
Laser
John Derham
65.45
Pacer
Pursuit
69.02
Ginger Cat
Hobie 18
DNS
Spindrift
Laser Rad
Rick Barker
Isabel
Faranato
Rohin Adams
Nicholas
Morg
Ed Wright
Argo
Pacer
Pursuit
Angus/Janine
Cramond
Place
Club
H’cap
113
Correc
t
Time
57.92
1
115
60.02
78.37
61.52
Place
113.4
Correc
t
Time
57.72
2
120.6
57.23
1
3
88.1
69.83
3
2
78.5
DNF
SPRING SERIES (Yardstick)
Boat Name
Race 2
Race 3
Race 5
Points
Place
1
Race 4
Resail
2
Master’s
Apprentice
Spindrift
Rocket
Bonus
Chase
Ginger Cat
Montalto
Argo
DNC
1
4
1
1
DNC
2
3
DNC
DNF
DNC
2
3
A
A
4
DNC
DNC
3
1
A
A
4
DNC
DNC
DNF
A
DNC
2
3
DNC
DNS
6
6
6
7
11
22
23
=2
=2
=2
5
6
7
8
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We are all so computerised…..but we need some help. Does anyone
have a useable but unwanted laptop or IPad to donate to FYC for use
in the tower. James Manners has written a great little program which
will make tower duty a breeze, but we need an IPad.
This will be used for our automated Tower starting program brilliantly
developed by James.
Details: 16GB is fine, no internet connection is needed at this stage
Please contact Sue Slater
Email : sueanneflinders@hotmail.com
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SAFETY DAY RERUN
A Safety Day was run at the club on Sunday 1st December, with
approx. 15 attending. Most had past experience, only a few had not
been before.
Ric Barker gave an excellent presentation on Sailing Safety & Race
Officer duties. Janeen Cramond then ably explained how tower duty
works & Grant Mathews explained the patrol boat routine.
Thanks to all for an excellent informative morning.
Since then, James Manners has demonstrated his computerised
tower starting app. James will install the system ready for use.
The Safety Day will be rerun at 11am, on Monday
30th December at the club.
PLEASE MAKE A REAL EFFORT TO COME AS THIS IS A MOST
IMPORTANT AREA OF CLUB LIFE.
Any Enquiries: Sue Slater, 0419 98821
sueanneflinders@hotmail.com
Club Captain
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SOCIAL EVENTS – January 2014
What a month of fun and frivolity at FYC
See all the details for the social calendar
for early January 2014 . Get your naughty nautical outfits prepared , your
dancing shoes polished, your cocktail party fascinators fluffed up and your
Barocca ready for the day after!
New Members Cocktail Party
Saturday 28th December, at 6 pm to 8 pm at the Flinders Yacht Club
Women's Lunch
Thursday 2nd January, at 12 30 pm at Flinders Golf Club.
Commodore's Cocktail Party
Saturday 4th January at 6 pm till 8 pm at Flinders Yacht Club Jazz Dance & Supper, featuring the " Red Hill Baker's Band "
Saturday 11th January 2014 - 8 pm to 11 30 pm
Please note all booking for events MUST now be made thru a great little
website. http://www.trybooking.com/html/buyTickets.shtml you just log on,
find the event, pay the money and bingo…our wonderful Social committee will
know who is coming. If you do NOT book on line, you may be turned away!
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SOCIAL EVENTS – January 2014
New Members Cocktail Party
Saturday 28 th December, at 6 pm to 8 pm at the Flinders Yacht Club
This is a free cocktail party for : all new members, parents of children & all adult participants of the
Junior Sailing Program and all those considering joining the club. This is opportunity to meet the
General & Sailing Committees of FYC. RSVP BY 26TH December 2013 to email
social@flindersyc.com.au.
Ladies Lunch
Thursday 2nd January, at 12 30 pm at Flinders Golf Club.
Theme : " Nautical not Naughty " Prize for most nautical.
Cost : $ 30 per person for main, sweet & coffee. Wine extra at bar prices .
Bookings via http://www.trybooking.com/EBNX Event NAME.: Flinders Yacht Club Ladies Lunch.
BOOKINGS essential by 19th December 2013
Commodore's Cocktail Party
Saturday 4th January at 6 pm till 8 pm at Flinders Yacht Club - On our brand
new front deck Cost $ 25 per adult.
Please bring a plate of savouries ( cold finger food) for 10.
Drinks provided.
Bookings via http://www.trybooking.com/EBOD Event NAME. Flinders Yacht Club Commodore's
Cocktail. Bookings essential by 2nd January 2014
Jazz Dance & Supper, featuring the " Red Hill Baker's Band " for all ages.
Saturday 11th January 2014 - 8 pm to 11 30 pm
Cost $ 30 per adult, children under 16 free; 16 to 21yo $ 15.
Supper will be provided. BYO booze and soft drink, please
Bookings via http://www.trybooking.com/EBOH Event NAME Flinders Yacht Club Jazz supper dance.
Bookings essential by 8th January 2014
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"The Adventures of "A" Buoy"
Last week our magnificent, new, orange "A" Buoy disappeared after only a couple of
months in the water inside Westhead. This always leads to a lot of speculation about what
could have happened....collision with a boat ........theft....or failure of the tackle. It is usually
an unsolved mystery when a buoy goes missing but in this case all was revealed! Luckily, at
the Pre-season Working Bee, Minetta Black had painted FYC on the buoy before it was
dispatched to its position as "A" buoy.
Our missing "A" buoy was located at Sandy Point in Westernport Bay (on the way to
Hastings)! As luck would have it, a fellow yachty from Somers Yacht Club located it while
out riding his bike. He recognised the FYC marking, deflated it and carried it home. It so
happened that FYC member, Tedd Warden, was catching up with some Somers Yacht Club
members who presented him with the buoy. Tedd has since returned the buoy to the Club.
How lucky was that!!! It must be Christmas!!!
Even though the tackle was new and strong, Grant Matthews believes that the thick, new
rope connecting onto a wired shackle may have worn through in the swell. Only the shackle
was still attached to the buoy. This time we'll most likely use only chain. Lou Benette has
very kindly donated a length of chain and Grant Mathews is busily getting it all together. In
the meantime he has laid a temporary "A" buoy.
This buoy has traditionally been right on the edge of the main swell coming around
Westhead. It has been a fun and challenging rounding at times especially for off-the-beach
boats. It is one of our favourite buoys!!!
It used to be here and looked a bit like this!
Sue Slater
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Inter Club Cooperation…Somers & Flinders…best buddies
Vice Commodore of Somers Yacht Club John Tilleard was riding his beach bike
to Sandy Point and noticed a bright object on the beach. He figured this was
something that had escaped from Flinders and hid it in the dunes taking
bearings of where he'd left it. Next day he returned with tools to enable
deflation and rode it back to civilization. Newbie Flinders member Tedd
Warden (crews for Ken Lacey on Act of Faith) saw John at Somers the next
Friday night and was able to swap the $400 buoy for a beer and deliver it back
to the safe keeping of Slaterville for re placement where it belongs. That the
shackle was still intact with no sign of the rope spliced thimble hints at
purposeful removal which is sad, but John's efforts on our behalf is positive.
Many thanks John!!
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NEW Addition to the FYC FLEET!
Guess who is pleased as punch …!Rod and Sue Slater's new (11year old) 38' yacht, "Foxy
Lady", departed Brisbane 2/12/13, for the long sail to Flinders where she will be located on Forbes Smith's
old mooring very soon….look out for her arrival your editor will be checking out from the cliff with a G’nT
to celebrate!
She is a Danish built and designed X-Yacht, X-382, which was built as a "performance cruiser" in 2002. The
X-382 has a large mast head rig, a large wheel and a teak interior and was designed for the cruising market.
Below deck, "Foxy Lady" has 2 double cabins, a central saloon with 2 x settees that convert to single
berths, a galley, a chart table, and a bathroom with a hot shower! X-Yachts are more common in Europe
where they have the reputation of being very strong, reliable and well built yachts.
We purchased her with a view to doing Club racing and cruising. Our plan is to cruise around the Bass
Straight Islands, Tasmania, and along the Australian Coast. She is capable of around-the-world cruising but
that is not on our agenda! Our cruising will begin when we feel competent handling the boat , and after a
course in navigation and a lot of practice using the storm sails and emergency procedures. At this stage
we'll potter around Westernport out of everyone's way!!!! When she arrives we will welcome you on board
so please come and join us.
By the way, we still have the Taser just in case this is all too hard to manage!!!!!
Rod and Sue Slater
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DEAR LITTLE BOAT
Members may have noticed this elegant little craft at FYC. The 15ft double-ender Tasmanian started life
in 1913 as a utility/lifeboat on the Hobart ferry S.S.ROSNY, then launched into a new career in 1968 as a
Sea Scout cutter. Her 100th birthday present? A detailed restoration including a suit of cotton cream
colour sails with traditional 18 inch panels, in keeping with her era. This sturdy little craft spent the first
half century of her life criss-crossing Tasmania’s Derwent River, also Melbourne’s Hobsons Bay, but rarely
getting wet. The 15ft double-ender spent 50 years sitting under canvas on the deck of the steam ferry
Rosny, before a troop of Sea Scouts launched her into a new career in the 1960s as a training
boat. Classic workboats are an endangered species, but this Tasmanian led a fortunate life. She
managed to remain intact for one hundred years and I’ve now restored her. Given she had no recorded
name I christened her Trim, after the Pacific navigator Mathew Flinders’ seafaring cat – and also because
only four letters fit the roundels on her bow.
It was 1913, just before the advent of compact petrol engines when Trim was built, so she’s a rare link to
the twilight years of working sailboats and rowing boats. Small utility workboats were the primary
means of transportation on Tasmanian inshore waters from about 1810, delivering people and goods
from point to point, from ship to shore and also as lifeboats. Their design form followed function and
the practical arrangement of oars and sailing rig also happened to be graceful and attractive. The boat
builders may not have thought of their work as an art form, but they certainly had a discerning eye for
beauty.
Trim’s construction in Huon pine is clinker-build with gunwales nearly straight from bow to stern. A
proportion of 2.7 beams to length give seaworthiness, good carrying power and fair speed. The hull has
a flat shallow-draft for pulling up on shore and the barn-door rudder can be raised in–line with the
keel. Three thwarts can accommodate four oarsmen, two off-set. She’s efficient under oar and the
double-ender design makes her manoeuvrable. Beyond being a classic rowing boat, she adopts well to
sail under her small Gunter sailing rig with stem mounted headsail and centre dagger-board.
Trim received two special presents for her 100th birthday this year. One, a new suit of sails crafted in
traditional 18 inch panels in keeping with her era. The other, acceptance onto the Australian Register of
Historic Vessels following assessment by the Australian National Maritime Museum on certain criteria
such as significance, completeness, provenance and rarity,
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DEAR LITTLE BOAT cont’d
Steam ferry Rosny
Russel Kenery at the helm of his
dear little boat TRIM, named after
Matthew Flinders ‘ cat!
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EDITORS Page
It is thanks to many people that WH goes out to members and
friends of FYC. Special thanks for this edition to Geoff Barnett, Sue
and Rod Slater, Russel Kenery and Tedd Warden for pics and
stories! We always welcome pics and stories, just email them to us
maryiles@bigpond.com
Bay Breeze
There once was a young man named Jay,
Who thought he'd try sailing the Bay.
The wind, it did blow, for just half a day.
So young Jay is still out there today.
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