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SUMMER 2015
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contents
p2-3
From the Commodore
p4
Obituaries
p5
New Members
p7-33
Prince Philip Yacht Haven
p34-35
Our RAFYC Neighbours
p36-39
Sam’s Ramp
p40-41
Kings Royal Hussars
p42
Edward Leask OBE
p44-45
Launching Wetwheels Hamble
p46-52
Reciprocal Clubs
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Harken May Regatta
p58-59
Round Barbados Race
p60-61
Sailing Hussars Caribbean 600
p62-64
Antigua Sailing Week
p65
Benefits of Membership
p66-67
Cowes/Deauville Race
p68-70
6M World Championships
p72-73
ICOYC New Zealand Cruise
p74
Solent Cruiser Race
p75
Mid-week Rallies
p76
Motorboats
p78
Ladies Committee
p80
Golf Society
p81
Shooting Society
p82-84
Snippets
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Ashore
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Programme 2015
COVER PHOTOGRAPH
BobKat II at the 6 Metre World
Championships held in La Trinité sur
Mer, France. Photograph courtesy of
Philip Plisson.
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foremost marine photographers.
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COMM
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The last six months have seen huge changes
in and around the Club. We have had the
Prince Philip Yacht Haven construction with
the upheaval to the car park together with all
the associated works to the sea wall and moorings. We have a new General Manager and a
new team in the Sailing Office. Very recently
we have replaced one of the dining room windows with glass doors and panels to link the
new Quarter Deck with the dining room.
The Prince Philip Yacht Haven, which will be
completed and opened by the time you receive this
copy of the Southern magazine, has been the largest project the Club has ever undertaken. It has
involved years of planning, fine tuning and negotiation – and that was all before we even applied
for planning permission! The work continued
through the planning application, negotiations
with contractors, the pre-planning phase and of
course during the 8 months of construction. We
owe a great debt of gratitude to the PPYH Committee and in particular to Past Commodore Mark
Inkster, whose dedication, long hours of work and
keen negotiating skills have ensured that not only
have we saved the carpark from slipping into the
river but that we now have new, fantastic facilities
both ashore and afloat.
For some years there has been talk about altering the windows in the dining room. We have
now removed one of the windows and fitted doors
and steps down to the new Quarter Deck. This
has allowed more light into the dining room and
has provided a further link between the building
and the new external areas – a wonderful area for
lunch on a sunny day and a great party venue.
As I write this, the deck has already been put
to good use. On 30 May the new dinghy launching facilities were dedicated to the memory of
Sam Alexander. Serena Alexandra, who was the
instigator and first leader of Splash Club, made a
generous donation towards this facility. Her son
Sam, who was one of the first Splashers, served
as a Royal Marine Commando in Afganistan. He
was awarded the Military Cross in 2009 but was
very sadly killed by an IED in 2011. The service
of dedication involved Royal Marine Commandos ‘storming the club’ and current Splashers
launching from the newly named ‘Sam’s Ramp’.
The construction works and associated car
park area has also allowed us to clear out years
of rubbish and lay out the area to make better
use of our estate. We have had to gain additional
parking to satisfy the planners and we will have
improved our storage facilities.
The overall result is spectacular and will provide facilities for many generations to come. As
a Club we should be proud of this achievement,
it is a fantastic facility which has maximised the
use of our assets. The facilities will be the envy of
many clubs.
Alan Feltham, our new General Manager,
arrived in early January and parachuted straight
into the Club with the PPYH project in full swing.
Alan had been tasked with keeping the Club running with a construction site encroaching into
and around nearly three sides of the premises!
He grasped the challenge and has been doing
an excellent job. Alan has vast experience in the
management of private members clubs, although
yachting is new to him. He is keen to learn all
about our sport and we have already seen him on
committee boats and racing to Deauville!
Alan is not the only new member of staff.
We said goodbye to our sailing secretary Natalie Grey who has moved on to pastures new. We
now have a new, highly qualified and experienced
team led by Tim Thubron, assisted by Kimberley
and Mike. Welcome to you all. Tim will also be
responsible for the running of the Yacht Haven.
All these changes require either modifications
to existing systems or completely new systems.
There will inevitably be a period of ‘settling in’
as new systems are put in place, trialled, modified and fine-tuned. I would ask Members to
be patient when they discover things may have
changed or are not quite working correctly just
yet. Please remember that most of the work is being undertaken by fellow Members, who are all
volunteers giving their time and energy to help
improve the Club we all love.
Whilst all the above has been happening at
the Club, Members have continued to participate
in and enjoy events both old and new. Afloat, the
season is now well underway with Splash Club,
the Motorboat section and race management already very busy! We had a very successful Harken
May Regatta and many of the usual early season
events have been running, weather permitting.
Over the last few years many Southern Members have been participating in Antigua Race
Week. This year we had approaching fifty Members, either racing or supporting the teams racing.
We challenged other yacht clubs to compete for
the Royal Southern Yacht Club Inter Club challenge trophy. This was a first for Antigua Race
Week and was well received, gaining the Club
some good press coverage. Well done to everyone involved especially Gordon and Carol Cossar who organized the Antigua end of things.
Ashore we have enjoyed the New Year’s Eve
party, Burns Night, Wednesday evening lectures
with the usual variety of topics and stories, themed
evenings, the Fitting Out supper, the Ladies Athena lunches and a formal Ladies lunch – the list
is endless and I apologise if have missed any.
Some of these are old favourites but it is always
exciting to see some new events on the calendar.
Despite a rather disappointingly cloudy morning
the Eclipse Breakfast attracted approximately 50
Members who enjoyed a hearty breakfast whilst
not watching the eclipse earlier this year!
As the season gets into full swing, we see that
the calendar of events is, as always, pretty full and
busy. As a Club we are fortunate to have a wide variety of interests afloat and ashore to suit all Members. There is always the opportunity to try something new and meet another group of Members.
I would encourage all Members to bring along
likeminded friends to some of our events. If they
enjoy themselves they might even join the Club.
We would be delighted to welcome them. I look
forward to seeing you in the Club. If you haven’t
yet – come and see and enjoy the new facilities.
The next generation of Splasher on ‘Sam’s Ramp’
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Chris Mansfield - Commodore
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NEW MEMBERS
OBITU
ARIES
Pippa Bewes 1942-2015
Pippa Bewes trained as a physiotherapist at the
Royal Free Hospital, London after she left school
and worked in Norway after qualifying. She learnt
Norwegian and spent weekends in the countryside
with friends always picking something – berries or
mushrooms or firewood depending on the time of
the year. In winter she learned cross-country skiing
and when she returned to England with her halo
of golden curls she was positively glowing.
It was a completely chance visit to the Royal
Southern on Friday 4 May 1973 when she met
Hedley. Her diary entry a week later, “To the
Clubhouse to meet Hedley. Sail 10:00, stayed the
night at Buckler’s Hard.” After a summer of sailing weekends her diary entry on Friday 25 Jan
1974 read, “To Southampton. Hedley asked me
to marry!” Thus followed 41 years of wonderful
marriage full to the brim with projects and adventures not the least being the arrival of their
son Oliver at Easter 1979. Not long after the
wedding came the news that she had Hodgkinson’s disease which she survived but the aggressive treatment contributed to her recent medical
problems and death.
Pippa was always at the centre of activities at
the Club whether going to the Horse & Jockey
with Hedley in the Barouche, sailing with the
Foxer dinghies, encouraging everyone to walk
and keep fit or just enjoying herself with her large
group of friends.
The Commodore and Flag Officers would like
to welcome the following new Members to the
Royal Southern Yacht Club:
Norman & Karen
Armstrong
David Simmonds was a Member of the Club for
over fifty years. Born in 1921 in Letchworth, Herts
he was apprenticed to James Taylor (Chertsey) Ltd
in 1938 and spent five years at this unique yard.
During the war he was a Royal Navy shipwright and diver but in 1946, de-mobbed and
unemployed, he joined a friend to repair boats
at Bosham but was soon to move to the Hamble.
After a couple of years in Swanwick he joined
Edward & Katherine
Lowe
Martin Bain
John Lowe
Alex & Marcella
Bingley
Ben McGrane
Richard Bowen
Jon R McManus &
Anna Wagner
John Burns
Alex & Carolyn Miller
Brian & Paula
Caudwell
Lady Jonette Norman
Anna Carpenter
Marcia Perrow
David Cheney
Mr P Connor & Mrs J Murphy
Felicity Day
Port Hamble Sales Department in 1952 but they
soon found he had other talents and he eventually became Works Director and In-House Designer. Amongst many other craft he designed
and built the Pacemaker series of small power
boats in which he raced twice in the early CowesTorquay powerboat races.
After leaving Port Hamble, in 1967 he set
up a new enterprise in the West Indies, Antigua
Slipway Ltd and as Managing Director, prospered until his retirement at 65 years. However
he continued as a Surveyor and Consultant and
claimed to have finally retired in 2000. In 2009 he
received Honorary Status of the Royal Institution
of Naval Architects having been a member continuously for 60 years. He led a busy existence in
Antigua, until failing health caught up with him
in March 2015. He had been a Member of the
Club since 1964.
He leaves behind a widow Maggie, son Paul
and daughters Sue and Virginia.
It is with the deepest regret that
we also record the passing of the
following Royal Southern Members:
Ian Bowie
Keith Foster
Mary Gater
Andrew Glasgow
David Holliday
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Nick & Dee Arnold
Pauline Frost
David Simmonds
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Thomas Lacy
Ray Gibbs
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Ian & Lucy Handley
Callum Healey
Debbie Holmes
Richard & Louise
Jacobs
Alex James
Ed Knowles &
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ROYAL SOUTHERN YACHT CLUB
PRINCE PHILIP YACHT HAVEN
Three years ago, His Royal Highness
the Duke of Edinburgh graciously lent
his name to the Prince Philip Yacht Haven; a project to transform the Club’s
waterfront. The commissioning of the
Haven is another milestone in the development of the Royal Southern Yacht
Club and marks the start of a new era
both afloat and ashore with world class
facilities of which the the Club is justifiably proud.
On the day of the commissioning there
was a tangible buzz of excitement among
those present about the completion of the
project and the scope of the new facilities
although, admittedly, we cannot speak for
the invertebrates taking up residence in their
newly built bijou residences in the environmental wall. However, for a variety of reasons, not all Members were able to participate on the day itself and have not been able
to visit to the Club to see the new facilities.
So that all Members and friends of the
Club can share in the day we are reproducing
the the Commissioning Luncheon brochure.
This sets out the history of the project from
the very earliest days, before the millennium
when we sought planning permission for
walk ashore pontoons, through the numerous subsequent abortive attempts to obtain
planning permission, to the current project
implemented in conjunction with the Royal
Air Force Yacht Club. There is also a report
on the day itself, a tour of the new shoreside
facilities which have exceeded everyone’s expectations and the first aerial photograph of
our new facilities.
“The Prince Philip Yacht Haven would never have been completed
without the unstinting generosity and tolerance of Members, who
deserve our unreserved thanks. Nor would it have been delivered
without the foresight and impetus of Members from both Clubs who
made up the Haven Group, or the contractors selected to bring it
to fruition. It is truly a world class facility which will transform the
sailing opportunities for both Clubs.”
Chris Mansfield – Commodore.
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THE PRINCE
PHILIP YACHT
HAVEN PROJECT
The Royal Southern Yacht Club established
its Hamble Annex in 1936, in fishermen’s
cottages on the sloping foreshore between
the public slipway to the south and the
Luke Brothers shipyard to the north. Subsequently the Club purchased Luke’s yard
and later still, began the task of transforming the waterfront to better serve the purposes of its Members. This included working over the reclaimed shipyard slipway by
piling and supporting the frontage, allowing the Club to optimise the asset it had
newly acquired. However, a constant presence has been the ebb and flow of the tide
which, over the years, progressively eroded
the river’s banks; the Royal Southern has
not been immune from its attentions. This
is the way we were.
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Today’s Commissioning by our Patron, His
Royal Highness The Prince Philip Duke of
Edinburgh, K.G., K.T., of the yacht haven
that bears his name, marks the end of one
long road and the start of another.
The first road began in the months
leading up to the 1999 Mumm 30 World
Championship to be hosted by the Royal
Southern, when it was first proposed to link
all pontoons to the land and create a small
haven with walk-ashore capability for the
visiting fleet. It proved to be a success and
in the years that followed was regularly re-
The passage of time and tides had not
been kind to the Club waterfront and when
the new clubhouse was built in 1997/8, advanced techniques were already essential
to stabilise its foundations. More recently,
when Past Commodore, David Mead,
highlighted the situation standing in mud
below a failing Quay Wall, the waterside
land was obviously in real danger of sliding unceremoniously into the river and
clearly, something needed to be done. The
most recent application for planning consent was initiated in 2011, and working
in concert with the Royal Air Force Yacht
Club, it was actively supported by the River
Hamble Harbour Authority, who saw it as
a strategic part of their own proposed development of the river’s western shore. For
the two Clubs, it fulfilled the joint purpose
of acquiring the sought after full tidal access haven and more critically, piling a substantial new Quay Wall which would secure
their land and improve the sea defences of
Hamble village.
instated for the Club’s bigger regattas. Creating this temporary haven was pioneered
by the River Group with periodic planning
applications to make it a permanent feature, but though entirely logical, the idea
was not without its opponents. While these
planning applications were regularly contested and rebuffed, the Club fell within the
‘28 day rule’, a concession to allow land to
be used for an alternative purpose without
the need for formal planning consent. Conceived as a useful tool for one-off events
such as fairs and festivals, surreally the
Club found its water classified as land and
its regattas equated with gymkhanas!
Driven by the newly formed Haven Group,
chaired by Past Commodore, Mark Inkster,
consultation followed with more than thirty
stakeholders, interested parties and potential
contractors, and guided by Marina Projects
Limited, the serpentine process of obtaining
harbour works, planning consent and licensing permits reached a successful conclusion
in August 2013. With necessary funding secured, contracts were placed and work commenced on 01 October 2014. Completion
on 30 May 2015, may have marked the end
of that first road, but the second started immediately, making best use of what is by any
standards, a fine asset for both Clubs.
THE LONG ROAD AHEAD
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THE PROJECT STARTS
October saw the site secured as a working
area by the team from Raymond Brown,
Walcon’s Wizard all-purpose crane and
piling barge arrived to remove pontoons
and pull maintenance piles, the first delivery
of steelwork and sheet piles came in on
Williams Shipping’s Wilcarry 504 and dead
on cue to reinforce the message, the car
park and The Quay flooded spectacularly.
Marina Development Limited’s project
boss, Dan McKiernan and site boss, Rob
Hayman, met local residents for tea, retiring
Lord Lieutenant, Dame Mary Fagan,
inspected the site after her retirement lunch
with Members and nine days in, the first
of sixty, 22.5 metre long sheet piles was
driven. A link appeared between the outer
rows of pontoons, a working party of
Members helped re-locate yachts to them,
the linkspan was craned away, the main
landing pontoon and piles disappeared
and Richard Campbell-Walter oversaw the
flag staff’s removal for maintenance and
painting, while a mini version was installed
by the car park barrier.
As the old Quay Wall began disappearing, new finger pontoons were installed in
the north basin and representatives from
Eastleigh Borough Council and the Har-
bour Authority cast their professional eyes
over the work in progress, as a second link
went in to form the south basin. By the end
of Week 3, Neil Jacobson from the Crown
Estate and Crown Agent, Stephen Butterfield, had viewed proceedings, the Pier
and Crane had gone away for service and
re-painting and the piling was progressed
northward. Simultaneously, the top layer
of mud was moved from the foreshore into
settling lagoons ashore and as the end of
October arrived, piling started on the 10
metre deep Anchor Wall, while upper sections of the spiral staircase were detached
from the balcony.
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tors revealed that its concrete base was
tougher than expected requiring bigger
and bigger diamond tipped drills and cutters and as they finally prised it clear of the
foundations, the Club discovered a hitherto
unknown basement, or tidally driven swimming pool, below the River Room!
TONS OF STEEL
AND CONCRETE
As November kicked in, 60% of the Anchor
Wall and 52% of the Quay Wall was already complete and advancing apace, with
Members in the Upper Bar, Dining Room
and River Room treated to an ever changing cabaret of piling and earthworking to
keep them amused, to say nothing of the
amazing skills demonstrated by Raymond
Brown’s back hoe driver. Getting ever-closer to the front elevation of the clubhouse,
the Quay Wall was now being tied in to nine
supporting shear walls, each at right angles
to it, which represented an investment of
£120,000 for a total of 76 tonnes of steel,
and 50 tonnes of concrete.
The last mud was scooped off the foreshore to settle, as the specialist contractors
prepared to begin its remediation treatment and it was during the third week of
the month that further pieces of the spiral
staircase reluctantly bit the dust. Contrac-
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December arrived and with it the prospect of
a short working month. Construction was still
on track and closely following projections and
it was noted that some 6.8 kilometres of steel
was already on site, either used or awaiting
deployment, with sheet piling the Quay Wall
continuing in a southerly direction. The mud
remediation process allowing it to be dried,
mixed with a cement preparation and re-used
as in-fill between the shear walls and elsewhere reached its conclusion and substantial
trenches began to appear across the car park,
as the business of linking the Anchor Wall to
the Quay Wall with 20 metre long shrouded
tie-rods began in earnest.
This process required the contractors
to don wellington boots and dance an elegant gavotte with the tides and the sound of
pumps was abroad in the land. The Quay
Wall sheet piling reached the southern corner and began to march shorewards along
the River Room terrace, giving a very up
close and personal view of proceedings to
diners and drinkers. As the festive break approached, Commodore, Chris Mansfield,
and the Haven Project team entertained
the contractors to lunch, thanking them for
their efforts and on 19 December, just 80
days down track, the contractors broke for
a well-earned holiday, the barges Wizard,
Baghdad II and Wilcarry 504 departed for
Southampton docks to be re-loaded with
yet more steel and the site went eerily quiet
for Yuletide.
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Turkey and plum duff were but an indigestible memory when the site blossomed
into life once more, as steel sheet, tube
and reinforcing rod arrived and piling recommenced, going north to the RAFYC
boundary. Urgency was palpable and if the
civil engineering works had been riveting to
watch, it was the much anticipated start of
the capital dredge that caught Members’ at-
tention. MLUK’s self-propelled, spud-leg,
back hoe dredger, Witton Two and hopper
barges, Split Two and Split Three arrived on
site and mid-way through January, 3,200
cubic metres of spoil had been scooped and
dumped at sea. Moving materials onto and
off site by water had minimised disruption
to Hamble residents, but the need to bring
in concrete in quantity necessitated the installation of traffic lights and a contra-flow
system on Green Lane and The Quay. A
massive excavation took place at the northern end of the site to reveal the old Quay
Wall and its Anchor Wall, in preparation
for linking with the new line of piles and
by the end of January, steel was being bent,
shuttering installed at the southern end of
the quay and dumper trucks and back hoes
manoeuvred skilfully around piles of steel,
trenches, lagoons, plant and equipment.
March began with completion of the final
phases of the dredge, though with no sign
of brass cannons, while the tubular piles to
support the Pier and Quarter Deck were
inched into place together with five more
to provide the base for the Crane. After
levelling the car park, many loads of scalpings were spread and consolidated across
February is traditionally a hard month,
but the next big milestone was reached when
the first concrete was pumped across the car
park and poured as capping to the Quay
Wall, the final tie bars went in and trenching
was back filled. Walcon surveyed the site in
preparation for their installation schedule,
shuttering and concreting continued, the
dredging team returned to remove a further
1,000 cubic metres of spoil, a special membrane was rolled out across the car park and
the process of stabilising it with 2,500 tonnes
of crushed concrete and scalpings began.
Service ducting for drainage and power to
Pier, pontoons and Crane were installed and
under the pines, shuttering for the precast
concrete slabs of the Quarter Deck was prepared and concrete poured.
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the entire site. A post dredge sonar survey
was conducted confirming that no high
points had been inadvertently left and the
corrugated tubes of the ‘living wall’ were
prepared by filling with pebbles. Midmonth, Walcon began re-installing the old
pier, complete with its donor plaques, the
piles and pontoons of the RAFYC berths
were placed and on the southern corner,
the South Terrace wall was stabilised with
further piles and concrete, in preparation
for brickwork and paving slabs. Later in
the month, there was a false alarm when a
low tide and the dredge alongside the Quay
Wall revealed what at first glance appeared
to be an unexploded shell; happily it wasn’t!
As the sixth month ended the outer lines of
pontoons were finally linked to the land
and the steelwork to support the Quarter
Deck on its piles was secured in readiness
for installing the slab sections.
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From inception, the convenience to Members offered by the Haven has been balanced
and offset against the need to protect and
preserve the natural habitat which it, and we,
inhabit. Local waters are a diverse maritime
habitat and the Solent, Southampton Water
and the River Hamble are all examples of
inter-tidal mudflats, salt marsh and coastal
grazing marsh under the protection of local,
national and international controls. Ramsar
and SSSI designations cover the wider waters, while the tidal estuary of the Hamble is
a Special Area of Conservation.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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Inter-tidal mud is rich in organic matter supporting specially adapted invertebrates that can tolerate a limited degree of
drying out and which provide sustenance
to birds. The burrowing mud snail, for
example, is a big player in the underwater
world. Generally a jolly chap, Peringia Ulvae lives cheek by jowl with other species
of gastropods and segmented worms, including barnacles, cockles, oysters, snails
and annelids such as rag worms and lugworms. The quid pro quo for removing
inter-tidal and sub-tidal environmentally
sensitive mud to create the Haven basin has been to provide all these benthic
species with the opportunity to discover
a vertical habitat along part of the face
of the newly piled Quay Wall. A ‘living
wall’ of corrugated tubes, into which the
burrowing and grazing invertebrates can
crawl or wriggle and set up home.
Geoff Holt is a familiar figure around the
Solent, is an Honorary Member of the
Royal Southern and his story of overcoming paralysis sustained in a swimming
accident and returning to the water as a
sailor is inspirational. He served between
1995-2002 as inaugural Chairman of
RYA Sailability and as a board member
of the RYA, the Club sought his advice
about boating facilities for the disabled,
specifically non-ambulant people, in the
Solent and how the Haven might be designed to help. He highlighted that there
were very few facilities, which considering the vast boating population that call
these waters home was surprising and
disturbing. A hub in Portsmouth and a
base in Lymington were seemingly alone
between Poole and Shoreham, though
there were many other locations in the
RYA Sailability scheme that cater well for
other disabilities.
Geoff’s most recent project has been
the construction and operation of a purpose-built powered catamaran with full
wheelchair access catering for disabled
people of all ages and abilities under
his Wetwheels organisation. The Yacht
Haven’s design now incorporates facilities to enable sailors with severe physical
disabilities, including wheelchair users,
to have access to boats afloat and Geoff
is already considering a Wetwheels base
here on the Hamble.
THE FINAL
STAGES
April came in and after Raymond Brown,
Walcon and Maricer had all worked diligently to achieve it, the pontoons were open
for temporary berthing over the Easter
weekend only 24 hours later than originally
predicted. The pre-cast concrete slabs of
the seaward side of the Quarter Deck were
craned in and carefully positioned, the Wizard installed new finger pontoons and the
RAFYC linkspan was delivered, tube piles
for the access bridge to the new slipway
were pushed home and installing the utility
services to pontoons continued apace.
The crane base had its power lines laid
as it sat in pristine splendour whilst the precast concrete cured, the project team welcomed the RAFYC’ Past Commodore, Ian
Redsell, who walked the site and their wall
was heightened on the shared boundary.
Approaching Week 3, the Haven berths were
open again, though the CDM boundary still
applied to much of the landside and as the
brick wall and cappings on the South Terrace were completed, the RAFYC held an
open house and soft opening for members
of both clubs on their side of the site, while
their launch ran trips around the Pier. As the
penultimate month ended, the pathway linking the RAFYC to its pierhead was laid with
paviours and power and water was connected to 70% of the Haven births.
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The Prince Philip Yacht Haven project with its £2.6 million price tag would never have been
completed without the donations and unstinting generosity and tolerance of Members, who
deserve unreserved thanks. Neither would it have been initiated or delivered without the foresight and impetus of a small and dedicated committee of individual Members from both
Clubs, who made up the Haven Group, or the contractors they selected to bring it to fruition.
Haven Group
Mark Inkster − Chairman
Ian Redsell
Mark Diffy
Marc Donoghue
Peter Harvey
David Le Mare
Peter Middleton
David & Pat Aspinall
John Beardsley †
Richard Campbell-Walter
Gordon Craigen
David Greenhalgh
David Mead
Peter Nicholson
Barry Peddley
Principle Contractors
RACE TO THE WIRE
The last month of the build arrived and
wonderfully concentrated the minds of all
concerned in its delivery. It also highlighted
the difficulty of integrating a partial and
rolling programme of opening facilities with
the technical and security requirements required by the main contractors and natural
enthusiasm to explore the site needed to be
finely tempered; mostly, it was. The Quarter Deck was sealed in and it, and the South
Terrace, were covered with slabs, new brick
planters marched across the frontage in
These are just some of the statistics
from the 8-month construction
programme:
640m³ of silt and mud were
recovered, settled, remediated and
re-deployed.
18,412 metric tonnes of mud and
spoil were removed in the capital
dredge.
2,500 metric tonnes of crushed
concrete and scalping were
consolidated.
preparation for the attentions of the landscape gardeners, the new RAFYC pathway
was fenced and a concrete ramp was cast
into their pierhead to give trolly access.
The main ramp accessing the Club pontoon and launching ramp was cast, parking bays received their edging, membranes
and gravel and the new Dining Room steps
were cast, while central heating radiators
were re-routed within to accommodate the
new double opening doors.
By the middle of the month, the Club’s
Crane reappeared, fully reconditioned and
powder-coated, to await re-engagement
200m³ of concrete were poured
to create capping and other
structures.
Marina Projects Limited was retained to guide the Club through consultations with
more than thirty authorities, government and statutory bodies, companies, individuals and
organisations. Their brief included assisting in developing concepts for optimising water
space, advising on replacing an old and failing quay wall, navigational and environmental
issues, guidance through a complex licensing process and overview of all site works.
Raymond Brown Group was contracted as the main civil engineers, providing a
comprehensive range of experienced personnel with knowledge of coastal protection and
sea wall construction, together with plant to deliver the design brief.
Walcon Marine Limited was contracted to install the Haven, integrating their existing
link spans, landings, piles and pontoons that had made up the original berthing with new
equipment and pontoons.
ML (UK) Limited was contracted to complete the capital dredge, remove 640 cubic
metres of contaminated silt for subsequent on-site remediation and remove 18,412 tonnes
of mud, spoil and silt using its self-propelled dredger and hopper barges.
Maricer was contracted to supply, install and commission service pedestals and pontoon
utilities, including mains electrical power and mains water supply.
with its base, the commemorative Commissioning plaque in Portland stone was
installed and Richard Campbell-Walter
received the flag staff and oversaw its erection on the corner of the South Terrace to
much acclaim. The frontage of the Dining
Room was broken through, new doors were
installed and the site began to resemble
what the plan had predicted and as Walcon worked to install the launching ramp,
with other contractors accommodating
their schedule, the car park was attacked
by the boys from the black stuff who laid
new tarmac and white lines. As the landscape gardeners finalised the planting programme, the Club held its collective breath
and awaited the arrival of its Patron.
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PRINCE PHILIP YACHT HAVEN
MPR Metal Design was contracted to fabricate, polish and install stanchions and capping
rails around the new Quarter Deck.
The Clubs extend their sincere thanks to all the associations, bodies, companies, Members and other interested parties who listened to their submissions and ultimately, permitted and assisted the Prince Philip Yacht Haven to be built:
ABPmer; Associated British Ports; Association of Hamble River Yacht Clubs; Bursledon
Parish Council; Crown Estate & Crown Agents; Eastleigh Borough Council; English Heritage;
Environment Agency; Fareham Borough Council; Hamble-le-Rice Parish Council; Hamble
River Boatyard & Marina Operators’ Association; Hamble River Sailing Club; Hampshire
County Council; HR Wallingford; MDL Leaseholders Association; MDL Marinas; Marine
Management Organisation; Natural England; One-Design Class Secretaries; Premier
Marinas; River Hamble Harbour Authority; River Hamble Harbour Board; River Hamble
Harbour Management Committee; River Hamble Mooring Holders Association; Royal Air
Force Yacht Club; Royal Southern Yacht Club; Royal Yachting Association; Solent Area Bait
Diggers Association; Solent Protection Society; Southern Sea Fisheries; The Green Blue;
Trinity House; Universal Marina.
206 x 20.5 metre sheet piles
weighing 316 metric tonnes were
incorporated in the Quay Wall.
105 x 10 metre sheet piles weighing
77 metric tonnes were employed in
the Anchor Wall.
27 x 17.5 metre toe piles weighing
35 metric tonnes were used.
11 x 6.5 metre sheet piles
weighing 4.8 metric tonnes were
incorporated in the north corner.
51 x 20 metre sheet piles weighing
76 metric tonnes were used in the
Shear Walls.
10 x 15 metre tube piles weighing
23 metric tonnes were used to
support the Pier & Quarter Deck.
21 x 21 metre tie rods weighing
10 metric tonnes linked Quay &
Anchor Walls.
14 x 11 metre waling beams
weighing 5.3 metric tonnes
supporting retaining wall.
1,100 x 650/450 paving slabs laid
on the 340m² Quarter Deck.
240 x 650/450 paving slabs laid on
the 74m² River Room Terrace.
16,000 x 200/100 paviours laid on
the Royal Air Force Yacht Club pier
approach.
15,390 visits to the PPYH Blog,
making it the third most popular of
all the webpages.
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COMMISSIONING LUNCHEON
All photography courtesy of Mike Austen
Sunrise was at 04:55 on Thursday 4 June
– commissioning day for the Prince Philip Yacht Haven – too early for most of the
participants in the day’s events to witness it. However, shortly after, the staff
were finalising the preparations for what
was to be a memorable day and some did
not leave until well after sunset at 21:13.
Preparations for the event had started
long before and now most of the essentials
were in place. Seventeen tables were laid with
some 1200 pieces of cutlery; 600 glasses had
been polished; 200 napkins had been folded;
over 200 lobsters had been shelled taking
the equivalent of nearly 3 working days and
four fridges, including a trailer fridge in the
courtyard, were filled to capacity with wine
and food. This is in addition to the seventeen table arrangements and flowers around
the Club that had taken the Ladies Flower
Group two days to complete; and the frenetic efforts inside and outside the Club to
put the finishing touches to the Club, its surrounds and the Yacht Haven.
Work continued through the morning
with assorted security checks, photographs
and other finishing touches until by late
morning it was looking spectacular in the
warm sunshine – even the wind obliged so
that the flags of the yachts dressed overall
in the Haven were fluttering in the correct
direction. The feeling of celebration spread
wider than the environs of the Royal Southern with the Harbour Master’s launches
dressed overall. The luncheon guests and
spectators then started to gather and there
was much discussion about the new facilities and pride amongst the Members and
guests that they were part of such a significant undertaking.
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Three years ago, His Royal Highness
Prince Philip had graciously lent his name
to this project to transform the Club’s waterfront and having been shown the plans on
his last visit, was viewing the completed development for the first time. Just after midday, accompanied by the Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire, Mrs Lindsay Fox, Prince
Philip was welcomed to the Club by the
Commodore, Chris Mansfield, before meeting Flag Officers of both the Royal Southern and the Royal Air Force Yacht Club, our
partner in the waterfront project.
Later, His Royal Highness met the
Chairman of the group responsible for the
Haven development, Past Commodore
Mark Inkster. He introduced the Royal
Southern Members of the group and then
Ian Redsell, Past Commodore of the Royal
Air Force Yacht Club, introduced his members who had been part of the group. As
Chairman of the Haven Group Mark Inkster has been involved with the project since
its inception, with the late John Beardsley
– in fact, almost before it became a project.
His vision and drive kept the project moving
forward through its many complex stages,
from the very early negotiations with the
RAFYC about the possibility of working together on a waterside development, to gaining the approval of the Members of both
Clubs through all the processes mentioned
elsewhere, to the actual construction phase
of the Haven and all that that entailed.
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After meeting the Haven Group
Prince Philip met representatives of the
Hampshire-based contractors who had
worked on the project. They explained
some of the technical and practical
complexities of the eight month building project which had brought about
all our new facilities, ashore and on the
water, creating enhanced berthing facili-
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ties for Members and visitors. The Haven includes a much-needed disabled
persons access, an ecologically sound
‘living wall’ for invertebrates and, overall, the development will provide added
flood protection to the village of Hamble. Prince Philip then unveiled a commemorative plaque before taking lunch
with Members.
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experience for many Members as the new
steps and doors provided, for the first time,
direct access from the waterside and the new
Quarter Deck. Nearly 200 Members and
guests sat down to a luncheon which was
based on local produce, from the starter to
the Hampshire cheese board. The diners
consumed over 70 bottles of Mâcon-Lugny,
50 bottles of Château de Fleurie, 45 bottles of
the Club Champagne, Joseph Perrier Cuvée
Royal Brut, which was used for the toasts,
and one bottle of Bishop’s Finger.
Luncheon finished just after 1500 when,
appropriately, His Royal Highness departed
from the Prince Philip Yacht Haven in T.H.
No.1 Boat, a tender to T.H.V. Galatea, escorted by the Harbour Master’s launches. The
celebrations continued and thanks were due
to the Haven Group, the Club staff and the
Haven contractors for delivering a perfect
climax to a long, and challenging project.
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NOW WE’RE OPEN
FOR BUSINESS
All photography courtesy of Mike Austen
The past eight months have been some
of the most momentous in the Club’s
history and it has been impossible to
ignore the ground-breaking activities
that have been revealed, almost daily,
around us. Unless we have all been
sleepwalking, we have seen things
happening that will impact on the life
of the Club and all its Members and
visitors for many years to come. While
the focus of attention has quite rightly
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been on the consignment of the failing Quay Wall to history and watching
its replacement and the Prince Philip
Yacht Haven grow out of our Hamble
mud, it has not escaped the notice of
the House Committee that these momentous changes and improvements
have resulted in new and improved
shoreside facilities.
Our ground and property may have
been secured, but our task now is to secure
our trading future by recognising new opportunities and maximising our new facilities to the best advantage. So, let us take a
gentle meander around the Club and review
the changes that have already taken place,
but also set a vision for the future.
Those with long memories will recall that once, entrance to the Club was
through the little blue door, on the south
facade of the cottages. Leave it to port and
pass through the Ron Rogers Gate. You
have now reached the 80 square metres of
Terrace beside the River Room, sometimes
in danger of subsidence, but now shored up
and smartly paved, with a new wall to the
south which should prevent further flooding. Tear yourself away from the delights of
the Member’s Bar and it is difficult to think
of a better place to begin a balmy summer
evening than sitting on the South Terrace
with a refreshing beverage in hand and a
menu of great dishes to choose from. Our
River Room is arguably the prime dining
location on the Hamble and indeed, a celebrity chef who viewed it suggested that he
would donate his eye teeth to operate from
this location. Perhaps we don’t always appreciate what we’ve got.
The flag pole has a new base on the corner of the River Room Terrace, but past it,
our original Pier has been given a new lease
of life. No longer merely a corridor to the
landing pontoon, a repository for trolleys
and dustbins, but now 114 square metres of
decking in its own right, a great location for
Club and private functions or prize giving.
If investment were to be made in a bespoke
marquee, how good a place would this be
for music, whether a harpist or string quartet accompanying afternoon tea or a steel
band at a crew party. Our junior cadets are
using the space in Splash Week and regatta competitors will still be able to enjoy a
beer here in their sailing clothes which will
hopefully encourage them to stay in the
Club rather than decanting to the pub! It’s
all about how we sell it and ourselves.
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and the Warsash shore beyond. Secondly,
the Quarter Deck itself can be covered with
a marquee for bigger parties and our Summer Ball, giving as much accommodation as
the tented car park used to, and with a lot
less disturbance to the Club. Service will be
much easier for our staff and it is hoped to
create a new bar in the corner of the Dining
Room. Very short pipes, which should please
our knowledgeable beer drinkers.
The old concrete spiral stairway linking
the Pier and the balconies above has bitten
the dust, to be replaced by a much simpler
stairway running north/south along the
east frontage of the River Room. Past this is
the truly fantastic new Quarter Deck. To be
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strictly accurate, we have never had a Quarter Deck before so it probably isn’t new in
that sense at all, but what a spectacular area
and with what possibilities. Approximately
300 square metres of level paving, bordered
outboard by elegant polished stainless steel
stanchions and capping rail and inboard
by new brick planters. Amidships, we now
have a stairway leading up to new double
glass doors giving directly on to the South
Dining Room.
This piece of the development is inspired
and its advantages are twofold. Firstly, the
doors allow so much more natural light
into the Dining Room that the area within is
transformed and now give diners an uninterrupted view out over our yachts to the river
The Club has been fortunate in recent years to attract some valuable and
active sponsors as it will in the future
and our responsibility is to assist them
in promoting themselves and their products whilst their events are taking place.
The most obvious facet of this is in the
opportunities that we offer for branding
and the perimeters of the new deck areas
are prime real estate for that purpose. We
are already known around the world for
the excellence of our race management,
competitive regattas, cruising, youth and
academy programmes and our social hospitality, and the Club is now able, with the
commissioning of the Prince Philip Yacht
Haven with its extensively remodelled water frontage and shore facilities, to offer
the very best host location.
We look forward to a beautiful summer and as many of you as possible visiting
the Club, so come and enjoy what it has
to offer. Whether for Members or visiting
yachtsmen and women, the Royal Southern is open for business.
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as land which the Royal Southern has leased
from The Crown Estates. The cost of obtaining
planning and implementing all the conditions
has been borne by both Clubs. The RAFYC have
also contributed to the cost of dredging and construction and there has been a land ‘swap’.
The RAFYC have transferred their land to the
Royal Southern so that the Club now owns all of
the foreshore in front of the Club. The new RAFYC pontoon is built on Royal Southern owned
land, which is leased back to the RAFYC. The
pontoon is accessed by a new path at the northern end of the Royal Southern car park. This has
been fenced off from the rest of the car park, is lit
at night, and provides the RAFYC with private
access to their pontoon direct from their Club.
The Clubs have worked together over a period of years to achieve this outcome and we are
grateful to the RAFYC for their co-operation and
enthusiasm in bringing this project into a reality.
This was reflected in Members of both Clubs attending the RAFYC ‘soft opening’ and both Clubs
being open to all Members to view the progress.
The two Clubs will continue to work together
on future maintenance dredging as part of an
operations plan for the Yacht Haven. A pleasant
and unexpected consequence of the liaison over
the construction of the Haven is that the Clubs
have enjoyed a number of joint events over the
recent years and this forms a firm basis for future
co-operation.
NEIGHBOURS
The Royal Southern and the Royal Air Force
Yacht Club (RAFYC) have been neighbours
for longer than the residents of Ramsay
Street and long before Kylie Minogue and
Jason Donovan became household names.
In fact they have been neighbours for nearly
seventy years when the RAFYC moved from
Calshot to Riverside House, the original
name for their Clubhouse, in1952.
Although such close neighbours, and with
intermingling land holdings for a significant part
of that time – the RAFYC owned the pontoon
which they had been using plus the river bed underneath and the bridgehead which was accessed
by the path between the north and the south car
parks – the Clubs have never worked as closely
together as they have for the development of the
Prince Philip Yacht Haven. Without this close cooperation the Haven would not have been built.
This was acknowledged by Commodore David
LeMare in the RAFYC’s ‘soft opening’ when he
toasted the work of Mark Inkster, former Commodore RSrnYC and Ian Redsell, former Commodore RAFYC.
Prior to the development of the Yacht Haven
the arrangements could have been described as
somewhat bizarre with RAFYC having no direct
access to their pontoon from their Clubhouse
and the Royal Southern’s pontoons being separated by the RAFYC’s pontoon.
Following tentative initial approaches and
protracted negotiations the Clubs applied jointly
for planning permission as the haven is built on
land that was owned by both of the Clubs as well
ABOVE RAFYC Commodore David
LeMare with RSrnYC Past Commodore
and Chairman of the Haven Group
Mark Inkster
CENTRE Past Commodore Ian
Redsell on the left with Members
RIGHT Great jackets,
great music, great day
FAR RIGHT The RAFYC pontoons
and private access walkway from
their Clubhouse
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SAM’S RAMP
‘Family’ means different things to different
people. From the comfort of blood relatives
in the earliest years, to the friends made and
grown up with in formative years at school
or club, to the regiment that commands loyalty and respect in later life. Each offers a
lifeline to reality and each has its place. Sam
Alexander was lucky enough to experience
all of these families.
Born in 1983 into a yachting family and raised
in Hamble, it was inevitable that he would experiment with sailing and his immediate conduit was
the newly formed Royal Southern’s Splash Club,
of which he became an original Member. Love of
the sea, zest for life and courage marked him out
as someone just a bit special and worth watching
and he blossomed afloat and ashore and many
of his Splasher peer group remember him fondly
as someone who pushed the boundaries, with a
talent for not getting caught.
Sailing was fun, but it was a sense of duty
and adventure that led him to join the Royal
Marines in 2006 and his tour in Afghanistan two
years later revealed all those same characteristics
of zest and courage. Courage, that in the face of
heavy enemy fire that threatened to decimate his
Company, he demonstrated such leadership and
coolness that having saved his comrades, he was
awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. Ever
modest and by then a husband to Claire and father to Leo, he was on his second tour with Juliet Company 42 Commando in Helmand when
on 29 May 2011, an improvised explosive device
took his life and that of his patrol leader.
Four years later, almost to the day, Serena
and Sam’s families, of all kinds, gathered at the
Royal Southern to remember him in ways that
would have given him much pleasure and not a
little amusement, including dedicating the newly
installed launching facility, Sam’s Ramp.
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The sun shone, the Club was festooned with
blue balloons and dressed overall when Members and friends gathered on the new Quarter
Deck and Upper Balcony in anticipation of the
commissioning ceremony. Eyes were focused
on Warsash from where Lt Chris Hobley was to
lead representatives of Juliet Company 42 Commando in 4 Gemini RIBs. They had earlier held
a short ceremony of remembrance for their predecessors who stepped off from Warsash Pier on
5 June 1944 for the D-Day landings and who are
commemorated by a memorial on the quay in the
shape of a landing craft bow.
LEFT HAND PAGE Sam’s Ramp in
action. Splashers alongside one of the
Royal Marine’s Zodiac fast-attack boats
BELOW A full complement
watching the proceedings aboard
Bonnie of Dartmouth
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Subsequently Serena commented with sentiments which were echoed by all; “For my family,
it was a deeply moving occasion in celebration of
Sam’s life and courage. Having the corps there to
pay tribute to him in such a heartfelt fashion was
exceptional, and one that has touched us tremendously. It gave us a great sense of pride, not just
for Sam but for whole Royal Marine family who
have honoured him so gloriously and continue to
put themselves at risk for the sake of others.
Lt Col Cantrill’s words about how important
it is for the young to develop a sense of adventure, independence of spirit and confidence truly
emphasises that what we are doing today is for
the benefit of others in the future and, on this occasion, particularly for the young people who are
our tomorrow.”
Then they were visible – four Zodiac fast attack black craft making a high speed surge up the
river in company with the Harbour Master. They
stormed the ramp and yacht haven before securing the Clubhouse. There was no resistance from
the Members.
They were welcomed by the Commodore and
RM Padre David Wylie then conducted a short
service of dedication. Pam Mansfield, who as
well as being the Commodore’s wife was a former Splash leader, recalled Sam’s mischievous
pranks at Splash. Lt. Col. Richard Cantrill OBE
MC RM, Sam’s Commanding Officer who coincidentally received his MC in the same ceremony
as Sam, gave a moving address in which he reiterated the importance of families, of all kind, and
the value of the skills and confidence gained by
children participating in sports such as sailing.
Pam Mansfield then unveiled a plaque in memory of Sam as his sister Sophie, also a former
splasher, christened the ramp with champagne.
Following a reading of a short poem by Vicky
McPherson, one of Sam’s fellow splashers, and
a hearty rendition of ‘We Are Sailing’ the ramp
was opened by a procession of dinghies being
launched alongside a now deserted Gemini RIB.
Refreshments followed and everyone was able to
enjoy the new facilities including the small boys
who found the Marines’ guns fascinating. The
day was summarised by Padre David Wylie who
said, “that was the most positive memorial I have
ever attended.”
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The Royal Marines securing the Prince
Philip Yacht Haven and the Clubhouse
with no resistance from the Members!
ABOVE Serena Alexander, Sam’s mother
ABOVE CENTRE Vicky McPherson
with Canon Peter Vargeson
FAR LEFT & LEFT Lt Col Richard
Cantrill OBE MC RM, Sam’s CO, and
Royal Marine Padre David Wylie
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March saw C Squadron deploy on ‘Exercise
Tractable’ as part of 1st Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment Battlegroup to practice and demonstrate
their ability to deploy ready for operations, on
Salisbury plain in this case. As ever, C Squadron
proved the KRH to be a welcome asset to any
Battlegroup. The exercise ended with a Combined Arms Demonstration on Salisbury Plain,
which allowed C Squadron to show off their capabilities to several thousand spectators. For the
rest of the regiment the key event for March was
the deployment to Germany; giving Battlegroup
Headquarters the opportunity to plan and execute operations in a virtual environment.
The first two weeks of April allowed the Regiment to put their feet up and take a deep breath
after a busy first quarter of the year. Easter marked
the end of our time as the Lead Armoured Battlegroup and, following leave, there was a Battlefield
Tour to Monte Cassino, which included commemorating the 70th anniversary of the battle of
Medicina (a Regimental Battle Honour just outside of Bologna), where we paraded through the
town and were hosted by the town at a dinner.
We are now looking forward to the celebrations of the KRH’s Tercentenary. The celebrations will focus on the weekend of 18 July and
include the Regiment parading before HRH The
Princess Royal, our Colonel in Chief, on 18 July,
a living history demonstration of the Regiment’s
three hundred years and an evening of dinner and
dancing for the entire Regiment and its friends.
In addition there was a Freedom of Winchester
march on Thursday 9 July.
KINGS ROYAL HUSSARS
OUR 400 YEARS
The Regiment returned to Tidworth in January and continued in its role as the Army’s
Lead Armoured Battlegroup. Despite being
at high readiness there was plenty for each
squadron to be getting on with, fulfilling a
myriad of military and other activities. On
the military side of life, A Squadron took on
12 tanks from The Royal Tank Regiment,
which gave the soldiers and officers plenty
of time to go about their core business. Battlegroup Headquarters completed the first
of several planning exercises; a chance for
the command element of the Regiment to
practice its ability to plan operations. Away
from the military side of things the Alpine
and Nordic Ski teams moved from their pre
Christmas training camps and took part in
several competitions.
February kicked off with C Squadron deploying on ranges in Lulworth to practice and prove
themselves as masters of their trade, ready to
take up the high readiness baton as part of the
1st Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment Battlegroup in
April. The rest of the month saw every Squadron deploying its own capability, in the form of a
squadron of tanks or command vehicles, to support a number of different exercises.
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EDWARD
LEASK
AWARDED
OBE
& RYA
VOLUNTEER
AWARD
Royal Southern Member Edward Leask has
been awarded a Royal Yachting Association
(RYA) Community Award for Outstanding
Contribution, in addition to his OBE. Announced in the Queen’s Birthday Honours,
Edward received his OBE for Sailing, Young
People and Philanthropy.
Sir Ben Ainslie commented, “Edward Leask
has made a real impact on the sailing scene, an
Olympic sailor himself he had the foresight to
help initiate the development of the Weymouth
and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA). He is a key player in ensuring the sports
venue has a successful and sustained legacy following 2012. His title is well deserved; Edward
has earned this through a lifelong commitment
to bettering the sport of sailing in the UK.”
Edward attended his OBE investiture at
Windsor Castle with a presentation by the Duke
of Cambridge last Autumn and in November was
recognised by the Royal Yachting Association for
his exceptional voluntary contribution to the sport
of sailing, with a presentation by HRH Princess
Anne at Westminster. Sarah Treseder Chief Executive of the Royal Yachting Association said, “Edward unreservedly gave his time, money, energy
and expertise to develop WPNSA into a world
class venue that maximises the legacy of 2012 for
both the local and wider sailing communities. I’m
delighted that he has accepted an RYA Outstanding Contribution Award in recognition of his contribution and lasting achievement.”
A twice Olympian himself, Edward has offered his services to the Academy ever since its
inception during 2000, “I am truly honoured to
be named for such prestigious awards, my work
alongside the Weymouth and Portland National
Sailing Academy has been exceptionally rewarding, and I look forward to continuing to encourage the sport and legacy agenda for young people
in years to come”.
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Both awards mark Edward’s involvement with
the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy where he was Chairman from 2007 through
to 2013. This time frame included the development
of the Academy into the sailing competition venue
for the Olympic and Paralympic Games as well as
delivering a strong legacy agenda.
The double award winner also continued to
deliver excellent results on the water last season
finishing 4th overall in the ORC Class as 1st Swan
42 at Copa del Rey MAPFRE and an outstanding 2nd in class at the Rolex Swan Cup. The exOlympian raced alongside his son Magnus and
invited new Royal Southern youngsters, Youth
Captain Will Goldsmith, and Sebastian Samways to the crew. Performing excellently amongst
the likes of other Royal Southern Members Jer-
emy Robinson, Ed Dyer, Dan Saltmarsh and Annabel Vose they made a fantastic young addition
to the Magical Mystery Tour Swan 42 team.
Eddie Warden Owen, CEO, Royal Ocean
Racing Club, spoke about Edward’s double
award and current race performance. “I have
known Edward for over 40 years having first met
up with him during our Olympic sailing campaigns. I have followed his progress both as a
friend and competitor and admired the way he
has used his knowledge of sailing and business
acumen to develop the sport and ensure a legacy
for our youngsters. It is an outstanding achievement to be awarded such a high accolade and it
is well deserved. His roots are very much in British yachting and Edward still competes internationally at a top level today, racing his yacht with
his family”.
Edward is now looking ahead to flying the
flag for the Royal Southern in 2015.
Cailah Leask
LAUNCHING
WETWHEELS
HAMBLE
For nearly 30 years, Honorary Club Member
Geoff Holt MBE has been a passionate supporter of getting less-able people onto the water. He supported the planning application for
the Prince Philip Yacht Haven by sharing his
years of experience of making facilities fully
accessible and spoke eloquently to the Local Area Committee, who were determining
whether to approve the application, of his vision for the provision of fully accessible facilities on the Hamble, his home river.
TOP LEFT Geoff Holt, Fiona
Pankhurst, Mr and Mrs John Ely, John
Caulcutt and Elaine Caulcutt
RIGHT HAND PAGE CENTRE
Andy Fell (Foundation Chairman),
David Mead, Commodore Chris
Mansfield, Dick Long and Karen Reid
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Two years ago Geoff founded his latest project – Wetwheels, a fully accessible, purpose-built
power catamaran that takes people of all abilities
and all ages on the water. The charity currently has
two boats, one based in Portsmouth and the other
in Jersey, but is looking to Hamble to be home for
their third boat.
Geoff says; “I could not have imagined what
a success Wetwheels would be when we launched
her. Wetwheels isn’t about taking disabled and
disadvantaged people for a ride, it is about giving
them an element of control in their life which, in
turn, improves self confidence and gives a greater
sense of well-being.
“There are more than 200 sailing charities in
the UK but we are the only motor boating charity where everyone has the opportunity to drive
a fully coded power catamaran, even wheelchair
users. That is not because demand for sailing is
200 times greater; it is because no-one has previously stopped to consider the huge numbers
of people who either can’t, or prefer not to, get
afloat on a sailing boat – it is these people who
have previously been denied the opportunity to
get afloat. Wetwheels is changing that imbalance
by providing these opportunities and demand is
more than we can currently cater for.”
Geoff continues; “Wetwheels enhances the
communities where we operate; both Jersey and
Portsmouth boats each taking 1,000 local people
onto the water each year. Hamble is at the epicentre of boating in the UK, some would say the
world. So it is only fair that disabled and disad-
vantaged people of all ages in Hamble should also
have the opportunity to get afloat and to see first
hand, our wonderful river and coastal waters.”
Wetwheels is not merely a pleasure trip boat.
She is fully MCA coded Cat 2 and operated with
a commercially endorsed powerboat skipper. As
such, she can be used to deliver RYA training as
well as a number of other water-based experiences like fishing, sea safaris and other educational
activities. Like the other boats, Wetwheels Hamble
will work with local schools, care homes, day
centres and other like-minded charities to give
everyone in the community access to the water.
She can also be used for Club duties and enabling less mobile Members to participate in race
management and on-water committee duties.
Friday 19 June saw the Wetwheels Foundation, in conjunction with Hampshire Constabulary, launch its fundraising campaign to bring
one of its vessels to the Royal Southern. The
Portsmouth based boat took junior carers from
Hamble School and visitors from Revitalise in
Netley, which provides respite care in a holiday
setting for disabled people and carers. out on the
water from the Prince Philip Yacht Haven.
Wetwheels Hamble will be operated by an independent not-for-profit group and a working
group is being set up to deliver the project. If you
are interested in being involved, please contact
geoff@geoffholt.com. To donate to the Wetwheels
Hamble campaign visit: www.campaign.justgiving.com/charity/wetwheelsfoundation/hamble
Commodore Chris Mansfield confirms that
the Royal Southern is right behind the project;
“The Club is proud that Wetwheels Hamble will
be based at the Prince Philip Yacht Haven. Our
commitment to getting less-abled and disadvantaged people of all ages onto the water pre-dates
and goes far beyond the legal obligations placed
upon us and I am sure that Club Members will
do all they can to help Geoff turn these plans into
a reality, fully supported by the Royal Southern
Yacht Club.”
This is a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate our Club’s commitment to the local community and, in so doing, to be the hub of inclusive boating activity on the Hamble. If you can
help in any way, please do get in touch.
www.wetweels.co.uk
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RECIPROCAL CLUBS
Article by John Walker
Reciprocity is the process of developing cooperation between people or organisations
of equal standing, to their mutual benefit.
Originally coined in the 15th. century and
primarily referring to military and commercial relationships between nation or city
states with their own armies and navies, the
mechanism was riddled with protocols and
often a smidgen of danger.
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In the world of yachting, it was and remains
a loose yet agreeable understanding offering hospitality to members of Clubs of similar standing.
Cruising yachtsmen of one Club could find a
sympathetic bolt-hole in another, to which they
could repair whilst on their grand passages about
the world. There, they could expect to find similar facilities to their own, but as important, similar people. It’s a comfort thing.
When in 1854, our erstwhile Commodore,
Lord Cardigan, made passage for the Dardanelles
in his steam yacht, Dryad, en route for the Crimea
to make common cause with the Ottoman Turks,
French and Sardinian-Piedmontese armies to do
a little light jousting with Ivan, he might have put
into various ports along the way to take on victuals, water and bed warmers. He may also have
taken the odd libation with various European
princelings, ambassadors and archdukes that he
happened across, in appropriate surroundings. If
the surroundings and company were appropriate
enough, the Earl would have extended an invitation to his new chums to enjoy a return match on
British soil. Reciprocating the hospitality.
Introductions were normally initiated and/or
conducted by the Commodores or Flag Officers
of the Clubs concerned and while the practicalities of reciprocity have remained largely unchanged over the decades, the modus operandi
for establishing reciprocal arrangements has
become more relaxed, though it is still totally dependent upon personal relationships and shared
values and traditions.
The Royal Southern shares full reciprocity
with 51 other Clubs and apart from 20 English
clubs, the list includes 5 in Australia, 4 each in
Ireland and Scotland, 3 in France and 1 each in
Barbados, Bermuda, Denmark, Germany, Hong
Kong, India, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and South Africa. Since 2010, the
Clubs’ membership of the International Council
Of Yacht Clubs (ICOYC) has opened up avenues
of correspondent relationship with 20 other clubs
around the world, some of which may evolve into
full reciprocal status. The Club also has Special
Affiliate arrangements with the King’s Royal
Hussars and HMS Blazer.
The business of reciprocity is covered in detail within Items 25-29 in the Club’s Articles Of
Association, which state that : any Member of
certain clubs with whom reciprocal arrangements
have been made (a list of such clubs, approved by
the Executive Committee, being kept by the Secretary) may be authorised by the Secretary to use
the Club premises without payment for a period
or periods not exceeding 14 days in the aggregate
in any one year. Members of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club shall not, however (subject
to any resolution from time to time made by the
Executive Committee to the contrary) be so limited in such use of the premises.
The Secretary is empowered to invite owners of yachts visiting the Hamble River and their
friends on board to use the Club premises and
any Member, or Honorary Member can obtain
from the Secretary a card of invitation for the
same purpose. The names and addresses of those
persons using the Club premises in pursuance of
the Byelaws shall be entered in the book provided
for the purpose. Intoxicating liquor may be sold
in accordance with the licensing act 2003. There
is more, of course, but basic common sense governs what is on offer and the Secretary is the repository for all of it.
So much for our hospitality to others, but
what of their hospitality to us? It is fair to say
that every club has a slightly different take on
protocol but in the same way that we offer advice
to others on subjects as essentially wide ranging
as moorings, accommodation, dining, bar service, dress code, flag etiquette, gratuities, damage, dogs, mobile telephones, smoking policy,
car parking, insurance, liability and payment, our
reciprocals have all supplied us with their advisories. Generally, guidance on these can be had
from the Secretary and the most cogent of the
guidelines is that should we, as Members of the
Royal Southern, wish to visit a reciprocal Club in
a foreign port, it is essential to obtain a letter of
introduction from our Secretary, to be presented
to theirs upon arrival. Just politeness really.
However you view it and whether or not you
ever use reciprocal facilities, it is a good and proper
thing to maintain the oldest tradition of our Club,
to welcome and be welcomed by our peers. Since
the publication of the Members Book, a number
of new reciprocal arrangements have been consummated and here are some of the Clubs that
have joined this elite group most recently?
IDA LEWIS YACHT CLUB
Newport Rhode Island may be the sailing outstation of the New York Yacht Club, but just
across the bay is the less well known Ida Lewis
Yacht Club. Ms. Idawalley Zorada Lewis followed her father as keeper of Newport Harbour’s
Lime Rock Light Station and became forever
famous for the 18 lives that she saved. Adept at
handling the heavy gig, as well as being the best
swimmer in Newport, in 1881, the US Lifesaving Service reported that she had been presented
with the highest medal awarded by the Service.
Lime Rock Lighthouse, located in the eastern
part of Brenton Cove, became the Ida Lewis Lighthouse and in 1928, the buildings there were sold for
$7,200 and became the clubhouse for the Ida Lewis
Yacht Club, formed that same year. A 300ft. long
walkway was constructed to connect the Club to
Wellington Avenue and the burgee features 18 stars,
one for each soul that Ida had saved.
Today, the Club has 385 family memberships,
20 young adults and 100 juniors, with a waiting
list of candidates in all categories and has active
Cruising, Junior, Racing and Adult sailing divisions. The clubhouse perches on stilts on the
rock and is open from mid-May to mid-October,
plus Friday evenings throughout the winter.
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POOLE
POOLE
YACHT
YACHT
CLUB
CLUB
Founded in 1865 as a sailing club for artisan
sailors and crew, the Hamworthy Sailing Club,
latterly the Hamworthy & Bournemouth Sailing
Club or as it was more familiarly known, the Ham
& Bone, originally occupied old wooden railway
carriages on Poole Harbour. It was recorded in
1934 that the Commodore’s 38 ton Bristol Pilot
Cutter could accommodate the full membership
afloat if required. In 1935 the Club purchased a
cottage as clubhouse and, in an inspired piece of
lateral thinking, in 1938 Sir T.O.M. Sopwith was
invited to become an honorary member so that
the Club’s total tonnage met the Admiralty’s requirement for a Warrant.
As the commercial development of the harbour approached the Club saw an opportunity to
improve and secure its position and in 1984 moved
into a new facility above Poole bridge, which was
further extended in 2010, by this time benefitting
from a 999 years lease from the Harbour Commissioners and a 350-berth yacht haven alongside. Now with more than 1,500 members, the
Club has active Junior & Youth, Cruising, Racing
and Classic Craft divisions and favours dinghies
and smaller shoal draft cruiser/racers.
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ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED
YACHT CLUB
In October 1867, the Sydney Morning Herald
carried an advertisement from the Mosquito
Yacht Club soliciting new members and the resultant meeting elected to form the Prince Alfred
Yacht Club, a name chosen to commemorate
the forthcoming visit of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. When His Royal Highness sailed into
Port Jackson aboard HMS Galatea, it was between yachts drawn from the Royal Sydney Yacht
Squadron and Prince Alfred Yacht Club and in
1911, the Club got its Royal Warrant. The Club
relocated to Green Point, Pittwater and a clubhouse was opened in 1938 by the Governor General of NSW and Honorary Commodore, Lord
Wakehurst. Yachting ceased during WW2 but by
1957, the sport was on the increase and the Club
grew in numbers and a marina for 52 yachts was
commissioned in 1962, as was a hard standing
for a fleet of 5.5 metres.
By 1968, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh had
laid the foundation stone for a bigger clubhouse
and joined Members for lunch and over the next
decade development in Sydney allowed the Club
to expand its waterside facilities and the current
clubhouse was supplemented by four marina
arms and additional hard standing. As might be
expected, today the Club runs active divisions for
youth, cruising and racing disciplines and a more
recent initiative has been the establishment of Integrated disAbled Sailing (IdS), which provides
financial and other support to integrate sailors
with disabilities into the Club’s regular sailing
programme, as well as supporting the volunteer
based Sailability organisation. London Paralympic gold medallists, Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl
Tesch are ‘ambassadors’ for IdS.
ROYAL FRESHWATER
BAY YACHT CLUB
Formed in 1896 as the Freshwater Bay Yacht Club
with a modest jetty and small clubhouse, 119
years later and with its Royal Warrant, the Club
enjoys a proud history of local, state, national
and world championships and Olympic golds
and continues to thrive and prosper. Half a dozen
miles from the Indian Ocean, in its original picturesque location on Perth’s Swan River, in 1997
the Club was first in Western Australia to establish a fully accredited sail training school which
has seen over 10,000 participants pass through.
Today, Pacer, Optimist, Laser and 420 dinghies
give the grounding, plus an Etchells development
fleet to take young sailors on to keelboat classes,
of which the Club’s Bakewell-White 8-Metre,
Dragons and Flying Fifteens all play a part. These
fleets race predominantly in the river but spawn a
very strong fraternity of ocean racers.
The Club is also now home to the newly established High Performance sailing programme, in
partnership with the Western Australian Institute
of Sport and Yachting Australia. The Club’s marina can accommodate 325 boats, supplemented
by numerous moorings and a separate dinghy/
junior facility and the grounds and launching beach are the envy of many. Member
areas within the clubhouse take full advantage of the panoramic views of the river and
fuelling, cranage, slipway and shipwright services
are available. A Club is more than its facilities
and the Royal Freshwater Bay ensures that its
atmosphere is always welcoming.
ROYAL FOWEY
YACHT CLUB
The Royal Fowey’s antecedents can be traced back
to 1880, when a Club was formed to facilitate the
association of gentlemen who wish to enjoy the
social advantages of a club ‘without political bias’,
but was wound up after nine years with most of
its members joining the Fowey Club. Amongst
early Honorary Secretaries was ‘Q’, aka Sir Arthur
Quiller-Couch, a Bodmin man, a prolific novelist
and poet and Minutes and descriptions of yacht
races can be found in his handwriting. In 1894,
the Club was renamed the ‘Fowey Yacht Club, the
subscription was two guineas and a whisky and
soda cost just 6 old pennies.
In 1898, work began on the present clubhouse, opened that August, with an ‘at home’
and the first of its own regattas followed the next
day by the usual Fowey Royal Regatta. 1905 saw
permission granted for the Club to incorporate
the Coronet of the Duke of Cornwall over the
shield of the Duchy of Cornwall and in 1907, the
use of the prefix ‘Royal’. Located in one of the
UK’s most secure harbours, the clubhouse has
an enviable waterfront position and is open to
members and visiting yachtsmen. The Club has
a full programme of sailing races and plays a full
part with others in promoting and organising the
Fowey Royal Regatta.
ROYAL NEW ZEALAND
YACHT SQUADRON
Founded in 1871 as the Auckland Yacht Club,
but without any regular headquarters until 1898,
as the colony of New Zealand developed, so did
the Club. It had already absorbed members of the
Hauraki Yacht Club, before changing its name to
New Zealand Yacht Squadron in 1901 and latterly, to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in
1902, when it was granted a Royal Warrant. The
Club shares with the Royal Southern the honour
of HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh,
K.G., K.T. as Patron.
New Zealand’s senior yacht club, the RNZYS
has an enormous reputation on the sailing scene
which ensures that it occupies a position of high
prestige both nationally and internationally. The Club houses a collection of
half-models of some of the most distinguished yachts in New Zealand’s history, all of
which have worn the Squadron’s burgee at the
highest level of competition and the trophy cabinets are evidence of members’ skill and prowess
in major regattas around the world. The Whitbread Trophy, Admiral’s Cup, Kenwood Cup,
Half, One and Two Ton Cups, Sydney-Hobart
Race and the Champagne Mumm World Cup
have all been won by Squadron representatives
and Team New Zealand’s successes in San Diego, Auckland and Valencia are recognised. Situated in one of Auckland’s best locations at the
Westhaven Marina complex, the Squadron has
active racing, cruising and youth programmes.
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ROYAL MELBOURNE YACHT SQUADRON
In the 1870’s, a group of fisherfolk and sailors
from St. Kilda on the Victoria coast began sailing together and inevitably formed the St. Kilda
Sailing Club which, by the turn of the last century
had gathered around 200 members and 25 yachts
on the register. Early applications to build a ‘club
One of Australia’s premier yacht clubs overlooking the Manly Boat Harbour, the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron is proud of its long history
which stretches back over 125 years and still to
this day is the place for boaties to meet, compete
and socialise. The Squadron has evolved into a
multi-faceted organisation and members, some
third and fourth generation families, enjoy a
comprehensive range of facilities, both on and off
the water. Power or sail, recreational or competitive it’s all here, with some of the best facilities in
the world on offer, in an ideal location with four
rigging lawns and launching ramps, so getting on
the water has never been easier. Every season the
Squadron is the focus for many national and international regattas and their signature event, the
Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race is an annual event and the Club offers a comprehensive
range of sailing related activities.
Children and adults are taught to sail in a
fun, safe, supervised environment and further
development training for sailors who want to
race competitively is offered including weekend
shed’ had been rebuffed, but this eventually went
ahead in 1885 and by 1924, the year in which the
Club was granted its Royal Warrant, membership
had increased to 284. It was in 1961 that the Club
changed its title to the Royal Melbourne Yacht
Squadron, by which time it had already provided
the control centre for the 1956 Olympic Yachting
Regatta and in 1999, organised the Laser Worlds.
Its 140 years of life have seen a long list of historical firsts and the Club now boasts Melbourne’s
newest marina, with 250 slips accommodating
vessels up to 25 metres LOA, making it a regional
centre for aquatic events, including the Australian
Women’s Keelboat Regatta. It hosts a broad spectrum of events including year-round keelboat racing and training programmes, cruising, learn to sail
programmes for adults and children, junior off-thebeach sailing and powerboat handling and driver
licensing courses. The Club won the 2014 Yachting
Victoria Yacht Club Of The Year award and in December 2015, hosts the ISAF World Cup.
SANDRINGHAM
SANDRINGHAM
YACHT CLUB
The Club’s history can be traced back to the Port
Phillip Yacht Club (PPYC), which was originally
established in 1903 at Picnic Point, situated on
the foreshore of Port Phillip Bay, presenting
world class sporting and event facilities right
on the water’s edge. SYC’s current membership
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ROYAL QUEENSLAND YACHT SQUADRON
competitive sailing for “off-the-beach” dinghies,
Etchells and ocean racers. Sail & Play programmes conducted during school holidays for
7-12 year olds who think sailing, raft building,
knots, island adventures, sailing science, kites,
team building and navigation sounds like a load
of fun and the Club has a team of friendly, helpful volunteers who provide excellent on-water
and on-land management for racing and major
regattas. Powerboaties can enjoy the sport of
predicted logging while our Cruising Groups –
power and sail – are a great way to meet new
people and sail the beautiful waters of Moreton
Bay and beyond.
SEATTLE YACHT CLUB
is 2,500 members and their 340-berth floating
marina, boating academy, waterfront support
services, newly built clubhouse and reciprocal
privileges with yacht clubs worldwide, offers Melbourne sailors an incomparable membership opportunity. Whether you’re an experienced hand
or exploring a new venture to discover the sea,
SYC welcomes you and Members enjoy a lively
club atmosphere thanks to year round industry
events, boating activities and sailing regattas.
Weekend racing and junior coaching programs
combined with local and international regattas
have firmly established the Club’s reputation as
one of the best sailing clubs in Australia. Keelboat
racing takes to the bay up to four times a week,
providing wonderful social and skill development
opportunities for everyone, while the Off the Beach
Sailing Centre focuses on dinghy sailing opportunities through a structured pathway and highly
active sailing program. They also frequently run
relaxed lunch cruises and fishing competitions
for everyone to enjoy. Facilities include a 40 tonne
travel lift, 30 boat storage slipway, twp 3-tonne
cranes, all-tide launching ramp, fuelling, chandlery
and shipwrights and electricians.
Founded in 1892, Seattle is one of the
USA’s most active and long-established
yacht clubs. With facilities ranging from the historic main station on Portage Bay, to ten outstations located along the shores of Washington
and British Columbia, the Club offers an outstanding group of properties for use by its members. The history of the Club is tied in with the
history of pleasure boating and yacht racing in
the Pacific Northwest. Starting from early sites
along Elliott Bay and West Seattle, the Club attracted a broad mix of racers and cruisers and
grew rapidly as the region developed in the early
1900s. The current home on Portage Bay was
built in 1920 and is today listed in the National
Register of Historic Places. Activities at the Club
have flourished along with the growing membership, and today, includes events as diverse
as aviation, dance, and book clubs, along with a
broad range of boating interests.
The Club is now home to more than 2,500
members and hosts a world-class junior sailing program which has given a start to numerous Olympians and generations of Northwest
sailors. Opening Day, the Club’s annual spring
celebration, is the region’s premier on-the-water party and Seattle maintains reciprocity with
more than 400 other boating groups around
the world and enjoys membership in the Pacific
International Yachting Association and the International Powerboat Association. SYC is recognized among the leading yacht clubs of the
world, and members can take pride in both its
prestige and its vibrant community.
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ROYAL TEMPLE
ROYAL TEMPLE
YACHT CLUB
The Club was founded in 1857 by yachtsmen sailing and racing from the Temple
Steps in central London, until commercial river traffic made it too difficult and they progressed further
down river, eventually reaching Ramsgate. The clubhouse there was opened in 1896, the Royal Charter
was granted in 1897 and the Admiralty Warrant for
the Blue came one year later, with the inauguration
of Ramsgate Week Regatta which embraced Deal
and Broadstairs. In 1897, the Royal Temple historically challenged and beat the French in their own
waters at the Coupe de France at Cannes and during three years of racing, Temple yachtsmen repeatedly won and attracted much attention. Soon after,
an American team entered a yacht called America
and donated a new trophy, now known internationally as the America’s Cup.
The Clubhouse commands spectacular views
over the Ramsgate Marina, as well as the Royal
Harbour. It is also possible to catch glimpses of
the Downs, the Goodwin Sands and South Foreland, as well as the French coast on a fine day.
The club is situated at the sailing crossroads of
Europe and the club boasts a higher number of
visiting foreign yachts than any other in the country. The RTYC is well known for its hospitality and
visiting yachtsmen are always warmly welcomed
by the club as temporary members, and may use
all the clubs facilities including accommodation.
HMS BLAZER
BLAZE
R
The Club’s affiliate is a commissioned warship in
the Royal Navy and is the seventh ship to carry
the name. One of fourteen Archers Class P2000
patrol vessels and part of the 1st. Patrol Boat
Squadron, she was laid up in GRP at Watercraft
Marine in Shoreham and having been completed by Vosper Thornycroft, went down the ways
in 1998 and entered service with the University
Royal Naval Unit (URNU) in 1990. At 20 metres
LOA, she tips the scales at 50 tonnes, is powered
by twin Rolls Royce turbo-diesels and operates
with a permanent crew of five. She is primarily
dedicated to URNU training, the objective being
to provide high quality sea training experiences
to university undergraduates, developing seamanship, teambuilding and leadership skills.
The Enlightener
Wider tasking includes officer cadet training
with the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, VVIP visits and security patrols and
with a modest 1.8 metre draft, often shows the
White Ensign in places that larger vessels cannot
reach. Her Commanding Officer since 2013 has
been Lt. Nick Palmer RN, who joined the service
in 2008 with a BSc (Hons) from Exeter. After
Dartmouth, he had served variously on counternarcotics and smuggling patrols in the Indian
Ocean aboard HMS Portland and more recently
served on HMS Penzance, HMS Campbeltown
and HMS Westminster. Blazer is the URNU at
Southampton Solent University, Portsmouth
University and Southampton Institute, is currently undergoing a major refit and re-engine,
but it is hoped to welcome her and her crew to
the Yacht Haven in November.
The historic cellars of Joseph Perrier
The cellars were created by hand, in days long past,
with this unique feature which brings the light of
day into our cellars. Light which has guided us in
our craft since 1825
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RACIN
G
mley’s Aneet Djinn. That win, along with another
first and a second place, took Cor Blimey to the
top step of the podium ahead of Annie Kelly and
Andy Howe’s Black Jack II and Richard Sparrow’s Only Magic.
In IRC 2 a clean sweep gave victory to Robbie
and Lis Robinson’s Hot Rats, the First 35 holding
off the challenge presented by a gaggle of J/88s.
“The trick was that we were the only boat in
our class that wasn’t a J/88, so consequently if we
could beat one there was no reason in our minds
that we could not beat them all,’ said Robbie.
‘The crew work is excellent and we were actually
doing some training on Sunday – we didn’t have
an official bow person with us but Jo, our normal pit person, stepped up to the mark and did
foredeck. And we have an Italian crew member,
Guido, who is learning to do mast, and they both
did really well. They were getting really synchronised as a team – doing it is what teaches you.”
Contessa 32s & Cruisers
It was tight in the Contessa 32 class with Richard Vanner’s Blanco and Ray Mitchell and Sarah
Gordon’s Conspiracy tied at the top, with victory going to Blanco as winner of the final race.
Eldred Himsworth’s Drumbeat was third in the
competitive fleet.
In Cruiser Class Mike Rowlatt’s Giuliana took
two wins to finish ahead of Paul Waxman’s Imperator and Serena Alexander’s Watermark of Hamble.
VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE
The opening regatta of the year certainly delivered variety to spice up the competitors’
lives. The Harken May Regatta began with
grey skies and 30 knot gusts from the western Solent and race officers took the prudent
decision to postpone racing in the hope conditions would moderate. In the event, while
the solid breeze never eased off enough for
racing in White Group, the larger yachts in
Black were rewarded for their patience with
a single race and even some afternoon sunshine. By contrast, Sunday saw near ideal
conditions which allowed an expanded programme of four races in White Group and
the planned two in Black
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Close & Exciting IRC Racing
As ever there was close racing across the classes,
no more so than in IRC 1 where Nick Rawbone’s
Playing Around took two wins to fend off the
challenge from three J/111’s, led by Tony Mack’s
McFly and Chris Jones & Louise Makin’s JourneyMaker II followed by Cornel Riklin’s Jitterbug.
JourneyMaker II won the third race from Jitterbug
by just two seconds on corrected time and only
two points separated the first three places overall
– close racing indeed.
Giles Redpath’s Cor Blimey’s winning margin
in their third race in IRC 3 was nearly as close,
taking victory by three seconds over Peter Bro55
Cut & Thrust of the J/70s
In the J/70s two wins and two seconds gave Nigel
Evans’ Little Louise a clean margin of victory which
belied the cut and thrust evident in the class.
“It’s always very close in our fleet so any little
mistake and you get punished,’ said Nigel, adding, ‘It’s such a fun little boat it really doesn’t
matter what the conditions are – one mistake and
you can go from first to last. We got our tactics
right and it was great to get four races in on Sunday. The second race was shifty, and on the second leg some boats got a shift we never saw and
we must have dropped four or five places. But we
had some decent crew work and some luck downwind – we’ve been practicing a lot keeping the
pace on the boat when we are soaking and that
helps a lot. This is our first season racing together
and we are campaigning mostly for the Worlds
in La Rochelle in early July and then on to the
J/70 Nationals, so we are doing all the practice
we can.” Niklas Zennstrom’s Ran took second on
countback from Allan Higgs’ ESF Energy.
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Betty’s Time to Shine in the J/80s
John Powell’s Betty posted three wins on the way
to winning the J/80 class in front of Romain Paternot’s Exess and William Tahourdin’s Swallow,
both chartered from the RSrnYC Academy. Alec
Russell and Ethel went one better with four wins
in the SB20s ahead of Natalie French’s Turbulence and Gary Baker’s Trio.
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In the XODs, Andy Hamlett’s Satu took the first
win but had to give best overall to Diana Wilson’s
Mischief which won the next two.
All HARKEN May Regatta
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CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS
What a climax to my racing season and
what a prize! Two return flights, a week’s
holiday in Barbados and an
open invitation to participate in the Mount
Gay Rum Round
Barbados Race on
Monster Project, a 70
foot, full-on racing
machine. This yacht
had established a record the previous year of
4 hours 28 minutes and had
been chartered by Raphael Grisoni, who
runs Mount Gay on the Island from owners Remy Cointreau. All this was managed
by the incomparable Devon Chase from the
London office of Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. and regularly I doubted that
this could be happening, for I had only been
racing for a little over 18 months.
My own experience was as a novice owner in
the J/109 Class. I owned Tigh Soluis II, the blue
one with the Scottish Saltire on the stern. She
was a run-down 8 year-old when I bought her,
sight unseen, in 2012. Desty Marine and Stuart Miller transformed her and as a new boat,
all I needed was an experienced skipper and we
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were off; Richard Hinde-Smith was that man.
We had a good couple of seasons in 2013 and
2014 scrapping it out with a great bunch of guys
on boats like Jubilee, Jagerbomb and Jahmali to
name a few and what a great bunch to sail with. I
probably sailed 25 days each season and we had
many happy days despite the ups and downs, as
Rich and our crew taught me to hold the boat
up high going up wind and getting the feel for
the boat downwind, which they will confirm that
I never really did. I loved every minute of it.
So there I was, at the Royal Southern Yacht
Club’s annual Prizegiving in November 2014.
I was preparing to leave at the end of proceedings when the announcement was made that
they were going to award a special prize to the
winningest boat. I wondered who that might be
and honestly didn’t have an inkling. It was such
a great shock to hear my name read out as one
of the top five boats and then to be told I was
the winner. We had 8 bullets. This was special,
really special.
From the off, Devon Chase was the most
courteous of hosts as were all of the Barbadians
we came into contact with and hotel staff of the
Radisson Aquatica were nothing short of excellent. By the time we got to the Island in January we
needed a break; we had had terrible family news
in mid-November and a holiday in Barbados was
just the thing to help us through it. I walked on to
Monster Project really needing to take my mind off
things and it was like entering a new world of sailing I had never seen before. A 70 foot leviathan by
comparison with my own boat, Monster Project is
a Volvo 70 with its own Facebook page. For some
of you, this is daily fare. For me, it was heaven.
The Mount Gay Rum management team that
had chartered the boat could not have been kinder to me, treating me like family on the training
day and the race day. Skipper, Andy Budgen, and
his wonderful crew could not have been more
helpful in making me feel at home and getting
me to settle in as part of the mainsail team. This
was just a special experience for me.
On race day we quickly realised that it was
not going to be windy enough to repeat the previous years’ record run, but we set off for a day’s
sailing I will never forget. We charged around,
remember I’m comparing it to a J/109, and generally had a great time, until the genoa, which
was taking most of the strain ripped as we had
overcooked it, so we then had to settle for a much
smaller sail that stymied our chances of winning,
but even that didn’t wipe the smile off my face.
This was just an unbelievable experience.
Returning to reality at the end of the week, I
realised how lucky I had been to sail with a great
bunch of people, both on the race day and in the
previous two years. I’m selling my lovely Tigh
Soluis II for family reasons, but I will never forget
the two years of sailing and the climax, the holiday of a lifetime to Barbados and the Round the
Island experience with the Mount Gay Rum crew
on Monster Project.
As this is my swan song, so to speak, I would
like to say a special word of thanks for all who
helped me enter into the world of competitive
sailing, particularly Rich Hinde-Smith, who is a
steadfast friend, Paul Heys of Key Yachting, Stuart Miller, Neil from Desty Marine, Matt Adams,
David Bedford and Sam Richmond to name just
a few. Finally, my heartfelt thanks to Devon Chase
of Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. and Raphael
Grisoni from Mount Gay Rum, who made the visit possible and gave me such a stellar experience.
Barbados is a special place; where else would
an executive manager drop everything to run you
to the airport for that trip home? I have been to a
number of Caribbean islands, but I think Barbados in January is just wonderful. We have booked
to go back there already.
LEFT HAND PAGE TOP
Iain Mackinnon receiving his Champion
of Champions prize from Devon Chase
at the 2014 Annual Prizegiving
LEFT HAND PAGE & ABOVE
Monster Project - a 70 foot leviathan!
Photographs courtesy of Peter Marshall
TOP Tigh Soluis II with Iain Mackinnon
at the helm during one of the 2014
Summer Regattas
Iain Mackinnon
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Undaunted we hit the line for a good, if slightly conservative start. We fought to get clear of the
bigger yachts around us and, making use of our
shallow draft, we pushed right into the cliffs and
wriggled free. The first beat was a frantic baptism
of fire for our novices as the big yachts began to
scythe their way up through the fleet missing us
by what seemed like inches.
By the first turning mark at Barbuda things
had settled down a little. We had survived a 30
knot squall, avoided two near collisions with bigger boats and picked up a slipstream off a bigger
competitor. Finally we set The Hawk – our KRH
branded spinnaker – and sailed into the night
All aerial yacht photographs courtesy of
Tim Wright at Photoaction
SAILING HUSSARS
Images of lazy days spent drifting on azure
waters to the gentle accompaniment of steel
bands ensure that the Royal Ocean Racing
Club’s Caribbean 600 yacht race is underestimated. What one is faced with is a 605
mile ocean racetrack around the reef-strewn
Lesser Antilles. The 20 knot trade winds
combined with large swells rolling in off the
Atlantic, pitch black nights and plenty of
rocky corners make the course make truly
challenging, not to mention the boat-breaking squalls that roll through the fleet setting
traps for unwary crews.
As we donned our lifejackets and harnesses
for the obligatory pre-race safety check it became
apparent that this was to be no walk in the park.
At 35ft we were one of the smallest boats in the
68-strong fleet and we would be taking our place
on the start line against the top racing yachts in
the world. Our motley crew of assorted cavalry
and hangers-on would be up against seasoned
ocean racing professionals on their sleek 120ft
carbon fibre steeds, record-breaking trimarans
and thundering 300ft super yachts – we would
have our work well and truly cut out.
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The first night at sea takes the fleet on a glorious downwind ride from Barbuda to St. Kitts
and Nevis before a beat up to St. Barts. At first all
went well for Zarafa and we were looking good,
but as we headed upwind to St. Barts the wind began to drop. Light airs are Zarafa’s Achilles’ heel
and we began to drop back. Sail changes became
more frequent, energy reserves were drained and
the race became a damage limitation exercise as
we headed down to St. Maarten, beat through
the Anguilla channel and fought back up to St.
Barts into the second night.
Dawn on the third day and the news wasn’t
good. The 180 mile fetch down to Guadeloupe via
Monserrat placed a premium on waterline length
and our bigger, more powerful competitors had
the edge. To make matters worse one of the crew
was still struggling with seasickness, the hatches
were leaking, the smell down below was getting a
little fruity and we knew we had the dreaded wind
shadow off Guadeloupe still to contend with.
Nevertheless, morale remained high and we concocted a strategy that was to turn the class on its
head and bring us back into contention.
Guadeloupe is often where the race is won
or lost. The island’s towering landscape casts a
wind shadow that can extend 8 to 12 miles out to
sea and the dilemma is the same for every afterguard – go up to 15 miles offshore to avoid the
shadow or head as close to the coast as possible
and catch whatever breeze. We decided on the
latter course of action and as we cruised through
the first part of the island’s lee, nervous expressions at the back of the boat softened into grins
then incredulity as, despite shifting and gusting,
the wind held. We sailed on through to the southern point of Guadeloupe and back out into the
open sea having pulled back our lost time.
The leg from Guadeloupe to Les Desirades
was the darkest point of the race. The inside of
the boat now resembled a rather smelly washing
machine and one of our crew was injured and
had to retire to his bunk but we continued our
climb through the fleet. As dawn broke on the
Thursday morning we rounded the rocky outcrop of Les Desirades (a little close for comfort)
with a distinct sense of satisfaction.
From the Thursday morning we were onto
the extended lap of Antigua before the final dash
for home. By this point it was clear that class 3
had become a five-way battle and as we set off
towards Barbuda we knew that our faster main
competition would have two legs of gains on us
but we worked to minimise losses, pushing the
boat hard and hitting 11 knots on the reaches.
Rounding La Redonda for the final 35 miles
of the race we went into ‘inshore mode’ and as it
got dark headed towards the coast to make the
most of flatter water and beneficial wind patterns
around headlands – our navigator was working
hard down below to keep us off the reefs.
Slowly, out of the darkness, we started to
reel in the boats in front on the water. 605 miles
of racing boiled down to a few boat-lengths and
our upwind pace was again putting us into tacking
battles with faster rated Figaro 2s. Tack after tack
ensued with all working to expend final energy reserves as we battled to the finish line off English
Harbour, crossing at 0604 on the Friday morning
after almost 3 days and 19 hours of tough racing.
The final result saw us second in IRC 3 and
20th overall, a result of which our crew could be
justifiably proud. We had pushed professionally
crewed boats the whole way and finished ahead
of some extremely talented sailors. 2016 – the podium! Thanks to all who made this possible.
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ANTIGUA CHALLENGE
Four years ago a small group of Royal Southern Members participated in Antigua Sailing Week on a chartered local boat. They
enjoyed themselves so much, on and off the
water, that they decided to do it again. Then
they started thinking – there are a number
of Southern Members with a base in Antigua, lots of Members would enjoy Caribbean
racing, it’s good to go sailing with mates, the
sailing is good (and warm). There was a good
response from Members to the original idea
of chartering boats to sail under the Team
Southern banner at Sailing Week but then
the idea snowballed. How about challenging
reciprocal and ICOYC clubs? So the Royal
Southern Interclub Challenge was born.
ern contingent and 21 of them raced on the two
Southern boats whilst the others enjoyed the
ashore based programme.
The Pearns Point Round Antigua Race is held
on the Saturday prior to the start of the Sailing
Week. Although it is open to all boats participating in Sailing Week it is a standalone event and
provides an excellent practice day for regatta
participants. Both the Southern boats achieved
fantastic results, with our No.1 boat EHO1 first
in class and second overall and our No.2 boat
Sam third in her class. It was a great day’s racing in champagne sailing conditions; although
the wind was an unseasonable southerly it blew
a steady 13/15 knots with a swell of just over a
metre and cloudless skies.
Sunday 26 April saw the official start of Antigua Sailing Week and the Royal Southern Interclub Challenge. The response from other clubs
had been far greater than expected.
After their success in the Round Antigua
Race, EHO1 came down to earth with a bump
at the start of day 1. After finding themselves
blocked on the start line they found themselves
starting last of the thirteen boats in their class.
Even worse they had to watch their arch-rival
Scarlet Oyster, power ahead in front of everyone.
By the end of the first leg they were half way up
the fleet and at the start of leg 3 there were only
two boats ahead. Unfortunately one was Scarlet
Oyster, and to rub salt into the wound it was being skippered by Tim Thubron, shortly to be our
new Sailing Manager. However, at the next mark,
Scarlet Oyster hoisted its spinnaker upside down
– a moment of schadenfreude for the the crew of
LEFT HAND PAGE TOP Team
Southern Members enjoying the
Interclub Challenge
LEFT HAND PAGE BOTTOM Scarlet
Oyster the overall winner, skippered by
Tim Thubron our new Sailing Manager
LEFT Tim Thubron and Jenny Austin
BELOW & OVERLEAF Royal Southern Members soaking up the sun,
sea and sand
By mid-April the first of the Club posse had
arrived and during the next week or so the rest of
the Royal Southern Team arrived, there being 40 in
number in the racing party, participants and supporters, plus the Members who will be there under
their own steam including our very own honorary
member, Geoff Holt. Gordon Cossar, who coordinated Team Southern, said he doubted if there
was a bigger contingent from any other Yacht
Club present and added, “We now have 12 boats
entered in the Royal Southern Interclub Challenge
ranging in size from 30’ to 82’ with Clubs including representatives from Canada, South Africa,
Ireland and of course Antigua. They include some
close friends (until the starting gun goes) from the
Royal Hussars, Royal London and the Jolly Harbour Yacht Club which boasts about 15 Southern
Members within its membership, including our
current Commodore”.
Back in Hamble the curtain raiser for the
event was Bill and Nicky Blain’s wedding. Immediately after the wedding, the bride and groom
travelled to Antigua, accompanied by a number
of the guests, to spend their honeymoon racing
for the Southern. There were 40 in the South62
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Being a Member of the Royal Southern
Yacht Club brings many benefits both on
and off the water.
The Best Racing in the Solent
Greatly discounted entry to Royal
Southern Regattas
25 Cruiser Events, Motorboat Rallies
and Fun Days
A rapidly expanding, high quality
Youth and Academy Programme
EHO1. The racing finished with EHO1 coming
third in their class and Sam of Hamble eighth.
On day 2 the wind continued to blow from the
unusual southerly direction and the race committee
had again been busy changing courses to accommodate the unexpected phenomenon. EHO1 did
well on the upwind legs but struggled with a new
asymmetric setup downwind, to come third by three
seconds in their highly competitive class and Sam of
Hamble improved their position coming sixth.
There were frustrations afloat on day 3 for
both boats neither of whom improved their positions. Consolation was provided by the Commo-
Prince Philip Yacht Haven with 64 Walk Ashore Berths
dore, Chris Mansfield who hosted a party in the
grounds of the Antigua Yacht Club. This gave all
Team Southern Members the opportunity to meet
their fellow racers in the Royal Southern Interclub Challenge.
At the end of Thursday, the penultimate day
of the regatta, Royal Southern Team 1 Boat,
Global Yacht Racing’s EHO1 was in second
place, one point ahead of two other boats. Their
nemesis Scarlet Oyster raced off with the regatta
scoring bullets in every race. It was all to race for
on the final day and with second in both races
EHO1 retained their position and came second
to Scarlet Oyster who retained her impeccable
bullet record and won the Royal Southern Interclub Challenge with EHO1 coming second and
Sam of Hamble fifth.
Antigua Sailing Week’s tag line is ‘where
sailing comes first’, with organisers recognising
that sailors participate first and foremost for top
quality racing. The parties and social atmosphere
are key features of any regatta, however, and so
at the end of every day of racing there were a
variety of parties and events designed to please
everyone. This was certainly the case for Team
Southern and if you are interested in joining in
the fun in 2016 please let our Sailing Manager
Tim Thubron know and you will be added to the
circulation list for information. You don’t have to
sail – just come and be part of the support team
and enjoy the fun.
Large Outdoor Terrace and Quarterdeck
Mud free access to the water via a
floating slipway for Splash Club and
other Dinghy sailors
The only direct access to
boats afloat for disabled
sailors anywhere on the
River Hamble at all states
of the tide
Improved Car Parking
47 Moorings by ballot
20 RIB Berths by ballot
21 Dry Berths by ballot
4 Clay Pigeon Shoots
5 Rounds of Golf
3 bars and 2 restaurants
Online Crew Register
12 En-suite Bedrooms
Bosuns and Club Launch
available 7 days a week
PRINCE PHILIP YACHT HAVEN
......in the heart of Hamble Village
20 Wednesday Lectures
Discount on food & drinks in bars &
restaurants with Membership cards
Wine Tastings
20 RYA Training Courses
Club Balls
Numerous Dinners, Suppers & BBQs
The Best Clubhouse on the South Coast
And most of all, 1700 friends to share it all with!
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the motorboats to make the cross channel trip
and really made the most of everything that had
been organised in Deauville.
The weather was superb and the course scenic but challenging and this was reflected in the
modest scores. All the participants enjoyed a great
afternoon of golf despite smaller numbers than
in 2014. The Club Secretary’s golf was surprisingly resilient after his first ever cross-channel sail
in Graham Nixon’s boat Magic and, with David
Henderson-Williams as his team-mate, they edged
Royal Southampton into second place in the team
competition with a better ball score of 44 points.
However Jon Thompson from Royal Southampton YC was the clear winner of the individual competition with an impressive total of 43 points.
The afternoon was rounded off in style with
canapes and drinks on the terrace before the
Commodore’s wife, Pam Mansfield, presented
the prizes to the winners.
ROYAL SOUTHERN WINNERS
RSrnYC Interclub Team Shield
COWES DEAUVILLE
All Cowes Deauville
Race yacht photogaphs
courtesy of Hamo
Thornycroft
After two years of high winds and postponements, this year’s event was blessed with
moderate breezes and fine weather in Deauville. The 38 boat fleet included 15 French
boats, including 6 Figaros, which sailed
over the previous day in time for the start
at 12.10 on Friday, along with 14 GBR boats,
including IRC and Sail & Power classes and
7 motorboats which had left earlier.
The fleet got away on time in a light southwesterly breeze and boats played cat & mouse with
each other as they crept eastwards past Ryde and
the forts. Off Bembridge the wind died even further, but then new wind came in with a steady 15
knots, still from the south west. The leading group
caught the wind first, followed by the inshore
group, and soon everyone was bowling along on a
fine reach, on a direct course for Deauville.
The forecast was for the wind to die overnight, but it held steady – just as well, because
we ran into fog at 2200, just as the fleet reached
the southbound shipping lane. Soon we could
hear the ships’ horns sounding every 30 seconds
before the outline of each vessel would loom
into view, and then disappear again to the west.
Those boats which had fitted AIS were blessing
that investment, while the rest of us resolved to
have it fitted immediately on our return – assuming, of course, we were going to make it. But everyone did get through without incident and no
near-misses were reported, so clearly the ships
were also keeping a sharp lookout.
Dawn on Saturday morning saw the fleet approaching the finish at Semoy, with the wind still
holding from the southwest, but now dropping
to 10 knots. Degree of Latitude, in Sail & Power
class took line honours, having chosen to use engine power to get out of the Solent quickly and
into the stronger winds. She was followed by the
French HN class Latitude with Hot Rats the first
IRC boat to finish.
The early finishers made it into the inner
basin before the lock gates closed, while the remainder of the fleet were able to anchor off in
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Team Royal Southern
Hot Rats – Robbie and Lis Robinson
Extract – Nicky Gardner/Dudley Stock
Porter Memorial Cup
Hot Rats – Alistair Campbell
Highest Placed RSrnYC
Boat Challenge Trophy
the benign conditions and get some well-earned
sleep, while they waited for the tide to rise and
the lock gates to open again.
The Hotel du Golf provided an excellent dinner for over 100 crew members and friends on
Saturday evening, organised by Jane TaylorBouvard of Deauville YC. The prize giving on
Sunday morning was hosted by Nicholas Jones,
Rear Commodore Yachting RLYC and Philip
Gage, finishing Race Officer, with prizes presented by Anne Taylor and Pam Mansfield. Following the traditional pre-lunch buffet courtesy
of the Deauville Yacht Club, the golfers headed
off for the afternoon’s competition. We were
fortunate to secure an extra team from Royal
Southampton YC who had been invited to join
Assiette de Yacht Club du France –
Robbie and Lis Robinson
Pattel Trophy (1st White Sail)
1st Overall Youth Team
1st GBR Youth Team
Illywhacker – Karen Henderson-Williams
Quickest Sail and Power (with no engine use)
Wishful Thinking – Brian Mead
Motorboat Rally
Boysterous 8 – Colin Hall
Longest Participant
Diamond Blue – Paul Reading
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International 6 Metre
World Championships
TOP, CENTRE LEFT & BOTTOM
RIGHT THIS PAGE Photographs
courtesy of Philip Plisson
ALL OTHERS Photographs courtesy
of Abi Simpson
The International Six Metre Class World
Championship was held this year from 1-5
June in La Trinité-Sur-Mer, a port in the
stunningly beautiful area of Brittany known
as the Morbihan region, as famous for its
seafood as its yachting. A total of 23 yachts
were entered in the Classic Division for
yachts built prior to 1965 and 19 boats raced
in the Modern Division.
Three yachts owned by Royal Southern
Members were entered in the Classic Division.
These were BobKat II (US54, 1931), owned and
helmed by Andrew Webster and crewed by Dick
Long, Gordon Cossar, Phil Cornick and Jano
Anamay; Abu (GBR32, 1931) owned and helmed
by Christian Teischmann and crewed by his wife
Caroline Teichmann, his sister Ina Teichmann,
Axel Jonuschies and Tapio Lehtinen from Finland; and Nancy (US60, 1932) owned by Andy
Short, helmed by Vince Hayter and crewed by
Ian Cook, Andy Short, Jon Furley and Callum
Gifford (the Nancy Boys!).
When Andy and I first saw Nancy she had been
out of the water, laid up in a barn in Beaulieu, for
5 years. She was looking in need of some urgent
love and attention, as the planks were opening
up quite dramatically. Undaunted and optimistically Andy remarked “just add water – she will
be fine!” It took more than that of course, and
finally 6000 fasteners were replaced. Thanks to
Royal Southern Member Tom Richardson and
his team at the Elephant Boatyard, Nancy was
restored over the winter of 2014-15 and able to
join her sister ships in La Trinite for some top
level racing.
I watched the spectacular racing from Nancy’s
support boat. It was exciting to watch the close
starts [photo 6], mark roundings and finishes and
all the dramas unfold. With us was Abi Simpson
(www.abisimpsonphotography.com) to take professional photographs of the event, and some of
the hundreds she took accompany this article.
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The programme calls for up to eight races,
with the Modern Division usually starting 5 minutes ahead of the Classic Division. These races
were scheduled to be sailed between Monday and
Thursday, although if eight races had not been
completed by Thursday night racing on Friday
was a possibility. Fantastic conditions on Monday
saw three races completed. However, it was not all
plain sailing. There were several boat on boat contact incidents on the race course on the first day.
The most serious of the incidents involved a port/
starboard at the start of race three between Nada,
Andrew Webster’s US54 Bob Kat II and Normand
III. The port tack Nada collided with the starboard
tack Bob Kat II, who in turn was forced into Normand III. Although the jury subsequently disqualified Nada, sadly it was Bob Kat II that was the ultimate loser as she suffered very serious damage
to her bow which prevented her from racing again
in the Championship. When we heard Andrew’s
radio message to the committee boat about a serious incident and reporting that BobKat was taking
on water, we rushed to offer help, but the larger
support boat from Lucie (US55) had got there
first and was already arranging a tow back to port
and immediate lift. Our hearts sank when we saw
the extent of the damage to BobKat and knew it
was the end of the Championship for her.
The strong winds predicted for Tuesday
meant that racing was cancelled for the day, allowing crews to sample the memorable Breton
seafood buffets.
The wind gods were being fickle and Wednesday’s racing was delayed for lack of wind. When
the wind finally filled in by midday to 7-10 knots
the committee decided to run three windwardleeward races on a shortened 1.4 mile course.
There was therefore a late finish to the racing
day, but on arrival in port the sound of a local
Breton bagpipe band welcomed boats and crews
to a spectacular champagne dockside ‘birthday
party’ for Lucie, hosted by ISMA Chairman Matt
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WHY COMPROMISE
ON SAFETY AND
COMFORT?
Brooks and Pam Rorke-Levy, owners of the beautifully restored Classic Lucie. Lucie, designed in
1931 by Clinton H. Crane and built by Nevins for
Briggs Cunningham the America’s Cup skipper,
looked every inch the birthday girl with a beautiful flower arrangement on the aft-deck.
The Crew Dinner in the regatta marquee followed straight on, and crews enjoyed an informal
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BALTIC RANGE 2015
country’s first communities settled, as with their
flat-bottoms they can rest in an upright position
even when the tide is out, making it easy to load
and unload freight and stock. The day ended at
Mahurangi Harbour with a drinks party ashore
and supper afloat.
The last morning dawned sunny and calm.
We weighed anchor at 1000 and as we motored
to the Whangaparaoa peninsula we were buzzed
by a New Zealand navy RIB who informed us
that we were in an exclusion zone. We duly altered course despite not being able to find any
reference to the zone in our charts, pilots etc. After anchoring for lunch and a swim we returned
CRUIS
ING
AUCKLAND - CITY OF SAILS
Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, is a
sailing hub with one in three households
owning a boat. Waitemata Harbour, on its
northern shores, is home to the Royal New
Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS), our
hosts, and Westhaven Marina where our
yachts were moored. Five member clubs of
ICOYC participated in the cruise and the
Royal Southern was represented by two
boats: Zuben and our boat Audacieus, both
Oceanis 40s.
Auckland is built on an active volcanic field
and our first passage of some 8nm was to Home
Bay on Motutapu Island whose Maori settlements were destroyed when Rangitoto, to which
it is attached by a causeway, was formed during a
volcanic eruption some 800 years ago. After anchoring we went ashore for drinks with the other
cruisers on the lawn of Reid Homestead, the Motutapu Restoration Trust’s base.
After a quiet night at anchor and a morning
swim we set sail for Man O War Bay on Waiheke
Island - ‘the Martha’s Vineyard of the South Pacific’ and home to some 25 wineries. On mooring
at low tide, with a wine tasting to get to, towing
the dinghy across the shallow sandy bottom to
the shore was required.
There was a change of itinerary the following
day due to weather and we went to Rocky Bay. As
we motored towards Rotoroa Island, which we had
missed visiting previously, there was a very dark
cloud to windward so we decided to head straight
to Rocky Bay where it poured down just after we
anchored. Zuben was not so lucky! We had supper
at the Oyster Inn in Oneroa, our original destination, and this was washed down with local wines
and followed by tales of derring-do including
catching sharks with Thai curried prawns.
On Tuesday we headed north to Bon Accord
Harbour, Kawau Island, a passage of some 30
miles through sheltered waters between islands
with Auckland’s skyline in the distance. As we
approached Kawau Island, with a swell running
as it is exposed to the Pacific Ocean, there was
much navigation to be done to miss Beehive Island, Passage Reef, Albert Rock and Martello
Rock before turning to starboard into the harbour. The island was a retreat for an early nineteenth century Governor, Sir George Grey, and
we motored into Mansion Bay, one of many bays
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in the harbour, to see the small mansion which
he built. We then anchored off the Kawau Boating Club where we had supper, after drinks at the
home of a RNZYS member.
The next day we headed to the mainland
where we were taken up the Mahurangi River
by Steve & Kath Burrett. We passed mangrove
swamps and Kauri trees which first appeared in
the Jurassic period and are some of the largest
trees in the world. The ones we saw are estimated
to be nearly 1000 years old.
Moored on the river was the last remaining
rigged New Zealand sailing scow, Jane Gifford,
built in 1908 to carry granite. The scows were
indispensable in New Zealand for navigating narrow tidal estuaries and creeks where the
to the berth in Westhaven Marina. David Jordon
one of the co-owners and a friend of past Commodore David Mead was there to greet us and
help us moor up.
Our last gathering was supper at the RNZYS.
It had been a fantastic week thanks to Andy Anderson, Commodore RNZYS, along with his
wife Barb, Steve Burritt and Mike Malcolm. The
ICOYC cruises seem to get better each time and
it’s now time to look forward to ‘Flavor of the
Chesapeake’ in early October. Details are available from the Sailing Secretary.
Maggie Widdop
Chairman - Cruising Committee
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SOLENT
CRUISER
RACE
BONNIE & CLYDE
REUNITED
The forecast was enough to put any intrepid
sailor off going out over the bank holiday weekend and the earlier decision to go west to Beaulieu rather than east proved serendipitous.
On Saturday morning the first leg started off
Coronation buoy with a beat to Royal Southern
and then towards the Eastern Solent. It was a great
relief to reach the furthest windward mark as the
wind against tide made for uncomfortable sailing.
It was downhill to Royal Thames and the finish at
Beaulieu where we moored up to the piles above
Bucklers Hard. Heaters on; very grateful these
moorings now have electricity. After refreshments
on board, late lunch for some and tea for others,
it was time for the pontoon party.
MIDWEEK FOLLY RALLY
Luckily the rain didn’t start until the party finished but it settled in for the night, accompanied
by a blow. The next morning the weather had not
improved significantly and as we had ‘lost’ our
committee boat due to anchor problems it was
decided that we should all take our own times as
we rounded the buoy at the mouth of the river,
heading to Cowes.
It was misty as we sailed down the Beaulieu
river, but it cleared sufficiently to see the Island
as we passed the starting mark. After a very short
sail – wind and tide were with us this time – we
moored up in Shepards Wharf where we were
joined by Denali and Dino Volante direct from
Hamble. The Cowes Corinthian Yacht Club was
the venue for the results and the day ended at the
Island Sailing Club where over 40 of us enjoyed
their splendid carvery.
The weather finally improved on Monday
and there was a gentle breeze as we started the
third and last leg by the Royal London buoy. It
was a downwind start and as the tide was turning
there were many decisions to be made on the best
course to Rolly Tasker.
The wind was very variable but it eventually
filled from the East so it was a lovely down wind
sail from Champagne Pol Roger to the finish off
Bald Head. Sadly Bonnie had an engine problem
and had to be towed back to Hamble by Clyde.
The overall winner, and winner of the first
two legs, was Matthew and Kerry Richardson’s
Ayaya. Angus and Annette Newton won the Sailing prize on Kuutar.
Maggie Widdop
MIDWEEK RALLY TO LYMINGTON
The forecast for the appointed day – Tuesday 19 May – was not good, winds from
the west with gusts up to 35 knots, with or
without rain. Long experience of Lymington
rallies shows that only the most determined
yachtsmen, possibly wearing hair shirts,
will set off from Hamble in such conditions,
and this was no exception, with participants
dropping out one by one. Much prevarication, consultation and dispatching of emails
ensued and I took the decision to postpone
the rally by one day, when the forecast looked
a little better.
This was hugely successful, with some 8 boats
making their way to Lymington, still with noticeable wind from the west, and not all the same 8
boats who had booked in for the previous day.
We were delighted that Peter Garrod joined us,
putting us all to shame by sailing single handed
from Hamble.
It’s impossible to sink the Dan Bran pontoon which is of the marine motorway variety
in width and construction, so sailing boots were
unnecessary fashion accessories for the pontoon
party. We were pleased to welcome new Members Graham and Dairne Rabbitts to the joys of
Royal Southern rallies. David Pitt’s intrepid crew
of cocktail makers on Noumenon kept us all plied
with their very special cocktails – recipes are top
secret – we really hope they come to all rallies this
year so we can taste the whole repertoire!
Pontoon party over we adjourned to the
Mayflower, this really is an excellent hostelry
which obligingly changed our booking from
Tuesday to Wednesday without complaint. After
a first class supper some adjourned to the very
hospitable Noumenon for a night cap, and others
back to their bunks for an early start. Mike Austin reported an exhilarating spinnaker run back
up the Solent, so enjoyable they carried on past
Portsmouth until the tide turned.
Many thanks to all who came to make this
rally one to remember, even when the odds were
against us.
Ann Arscott
Five boatloads of stalwarts headed the gale
to reach the Folly for what was to be the rally
of ‘firsts’ on the first rally of the season. It
was maiden rally voyages for the 2 Dehlers Foyle II and Noumenon. Albatross was sporting a freshly painted mast and Rin Jinn new
instruments. They were clearly a success as
Maggie clocked 9 knots on the way over!
Finally a new game – how many people can
you get on a Sigma 33 when it is too cold for
the pontoon party outside? Thanks go to Dino
Volante for getting all 15 of us on board. Rin Jinn
kept the peace in the middle of what turned out
to be a rather riotous evening due in no small
part to the infamous cocktails of Providence fame
(good to have you back guys!) topped off by the
after dinner drinks on Foyle II.
The standard is set so we look forward to
more joining us throughout the season for our
midweek rallies.
Dot Jones – Foyle II
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MOTO
RBOA
TS
A SOCIETY FOR ALL
Wikipedia defines a motorboat as – “a boat
which is powered by an engine. Some motorboats are fitted with inboard engines,
others have an outboard motor installed on
the rear, containing the internal combustion
engine, the gearbox and the propeller in one
portable unit.”
Using that definition the majority of the
boats owned by Club Members are motorboats
however the Motorboat Society restricts itself to
boats that do not have sails as a supplementary
means of propulsion. We also acknowledge that
RIBs have certain features which mean they can
do things that the rest of us cannot so they have
their own activity programme.
The motorboat fraternity of the Club has
been active both on the water and ashore. Last
season on the water events ended with the
15th Motor Boat Open Weekend in the Solent.
The main event was the Predicted Log and the
results proved the adage that practice makes
perfect, with old hands picking up most of the
glassware. The overall winners were Mike Wills
for modern boats and David Mead for classic
boats. The winning team was Team A, comprising Speartime, Xanthus and Reflection. After a
splendid lunch in Cowes we completed the Poker
Run on return and David Mead won that event
having cleverly picked up the better hand of cards
at various waypoints. The following morning,
after an excellent dinner and disco in the Club,
Steve Lorrimar and his crew won the Solent Safari competition comprising an “on and off” the
water treasure hunt around the Hamble. We are
grateful to GJW for their very generous sponsorship of the weekend and particularly pleased that
Glen Wallace of GJW was able to join the crew of
Sukitwo for the Solent Safari.
The final event of the year was the popular
Motorboat, Golf and Shooting Societies Christmas Dinner. As ever is was oversubscribed and
everyone danced the night away to Teddy Massiah and it is reported that there were several
Members feeling fragile the following morning.
The difficulties with the weather that had
plagued us during 2014 continued into the first
event of the 2015 season, the Spring Rally being
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unfortunately, curtailed by bad weather. Sadly
only two boats, with very experienced and brave
skippers Trevor Blaber (with Jenny) and Rex
Harvey and his crew, took part on the day.
Following last year’s ‘Fun in the Solent’ it
was decided to run this year’s 16th Motor Boat
Open Weekend in conjunction with the Cowes
Deauville Race on the May Bank Holiday Weekend (22–25 May). Seven motorboats made the
trip. Because of the uncertainly of arrival times
at Deauville, due to tides and winds, it had been
decided to make the Predicted Log a self validating event in the Deauville area. Colin Hall and
his crew on Boysterous 8 completed the course
and submitted his self validation for which we express our considerable appreciation. Thanks are
due, too, to Chris Gillingham of the Motorboat
Committee for supporting the motorboaters
whilst in Deauville. We are also most grateful to
our sponsors, GJW, Sunseeker and Stella Maris
Yachting for their very generous support.
In July, we join the sailors on their Poole and
Back Race over the weekend of 18–19 July. We are
planning to arrange a visit to the Sunseeker factory during this time and we thank Sunseeker for
their sponsorship of this event. Moorings have
been arranged in the Poole Town Quay Haven
and can be booked through the Assistant Sailing
Secretary, Kim Adams.
We are also delighted that the Midweek Rallies, organised by the Cruising Section, have now
become events at which motorboats are welcome.
Check the website for dates.
A new venture for this year will be a Trafalgar Dinner to be held in The Wardroom of
HMS Nelson, a shore based Royal Navy facility in Portsmouth, on 24 October. This event has
provoked huge interest and full details will be
released shortly. The evening will celebrate the
210th anniversary of the Battle and will include
all the Royal Navy traditions for the dinner. We
will be joined by the Commanding Officer of
HMS Nelson, Commander Andy Green and are
honoured to have as our guest speaker Admiral
Sir Philip Jones (Commander in Chief Fleet).
Our final event of the year will be the ever
popular Motor Boat, Golf and Shooting Societies Christmas Dinner on Saturday 5 December.
Teddy Messiah has already been booked and
his blend of old and new music encourages everyone on to the dance floor after a traditional
Christmas Dinner, with all the trimmings, and
balloons, party poppers and crackers. This event
is truly for all Club Members so, as it is always
popular, don’t forget to book early.
C
M
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CM
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LADIES COMMITTEE
The Ladies Committee raises funds for our
chosen charity and for the Club through our
programme of events. This year our charity
is Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, a national
charity that provides dogs to alert deaf people to important sounds and reduce the isolation of deafness.
Our programme of events has already included
four sociable Friday Athena Lunches in February,
March, May and July. In March the Charity Bridge
Drive was a sell out and raised almost £800 from
entry fees, cake sales, and the raffle. The Formal
Ladies Lunch in April was attended by 67 ladies
who enjoyed listening to Sue Riches describe her
trek across the Arctic as part of a record breaking
all woman relay team to the North Pole. We raised
a further £400 from our raffle prizes and table
flower arrangements to help our chosen charity.
We are aiming to raise the £5000 required to sponsor the training of a dog. You will find collection
boxes in the Club where you can make donations
at any time so do look in your pockets.
Funds raised by the Committee also help the
Club. So far this year we have been funded the purchase of new bedroom lights and blinds, paid for
the delivery of two replacement sofas for the Splash
Room and made a major contribution towards the
replacement of the old worn out carpets on the
stairs and in the corridors near the bedrooms.
Planning for our events for the remainder of this
year and 2016 is well underway. We have an Athena
Lunch on Friday 4 December, the Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday 25 September and the second of our Formal Lunches on Thursday 15 October. One new event in the early planning stage is a
Ladies Evening on 11 September. The ever popular
Bridge Drive is on Thursday 12 November and our
Christmas Fayre on Saturday 7 November.
The Christmas Fayre is by far our largest annual fund raiser and this year we already have
38 stalls/tables booked. Sponsorship is essential
to support this major event so if you feel you or
your company are able to provide some sponsorship then please do not hesitate to contact us.
The Committee has been working hard to
raise the profile of our work. The first Quarterly
Newsletter was emailed to over 500 Lady Members in April and enjoyed a hit rate of 56%. The
second one went out on 1 July and there is also
a Ladies Committee page on the Royal Southern
website under the ‘Ashore’ tab. We look forward to
welcoming you at our events so please look at the
website, newsletters and boards in the Club and
put the dates in your diary!
We are always keen to hear from anyone who
might be interested in joining the Committee or
even just helping at events. Remember the work
of the Committee contributes directly to much
needed charity funds and improvements in our
Club. Why not contact our Chair Lizzy Davys
via email – john.davys@btopenworld.com.
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GOLF SOCIETY
I am delighted to inform you that the Royal
Southern Golf Society is going from strength
to strength and would like to take this opportunity in thanking all the golfers for
their great support, especially Dot Jones for
all her hard work in compiling the results,
Alan Feltham for giving valuable input and
advice and Noj White for his after dinner
jokes.
The pre-season golf supper took place on
22 January. Forty of us attended; Lawrence
produced a superb supper and the staff gave an
exemplary service. The putting competition has
now become a tradition at this event. Tim Robinson was presented with a bottle of champagne
for winning and Pete Halliday received a bottle of
wine as runner up.
On 20 February we slotted in an extra event
which had not been scheduled for the year, but
because the weather had been good and Romsey
Golf Course offered us an excellent promotional
deal, it was decided to get another game in. We
had sunshine all day, Larry Marks was the mens
winner with Ian Dawson as runner up. Instead
of having a golf supper that evening it was decided to delay it to the following day when we
could support the Jazz evening. The golfers and
their guests had an L shaped table of 36. The jazz
band were as good as ever and everyone had a
superb evening.
On 12 March, Alan kindly hosted a most entertaining evening and gave us all a better insight
into the rules of golf and golf etiquette. This was
followed by an excellent supper and then a golf
quiz. Three teams tied with 100% and the winner
was decided by a chipping competition. Philip
Milln was the eventual victor.
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Hockley Golf Club was our venue for our golf
day on 18 March. It is a wonderful golf course
with amazing views. The club looked after us superbly and a big thank you to Jane Pyle for helping to make it such a successful day. Tony King
and Gordon Craigen scored 36 points, Tony winning on count back. I won the ladies, with Louise
Craigen following closely behind.
Our next event was on 23 April at Skylark
Golf Course, which again was most enjoyable
though the greens were quite challenging! Peter Nicholson won with an impressive 37 points
beating Tony Hughes on count back. Tony King
had nearest to pin, Noj had longest drive and
Dot with the ladies longest drive. I narrowly beat
Dot by one point as the ladies winner. The event
coincided with St Georges Day so golfers and
Members celebrated in the evening with a traditional English Fayre supper which was a huge
success. Thanks to all the staff for working so
hard to make it such a great evening.
For the second year, we will be supporting the
Geoff Holt Charity day. Last year we raised two
teams for this worthwhile event and as this article
goes to press we have three confirmed teams −
including the Royal Southern Mermaids! It takes
place on Wednesday 2 September at East Horton
Golf Club. Registration from 12:30 with a shot
gun start at 13:30. In the evening there is a three
course dinner, with wine, prize giving, a raffle and
auction. All proceeds go to Rose Road and Wet
Wheels charities. Both these worthwhile charities
have a huge impact on the lives of local disabled
people. If you wish to support this event, either
by playing, donating a raffle prize or giving to the
auction, please contact karen@wetwheels.co.uk
for more information.
Our future events can be found under the golf
section of the Club website. On each scheduled golf
society day, we also have a golf improvers/beginners
day which is held at East Horton. This has become
an extremely popular event and I know some of you
have decided to join in on the 18 hole course.
The format for this is to meet at East Horton
at 9:30 for bacon rolls, an hour’s lesson on the
driving range with Miles, then a round of golf on
the 9 hole par 3 course followed by lunch. If you
wish to participate at this event would you please
email me directly; for all other events, please now
book through the Club Secretary and copy me in.
Happy golfing and sailing.
Chrissie White
Unusually for the Shooting Society the year
started at the Clubhouse with a presentation
by Howard and Lynsey of Mullenscote Gun
Dogs when the Members and guests watched
two of the Mullenscote dogs in training go
through their paces and the experts, as ever,
made training seem so simple. Howard, who
also owns Lains Shooting School, gave an
introduction to clay shooting which included a dominant eye test demonstration.
SHOOTING
SOCIETY
Less than a fortnight later, on 26 February,
eighteen hardy souls braved the drizzle at Owl’s
Lodge, a popular shooting venue run by Olympic
star Richard Faulds MBE, for the first clay shoot
of the season. The day consisted of a 80 clay
sporting layout; the ‘Googly’ where each gun has
the opportunity to break a deftly launched clay –
with the winner receiving a bottle of white wine
appropriately named Googly – and then concluded with a frenetic flush for teams of four.
The weather was kinder for the March shoot
at Lains. Following the same format the clays flew
in random, in clusters and in unison to test the five
teams competing in the flush and we were delighted to welcome seven newcomers to the shoot.
The third outing of the spring was to Ley
Farm on 24 April and it was truly a ‘grand day
out’. According to some reports the ‘Googly’ was
over a mile away and moving at 400 mph but
nevertheless it was hit by 11 guns with a need for
a knockout round to establish the winner.
Not only was there challenging shooting and
great competition but Members and guests retired to the farmhouse for a lunch of steak expertly barbecued by our Treasurer, Gordon Craigen.
The next shoot is at Compton Manor, near
King’s Somborne, on Thursday 24 September. We would be delighted if you could join us.
Novices are particularly welcome and you will
have the opportunity to shoot with a skilled and
trained instructor. If you want more information
either check out the website or contact Richard
Curry on 07710 251 149.
Glossary
Clay Pigeon Shooting – The art of shooting at
special flying targets, known as clay pigeons or
simply clays with a shotgun. There are many different disciplines of clay pigeon shooting.
Clays – Clays are made from a mixture of pitch
and pulverized limestone, usually in the shape of
an inverted saucer.
Dominent Eye – The eye that is primarily relied on
for precise positional information. Ocular dominance
and dominant hand should be ideally the same.
Flush – Defined in The Shorter Oxford Dictionary
as “a flight of birds suddenly started up”. In clay
pigeon shooting the clays substitute for birds.
Gun – Most types of shotguns are suitable for
clay pigeon shooting, however the ability to fire
multiple shots in quick succession is generally
considered important.
Traps – Devices designed to launch the different
types of targets in singles or pairs at distances of
up to100 metres. They vary from simple hand operated machines to highly sophisticated fully automatic devices. Target speeds and trajectories can be
modified to suit the discipline or type of shooting
required and the area where these traps are arranged for the shooter’s use is known as a stand
Sporting Clays – Often described as “golf with
a shotgun” sporting clays simulates the unpredictability of live-quarry shooting, offering a great
variety of trajectories, angles, speeds, elevations,
distances, and target sizes.
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ALL CHANGE IN THE
SAILING OFFICE
SNIPP
ETS
Photographs courtesy of Mike Austen
It’s been all change in the Sailing Office.
The completion of the Prince Philip Yacht
Haven has meant an increased management
workload for the team and a wider range of
responsibilities. Natalie’s decision to widen
her experience in new work areas provided
the Sailing Committee with an opportunity
to review the operation of the Sailing Office
and were delighted to appoint Tim Thubron
as Sailing Manager supported by Kimberley
Adams who had acted as Sailing Secretary
in the interregnum.
HAMPSHIRE ALERT
Hampshire
Constabulary
have launched a free, web
based information system,
Hampshire Alert. It is used to
send out information; messages such as urgent traffic
reports, crime alerts and witness appeals. It covers maritime crime and gives updates
from Project Kraken.
When you sign up you can
choose what information you
want to receive and the format,
email or text, in which you wish
to receive it – so the ‘alert’ is
personal to you and tailored to
your needs and lifestyle. Hampshire Alert is nothing like Facebook, Twitter or any other social
Tim Thubron
Sailing Manager
Tim has worked as a professional sailor for the
last 20 years as well as being involved in yacht
management, organising corporate sailing and
racing events, and running race training courses.
A regular winner at Cowes Week and many other
Solent events, Tim has won National, European
and World titles across a range of classes. He was
part of the winning team in the Royal Southern
Interclub Challenge during Antigua Sailing Week
and beat the Royal Southern team – a feat he will
not be allowed to repeat.
media site. All the information
is kept secure and private; you
do not need to set up a social
page or add pictures.
Once registered, alerts are
sent automatically to your chosen email or phone. You only
need to log into the system to
update your details or preferences. As a registered recipient
you will not only benefit from
two way messaging but may
also hear about positive police
action in your area of interest and possibly help identify
suspected or wanted criminals,
retrieve stolen goods or find a
lost person. To register go to
www.hampshirealert.co.uk.
Using email enables Club
Members to organise ad hoc
events and share infor-mation quickly and easily however it is important to take
privacy into consid-eration
when sending out emails to a
number of people. Some people on your list of recipients
might not want their email
address shared with people
they don’t directly know and,
Kimberley joined the Royal Southern Yacht Club
in September 2014 and acted as Sailing Secretary from January to May 2015. Kimberley has
a degree in Business Studies from Bournemouth
University and has gained a wide range of work
experience in hospitality, yacht charter and office administration. Having volunteered her time
throughout University organising events for a local youth charity, she is now looking forward to
running the sailing events at the Club.
A good rule of thumb when
sending an email message to a
large number of people is to put
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After the 8 races and 6 different race winners
two of the three podium places went to Academy
Members. Two Frank crewed by Academy Member Samantha Flint and Oliver Love finished first
overall after a masterful performance that saw
them in bed asleep by 10pm each day with Polly
crewed by Ben Meakins and Stephanie Meakins
taking third place.
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the final results table undecided until the
very end of the event. 14 boats made the
trip to Cowes from as far away as the River
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in wind conditions that ranged from 5 to 25
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LADIES AFLOAT
It was a sparkling day for the first Ladies Afloat
day. We all met in the Club for coffee at 1000
and the 8 ladies were allocated to the three
boats, Dino Volante, Noumenon and Rin Jinn.
It was decided to go to the East Cowes pontoon to meet up for lunch on board. We had a
brisk breeze from the ENE which made the sail
over to Cowes very fast. On the way across the
Solent we saw the America’s Cup boat BAR out
practicing. She was going extremely fast and
passed us in seconds. Katie Russell was crewing for me and during the sail she was telling me
about her husband’s latest adventure. Chris was
leaving on Friday 24 May to fly to Peru with his
colleagues, including Members David Couper
and Ian Duke, to ride motorbikes from Cusco to
Machu Picchu along part of the Inca Trail in aid
of Pancreatic Cancer UK and Diabetes UK.
With the wind against tide there was the usual
popple off Cowes. We were soon going up the Medina River past the floating bridge and then preparing to go alongside the pontoon where Dino
and Noumenon were already tied up. The ladies
got the delicious lunch ready; there was Belinda’s
delicious meat loaf and Valerie’s quiche amongst
other delights. We always get a gourmet lunch on
Ladies Afloat days! Maggie Smith had decided to
call the crew of Noumenon, the BAD boys (Bill,
Alan and David.) Soon it was time to make our
way back across the Solent. It was a cracking sail
and Rin Jinn touched 10 knots! – A reminder that I
need to calibrate Rin Jinn’s new instruments!
Maggie Widdop
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partition enabling the room to be split into two
separate private areas for smaller functions and
the addition of large glass double doors provides
direct access to the Yacht Haven and extensive
Quarter Deck outside.
The River Room is also ideal for private functions and has doors opening onto the newly paved
and spacious South Terrace. With the Members
Bar immediately alongside and the Pier – covered
with a marquee during the summer months – providing an excellent location for evening entertainment, why not take advantage of those lovely long
summer days and organise your party here.
In addition, the Yeoman Room on the first
floor is ideal for smaller more intimate meetings
and can cater for up to 20 people around the long
table, or business meetings away from the office.
ROYAL SOUTHERN ASHORE
Being situated on the banks of the River Ham- redesigned the way in which we use the existing facilible, the Royal Southern Yacht Club offers unri- ties, to the benefit of visitors and Members alike.
valled views over the river to Southampton Water
Our 200 seat Dining Room is available to
and the Isle of Wight. Adjacent to our modern Members and guests as a venue for conferences,
Clubhouse we have finished construction on our trade shows, banquets, weddings, receptions and
new Prince Philip Yacht Haven, with 64 walk ashore private parties. The Dining Room has a movable
berths, all equipped with power and water.
Whilst the Upper Bar with its large balcony
is open daily for lunch, in the winter months the
Members Bar with it’s unique atmosphere, open
fire and friendly service adds enjoyment to those
long winter evenings. Next to the Members Bar
is the River Room where dinner is served from
Wednesday to Saturday evenings. Offering
contemporary, freshly cooked meals, the River
SOUTHERN
Room has a fortnightly changing menu featuring a variety of quality, seasonal ingredients.
SUNDAY CARVERY
If you have an event to celebrate special
menus can be ordered in advance. Join us for delicious buffet style hors d’oeuvres starter
followed by 2 choices of Roast meat with all the trimmings
Within our 18th century cottages
along with a fresh fish alternative. Finish off your meal
we have created 12 elegant bedrooms
including a Master Suite. All the rooms,by choosing 1 of at least 4 different puddings
from our ever changing selection.
2 singles, 2 triplets, 4 doubles and 3 twins,
have modern facilities with en-suite bathrooms,
1200 - 1500 hrs
free WiFi and flat screen televisions. Tea and
coffee is also available in each room and Club
rates include a full English or continental breakfast served in the Dining or River Rooms.
The completion of the Yacht Haven has created
a wealth of new facilities for everyone to enjoy, and
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Sun
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JULY
OCTOBER
Friday Night Racing
Athena Informal Ladies Lunch
Theme Evening
Royal Southern July Regatta
Ladies Afloat
Friday Night Racing
Opera On The Run
XOD Central Solent Championships
Friday Night Racing
Poole & Back Race & Rally
Splash Sunday
Mid-Week Rally to Newtown
Friday Night Racing
Channel Challenge Cruiser Race
Friday Night Racing
Theme Evening
AUGUST
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17-21
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Aberdeen Asset Management
Cowes Week
Commodore’s Cowes Week Reception
Under 21s Race
Family Fun Race Day
Splash & Junior Cadet Week
Mid-Week Rally to Bembridge
or Chichester
Ladies Afloat
J/70 National Championships
Brambles Cricket Match
SEPTEMBER
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Mid-Week Rally to Yarmouth
Friday Night Racing
SB20 National Championships
Ladies Afloat
Friday Night Racing
Ladies Evening
Party & Quiz
Splash Sunday
J/80 National Championships
Friday Night Racing
Theme Evening
Royal Southern September Regatta
J/111 Class Association National Championships
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Friday Night Racing
Hamble Scramble Race & Rally
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Athena Informal Ladies Lunch
Ladies Race
Ancient Mariners Race
Lecture Searching for Plants
by Barry Clarke – Botanist
ICOYC Cruise in Chesapeake Bay
Lecture Ships of the Sky - The Flying Boats of Southampton
by Colin Van Geffen
Ladies Formal Lunch
Cruiser Supper
Folly Rally
Lecture Dickens - An Illustrated History
by Rosalind Whyte
Trafalgar Dinner
Lecture Fantastic Northern Lights
Aurorae - Art, Science & Myth
by Ian Ridpath – Astronomer
NOVEMBER
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Lecture Hearing Dogs for Deaf People - with Guest Appearance by a hearing dog
by Nicholas Orpin
Christmas Fayre
Lecture Round Britain in a Wayfarer
by Philip Kirk
Bridge Drive
Annual Prize Giving
Lecture The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
- some things you didn’t know
by Ian Oag
Laying Up Dinner
Lecture The Thames and the Jubilee
Pageant by Rear Admiral John Lang
Annual General Meeting
the
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Lecture The Hawk Conservancy Trust a return visit by popular demand
by Ashley Smith
Athena Informal Ladies Lunch
Motorboat, Golf & Shooting Societies
Christmas Dinner
Lecture Lost Beneath the Waves Marine Archaeology
by Mark Beattie-Edwards
Children’s Christmas Party
Rally to Cowes & Carols
Club Christmas & New Members Party
Foxer Racing
New Years Eve Ball
WIDELEY READ AND ADMIRED
Published twice a year in Spring and
Autumn, the Southern magazine is mailed
to all Club Members throughout the
UK and abroad and goes to all ICOYC
Member Clubs and Reciprocal Yacht
Clubs worldwide.
As well as the print version, the magazine
is also available to download from the
Club’s website and circulated to a range
of guests, competitors and contacts.
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