Presentation Night 2010

Friday night, 28 May, the Gippsland Lakes Yacht Club proudly presented junior sailor, Mitch Meade, the GLYC Perpetual Trophy for Club Champion for the 2009/2010 sailing season. For a sailor who moved up from an Arrow to sailing a Mosquito this season, Mitch has shown extraordinary skill on Catalyst, his speedy catamaran, at home as well as away at championships. At the Mosquito National Championships he placed sixth overall and won the junior title as well as winning the junior title at the Mosquito State Championship. He also won the junior title at the McCrae Catamaran Championship.

Presentation Night for the 2009/10 season was a beautiful affair with music by the Mango Skins, the high school jazz ensemble, with Anna Williams standing in with flute and sax. Tables were laid with flowers and candles and a scrumptious meal was prepared by the chef who will be catering Friday nights at the club. Members and guests were in a festive mood as they ogled the tables filled with the huge array of trophies to be awarded.

The skippers from two boats in particular, Bill Shand with his FlyingFifteen, Relience Ffenty Ffoo, and Dave Homewood on Waza Rager, a modified Ross 780, were the big time winners for the season. As neither sailor could be present, David Parish and Peter Farrell (crew on the two boats respectively) stood in for their skippers and had their arms laden with trophies of all shapes and sizes. Bill Shand took home firsts in the Four Winds, Last Chance, and the John Trevorrow trophy races, the Westpac Club FlyingFifteen Champion and the Bill Gamble Project first in Division 1. Dave won firsts for the Lessel’s Trophy, JK Loyd , 3 Bays, and the Joy Croft trophy races as well as a divisional trophy.

Junior members also took their fair share of honours. Mitch Meade came in as Club Champion with the GLYC Perpetual trophy for accumulating the most points over the season. Murphy McColl was awarded the Junior Apex Trophy sailing Why Worry, a Sabre dinghy. Not to be out done, Clancy McColl won the RS Thompson Novice Skipper award on his Sabre. And Breanna Collins won the Evelyn French award for Lady Skipper among other trophies. She represented GLYC this past year in the National Sabre Titles in Hobart as well as the State Championships.

The Last Home trophy was awarded to the crews on the rescue, start, and course laying boats who without their contributions there would be no racing.

Coming in first in the sixteen race summer Divisional Series were: in Division 1, Relience Ffenty Foo, a FlyingFifteen, raced by Bill Shand with David Parish as crew. Division 2 saw Waza Rager with Dave Homewood and Peter Farrell crew win first. Division 3 was won by Joey, a Spitfire, with John and Noleen Foley. And in Division 4, Gary Maskiell won on Thrice Bitten, a Mosquito wSpin.

With so many members volunteering in all aspects of keeping the club running, races tended to, catering for events, and the myriad of duties for a successful club, Commodore James Frecheville thought long and hard on whom to bestow the GLYC’s Best Club Person award. This year the tribute was given to both David Bacon and Christie Arras for their obvious contributions as well as those behind the scenes.

So as the club paid tribute to excellence in sailing and commending those contributing to making the sailing season a success, the sailors now look forward to the upcoming winter sailing season of eight races as well as the relaxed Tuesday afternoon stern chasers. The club will also be open to the public and members on Friday nights up in the bar loft and for catered meals.

GLYC Annual General Meeting 2010

The minutes of the AGM will be posted on the notice board in the clubhouse. They are available here:

Minutes (PDF)

Spare copies of the Annual Report are available. Just ask a committee member.

Winter series

The first race of the 2010 Winter series will be on Sunday 13th of June at 1pm. This year we are having a 9 race series - approximately fortnightly. The dates for all the races are below in the calendar.

YV report

Lyn Wallace is GLYC's representative at VY. You can read her report for the season here.
YV report 2009-2010

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