Commodore's report

I’m very proud to be Commodore of this great club of ours. After being on committee for fifteen years (and this my third time as Commodore), I can say with some authority that the club needs to use some reserves to lift the club and its profile in Paynesville. With 38 years of building background that I have, I know that with painting, re-roofing and a tidy up this club of ours would go from the so called "eye sore on prime real estate" to a building of significance in the town.

We know where we are going. We have a lease for 15 years. We know what we have to do: promote sailing and enjoy sailing. I think the year has come to give the veranda extension a go; a paint job and a new roof would just finish it off. I know it is hard with the possibility of grants always in the background not to spend reserves. The alternative is borrowing the money. I believe if we don’t start trying to improve the club, we will always have that faction in the background saying we don’t do anything with the site. I’m certainly going to encourage the Committee to look at this.

Your committee is there to look at any problems and queries or suggestions you may have. So please use them.

Your club has been well represented at the Sauna Sail Regatta. Division 1 was won by Gary Maskiell. In Division 4, mixed class yachts, Clancy McColl led the Sabres followed by Murphy McColl then followed by Breanna Collins. Division 10, Mosquito class, Tim Shepperd took out first place followed by Mitch Meade, Neil and David Joiner and Nicholas Baglioni. I believe there were 171 boats in 10 divisions.

Friday night meals have started up again and it looks like it was well received. Please come along and support Friday night functions.

The Committee has ordered a new 4 metre duck to take the place of the old ever-deflating white duck. This will assist in Training as well as Titles.

We also hope to run a couple of Social Nights throughout the season.

Sea you out there.

John Foley

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Immediate Past Ramblings

THE IMMEDIATE PAST COMMODORE'S REPORT

The baton has been handed on to John Foley. At the AGM John moved back into the role of Commodore as if he had never relinquished the position. His enthusiasm for the future is infectious and his ability is proven. Our Club moves into the next decade with new blood on the management team and a bright future. It has been a great experience and an honour and privilege to have been a Commodore. I have enjoyed the role and the ride immensely, thanks to the support and enthusiasm of our membership. What a Club.

PRESENTATION NIGHT

The Mango Skins, accompanied by Anna Williams, provided subliminal sounds to dine by. The floral table decorations donated by Nick and Katherine Rutter set the scene. The soup, roast and dessert went down a treat along with some new wines now available at the Club. The serious stuff happened late. There was a dilemma unfolding. We could listen to the musos all night, but there were trophies to present and tales to tell. Many members had already departed for warmer climes but those present settled in for Jacqui Crawford’s organized disbursement.

Divisional and Trophy Race results were already up on the website. The Chris Hawken Trophy has been designated to the Three Bays Race, a popular race and an appropriate recognition of Chris’ memory by Denise Lamble. As Denise said, “This race would have appealed to the larikin in Chris”. It was won by another larikin, well, Waza Rager!

The last home lot were again recognized for their efforts throughout the season ensuring a successful Club racing calendar and the race management of four regatta title events. A great effort.

Club Person of the year was again a shared award. This year Christie Arras was recognized for her efforts on the R S Thompson, as Wanderer e-scribe and publicity hack. Dave Bacon as well was commended for his efforts throughout the year whether it being fixing a boat, a toilet or a tap and for stepping up to the plate on numerous occasions to help with Race Management.

It would not have been politically correct to award the MOTY to Lofty again so after little deliberation it was decided that the trophy be returned to its cabinet.

The 2009/10 Club Championship was awarded on a cumulative points scoring system which encompassed 5 trophy races and a double score for divisional results, and all on personal handicap. This happened as, for one reason or another, we were unable to sail enough “Championship Races” where all boats sail the same course.

Mitch Meade was the well deserved recipient having performed well throughout the season in both Divisional and Trophy races. That he was also National Junior Mosquito Champion and also sailed State and regional regattas did not even enter the equation. He just sailed very well all season. Congratulations. What is interesting is that even if the Divisional Series was scaled to a factor of three to reflect its importance there was no change in results until 8th position. Each division was also well represented in the first 9 places with two cats, three trailerables and four fifteens. You had to sail often and you had to sail well to be in the running; which is as it should be.

The awarding of the GLYC Perpetual Trophy has become almost contentious over the last few years. There is a deed of gift dated 1947-8 and sailing, not just at our Club, has changed remarkably over the last 60 years. Our boats are more varied in design and performance, optimal class courses differ and it is perhaps time our members took a look at a more meaningful method of determining a Club Champion.

CLUB STUFF

Ian Pearson from Harbourside Café is going to commence cooking dinners on Friday Night right after the Queens Birthday Weekend. Better than pub tucker and better prices too. His ala carte menu will be simple and sumptuous. Order between 6pm and 8pm, be at the Club for the Member Draw and enjoy Friday evening with friends. You won’t have to do the dishes but if you return your plates to the kitchen he may put an extra spud on your plate the following week.

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Annual General Meeting 2010

See the GLYC website for the Minutes of the AGM and the election results at:

www.sailglyc.com

The Auditor's report covering letter, which was not ready at the time of the AGM, is attached to this newsletter.

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Calendar

Winter Series

Races will be held on Sundays at 1300 hours. Two very enjoyable races have been sailed already. Six more to go.

July 4
July 18
August 1
August 22
Sept 5
Sept 26 (Americas Cup Anniversary race)

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Presentation Night 2010

Friday, 28 May

Friday night, 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.

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Your club needs you!

Bar staff roster

Andrew Somerville, who was elected to be on committee, has gamely taken on the position of bar manager. Quite time consuming and challenging, the success of this very important club profit maker also really depends on those members willing to have a go up at the bar (working, that is) and making the job more manageable.

The more people who volunteer to spend several hours a month on the roster, the less onerous the obligation is for everyone. Rob Van Elden, previous manager, produced rosters months in advance to help bar volunteers plan and barter time slots. This has worked well and hopefully will continue to do so.

So please consider joining the crew up in the loft. The club really could use a hand in this very profitable area.

Please contact Andrew poste haste so he can work out a roster. 5156 1118 or at the bar. Thank you.



You never know who you might find on the other side of the bar!

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Division 4 news

End of Season Wrap

Firstly, congratulations to Mitchell Meade for topping off a very successful first season on his Mosquito and winning the "GLYC Perpetual Trophy" (Lifebuoy and Bell). At presentation night he took the term "winners are grinners" to a whole new level; bad luck if you weren't there, it was worth it just to see his face. It was a fitting result as he sailed more races than any other Div 4 boat, proving the old adage "To win first you must start". And in a high quality fleet (2 current National Champions) against much older and more experienced sailors, he was able to consistently stay near the front of the fleet. His keenness to listen and learn is a example to all young sailors and I know he will be even harder to beat next season.

It looked like this season Div 4 was going to sweep all before it, with more new cats coming to the club than ever before, but as usual things don't always go according to plan. Particularly for the Mosquitos, the numbers were not what we had hoped for in club races (we ended up with more GLYC Mossies at the Nationals than we did for any one club race), so here is hoping for next season.

Most GLYC Mossies are finishing off this season with the Sauna Sail on the Queens Birthday weekend, which is a big event for Mosquitos with 22 entered last year and numbers looking good for this year. Hopefully GLYC Mossies will again be at the pointy end of the fleet, world domination is next, ha ha.

So get into the shed and get your boat ready for next season now; it will be here before we know it and no excuses this time.

Remember "If it's not a Cat it's a Dog"

Thrice Bitten.

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On Water Volunteers Needed

Would you like to have an insiders knowledge of all the nitty gritty of course laying and start procedures to enhance your racing strategies? Volunteering on one of the Club's rescue or start boats is a brilliant way to learn and help out your fellow club members as well.

There is clearly a learning curve involved in the process. Take the first race of the season on the course laying R S Thompson with three new volunteers, Denise Lamble, Ben Maskiell and Christie Arras, and watching the fleet desperately following the wing mark as it drifted off position dragging its anchor. Things improved during the season as the team got the hang of it. (Please disregard the uproarious last race of the summer season where the wind changed from 220 degrees and kept swinging around till finally coming in at 60 degrees allowing Ten Pound Note to round the "bottom" mark with his spinnaker up! Just for old times sake, the pin buoy of the start line in the first race took a walk down wind creating a clear advantage to most of the fleet which hovered next to the Judy G.)

The Judy G start boat has been magnificently managed by George McCloud with his faithful starters: Colin and Jan Hunt and Angela Bacon. Where would the club races be without them?

Ben Maskiell not only worked on the Thompson but he also brought out the rescue boats each race day from the shed and made sure the right buoys were ready as well as helping to bring them in. Hughie deserves a big thank you for quietly being there to help bring in the boats as well as ingeniously devising equipment to facilitate the process. Many thanks to both of them as well as those unsung heroes pitching in where needed.

But the joy does need to be spread around so please seriously consider raising your hand for a season for one of these jobs. It's not all hard work; it is really beautiful being out there.

Please tell us your views about the Club

The Club Committee has set up a subcommittee (called Strategic Planning, SPSC for short) to follow up on work done in recent years aimed at guiding the Club into the future.

As part of this process the SPSC is keen to get information from all members which will help in deliberations and preparation of recommendations. At the 2009 AGM a resolution was adopted charging the present Committee to hold a special meeting of members to further explore future directions both for the physical buildings and other program related plans. The Club Committee has responsibility for arranging this meeting, with assistance from the SPSC. However time has beaten us so it is proposed to hold a special members meeting after the coming AGM, in about September/October. You will get notice.

Members of the SPSC include:
James Frecheville, Lindsay Crawford (Life Member), Colin Lamble, Chris Avery, Rob Willersdorf, Gary Maskiell, and Michael Oxer (chairperson). Club members are encouraged to speak with any of the subcommittee about matters related to planning for the future.

This is how you can help.
You are invited to respond to the following two questions, in whatever way is most convenient.
You can email a message, write down your thoughts and post to the address given below or drop your response into the Secretary letter box next to the Committee room near the front door.
Responses can be addressed to:
Chairperson, SPSC.
By email, to: michael (at) oxer.com.au Note. Replace (at) with @ and no spaces.
All responses will be treated as strictly confidential. No member name is required but can be included.
All responses will be summarised to provide an honest overview of what members say.

The questions.

1. What are the two things you most like about this Club?

2. What are the two things you do not like?

Your responses can be brief, or might also include some further explanation.
This is not about personalities but the programs, the building, the other activities which make up the Gippsland Lakes Yacht Club as a club.

Thanking you for your support for this important project.

Club Photos on Flickaway

Just to let you know that photos from racing and club events can be accessed from a website. The site address is: www.flickaway.com/glyc

Also, photos and stuff can be found on the GLYC Facebook site: www.facebook.com under Gippsland Lakes Yacht Club

Photo album

Division 3

ATTENTION

To Sabre Owners,

Posted below is an ad for a young keen sailor, who is looking for a cheap, in good condition, sabre, so he is able to sail in the up coming Sabre Nationals in Adelaide. Please check out this ad, and if you are of any help, it would be muchly appreciated.


http://www.sabre.org.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1483




Cheers

Hall Bookings

Bookings for July, August & September

5/7/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
7/7/10 6.30pm-9.30pm Lions Club Meeting
8/7/10 6 pm - 9pm Wooden Boat Ass. Meeting
12/7/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
14/7/10 9 am - 2 pm Probus Meeting
19/7/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
21/7/10 6.30pm-9.30pm Lions Club Meeting
26/7/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
26/7/10 7 pm - 10 pm Bendigo Bank Meeting
28/7/10 10 am - 12 pm Probus Meeting
2/8/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
4/8/10 6.30pm-9.30pm Lions Club Meeting
9/8/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
11/8/10 9 am - 12 pm Probus Meeting
12/8/10 6 pm - 9 pm Wooden Boat Ass. Meeting
16/8/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
18/8/10 6.30pm-9.30pm Lions Club Meeting
23/8/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
25/8/10 10 am - 12 pm Probus Meeting
30/8/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
30/8/10 7 pm - 10 pm Bendigo Bank Meeting
1/9/10 6.30pm-9.30pm Lions Club Meeting
6/9/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
8/9/10 9 am - 12 noon Probus Meeting
9/9/10 6 pm - 9 pm Wooden Boat Ass. Meeting
13/9/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
15/9/10 6.30pm-9.30pm Lions Club Meeting
20/9/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
22/9/10 10am - 12 noon Probus Meeting
27/9/10 10 am - 2 pm Patchwork Club Meeting
27/9/10 7 pm - 10 pm Bendigo Bank Meeting