Midstream Newsletter DRAFT March 2013.pub - Claremont Yacht Club

The Official Publicaon of Claremont Yacht Club (Inc.)
MARCH 2013
Sail Courses New Member Report A word from Col
New Courses here at CYC p25 Welcoming the new members to CYC p14 A sad goodbye from the Chef p27

Every Sunday morning from 8 - 11:30am in the Deepdene
For a relaxing start to your day,
come down and enjoy the
sweeping views of Freshwater Bay
while you sip on a Barista coffee or
a variety of loose leaf teas.
Breakfast Menu
Bacon and Egg Roll
$7.50
Toasted Dried Fruit Muesli
with greek yoghurt, fresh honeycomb and seasonal berries
$8.00
Eggs any way you like
on toasted italian loaf
$9.00
Bacon and Eggs
eggs any way you like on toasted italian loaf
$13.50
Extras
Bacon $3.50
Sausages $3.50
Eggs (2) $2.50
Mushrooms $2.50
Roma Tomatoes $2.50
Spinach w’ feta Cheese $2.50
Toasted Italian loaf $2.50
*Gluten free bread available on request
Front Page: ‘Andalusia’ - Skipper Chris Cochrane. Commodore’s Cup 2011

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Office
Monday - Friday
9am to 5pm
Members Bar
Monday/Tuesday/Thursday
4pm - 8pm
Wednesday and Friday
4pm onwards
Saturday and Sunday
11.30am- 8pm
Restaurant Hours
Wednesday Twilight Buffet
7pm onwards
Friday Night Veranda Menu
6:30pm onwards
Saturday Lunch Veranda Menu
11:30am onwards
Contact Us
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PO Box 11, Claremont WA 6910
Phone: (08) 9384 8226 Fax: (08) 9384 9990
Email: recepon@claremontyachtclub.org.au
Website: www.claremontyachtclub.org.au
FEATURES
15 Broome Billfish Classic
16 Environmental Management
17 Ecoceans Alive 2013
27 Colin Cameron’s Goodbye
IN EVERY ISSUE
4-6 Commodore’s Report
8-9 Vice Commodore’s Vice Column
10 Funcons Corner
12-13 A Word from the Manager
14 Membership Report
18-19 Out and About
Laser State Championships 2013
20-21 Power Secon
22-23 Blowin in the wind Recap
24 Sail Report
25 Current Sail Courses
26 Dinghy Report
28-29 The Archive Crew
30-31 Member’s Services Directory

COMMODORE’S REPORT
Dominic Papaluca reports:
My fellow members,
On behalf of the General Commiee I hereby present my Annual Report.
Before I begin, I’d like to refer back to the 10 year plan released back in July 2003; it is interesng to note that many
of the topics covered back in 2003 are sll on the agenda for 2013. Namely;
• the desire to increase external and internal club hospitality events to help boost the surplus funds available to
the club; (I’m pleased to report that External Funcons are contribung to the club surpluses now – see Treasurer’s
report)
• use these ancipated surpluses to increase member benefits; upgrade of clubhouse facilies; (we have a program
of scheduled maintenance now – to which we allocate $100,000 per annum – see the Capex report below)
• increased membership via increased markeng acvies to our target market – through brochures, flyers and
website etc.; (we haven’t done a lot in this area yet, but we have plans to increase membership via training courses,
new pens and more “fun” events to keep exisng members interested and aract new members. The Website was a
long me in the making, but it is helping in this regard)
•invest in the personnel to enable us to make all of this happen (the appointments we have made in the last few
years of General Manager, Accountant and Funcons Manager are starng to pay dividends now)
During this me, the old chestnuts of (a) parcipaon in club on-water events and also (b) members not availing
themselves (to the level that the commiee desires) of our dining facilies – for example; Friday night dining, Sunday
breakfasts and big events, such as the annual Commodore’s Ball. Our approach to these two issues is to increase the
membership base (via new pens and more social members) and to add more training and interesng events during
the respecve summer and winter seasons to bring people back to the club. We understand that there are a number
of compeng interests on weekends these days…and we are trying to tailor our programs to be short, sharp and
interesng – something that was borne out of the Gemba report produced by Yachng Australia. Whilst this report
talks about Sailing – I believe it can be equally applied to Power-Boang as well. You can find this report at:
hp://www.yachng.org.au/site/yachng/ayf/downloads/SportDev/YA%20Gemba%20Summary%20clubs.pdf
I will elaborate further in the Sailing and Power secons of this report.
Finance
As reported in last month’s Midstream newsleer, we
actually hit $1M in the bank during January. Whilst we will dip
below this figure in the run down to June (before our next Moiety) the General Commiee is confident that we have a
firm grip on the operaons of the club – and are building a nest-egg to carry us through some of the major expenditure
projects we have coming up. We will be able to add to this nest egg unl we start spending money on H Jey building
(see below). Note that $450,000 of this nest egg relates to our savings for A-West Jey refurbishment.
As I have reported previously, the General Commiee works on a rule of thumb that the club generates $300,000+ of
real cash each year. We allocate $100,000 of this to the
schedule of programmed maintenance (see Capex lisng below)
and a further $150,000 to the A-West refurbishment fund per annum. Any addional savings are held for
“emergencies” but if there is no call on these funds, we transfer them into term deposits or a cash management account.
We are trying to put as much away as possible at the moment because A-West looks like it may cost more than
we think, and there will be some up-front payments to do with H-Jey (as soon as it is approved).

Capital Works Program
As menoned in the Midstream newsleer, some of the smaller projects will be commenced in the next few months,
namely: the ladies toilets upstairs; the downstairs toilets/change rooms etc. We have heard back from the Swan River
Trust regarding our H Jey submission, and responded to their queries. We will let you know once final approval is
received…it will take some me yet.
Here is the table of projects that we have in the pipeline – ranked accordingly.
Table of Projects under consideraon
No Project Comment Value Funding OH&S Fin.
Memb
Maint
Aesthec
Contr.
Benefit
LARGE SCALE CAPITAL WORKS
1 H Jey Applicaon
2012
6 H Jey Building
Program
2012
Applicaon submied Dec
2012
Pending acquial of
requirements (yet to be
advised) by SRT
8 Carpark Stage 2 May be required to sasfy
11 A West Jey
2017
SRT
2007 Stabilisaon should
hold unl 2017. Increased
the cost esmate to $1.2M
$50K Internal
$3.5M
Funding
Mix of
internal
and
external
TBA Internal X X X X
$1.2M Internal X X X X
X
X
X
X
PROGRAMMED MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENTS:
2 Mens Change
Rooms
Create some extra room
(which was reduced by
office upgrade)
Under
$10K
inallly
Internal X X X X
3 Coage Demo &
site rehab
4 Upper Ladies Toilets
Council paperwork needs to
be re-wrien (their fault not
ours) then can go ahead
Embarrassing Condion
compared to mens’
$20K Internal X X
TBA Internal X X X X
5 Lower Toilets Poor Condion TBA Internal X X X X
7 Carpark Stage 1 Reclaim Slipway and resurface
that area
9 Security Gate Quotes in hand. Timing is
the issue, carpark refurb etc
10 Enclosed Staircase Cost greater than benefits
unless membership increases
first. There may be a
beer way of doing this as
part of upstairs upgrade.
TBA Internal X X
$18K Internal X X
TBA Internal X X X X
Constuon
The amendments to the constuon that were voted on at the Special Meeng of Members have been approved retrospecvely
by the Department of Consumer Affairs. My thanks go to the Constuon Review Commiee. We have some
small wording amendments to vote on tonight.
Connue over the page...

COMMODORE’S REPORT CONT’D
Management, Administraon and Governance
The employment of a General Manager has been a great help to me and I believe has also stabilized the staff turnover
occurring in the office. Doug Hannaford is seling into his role now and is contribung to our success. I would like to
commend Doug on the excellent relaonships he has managed to engender with our near neighbours (including
residents and also Bethesda and Christ Church Grammar School), the Town of Claremont and also the Swan River Trust.
The work that Doug has been doing in this area will pay us back many-mes-over in the next few years. I’d like to make
special menon of Colin Mellows our Accountant – his role has become a full-me one, however we are very fortunate
to have somebody like Colin who is passionate about our numbers and also can find out the niy-griy detail whenever
it is asked of him. He has been instrumental in pung together all the reports you see tonight.
Funcon Centre
Jennifer Trollip has been bringing in many funcons. Jennifer is very proacve – and a good “seller of funcons”. She
has proven this by aracng events during our tradional “slow mes”. At rate Jennifer is going, there will not be a
“slow period” in future. This is significant for the club on a number of levels; (a) the funcons book is relavely full all
year; and (b) the
funcons are profitable. This is a great help to the overall financial stability of the club. The results
speak for themselves – see Treasurers report.
Sail Commiee
Dean has submied his own report this year, so I will not say too much other than to thank him for his efforts and to
reiterate that I am very pleased with the approach that he is taking to “rebuild Sailing from the ground-up).
Parcipaon rates have dropped off over the last couple of years. The Sail Commiee has gone back to the drawing
board, spoken to the sailors and will tailor their future programs to fit what people are looking for. As menoned, the
Gemba report has been illuminang in this respect, and I think that the Sail Commiee is on the right track. We will see
the results of this in the next couple of seasons. We will be looking for a new Rear Commodore of Sail and also a Sail
Captain this year – sailing members…put your hand up.
Dinghy Commiee
John Rasmussen has been a revelaon to us all since taking over from Max Brown. The Dinghy secon is in good hands.
We hosted the Laser State Titles and also the Laser Metro State tles this year. This has been a real feather in CYC’s cap.
Aer doing such a good job of the Metro series, we were asked to do the State Championships as well. The Laser fleet at
our club is sll going from strength to strength, and I think with Dean Caple’s input – the Tackers program and Dinghy
training courses will bring more new members to CYC. If you have children that are interested in learning (or know
somebody who does) – get them into the Tackers program…it is fantasc.
Power Commiee
Peter Wilkinson has hit the ground running since he took over as Rear Commodore Power. The events calendar has
been changed and he has also worked with other clubs to ensure that Time-Trialling is varied and interesng next
season. In addion to this, he has been responsible for the Parents Day, run to Rockingham, and we have the fishing
compleon and more to come. I think that the Power Division is in good hands. Again, I think this change in approach
will pay dividends in the next couple of seasons.
Summary
The club is in a sound financial posion. We are in a posion to tackle H-Jey (when it is approved) and the future is
looking bright for CYC. Thank you all for your support and thanks to our many volunteers, sponsors and Staff who all
contribute to making CYC what it is today.
Dominic Papaluca
Commodore

VICE COMMODORE’S VICE COLUMN
PETER MAYHEW reports:
Hi again!
There has been lots happening around the club recently, and it’s nearly six months since I took on this
role!
I was having a breakfast roll in the Deepdeen the other weekend (new breakfast weekend menu) and I
could not believe how busy the club has been recently.
Over the past weeks we have had the Parkerville night for underprivileged children (organized by Clive
Annear and the Power Commiee) the Jey commiee have been working hard on the new H Jey system,
Peter Tate organized the river clean up and we have just had the State Laser Championships. (I’m
sure John or Comm Dom will menon more on this later)
It is amazing how much work goes into these events and the feedback that we have had has been
excellent, all of which really helps to put CYC on the map.
Last Friday evening saw the Penfolds 2013 wine release night and I would like to take this opportunity to
thank everybody involved for pung on such a great event.
The next big event on our club calendar is the Commodores Cup and the Half Yearly Meeng and I look
forward to catching up with you all then!
Well we had two winners last month!
Congratulaons to Ross Campbell and Rob the Boson!
They both idenfied correctly the vacuum cleaner hose connector on a RYOBI upright cleaner!
Come into the club Ross and claim your bole of wine!

THE VICE COMMODORE’S VICES
So here is this month’s photograph, a very cool and common item!
If you think you know what it might be, please send your answers by email to Cass:
recepon@claremontyachtclub.org.au …… and we will publish the answer and winner next month!
A ships engineer brought his young son along on a cruise upriver one day to show him what he does for a
living.
All the kid wanted to do was steer the boat and aer several hours of insisng that he knew how to
handle the job, his father agreed and brought his son to see the Captain.
"Okay", said the Captain, “you can steer the boat, but you must pass a small test first”.
The Captain asked the boy, “If I asked you to turn to the le, what naucal term should I use?"
"Turn to Port", said the boy. "Correct", said the Captain.
"If I wanted you to turn the boat to the right, what direcon would that be?"
"Starboard", said boy grinning from ear to ear. "Good for you", said the Captain.
"And straight?" asked the Captain, the boy quickly replied, "Without ice sir!"

FUNCTIONS CORNER
JENIFFER TROLLIP reports:
Hi Everyone,
Well Summer is now officially over, and it is time to start welcoming the start of the Power Time Trial
Season as well as those Frostbites!
Here's a little about what is upcoming here at the club:
Parkerville Twilight
Thank you to Clive for his assistance with organising this amazing event as well as all the members
who assisted on the day, we received some great praise from the carers and the children had
an amazing time. We are looking forward to more events like these in the near future.
Valentines Week
With love blooming during that week, it was such a successful event, we were fully booked on
the Wednesday and was blessed on both days with Chelsea Gibson,
Thank you so much for all your support.
Volunteers Dinner
Was a great success, thank you again for all the volunteers, we do hope you had an amazing
evening with us, we certainly appreciate your tireless efforts throughout the year.
Yoga on Friday Mornings
$15/adult $10/student per session
Yoga at Claremont Yacht Club! Helen Heppingstone will be presenting a
Yoga session, Friday mornings 6am-7am, commencing 1st March in the
Deepdene room (weather permitting we may move to the grass area to
make the most of the morning atmosphere).
Helen is a qualified Yoga instructor with Yoga Australia, bringing with her
up to 30 years in the fitness industry, teaching Yoga exclusively for the past
3.5 years. Her style is Vinyasa, a flowing sequence to squeeze and soak the
whole body, with the focus on maintaining a calm and steady breath
throughout the practice. An incredible way to start the day; your body
and mind will feel centred, balanced and harmonious.
To participate you will need a mat and comfortable clothing. Yoga is
practiced with bare feet.
Please contact Helen on 0429334336 prior to commencing if you have any questions or specific
needs.
The Annual Commodore's Cup
Don’t forget that Sunday, 17th March is the Commodore’s Cup!! The Members Bar will be open
from 11am and the Race commences at 2pm. A wonderful day not-to-be-missed! Come down
and enjoy a few relaxing drinks while you watch the sail past! Presentations and Prizes at 5:30pm.

A WORD FROM THE MANAGER
DOUG HANNAFORD reports:
A Glorious Start
This month began with a unique event, a record field of 100 Lasers heading to Claremont for the state
championships. In a field studded with world champion sand Olympic team members and contenders, the club was
complimented greatly for its warm and friendly welcome; the tangible connecon between the river and the
Deepdene hospitality and the remarkable logiscs in such a relavely small seng. Please excuse me from
lisng the list of generous supporters again here but suffice it to say that the club, through its hearty volunteers,
did us all proud.
Wine Mecca
The epics connue this month, with the introducon of Vince
Salpietro as Wine Sommelier to Claremont Yacht Club. Not only
does Vince bring his wealth of experience and sense of what goes
and when, he also brings his buying power as Managing Director of
Grand Cru, one of Perth’s most respected wine cellars.
With Vince joining our ranks, I look forward to presenng a new
broader wine list, with the emphasis on educaon, adventure and
food matching. Tasng notes will appear against each of the wines
on offer as Vince leads you on his – and maybe your own -
favourite new journey.
For 75 successful applicants in just one week, the journey began
last Friday with the Penfolds Bin Release for 2013 - said to be the
most ancipated release in 30 years. Several of the reds were
accompanied by 1996 and 1998 vintages of the same drop to
demonstrate their potenal for maturaon.
Half Yearly Meeng
Please note that the annual Half Yearly Meeng of Members will take place in the Clubhouse on March 21 at
7.30pm.

Insurance for Contractors
The club is currently assessing all of its insurance risks and covers. One
alarming finding is the frequency with which private owner’s contract boat
tradesmen to work on their boats without appropriate trades insurance
cover. There are occasions that the tradesmen don’t have insurance cover
in place or more commonly have a standard Public Liability policy that
excludes cover when the vessel is over 8 metres & oen has a limit for
vessels is possession of $100,000.
For your reference, the clubs insurance provider has developed a
specialist product for marine contractors named Marine Combined
Liability that addresses these restricons and also includes many other
benefits. Details are available from the office.
Breakfast
Fed up with the fumes and noise at so many of Perth’s bizarre culture
of street-side cafes and restaurants? Consider starng your
Sunday mornings with breakfast and a newspaper at the place
where the river meets the clubhouse, The Deepdene.
Build your own scrumpous breakfast menu from Bircher Muesli to
eggs-as-you-like-them on Italian toast with side servings of bacon,
sausages, mushrooms, spinach or tomatoes all with loose leaf teas
and barista coffee. Breakfast/brunch is on Sunday mornings from
8.00 unl 11.30.
It is most important for all concerned that all trades etc working on boats at the club sign on at the office and show
evidence that they have appropriate insurance in place to
avoid potenal problems.
Passing Through
Ireland’s favourite singer musician Finbar Furey visited CYC
last week at the start of a month long Australian Tour. A
regular face on the Australian stage, Finbar, ex member of
The Fureys and the Clancy Brothers arrived with tour
manager and ex Jesus Christ Superstar performer Marc
Wilkinson (right).
Abrolhos Season
With “Abrolhos season” looming may I remind you that
there may be a number of pens vacant for a period of me,
from weeks to months. Please contact the office to discuss the rate for temporary use of these pens during that me.
Clean Marina Thanks
Thanks to very much to Peter Tate and his diving and shore teams who cleaned up a build-up of lier underwater and
on the beach.
Tender Dinghies
Thank you to all owners of tender dinghies on the beach who have already marked their dinghies, registered them with
the office and chained them down. To all others please note this last warning that unsecured dinghies may be
disposed of in the near future.
Social Commiee
Expressions of interest are sought from Members who would like to join a social commiee or give advice from me to
me.
Thank you and have a lovely month!

MEMBERSHIP REPORT
Claremont Yacht Club would like to say a big welcome to our new Members of the club for February !
We hope you enjoy our facilies and relaxed atmosphere.
Note:
Please ensure you put
the date on your Ice
Chits so we can charge
your membership
account correctly
Thanks!
Congratulaons to
Ross Campbell
Who was the winner for February’s
Vice Commodore Naucal Quiz
The correct answer was: a Vacuum Cleaner
Hose
Come to the Office Ross and collect your
prize!!

CYC Environmental Management
Requirements
The Swan River Trust has recently updated the requirements of the Environmental Management System (EMS) under
which the Club, and its member, operate. As at November 2010, the Claremont Yacht Club has commied to implement
Operaonal Controls for Risks idenfied within the EMS. Several risks which require acon and cooperaon of Members
are detailed below.
Vessel refuelling
• Bowsers are fied with variable rate delivery nozzles with auto-shut. The diesel pump also has a high low rate
pump for rapid filling of vessels with large capacity tanks.
• Members are encouraged to have fuel/air separators devices in fuel tank breather lines to prevent fuel from escaping
vents.
• The Club has provided spill response kits at the bowsers and outside the office (yellow bins).
• Members should ensure they are familiar with the Club’s preferred refuelling procedure (contact the office if you
require details).
Only Club members are to use the refuelling bowser.
No Discharge from Vessels
• Members are to have oil absorpon “pillows” in bilges of vessels, parcularly those that are fied with automac
bilge pumps. Oil absorbent pillows are readily available at marine chandlers.
• Members are responsible for proper disposal of their used bilge pillows.
Members are to ensure that bilge water contaminated with other substances (eg detergents, degreaser) is removed and
appropriately disposed, not discharged into the river.
Cleaning and Maintenance of Vessels in Water
• No abrasive cleaning or scraping of hulls that results in hull coang (anfoul or other) being released into the river.
• No discharge of cleaning products or effluent to river.
• Contain, and appropriately dispose of, any dust or liquid waste arising from maintenance works on members’ vessels
in the marina.
• Do not use angle grinders in the marina.
The Club has negoated a concessional fee for members to use of liing and hard-stand facilies at Royal Perth Yacht
Club
Noise Management
Noise producing acvies, including boat maintenance, to occur only between the hours of 0700 and 1900 (between
0900 and 1900 on Sundays and public holidays).
Remember, the Club belongs to all members and their families, so we all need to work together and with regulatory
bodies, including local government and government instrumentalies, to achieve the ongoing success and growth of the
Club. There will be adverse consequences for the Club if members do not observe these environmental requirements,
therefore, the Club may take acon against members responsible for any breaches of these requirements.

Guess What?!
Fawlty Towers is coming to Claremont Yacht Club!!
Saturday 11th of May
A not-to-be-missed event!!

OUT AND ABOUT

2013 Laser State Championships at Claremont Yacht Club

POWER SECTION
Peter Wilkinson reports:
The weekend of February 16th and 17th saw 35 people in 11 boats join in and take the
cruise to Rockingham. Members headed off in their boats from CYC at their leisure on the 1
hour trip down to The Cruising Yacht Club of Rockingham. Once we arrived we were all
able to e up to the club moorings and enjoy the relaxing atmosphere. Some chose to
head ashore for a coffee, while others enjoyed a quite drink on the back of their boats just
taking in the surroundings, before a planned 5.30pm social get together at TCYC before
dinner.
Manning the tender boats we headed ashore to
enjoy the hospitality of The Cruising yacht club.
Due to a large number of the Rockingham club
members compeng in a yacht race with the
South Fremantle Yacht Club and the fact that it
finished in Fremantle late that aernoon, we
prey much had the club to ourselves. They made
us feel very welcome and provided a very
enjoyable buffet dinner especially for us.

David, a past Commodore of The Cruising Yacht Club welcomed our members and
commented that Claremont and Rockingham clubs had something in common other than
sailing in relaon to the fact that they were the only two yacht clubs to own their
properes. Aer dinner and much conversaon members returned to their boats.
The next morning 20 members took up the opon of returning ashore for a catered buffet
breakfast. Some took an early morning swim, while others headed back early. There was
no pressure, you could just relax and do whatever you wanted to. The feedback from
members was very posive with the request for more events of a similar nature.
Can I close with a thank you to all those members who parcipated and made this an
enjoyable weekend. A special thankyou to Clive & Jan Annear who drove down to meet
with us for dinner.

I HEARD IT BLOWIN IN THE WIND
“From the Start Box” - Saturday 2nd February 2013
A persistent 8 knot Westerly greeted the skippers of 13 yachts this aernoon. (There was an earnest argument by
several members about where West was located, in the Bar over lunch).
A good start by the super-quick ‘Warlord’ & ‘Wild Bull’ saw them well ahead of the Rear Commodore’s Flying Fieen
‘Touch Wood’, then returning ‘Angazi’ and the new member Greg Simpson on his Randall 32 ‘Altercaon’.
An OOPS by the Commodore saw him and his shadow Peter Robertson fail to complete their assigned course and give
the FIRST ACROSS THE LINE to Dean Caple. But it was Peter Hibberd on his Naturalist 27 who won the Handicap race.
In the Division 3 and 4 it was basically a two horse race between ‘Tehani’ and ‘Annie Lee II’, with Kingsley arriving home
first and Dirk taking home the First place on corrected me.
In the Space Sailor 22s, another match-up was played out. Kevin Kiddey’s ‘Krista’ led the fleet most of the day but
Arthur Poland on ‘Beaujolais’ sailed steady race. He overtook ‘Andalusia’ then on the final rounding of Burnside he
passed ‘Krista’ only to encounter spinnaker problems in front of the club and have Kevin sail back into the lead.
Dinghies 3 rd February 2013
It was another beauful sunny day, with a clear blue sky and a gentle breeze to start the day. Aer a bit of confusion,
at least for me, on where the race was going to start, we got going.
For a change, I had a decent start and was even in the mid field unl the first mark. It was really excing to be in
between all the other boats – instead of just trying to follow and guess which way to go – and really useful for learning
from everyone else. The downside is that it is easier to be in the wrong place and hit some of the other boats – sorry.
Had the race lasted a bit longer, I would have probably been le behind, but I just about managed to stay with the back
markers. On the last length, I even managed to catch up with Walter and had a really close finish. From the official
results, it turns out I was in front by 1 second!
And so with the handicap system, I went from 18 th to 1 st . Not bad. The real winners were Mal on the full rig and Wendy
on the Radial. Well done!
Thanks for another very well organized day!
Carlos Sicilia
ON WATER REPORT - Saturday 9 th February
Well today was programmed for a River Start for a Heat of the Club Championships and so all the 22s were very focused
on pung up the right sail to help with the light winds that were forecast.
Chris Cochrane was so serious about it that when I got down to the boat he was under his boat (Andalusia) cleaning his
hull, and hopefully not pung a bucket under the compeon!!
So off we went and waited for our start me. We had a reasonably good start but Krista and Hydrowitch had a beer
start. We headed towards the bank and Andalusia headed into the mooring area in the bay, which proved to be the right
move as he rounded College Buoy first followed by Hydrowitch and then Krista, Beaujolais and bring up the rear Shea Rua
(with his crew of young ladies).
We sailed most of the rest of the race with Hydrowitch including a close call going past Point Walter Spit. When we sailed
down to Burnside we were very conscious of looking to see if they had signaled a shortened course-which they had!! The
last me they shortened the course we almost missed seeing it and almost sailed past the finish line before we realized.
We couldn’t see Andalusia and so he must have finished well ahead of us.
Well it obviously was worthwhile cleaning under the boat wasn’t it Chris? Great Job Chris, you sailed well. Maybe next
me we’ll beat you??

SUNDAY DINGHIES - 10 th February 2013
Thirteen lasers took on the gusty condions on Sunday morning, connuing the strong fleet numbers which have been seen
at the Club this season. Unlike other weeks where the breeze has struggled to get over 10 knots the fleet had a chance this
week to pracce in more challenging condions ahead of the state championships
The race saw a number of capsizes with even the leading full rigs taking a few swims. I learnt the importance of picking your
me when gybing at the wing mark and took a swim in the first downwind leg.
The full rigs saw some close racing with the first four boats finishing within close to a minute of each other with Mal
McKercher taking the win ahead of Travis Lithgo and Max Brown.
The radials saw mulple lead changes during the race as has been the trend with three different winners over the last three
weeks. The close racing is certainly enjoyable and I have been crossing tacks with Will Nunn over the last few weeks, making
the need to pick the wind shis crical. Will looked to have the win in the bag before he had an unlucky capsize on the final
windward leg allowing me to get the win ahead of John Rasmussen in third and Gaye Ryan in fourth in the radial fleet.
Evan Schmedje
THE VIEW FROM INSATIABLE - Saturday 16 th February
I took out a second mortgage during the week to buy a new red spinnaker and was keen to try it out. The course was a
lile on the short side which didn’t please CommDom because it gave the pesky SS22s and dastardly Red Witches a chance
to lord it over the baleships in Division 1.
Arthur and Kevin jumped away quickly and Chris beat us to the start line so we returned the favour by calling water on him
at the first mark. We snuck inside Tehani with a cheeky tack at Point Walter buoy and up went the kite accompanied by
the usual yelling that takes the place of conversaon in Insaable’s cockpit on race day.
Back up past Freshie when a jammed winch saw Pete pull out the knife and cut the jib sheet free to allow us to tack.
Shades of Shackleton! All the while Georgie, the twins Avaganda and Kiwi Express and a hungry Wild Bull were looming.
Once we were off the wind again the mighty red balloon flew us home. Dale II took advantage of Arthur’s kite trouble to
grab third behind the fast finishing Andalusia.
When you think about it, SS22s and Red Witches are the business. Cheap to buy, don’t need many crew, close racing, fast
as a fox if you point them in the right direcon and you can clean the hull yourself (if you can’t persuade your children to
do it for you).
Sailing condions are excellent at the moment and it is a treat to be out on the water and enjoying compeve racing.
James
DINGHIES - Sunday 24 t h February 2013
Sunday 24 th February was Heat 5 of the Club Championship, with a fleet of 18 boats, 10 radial, and 8 full rigs.
John Fussell won it hands down and took off with great boat speed and trim to round the top mark clear in front. Unfortunately
he gave his center-board the Liverpool Kiss (don’t ask me how) and had to rere semi-concussed. We trust you are
on the improve John and are now in good health. Speaking of which he is one of ten sailors who have nominated to sail in
the state championship this weekend. Great to see such enthusiasm from Team C.Y.C.
While on the topic of the states Graham Lithgo went to a lot of trouble to set and reset a course which was of similar length
to the one we will sail next week. Thanks Graham you did a brilliant job, considering the severe wind shis.
Thanks also to Rob Treeby who was kept busy supervising the numerous capsized boats. Sco Francis also managed a clean
boat end start to take fastest me in the radials with Will Nunn not too far behind. He was closely followed home by Andrew
Howell in third place.
The full rigs was a close fought bale between Nigel Paul and yours truly with a rogue wave acon causing Nigel to infringe
thus cosng him a crack at first place and Travis Lithgo claimed third place with John Ryan not to far adri in fourth.
Good Luck to all those compeng next weekend.
Mal McKercher

SAIL REPORT
Dean Caple reports:
Sailing sll seems to be busier than ever and we don’t seem
to have enough hours in the day. We in the sailing circles
have reached a few important milestones in the past month
and I would like to address each one individually.
Training is back at CYC. CYC has reintroduced sailing into
the club program; this training is open to all members and
the general public. At present we are only delivering Start
Sailing 1 courses over a 12 hour syllabus delivered over 3
Saturday mornings at a cost of $175.00 per person. This
acvity has injected new crew in to the keel boats and
dinghy secon which has also brought new people to the
club and sailing. Long term it is planned to introduce the
Yachng Australia Keel Boat program into the club to be
delivered to the general public. We have purchased 3
second hand 420 sailing boats to conduct this training at a
total cost of $3000.00. We have also trained 2 members as
Yachng Australia Dinghy Sailing Instructors to deliver this
training at club level. Rob Boyco and Richard Regan are
our new club instructors in the dinghy program. Our next
Adult Learn to Sail Course at Claremont Yacht Club starts on
the 6 th April. Please visit the YWA website to enrol.
Tacker Kids Sailing: It was decided that CYC would adopt
the Tackers junior sailing parcipaon program to bring
back junior sailing and family parcipaon to the club, an
area which has been lacking for a number of years. 6 Ozi
Op boats were purchased new at a cost of $13063.64,
There are 3 levels of tackers course and each course is
delivered over 20 hours each, the price of a Tackers course
is approx $300.00. Tackers is a program that is an off the
shelf course delivered to a set program and parcipants
receive merchandise such as shirts etc. There are only 4
clubs delivering Tackers in Perth, I see this as a great
opportunity to establish the club as the Tackers Training
Centre in the area. We will run a free try before you buy
session on Sunday the 17 th and 4 th March, so if you know
of families and young kids wanng to get into sailing send
them down for free sail. Mum and dad can have breakfast
and a coffee on Sunday morning while we entertain the
kids. If you want to find out more info on Tackers go to the
following link :
hp://www.discoversailing.org.au/default.asp?MenuID=Tac
kers/c24407/60798
Laser State Regaa: What a success this was. All thanks go
to John Rasmussen and his commiee for a great event and
very well organised. We had 100 sailors sail at CYC over 3
days, there were families playing on the beach, people
having breakfast and lunches in the club, a beach full of
boats and sailors and a great atmosphere each day aer
sailing. Com Dom stood on the top steps of the club and
looked over the beach and water and proudly declared
“Now this place really feels like a yacht club”. Thanks also
go to all CYC members for assisng with the parking issues
and the small inconvenience suffered if you had to walk an
extra 200m to your boat. I would also like to thank the Laser
Associaon, Hillarys Yacht Club Race Management Team,
Chris Kelly and the many club volunteers who lent a hand,
Anne Caddick, Andrew Caddick, Richard Reagan, Ian
Howell, Rob Treeby, Max Brown. Jim Murray, Will Nunn,
Rebecca Mayes, Rob Jeffery, and Chas Milner and a big
thanks to our CYC staff for a well hosted event. A big thanks
go to John Steinhart who at short noce was able to make
both himself and his boat available as a start boat for the
regaa when the planned start boat broke down.
Unfortunately due to the short noce our new powerboat
members didn’t get an opportunity to step forward to
assist the club, but I’m sure they will have a chance to help
out on open day. For us as a club we gained valuable
experience in race management and running such an event,
new members and introduced many sailors and people who
never knew CYC existed or did dinghy sailing.
Keel Boat Sailing: With some great feedback from you
sailors we will change the next season schedule to cater for
all sailing tastes, we will see a few more handicap races,
some short course racing, a few social/cruising type events
included in to the sailing program. We understand that
sailing is a me consuming acvity and requires some boats
to get a lot of crew ready for an event, we would like to be
more inclusive in our sailing acvies in addion to our
tradional club sailing.
Volunteers: At present the sailing at CYC is held together
by approx 10 people who do it all, and they have been doing
it for a long me. We really need to get some new people
involved in the commiee and helping us out with rescue
boats and the behind the scenes stuff. If you can spare any
me or your feel you can make a posive contribuon to
what we do please put your hand up we would love to see
your involvement. We are desperate for a Sailing Captain to
assist the commiee. My final point on volunteers is we will
soon need a new Rear Commodore of Sailing, my 3 year
term is now coming to an end, If this is a job you would be
interested in talk to Dom or me. It’s not all hard work and
gra, and there are a lot of rewards. My plan is to set you
up for the first year and the sail commiee will assist you at
every opportunity, and you will never have to look for a car
park again as you get one in front of the office!
Don’t forget the Commodores Cup on Sunday 17 th March,
this is a big club event and we need every boat we can get
out on the water for this day !!

SAIL COURSES
Claremont Yacht Club
Adult Learn to Sail Course
Next course begins Saturday 06 th April
This course is an accredited Yachng Australia Learn to Sail Course and is open to adults and
teenagers from 14 years of age and up. Each parcipant will receive a log book, text book and
a crew membership with the club for the duraon of the course. Lunch is provided each day.
Training is delivered by qualified instructors in our fleet of 2 training dinghies.
If you have never sailed and want to learn this is the ideal opportunity, you will get wet but
you will have a lot of fun doing it. By the end of the course you will have the skills and confidence
to rig a small sailing boat, sail a course and understand the safety measures required to
be safe on the water and enjoying sailing.
When: Saturday mornings 0800h TO 1200h
What to Bring: Hat, Sunscreen, Bathers, long sleeve top/rash vest, water bole, towel and a
change of clothes
Where: Claremont Yacht Club - 4 Victoria Ave, Claremont
How much: $175.00 for a 12 hour course delivered over 3 Saturday mornings in 4 hour sessions.
How do I book in to the course? : Go to our website, and under the Sailing Course secon
there is a link to register and pay online.
Alternavely you can visit www.wa.yachng.org.au and under the Future Training secon, locate
the Adult Learn to Sail Course at Claremont Yacht Club and register online.

DINGHY REPORT
John Rasmussen reports:
Aer 6 months of ancipaon, trepidaon and
steady preparaon, the 2013 Laser State
Championships kicked off on Saturday March 2nd
at CYC. By Friday, preparaons were almost
complete but there were sll a few things to sort
out - a broken start boat in Mandurah, a
mysterious super cruiser next to Karrakaa Bank
where we'd be racing and (perhaps most
concerning) a forecast for very light to
non-existent winds over much of the weekend.
Thank you all very much. Special thanks to Doug
Hannaford and the office and funcons staff. In
the space of 24 hrs, they managed with
great success a wake, a wedding and the first day
of the Championships. The event concluded with a
superb presentaon lunch in the ballroom (with
more humour from Chris and Dom) followed by a
sigh of relief knowing that the hard work of so
many had paid off.
All of our concerns were resolved in the next 24
hours before the event. John Steinhardt kindly
offered his boat as a start vessel for the weekend
and the super cruiser shied off the bank. The wind
steadily built from the south west just before racing
commenced. Commodore Papaluca and Chris Kelly
(WALA President) helped calm any pre race nerves
with their typical humour in the welcome address
(several members of the crowd thought Dominic's
unofficial 'Comm Dom' tle was hilarious).
The next 48 hours saw very compeve racing
amongst the 100 Lasers in 10 - 15 knot winds from
the NW to SW. No doubt there hadn't been so
many boats racing on Freshwater Bay at once for
quite a while. In the Standard Rig fleet, races were a
trapezoid typically lasng 30 - 40 minutes. Finishing
on a reach was a lot of fun but gave lile possibility
of catching boats in front before the finish line.
Nigel Paul was the best placed CYC Standard rig
sailor in 7th place while Sco Francis was the best
placed Radial rig sailor in 15th posion. Wendy
Campbell was the only 4.7 rig CYC sailor, who
finished in 15th posion ahead of Jessica Watson
(we'll pretend it was the esteemed ocean sailor by
the same name!). Congratulaons to the tle
winners and all who entered.
The event would not have run nearly as well
without the support and assistance of so many -
those who volunteered on and off the water, the
Race Commiee, members who lent their vessels
for the weekend (in parcular John Steinhardt), the
Sail and Dinghy Commiees, CYC Flag Officers, the
WA Laser Associaon and all sailors who entered.

The Archive Crew
The Old Salts Group meet at CYC on the
first Thursday morning of each month,
where they volunteer their time to assist
with maintenance duties around the
Club. Scrumptious morning tea is
provided . If you are interested in joining,
please call the Office!
The Archive Crew are looking for willing
hands to assist with cataloguing, sorng,
filing and preserving of records, memorabilia
and artefacts. We also need someone
with computer skills for entry of informaon
into our database.
If you are interested in assisng with this
project please contact recepon and leave a
message for us.
Otherwise join us at the next “Old Salts”
morning tea which is held in the Deepdene
Room at the Club on the first Thursday of
each month.
Our next meeng will be held on
Thursday 4th April at 10:30am
Dear club members
It has come me to leave the club as I need to
cut back my workload due to family and
health issues. I would like to thank all the club
members and staff for their support over the
past two and a half years. It has been a
pleasure and honour to work at the
Claremont Yacht Club and I have enjoyed
meeng many fantasc members past and
present, too many to name.
I wish the club every success in the future with all of the excing things
coming up this year.
Best wishes,
Colin the Chef

THE ARCHIVE CREW
Archives@claremontyachtclub.org.au
March 2013
Checkpoint -
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We are looking for a photograph, sketch or painting of the original ‘Deepdene’. The original
building was ‘transformed’ in the early 1950’s into the two storied building we have today.
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A call has been made by us for some assistance with ongoing help to sort and maintain our invaluable
archival collection.
Please contact us through the office or our email address: Archives@claremonttyacht.org.au
The Archive Crew
The Spar and Canvas Trophy
“Special Member Steve Scott donated the Spar and Canvas Trophy to the Club some years ago. His late
father, Bill Scott, was a member of Claremont Yacht Club just after
the Second World War and won the trophy in his 12 Square Metre
(Heavyweight) Sharpie “Tradewinds”. Bill built the Sharpie
around 1946 and sailed it out of Claremont until the early 1950’s
when he built himself a carvel jarrah planked displacement launch
which he kept on the river at Blackwall Reach before building a
cottage in Careening Bay at Garden Island and moving the boat to
Point Peron. My mother, Dorothy, remembers the construction
‘Tradewinds’ Aground
with some regret as the cost and the time my father put into it
delayed their wedding for a year: Dad had his own priorities! My father won the Spar and Canvas Trophy,
but my Mother cannot remember for what and whether it was
for a particular race or a series.
The 12 Square Metre Sharpie was 19 ft 7 in LOA with a 4 ft. 8 in beam that was
designed in Germany in 1931. The hull was of hard chine carvel construction with a
Gunter rig. The class had a minimum weight of 230 kg: somewhat heavier than its
offspring, the Australian (Lightweight) Sharpie, with a minimum weight of 90kg.
Australia won its first Olympic Sailing medals in the 1956 Melbourne Games with a
silver in the 12 Square Metre Sharpie class and a bronze in the 5.5 Metre keelboat
Spar and Canvas Trophy
1949
class. My uncle Malcolm (Huck) Scott crewed for Roly Tasker in the Sharpie.
Claremont Yacht Club had a strong fleet of Heavyweight Sharpies.

March 2013
The Spar and Canvas Trophy
The Heavyweight Sharpie fleet at Claremont was not used solely for racing. My
mother remembers many a picnic cruise to Chidley Point that I think had an
unofficial name of Doughboy Point. In my infancy, I had my harness attached
to the mast and then to the solitary Peppermint tree located in the sand near the
end of the Point. The class was fairly robust and apparently could carry a small
keg balanced on the king plank. Picnic runs to Garden Island were also
popular.”
‘Tradewinds in Shallows’
The late Dex Hammond who crewed
for my father and his wife Gwen.
‘Tradewinds’ sailing somewhere between.
Point Resoluon and Blackwall Reach.
These were the steps from Victoria Avenue to the
old clubhouse. They were located on the eastern
boundary of the Club. My late father Bill Scott is on
the right.
Thank you to Steve Scott and his mother Dorothy for
this contribution to Midstream, providing the photos
for the article. The Scott family have been continuous
active members of Claremont Yacht Club since 1946.

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