Middle Harbour Yacht Club E-Newsletter

Welcome to Middle Harbour Yacht Club's E-Newsletter.  
Congratulations to all the winners and finalists from last Friday night's Yachting Australia Awards. Please see Tony Bate's article below for a recap of the evening.

Reminder - limited seats are still available for the Melbourne Cup Luncheon next Tuesday - be quick!

MHYC selected as Finalist in the 2012 Australian Yachting Awards
- Sport Promotion Award

MHYC was honoured to be selected as one of the 4 finalists in the Sport Promotion Category awarded at Yachting Australia’s Gala Annual dinner held at the Byron Kennedy Hall Moore Park last Friday night.

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Special Sailing Clinic with Malcolm Page

As part of the Club's Sailing Clinics, dual Olympic gold medallist, MHYC Member and now, Male Sailor of the Year, Malcolm Page, will be our guest speaker on Wednesday 14th November, 2012, at 7.30pm. Malcolm will be recapping his campaign and success from the recent London Olympics.

An experience not to be missed for all ages.

Members $10/Non-Members $20/Child $10. Bookings essential on 9969 1244.

Adopt A Plank 

Plans are on the way to update the verandas outside the harbour View Room and Cala Luna. As you are aware this is well and truly overdue. We have not been able to do this previously as we simply have not had the funds. Now with the help of Cala Luna we can get started.

Unfortunately, our capital budget cannot accommodate the Club’s entire share so we are launching the Adopt a Plank Fund Raising Program.

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Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) -

Online Entries Open

24th - 25th November, 2012

Online entries are now open for the 35th Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship to be held on the weekend of 24th and 25th November, 2012. The NoR for the SSORC is also available online.

Click here for the SSORC website.

Click here for Sail-World article.

Wild Oats Thursday Twilight Series

supported by Helly Hansen

Twilight Online Entries for 2012-13 are now open.  Click here to enter online. 

Race 4: Thursday Twilight Series, 1st November, 2012. 

Tuesday Twilight Series - 1st Race Promotion

Ahoy There – all you Sailors!!

The Summer is Coming
The weather is getting warmer
The nights are getting Longer

And November 13th – the night of the 1st ever Tuesday Social Tuesday is almost upon us!

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Race 1: Tuesday Twilight Series, 13th November, 2012.

(Race 1 of the Tuesday Twilight Series has been postponed a week due to the Melbourne Cup). Click here for Amendment to Tuesday Twilight Series.
Paper entries will not be available. Online entry demonstrations will be conducted on Wednesday afternoons at reception. 

Please contact the Sailing Office for more information.

Beach BBQ & Harbourview Bar & Bistro Open for Twilights

The delicious menu offerings for the Twilight Series will again consist of either casual meals from the BBQ ranging in price from $7 to $12, from Fusili Pasta Carbonara, Antipasto plate or Vegetarian burger, to a Twilight bistro menu in the Harbourview Bar & Bistro.  Bookings are essential for the Bistro. Please call 9969 1244 to book a table.

Special Twilight Membership for New Members

MHYC will be offering a special Twilight Membership for new members wishing to join the Club for the Twilight season.  The cost will be $274.00 (inc YA fee) and expires 31st August 2013.  Conditions apply. Get your crew ready for the season.
Click here for more information.

Wild Oats Thursday Twilight Race 3 Report

Race 3 in the Middle Harbour Yacht Club Thursday Twilight series was another 'interesting' race. Race started with lots of winds and then ended with a struggle for enough breeze to cross the line before 8.30pm. Whoever designs Sydney's weather should lift their game.

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Spring Pointscore

Spring Pointscore Racing will continue on Saturday 3rd November 2012, with Offshore and Inshore harbour race course areas.

Open Division – Race 8 (SOP)

First Scheduled Warning Signal: 1155hrs

Inshore Divisions – Race 8
First Scheduled Warning Signal: 1300hrs

Club Short Series – Race 5

Scheduled Warning Signal: 1320hrs

Wednesday Series 1

Series 1 for the 2012-13 season, Race 9 today, Wednesday 31st October, 2012. Entries are available online - click here. Please be reminded that the handicaps are count up and also, as of today, handicap start is from 1330 hours.

Junior Sailing Holiday Camps

MHYC will be holding Junior Sailing Holiday Fun Camps during the January school holiday period.  The camps will run as follow:-

8th - 11th January, 2013

14th - 17th January, 2013

21st - 24th January, 2013. 

For more details and the enrolment form - click here.  

Melbourne Cup at MHYC - Limited seats still available

Join us for the race that stops a nation - Melbourne Cup - on Tuesday 6th November, 2012, in the Harbourview Bar & Bistro from 12 noon.

$70 Members/$80 Non Members.
3 course menu with glass of champagne upon arrival.
Group bookings are available of 10 or more at $70 pp. Bookings essential. Call 9969 1244.

Sailing Clinic - Racing Tactics & Strategy

Wednesday 21st November, 2012, at 7.30pm

Quantum’s Carl Crafoord & Brent Fowler will present an evening seminar on Racing Tactics & Strategy, to help you kick off your summer season of sailing.
Carl has a wealth of experience including 26 Sydney to Hobarts (winning 4 as navigator), 9 Admirals Cups, 9 Kenwood Cups, as well as logging over 150,000 offshore miles. Brent has been a key member of many teams wining both Australian and Asian IRC Regattas. He turned heads when at 23 years old he helmed the first Australian Team at the Med Cup in the Soto 40 Series, with the average age onboard at 24.

Members $10/Non-Members $20/Child $10.  Bookings essential on 9969 1244.

MHYC Health & Wellness Survey

As part of the Club’s new strategic plan, we have reached a preliminary agreement with well know Mosman trainers, Tani Ruckle and Michael Lynch, to offer a range of fitness and wellness programs to Club Members to be run from the Club premises.

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Sailability Require More Helpers

Following on from the recognition MHYC received from last weekends Yacht Australia Awards, Sailability Middle HArbour continues to offer the freedom of the the sailing experience to people with disabilities on two Sundays every month. To spread this opportunity to more prospective sailors, Sailability Middle Harbour needs more volunteers - both on the water as skippers and land support.  

If you can offer some voluntary help or to find out more information, please contact Gill and Glynne Attersall on 02 9452 2708 or 0417 028 931. 

New Helly Hansen MHYC Long Sleeved Cool White Polos now available

Helly Hansen long sleeved white cool polos, MHYC burgee embroidered, are now available from reception for $67.45 Members and $74.95 Non members.

Offshore Sail & (Basic) Navigation Exercises - 10th November, 2012

For those not racing that day, why not sail in company with a few other Club yachts to an offshore waypoint to revise your basic navigation skills? Whilst enjoying this fun sail over the horizon, refresh those manual navigation skills, which are so useful for getting the most out of your GPS/Plotter. Review your course made good with the other yachts during a late afternoon raft-up.

Phone Michael Mulholland-Licht on 0418 476 216 if you’d like to join us.

Weighing for IRC & Other Rated Boats

Boats that require a weighing for IRC or any other Rating for races such as the Sydney to Hobart and Pittwater-Coffs race, are asked to contact Phil West on  0418 222 731 so that a date can be determined.

CYCA Safety Day

On Sunday November 4, commencing at 9.30 am, The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia will be holding a Marine Safety Day that no one who ventures to sea, be it cruising or racing, should miss.
One of the main features is information about what will happen if you run into trouble at sea that you can't handle and radio for assistance.
Further information is available at the CYCA website: http://www.cyca.com.au.