Middle Harbour Yacht Club E-News 15th January 2014

Middle Harbour Yacht Club E-Newsletter

Welcome to Middle Harbour Yacht Club's E-Newsletter. 

MHYC Juniors Otto Henry has Just been Crown Australian Optimist Champion along with Dana Tavner and Cathy Pagett winning the Australian Youth Titles.
 See article below.

Sydney Harbour Regatta - 8th & 9th March 2014 - Entries Now Open

The Sydney Harbour Regatta will be held over the weekend of 8th and 9th March, 2014.  A huge highlight of the MHYC sailing calendar and one not to be missed.  Enter online today!

Click here to enter.

Visit the SHR website at www.shr.mhyc.com.au.

Wild Oats Thursday Twilights - 16th January, 2014

The Wild Oats Thursday Twilight Series continues - Race 14 tomorrow Thursday 16th January, 2014. There will be 23 pointscore races in the Series with the final race being on 27th March 2014.
Click here to enter online.
To view Entrants and Results - click here.

A & B Arm Only Available for Drop & Go - Twilights

Please note that A & B Arm will only be available for picking up and dropping off guests and crew for the Twilights tomorrow night. Berthing available on both arms, please check with the Dockmaster prior.

Please contact Alister Copley for any further queries.

 18 16 New Marina Berths Available for Summer at MHYC

Now 16 new marina berths available for Summer 2014. For enquiries, please contact Alister Copley at alister@mhyc.com.au.
Click here for more details.

Wednesday Series 2 supported by Inner Circle Rum

Series 2 for the 2013-14 season Race 5, Wednesday 15th January, 2014. Please be reminded that the handicaps are count up and also handicap start is now from 1330 hours. Raffle tickets will be selling post race for the fantastic Meat Tray.
To enter - click here.
To view Entrants and Results - click here.

January Cup & 2 Handed Race Results

The January Cup and 2 Handed race was held last Saturday on a beautiful sunny Sydney day.  Congratulations to Impeccable (John Walker), winner of the January Cup and Botany Access Cocomo (Justin Brownbill) winner of the 2 Handed Race.
Click here for all results.

Feature Events - Chaos & Bedlam Point Cups - Sat 18th January

Saturday 18 January – CHAOS and BEDLAM POINT CUPS

The Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions are online at http://www.mhyc.com.au/feature-events.html and entries are online at http://www.mhyc.com.au/online-entries.html.

We hope you will join us for this fun event and in the meantime if you need further information or assistance with your entry please do not hesitate to contact the Sailing Office.

Summer Pointscore - Saturday 1st February 2014

The Summer Pointscore will begin on Saturday 1st February, 2014.
Open Division Race 1 & 2 - first scheduled warning signal 1255 hours.
Inshore Divisions Race 1 & 2 - first scheduled warning signal 1300 hours.

Club Short Series Race 9 & 10
To enter - click here.
To view Entrants and Results - click here.

Junior Sailing - Term 1 bookings now open!

The holiday camps are in full swing with some vacancies still available for next week. The Camps will run from Monday until Thursday . Drop off at 9.15am and pick up at 3.30pm.

Bookings are now online for Term 1 2014, beginning on Sundays from 2nd February, 2014. Click here to book.

To book online and for more information on our Holiday Camps, click here.

MHYC Juniors Shine down South!

A number of MHYC Juniors traveled down south the cold waters of Melbourne for the annual Christmas and New Year regattas. MHYC did extremely well with Otto Henry becoming the Australian National Champion in the Optimists at just 12 years old. 

Dana Tavener and Cathy Pagett won the Australian Youth titles as well as the Youth Grand Prix Series

along with Finn Gilbert and Louie Collins winning the boys Youth Grand Prix Series

420 Nationals at Sorrento Sailing and Couta Boat Club (43 entries)

Overall

2nd Xavier Winston Smith and Josh Dawson 6th James Griffin and Conor Campbell 8th Finn Gilbert and Louie Collins

Top 7 Boys teams and Top 7 Girls teams qualified for the International 420 worlds. So the above teams qualified for the boys. MHYC girls teams who qualified were Dana Tavener and Cathy Pagett, Sandya and Kanya Raj, Sophie McIntosh and Demi Gilbert, Charlotte Griffin and Kirsty Sturrock.

Australian Youth Championships - 420 Class (37 entries)

1st Dana Tavener and Cathy Pagett 6th Finn Gilbert and Louie Collins 10th James Griffin and Conor Campbell

Finn and Louie & Dana and Cathy also won the boys and girls Australian 420 Youth Grand Prix series respectively.

Moving on to the Opti National Championships at Mornington YC. 344 entries  - biggest ever centreboard dinghy championship in Australia.

Australian national champion and 1st overall Otto Henry (and first 12 year old!)

Female National Champion Ashley Coles, 

Third under 11 John Mark Paul

Third Under 12 Archie Cropley

Otto will have place in the Australian Optimist worlds team and Ashley will have a place on the Australian optimist Asian Championships team.

MHYC also had:

Alec Brodie - 8th Optimists

Flynn Twomey - 12th Optimists

Max Paul - 14th Optimists

Archie Cropley - 26th Optmists

Tom Green - 27th Optimists

Ashleigh Coles - 28th Optimists

Josh Bull - 2nd (Silver Fleet) Optimists

Congratulations to all the sailors for these excellent results!