Race 5 (Pursuit) on August 19 2018Race 5 Aug 19 Documentation.

The Race 5 is a pursuit start race with a scheduled start time 1030 hrs Sunday August 19. Use these links to down loadthe Race 5 Group start times and Race 5 Sailing Instructions.

Race 5 will be conducted for the CYAA by the RYCV with Race Director David Leroy in charge. The start line will be theRYCV marina line. The allocated Race 5 course and group start sequence will be displayed by the use numeral numberboards from the Race Committee starting box on the seaward end of the RYCV Marina. Skippers of the competing Classicyachts are requested to pass by the starting box to inform the race organiser of their intent to compete in Race 5.

Forecast for Sundays Port Phillip conditions.

Not looking good. Today’s heavy breathy call from the Avian crew to the handicapper wasstraight out of True Confessions. “It was only a very light scrub by the Crew. It wasn’t me,Square dinks” “Heavy or light, who cares, now look what you’ve done. No doubt, yoooudid it”, said the judge to the Cock Robin of the very red faced Avian. Sad to relate, the judgestill put on weight so he told the Met Bureau to issue the following.Synopsis for Sunday A vigorous west to southwesterly airflow will follow on Saturday andSunday as a large high pressure system approaches the Bight.

A race/no race conference and decision will take place with the RYCV Race director earlySaturday evening, 6:00pm. The conference decision will be sent asap by SMS to Race 5skippers and crews.

CYAA Membership Renewal take up status.Current membership renewal take up is less than 50% of 2018 membership count. Strong membership will maintain theCYAA’s reason for being. Another incentive to maintain CYAA membership is to be on the CYAA Magazine mailout list.Here’s some snippet’s from the next magazine.16 members with 21 consecutive years of CYAA membership, why the Reef was named Albert Jeays

and this with thanks to Phillip Brown"Thursday 17/9/980800 Wind on the up again 35 -40. Bloody Hell.Wave taken out cowl ventilator on stern.1000 Engine 1 hourNo bread againMain down. Driving rain. Anita had a shower!1100 Wave down main hatch. Just when it wasgetting better. S$%^1200 8 deg 40 min S, 84 deg 36 east Windincreasing1300 Wind screaming. Back over 40K. F...everything. Leaks everywhere.Halfway, celebrated with half a beer."

17th Aug 2018

Between Cocos Keeling and Chagos Archipelago. We couldn't get thecamera out until it calmed down a bit. We are halfway to Chagos andunbeknown to us, tropical Cyclone Zelia was brewing near Cocos.

Chagos

Cocus Keeling

2018 Cup Regatta News

Cup Regatta Notice of Race documentation has been prepared. Melbourne Port Aquatic Event Approval to conductthe event has been received.

There will be an entry fee increase, not much, to cover the increased RYCV race management and catering costs.When this is sorted, the Cup Regatta documentation and entry forms will be published. What can be said is theentry fee will be waived for first timers and first time for five years entrants.

Above is a photo of the Classic Yacht Trophy wall at RYCV. Check out these links for a better view of the Tony BlakeTrophy and for the Tony Blake trophy story.

YeulbaCheck out the above Cup Regatta photoand look close. It’s Yeulba ?? That’s right!Yeulba. For the Yeulba story by BruceStannard in the Nov. 2011 edition ofAfloat check out this link. Today Yeulbacan be looked over during a visit to TimPhillips Wooden Boat Shop. She’s lookingfor a syndicate of restorers to bring herback to her racing glory. Another pictureof Yeulba racing history is from her timein Hobart. With Grayling being restoredto racing standard and Vanity ready torace after her restoration by Peter Kerr ofDeegon slipways for Robert Virtue, Weene the Glamour Lady of Sydney Harbourthe glamour lady of Sydney and Alwyn who went to Geelong is still winning racesin Melbourne. Yeulba is the perfect candidate to complete the circle that willbring back to life that golden era of A Class Classic Yacht Racing in Australia.

The Cup Regatta Tony Blake Trophy1907 off Black Rock during a Sayonara Cup Race Sayonara passes Rawhiti.

Monday 15 December 1930

Cup Regatta and Wooden Boat Shop

Through the years of the CYAA’s Cup Regatta Tim Phillips and his Wooden Boat Shop have been strong supportersof the CYAA Cup Regatta Concour’s d’Elegance Trophy. A feature of this trophy is the adjudication by our visitingmembers from the Classic Yacht Association of New Zealand. Recognition of the importance attached to this trophyby our CYAA members is shown by the total silence when the chair of the trophy adjudicators, Bruce Tantrum, onbehalf of the visiting members, makes known the selection process used for each presentation.

This year, the 2018 CupRegatta Concours will againfeature the Wooden BoatShop Boat Hook trophy, theCup Regatta equivalent ofthe gold plated Wirth’sWhip. The Wirth Whiptrophy for jockey whobought home theMelbourne Cup winner.endured from the 1880’s to2016.

Recent discussions withTim Phillips indicate TheCup Regatta will see astronger sponsorshippresence from the WoodenBoat Shop.

Tim Phillips Cruising News Letter

Your handicapper recently received Tim Phillips most recent cruising newsletter. Take a look. Lot’s of Bass StraitIsland Stories A cruise in company with Tim is being organised for the Hobart Wooden Boat Festival. Contact Tim atthe WBS for further details.

A Yacht Syndication StoryRecent moves on the Classic Yacht market have indicated other type of yacht ownership have to be looked at. Tohelp move this subject to a point where all aspects of this method of yacht ownership should be fully examined.Within the CYAA in both Melbourne and Sydney several successful yacht owner syndicate are in operation Thehandicapper wants to hear from these syndicates with the view of generating a document that will assist othergroups of potential yacht owners with their decision making.

Oenone’s skipper Helen Lovett with her crewof many years, Linke Lovett and MajbrittKring celebrate their 2016 Concoursd’Flegance win

OENONEDesigner Linton Hope

Builder Charles Blunt Geelong 1902 The CYANZ selection for the 2016 Concours d’Elegance

Copy of Lloyds Register for Yacht 1902 Oenone was originally named Voilet IV . Re-named as Oenone when sold by the CummingsEstate to Sydney based connections for Harbour based racing. Courtesy Greg Blunt

Sharing Evlyn in 32 waysThree friends in a pub decided to buy a Falmouth working boat – the result was a well-managedsyndicate that provides plenty of racing. Nigel Sharp tells their story

A recent look over the RYCV notice reveals some candidates for owner syndication.

Click on the Marie Louise III photo for more info about her

Australian Sailing Women & Girls in Sailing

At the recent Australian Sailing club conference a paper about how this group operated within the AS administration.was presented. From the information provided a representative from the CYAA would go along way to promotingClassic Yacht racing activity CYAA women skippers and crews. A nomination form is available for interested people.

New Zealand Traditional Boat BuildingSchool

Mail was recently received from this school.To find out what courses are offered goingon in the New Zealand Boat Building Schooltake a look

That’s it for the Race 5 pre race notes.

The latest BoM forecast for Sunday issued at 10:08pm Thursday still quotes 20-30 knots for Sunday.While we live in hope that Synopsis for Sunday doesn’t help. Who do we blame?

For those interested with the Syndication subject or being the CYAA Rep to the WGIS subject, drop a note to thehandicapper.

Regards to all

Peter CostolloeCYAA (Vic) Handicapper

For more information aboutTandanya Contact David Munroat 0419154021

Breezing up on Tandanya

Breezing upWinslow Homer