The Special Sailing Instructions for the Queenscliff Destination Race have now been released. You can find the SSIs on our website under the menu 'Sailing>>Club Racing>>Club Racing Season HQ' or you can click here to download. |
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There’s plenty more coming up to keep all enjoying that different style of racing, whether that be the destination races of Port Fairy or the category 3 Coastal sprint races on the ORCV Calendar https://www.orcv.org.au/calendar March 24th - The annual trip tour of Port Phillip Heads is on Sunday, 24th March, departing Queenscliff at 10.00 am. The tour provides for well-planned and executed transits of the Heads, with an emphasis on doing so in low-powered vessels (like yachts) and provides information to participants on the numerous navigational aids and strict procedures required for safe passage through. For more information and to book. https://www.orcv.org.au/training/rip-tour-of-port-phillip-heads March 29th – Port Fairy Race starts just after midday on Good Friday and is category 2. Crews will enjoy the hospitality of the Port Fairy Yacht club, and boats up to 2.8m draft will mooring in the Moyne River. Entries are open here https://www.orcv.org.au/port-fairy April 20th – Enjoy some category 3 races with the short format West Offshore Products Coastal Sprints. A daylight start and short course which is planned to have crews back home that night. Come try ocean sailing and join the fleet here https://www.orcv.org.au/coastal-sprints A big THANK YOU goes to Hart's Farm who are sponsoring our Twilight Series 3 which starts on Thursday the 15th of February and runs through to Thursday the 4th of April. Hart's Farm ciders are available at the club bar - be sure to give them a try and support their sponsorship tor the last Twilight Series of the season.
Members can receive a 10% DISCOUNT at Harts Farm Farmgate shop in Shoreham, for cider, olive oil, vinegars & cordial when you show your club fob. https://bit.ly/402lCPY . You can also purchase online https://bit.ly/3S0nIh9 using the code MYCLUB and receive the `10% discount. Online orders can be shipped to your home or can be delivered to the yacht club for collection, just click on store pick up & they will contact you with details. Hart’s Farm are sponsors of the new members night. Enquiries to Graeme Hart on 0414238156 To log a maintenance or service request from your phone or device, please scan the following QR code. Upon submission of a request, you can take and upload photos by clicking on the “Add Files” button.
QR Codes can be found on the notice board by Richie's shed, in the members bar and by the office door. Dear valued Peninsula Voice Supporter,
We are very pleased to share with you that our next event will be held on Thursday 29 February 2024 at 6.30pm at the Peninsula Community Theatre in Mornington. Titled ‘Climate Change – Our Home, Our Future’, the event is aimed at sharing information from experts about climate change, and importantly, sharing information about what we, as a local community, can do about it. Bookings can be made here for this free community forum. The free event is aimed at being a positive forum, providing both information and also practical actions we can all undertake to combat climate change. We understand the weight of concern surrounding climate change, and its impact on mental health, especially on younger people. That's why we're dedicated to sharing good news where we can be informed as well as uplifted. Guest speakers include:
We hope you can attend, and ask that wherever possible, you also promote this forum with your family and networks. We had a huge weekend for the Town Planning & Co. Schnapper Point Regatta with 84 participants in 77 yachts - kids, youth and adults. This year we included the Victorian U21 ILCA (Laser) regatta
We received lots of thanks and compliments from many people: “always like coming to Mornington” “great atmosphere” “amazing regatta which was run so efficiently” “great team” THANK YOU to the over 60 volunteers that make this happen. A BIG THANK YOU to Town Planning & Co yet again for your generous sponsorship of our event and to Ronstan for providing prizes for the ILCA event. THANK YOU to the on-water crew, off-water, TAG, sign on, BBQ, yard, tower, IT, coaches and results, plus anyone else that helped out. A HUGE THANKS to Ben Jones and Immi Weber who did so much organising. And a special mention to those that stayed until 9pm Saturday, when the northerly blew up and the rhibs looked in danger, it was most appreciated. THANK YOU to Davey’s Bay for running the green course, and to Sorrento again for your support. It’s a lot of work. We are still a regatta that focuses on the greenies, and the development of all. We encourage those that have never been to a regatta, and aim to give them a life-long love of our sport. It isn’t just about the results, but getting out there and enjoying. Seeing the achievements and smiles makes it all worthwhile. For the full results on the MYC website CLICK HERE> **HIGHLIGHTS** Greenies 5th & 2nd girl - Eva English Opti Intermediate 4th & 1st girl - Lila Donnellan Double Handed OTB 1st - Henri & Miles Levenspiel SSCBC 1st Girls - Lucy Laverty & Milli Grover ILCA 4 3rd & 2nd girl – Mavis Laverty MYC had 5 in the top 8 and it was great to see half the fleet were girls. ILCA 6 3rd - Jack Vermeer ILCA 7 1st - Jack Eickmeyer 3rd - Lachie Weber (who managed to get a one race in between shifts behind the bar on Saturday!) The Sailing Instructions for the 2024 Schnapper Point Regatta & ILCA U21 Championships have now been released. It's going to be an awesome weekend with over 70 boats competing! Click here to head over to Regatta HQ to read and download the SIs. The Special Sailing Instructions for the Navigators' Trophy Race have now been released. You can find the SSIs on our website under the menu 'Sailing>>Club Racing>>Club Racing Season HQ' or you can click here to download. As you would realise, the team in the tower carefully records the starting and finishing times of each boat in the twilight pursuit races. These are fed into Sailsys to give individual race and series results.
You would also realise that, at times, the starting and finishing lines can get pretty crowded. This can make it hard for us to read sail numbers particularly when you are returning from A buoy to the finish. Reading the numbers will become more difficult as sunset is getting earlier each week. To help us identify every boat in the race could you please:
Richard, Krystine and Steve MYC has had a terrific bunch of 4 young sailors travel to South Australia for the Optimist Nationals at Brighton Seacliff Yacht Club. It was a tricky week of both on and offshore tidal racing with varying conditions providing many opportunities. Thank you to Cathy Harvie for this terrific summary and Jemma Donnellan ! A highlight, Leigh was in the winning team in teams racing on the first day. The last day in particular was super light and shifty and the sailors really struggled. Overall the regatta had mostly shifty, light winds with only one day with some moderate winds (up and down and still shifty). Brighton and Seacliff Yacht Club were wonderful hosts and put on an amazing regatta at a great venue. VIODA organised coaches Jack Lewis, Peter McCann and MYC’s Will McKenzie to support all Victorian sailors on the water. Well done team MYC sailors in Open fleet Leigh Harvie 36th in Gold and Louis Coates 17th in Silver As well as terrific efforts in intermediate fleet by Josephine Lott 17th and Lila Donnellan 32nd !
*Support the return of the Passage Race from MYC* & join in the FUN!
Have you entered yet?? For all boats planning to head to Geelong for the FOS 2024, the Passage Race from MYC will get your Crew and Boat to Geelong whilst having a bit of fun! The Passage Race is part of the Festival of Sails Entry - To enter CLICK Here> and select the ‘Mornington Peninsula Series’ For those of you who missed the Christmas Twilight night on the 21st of December, we were very proud to award Greg Martin a Life Membership of the club.
Greg (who joined 30 years ago) is very well-deserving of this recognition. He was Club Captain 2006-2008, Committee Member 2008-2010, Vice Commodore 2010-2012, Commodore 2012-2014 (he then took a little break and remained just a club member!) Rear Commodore 2017-2019, Commodore 2019-2021, and Committee member 2021 to present! Wow! We are truly grateful to him for his passion and commitment to the club. Thank you Greg |
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