MYC require volunteers to share the Sausage Sizzle roster on Saturdays between 10.30am and 1.30pm. No Experience necessary but willing and happy to feed hungry sailors with sausages and onions in bread.. If interested to volunteerplease contact Sarah in the office 59757001 or email sarah@morningtonyc.net.au.  It is fun and is an excellent fundraiser for the club. 

Sailing has never been cheaper.
Mornington Yacht Club is offering an intro First year 2015/2016 Crew Membership for half price .
Normally $587 pp  Special offer $293.50.  Closes 24 December 2015.

You do not need a boat or have experience.  Just arrive at the club 1 hour prior to the race starting and our friendly staff and volunteers at Mornington Yacht Club  will find you boats to crew on. Or if already love sailing it is time you joined a friendly sailing club. 

Sailing is on Tuesday and Thursday Twilights @ 6pm , Saturday and Sundays @1.30pm
The Club is open 7 days for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

It is great value and would makes for a great Christmas Present. A Welcome pack addressed to the new member will be delivered to your home by Christmas Day.

Apply online now . CLICK here
OR
Complete  the application form asap Limited Crew Member 
OR
CONTACT Sarah  on ph. 59757001 or email: sarah@morningtonyc.net.au

It will be great eventually but a hectic summer of parking expected. 
Attached is a sketch showing the proposed parking restrictions for the pier forecourt area.  A couple of points to note are that on Schnapper Point Dve trailer parking will be banned up to Flinders Dve and all existing unrestricted parking between the forecourt car park and the trailer car park (around the Yacht Club) will remain unrestricted.  The restrictions are likely to be installed in early-mid December.

Our next New Members Breakfast is being held on Saturday the 28th of November - invitations are being sent out today....but if you have missed previous one's and would like to come along, just let the office know!

Tuesday Trivia thanks to Sponsor Peninsula Travel 

​Tuesdays are turning out to be the best sailing evenings.
​After 4 races  Race Kiss is winning from Smile n Wave from Scratch from Foam Fast.

Results  Click here.

MYC Racing every Tuesday at 6pm

A strong southerly saw the entire fleet of 23 boats complete the race in less than 4 hours.
Div 1 Boat Fleet 7  Windsong - Jim Watson won on AMS and PHC
Div. 2 Boat Fleet 7  Flying Circus - Alison Clough won on AMS and PHC
Div.3 Boat Fleet 9 Mixed Nuts - Tim Ogrady won on PHC , Heaven Can Wait on CHC.
Full Results click here 
It must have been a wonderful weekend for those that made the most of staying in Melbourne. Thank you Marina YE and Stave Bardsley for arranging the berths

​Races 3 and 4 were held in ideal Southerly breeze conditions.
15 boats out sailing Sunday Morning and many more parents were there on shore on power boats that could have been out having more fun racing the club 420's OTB Fleet
OTB's
Denver James sailing the Laser and Courtney Lee/Imogen Weber were Numero Uno in their respective classes.
In the Green Fleet Opti's
Race 3
1. Optimum Speed Chris Coombs , 2 Opthomas Thomas Hutchison, 3 Speedy Lego Digby Taylor
Race 4. 
​1 Opthomas Thomas Hutchison,2. Optimum Speed Chris Coombs ,  3 Flower Power Jacinta Byrne
Series after 4 races
1. Opthomas Thomas Hutchison,  2. Sharks Revenge  Henry Heron 3. Optimum Speed Chris Coombs
 Open Fleet
Race 3
1. Speedy Stingray James Jackson, 2. Golden Bullet Jeremy Gray, 3rd Opty Mystic Millie Evenden
Race 4 
1. Racer X Jack Eickmeyer,2.  Golden Bullet Jeremy Gray, 3rd Speedy Stingray James Jackson,
Series after 4 Races
1..  Golden Bullet Jeremy Gray,2. Racer X Jack Eickmeyer, 3rd Lucky Buoy Lachie Weber

Click here for the full gallery

Ladies & Gents Christmas Lunch

Friday the 4th of December 2015                  12 Noon

Pork, Crackling, Apple Sauce & Veggies
Christmas Pudding & Custard

$30 per person
Bookings essential for catering purposes with the office or online by Friday the 27th of November, thank you
Book Online now by clicking here.

After sailing Saturday  be treated like VIP's at the Mornington Race Club. MYC Members have been kindly invited to the Mornington Race Day this Sunday 22 November 2015.  MYC Members receive complimentary entry and a Members Reserve Pass. Please complete form below and  for more details on the Race day  click here for more information.  It will be a great day!

At 5 pm the winds arrived blowing 30 knots from the south. RO Steve Bardsley  monitored whilst crews relaxed on the deck. Everyone's patience was rewarded with excellent sailing conditions after  6 pm. The race started in 20 knots and ended in less than 10 knots from the South.

​Race 4. Placings
1st Ffatchance John Best and Ian Robertson
2nd Messin About , Paul Copeland
3rd Camilla Rose, Glen Fitzgerald
Full results

Series Placings -
1st Cocktail, Rob Rainsford 26pts
2nd Untouchable, Bill Colman 27pts
3rd Ffatchance John Best and Ian Robertson 28pts
Full results

A special note for Ivan Halstead-Smith tonight recovering in Frankston Hospital. Well respected and loyal member Ivan suffered a medical emergency on Anna tonight. The Anna crew, Bridgitte and Brad  were amazing in their actions in contacting 000 and getting Ivan safely ashore. The 4 nurses Tanya, Chris, Pam, Amanda and Sharon  and those on shore  must also  be thanked after taking responsibility whilst waiting for the ambulance. We all wish Ivan full recovery and our best wishes to Bridgitte Swallow.

Thank You Good Guys Mornington, Thank You Volunteers, Thank You Paramedics.

60 guests, 8 tables competed in this years MYC Trivia Night. The theme was Friday the 13th and the room looked superb with Flowers , vases, ladders , cats tails and cob webs thanks to Jen Martin and Kerry Larder. Not only were they wonderful decorators but also excellent Salad Makers and Chocolate for dessert.  The Rocks served extremely tasty servings of Lasagna  and they must have been close to winning a Guinness Book of records for the largest Lasagne servings ever. The best eater surprisingly went to Office Manager Sarah Grant who was the only one to finish with a clean plate.

Scott our Trivia MC set up  5 rounds of 10 questions each on  various topics.  The "Multiscoregasms" soon found out that MYC Treasurer Jon Phillips was a music maestro and his wife Anne a Movie Buff. What a great couple!  Steve Bardsley and his team of "we are doomed" started very well  on Geography and the Lucky Dip.

Kerry and her table were bopping to You Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate as we  learnt new facts. Did you know:
Billy Joel is older than Phil Collins.
Africa has more countries than Europe.
SA is larger in area than NSW
Family Membership at MYC is $936.  Not Sarah or Rod in the office.
Hawaii has 8 main islands.
​A condor is an animal

The winners were  Greg and Jen Martins's family and friends who won on the last quiz of the night getting right the height of Uluru at 348 mtrs.

The Trivia Night was fun and will be back again in 2016. An MYC perpetual trophy for the winning table is to be donated to the club.

17 Open and Green Fleet Optis sailed on a Sunny Sunday.  2 races were held for the Open and 1 race  for Green Fleet.  Some great Mornington Families amongst the entrants. 

Race 2.
Open Fleet  
1st Sonic James - Jay James
2nd Pearl - Sophie McKenzie
3rd - Opty Mystic - Millie Evenden

Green Fleet
1st  Opthomas - Thomas Hutchison
2nd Speedy Lego - Digby Taylor
3rd Banana Boat - Brooke Hutchison

Race 3
Open Fleet
1st Optical Zoom - Kate James
2nd Pearl - Sophie McKenzie
3rd Opty Mystic - Millie Evenden

The current series leaders are:
Green  Fleet   - 8 Optis
1st  Opthomas - Thomas Hutchison
2nd Speedy Lego - Digby Taylor
3rd Strwaberry Girl - Sassy Taylor

Open Fleet  - 11 Optis
1st Optical Zoom - Kate James
2nd Opty Mystic - Millie Evenden
3rd Jazzy - Jasmine Evenden​

A message from the Rear Commodore:

The sinking of Adios was an unfortunate and sad day for MYC.  From my current understanding the situation was well handled by all involved. Hasta La Vista on port tack went to dip Adios and end up go through starboard tack Adios. The boats got tangled Adios got main down, personal gear off and crew stepped on to Hasta la Vista, then Adios sunk, all persons safe and without injury.
Retriever, Sara and coast guard on site.
A May Day call was made from an MYC third party boat that was standing by , some discussion was had about whether that was appropriate and by all  accounts it was the correct call.
We had Sara drop a buoy in the area, but am now aware that GPS fix was taken so will pick up that buoy this morning.  Incident reports, protest forms and coast guard forms filled out.

In term of MYC Rescue boats. Thank you immensely to John Mills, Tania Lawton and Jim Watson Windsong crew on  duty. Windsong Crew were down on time with a smile, 5 people. One tower, one start boat 3 on Sara. Their complete assistance to John And Tanya made for a  fantastic days sailing. On behalf of the all those sailing yesterday big thanks to JIM and his crew.

Chris Jackson

 Adios owned Geoffrey Hancock and his crew of  two past commodores Greg Martin and Noel Heyes were on board and safely taken off the sinking yacht onto Hasta La Vista and then back to shore. Whilst it was unfortunate incident they crew were still in high spirits knowing all were safe.  The boat is still at the bottom of the sea and expected to be retrieved asap.

​For the other 17  x Div .1 , 2 and 3 the racing continues and the Race 3 winners were:

Div 1. Anna - Peter DeLange
Div. 2  YT2 - Stuart Gooley
Div 3. Just another Toy - David Blennerhassett.
For full results click here: 

Series winners after 3 Races.
Div 1. Windsong - Jim Watson
Div. 2  YT2 - Stuart Gooley
Div 3. Just another Toy - David Blennerhassett.
For Series results click here:

A reminder to all Members that the Day Pass Membership Policy has been adopted this season and  is effective immediately. . This means that Day Passes are required for all sailing events held at the club for Non Members. 

How the system works: All non- members who wish to sail in club events will need to fill in the Day Pass Membership Form before their first sail. This form is available from the Race Admin office on race days. A day pass card ( pictured) will be issued on the first sail and then needs to be punched every sail afterwards

The charge is $10 per sail (first 6 sails) and $30 per sail Sails (7 - 12 sails).  Day Pass members are entitled to 12 sails before they need to become a member.  

Please also  note

1.There is an Intro Limited Crew Membership for half price and worth considering is sailing regularly. Normally $587 pp  Special offer $293.50.  Closes 20 December 2015.

2. Reciprocal Sailing Club members also need a Day pass.

It is important that Boat Owners ensure that all crew have a Day Pass if not a member.
​MYC Staff will begin doing spot checks this week. 

What a magnificent evening  to sneak in 2 races on Tuesday night. None of the 5 boats and crew would have regretted it.  Click here for results. 
​
Thank you to Boats  "Scratch", "Goose", "Kiss" and "Balance" for letting the Commodore's boat  "Smile n Wave" be winning after 2 races.