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*No Alcohol across the premises until 12pm The kitchen closes at 3pm, bar closes at 4pm BYO alcohol allowed only when bar is closed
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The 2024 Foundation lunch was very successful raising $32,500 which will greatly assist the Foundation in providing assistance to the Club in line with its objectives.
This year 157 people attended the event with John Bertrand as the guest speaker. The theme was the 40th Anniversary of the America’s Cup win of Australia II skippered by John Bertrand considered by many as Australia’s greatest sporting achievement. John gave a very interesting talk on the history of Australia’s various challenges for the Cup culminating in the 1983 Victory and following his talk he answered questions from the audience. We are extremely grateful that John gave his time to the Foundation and the Club ensuring that we would achieve a full house and lots of interest in the event. In fact we sold out in two days and unfortunately there were a number of members who would have liked to come, but missed out. The Foundation would like to thank everyone who assisted in the event; those who donated prizes and auction items, those who purchased them or bought raffle tickets, those who assisted in the set up and clearing up of the room, the Tag team, the Rocks who provided an excellent meal and who managed the meal service very professionally, and not forgetting Sarah and Tayla who contributed significantly under pressure. Finally special thanks to our event sponsor Marshalls+Dent+Wilmoth lawyers who again materially assisted and provided gifts for everyone present. The renovations to the Harbour room allowed us to increase the capacity of the lunch from 120 last year to 157 and as a result our final total of $32,500 was well up on the previous year of just under $25,000. The Foundation Board’s challenge is to prepare for the 2025 lunch. Ideas for this event are welcome as well as feed back on what we did well and what could be improved in the future. Regards, Stuart Gooley, Foundation Chairman
Coming up on the ORCV Calendar https://www.orcv.org.au/calendar
Reminder check your expiry date, Australian Sailing's Special Regulation changed recently in regards to Safety & Sea Survival Certification. If your certificate is 2 or more years expired, you can no longer renew via the refresher course. Keep current and rebook if you need to be certified, courses run June, Sept and December and places are limited. https://www.orcv.org.au/calendar May 19 (Sunday) - Double Handed & Teams Racing. Try Double Handed Sailing, along a longer leg course on the bay. Teams (any combination) welcome. Entries here https://www.orcv.org.au/double-handed May 25th – Apollo Bay. Sail in company in the Great Ocean Road “Sail” to Apollo Bay. A daylight start, 52nm and category 3 where you can stay overnight in Apollo Bay. Entries are open https://www.orcv.org.au/apollo-bay The KISS Committee is excited to announce the third running of the Keelboat Introduction to Sailing Savvy (KISS) program for 2024, open to all Victorian women and now open for business! The vision of the program founder, Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club’s Immediate Past Commodore Lee Renfree in partnership with Ocean Racing Club of Victoria has now graduated 52 women over two years, empowering them to transition from “passengers” to active, confident “participants”. So if you are female and keen to gain skills on keelboats, jump on board now!
All information and registration is available on the ORCV KISS Training page. The first press release is now live Count Her In - KISS Mick has announced his retirement from MYC’s Sailability Program. He will be turning 90 in March 2024.
Mick joined the Club as a Senior Family Member in 2004. He is currently listed as an Honorary Member. In 2005 Mick teamed up with Colin Smith to raise funds for additional Sailability boats and by 2007 raised in excess of $20,000. He has tirelessly provided volunteer support to Sailability both on and off the water, manned the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle, coordinated funding support from, State and Local Government, as well as Rotary, Lions, private philanthropic organisations and private donors. He is a long serving member of the Sailability Committee, and for a number of years, was our representative on the Sailability Victoria Committee. Mick also filled the role of MYC Sailability Coordinator for ~5 years, ensuring that all of the Sailability programs (Wednesday, Friday and Sunday) worked consistently together. Mick undertook the responsibility of Project Managing the replacement of the Disability Ramp servicing Maas Landing 2017/2018. In more recent times Mick has been instrumental in raising significant donations to the Club from Independence Australia. To date, these funds have been apportioned to the Club’s new elevator $10,000, new disability changing facilities in the downstairs Club House $15,000, New tractor $5,000 and provisionally towards the new crane $5,000 To sum it up, over his many years with the Club, Mick has made an enormous contribution to MYC Sailability, and has always been the “go to man” that you call upon when you need something done. To coincide with Mick’s retirement, I believe it would be an appropriate gesture to confirm Life Membership to MYC. Andrew Young Commodore
If you are unable to come to the lunch on Friday you can still participate in the live auction and the silent auction. You can also buy raffle tickets if you haven’t done so already - there are 17 fantastic prizes in the raffle!! There are 35 items in the silent auction you can place your bids on the bid sheets provided at the club on Thursday afternoon/ evening, and for the main auction the Office can take your bids. There is something for everyone!!!
The auction items will be on display in time for Twilight sailing on Thursday so please take a look and place your bids. Remember that all proceeds from the auction will assist your Club and its sailors. Stuart Gooley, Foundation Chairman. SAIL THE BREATHTAKING GREEK ISLANDS AND TURKISH COAST WITH OUR EXPERIENCED AUSTRALIAN SKIPPER AND ESCAPE THE MELBOURNE WINTER
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Coming up on the ORCV Calendar https://www.orcv.org.au/calendar April 17th – An evening with Jeanne Socrates – record-breaking solo sailor, unassisted circumnavigation via the Five Great Capes. This event is run in conjunction with RBYC. Tickets are complimentary for ORCV & RBYC members, all non members are welcome and pay $10. Booking here https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1198491? April 20th – West Offshore Products Coastal Sprints. Enjoy some Category 3 races with the short format. 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 May 19 (Sunday) - Double Handed & Teams Racing. Try Double Handed Sailing, along a longer leg course on the bay. Teams (any combination) are welcome. Entries here https://www.orcv.org.au/double-handed May 25th – Apollo Bay. Sail in company in the Great Ocean Road “Sail” to Apollo Bay. A daylight start, 52nm and category 3 where you can stay overnight in Apollo Bay. Entries are open https://www.orcv.org.au/apollo-bay Tickets for the lunch may be SOLD OUT but you can still support this great event!! We have many fantastic raffle prizes and you don't need to attend the lunch to win!
Every ticket helps!!! - PURCHASE TICKETS VIA THE LINK BELOW - THANK YOU! The Challenge – 2025 Melbourne to Osaka Yacht Race The Melbourne to Osaka Double-handed Yacht Race is an extreme endurance sailing event that has grown into one of the world’s greatest long distance, short-handed sailing events. The race has now been run 8 times (on avg every 4-5 years) since the inaugural event in 1987. The length of the race is 5500 Nautical miles (roughly 10,000kms which is 5 x Sydney to Hobarts ) so it will take most of the competitors anywhere between 30-40 days of nonstop sailing to complete the course. The race is scheduled to start off Portsea in Port Phillip Bay in March 2025, and will finish in the Port of Osaka in late-April. The finish of the 2025 race has been timed to coincide with the opening of the World’s Fair in Osaka. The 2025 race has attracted extraordinary interest from sailors from all around the world with entries received from 35 competitors already, the final starting line up will number around 50 entrants. After years of planning and dreaming about doing this race, Grant Chipperfield and Peter Dowdney now have the distinction of being the very first entry received for the 2025 event. The background of our team Pete and Grant have been good mates since their teenage years. They spent many of their early sailing years honing their skills and racing against each other in high performance dinghies, sports boats, and larger keelboats. In 2018, they joined forces for an event in FNQ and achieved a podium result in the popular Magnetic Island Race Week. While at this event, discussions started between the pair over a few beers, about their individual interests in fast emerging global movement towards shorthanded sailing. Further discussions led to them teaming up as a double-handed pairing for the 2020 Melbourne to Devonport race, the 2021 Sydney to Hobart race, and the 2022 & 2023 Melbourne to Hobart races. After successfully competing together in all of these events, the pair have now set their sights on competing in the ultimate double-handed challenge, the 5,500 nautical mile Melbourne to Osaka Ocean race in 2025. Pete Dowdney, long term Sandringham yacht club member After sailing high performance dinghies for a few years straight out of school, Pete’s interest turned to larger keelboats and in particular, the lure of offshore racing. He gained a solid reputation for his technical skills on the foredeck, and this in turn led him to being selected as the bowman on Steak n Kidney for the 1987 America’s Cup Defender Series in Perth, and again in 1991 onboard Challenge Australia in San Diego. A host of other major events & races followed with some of the more notable ones being:
Grant Chipperfield, long term Mornington yacht club Member Grant’s Sailing skills and experience comes from racing off-the-beach dinghies from an early age. He sailed sabots, International Cadets and Sharpies, before moving across to one design keelboats such as J24’s, & Etchells. Along the journey he has been fortunate to have sailed with Olympic, World and National champions. He then progressed into owning and skippering, his own Trailer Sailers and Etchells (this was where the Joker name first appeared) In 2007 he purchased a Lyons 39, naming it “Geomamtic Joker”. Grant successfully campaigned it in two successive Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races and achieved a 2nd place result in the Melbourne to Hobart. Grant went on to buy the Elliott 1250 Tourer, naming it “Joker on Tourer” in 2015. In this boat he and Peter achieved significant success in local and interstate regattas, focusing on refining their short-handed sailing skills and systems. Notable results & races achieved by the pair in “Joker on Tourer” include:
After campaigning the Joker on Tourer solidly for the past three years, we both came to the same conclusion that to be successful in the 2025 Melbourne to Osaka Race, they needed a more powerful boat that would give them better speeds in lighter wind conditions. After returning from the 2022 Melbourne to Hobart Race we started shopping around and settled on their new yacht in March 2023. Introducing the new yacht – Joker X2 After an exhaustive search throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia, we found what we feel is the perfect boat for our Melbourne to Osaka program. The design is a J133 which is a French-built, American design which is 13.30m (43 feet) long and weighs a little under 8T. We have named the boat JOKER X2, continuing the long line of Jokers, but also recognizing our focus on 2-handed racing. The J133 is highly regarded for being a fast, well-built, and extremely offshore capable yacht. They also rate well under most of the current handicap rating systems, so we feel that this combination will give us the best chance of success across multiple handicap divisions. Joker X2 is currently undergoing a total review of all of its hardware, electrical and sailing control systems. Our aim is to apply what we have learned from the past three years of 2- handed racing, giving us a significant head start in the preparation of this boat. Our first serious hit out was the ORCV 2-Handed Bay Race in August where we placed a very creditable 2nd place, overall. the Melbourne to Devonport in November which we placed 1st , 2023 Melbourne to Hobart Race unfortunately blowout our mainsail but sƟll manage to finish 2nd DH and 5th ORC and in our latest race Melbourne to king Island 1st DH and 3rd overall. Our plans for 2024 include finishing off sailing season competing in a couple of local offshore events, then some refit work over winter before taking the boat to Sydney to compete in the Short-handed Offshore bluewater point score and the 2024 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race. The Osaka Cup is a 5,500 nautical mile 2-handed yacht race that starts in Melbourne and finishes in the Port of Osaka, Japan. It is only South-North long distance ocean race in the world. The route passes through multiple weather systems and seasons as it crosses the Pacific Ocean. The race starts off Portsea Pier in March 2025, taking the competitors into Bass Strait, and up the east coast of Australia. At some point, the boats will cross over the East Australian current and into the South easterly trade winds, which will carry them through the Solomon Islands and up into the doldrums near the equator. After crossing the equator, the competitors will move into the North Easterly trade winds and the equatorial currents, before fighting the Kuroshio (Japan current), which flows along the Pacific Coast of Japan. The race will take between 28-35 days to complete and finishes in the port of Osaka on Japan’s Honshu Island. The finish of the 2025 M20 Race is timed to coincide with the opening of the World’s Fair in Osaka. Summary of Joker X2’s Sailing program for the next 12 months. 2024
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Over the next twelve months, we will be spending a significant amount of money to ensure that the Joker X2 and crew are totally race-ready. This includes investing in several new purpose-designed sails, upgrading our electronics package and self-steering system to the latest technology, and ensuring that we have the best safety equipment available. If anyone interested, we are essentially a blank canvas so please talk to us if you have any other ideas about how we might be able to help you promote your business, brand, or products. Look forward to flying the MYC burgee and receiving the friendly MYC family support hope to see you around the club and speaking with you all about our quest. Cheers, Grant and Pete – Joker X2 Contact details: Grant Chipperfield grantchipper@gmail.com or 0425 713 908 Peter Dowdney peterdowdney@gmail.com or 0418 395 941 JokerX2 Hull and Sail plan – potential advertising billboard for your company
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Turquoise blue skies and seas, local cheeses, freshly caught crayfish and sizzling rib-eye steak greeted the nearly 200 sun-drenched yachties when they finished the 2024 Melbourne to King Island Ocean Yacht Race over the weekend. The fleet sailed the 114nm race, organised by the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) in partnership with the King Island Boat Club, from Queenscliff to Grassy Harbour to not only savour a strategic and challenging ocean race but to share in the highly sought-after, world-class produce of Australia’s stunningly beautiful island gem, King Island. There was a lot at stake in the 2024 Melbourne to King Island Race with the King Island Trophy for the winner of the race on AMS handicap up for grabs, as well as PHS and ORC trophies for Divisions One and Two. ORCV Race Officer David Schuller sent the fleet on their way at 3am on Saturday morning in northerly breezes of 7 to 10 knots, amidst a forecast heatwave for the southeastern states of Victoria and Tasmania. Photos from onboard the yachts during the race showed contented yachties in t-shirts and shorts, but while the winds may have been light, tactics and strategy were critical for the fleet as they navigated the challenging tides and currents around the island. This year’s race certainly belonged to the J boats, the double-handers, and the newcomers to ocean racing. The contest for line honours was tight from the start between the Cookson 50, eXtasea and the multihull, Peccadillo, skippered by Charles Meredith. Extasea, skippered by Dustin Popp from the Royal Geelong Yacht Club, crossed the finish line at 18:48:19 on Saturday evening, 30 minutes ahead of Peccadillo to take the win. Extasea had a brilliant race winning on PHS and ORC handicaps in Division 1, and finished second on AMS overall, once again missing out on the coveted handicap win which determines the overall race winner. The J111 boat Ginan, co-skippered by Cameron McKenzie and Nigel Jones from the Mornington Yacht Club, continued a strong 2023-24 sailing season performance, with the skippers accepting the prestigious 2024 King Island Trophy from King Island Mayor, Cr Marcus Blackie, and claiming the title of overall race winners. The Ginan team had a great start to the race, leading the fleet through Port Phillip Heads, and adopted a strategy from there to push the boat as hard as they could in what were fabulous but frustrating sailing conditions. “Our strategy was to get out in front early and to just keep pushing the boat forward. “It was quite a challenging race in terms of sail trim and tactics…there were lots of park ups…and lots of transitions in the race. “In those [light] conditions the challenges are to keep the sails optimally trimmed at all times, which can be difficult when there’s a swell running and a bit of slop, and also trying to keep the boat powered up constantly. “Having the crew trimming non-stop can be tiring …we had a constant rotation, so people weren’t on the trim for too long… to keep them fresh,” said McKenzie. Ginan was third over the line but, unlike eXtasea and Peccadillo, which finished the race on favourable tides, Ginan had to contend with adverse currents up the coast on the way to the finish line. “We had it glassing out near the finish… at times the wind was doing 360s… we had a lot of sail changes trying to keep the momentum going… it was very tricky towards the end with very little breeze,” said McKenzie. McKenzie paid homage to the meticulous preparation of Ginan’s navigator, Greg Patten, and to the delights that await sailors who embark on ORCV destination races like these. “Tactically this was quite a difficult race…our navigator Greg Patten did a fabulous job reviewing the weather and the weather models leading up to and throughout the race and I think that was one of the areas that we excelled in, just getting the shifts right and being on the right side of them, and that wasn’t by luck, Greg puts in a mountain of work and is one of the best in the business. “We also had a first timer onboard the boat this year, Daniel Laverty, a young ILCA (Laser) sailor, this is his first ocean race, he’s quite in awe of getting down here [to King Island] and enjoying the hospitality and the camaraderie of the ORCV community. “We love the destination races, and the places that we go to, that most people don’t get to see,” said McKenzie. Joker X2 the J133 boat co-skippered by Grant Chipperfield and Peter Dowdney won the double-handed division from second placed Quest, skippered by Rod Gunther and Peter Tardrew, while Maverick, skippered by Tony Hammond and Rod Smallman, finished in third. Joker X2 also finished in third place overall on PHS and ORC, with the skippers very upbeat after the race which suited the J133 boat. “The actual conditions were superb, with light running conditions all day, but there was enough wind to get maximum boat speed which was nice. “We sailed a relatively straight course down the rhumbline as much as possible until we got to the very end, and then it went pear-shaped in the last three hours. “It glassed out completely as we approached Grassy and we got caught up in the current as you do down here and ended up taking us two and a half hours more than what I projected we would take to finish, which was a bit frustrating, but apart from that, it was a glorious race. “It was like sailing in the tropics without the humidity…take it from me, Bass Strait doesn’t get any better than that. “Tactically, we sailed a pretty vanilla race, we just managed to soak down inside everyone and basically sailed a straighter course and sailed less distance and that’s where we just popped through. “We were a little bit deep when we came out of the [Port Phillip] Heads, but we just chipped away during the dark hours and by daylight we were up on the front row of the grid and got better and better as the day went on. “King Island is just an amazing part of the world, it’s becoming a foodie’s paradise down here, as a destination, it’s a safe harbour, it’s relatively easy to get in and out of, and the King Island Boat Club people…they just turn it on for us which is fantastic,” said Dowdney. The Joker X2 skippers, like several of the other double-handed teams, were also using the race as a training opportunity for the 2025 Melbourne to Osaka Yacht Race. In Division 2, the early race favourite Toecutter, skippered by Rob Hick and Brad Bult, won on AMS and PHS handicap, while Vertigo, skippered by Tim Olding took out Division 2 on ORC. Race Director David Schuller was happy with the race overall but shared his frustrations with the challenges of sailing into and around King Island. “The race started in better-than-expected conditions, we had a lot of wind to get the boats going, but as often happens, you get patches of dead spots, so those at the front of the fleet did really well, and got ahead, and we saw our line honours winners, and the rest of the fleet were left to the vagaries of the wind conditions. “This was really challenging as King Island itself shadows the wind, so we had a lot of boats getting down to one knot overnight, then lifting up and dropping off. “We had hoped that everyone would get through but what this did was break the fleet into about three different groups with the last group finishing just before 10 o’clock on Sunday morning,” said Schuller. The race saw ten retirements due to the weather conditions with Schuller speculating that the lure of the steak sandwiches may have been too much when the teams were battling soft breezes. The ORCV race team had a busy time during the race, but their race duties extended to more than simply welcoming boats home. “We spent just about all of our time at the finishing line listening to the peeps and chirps of the penguins, and there were lots of wallabies coming up, curiously peering into the car when we had the door open just to see what we were doing,” said Schuller. An exhausted but thrilled Tim Hosking, the highly skilled skipper of French Bred and a recent ‘graduate’ of the ORCV ‘Beyond the Bay’ training program, won the special perseverance award (a fresh crayfish for the trip home), in his first Category 2 ocean race. “We received a lot of help in our preparation from the ORCV sailing community. “[In this race] we had some good fun and some great conditions, but we also found it challenging at times… it was very tempting to retire from the race, but we are proud that we stayed the course and finished,” said Hosking. Beyond the Bay is designed to provide sailors with the information and practical skills to plan and complete an overnight cruising passage or participate in a race, with races like this one a useful stepping-stone to future coastal and ocean races.
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