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September 2009 The Newsletter for Hobson’s Bay Yacht Club
Nelson Place, Williamstown Ph: 9397 6393 e-mail: manager@hbyc.asn.au Internet: www.hbyc.asn.au

Opening Day 2009 – Sat Oct 3rd
Yes, its that time of year already! Oct 3rd will be
HBYC‘s 112th Season Opening and it would be great
to see as many members at the club as possible
and also all yachts going for a sail. More details
attached later in the newsletter.
Brass Monkey Results
After a great series of races with only one race Pie Night & Season Launch – Fri 18th
cancelled and the rest in challenging wintery From 6pm, fantastic Pies with mash and peas will
conditions, the Helly Hansen Brass Monkey series be available followed by an information session &
has wrapped up. Over 100 entries were received 7pm to provide news on
and many thanks to the Race Management team  Changes to the race courses – especially for
who did a fantastic job. Also to the Handicapper, the Twilights, Hot Pursuits and Aggregate
Ian, who created some very close racing as the  Two Handed Races Trophies
results show.  How the new rules affect you
 AMS/IRC
Spinnaker Division  How to use the online entry system
Sail Then the Footy Finals on the big screen!
Pos Yacht Skipper Best 5
No So we don‘t run out, please notify the office if you
are coming and then come along to get a head
1 158 MYSTERY Cameron Mead 19.0
start on your competitors!
2 H624 GARISENDA Jeffrey Savage 30.0
3 H6110 SAMSKARA David Stoopman 31.0 Working Bee – Sept 19 – 9am

Non Spinnaker Division
Sail Best
Pos Yacht Skipper
No 5
1 H2926 LANNCOORIE John Allen 39.0
The House Committee has organized this years
2 H604 KNOT A CLEW Robert Gregson 40.0 Working Bee for Saturday, Sept 19 th. So, put on
3 H3 GRACIE John Jennings 40.0 your overalls and get involved. This year involves
all sorts of tasks so there will be something for
(As John Allen will tell you, the average age
everyone – including a BBQ.
onboard is 60 and still going strong!)
The Club grounds are in need of a bit of TLC and
we would have to see some new faces (and old
Series winners take home a Helly Hansen jacket,
ones) help get the club ready for the Opening Day.
many thanks to Tony Legg and crewfor organising
the prizes and also for the wonderful food on the
final race day and sacrificing his day out on the
water
Officer of the Day Roster

5 Sept E. Plastow C. O‘Halloran
6 Sept W. Ryan J. Saunders
12 Sept J. Savage N. Sellars
13 Sept P. Shand L. Papaloukas Victoria‘s ‗Go Sailing‘ day gives the public the
19 Sept M. Sheahan G. Ryan opportunity to see and try a range of boats, as
20 Sept S. Sherrin G. Shone well as speak to yacht club members first-hand
26 Sept A. Slagmolen A. Page about sailing and boating, and learn about the
27 Sept G. Smith M. Snowden social aspects and benefits of being a yacht club
3 Oct M. Speller D. Stoopman member.
4 Oct D. Strangward J. Streader
So, if you:
 Enjoy sharing your love of sailing and the
water with others; or
 Have always wanted to do ‗something‘ for
your club but never did; or
 Simply want to have a great time with
fellow HBYC members and people from the
A guy brings his boat up to a Hobsons Bay community,
restaurant dock to eat lunch. The
dock hand says "I'm sorry, sir, but I can't let you Then
dine here today. This establishment has a neck tie
policy, and you are not wearing one. Register as a volunteer now!
And you are especially appreciated if your boat is
The guy says "Of course I don't have a tie on, I'm available too…
on a boat!" "Well, go down below and put one on" "I
don't HAVE one!" The dock hand, not wanting to We need volunteers to:
turn away a customer, says "Well, why don't you
just find something that approximates a tie. That  Skipper their boat and offer free
should be O.K." sailing experiences to the public;
 Crew these boats;
After some time, the boater comes out with a pair  Help out at the Club house to answer
of jumper cables. "This is all I could find". questions, manage logistics;
 Assist at the pier to assist participants
Sighing, the deck hand says "OK, I'll let you in
and tie up yachts
 Coordinate the entertainment and
with those, but just don't start anything".
food at the club.

INTERESTED????

Please see Colin Leake or Georgie Mitchell,
register at the office or e-mail
communications@hbyc.asn.au

A Yachting Australia initiative
2009 -2010 Junior Fleet

Call for Assistance
The wind has not let up, I can only recall a couple
of days in the last month that the wind was under
This season we plan to run: Introduction to
20 knots! I would like to take this opportunity to
Sailing (GISBS 1&2), Better sailing (GISBS 3) and
thanks those members that came down and looked
maybe Learn to race for the juniors. The club‘s
out for all boats on the really windy days.
programme relies on volunteers. We have one
qualified instructor- Jonathan Fryer and two
Mast Crane Update
qualified assistant instructors, Gordon Williamson
The mast crane is on its way and is currently being
and Heather White, and Georgie Mitchell who is
fabricated and should be up by opening day, so you
close to completing her instructor‘s qualifications.
can make plans for removing your mast or engine.
However, we are going to need help with the
The new crane will have a lifting capacity of 400kg
following:
and will be 14m from the ground to the top pulley.

 The administration side of running the
The slipping list is stretching out and we now have
programmes, (checking who has paid,
more than 25 boats waiting to be slipped. I am
registering our courses with Yachting Vic,
sorry if your boat is not able to be slipped when
checking medical certificates are up-to-
you want it to be. For all those currently in the
date and keeping the website up-to date.)
yard, I know the weather has not being kind but
 People with a powerboat license to drive
could you complete your tasks as quickly as
the rescue boats on the Sunday mornings
possible so I can keep turning the cradles over.
(you don‘t need to have the full rescue
Looking forward to some warmer weather and to
boat training only a current powerboat
seeing you at the working bee on the 19th Sept
license). We hope to set up a roster so
the tasks get shared around.
Peter
 Parents or anyone who wants to help to
assist with getting the boats out of the
shed and general maintenance.
 People to help out with the BBQ at the end
of each sailing day.

We will be holding a meeting on Wednesday 16
September 2009 at 7.00PM at the club to plan
how the programmes will run and establish who can
assist. If you can help, or will have kids
participating please come along.
AMS/IRC Weighing
We will also be looking for kids who were in last Stop complaining about your performance handicap
year‘s programme (and parents!) to volunteer to and get a measurement handicap! For big boats,
take a Pacer out for the junior fleet sail past on the weighing day is Sat 13th @ SYC – book through
Open Day in October this year. Let‘s see if we can Yachting Victoria. For smaller yachts (under two
get all the boats on tonne), we are investigating using the club‘s
the water! facilities to do this. Contact the manager for
further information.
Please call Jonathan
Fryer 0432 384 211
with any questions
you might have.
Tuesday 27th October – Monthly Meeting
This month we have a special guest to discuss
adventures of the high seas, from Bass Strait to
Vanuatu and return. Watch this space. DVD of the
adventures will be a feature.
Making Waves is the regular newsletter of
the HBYC Cruising Group
Friday 28 November – Yarra River evening
Coming Events cruise and BBQ or Dinner Dance (in lieu of
Saturday 12 th
September - Cruise to Brighton monthly meeting) TBC

Assemble at HBYC 0930 for briefing with a
scheduled departure of 1000.
Cruise coordinator is Graham Candelo, 0409 946 H28 History
812. Cruise is to Brighton and return with options
for an overnight stay. Weather will determine Lewis Francis Herreshoff and his amazing H28
exact course. Intending cruisers should confirm Chapter 1
with Graham and advise crew numbers and boat
length.
Tuesday 22nd Sep at 7.30 pm - Visit to the
Port of Melbourne Education Centre, 343 Lorimer
St, Port Melbourne
Most of us who sail at the weekend will have heard
the blast of ships horns as they navigate in and
out the Port of Melbourne. Five blasts mean We had just finished a shared reading of ―The
someone really has the Masters attention and Rime of the Ancient Mariner‖ around ―Sky‘s‖
needs to take appropriate action. darkened cabin when our friend David asked me an
insightful question. ―Do boats have souls?‖ he
Let‘s face it, we sail in waters around the busiest
posed from across the flickering candles
port in Australia and have to deal with shipping on
lightening up the depleted glasses of red wine on
a regular basis, despite the old adage that power
Sky‘s saloon table. I hadn‘t known our friend
gives way to sail. Try yelling that to the Master of
David very long, but this question from a non
a 50,000 ton container ship that need two miles to
seafaring, well respected artist, confirmed his
stop and two tugs to maintain steerage. You won't
sense of our connection with the craft which has
get a favourable response in most cases!!
shared so many adventures with us over the years.
The evening should be very informative with Glenn
Santos from Port of Melbourne's Shipping and His question is an impossible one to answer but as
Navigation Team presenting on the topic of safe I stumbled to give him a response, I realised that
navigation within the Yarra and Port area, he had perceived the power of the union we have
accompanied by a question and answer session on with ―Sky‖, our timber half tonner. Many sailors
the general subject of the Port of Melbourne. will relate to the bond we have with our vessel
This will be followed by the usual tea and coffee which seems to grow with every year and every
refreshments and notice of upcoming events. nautical mile which passes beneath the keel.
The centre is easy to find, its west of Pier 35 and
under the Port Control Tower or for those coming If any yacht possessed such a quality it was
by ship, it is opposite the Turning Basin in the Mermerus, one of the first Herreshoff H28‘s
Yarra River and Swanson Dock. built in Australia. She was constructed in a back
yard in Hobart by Ken Dallas and Alec Campbell. I
Event coordinator: Keith Mitchell 0412 559 370
still have a vivid memory of Alec, his badly
Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th Oct - Cruise to disfigured face and the loss of an eye told the
Werribee story of the hardships he had faced as a WW1
Assemble at HBYC 0930 for briefing with a soldier. He died in 2002 at the age of 103.
scheduled departure of 1000. Cruise coordinator
will be advised.
He was the last of the Australian heroes who
fought in unbelievable adversity at Gallipoli, and Your Race Entry Fees at work
from time to time my dad would pick him up from
his home and bring him aboard. His face would
broaden into a wide smile as he took the varnished
she-oak tiller in his hand and head out of the bay,
with Mermerus healing against a stiff sea breeze
as we sailed towards Hobart.

I recall as a 10 year old, sailing our 14‘ clinker built
dinghy ―Swallow‖ across the Derwent River with
my brother to Battery Point to see the new boat
on which my dad had just paid a deposit. She was
painted black and named Traganinni after the last
surviving female full blooded aborigine. We
clambered over her as she swung on her mooring,
excited at the prospect that our sailing was about
to be greatly extended. Re-named after the After many years great service to the club,
three-masted fully rigged sailing ship ―Mermerus‖, Shirley Freemans engine has been replaced. We
she remained with us for 40 years from 1953. As a now have a 60HP Mercury ‗Big Foot‘ which will
sloop, dad fitted her out for cruising and she provide the club with improved reliability and
always occupied a significant place in the family. performance.

Having cruised Mermerus for many years around Your Membership Fees at work
the waters of Tasmania, I can attest to her
capabilities. She was remarkably fast off the
wind and once she taught you how to ease sheets a
little up wind, she was amazingly weatherly given
her shoal draft. Mermerus proved to be a
wonderful sea boat in the wild Tasmanian
latitudes. She had few bad habits in a big sea, but
her low wooded profile required the crew to take
plenty of warm dry clothes to don at the end of a
passage.

Apart from coastal cruising Dad did sail her to
Sydney, Lord Howe Island and Middleton Reef, It was a bit hard to show the new clubhouse roof
and our family albums are full of pictures and 8mm so this is the old roof as proof! The only ones
movies of happy times on our adventures around disappointed about this are the possums who will
the Tasmanian coast. She also took a major part have to find another location for their parties.
in the rescue of seamen as the sinking bulk ore
carrier ―Lake Illawarra‖ knocked down two pylons As well as this, a section of the marina decking
and three spans of the Tasman Bridge in 1975. has just been replaced and a water tank installed.
Mermerus was thrust against the remaining bridge The Mast Crane is a work in progress so it is all
pylon and damaged as the ship finally surrendered happening at the club! Especially when we also
to her plight and sank. That was a night we will remember that the new fence alignment at the
never forget. roundabout is just around the corner – if you
pardon the pun!
Contributed by David Read

―Making Waves‖ Editor Denis Flores
Cruising Group Convenor Royce Blizzard
HBYC Opening Day
Saturday 4th October 2009
11.30 – 12.00 Juniors/ Cadets Sail Past Commodore at end of cement Pier
12.00 – 13.30 Model boats demo
12.30 – 13.00 Junior/Cadets BBQ Lunch
13.30 - 14.15 Official Guests arrive, drinks and nibbles in club house
14.20—14.30 All gather at BBQ area – Commodore Welcome Speech
14.30 –14.35 Flag Ceremony
14.40—14.45 Vice Commodore – instructions on sail past
14.45-- 15.00 Guests and General Committee move onto official boat
15.30 – 16.00 Sail past
16.30 onwards Refreshments, Band --‘Dons Party’-- in Clubhouse.

THE SAIL PAST – FORMAT; Yachts shall muster to the east of Webb Dock.
Proceed in an easterly direction rounding mark 80 to starboard.

The Official Boat will be anchored south east of Princess Pier. This has been
generously provided to the club by Melbourne Boat Sales, Docklands & Marine
Solutions.

Official Boat -Dyna 58 Motor Cruiser

Yachts shall pass the stern in single file, led by the Club champion ‗Challenger
187‘ then by AMS champion ‗Merlion H8118‘, then the rest of the fleet in sail
number sequence, e.g. H,H2,H3 ETC.
Dress up your yacht with flags and bunting - a photographer will be on board to
record the moment!