Christmas drinks reminder..

Remember Monday 30^th November, Christmas drinks at Bells Hotel Sth. Melbourne.

Starts 7.30pm see you there.

 

 

MYCV-memberships

It is with deep regret that I feel the need to write to you in relation to the status of our membership base at our yacht club.

As you are all well aware, a club is made up of members, paid up members.  At the moment the MYCV has about 12 of them.  It is hard to believe that we are the oldest Yacht Club in Victoria and yet the smallest in membership base. Anyone who races regularly, needs a Silver Card from Yachting Victoria. The MYCV is the cheapest way to achieve this.

Unfortunately at our current membership level, it is not sustainable for us to  continue as a successful yacht club.  The time has come. We now need to call on you all to respond  and become paid up members.

It’s  as easy as downloading a Membership Application form from the website, fax/email it and EFT payment straight into our bank account (all details are on the membership form).  Alternatively, you can pay  by cash or cheque to David Tapper on Monday 30^th November at Bells Hotel South Melbourne at our Christmas meeting/drinks. If you enjoy multihull racing, cruising, spending time with people who share the same interest, then lets start pushing to increase our membership base.

 

Thank you.

 

Tim Pepperell

Commodore

MYCV

 

 

 

 

Multihulls at AVW Geelong 2010

 

Multihulls at AVW Geelong 2010

 

 

The Multihull Yacht Club of Victoria (MYCV) in conjunction with Audi Victoria Week Principle Race Officer Denis Thompson, have organised an extended regatta starting on Tuesday 19^th of January 2010 through to Sunday 24^th of January 2010. The series will be staged predominately around fixed marks on Corio and Port Phillip Bay.   There will be a combination of short and passage races which includes starting with the 350 plus fleet in the famous Melbourne to Geelong Race.  Handicaps will be based on the OMR system and finalised before 6:30pm on Monday 18^th of January 2010.  All yachts must apply with category 5 safety regulations.

Although we start and finish at RGYC, we will stay 3 nights at ‘Marina Yarras Edge’ situated up the Yarra River near the City.   This will enable us to showcase Multihull sailing on the top end of the bay and incorporate the King of Docklands sail off which includes two multihull crews’ ‘e-marineworld skips’ and ‘Wilparina 2’.  Come along and support your Multihull mates while attending the Audi Victoria Week party.

A formal dinner will be held on Tuesday 19^th of January at RGYC, at a cost of $25 per head.  This year’s dinner was a great success and we are endeavouring to make 2010 even better.

Any crews, especially interstate boats, needing help with arrangements/logistics please contact the MYCV committee.  The MYCV is committed in making this event the premier Multihull regatta in Australia, hence are proud to invite all racing and cruising multihull yachts to attend.

 (See program over)

 

The program

• Mon 18th Jan........Launch RGYC, measuring, registration, informal dinner in evening
• Tue 19th Jan..........2 races around fixed marks in Corio Bay. Formal dinner at RGYC
• Wed 20th Jan.........Passage race to Melbourne.
• Thu 21st Jan...........2 races around fixed marks top end of Port Phillip.
• Fri 22nd Jan...........Lay day
• Sat 23rd Jan...........Passage race to Geelong
• Sun 24th Jan..........2 races around fixed marks inner and outer harbour. Presentation Dinner
• Mon 25th Jan.........Pack up and go home. (Or stay and enjoy the celebrations)
• Tue 26th Jan..........Australia day

 

For further information please visit:

www.victoriaweek.com.au

www.mycv.asn.au

Tim Pepperell

Commodore

MYCV.

 

 

 

Christmas drinks-7:30pm Bells Hotel Monday 30th November.

Well it’s that time of year again! And hasn’t the it gone fast? This year the last MYCV meeting for the year,  will be a casual affair to catch up with sailing friends.  There will be a  brief chat about

 The Nationals held at Hervey Bay in October and a  report on SOMR and AVW progress. Kicks off at 7.30pm at Bells Hotel in the upstairs room. Finger food will be provided with drinks at bar prices.

 

Guest speaker is David Williamson, who sailed on Kookaburra in the America’s Cup 150th Jubilee Celebration in August 2001, held on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England.

All the old Americas Cups yachts competed including Australia 2… Just hearing about the logistics of getting all these great boats back together is interesting, plus the meeting with

Dennis Conner and John Bertrand.

 

Hope to see you all there, for those that can’t make it, have a Merry Christmas and a safe New Year and see you at Hasting Yacht Club for the Summer series or Audi Victoria Week.

 

Cheers

 

Tim Pepperell

Commodore. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copy report from Livesaildie,Sailworld and Ian Farrier web sites.

e-marineworld skips wins SOMR

 

‘e-marineworld Skips’ (formally Quickskips), a Farrier F9AX tri wins the ‘e-marineworld 2009, Southern Ocean Multihull Regatta’ (SOMR) held on Western Port in Victoria.

 

The crew of e-marineworld Skips, Tim Pepperell, Robin Reiger, Tony Holt and Gale Perry had a great time at SOMR, taking out line honours in all four races winning the prestigious Greyhound trophy. The regatta was held in light and fluky frustrating conditions except for the first reach in the first race. Tim Pepperell said “the first race was the most exciting of the series when sailing across to Joes Island, on a tight reach, holding our mast head kite was exciting when sticking it in several times going from 18 to 0 knots four times before we ran out of water and needed to drop the kite in a hurry”.

 

The four race series was hosted by the Hastings Yacht Club in-conjunction with the Multihull Yacht Club of Victoria. All races were tightly contested with the final handicap in both PHC & OMR results finishing the top 4 boats within 3 minutes of each other. After the wind dropped out again in the last race SOMR race control had no choice but to shorten course which had all of the fleet  motoring back to the club for a pack up and get ready for the SOMR presentation dinner. On PHC all 3 place getters were Farrier tri’s and on OMR 2 Farriers and 1 corsair 31 filled the top spots.

 

 

SOMR Report

This years SOMR was once again hosted by Hastings Yacht Club. Whilst the fleet was smaller than hoped, some of the flamboyant personalities made it feel much larger..... and non more so than Mark Stafford, respectfully known as "Shreik", whose huge presence on the dance floor made the lead singer swoon....but more of that later...

This year we were sponsored by e-marineworld (does their logo remind you of pacman?)... Tim and Rob provided some nice new trophies and then went on to win most of them! I put it down to their new ace crew of "big" Tony Holt ably assisted (possibly controlled) by Gale Perry. They took Line honours in all four Races thus winning the inaugural Greyhound Trophy.

The regatta was held in light and fluky winds with the exception of the first race which was champagne sailing in near perfect reaching conditions along the top of Westernport. For the rest of the regatta your anchor was a strategic weapon to stop the tide taking one backwards in the frequent windless zones and those who used it wisely made good gains....sadly, the crew of Shuttle did not catch on and they were noted overtaking many boats going backwards on several occasions.... In spite of the conditions, all races were hotly contested with the top boats separated by no more than a minute or 2.

Shaun Fishley on Frassld continues to improve and we expect him to knock Skips off their top spot soon. He was 2nd overall on OMR. George Bulka had some exciting moments on Redshift and took out the PHC trophy. Probably not his best regatta and I put it down to him being distracted by his new baby Catamaran. You can never write off Leon and Rainbow Connection with a handicap to die for.... he should have won it all in the light conditions but found a few too many holes and ended up 3rd in both PHC and OMR. Jeff on Chilli had a ripper last race and was leading the pack until we realised he had missed out a mark.. this was easy to do in the windless conditions..Al on Mustang Sally was in cruising mode and training up a new crew.. fortunately for the rest of us they had not learnt to use the screacher so Al was down the field this time. That leaves Shreik on With Teeth....somehow, in the last race, he managed to not see a huge Channel Mark which was the first turning mark, and managed to wedge his tri onto it... made a lovely bell like sound and took him 5 minutes to free himself... for his efforts he won the Pigs Might Fly Trophy and the Zinta Trophy for the best boat breakage..Finally, the start boat... they did a great job as usual, but turned up with a start mark 18inches high that one could barely see. Fortunately, in the 3rd race it sunk, never to be retrieved... the gods were on our side that day....

The presentation Dinner on the Monday night was well catered and well supported by sailors and members of HYC. We had the same live band as in previous years and the lead singer certainly remembered Shreik for his on floor activities.

Many thanks to the HYC team lead by Josie, Ian Anderson as Race Officer and all competitors. I think running it on Cup weekend was probably not the wisest decision in hindsight, but a good time was had by all...