Subject: Race One 2020-2021 Sailing Season, 19 September 2020 
 
Apologies for the lateness in getting the results out. Being retired means you don’t have much free time to do stuff like TY Delegate and race reports.
Great weather for Saturdays first race of the season. The 15 knot Northerly shook out all the cobwebs. And from my perspective, wonderful to see all who participated again after the winter layoff and COVID-19 restrictions.  Big thanks to Barry for preparing our results spread sheet for the coming season.
Results of Point score 1 
Position Boat Name PBH (CBH) finish time in minutes
First Rosstered Off 54.83 (55.19)
Second Momentum 55.20 (55.43)
Third Serenity 55.97 (56.93)
Fourth Froufrou 56.10 (56.10)
 
Kind Regards Trev

TY Delegates Report 15 February 2020, Around the Lake Race
 After a weeks break to help out with the Manly Junior States, today’s race coincided with the NSW Moth State titles hosted by PKSC. It was very exciting for all those old moth sailors (me included) to see a bunch of foiling Moths in the PKSC rigging area. For many of us oldies a Moth was our introduction to sailing and most likely contributed to us catching the sailing bug. Hasn’t there development come a long way in design since the old scow versions, and what intricate and complex machines they are now.
Anyway enough of the reminiscing and on to todays club sailing story. Of note is some changes to crew positions in the four TY’s competing in today’s race. Magella with Jim Curry at the helm and Richard Lech and Pierre as crew and Froufrou with Stephen Sullivan at the helm and Jess, Alan, and Micah as crew. In reference to the other two TYs , Serenity was skippered by Wayne and crewed by Cody and Daniel aboard and Ruby was skippered by Tony Sanderson and crewed by Hugh.
A skin cancer removal from my arm meant I was not sailing today but, as a satisfying concession, I was able to enjoy watching the action from the comfort of the clubhouse.
The very light breeze of not much more than 5 knots meant no sailing for the foiling moths. But it was enough to run the PKSC Around the Lake race, all be it with a delayed start.
Thanks to Rod Nairn and Ray Stanley for being our volunteer duty crew today. They had a lot to contend with to ensure that all boats competing had enough wind to start and finish the race in the very light conditions that persisted till late afternoon. It did make it a long race.
As mentioned, it was great having the opportunity to observe the race from shore, especially in the company of our resident brain surgeons Norm, Bill and Barry.  And, given it was a slow light wind race, you could take time out for a comfort stop, make another cupper or have a wander round and you wouldn’t miss much of the on water action. Most of the boats would be in relatively the same on water positions when you got back to the observation table. The exception to this is when Serenity came from behind in what the other boats called a lucky break. I think she just picked the correct side of the course on the work from Oak Flats to the Windang/Primbee mark making up a lot of ground and rounding just behind Magella for the run back to the x mark and the finish.

Results for Pointscore 17
Position                        Boat Name                         PBH (CBH)
First                                 Serenity                               82.55 (85.54)
Second                           Magella                                82.99 (88.99)
Third                               Ruby                                     83.91 (89.50)
Fourth                            Froufrou                              90.03 (90.03)
 
Regardless of the finish results it sounded like most of the sailors had another wonderful day on and off the water. How very lucky we are to be in a position to take advantage of this wonderful resource.
Next Saturdays is scheduled for Championship race so I hope as many of you as possible can sail to make it a well-attended event.
Till then, Trev

TY Delegates Report for 1-2 February 2020, SIBYC Regatta
I was correct wasn’t I.  St Georges Basin and Sussex Inlet Regatta was a wonderful event for those of us lucky enough to have participated.  The slightly extended format with a social race on Friday morning and lawn bowls Friday afternoon before the main weekend event added to the relaxed nature of the regatta. In my opinion the extra day created an opportunity to renew old and make new sailing acquaintances.   Some could even bowl.
Port Kembla Sailing Club was well represented with nine boats filling out a fleet of 30 starters. Obviously this is a very popular event for us. I wish I could duplicate this enthusiasm to participate in our normal club events. Any suggestions let me know.
Saturday’s passage race was run in very hot conditions with a NE breeze kicking in around 15 knots. Enough to make for some good rides and exciting racing. The swim in the beautiful clear Sussex Inlet water at the end of the race made the day even better.
Sundays race was cooled down by an overnight southerly change that settled by race time to again around the 15 knot mark. Perfect sailing conditions really.  All in all we had some very close racing and terrific après  sailing events that rounded off another fantastic Sussex Inlet and Basin Yacht Club Regatta.
Thanks must go to SIBYC for all the work they put in to make it a memorable 30th anniversary event. I am sure we all appreciated the social sausage sizzle and drinks put on in the Fisho’s clubhouse for us by the SIBYC team at the end of each race day.  
As is customary the results of Saturdays around the Basin race we use as our PKSC Pointscore 16 event. Our biggest race of the season so far.
Pointscore 16,  St Georges Basin Regatta, 1-2 February 2020
Position        Boat Name                PBH (CBH)
First                 Whitewash                  93.09 (98.59)
Second           Hasbeencounter        94.10 (99.99)
Third               Froufrou                      94.94 (94.94)
Fourth            Hailstorm                     96.39 (95.16)
Fifth                Breakaway                   98.10 (93.24)
Sixth               Black Sheep                100.63 (95.97)
Seventh         Ruby                             101.42 (106.78)
Eight              Serenity                        101.84 (104.10)
Ninth             Rosstered Off               103.40 (101.48)
 
This coming weekend is set aside in our calendar for a round of the Manley Junior States so no regular sailing at the club. I am sure if any of you have spare time this weekend it would be appreciated down at the club.
The following Saturday and Sunday 15-16 February we are hosting a round of the Moth State titles that should be very exciting to watch.  However we will still be running an around the lake race starting at our usual time Saturday so please make a space in your weekend to compete. If not, think about helping out either on the water or at the club to make the Moth States better for competitors.
Hope to see you all soon.
Trev.
 

TY Delegates Report 11 January 2020
I hope you all survived the Bush fire emergency and Christmas and New Year’s events OK. We had great conditions for the first race after the Christmas/New Year’s break, overcast with a 10 knot South to South Easterly wafting through . Quite a few of you may still be away and some of you may have had other commitments. Three TYs turned up, Black Sheep with Derek, Tim, Dave and Danno? (can’t read Derek’s hand writing), Momentum with Barry, Ray, John and Greg aboard and Froufrou with Stephen, Micah and me aboard.
Thanks to Richard Leck and Paul Leaudais for covering the duty boat duties. And what a great course they set, especially in the shifty south to south easterly 10 knot breeze we had as mentioned above.
Great start as well. Unfortunately Black Sheep had a malfunction with her main halyard snapping half way up the first work which put her out of the race. You spend an hour rigging up then less that 5 minutes into the race you have to retire then another hour unrigging. Is sailing worth it? Yes I think it is because you learn something new every time, and its never exactly the same next time.
Momentum lead from that point on but I think suffered by using her self-tacking jib in the dying breeze.
Anyway it only takes two boats to have a race and I think we had a great one today.   
Results of Pointscore 14
Position    Boat Name                     PBH (CBH)
First             Froufrou                          81.56 (81.51)
Second       Momentum                     83.31 (83.86)
Third           Black Sheep                    DNF

The end. Trev

Hi all,
No sailing this Saturday as the predicted high westerly winds came through before the start so Championship race 2 for us was cancelled. I suggest that we reschedule our Championship No 2 to either November 9 or November 16. Does anyone have a preference?
 
The End,  Trev

​Dear TY Sailors and Potential TY Sailors,
Not much to say as sailing was cancelled because of high winds again. That makes 2 Championships races to make up. Championship 2 will be rescheduled for 9 November and will have further discussions with you about whether it’s possible to reschedule Championship 3 before the end of the sailing season.
 
Hopefully, for those of us able to participate this coming Saturday, we will get a race in. I will not be in attendance next Saturday but wish you happy hamburgers and pleasant weather. See you on November the 9th.
 
The End, Trev.

​Firstly I am putting you all on notice. No body is to have any heart attacks, or major new health related issues over the next year, at least. There has been quite enough of that stuff so far this year. Invest in your own health so you can be around in good working order at least for the next few years. I need you to stay healthy for sailing.
 
OK, now some good news. We got a race in this Saturday, from start to finish. The first one in 4 starts. Rosstered Off  with Jim, Brad, Dave and Guy aboard and Momentum with Barry, Greg, Ray and John aboard represented the TY fleet as Froufrou’s crew were the duty crew for the day.
 
Although the wind swung randomy between East and South during the race, I was informed that most of the sailors had a great day on the water.
 
As far as the TY’s case went there was mixed feelings about the shifty conditions.  Rosstered Off had a blinder of a race and cleaned out after the start, By the finish she had  accumulating a commanding lead to cross the line in first place.
Momentum on the other hand had the wind gods against her and couldn’t win a trick with the fickle finger of fate scuppering every good tack with a wind change in the wrong direction. I suppose we all have days like that so I hope that Momentums crew recovers for next weeks sailing event.
 
Which brings me neatly to the next two points. Next weekend is the IYC’s Lord Mayors Cup. A few of us have expressed a commitment to race both days and will be staying in our boats at PKSC Saturday night. I hope you can make the effort to join us. PKSC boats often make up the biggest share of the fleet and I hope that this years Lord mayors cup will be no exception.
 
The following weekend beginning Friday afternoon 22 November is our big TY sailor run club event of the season, the Kembla Klassic Regatta. As the coordinator of this event I am relying on as many of you as are available to assist me in making this event a good one for all participants. 
We will especially need assistance to set up the camping. rigging and club house areas Friday afternoon from about 15:00 hours, sort out starting and other signal flags for the 2 course starters and finishers, run our support boats, help in the canteen during the lunch periods, cook breakfast for competitors on Sunday morning  and help tidy up on Sunday at the end of the event. Please come and help it will be greatly appreciated.
 
Results for Pointscore 8, Championship 2
Place                    Boat Name                      Finish times CBH (PBH)
First                      Rosstered Off                             83.30 (84.41)
Second                  Momentum                               89.57 (87.50)
 
The end Trev

Dear TY sailing colleagues,
Just a quick report with no philosophising this time.
We had some good sailing weather for the Lord Mayors regatta weekend put on by the IYC. In my opinion it was good well contested racing in a fleet of 21 starters. Plus for those that stayed at PKSC Saturday night, some very good conversations etc. that did not dwell on the importance of facts. Both days were sailed in South easterlies with the Saturday peaking at around 10 knots and Sunday up around 20 knots. Good testing breezes that found the kinks and glitches in our boats and bodies.
 
I have calculated our normal Poinscore race by adding the two Saturday race finishing times together. If you have any objection to this please let me know and I can fix.
Anyway, for PKSC boats the results are as follows:
 
Place                           Boat Name            PBH (CBH) time in minutes
First                                Froufrou                         56.56 (56.56)
Second                       Rosstered Off                     56.82 (56.07)
Third                             Whitewash                       56.89 (60.18)
Fourth                          Momentum                      57.72 (59.51)
Fifth                               Breakaway                       59.18 (55.74)
Sixth                                  Ruby                             59.30 (60.74)

 Congratulations to all those who participated. I believe we represented the PKSC very well.
 Please find attached the full finishing times for the 3 races sailed in the Lord Mayors regatta.
 Hopefully I will see most of you this coming weekend to help with running our Kembla Klassic.
 
The End, Trev

​Dear PKSC TY Sailors,
I wanted to extend a personal thank you to those of you able to make yourselves available to assist with running the weekends 2019 Kembla Klassic Regatta. A special thanks to Barry, John, Ray, Graham, Jack and Brendan on the finish vessel, Jim, Dave Smith and Todd (and Jack) on the start vessel, Dave Morison and Paul Leaudais on the course setting vessel, Wayne Barry and Richard Leck on the starting line and support vessel, and, Daniel, Aaron and Curt for setting up and running the Junior course. Thanks also to Stephen Sullivan who set up our on line registration system and also assisted with on water support. If I have forgotten to thank one of you I do apologize. Just means you must be a quiet achiever.  
You made it another successful regatta.
 
With sincere thanks 

Another successful sailing day. Although the Southerly was blowing 25 knots during the morning it eased significantly by start time. This meant a flurry of activity on the 4 starters in todays race, Momentum with Barry, Greg and John aboard, Ruby with Tony and Paul aboard, Rosstered Off with Jim, Richard, Dan and Brad aboard and Froufrou with Gemma, Mark, Derrek and me aboard, to change up and undo reefs.
Thanks to Sam and Kevin our duty crew today. They set a good and fare course in difficult shifty wind conditions. We all appreciated their efforts on the day.  
Speaking of shifty wind, the five to 8 knot southerly/south easterly/easterly (not necessarily in that order) was good to some of the TY fleet but not so good to others. I believe there was an element of luck in being on the right side of the course when the wind decided to do its shifty thing. Froufrou and Rosstered Off appeared to benefit and Momentum and Ruby were not so lucky with the shifts. Still, you have to admit it was a good day to be on the water.
In my opinion it was a particularly good day to introduce new crew to Port Kembla Sailing Club.  On that note and on behalf of us TY sailors I extend a big welcome and thanks to Froufrou’s crew for today Gemma and Mark. Not only are they intelligent and capable, but they lowered the average age of the sailors on board by 20 years. I was also lucky to have Derrek Shepard aboard. It was great having the eyes of an accomplished and consistently good sailor, to pick up on things you can tweak that make it easier to sail faster.  Much appreciated Derrek.
One of my personality flaws is that, in general, I find people irritating. For example they can want stuff from you at a time that isn’t convenient, ask you questions you don’t feel like answering and get in your way at supermarket shelves.  Contradicting this generalisation is that I also find people endlessly fascinating. They most often have interesting lives and interesting stories, and in many ways can enhance your sailing experiences and your life. Today I am glad that I put my flaw (even though its often accurate) of finding people in general irritating and invite people that I did not know aboard Froufrou. They were interesting, intelligent and enhanced my life.  Needless to say I hope that all you TY skippers take the risk and invite new people aboard to crew, especially if they are young, intelligent and agile. It will expand our pool of sailors and, like me, you may also be happily surprised.  
Only a few more sailing days to go before the end of the year. Hopefully you are able to make them.

Results for Championship 4, Pointscore 10
Place     Boat Name   Finish Time in Minutes CBH (PBH)
First            Froufrou                         72.96 (72.96)
Second     Rosstered Off                  74.72 (75.64)
Third         Momentum                     77.96 (75.31)
Fourth           Ruby                             82.90 (80,81)
 
The End, Trev

Dear TY sailing colleagues,
Just a quick report with no philosophizing this time.
We had some good sailing weather for the Lord Mayors regatta weekend put on by the IYC. In my opinion it was good well contested racing in a fleet of 21 starters. Plus for those that stayed at PKSC Saturday night, some very good conversations etc. that did not dwell on the importance of facts. Both days were sailed in South easterlies with the Saturday peaking at around 10 knots and Sunday up around 20 knots. Good testing breezes that found the kinks and glitches in our boats and bodies.
 
I have calculated our normal Point score race by adding the two Saturday race finishing times together. If you have any objection to this please let me know and I can fix.
Anyway, for PKSC boats the results are as follows:
 


 
Congratulations to all those who participated. I believe we represented the PKSC very well.
 
Please find attached the full finishing times for the 3 races sailed in the Lord Mayors regatta.
 
Hopefully I will see most of you this coming weekend to help with running our Kembla Klassic.
 
Kind regards
Trev

TY Delegates Report for 30 November 2019
Another successful sailing day. Although the Southerly was blowing 25 knots during the morning it eased significantly by start time. This meant a flurry of activity on the 4 starters in today’s race, Momentum with Barry, Greg and John aboard, Ruby with Tony and Paul aboard, Rosstered Off with Jim, Richard, Dan and Brad aboard and Froufrou with Gemma, Mark, Derrek and me aboard, to change up and undo reefs.
Thanks to Sam and Kevin our duty crew today. They set a good and fare course in difficult shifty wind conditions. We all appreciated their efforts on the day. 
Speaking of shifty wind, the five to 8 knot southerly/south easterly/easterly (not necessarily in that order) was good to some of the TY fleet but not so good to others. I believe there was an element of luck in being on the right side of the course when the wind decided to do its shifty thing. Froufrou and Rosstered Off appeared to benefit and Momentum and Ruby were not so lucky with the shifts. Still, you have to admit it was a good day to be on the water.
In my opinion it was a particularly good day to introduce new crew to Port Kembla Sailing Club.  On that note and on behalf of us TY sailors I extend a big welcome and thanks to Froufrou’s crew for today Gemma and Mark. Not only are they intelligent and capable, but they lowered the average age of the sailors on board by more than 20 years. I was also lucky to have Derrek Shepard aboard. It was great having the eyes of an accomplished and consistently good sailor, to pick up on things you can tweak that make it easier to sail faster.  Much appreciated Derrek.
One of my personality flaws is that, in general, I find people irritating. For example they can want stuff from you at a time that isn’t convenient, ask you questions you don’t feel like answering and get in your way at supermarket shelves.  Contradicting this generalisation is that I also find people endlessly fascinating. They most often have interesting lives and interesting stories, and in many ways can enhance your sailing experiences and your life. Today I am glad that I put my flaw (even though its often accurate) of finding people in general irritating and invite people that I did not know aboard Froufrou. They were interesting, intelligent and enhanced my life.  Needless to say I hope that all you TY skippers take the risk and invite new people aboard to crew, especially if they are young, intelligent and agile. It will expand our pool of sailors and, like me, you may also be happily surprised. 
Only a few more sailing days to go before the end of the year. Hopefully you are able to make them.
Results for Championship 4, Pointscore 10
 
The End, Trev

Welcome to the 2019-2020 sailing season. I will be your TY delegate for this sailing season and will attempt to keep you up to date with PKSC race results and any TY news that I am aware of. Let me know if you want something communicated to other TY club members and I will attempt to do so. Currently the club does not have a Newsport editor and will attempt to publish TY news on our PKSC TY site.
​
What a great start of the season with good manageable winds on each of the 3 race days sailed. Even with the specter of a blown out race that Barry Grant, Ray Stanley and Greg historically bring to their scheduled duty day we had near perfect Saturday sailing conditions. Barry, Ray and Greg set a cracking course for Rosstered Off and Froufrou to make the most of the great conditions. Thanks guys.

No close racing today as Rosstered Off lead from start to finish increasing her lead over Froufrou every leg. It did give Froufrou to experiment with our sailing trimming which is always a good thing to do when the pressure is off.

That is enough of the sailing stuff now let’s get down to the real reason we belong to a sailing club, the talking shit with your sailing buddies. Given that we usually make the most of our winter break we should have a lot to talk about. I regret not spending enough time chatting to my TY colleagues about their adventures, without too many facts getting in the way of a good story. I for one joined quite a few of our club members who trekked north for the Hamilton Island Race week.  including Aaron Weare with his crew aboard Hasbeencounter, Derek and Nicole Shepard and their crew aboard Black Sheep and me Paul Leadaus and Clayton McLellan aboard Froufrou. It was a very well run, challenging and enjoyable event, and I believe we all represented PKSC club well both on and off the water. It’s a dauntingly long drive north  but, if you can take your time I recon its worth the adventure. I think we will go back next year and maybe include Airley Beach and Magnetic Island race weeks as well. Who else wants to come?

We have some catching up to do on the results of the first 3 races as follows:
 
Place                                       Boat Name                                 PBH (CBH)
Pointscore 1
First                                              Serenity                               83.813 (86.807)
Second                                        Froufrou                              86.254 (86.254)
Third                                          Momentum                           89.176 (90.484)
Fourth                                            Ruby                                  90.428 (91.767)

Championship 1 (Pointscore 2)
First                                          Rosstered Off                         84.604 (83.303)
Second                                         Froufrou                             85.258 (85.258)
Third                                           Momentum                          86.243 (88.086)

Pointscore 3
First                                             Momentum                         Duty Boat
First                                               Froufrou                            79.095 (79.095)
Second                                      Rosstered Off                       80.651 (79.288)

It is my hope that we can attract a more regular turnout for our Saturday races. Club races are a perfect opportunity to fine tune boats and crew against consistently well sailed club benchmark boats and, to catch up on all the important business that goes along with the pre and post-race discussions. Life is too short to procrastinate so please consider making an effort, putting a crew together and coming down to join us in the club and on the water this season. Its always a good adventure and always good company.

The End, Trev