REPORTS
REPORTS
C.K. Chan
Commodore
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to take up the
challenge of moving the Club forward—a task I cannot do
on my own—I need the help of my Committee members and
every one of you to guide me as to how you want the Club to
be shaped in the future. This is our Club, and I shall always
welcome your suggestions.
Progressing from the role of Rear Commodore Sailing, and
then Vice Commodore, and on to Commodore now, I have
learned from my predecessors to adapt to ‘committee
culture’ something completely different from my background
as a businessman for over 30 years. I shall continue this
‘adaptation’ and continue to improve myself. A critical goal
for me at the Club now is helping us overcome challenges
ahead and excelling at my duties in the best interests of the
membership as a whole.
Since I discovered sailing in 2007, there were two people in the
Club who have helped make me who I am today and made
sailing at HHYC such a huge part of my life, to whom I want to
express my heartfelt appreciation.
Firstly, David Campbell who took me out on Eclipse and taught
me all the fundamentals of sailing. I have logged about 500 local
races and raced on at least 50 yachts, as well as 10 sailing trips
up and down the Taiwan Strait. I went with the Sailability Team
last year to Korea and won the first Bronze Medal for Hong
Kong in the Asian Para Games. Sailing is now my life.
Secondly, Mark Ashton who showed me how to handle
difficult issues dealing with Club affairs while working with
and listening to others. His guidance has helped polish
my communication skills with the various government
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departments and, eventually, we achieved full compliance with
the rectification of all Unauthorised Building Works (UBWs) at
the Club over the last 18 months.
I would like to thank William Allen, Eric Stark, Nicole Arnulphy,
Simon Robertson, Paul Arkwright, Nigel Slattery, David Hughes
and Andy Miller all of whom kindly continue to contribute with
their good work on the General Committee (GenCom) at the
Club. I would also like to welcome our new GenCom members,
elected at the last AGM, namely: SH Chung, Bridget Chan,
Eddy KB Lo and Cramond Wong. Each of them has already
committed to chair a subcommittee or lead a working group to
take the Club onwards with their ideas, which will certainly help
to bring a new lease of life to the Club.
Lease renewal is still currently our priority. We have
been granted the fifth holdover lease (a temporary lease
extension which expires at the end of January 2016) when
the wording of the new lease should be finalised. Following
this, we will then have to modify the obsolete lease
conditions for our re-provisioning and future development of
the Club as we move forwards.
These tasks cannot succeed without continuing to nurture
good relations with our neighbouring villages and relevant
government officials—I will continue to focus and invest
time on these areas. You will see your new Commodore
being involved in more community functions and festival
events aimed at making HHYC an integral part of the wider
Sai Kung community.
感謝大家讓我有機會承擔帶領本會繼續向前的挑戰——
這個任務我不可能獨力完成——我需要各位委員會成員
和你們的支持，指引我應如何塑造本會的未來。這是我
們的遊艇會，我任何時候都歡迎你們提供意見。
我從擔任助理會長開始，到副會長，然後現在是會長，
我一直跟前輩學習如何適應「委員會文化」，而這跟我
30年的中小企營商經驗有天淵之別。我會繼續適應，
繼續為自己增值。我在本會的重要目標是克服前面的挑
戰，並盡我所能為會員尋求福祉。
自從我在2007年接觸帆船以來，會內有兩位人士一直扶
持我，令我成為現在的我，並令到在白沙灣遊艇會揚帆
出海成為我生命的重要部份。在此，我要致以衷心感謝。
首先，是 David Campbell 帶我登上Eclipse，並教導
我有關帆船的所有基本知識。我參加過至少500場本地帆
船賽、登上過至少50艘帆船，包括10次來回台灣海峽的
航行經驗。我去年跟「航能」到韓國，見證他們在亞殘
會為香港贏得一面銅牌。帆船已成為我的生命。
第二位要感謝的是 Mark Ashton。他教懂我處理複雜的會
務，並且聆聽別人、衷誠合作。他的指引增潤了我面對不
同政府部門時的溝通技巧，最終，我們成功在過去18個月
內，把所有違例建築物拆除以符合要求。
我也想藉機會感謝 William Allen、Eric Stark、Nicole
Arnulphy、Simon Robertson、Paul Arkwright、Nigel
Slattery、David Hughes 和 Andy Miller，