Hebe Jebes Issue Sep to Oct 2013 Sep 2013 | Page 14
Reports
CK Chan
Rear Commodore—Sailing (outgoing)
Summer is waving goodbye to us and the next
sailing season starts with the Port Shelter
Regatta in September.
Looking back at the past 27 months that I served the Club as a
flag officer, my happiest moment was when I saw 240 sailors at the
Grand Prize Giving Ceremony of our signature event, the Nautica
Typhoon Series 2013. We have set records in series entries of
91 boats and the maximum number of par ticipating keelboats in
a single day was 73 boats. Sailors came from other yacht clubs
around Hong Kong and packed out the garden bar, sharing the joy
of our success at the event. The Sail Committee received verbal
and written compliments from the IRC, Impala, and HKPN Fleets.
Also, in the Summer Saturday Series, which kept the sailors
occupied while their boats were in Sai Kung, we made a record
in series entries of 40 boats. There were more than 31 boats that
came out racing for just three hours on four afternoons.
I have to thank all the members of the Sailing Committee, without
them we could not possibly have achieved these encouraging
results. The Sail Committee has been well attended throughout
the year. Special thanks to the sub-committee members: Chris
Austin, Peter McCaffery and Colm Anderson who have given their
valuable time to suppor t the yacht racing organisation at HHYC.
I would like to thank all the staff at the Sailing Centre and the
Marine Depar tment who have all worked so hard to ensure that
members of the Club can enjoy the events.
The combined racing with RHKYC will carry on in the winter,
we can look forward to more success with the collaboration
between the two clubs. I would like to express gratitude to all the
race officers who helped with the management of the 54 races
that we held last year.
It is time for me to go, to step down as the Rear Commodore,
sailing since The Sail Committee developed into a matured
framework. I am sure the good work will continue and I shall look
back at my footprints with a smile.
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