does . he does well . He organised four telethon collections for the Crippled Children ' s Fund , as well as door-to-door appeals . His business successes with Johnson & Johnson ( Aust .) Pty Ltd are well known and be was Chainnan of lhe Bonrd when he retired .
Some of Bill ' s yachting friends per : 1uaded him to compete for the Sayooara Cup . At this time Vicioria bad held the cup for 28 years . Bill bought Saskia wbkh be claimed was the best designed William Fife 8 metre yacht in the world . In I 9SS Saskia , sltiwered by Bill Northam , easily woo the Sayonara Cup for New South Wales . Bill won the Alben Oold Cup , the Gascoigne World Championship and many club point score series . He also ga . ined a third In the Sydney Hoban Yacht Race . He owned Caprice of Huon and Jazzer and co-operated with Sir Frank Packer in Gretel ' s challenge for the America ' s Cup
in 1962 .
In 1963 he decided to have a 5 . S metre yacht builL He named the yacht Barranjoey Md recruited Peter ( Pod ) O ' DonncU and Dick Sargeant to help him gain representation for Australia in the 1964 Olympic Games in Jnpan . What happened at Lake Macquarie in the trials mid at Enoshima Is now history and Bill is to be congratulated and thanked for blinging to the
club one of its gold medals .
The story of his win at Enoshima is interesting . The Japanese referred 10 Bill as ' Osegan ' ( old man ) but there wasn ' t too much of ! he ' old man ' about him , Md Barranjocy wns $ uporbly risged nnd crewed . In the last bent It looked as though the American , MacNrunarn , would win . Bill had done evenhing possible to annoy MocNamnra , even 10 the point of singing ' MacNamnrn ' s Band " every time they meL Much the same llS in Fremnmle in 1987 when the Maoris sang and danced theirhakasouL ~ ide Dennis Conner ' s hotel all night before ! he Inst challenge heat .
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Pictures of Sir William Northam and hi5 crew of Peter ( Pod ) O ' Donnell and Dick Sargeant hang in the club foyer at Green PoinL
Sir William Northam leuds in an Olympic Selection heat for 5.5 metre yachts nt Lake Mucquari ~ . The other yachts are Altair KA I . Sowhern Cross KA9 and
Jabiru KA 17 .
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