Chapter Twelve
The Club Today and a Look into the Future
The club is situated on Green Point , a beautiful part of the Pittwater . The clubhouse looks south ac ~ s thePittwaterto the green hills of Bayview , the gentle waters of Crystal Bay lap its eastern shores and a broader expanse of the Pittwater , looking toward Church Point and Scolland Island , provides its western border . On approaching the club from Mitala Street , magnificent sandstone ponals carrying 1wo marble plaques engraved with 1he letters RPAYC greel members and visitorus they enter the club grounds . Their first impression will be of the car parks and the beautiful gardens 10 their right , the hardsrand to their left , the boatsheds and the main slipways . As they near the clubhouse they will see the cin : ular garden and the large scockless ship ยท s anchor from
HMS Penguin .
On going through the stone-flagged ponccocherc and Tasmanian oak front doors they enter the club foyer which contains comforrable chairs and
The front entrance to the RPAYC .
1bc main slipway .
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