Scotia , C . T . Brockboff , and Bona . Bradley and Towse !.
The 1899-1900 season had ended with clear skies at Easter Camp at lhc Basin . Broken Bay , but the weather gods bad something else in mind forthcS13rt of the 1900--0 I season . Oub chronicler L . C . Waterman recorded :
A 55-knot nor ' wester with a rcmpcrature of 100 degrees in the shndo [ 37.7 " C ] heralded in the 1900 · 0 I season when n few of the hardy members , their yachrs under srorm rig , met the Commodore in his srcnm ynchr Bromewi11g in Farm Cove on 20 October 1900 . Bro11uwi11g , Northumbria , fouryachtS understonn trysailsand theclob steamer crept down 10 Taylors Bay and , after a while . twelve more yachrs rumed up , making quite a goodly ncct of eighteen . Dinghy racing and refrcshmcnlS were followed by a pany in the evening at Mr Hordem ' s home at Darting PoinL
1be next excitement . other than racing , was an affair at Farm Cove . when the club celebrated lhc Feder · ation of the Stares by assisting in serenading the Governor-General of Federated Australia . LC . Waterman reported :
Frum Cove , lhc water frontage of Govemmcnr House Grounds , where His Majesty ' s Ships of War In Pon Jackson have their respective moorings . was . on rhe evening of Friday 21 December . the scene of n novel and interesting function under the auspices or 1hc Prince Alfred Yacht Club , which was as successful as ii was memorable .
Some 20 yachts of the club fleet , accompanied by the club steamer Lady Hampden . wi ! b hundreds of members and friends aboard , assembled to serenade the Earl of Hopetoun who is to govern the whole of AusD ' lllia from Cape York to Cape