There were thineen resignations at the August mee1- ingandseven1een were struck off for non payment of oumancling subscriptions . There was £ 1050 still outstanding on subscriptions . The club was showing a debit of £ 3 I 9s I Jd on trading bu1 still had £ 5426 subscribed ! O Government Savings Bonds . Financially things were so bad that the painting of the flagpole a1 Green Point was deferred .
During this period arrnngements were being made for the club ' s representation for the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge .
In 1934 the economic clouds began to lift and Lhe 6 metre yachts put in an appearance , soon to be joined by the 30 square metre borus .
A point of lnterest regarding splnnakers was raised in the 1930s when the tendency developed in light weather 10 use wry large Spinnakers , sometimes twice the size of the mainsail . In class racing under the Yacht Racing Association rules , this was prohibited , but on Sydney Harbour in handicap events there w .,, no re . 1triction on the size of spinnakers . Later on , in certain divisions it was pennirted ro
carry a spinnaker set from the hounds or se1 from three-quarters the way up the mast .
Jn the 1934-35 ~ eason there was a revival in interest in races for cruising yachts . Many of these beautiful old boats discarded their old-fashioned gaff rigs and were modemised with a tall mast and a Bermudan sail . ln May 193 ' it was resolved tllat ' the crew of the yacht Ho Ho be presented with a silk club burgee , it being left in the hands ofNom1an Wallis to arrange '. Ho Ho was a very solid double-ender , somewhere between 30 and 40 ft . She was built rather like a highwooded ship ' s lifeboat of today . Ho Ho had been commissioned in an endeavour to find some trace of the Norwegian Cadet Training Ship Kobenlravn which disappeared three years before . Ho Ho had searched J 000 miles south of the Cape of Good Hope and had then literally tumbled her way to Hoban through the roaring fifties and forties . lnJuly 1935 . oneofthe RPA YCmembers , Harold Nossiter . in his 20-ton schooner Sirius , accompanied by his two sons Harold and Dick , left Sydney for a cruise around the world . The course taken was along the east coast of Australia , through the Indies , across the nonh of rhe Indian Ocean . via Suez to the Mediterranean and thence to England . They returned to Australia via the Panama Canal , Tahiti and the Pacific Islands . After this splendid two-year trip , the club entertained Mr Nossiter and his sons at a dinner and it was recorded in the club ' s minutes that the dinner marked the appreciation of members for their clubmate being the first Australian in a Sydney-built yacht 10 sail around the world .
There are many other stories such as that of the Robertson family who sold their property on rhe banks of die Derwent River in Hoban . This is the property on which the Wrest Poim Hore ! and Casino now stand . Including the sons , Ron , Don , Archie and
His Excellency Brigadier General the Honourable
Lord Gowrie , VC , GCMG , CB , DSO . Commodore 1935-36 .
A trophy replica of die 1930s .
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