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A.C.T. YACHTING
6Sleep-in9 to end junior training
£>LANS for the Can
berra Yacht
Club's junior training
program took another
step forward at the
annual meeting of the
juniors on Monday
night.
The program, which
will be controlled mainly
by the juniors them
selves, will consist of six
Sunday morning sailing
sessions in Mirror
dinghies which the club
recently purchased.
The program to be
gin on November 6 will
culminate with two full
days of intensive sailing
and training at the be
ginning of the school
holidays.
The juniors have
planned a "sleep-in" in
the juniors' room at the
CYC and for the first
two days of the Christ
mas vacation will live,
sleep and eat sailing.
The course will be un
der the guidance of
Geoff Comfort, who was
elected president at the
meeting. He will be
assisted by John Mc
Alpine, Jim Thirsk and
other senior members of
the CYC.
There were more than
10 novices at the meet
ing and bv the time the
course begins the juniors
hope that there will be
25 or more starters.
The juniors are mainly
in the 12-to-13 age group
and there are about 12
girls in the group. The
only qualification for the
coursc is that entrants
must be able to swim
50yd in a lifejacket.
AT the annual meet
ing of the Bate
mans Bay Sailing Club
last Friday, the Com
modore, Bill Burns,
was re-elected for
another year.
Other officers clecicd
were: patron, Comman
der Doug Holmes, RAN
(rctd); vice commodores,
Brian Furrer and Bruce
Walters; club captain,
Phil Sims: secretary,
Laurie Walkear; trea
surer, Alf Irvine; pub
licity and liaison officer,
Rom Moran and com
mitteemen, John Ronk,
Stan Cadnian and
Graham Bums.
The club is looking
forward to an even more
successful season than
last with an cver
increasing participation
by Canberra yachtsmen.
Arrangements for the
opening-of-season regatta
on September 18-19 are
well in hand and as pre
viously reported officials
are confident of an over
all fleet of 70 to 80
boats.
Apart from class
prizes there arc several
major perpetual trophies
for which all entrants
are eligible.
The Catalina Trophy
will be awarded to the
best overall performance
on handicap in Satur
day's events and the
Tollgates Shield will be
similarly applied to the
Sunday races.
Commodore burns
said yesterday the club
hoped to have perpetual
trophies for all the
classes competing in the
regatta. Already there
were about four trophies
available and depending
on the number of
classes racing it was
hoped to make trophies
available for yearly
competition.
AUSTRALIA h a s
taken first and
second platings in the
420 world champion
ships just completed at
Cherbourg, France.
The consistent per
formance of John Gil
der and Doug Giles, of
Adelaide, won them first
placing just ahead of
the Sievewright brothers,
from Melbourne.
With thousands ol
420s overseas, the class
is as yet one of the lesser
known fleets racing in
Australia. It is well es
tablished in Adelaide,
Melbourne and Sydney
with small groups at a
number of country loca
tions.
There arc several in
Canberra and Batemans
Bay with a few at
Nowra, Albury and
Broken Hill. The NSVV
ACT vicc-prcsidcnt of
(he class is Rom Moran,
of Canberra.
The outstanding per
formance overseas of the
only two Australian
boats in a world fleet of
some 60-odd will be very
heartening for 420 sup
porters who worked hard
to finance the trip.
The win will also un
doubtedly stimulate a
greater interest in the
class and in one-design
racing generally.
TN an unfortunate
clash of dates the
Canberra Yacht Club's
spring ball has been
scheduled for the Sat
urday night of the
Batemans Bay open
ing-of-season regatta.
For various reasons it
was not possible to
change the date of either
the ball or Ihe regatta
so many sailors are
making the best of the
weekend by staying in
Canberra for the ball
and then travelling to the
Bay for one day of the
regatta.
Bookings for the ball
are being taken by Bill
Ellis at the CYC.
'T'HE Canberra
Manly Junior As
sociation will hold a
"mini boat show" in
the Monaro Mall this
weekend.
Peter Hanrahan's fully
rigged MI will be on
display together with a
partially completed boat.
The class president,
John Hanrahan, said
yesterday he hoped the
show would stimulate in
terest in the class in the
ACT.
At the annual meeting
of the association. Han
rahan was re-elected
president. Other officers
elcctcd were: Patron,
Ralph Tobias: secretary
treasurer, Dennis Bcl
Tord; publicity officcr,
Brucc Drake: measurer,
Michael Wilmot, and
committee members Mrs
Gcrda Payne and Sid
Harris.
IT seems there is a
definite trend to
wards the establish
ment of a group of
JOG - type yachts at
Batcmans Bay, owned
by Canberra residents
who hanker to do
some coastal cruising
and possibly limited
ocean racing as well.
Canberra yachtsmen
Rom and Bill Moran
are the latest to become
adictcd and last week
sailed their latest acqui
sition, a Boomerang-20,
from Sydney to the Bay
where it will be kept on
moorings.
Rom reports that the
trip down the coast was
most interesting, al
though the weather
could have been more
pleasant.
They set off from
Sydney in heavy rain,
hail and an eclipse, en
countered very large
seas and a mixture of
winds ranging from flat
calnis to gale force.
Mostly they sailed by
day and sheltered at
night in the harbours of
VVollongong, Kiama and
Ulladulla.
At one stage between
Kiama and Jervis Bay
the Boomerang clocked
its maximum speed of
6.4 knots for several
hours on a broad reach
before a strong nor'
wester providing some
exhilarating sailing.
The Morans, both
father and son, are no
newcomers to ocean sail
ing. Before coming to
Canberra, Rom raced
and cruised his own keel
boat extensively ofT the
Western Australian coast
and Bill has had con
siderable experience in
US coastal waters during
a recent overseas post
ing.
They went to a con
siderable amount of
trouble to equip their
Boomerang with charts,
navigation and safety
equipment and the suc
cessful accomplishment
of the trip in adverse
conditions testified to
the thoroughness of their
planning.
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