FROM THE HMYC BRIDGE

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QUANTUM SAILS have, once again, been generous in their support of HMYC and the Club's MAJOR EVENT as TITLE SPONSOR for the NINE HOUR.
Thank you to QUANTUM SAILS for their generous support of the event and the sailing fraternity.
See you at HMYC on SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY for the QUANTUM SAILS HMYC NINE HOUR.
Keep an eye out for NOR and SI for this event. Check the HMYC website.
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HMYC CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS SERIES
The Club Championship Series of 8 events (3 now left!!!) over the season is open to ALL CLASSES.
Rumour has it that Rob Samways will be revealing the latest addition to the Hunter Class with the appearance of the newly-built 'Hybrid Theory' on

Sunday 6 February. We await this event with interest.
(Sundays) # 6 - 7 February; # 7 - 28 March; # 8 - 11 April.
The Championship Series incorporates the George Duffin ('Gold' and 'Silver' fleet trophy 'Scratch result' categories)/Hunter Series events for the Hunter Class. Each event consists of three races on each event day (depending on conditions) around a course set using the inner circle of racing marks.
Skipper's Briefing for these events is at 10h30.

SATURDAY 13 and SUNDAY 14 FEBRUARY - MIDMAR MILE - CLUB HIRED OUT FOR EVENT

SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY
PARTINGTON PLATE SERIES - EVENT # 5 (Final race of the series) A series of five events (1 now left!!) for those preferring to enjoy a single longer-distance race/cruise of an afternoon around some of the new ( and sponsored) outer marks on the dam.
Perusal of VC Sailing's most recent report indicates that this handicap series' final result may well rest on the effect of a discard after the last race!!!
Skipper's briefing is at 13h30

SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2010 - QUANTUM SAILS NINE HOUR THE MAJOR EVENT on the HMYC Sailing Calendar is the QUANTUM SAILS HMYC NINE HOUR.
This promises to be the usual bumper event. Get the news out and help get the entries in.
Check the HMYC website for further details.
To all Hunter Sailors: We need at least FOUR entries to make class for this event. Let's try for at least EIGHT.
Great preparation for the forthcoming Nationals less than two months away. Who will join the HMYC "Raiders" for the trip to Witbank?

HMYC HUNTER "RAIDERS" 2010
Time for this happy band to begin preparations for the trip to foreign waters for the Hunter Nationals in Witbank on 20 to 22 March ( Just over TWO MONTHS away !!) with the possibility of making the trip to the Mpumalanga Provs in Witbank two weeks before Nationals for the purpose of acclimatization, etc.!!!!
Get the "Raiders" going for Nationals 2010 and defend the club's title as champion club !!!!!
Have YOUR name added to the list.
Early commitment from: 'Paradigm Shift', 'Essex Girl', 'Odin's Eye', 'Knip', 'Bad News';'Flirt'; 'Hybrid Theory/Zackedly'

RADIO SAILING 2010
This happy band has crawled out of the woodwork for 2010 !! Good to have this news in from Des Fairbank. Thanks Des.

The Radio Sailors started 2010 by canceling their first league event scheduled for 16 January due to the poor weather. The weather on Saturday 30 January was ideal and the sailors enjoyed the second League Event for 36" Shipmate Class Radio Controlled Yachts. Six skippers arrived for the event and everyone was keen to get sailing. Keith Gerson was even more so as his boat had just been reworked by Peter Simons in what is a program to uplift the quality of all the 36" Class Boats thus bringing all the boats in the club into line with the so called hot shot boats. The 36"
Shipmate is a strict one design class but boats tend to become neglected needing the re work program. This class has been sailing for over twenty years and a few boats sailing were of the original fleet. Over the years certain changes were introduced to make building easier as well as rigging of the boat and whilst these changes don't directly effect the performance they do make repeated set up a lot easier.

The wind was a light North Westerly for the first few races and changed during the forth race which became extremely difficult as the wind disappeared all together before swinging around and picking up but not before two boats were counted out. The last three races were sailed in ideal conditions with the wind coming across the dam wall. Very uncharacteristically Peter ran out of battery power in his boat during race 5 leaving him with a DNF which became his discard.
After sailing 7 races and discarding one the results were: Des Fairbank 8, Martin Stephens 13, Peter Simons 16, Keith Gerson 20, Alec Gracie 29 and Guy Bompas 36. A good afternoon's sailing enjoyed by all.

The Club will be sailing again at Midmar on Saturday 6 and 20 February. Sunday the 7 February will see the Radio Controlled Laser Class sailing the Dr. Jack "Sitting on your Jack" Regatta. The SI for this event makes very interesting reading. Every competitor has to be seated on his own collapsible chair 1 Min prior to the start and as it is to honor Jack Goldsmith his chair will be on the start line. Every one else will be in a line starting next to Jack based on age with the youngest skipper being furthest from the start line and windward mark. Green ID Books replace SAS Cards at registration. On the Weekend of 27 and 28 February there will be an Interprovincial sailed on the Durban Pond with the International Marblehead Class Yachts.