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 Hello All
While not wishing to start on a sombre note, I would like to mark the passing recently of 2 well known members of the club.
Peter Hart was the Marina manager for a number of years as well as a club member - Lindesy's tribute follows.
Ray Williams was a longstanding Club Member, Club Contractor, Travelift driver and friend to many of us. As much as I would like to pay a tribute to Ray here, his wishes were that we "don't make a fuss" on his passing.
Both will be greatly missed and remembered fondly.
Winter has arrived! Thunderstorms, heavy rain and cold have already turned up, however on the plus side the days start to lengthen on the countdown to summer on the 21st June. Some of these still sunny mid winter days give a great (if a bit cool) day on the water, and there's always something to catch for dinner avilable. Using the boat is better than letting it sit idle and you an find all those little jobs that need to be done prior to the summer season.
Please read the LegaSea article below and take a look at their website. If we value the resource we have and want to protect it and our access to it for future generations we need to become more proactive, and not rely on the fact "someone else" will do it.
As below the wardroom has a calendar of upcoming events and the Winter Sailing series is now in full swing. It would be great to see you at these events - please put them in your calendar now!
The yard planning process has progressed and we are currently preparing a detailed review of the options available to the club regarding the travel lift fingers and yard layout. We are planning to present this review to all members via a special email in mid July. Paper copies will be available on the notice boards at the club. On 4th August a General Meeting will be held as requested by members to gather feedback from all members on this topic. Please mark the date in your diary to enable you to attend this meeting and have your say about the proposals. If you are unable to attend please email the office with any comments or feedback that you would like to share. This will allow sufficient time prior to the AGM for members to consider the options and opinions, to be fully informed of the proposals and have an opportunity to provide feedback into those plans. If needed a second general meeting can be held prior to the AGM to answer any subsequent issues. Following this consultation the member's agreement to a redevelopment plan/timeline will then be sought at the AGM in October.
A suggestion has been made to make the vessel register available for members to view on the club's website. We think this is a great idea and have done some work to see what needs to happens to achieve this. What we have found is that the current vessel list on the website is not accessible to members and needs to be updated. We need to be mindful of the Privacy Act when gathering and sharing this information as currently the disclosure only allows the release of information to other club members. As such, any electronic list would need to be in a password protected area known only to members. This also means that we can not currently legally share this information with Coastguard, Police or other emergency services in the event of an emergency. We will continue to explore options with this project and advise progress.
Stay warm and safe boating.
Mike Quayle
Commodore
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 This is the Newsletter that nearly didn't happen! When I opened my editors email the inboxwas sadly almost empty! This is your club newsletter instead of the printed On Board magazine that popped through your letter box 3 or 4 times a year.
This is the forum for members to share information, suggestions or adventures as well as to keep you updated with news from the committee and what's on next month. A monthly edition only works if there is content sent in to the editor to include. I like lots of pictures to show whats happening and who caught the biggest fish so please share!
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At 7pm on the 23rd May we welcomed in the Wardroom, Scott Macindoe and Josh Barcley representing LegaSea and the NZ Sport Fish Council.
Scott being one of the founding supporters and Josh is a Marine Biologist who works for both Government and Private sectors. We also had guests from the New Plymouth Boating Club and Wellington Recreational and Anglers clubs, both LegaSea supporters with nearly 6000 members between them.
Who is LegaSea?
They are a recreational fishing advocate and communication arm of the NZSFC with 59 affiliated clubs in NZ and they represent our interests lobbying Government to preserve our recreational fishing rights as well as investing in marine science and legal challenges, like the case which they took against the NZ Government, won then had to defend against a case bought against the ruling commercial fishing interests. These were eventually won again in the Supreme Court with costs being awarded to LegaSea.
We are often unaware of the support our interests receive from LegaSea, many will not know they were pivotal in supporting our efforts to change the Marlborough Sounds Blue Cod slot rule that MPI evidence proved was damaging the fishery biomass.
To change these rules science wasn’t enough to sway our Minister at the time, this meant we needed to create political presence that couldn’t be ignored. While we had the collaboration of the Cook Strait regions fishing and boating clubs, LegaSea provided a platform for a media campaign that drew a response from around New Zealand, of which a significant number were North of the Bombay Hills - so those that enjoy a feed of Cook Straits finest owe a huge thanks to LegaSea for providing their resources and technical support.
Scott and Josh provided some frightening statistics about the state of our fishery, how our world recognised “Quota Management System” had been hijacked by corporate entities and under this regime many of our share fishery resources are seriously depleted, not just up North but here in the Wellington Region as well as Scallops in the Able Tasman and Terakihi in the Cook Strait also under threat.
LegaSea are not only promoting knowledge and support for our fishing future, they have also developed solutions to ensure the most sustainable use of the resource we catch.
Examples are two LegaSea projects detailed below which would be of real value to local coastal communities around the country, particularly those attempting to, or, who have gained Blue Flag accreditation. I would like to the Mana Cruising club adopt these, and as LegaSea financial supporters Robert Paulin and myself will available to provide support and further information on LegaSea projects and membership.
One of the outstanding achievements has been the Auckland OBC adopting the Kai Ika Project which has been a huge success.
Another is the Fishcare - The school of best practice. Designed to help recreational fishers reduce their impact on the marine environment.
Details of these programmes are available from Rob and I, on the LegaSea website and Facebook page, this organisation represents us, the 600,000 strong recreational fishing public and their goal is simple, to ensure we have fish for future generations for all stake holders as commercial fisherman and Maori are not an enemy, they face the same issues we are so it’s the Government Managed system that needs to change.
Our influence on those that control our fisheries is simply the huge number of people that partake in this recreational sector. LegaSea needs our support to be able to influence change. You can be a business member like Rob and I, a financial member for $11/month to help fund the legal processes and science, or just provide your email to the LegaSea database on their website to be a supporter.
Allan Davidson
Rear Commodore
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Year Round Fishing Competition
We all know about the one that got away or the one we caught but released (or dropped) so now is your chance to capture the evidence as a photograph with your trophy fish against one of the new club measures.
First purchase your measure - $20 from the office.
Second catch your fish, hold them up to the measure and take a photo. (Fish can be any species, any length, just make sure you return the baby ones or not so tasty ones to the water).
When you get back send your photo in to: fishing@manacc.co.nz
The club will have a special fishing competition winners announcement on a Thursday night every 2 months.
The entries over the previous 2 month period will be totalled and prizes allocated for the average of each species, the average being the prize winner.
On Opening day (13th October 2018), the biggest fish in each category will be awarded a separate prize.
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Peter Hart – A tribute from Lindsey Haagh
I doubt there are many marina based club members who don’t know Pete but many trailer boat owners and associate members may not have had the pleasure of spending time with this gentle man. So, some words to highlight the passing of one of our loveliest long term characters.
I always called him Pete Heart as in 17 years I can honestly say I have never heard a bad word from his mouth about anyone. Having said that, Pete did like indulging in a bit of gentle gossip! For me, the warm welcome that I received from club members when first arriving in 2000, newly wed from the other side of the world, I could then reciprocate and pass on to Pete who arrived as manager of the marina not long after this. It was an honour and a pleasure to welcome Pete to our community and I quickly discovered what a lovely, interesting, intelligent and all round good bloke he was.
We were neighbours in the sense that my office was in the top floor of the old SeaCat building and I looked down on the marina office so I would do a royal wave and have a chat over the railway lines to Pete most days. Despite knowing Pete for 17 years, I learned, and I think most of us did, so much about him at his service. To learn what an accomplished sportsman he was and how well respected he was for his personnel skills at the bank was not surprising but it brought home how he was one of those rare folk that are accomplished at listening and helping while incredibly humble and understated about his own achievements and own issues. His long time mate, Bill Calder, told the wider group at Pete’s service of many of Pete’s accomplishments but also promised to come back and join us one evening for a less formal storytelling where he might tell of Pete’s days as a real lady’s man and some fun stories. One might think the marina job was a fairly gentle job between corporate and retirement but when you consider the different areas of the manager role with plant, fuel, infrastructure, disaster planning, insurance dilemmas, boats and all the dramas that ensue with people and boats, it was certainly not for the fainthearted. The people of the marina love Pete and it’s hard to imagine anyone better at befriending and assisting such a diverse range of people with such ease and good humour.
Two of my worst phone calls ever have been from Pete – one in about 2004 to say that we owed many thousands of dollars in water rates, along with the marina. After I picked myself off the floor, Pete and I did a bit of detective work and discovered that a cheeky fisherman often pulled alongside the wharf between the bridges and helped himself to much water – each time dismantling the anti leaking equipment put in place to stop same. He would leave and the water would then happily flow away for weeks at a time. The other call was only last year and I was at work in Wellington when Pete rang to say, “your boat’s sinking – she’s filling with water really fast and I can’t get hold of Scotty!”. Thanks to Pete and the team’s quick work, Red Baron is none the worse for wear.
Many of us would have seen Pete more or less daily for many years and he leaves a big gap in our community. The team at the supermarket loved him, the entire marina loved him and his twins and family who he always talked about with pride and love, certainly loved him. There’s a hope that perhaps the twins and some of us local friends may realise his dream and find a way to finish the renovation of his lovely Warren boat. My partner and I are involved with some youth and harbour projects in Porirua and Pete had jumped on board with such passion and knowledge that will be so hard to replace. In chatting about these projects over the last few months we learned yet more about the humble Pete and discovered that he sat on at least 4 boards connected to the health and preservation of Porirua harbour and was aware of so much data and research about our wonderful harbour that it is frustrating to think we lose that knowledge as we lose our good friend also.
Farewell Pete, with Tennyson’s words from “Crossing the Bar” (1889):
"Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar."
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| 2018 Winter Series Race Schedule |
| Date |
Race Schedule |
High Water Time |
Tide Height |
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Briefing |
Race Start |
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| 17/06/2018 |
1 |
long race |
12:27 |
1.6 |
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10:00 |
11:30 |
| 1/07/2018 |
2 |
short races |
17:56 |
0.6 |
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9:00 |
11:00 |
| 15/07/2018 |
1 |
long race |
17:45 |
0.6 |
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9:00 |
10:30 |
| 29/07/2018 |
2 |
short races |
17:09 |
0.6 |
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8:30 |
10:00 |
| 19/08/2018 |
1 |
long race |
14:49 |
1.4 |
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12:15 |
13:45 |
| 2/09/2018 |
1 |
long race |
13:52 |
1.5 |
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11:15 |
12:45 |
| 16/09/2018 |
1 |
Mark Foy / Reserve |
13:34 |
1.6 |
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11:00 |
12:30 |
| 23/09/2018 |
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Prizegiving |
| High water times are measured at Mana 41.06S 174.52E |
Happy sailing
John Setter
Sailing Convener
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June 10th - Wine and cheese afternoon
June 30th - Birdman Competition followed by Mid Winters Christmas Party.
August 4th - General Meeting to discuss yard redevelopment plans
October 7th - AGM of the Mana Cruising Club
October 13th - Opening Day of the Mana Cruising Club
October 27th - Oktoberfest
Please put these dates in your diary, we would love to see your support for these club events.
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A very warm welcome to our new members listed below. We know you will enjoy both the great facilities the club has to offer and the events organised by your committee.
Regular Members
| Manders |
Bernard |
Tokoroa |
Launch |
Silent Wings |
| Campbell/Gurr |
Richard & Justine |
Paraparaumu |
Launch |
Cosican |
| Potgieter |
Daniel |
Raumati South |
Trailer Craft |
Cool Change |
| Hope |
Derek |
Porirua |
Yacht |
Dorothy T |
Country Member
| Tyler |
Andrew & Erin |
Whanganui |
Trailer Craft |
Tattoo-u |
| Rowe |
Ken |
Picton |
Yacht |
Albatros |
| Herrick |
Suzette |
Martinborough |
Trailer Craft |
Idle Time |
Associate member
| Taylor |
Rosser |
Porirua |
| Connolly |
Catherine |
Porirua |
| Humphreys |
Robert |
Porirua |
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This space is for members to advertise "Buy, Sell and Exchange" boating related items. No more than maximum of sixty words can be accepted. Please don't forget to include a picture and your contact details. Email your advert to editor@manacc.co.nz
For Sale - Marina berth A10, 14 metres, $125,000. Call Norman Johnston 0274 933 580.
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