Kia Ora everyone,
I am excited to announce that while our scheduled talk tonight has been postponed until July, we have got the awesome David Kennett doing an online session with us next week.
David and his wife Megan spent 3 months over summer cruising the North Island. David will talk about the trip including planning, challenges and highlights. From Cook Strait to Whangaroa in the North exploring New Zealand was a great experience.
Bees Knees is a 34' van de Stadt and they have sailed over 20,000nm in her. David has done a number of sessions with us in the past and his talks are always BRILLIANT, so I would really recommend you tune in.
When: 7:30pm on Thursday 30th April (I suggest joining a few minutes early to sort out technology!)
https://bit.ly/3eKOft4
Technology: You can try this at any time i.e. now!
Join from Computer: probably easiest option, if you have Teams installed it will automatically open, if you don't you should get an option to join via web (choose this) and enter your name
Join from Mobile: in this case you'll be prompted to download the Teams app which you'll need to do. You can then join as guest and you can enter your name.
More info on Facebook here.
We'll be providing free virtual beer and pizza a.k.a. bring your own!
Hows the lockup going for you? It is great that we have been able to well and truely flatten that curve now. Personally I am REALLY looking forward to next week when we are allowed to go and check on our boats - but not allowed to go sailing yet. Here is the latest re what we can/can't do boating wise.
Did you get a chance last newsletter to check out our end of year accounts and Presidents Report that we missed doing last year. You can read my Presidents Report here (that I did actually write last year) and the end of year accounts (that I did a few weeks ago).
I didn't get any objections to the re-election of the committee, so I'd like to congratulate my lovely committee Sally-Nina Moore, Willie Newman, Pete & Kathy Jamieson, Tui Scott and John Ashbey on their reappointment!
I also didn't get any objections to my re-election as your esteemed President, so if you're still happy to have me then I'd be honoured to continue.
If you are looking for some fun things to do to keep yourself occupied while we can't go sailing here are some tips:
Read BlueWater Sailing Magazine free online
Watch this awesome sailing movie "One Simple Question"
Get your VHF License done online
Read SisterShip Magazine online free
Service your lifejacket
Read one of Jon Tucker's awesome stories
Pay your Little Ship Club $20 sub
Make a boat safety diagram
Update your EPIRB registration details - emergency contact #'s etc
Brush up on your knot tying
Lots more free virtual sailing ideas here.
Head on over to the Zulu Waterways Cruising Guide website / app and share some info about the anchorages and cruising designations you have visited and maybe at the same time discover some new anchorages / destinations to add to your cruising bucket list!
https://www.zuluwaterways.com
We are looking for some speakers or topics for later in the year. If you have something you'd love to hear about or know of someone who'd have a great story to share. please let me know! And if you haven't paid a sub yet for this financial year, we'd really appreciate your $20 to help us buy some small gifts for our speakers and assist with the club's running expenses. The bank account details are below.
Can't wait to see you all again really soon!
Cheers
Viki
President
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Join the Club! The best fun you'll have for $20!!
Its time to pay $20 again! Our membership year runs from 1 October - 30 September. We don't send subs invoices out, so if you'd like to renew for the upcoming year please send your $20 through now.
This small financial contribution supports buying small gifts for our guest speakers, and assist with the running of other events. We also sometimes get invited to special events with limited numbers and these are available to current members only. Other benefits of membership can be found on our website. If you are not sure if you have paid then drop me an email and I can let you know.
Your $20.00 payment can be made in to our bank account number 03 0802 0094950 00. Or in cash directly to our treasurer Paula at our next meeting.
Please also drop us an email to let us know your details.
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Upcoming Events
30 Apr - Cruising the North Island online!
17 May - Winter Series Racing - hopefully!
21 May - A Huckleberry Finn Adventure
18 Jun - Singlehanded sailing systems & setup
23 Jul - Stories from the RNI2020
- Shackleton's Boat Journey POSTPONED
6 - 21 Mar 21 - Americas Cup
20 Mar 21 - Women Who Sail Gathering
A Huckleberry Finn Adventure
Join us on Thursday 21 May at Naval Point - hopefully...
In 2018 Nigel went to the headwaters of the Missouri River, built a little boat in 5 days and took it on a trip down stream called Missouri Breaks. Come along and to hear the story of a kiwi Huckelberry Finn adventure!
Bar open from 7pm, talk starts at 7.30.
All welcome! Bring your friends.
Single Handed Sailing - Equipment Tips and Experiences
With Tim Bloy's entry to the Solo Trans Tasman race completed he had to complete a 300 nautical mile solo passage on board the family yacht Nelly Rose an X Yacht 412. What better way than sail solo from Fiji back to New Zealand.
Tim joins us to discuss weather forecasting, useful equipment, technology, sleep and watch keeping strategies to ensure a safe and low stress passage from a single handed perspective.
We are hoping this event will go ahead on the 18th June.
Stories from the RNI
The Round North Island two handed yacht race is about to start in Auckland on the 22nd February. Little Ship Club Members Victoria Murdoch and Emily Riley are the only all female and most Southern entry! You can follow their adventures during the race here. They'll be at the Little Ship Club on the 23rd April to share the story of one of the toughest sailing races NZ
We have rescheduled this event to 23 July
Shackleton's Boat Journey
EVENT POSTPONED
The greatest survival story of all time” was the way Sir Edmund Hillary described the heroic journey undertaken by Ernest Shackleton and his captain Frank Worsley (native of Akaroa) with four others from the crew of the wrecked ship Endurance.
The crossing involved sailing in a converted lifeboat - the James Caird only 7m. long and with no keel across 1200km from Elephant Island to South Georgia. Sailing over the treacherous and feared southern oceans, dodging icebergs and manoeuvring through 5m waves.
Through the incredible navigational skills of Worsley, whom only got three fleeting glimpses of the sun during the 16 day journey, the crew of six managed somehow to land on the tiny island of South Georgia - on the southern uninhabited side of course, necessitating a horrendous alpine crossing over glaciers and steep mountainous terrain to reach the whaling station at Grytviken and relative safety.
Such was the global interest in polar exploration in the early 20th century, Shackleton and his men were lauded as heroes, inspiring others to try to emulate their achievement.
Of three attempts to try to do what Shackleton and his men had done have been launched, only one succeeded. British explorer Tim Jarvis, in 2013, in a faithfully built replica of the original James Caird renamed the Alexandra Shackleton, he completed the exact same journey. The team also used the same 1913 equipment, the same unpalatable food, compass and navigation aids as Shackleton and Worsley had access to. Tim’s book Shackleton’s Epic is a ‘must read’ to anyone interested in Antarctic exploits.
If anything Tim’s feat reads as grippingly if not more so than the original, as like Shackleton, they struck atrocious conditions as soon as they set off from Elephant Island. They somehow survived the journey without capsizing. They then had various catastrophes beset them after arrival on South Georgia.
Tim has very generously agreed to make the Alexandra Shackleton available to the city of Christchurch, via The Christchurch Foundation, and The Foundation has agreed to locate the boat in Akaroa, believing this to be its spiritual home, given Worsley’s childhood spent here, prior to using his peninsula-taught skills in the world's oceans.
The boat has already been shipped from its last home in Rhode Island USA and will be on display at two events that The Foundation is hosting. One in Christchurch, and one in Akaroa. Tim has graciously agreed to address the attendees with first-hand accounts of his incredible journey in the steps of Shackleton and Worsley.
There will be something quite magical about being able to see, and even touch, the very vessel in which six brave explorers conquered their demons and managed somehow to achieve the almost impossible.
For too long Frank Worsley has not received the proper recognition his feats deserved. He has also lived in the shadow of Shackleton to the extent that his name is not even mentioned sometimes in coverage of Shackleton's famous exploits. The truth is that none of the 26 survivors of the Endurance would have lived to tell their story had it not been for the heroic navigational efforts of Akaroa’s Frank Worsley.
Join us in Akaroa on NEW DATE TO BE ADVISED to meet Tim and the Alexandra Shackleton in person. Tickets are $50 and include a light supper. Purchase tickets online here.
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