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3rd June 2021 Mudlark



THAT'S A WRAP!

We finished the season formalities with our annual wind-up night on 21st May at the club. Congratulations to all the fleet winners. Here is a round up of all the podium place getters, pictured below with Club Commodore, Mimi Secco ......
 
LASERS


SABRES
 



MIRRORS


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LASER FULL RIG

Dave Ponton scooped the pool in all events!
 


Special Awards

CLUB MEMBER OF THE YEAR
Reza Kordestani


Reza is a reliable Club member who doesn’t actually sail, but turns up consistently every week to make sure the rest of us can, conducting our race starts and recording our finish times enabling Alan Benn to calculate our race results.



JUNIOR OF THE YEAR
Anna Sawicki

 

Anna completed the School Holiday sailing course and then joined the Club training fleet, sailing with a few different skippers and getting a good taste for sailing.

 


BRONZIE TOP GUN OF THE YEAR
Rod Meyer with Doug Pianta


Rod  spends more time  practising his sailing than anyone else (apart from Doug and Rolna!).  His dedication to improving his skills is recognised by awarding him the Top Gun award.  Well deserved.


More photos from the wind-up night courtesy Glenn Secco: here


This has been one of the best seasons for training.  Plenty of sailors migrated from the Mirror to the Laser class, reflecting the breadth of sailors joining the Club.  With a healthy number of club boats, we're looking forward to an upcoming bumper cohort of race ready sailors.

 
 

Mimi Secco

Commodore




QUIZ NIGHT - THANKS

We had a very successful Quiz Night last Friday - thanks to all members and guests who supported us on the night. And please support our following generous businesses who donated prizes and gifts......


A special thanks to Henry Darvish for his donations to the Quiz night.


NEXT WINTER SAILING DAY 

Sunday 6th June at 1pm of this public holiday long weekend. Sailing will go ahead subject to weather conditions on the day.   
 

 

FLEET NEWS


FOR LATEST  2020/2021 SEASON FULL RESULTS: Click here  

 
Lost Maylands

This year is Maylands Yacht Club's 75th Anniversary - and 50th anniversary of the building of our current clubrooms. Chris Holyday and Terry Gaunt Snr are continuing to work on our proposed history book - Top Of The River, A History of the Maylands Yacht Club, to commemorate this achievement.
With 14 Chapters covering sailing at Maylands since 1914 and generously illustrated, it will be a must read for all past and present club members. The book should be ready for our Opening Day in October. Amongst many interesting chapters, we will be featuring the stories of all our National Titles Winners, from Terry Gaunt Snr in the VJ and Gwen 12 classes, through to our Moth Champions - featuring Brian Plumb, Rob O'Sullivan, and with the last being Cliff Burton in 1979/80.


Photo credit Cliff Burton

THE AUSTRALIAN SCOW MOTH
What is a Moth you say? They were once one of Australia's most prolific classes of small boats. They are still sailed world wide - but in a skiff form, not the old Australian Scow Moth version. Club member Dave Hogg sailed our last Maylands Moth until recent years, finally giving the class away due to his being the only scow Moth being sailed. He said at the time: "Unfortunately, at the club level in this state, the class is dead, due to the modern skiff Moth design being comparatively hard to sail — and expensive. About the Moths dying, I feel it is sad that cheap, good, medium-size dinghy classes have died and been replaced with very expensive fibreglass/ kevlar dinghies. I refer to classes such as the VJ, Moth, Cherub, Rainbow. They are being replaced by 29ers, 49ers, hydrofoil skiff Moths."
 


Dave Hogg pictured in 2008 sailing at Maylands  - our last, lone Mothie.

(Credit Steve Fox)








Compare the changes in the modern Moth as shown below at the 2019 Worlds held in Perth.


 
 
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Australia
 






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