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CYAA Notice’s 22nd July 2021

CYAA (Vic) 2021 Winter Series on Port Phillip. Top Yacht Entries and results.

Classic Yacht Racing schedule Issued 22nd July 2021

Mark Chews 42 Australian Wooden Sailing Boats

Must watch video 2020 Cup Regatta Race 1. Produced by Archie Chew

2021 Winter Series 20th June Race 3 photo album by Mark Chew and Jane Williamson. Captions and photo ‘s updated, 30th June

2021 Winter Series on Port Phillip. a 4 minute compilation of race 1 action as seen from the 93 year old A classer from Hobart, Alwyn.

1934 Victorian Centenary Yachting Regatta Program.
2020 Cup Regatta entrants, Acrospire III and Acrospire IV, competed in this 1934 regatta. The 2020 Cup Regatta passage race, named after the 21 footer Topsy D was also an entrant in the Victorian Centenary Regatta.

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If you’ve enjoyed this series of posts …. (Or

If you’ve enjoyed this series of posts …. (Or anything on this feed!) could I suggest you follow @southern.woodenboat.sailing as that’s mainly where I’ll be posting from now on…

For the last book in this weeks adventure series I have chosen “Sailing to Freedom”. What makes it different to the previous six books in this column is that it’s an adventure brought on by necessity rather than free choice. It’s a story that is playing out in some form or another every day of the year in 2021, whether it be in the Mediterranean, the Indian ocean or the Caribbean. Normal people, whose mere existence is under threat, take to a small boat, to escape to a new life. This story is told in simple unembellished fashion, making their extraordinary voyage more impressive than any record breaking, publicity fuelled stunt of today. Link to full review in bio #refugees #escape #doubleender #tolerance

I don’t really think I would like Paul Theroux a

I don’t really think I would like Paul Theroux as a person if I ever met him... but I love his writing...When a marriage falls apart, a man will often turn to drink, sex, therapy or his work in order to blunt the pain of separation and his sense of failure and guilt. When Paul Theroux and his wife separated, he decided to paddle around the South Sea islands in a folding kayak. Full and caustic review on the SWS website. (Link in bio) #klepper #kayak #theroux #oceania #pacific

A story about a great ocean voyage, beautifully to

A story about a great ocean voyage, beautifully told and in a simple, gem of a boat! Find yourself a copy of “Sailing The Pacific”. Hordern is remarkably unsentimental about his 28-footer, rather small for so formidable an ocean, and he is not spooked by the legendary weather regularly dished out in such latitudes. Not that Hordern is smug or stupid; he simply finds himself an inextricable thread woven into the history of sailing the South Pacific: “bound up with Greek cosmologers, medieval mapmakers, poets, and whalers.” Full review on the SWS website (link in bio). #mileshorden #twister #transpacific #southernocean #kimholman

So now we are getting into some serious hard core

So now we are getting into some serious hard core expeditioning...Names in this realm that spring to mind are Thesiger, Knox-Johnson and Fiennes. Book Four- A few years ago, National Geographic magazine compiled a list of the 100 greatest works of non-fiction adventure. Ranked No. 1 'The Worst Journey in the World,” Apsley Cherry-Garrard's memoir of the 1910-1913 Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica under the leadership of Robert Falcon Scott. A full decade after what was left of the expedition had returned, Cherry brought out 'The Worst Journey in the World,” weaving in numerous extracts from his friends' letters and diaries. Surprisingly, though, his book's title doesn't actually refer to Scott's ill-fated return from the pole but to an earlier expedition, one with a happier ending. For the full review go to the SWS link in bio. #polar#cherrygarrard #worstjourney #terra nova

Ok, you might have spotted the problem with the fi

Ok, you might have spotted the problem with the first two suggestions for this week of SWS Adventures? Neither boat was timber and neither trip had an Antipodean connection. Well today we put that right with “The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow” a Mirror Dinghy voyage across Europe by a school teacher from Victoria, Australia. It might not have the gravitas of Moitessier or Raban’s accounts but what it lacks in heft, it makes up for with humour. Full review on the website (link in bio) #mirrordinghy #jackdecrow #bookreview #adventure

Book Two of a week of lockdown adventures is now u

Book Two of a week of lockdown adventures is now up on the SWS website (link in bio). “Most sailors probably would also agree that the book Moitessier wrote about his experience, The Long Way (La longue route in the original French, 1971), though it obviously has never spawned any sort of religion, is the closest thing we have to a spiritual text.” #moitessier #joshua #circumnavigation #adventure #bookreview

We are going to escape the additional week of M

We are going to escape the additional week of Melbourne’s “Circuit Breaker’ lockdown by going on an offbeat sailing adventure every day. And not JUST a sailing adventure...perhaps more importantly a journey of the mind! Todays adventure is a gem form Jonathan Raban called “Passage to Juneau” Full review on the website (link in bio) #raban #adventure #bookreview #travelliterature

“Many of us are driven by the beauty that relate

“Many of us are driven by the beauty that relates to pursuit of purpose.... boat design across many cultures is an almost perfect study of vernacular. Particularly with wooden boats Many architects have a deep interest in vernacular. And many of us are driven by beauty. The wooden boat through its design and the craft of its makers exemplifies this”.
If you are interested in why architects have a special relationship with wooden boats then have a look at the new article posted today on SWS. (link in bio) #navalarchitecture #architecture #woodenboat #venacular

We are making a short video for the CYAA on the fa

We are making a short video for the CYAA on the famous annual Cup Regatta next weekend (Dan permitting)Have sorted a boat to shoot from on the water but would love some drone footage as well. Any ideas?

Here’s a little taster from the film we have jus

Here’s a little taster from the film we have just posted on SWS Go to link in bio to see The full story of the gorgeous Cray Boat THE MARGARET PEARL #crayboat #fishingboat #woodenboat #bassstrait #restoration

Look out for a new article to be posted on SWS (li

Look out for a new article to be posted on SWS (link in bio)this week about the famous Woody Point Yacht Club. From the club “Charter “........
The founding members believed that the Club should not accumulate money, real estate or any other assets of a major nature (other than a Temprite). Food and sufficient kegs are to be applied at the AGM to ensure that a zero balance is recoded at season’s end. Members should contribute no more than is necessary to cover immediate and unavoidable costs e.g. the next round. The Club’s only assets are the Pittwater, and the warm hospitality so readily offered by members. At the time of writing, no provision for depreciation need be made in respect of these assets. Members unable (or unwilling) to meet their financial obligations i.e. bastards who won’t pay, may at the Committee’s discretion be threatened with Life Membership to alleviate the Treasurer’s workload. Such a penalty may also be applied to Members issuing worthless I.O.Us. #woodypoint #yachtclub #woodenboat #pittwater #yachtrace #twilight

Great to see Sailworld picking up on the idea of a

Great to see Sailworld picking up on the idea of a Classic Division at Hamilton Island Race Week. If you’re thinking about being part of the action then get in touch with SWS via the link in the Bio #hirw #hamiltonisland #classicyacht #woodenboat #tropicalsailing #fnq @sailworldnews @hamiltonisland

A windless day in a wooden boat in Bass Strait I

A windless day in a wooden boat in Bass Strait I never tire of these creatures company! #bassstrait #woodenboat #crayboat #dolphins

Look out for a story coming soon to SWS (link in b

Look out for a story coming soon to SWS (link in bio) on the magnificent and recently restored 1950’s Port Fairy cray boat, the MARGARET PEARL #crayboat #margaretpearl #fishingboat #woodenboat

I’m not sure there has been enough recognition f

I’m not sure there has been enough recognition for the life of Tim Severin which ended last month. Growing up in middle class England in the 1970’s and 1980’s, I perhaps understandably, was looking for a way to escape the suffocating expectations and traditions of a society obsessed with pigeon-holing its citizens. One of the ways I could do this, was to read accounts of explorers and adventures and I did so voraciously. My heroes of the time, in the light of today’s cultural expectations, might be considered morally dubious. Wilfred Thesiger is a prime example. He is euphemistically described on his Wikipedia page as “traditional and old fashioned” Gavin Maxwell is now quite rightly considered to be a most unpleasant man, but at the time I cherished “A Ring of Bright Water”. Interestingly, the only criticism you could level sailors such as Moitissier and Knox-Johnson , is that they were at times a little odd!
Somewhere on this spectrum fits Tim Severin who died three weeks ago in West Cork, Ireland. In my teenage years I read “The Brendan Voyage” a few times, relishing his account of both the research and the execution of his greatest adventure. Like Thor Heyerdahl he had a theory on historic exploration, but unlike Heyerdahl his approach to testing the theory was intellectually rigorous and, in the end far more informative and entertaining. (Full story at link in bio) #severin #adventure #brendanvoyage

I refuse to call the endless sea a coffee table b

I refuse to call the endless sea
a coffee table book.
It’s so much more than what that mildly derisive term implies. Once in a while a beautifully designed book such as this, lands on my desk, and I leaf through it expectantly, wanting and hoping that the substance will match the style. So often I’m disappointed…but not this time. Recently published by Massey University Press in New Zealand ENDLESS SEA is made up of a series of stories told through the taonga, or treasured possessions, of the New Zealand Maritime Museum, Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa. Find out more by clicking the link in the bio @artnow.nz @masseyuniversitypress @nzmaritimemusem #woodenboat #maritime #bookreview #sws

Great to see one of the big boys of online sailing

Great to see one of the big boys of online sailing media taking up a story about wooden boats in our little corner of the world! Thanks @sailinganarchyworld and thanks to @afrancolini for the interview. Visit link in bio for the full story or go via www.sailinganarchy.com #photography #woodenboat #classicyacht @southern.woodenboat.sailing

WYRUNA and the Tumlaren VAHINÉ make it into toda

WYRUNA and the Tumlaren VAHINÉ make it into today’s Melbourne Age Newspaper. It’s not often that Wooden Boats make it into the mainstream media. Congratulations @fjdarley_shipwrights_rigging For more info on the WYRUNA restoration watch the video link in Bio. #woodenboat #restoration #classicyacht #tumlaren @sbinder190 @tum.lare_melbourne

Check out the latest story at www.southernwoodenbo

Check out the latest story at www.southernwoodenboatsailing.com about the beautiful ex-Tasmanian cray boat the OWEN JOHN and her/his equally beautiful owner! Link in bio. #crayboat #woodenboat #sws #sailinglifestyle @twocuppedhands

Dates for Hamilton Island Race Week 2021 have just

Dates for Hamilton Island Race Week 2021 have just been announced. 21st-28th August. Last time there was a classic division was 2005 with the likes of Koomooloo (still floating) Astor (Fife Schooner S2H LH winner) and Rhodes 43 ft Fair Winds. How good would it be to have a Classic Div again in 2021. See forum at link in bio for more details #hirw #hamiltonisland #classicyacht

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