gary Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 At last we have a voice. Speers Point S.C. have been sailing monos and cats for 35 years. Our current cat fleet is,6 Arrows, 3 Windrushes, 2 Maricats, 4 Stingrays, 1 Tornado, 1 Hobie 18, 3 Hobie 16 and a Cobra. We ran a combined Windrush/ Arrow states last October.Our annual regatta is on the 23rd / 24th October. We hope to do Mannering Park and Koonawarra this summer with our Arrows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bush pig Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Gary, Will let the boys from Mannering Park Yacht Club know about your regatta and hope to get as many of our cats there for your series Talk to you soon. Bill King aka Bush Pig Maricat 284 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Gary what about Ken's A Has the new boat hit the water yet. See you soon Ross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berny Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Hi Gary and welcome. Mate great news that the Arrows will be doing Mannering Pk & K/Bay but what about the Windies and Maricats??? Bern [This message has been edited by berny (edited 07 July 2004).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmessee Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Please excuse my ignorance, but I have not sailed at Speers Point. Where is it exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berny Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Speers Pt. is at the north western end of Lake Macquarie. Bern [This message has been edited by berny (edited 07 July 2004).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryl J Barrett Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 Is that where they used to hold a winter cat regatta for many years? -The Polar bear regatta- or some thing similar. It was organised and run by the Rathmines club. and used to be an excellent regatta with a big fleet of cats of every size competing over a weekend (or I think, it may have been a long weekend?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berny Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 The club at Rathmines which ran the Polar Bear regatta was the Lake Macquarie Newcastle Cat Club which sadly is now defunct. It was a great place to sail and camp and they ran some wonderful regattas there. Too bad. Bern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil M Posted July 31, 2004 Report Share Posted July 31, 2004 berny The Rathmines Cat Club Closed and their remaining members aproached Wangi RSL Sailing Club to take over their main regattas and some of their assets - to be used to further cat sailing in the area. We are still negotiating the building with LMCC - but we are having difficulty with escallating rents and insurance co is not interested in unlined asbestos building. We held the Polarbare Regatta on the June long weekend and incorporated the 1st F18 States - a total of 45 boats. Last years PB had 65 boats. We also run the December Cat regatta. Last season we had 5-7 14 ft cats sailing on Saturday afternoons and have exchange visits with Mannering park 14footers. We also had a "live in" training camp for 24 junior cat sailors from the top to beginners. This year we hope to get more cats out on saturdays and I am looking at some coordination of events so that lake club events do not clash. We may move the Polarbare from the long weekend so that The Bares and the Monkey do not clash. this will give more sailing. We need to work together a bit smarter so that more clubs do not fail and more enjoy the fun of sailing. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berny Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 That's all very encouraging Phil, and a great job being done up there. Keep up the good work mate, cat sailing needs people like you. Bern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phill Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 Gary, Can you tell me when Speers Pnt. start their season. Sailing Saturdays? Regards, Phill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary Posted August 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 Phil, Speers Pt start sailing 4th September. Saturday afternoons. Last winter race this Saturday 1.00 pm. All welcome. Gary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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