NAVIGATORS KNOW FCC IS WAYPOINT THREE By Bruce Maxwell Ties emblazoned "FCC Waypoint Three" are soon to make an appearance in the club. Eligible as wearers are the 30 or so members who forsook the bar last Easter to sail 480 miles across the South China Sea to San Fernando in the Philippines. The mysterious phraseology refers to the fact that this year for the first time satellite navigation equipment could be used in yacht rac r ng.
Almost everybody tried satnavs and most were very impressed. One simply punches in the co-ordinates of where one is (Waypoint One) and where one wants to get to (Waypoint Two) and as satel lites pass overhead every 45 minutes to two hours the satnav prints out the
correct position, courseÂż distance to go and estimated time of arrival. The innovation took a new meaning on Les Collings' Peterson
46 Caperata on the return voyage to Hong Kong when the crew - all FCC
members - discovered that the satnav was capable of taking up to
nine Waypoints. Thus Waypoint One was San Fernando, Waypoint Two Waglan lsland, and Waypoint
Three
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the
FCC.
At the touch of a button it to tell if one would arrive before the bar closed for the night (sadly the hopefuls were half an hour too late, but it was a was then possible
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close-run thing). Bob Lavoo's Ceil lt had fhe largest FCC contingent aboard Mike Keats, Mike Westlake, Fred Shokking. Dr. Mike Moles and David Fryers.
Collings had Keith Shakespeare and Tom Earl and was joined for the return voyage by Sam and Bruce Maxwell, while publ isher's rep Simon Martin went back on the yacht they had raced down, Kina. Asia Medical News' Mike Mudd had John Owen and Robert CaveRogers on his Taiwan ketch Tasmica, while the Mallen brothers and FEER's Philip Bowring were on the two-tonner Gail Force. Barry Byrne, a former winner of the San Fernando Race. had Steve Ellis of Emphasis helming Scoundrel and also Dennis Sanderson in his crew (Scoundrel won Class l), and Bill Turnbull in Ceil V had Dennis Bray navigating. Mike Turner was on Lone Star, Sue Costello on Pasadera, Fred Whitehouse on Snowgoose, and Jimmy Farquar was looking after the pointed end on the two tonner Bugis. Brigitte and John Cummings entered their own yacht Sapphira, as did lvo Schwikker (Colonia).
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Jimmy Farquar peers around the
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New member Jim Harvey
Cameraman Marvin Farkas was focusing on Hollywood baddie Jack Palance recently when the Ripley's Believe lt Or Not show was being filmed in Hong Kong. Marvin has been shooting angles in the Colony for three decades, mostly working on documentaries and advertising projects. This time he featured some of the forgotten parts of the Colony the Tiger Balm Gardens, traditional temples and cemeteries. The New York-born Farkas has in the past shot many of Hong
served in the American military for many years, most of the time in Asia. When it came time to retire, he decided to stay on in the East where he now is geÂĄeral manager of a transport company.
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Kong's most notable sights including the first documentary of the Clean Hong Kong Campaign in 1972 and the Magic of Dance Two years ago about Margot Fonteyn in China. And what did he have to say about Jack Palance? "He's a real nice guy."
BARING ALL C. P. Ho has been a journalist, a top TV executive, a publisher and, now, a politician. lf at first this seems a rather unusual role for him to play, it makes more sense after you ponder it for a while. He was recently named as a member of the Guangdong Branch of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Soon after he was named to
With this sort of line-up available there is now talk of an FCC Vs Royal Hong Kong yacht Club challenge, although opinions are divided as to whether it should be on the water or in the bar.
this important post, C. P. suggested that this might be an appropriate time for China to clarify its position to safeguard the stability and
"I
want close-ups of the princess enj oying her new freedom from Press pholographers."
Cartoons reprinted courtesy The Bulletin, Sydney. 18
Roslyn Hayman, editor of No. 1 Shimbun, rhe journal of the Tokyo Fcc, decided recently thar the publ ication should put out a special ladies issue - complete with centrefold.
The Austral ian academic-turned-journal ist featured another Australian than Murray Sayle who bared all in the interests of sexual equality. Ms. Hayman, who works for Kyodo news agency's Engl ish service, went to Japan to study the language, married a Japanese and has edited the Tokyo FCC magazine for a year. as Tokyo's pin-up boy, none other
prosperity of Hong Kong. ln his many years in journalism in Hong Kong, the popular Mr. Ho has made contacts with people of every walk of life and every political vtew. Perhaps he could be co-opted
to the committee which is considering the long-term future of our premises, like where the FCC will be located after 1 997. 19