Rear Commodore—Sailing

BRIDGET CHAN Rear Commodore—Sailing As you read this, we are in the middle of the summer. Our two traditional keel sailing events, the Summer Saturday Series and the Typhoon Series have been kick-started on 6 and 12 June, respectively. Every weekend you will see many keelboats racing in the waters of Port Shelter!

Since May, sailing lessons, events and racing have resumed as COVID-19 restrictions eased. On 21 and 22 May, we had a very successful Open Dinghy Regatta with around 150 boats and over 200 sailors taking part across these two-day racing events. A seminar on Racing Rule 42 Propulsion was held a week before this event to give sailors a better understanding of Rule 42. This seminar was attended by about 20 persons in person and about 50 participated on Zoom. The attendance hit a recent record high! Thanks to HKSF judges for their support.

The Annual Sailors Award Night on 25 May honoured the best performing sailors and boats from Sailiability, Dinghy and Keelboats as well as volunteer of the year 2021. For the past two years, we cancelled the award night party due to COVID but this year the party was finally back! On the Keelboat side, we presented awards to the Boat of the Year (BOTY) and the Sailors of the Year. Congratulation to H3O (IRC Division) and Ichiban (HKPN) for winning the BOTY award and Juliet Ashton and Simon Jones for winning our Female and Male Sailor of the Year awards. As mentioned in the last issue of Hebe Jebes, a BOTY burgee was designed and made to be presented to the winners alongside their trophies. That night, in addition to this year’s BOTY Burgee winners, we also invited previous year’s winners to receive their BOTY burgees including Windseeker (2017), Bits & Pieces (2018), LoTech (2019) and Ichiban (2020).

In June, we had the first-ever HKSAR 25th Anniversary Sailing Cup which was jointly organised by the Hong Kong Sailing Federation (HKSF) and three major yacht clubs (HHYC, RHKYC and ABC). This event, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of HKSAR, comprises three races in three waters by the three clubs over three different weekends. Boats can opt to participate in any individual race(s) or all races or team up with other boats to finish all races to compete in the Sailing Cup. This may be the first time that the three yacht clubs have jointly hosted a racing event in Hong Kong. Did you participate?

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the volunteers, our management and the staff in our Sailing Office and all other departments for their challenging work and dedication to making it all happen.

Have a great summer. See you all out on the water.

當您讀到這份報告時已經是盛夏了。我們的兩項傳統龍骨船賽事，夏 季週六系列賽及颱風盃系列賽已分別於6月6日和6月12日展開。您每個 週末都可以看到多艘龍骨船於牛尾海水域作賽!

由5月以來，COVID-19的限制放寬，令航海課程、活動及賽事得以重 啟。我們於 5 月 21 日和 22 日舉辦了非常成功的小帆船公開賽，約有 150艘船，超過200名船員參加爲期兩天的比賽。賽事進行前一星期更 有比賽規例42推進研討會，讓船員們更加了解規則42。是次研討會有 20多位參加者親臨現場，亦有約50位參加者透過 Zoom 參與活動。出 席人數創近年的新高！感謝香港體育總會評審的支持。

5月25日舉行的年度船員頒獎晚會表揚了來自航能的最佳表現最佳 的船員和船隻、小帆船及龍骨船，以及2021年度義工。過去2年，新冠 肺炎令我們不得不取消頒獎晚會，但今年終於可以重辦這項慶祝活 動! 在龍骨船方面，我們獲頒年度最佳船隻 (BOTY) 和年度最佳船員。 恭喜 H3O (IRC分組)及Ichiban (HKPN) 獲頒 BOTY 獎項，Juliet Ashton 及 Simon Jones 獲頒年度最佳男女船員。正如上一期 Hebe Jebes 中 提到，得獎者除了獲頒獎盃以外，更獲得一個經特別設計的BOTY BURGEE。除了今年的 BOTY Burgee 得獎者外，我們當晚還邀請了歷 屆得獎者進行BOTY burgees頒授儀式，其中包括 Windseeker（2017 年）、Bits & Pieces（2018年）、LoTech（2019年）和Ichiban（2020年）。

我們與香港帆船運動總會及三大遊艇會 (HHYC、RHKC 及 ABC) 於6月 份合辦首屆香港特區25週年回歸帆船賽，以慶祝香港特別行政區成立 25週年。三間遊艇會於三個不同的週末，在三個水域舉行三場賽事。 回歸帆船賽的參賽帆船可以選擇參加任何個別賽事、或所有賽事，又 或與其他帆船組隊完成所有比賽。這可能是三間遊艇會首次在香港合 辦賽事。您有參加嗎？

我謹藉此機會感謝各位義工、我們的管理人員、航海辦事處以及其 他部門的職員，完成充滿挑戰的工作，並竭盡所能令活動得以順利 進行。

祝您有一個愉快的夏天。我們水上再見。