Rear Commodore—Sailing

BRIDGET CHAN Rear Commodore—Sailing After a busy summer, the Sailing Centre finally has time to pack and the staff can take a break to prepare for several big events in October : Port Shelter Regatta, Women’s Sailing Festival and 24Hour Charity Dinghy Race.

Port Shelter Regatta (8 and 9 October) is our Club’s traditional 2 days keelboat regatta and also one of our Club’s two HKSF accredited national events. Another national event is the Typhoon Series. As this year’s Port Shelter Regatta was incorporated into the Women’s Sailing Festival, we decided to present awards to the winners of the ladies helm in the J80 and HKPN divisions.

This year’s Steering the Course Women’s Sailing Festival (30 September to 9 October) is the second year of the Club to support the World Sailing initiative to help increase participation by women and girls in the sport of sailing. This year’s main event is Women on Water Wednesday on 5 October, including race management workshop, water sports tasting, J80 sailing and Sailability Mo Han Cruise.

Match Racing Nationals was scheduled to be run on early October. Unfortunately due to the quarantine measures many good match racing sailors were out of town, resulting in a lack of sufficient entries, and we had to reluctantly postpone it to other dates in future. We hope to attract more Hebe sailors to know more about this sports and get involved before the rerun.

This year, the Sailing Committee has focused more on cruising with the launch the Cruising Sailors of Hebe (CSOH) which is keen to organize more cruising activities to non-racing sailors and members. A CSOH burgee has also been designed for this purpose. On 17 September the first event organized by CSOH, the Cruising Rally drew 14 boats with more than 90 sailors to sail out to High Island and lunched at Yau Ley Restaurant. The eldest participant was our member’s mother at 104! During lunch we had our Commodore, Don Johnston announced the formation of CSOH and gave away CSOH burgee to every participating boat. Of course, as part of the Bart’s Bash event, we did not forget to raise money for Sailiability.

After the event we have received many inquiries about on next cruising. We are planning to organize a 2 days blue water cruise to Dangang possible and spend the night at a beach in Lamma Island in November. In addition to this, we are thinking to transform our traditional Boxing Day Treasure Hunt to attract more cruising members to join. Stay tuned.

With the recent easing of quarantine measure, we hope get back to normal day very soon.

忙碌了一個夏天後，帆船中心終於有時間收拾，工作人員可以休息一下，為 10 月 份的幾項大型活動做準備：牛尾海帆船賽、女性航海節以及24小時慈善小艇賽。

牛尾海帆船賽（10月 8-9 日）是我們俱樂部傳統的龍骨帆船賽，也是我們俱樂部 的兩個 香港帆船運動總會（HKSF）認可的國家賽事之一。另一個全國性的賽事 是颱風盃帆船系列賽。由於今年牛尾海帆船賽聯乘女性航海節共同舉行，我們 決定頒獎予 J80 和 HKPN 部門的女掌舵。

今年的引航女性航海節（9 月 30 日至 10 月 9 日）是俱樂部第二年支持世界帆船 倡議，以幫助增加婦女和女孩參與帆船運動。

今年的主要活動是 10 月 5 日星期三的水上女性，包括賽事管理工作坊、水上運 動體驗、龍骨船競技和香港航能「無限」乘風破浪。

全港對抗賽錦標賽原定於10月初舉行。很可惜由於隔離措施，許多優秀的比賽水 手不在香港，導致沒有足夠的參賽人數，我們只能不情不願地將它推遲到未來的 其他日期。我們希望能吸引更多的白艇會水手更了解這項運動，並在復賽前參與。

今年，帆船運動委員會更加注重巡航，推出了白沙灣悠閒航海之友，希望為非水 手和非會員組織更多的巡航活動。為此還設計了一片CSOH燕尾旗。在9月17日，由 CSOH 組織的首場活動，Cruising Rally 吸引了 14 艘船和 90 多名水手駛向糧船灣， 並在有利海鮮漁村享用午餐。最年長的參加者為其中一位會員的104歲母親！午餐 時，由我們的準將，Don Johnston宣布成立 CSOH，並向每艘參與的船贈送 CSOH 燕 尾旗。當然，作為 Barts' Bash 活動的一部分，我們沒有忘記為香港航能籌集資金。

活動結束後，我們收到了很多關於下一次巡航的諮詢。我們計劃於 11 月組織一次 前往擔杆的 2 日藍海游船，並在南丫島的海灘過夜。除此之外，我們正在考慮改 變傳統的節禮日尋寶活動，以吸引更多的遊輪會員加入。請繼續留意我們。

最近防疫政策有所放鬆，我們希望很快一切可以恢復正常。