Breeze Magazine July - August 2020

BREEZE

Issue No. 230 • July – August 2020

Official Publication of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron

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CONTENTS From the Commodore .........................................................................................................................................................5 From the CEO ...........................................................................................................................................................................6 Cruising Report ........................................................................................................................................................................8 Sailing Office Report ........................................................................................................................................................... 12 RNZYS Events ........................................................................................................................................................................14 Welcoming Ida back into the RNZYS fold ............................................................................................................16 Cover: Youth America’s prototype cuts a dash on the Waitemata Harbour during trials..

– Photo by Ivor Wilkins..

EDITORIAL Please address all editorial correspondence to the Editor, Ivor Wilkins ivorw@xtra.co.nz Phone 09 425 7791 ADVERTISING inklink@xtra.co.nz Phone 09 378-1222.

DISCLAIMER The views and opinions expressed in this magazine are purely those of the authors and are not necessarily the official view of the RNZYS, nor of the publishers.

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Mothers kept waiting by Covid-19 but finally get to celebrate their special day ........................... 20 Tom Pilkington eSailing Whizz Kid ..............................................................................................................................22 Lockdown blues enlivened by major sailing milestones .................................................................................24 New kid on the block: Youth AC boat trials .........................................................................................................28 Quiz nights could prove addictive fun ......................................................................................................................32 Celebration, Achievement, Legacy to hallmark 150th celebrations ......................................................... 34 Members’ Bar meal specials are proving hit with the hungry horde ..................................................... 36 Jim Young: a lifetime of curiosity and innovation .................................................................................................38 RNZYS prizegiving nights ................................................................................................................................................. 40 Gearing up to play host to the superyacht fleet ................................................................................................44 Performance Programme Report ............................................................................................................................... 46 Youth Programme Report ............................................................................................................................................... 47 Classic Yacht Association Journal ..................................................................................................................................48 Marine Scene.............................................................................................................................................................................50 Directory Ads............................................................................................................................................................................52

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FROM THE COMMODORE Well, I can only say it is good to see the club back and operating. The last three months have been tough for everyone in New Zealand.

CEO Hayden Porter has outlined in his report what the club and staff have done to mitigate our exposure and ensure we could begin to operate again efficiently.

My thanks goes out to all the staff. This has not been without its challenges. The effort by you as members to come down and use the club, has been amazing. We never expected to see the operation come back to life so quickly.

We should soon see more action from the AC75 yachts on the Waitemata with the return of New Zealand’s, Te Aihe, after her trip around the globe, the arrival of the New York Yacht Club team and soon that of the Royal Yacht Squadron and Circolo della Vela Sicilia Yacht Club. It will be great to finally see the teams sailing here.

I commented on the imminent launch of the Youth America’s Cup boat in my last report.

Lock down has put a damper on that, but we have 17 registered teams and you will see elsewhere in the Breeze, photos of the boat in action. It is certainly meeting expectations.

We can only hope that the Government will consider the economic benefit this event will provide in profiling New Zealand and will allow these teams to come to New Zealand.

RNZYS receives sustainability award We are thrilled to announce that we have won the Panuku Marina’s Best Sustainable Action Award – this is due to the work of our Sustainability Committee and the Green Team’s dedication that helped us achieve gold status in our first clean regatta during the Harken 2020 Youth Match Racing World Championships held earlier in the year. It was great to see the young sailors taking care of their rubbish and composting. Every little bit we do helps towards improving the health of the ocean we all love and where we spend so much of our time.

Pictured above with the award from left: Bianca Cook, Heidi Clarke, Operations Assistant at Westhaven Marina, Jon and Michele Henderson, Sheryl Lanigan, Michelle Khan and Liz Sellar.

We will need some clarity on this soon to be able to get these boats built and see them racing in front of the yacht club.

Sailing has got off the ground with record numbers in our Club Marine Insurance Winter series. It is so good to see so many members out enjoying our harbour and the sailing. I look forward to seeing you around the club over the coming months.

Quickly is also how I would say the last two years have gone. We have missed one Breeze magazine over the lockdown period and this will be my last report as Commodore.

The AGM is set for the 27th August and it will be time to pass on the batten to the next team to manage the club through 2021 and 2022. I am confident you are in good hands. I have enjoyed the past 10 years and wish to thank everyone I have worked with on committees, the staff and volunteers who have contributed to make the experience memorable.

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FROM THE CEO

What a few months it has been! I am sure all of you reading this have been affected in some way by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

I know members are interested in how we coped and what the future looks like for the club, so I will describe some of what we undertook and also some of what we learned through this challenging period in the club’s history.

We saw things starting to deteriorate fast in March and were quick to react by asking staff to take leave and some reduction in hours. When lockdown eventually arrived, we were ready and had already removed contractors, paused any projects underway and had plans for the staff well advanced.

On the day of lockdown, frontline staff were invited to take a care package from the club … from you, the members, ultimately. This also doubled as not wasting any food that was on site as we mothballed the building for a couple of months. Staff were extremely appreciative of this gesture.

The next few weeks were spent turning our club into a virtual club – with online sailing, more regular newsletters and at-home competitions.

This was well received by members with some of the e-sailing culture now embedded into the club going forward.

Alongside the fun club activities, the management team were talking to their teams daily and working out forward plans for them

to ensure their roles were safe going forward.

We have used the government wage subsidy scheme to ensure these were tailored to each person as best we could.

With around 60 staff at the club, I am proud to say we have not lost any of the team as a result of the pandemic. This involved ALL staff making a contribution to this solution by taking leave, pay reductions, hour reductions and shows their commitment to the ongoing success of the club by working with us positively on these solutions.

The management team worked hard to ensure things kept moving forward on the various projects they are involved in – particular thanks should go to Sarah Weenink, who was monitoring the accounts and applying for the various support packages on offer. We also had a team phoning our senior members to check in on them and ensure they were OK. That was also well received.

Coming out of the lockdown levels and being able to re-open, albeit with sometimes onerous restrictions in place, members quickly showed their commitment by coming down to the club in good numbers. We have obviously increased our hygiene practices as a result of these restrictions in an effort to make you safer and introduced some different service practices also.

We have a new daily value meal for lunch and dinner and, at $10-$15, you would be hard-

pressed to find any better value in the city. The speaker and formal events have immediately taken off with almost 400 attending the annual prizegiving this year held over two nights due to high demand.

Sailing and training started back up with good numbers as people craved a return to their sport. Subscriptions have been rolling in quickly, which has helped us to see a clearer cash position as well. Whilst we have received a few resignations as a result of COVID-19, we have also had a number of new members join the club.

So please keep supporting the club in the way you have been – bring a friend, even better join a friend as now is the time we need this the most.

I am also pleased to report that despite losing essentially two months of the 19/20 Financial Year, we will be reporting the best result on record in recent years at the upcoming AGM. In summary, we are bruised and battered but far from broken and now looking to scale back up and restart many projects as we prepare to enter our 150th year and all that it brings. Thank you to all members for their ongoing support of the world’s leading yacht club!

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‘Best Kept Secret of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron’ Supported by CLUB MARINE INSURANCE Rally 5: Unbeknown to us at the time, this turned out to be the penultimate event in our 2019/2020 season. The Waitemata Harbour was remarkably busy with a Navy Ship and a cruise liner entering port along with some tail end Gold Cup Balokovich Race yachts sailing to their finish. Coastguard was also gathering for on-water training and the SSANZ Round North Island yachts were preparing for their 2pm start of the first leg to Mangonui.

The forecast was spot on. After a dry spell of splendid weather for 47 days, we were subjected to a northerly with accompanying rain just in time for our start! Persistent rain created poor visibility for Race Management on Sharde to record entrants as they sailed by, but fortunately it quickly passed over, giving us a change to the west increasing in strength.

So, we were all showered and clean, as Course Four took us downwind around Motuihe to Isi Bay. The SE corner of Motuihe was challenging with big wind shifts and tidal

RNZYS sailors enjoying friendships and refreshments ashore after racing. flow knocking us on the board towards the reef marker. Big gains and losses shuffled the pack highlighting the need to keep a good

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1st line: Go Bill Endean H’cap 1st: Terminator, John Faire; 2nd: Go, Bill Endean; 3rd: Bird On The Wing, Mike Malcom

Post-match analysis on the beach.

The Isi Bay finish was expertly recorded by Frank and Barbara Young, who also very kindly heated the onions onboard Sharde to join the sausages and bread for the onshore BBQ .

Debrief chatter with refreshments and prizegiving revealed a solo participant – Past Commodore Bill Endean sailing Go, although he did have his “best friend” (dog) as crew.

For those who stayed the night, a peaceful anchorage was enjoyed, but perhaps not the “Drunks Bay” heads next morning. Meanwhile, we were on high alert sailing back to Gulf Harbour while the wind was favourable, having to negotiate three ships crossing our path and enjoying

Overall for the series, congratulations to Marguerite Delbet (Nomos) on countback with the same points as Nigel Collins (Wish You Were Here).

Looking forward, we are open to suggestions for a speaker for our Annual Cruising Series dinner in September. Pass your ideas on to Mike, Sheryl, Murray or Ross. Hope to see you there.

Our Cruising Dates for next Summer have been set: 2020: 31 October, 21 November, 12 December, 2021: 20 February, 20 March, 17 April, Also keep in mind the 150-year, New Year’s Eve Race to Kawau, the New Year’s Day Regatta at Kawau and the Cruising Rally to Great Barrier Island while preparing your Christmas holiday plans.

The idea is to “escort” boats who perhaps have not been there before, or want support close by, with family on board.

See website https://www.rnzys.org.nz/rnzys-150th-on-water-events/ Keep safe, keep warm and enjoy the fun times that winter brings (rum toddies, roast dinners, and mulled wine).

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From the Sailing Office Strange times indeed at the moment – I’m sure everyone will agree we are very lucky in New Zealand to be able to get back out on the water and racing again so soon.

We have seen a quick return to racing, with the number of entries in the Havana Club Rum Race close to double what we would normally experience this time of the year. Also, the Club Marine Insurance Winter Series entries are looking great.

Due to Covid 19, we were unable to run a few of our major national events, which have now been rescheduled later in the year. This is making the 2020-2021 Calendar of Summer Racing incredibly busy, not just for the RNZYS Sailing office, but I would guess for a number of sailors as well!

One thing about all the travel restrictions is there are a lot of top sailors stuck in New Zealand. This has included the Yachting New Zealand NZL sailing team who have been doing some ‘cross training’ against Team New Zealand members in the RNZYS Elliott 7’s.

Theland NZ National Open Keelboat Championships, which had to be rescheduled to the 3rd - 4th October, is shaping up to be the most competitive event in recent history, with Theland NZ Pro Team consisting of Josh Junior, Andy Maloney, Alex Maloney and Sam Meech confirmed for the event alongside

top upcoming helmsmen Leonard Takahashi, Jordan Stevenson, and defending champion Nick Egnot-Johnson.

During the lockdown, the RNZYS ran a few e-Sailing Virtual Regattas using the Virtual Regatta Inshore App. This included the e-Sailing Lockdown Series, which had 200 competitors racing seven days a week over five weeks.

Nick Egnot-Johnson took out the grand final on countback. The Real vs Virtual Rockstars Regatta saw eight ‘real rockstars’ vs eight of the top RNZYS ‘virtual rockstars’. Leonard Takahashi took out the regatta for the ‘real rockstars’ team. The RNZYS e-Sailing Club Championships saw 11-year-old Tom Pilkington take out the win and go on to represent RNZYS in the Yachting New Zealand national finals.

One major issue we are having with the Club Marine Insurance Winter Series at the moment is the Harbour Restrictions and the prohibited areas on the south side of the Harbour. This issue came about last year when a number of boats sailed into the ferry terminal and impeded commercial traffic, resulting in a complaint to the RNZYS. This has been an issue again this season, not with complaints from impeding commercial traffic, but with some boats following the rules and others not. This gives the yacht breaching

the harbour restrictions a big advantage in the race, which is understandably frustrating for the boats following the rules.

We are working on solving this issue, but ultimately will need all the skippers to respect the prohibited areas. This is not just an RNZYS rule but an Auckland Council By-Law. If we continue to ignore it, we are at risk of not being able to race on the harbour outside the RNZYS. The Course Marshalling Programme for the America’s Cup is about to ramp back up after some delays due to Covid 19. This programme entails extensive training of all 156 course marshals leading up to the America’s Cup. America’s Cup Events (ACE) will be providing 16, nine-meter Rayglass Protectors for the course marshalling programme, which will be combined with members’ boats to patrol the boundary for the America’s Cup race area.

Planning for the summer is well underway with all the Notice of Race documents and entry forms for the club racing already up online. So, you can now start entering early. We would love to see you out on the water this upcoming season. If there is anything we can do to help, let us know.

Laurie Jury RNZYS Sailing Director

The Club Marine Insurance Winter Series has attracted good-sized fleets in the post-lockdown resumption of racing – Andrew Delves Photo.

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UPCOMING EVENTS 10:00am Tuesday 4th August

Ladies Coffee Morning We have a wonderful variety of speakers lined up. Members price $10 for coffee/ morning tea and a great opportunity to listen to our presenters and socialize with your fellow Squadron ladies. Guests price $12.50. Ticket includes a raffle ticket.

6:30pm Thursday 23rd July Thursday 13th August

Quiz Nights Have a fun quizical challenge evening with with colleagues, crew, family or friends! Entry is free and you can have a maximum of 7 players in your team. To enter, simply email your team name to: adelves@rnzys.org.nz

6:00pm Wednesday 29th July Wednesday 26th August

Womens Secret Business Ladies, come along to this event which we host on the last Wednesday of every month.

Tickets $15 include pasta of the day and a glass of Mumm. This event is for Squadron members and their guests.

6:00pm Tuesday 11th August

Speakers Night Don’t miss our informative Speakers Evening on offshore prep and maintenance with Andrew Duff - The $15 Curry and Drink Special will be available. RSVP via the members portal.

6:00pm Friday 31st July

Mid Winter Social Don’t miss our mid winter social, a free event for members and their guests. There will be drinks specials, live music plus the opportunity to race alongside the Youth AC boat in the Havana Club Rum Race

6:00pm Thursday 27th August

Annual General Meeting Please note the postponed date of the Annual General Meeting. Please join the General Committee on the 27th August in the ballroom.

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Welcoming IDA back into the RNZYS fold Words and Photos by Ivor Wilkins; Illustration by David Barker A chance reunion with an old university friend enabled John Street to mount his most recent rescue mission, plucking the historic Bailey yacht Ida from imminent scrapping in Sydney and restoring it to take its place in the Auckland classic racing fleet once more.

Ida was built for the Jagger brothers and W. Frater in 1895 and became flagship of the Auckland Yacht Club in 1899 when it was bought by Commodore Charles Murdoch, who raced her hard and successfully on the Waitemata. The Auckland Yacht Club later became the RNZYS.

The vital reunion that led to Ida’s return to Auckland took place when Life Member John Street, who heads the Classic Yachts Charitable Trust, visited a childhood sweetheart in Hamilton. “I met her at dancing school, while we were still at school and we were also at university together. She married a friend of mine and Lorraine and I always have lunch with them when we are passing through Hamilton,” said Street.

“At one of these lunches recently, she brought along another university friend, Peter Mirams, and we got talking about classic yachts.

He mentioned his uncle had once owned Ida and wondered if I knew what had become of her.”

Back in Auckland, Street started enquiries about Ida with RNZYS historian Bill Donovan, who found out the historic boat was in Sydney and for sale. “Within 36 hours of that Hamilton lunch, I was talking to Ida’s owners in Sydney,” he said.

Marshalling boatbuilder Wayne Olsen to the cause, they travelled to Sydney and bought Ida for the scrap value of the lead. “They were about to burn it,” said Street.

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A gentle mid-winter breeze provided ideal conditions for Ida’s first shake-down sail following her extensive restoration. The Bailey classic was built in 1895 and served as Auckland Yacht Club (forerunner to the RNZYS) flagship under Commodore Charles Murdoch.

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There was rot in the timbers, but the hull was not distorted or hogged. As ever, the restoration proved more challenging than originally envisaged, but in May a resplendent

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delighted to have the first Bailey yacht entering the Trust’s collection. “She beat, Thelma and Waitangi on line on her first outing, won on handicap and had moments ahead of Ariki and Ranger, so that will rev up the opposition a bit.”

Another of Ida’s historic connections with the RNZYS came during 1924 tour of New Zealand by King George V’s son, Edward, Prince of Wales.

The prince’s tour was disrupted by a railway strike, forcing a change to his itinerary. To entertain him during an unscheduled extension of his stay in Auckland, he joined Ida for a pleasant sail on the Waitemata Harbour.

Angela Antony, whose father Dr J.D. “Pinky” Pinterton was part-owner of Ida with Holden Mirams in the 1950s, recalls a brass plaque on the aft deck commemorating the Prince of Wales’s visit. The plaque was later removed “probably due to the fact it caused the crew to stub their toes whenever retrieving the dinghy,” she said.

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Mothers kept waiting by Covid-19, but finally get to celebrate their special day Pictures by Debra Douglas Observed by 40-plus countries, Mother’s Day is marked on various days, most commonly in March or May. Along with the rest of the country, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has always marked the day on the second Sunday of May, but this year, with life not as we knew it, a Mother’s Day luncheon was delayed until we were free of the confines of lockdown.

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Tom Pilkington competing at the 2020 Opti Auckland Sailing Championships in January.

Tom Pilkington: eSailing Whizz-kid Story by Debra Douglas “It’s a bit like playing chess. It’s a technical game, a thinking game”, is how Jane Pilkington describes her 11-year-old son and Squadron Club eSailing Champion Tom’s interest and expertise in the sport.

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made so many international sailing friends. We are very proud of him; he takes on some real rock stars of sailing.”

Interest in eSailing continues to grow in popularity as yachties look to get their sailing fix online. According to Yachting New Zealand, there are now more than two million players around the world. Clubs throughout

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One participant described eSailing as an “opportunity to take risks without the possibility of spending a week post-collision in the shed epoxying things back together and buying someone drinks as an apology.”

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Breeze Magazine 25 Tom, a pupil at Helensville Primary School and son of Guy Pilkington, former coach of the RNZYS Youth Training Programme, started sailing on his family’s Townson sailing dinghy when he was three years old. He went on to a Learn to Sail course at the Murrays Bay Sailing Club when he was five and has sailed Optimist and P-class ever since. He is currently ranked 12th in New Zealand in the Optimist and also is a regular crew on the Pilkington’s Stewart 34 Playbuoy in the Squadron’s Saturday series.

Tom says he was attracted to eSailing a year ago because the Sail GP boats were taking part.

“I’m often competing on my IPad against sailors who are much older and more experienced than me both on and off the water. I get nervous, but I try to stay calm.”

Tom’s nerves were kept in bay as he successfully made his way through the recent Zhik New Zealand eSailing Championship rounds. Governed by the World Sailing Virtual Rules of Sailing, the challenge closely matched

the real-world rules and formats that govern on-the-water racing.

Round one involved club championships, with one club champion proceeding to the regional championships. The top three from this round then went onto the National Challenge, from which the best six sailors took on the six best sailors in Australia for the Zhik Trans-Tasman eSailing Championships.

Tom: “Sailing a J70, Star, Nacra 17, 49er and offshore racer, the Squadron’s competition was the hardest. I had to do a lot of sailing to get through and sailed against some great sailors.

“I started by doing the Lockdown Series on the S34 on Monday and Wednesday nights for five weeks, with two races a night. My placing got me into the Club Lockdown Championships. I then raced in two round robins of four races each time and was placed first in the semi-finals. I raced another five races in the RZNYS Club Final and came first.”

Tom went on to take top spot at the

regional championships and was placed third at the nationals. His placing put him in the NZ team for the Zhik Trans-Tasman eSailing Championships.

Unfortunately the Kiwis lost to the Aussies in the trans-Tasman event. Tom, who came sixth, says their competitors sailed better in the final, taking the first three places. “I made a couple of mistakes in a couple of races that cost me good results, which was disappointing.”

Undeterred, next up for Tom is the 2020 World eSailing series, which in its inaugural competition in 2018 saw more than 170,000 players from 74 nations race. And on-the-water challenges will be the NZIODA Opti Nationals in November in Wellington. In between times Tom plays soccer, touch and takes part in athletic and swimming events.

“My ambition is to be in the NZ team for the Opti Worlds in 2021,” said Tom. “Then onto youth classes, Sail GP, Olympics, Team NZ and who knows? “

Left: Command control for e-sailing afficionados showing some of the inputs involved.

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26 Breeze Magazine Right: Delirious celebrations followed Team New Zealand’s 5-0 whitewash victory in the 1995 America’s Cup in San Diego.

Left: Tony Rae.

Lockdown blues enlivened by major sailing milestones Words and Pictures by Ivor Wilkins Being trapped by a rampaging kangaroo in an Australian outback motel room is hardly one of the sailing-related hazards you would expect Tony Rae to have faced in a career that spans six round the world races and seven America’s Cups.

This long-hidden episode in an adventurous career came to light during a period of reflection as New Zealand celebrated one forward-looking milestone and two momentous sailing anniversaries: the 30th anniversary of Steinlager 2’s epic victory in the 1989-90 Whitbread Round the World Race; and the 25th anniversary of NZL-32’s 5-0 whitewash of Dennis Conner’s Stars & Stripes crew to capture the 1995 America’s Cup. Both carried the RNZYS burgee.

Tony Rae was part of both of those landmark campaigns, but it was an earlier event which brought him face to face with an enraged kangaroo in his motel room.

Rae was part of the road crew supporting Peter Blake and Mike Quilter sailing the thenradical trimaran Steinlager I in the 1988 Round Australia Race.

Rae’s road companions were Godfrey Cray, Ross Field and David Allan-Williams, who designed the 18m trimaran with its wing mast.

“We had to keep track of the boat as it sailed around Australia in case anything went wrong,” Rae recalls. “We had to stay as close to the coast as possible all the way around, so we spent quite a bit of the time off-road.

“It is actually quite a big country,” he says, with studied understatement. “We drove about 15,000km. It was a logistical nightmare. Drive all day, stop for the night, drive all day. We got stuck in the sand, all kinds of dramas.”

The kangaroo encounter came during an overnight stop. “They are really mean, aggressive creatures and a lot bigger than you think,” Rae says. “I was terrified.”

The worst, though, was yet to come. Rae is

known for his legendary love of breakfast. He once won a radio competition for eating 46 Weetbix biscuits in a single sitting and his only regret was discovering there were still two left in the box.

So, his kangaroo ordeal was made much worse when he finally escaped from his motel room — only to be told by his unsympathetic travel companions that it was time to hit the road. Too bad he had missed breakfast.

“When I told them what had happened, they wouldn’t believe me,” Rae recounts with wounded indignation. “When they saw the state of my room, they believed me all right.”

At sea, the race became a survival exercise.

Steinlager I was nearly lost on the first night, and during the race two multihulls capsized, two monohulls were wrecked and a life lost.

After winning the event, Blake flew back to Auckland where Brad Butterworth and Kevin Shoebridge were overseeing the construction of Steinlager 2 for the Whitbread Race.

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Quilter, Field, Tony Rae and his father, Olympic sailor, Murry Rae delivered the trimaran back across the Tasman. But, what should have been a five day crossing, ended up taking a couple of weeks after the forward section of the port hull sheared off in midocean.

The crew had to plug the hole with a semiinflated dinghy held in place with a sailcloth bandage as they limped back to Auckland.

“The strange part was that the media coverage from the delivery trip was bigger than the race itself. Blakey laughed about that. He said the publicity from the Tasman drama paid for the whole campaign.”

What struck Rae most vividly at the time of the Steinlager I project was the breadth of Blake’s vision and ambition, particularly as professional sailing was just in its infancy. This was first outlined when Blake visited Fremantle to talk to some of the crew involved in New Zealand’s first America’s Cup campaign. “He

28 Breeze Magazine spoke to us about being part of the Steinlager 2 Whitbread campaign. We all thought that sounded fantastic,” said Rae, who had already done his first round-the-world race with Blake in Lion NZ. “But it was much bigger than that.

He had in mind three projects, each of which was ambitious in its own right, the Steinlager I trimaran, the Whitbread and then Steinlager 3, which was intended for a Jules Verne challenge.

To contemplate three projects of that scale was unbelievable – and he achieved them all.”

At that stage, Blake had no interest in the America’s Cup, which he considered a claustrophobic affair. However, as history shows, he went on to tackle that one as well, leading New Zealand’s first successful bid for the Auld Mug in 1995 and the first successful defence of the Cup outside of the USA in 2000.

Peter Hay was RNZYS Commodore and was in attendance at San Diego when Team New Zealand’s Black Magic swept across the line to secure the famous trophy.

In an interview with Glenda Hughes for the 150 series of stories posted on the RNZYS website, Hay recalls waking up the next morning “to find the hotel totally surrounded by reporters, photographers and flashing lights ... it was like being (Prince) Harry and Megan”.

Separated by 10 days, the Steinlager 2 (May 24) and Team New Zealand (May 14) anniversaries were marked by media coverage in New Zealand and also by team reunions, rendered somewhat strange and muted by Covid-19 restrictions. A ban on gatherings of more than 10 people severely restricted proceedings.

If Rae was impressed by Blake’s vision back in the 1980s, he has come to appreciate it even more today as he embarks on trying to assist Bianca Cook in putting together the first fully Kiwi round the world race campaign in 30 years. “Blake tackled three big projects simultaneously. Here we are trying to get a single one-design project to the startline and it is a real struggle.”

With the world economy reeling from the effects of the pandemic, sport events, even as far out as the October 2021 Ocean Race start, face great uncertainty.

“We are all working on the basis that the race will start on schedule, but it is a very complicated scenario,” says Rae. “There are nine countries involved. Will all the borders be open at the same time? Who knows? The situation changes week to week. It is fair to say

we have faced some massive hurdles.”

Blake always used to shrug off apparently insurmountable obstacles by saying if it was easy, everybody would be doing it. “That saying is coming back to haunt me right now,” Rae laughs, “because it certainly isn’t easy.

“The thing that keeps me going is that everybody thinks it is a fantastic idea. We just have to find a way of turning that sentiment into funding. The obstacles that are in the way right now are just a glitch – a bump in the road.”

Like when you find your motel room invaded by a rampaging kangaroo, you just have to deal with it and move on – even if you miss breakfast on the way.

Anniversaries usually celebrate past events, but marking a year out from the start of the America’s Cup seemed a good idea for a party, attracting a crowd to the RNZYS in March to talk about progress to date and look forward to what lies ahead.

As guests arrived, they were treated to a

surprise when ETNZ helmsman Peter Burling piloted Te Kãhu, the team’s 12m surrogate boat, in a spectacular fly-past on the Squadron’s Waitemata Harbour doorstep.

By coincidence, the opening race of a weekend-long classic yachts regatta was assembling for its start in the same area, providing a graphic demonstration of just how far sailing has advanced.

As majestic gaff-riggers, several of them built in the 19th century, angled towards the startline, Te Kãhu struck a supernatural presence, spinning a delicate high-speed web between them, like a mischievous forest sprite in amongst all that tall timber.

One of the classic yacht helmsmen in the middle of the starting melee commented on the different soundtracks: the creak of timber masts, the rattle of wooden blocks and the thwack of an untrimmed headsail as counterpoint to the high-pitched whine of Te Kãhu’s foils slicing through the water at speed.

“Like a loud mosquito.”

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Left: Sir Peter Blake and RNZYS Commodore Peter Hay hoist the America’s Cup aloft after the 1995 victory.

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30 Breeze Magazine On its second outing in wind gusting to 25 knots, the AC9F kept its composure and in short sprints hit speeds just under 30 knots. – Ivor Wilkins Photo.

New Kid on the Block

By Ivor Wilkins The June sailing trials of the Youth America’s Cup foiling monohull prototype had the Auckland waterfront sitting up and taking notice: there is a new kid in town – and it has attitude to burn.

Dubbed the AC9F, the boat is a classic example of leading companies in the New Zealand Marine Industry working together to achieve an outstanding result. The project was conceived and designed in-house at Yachting Developments, working closely with Harken, North Sails, Southern Spars and Emirates Team New Zealand.

Its first two outings were at opposite ends of the wind spectrum and demonstrated the 9m foiler will deliver exciting racing across the board. In the light conditions of the first outing, with the breeze around 10 knots, the AC9F popped onto its foils downwind and demonstrated good stability and pace.

The second excursion, with the wind gusting to 25 knots, saw wind over tide conditions turn the upper harbour into a boisterous chop, but the boat held its composure and produced some blistering downwind runs, hitting close to 30 knots.

“We are certainly happy with the

performance,” said Ian Cook, managing director of Yachting Developments and Commodore of the RNZYS. “The balance is very good.”

Referring to the second outing, he added: “We achieved boatspeeds pushing 30 knots and even executed a few foiling gybes, which came a bit ahead of our scheduled sailing programme. It looks like it is going to do everything we wanted it to do.”

With 17 teams entered, 15 of them internationals, the initial trials will have been closely scrutinised all over the world.

The positive showing on the water demonstrated the capability of the hardware,

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but the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic hangs over the event. “It is not a risk from the racing point of view,” Cook said. “The risk comes from the Covid-19 situation and whether an event can go ahead.”

That would depend on decisions over border control and international travel in the countries concerned. From a New Zealand standpoint, the Youth America’s Cup would require its own government consent, separate from any arrangement for the America’s Cup itself.

To have four boats built and ready to race in time for teams to come to New Zealand

before Christmas, critical decisions would have to be made by the end of July, said Cook.

“This event is set to have a very important impact on the New Zealand economy, and will bring in the equivalent of two America’s Cup teams of people into the country for a long period of time. It will generate tens of millions of dollars for New Zealand,” said RNZYS CEO, Hayden Porter.

The format of the Youth AC is for a racing crew of two men and two women under the age of 25. In the trials, the crew composition reflected the gender mix, but ignored the age restriction.

“We were very mindful that the people trialling the boat should not be people who would sail in the event. This way, we ensure there is no unfair advantage. Everybody who is competing in the Youth America’s Cup will get an equal number of days and opportunities to train, so it is a level playing field,” said Cook.

Initially, the plan was to build the prototype as a one-off and then create a female mould to build the four race yachts. However, the prototype came together so well that considerable cost savings can be achieved by building three more to strict one-design tolerances using the same method.

32 Breeze Magazine In a sense this is a modern take on the stitch and tape system of plywood construction, except it is all carbon. “We created a set of flat panels on a vacuum table and assembled them around the frames of the boat,” said Cook.

In-house 3D printing was also extensively used to create tooling for the foil moulds, wing tips, rudder, centreboard canard and other components, utilising techniques developed in building set pieces for the Avatar movie production. “That made us aware that there is a lot more we can do with this technology than we first realised.”

Having sailed in both of the first trials, the second time as helmsman, Dave Ridley of Southern Spars gave the outcome a big tick as a fast and responsive performer.

“The boat is extremely light and agile downwind,” said Ridley, who has extensive foiling experience from racing SL33 catamarans.

“It felt very strong and stiff and it really accelerates in the puffs. We had moments where we were taken by surprise at the acceleration.”

Running downwind with both V-shape boards in the water, creates a very stable platform. “In the gusts and lulls, you do not get the heeling moment that two-point foiling boats do, so it is an ideal platform for youth crews to race. The teams will be able to foil much more consistently.”

The flight control systems are split between the helmsman, utilising an electronic control on the tiller to adjust rudder rake, while the two forward crew adjust the board rake through a mechanical system. The two forward crew also attend to headsail trim, while helming and mainsail trim are handled by the aft pair.

With the racing set to take place in front of the RNZYS, the crews will have their hands full negotiating tight inner harbour courses at high speeds. The racing will be physical and demand slick crew work.

The sail plan, utilising North’s 3Di grand prix fabric, is quite large and, said Ridley, requires aggressive trimming.

“We were involved with this project from the start,” said North Sails general manager Richard Bicknell. Matt Steven, 18ft skiff world champion, and Matt Kelway, both from North Sails were involved with the deck layouts, while North designers worked out the optimum sail areas and shapes.

Kelway has also been on-board for the sailing trials, while Bicknell was observing the second

heavy air session from a RIB. “It was impressive to see the speeds they were achieving,” he said. “They still haven’t set a gennaker yet, so it will be interesting to see where that would be applied and how much deeper they can sail.

There is still a lot of development to go before they come up with a good playbook for the different wind ranges and settings.”

The first two trial outings focused more on downwind performance and technique, but Ridley said it was efficient upwind as well.

“We still have work to do on upwind sailing modes, but it looks like we will be able to achieve two-point foiling upwind, with the windward foil clear of the water. We still have a bit to learn on this aspect.

“We obviously don’t expect to foil upwind in very light air, but in a breeze it is highly likely we can foil on one board. We can get airborne with eight knots of boatspeed, so a low mode upwind would get us out of the water pretty quickly.”

If this was a development class, a lot of attention could be paid to reducing the size and drag of the V-foils, but as a one-design youth racer, Ridley felt it was pitched in the right area. “The key is foiling. It is better to have

Above: Lift-off – with sheets eased and the sail plan powered up, the AC9F puts its bow up and launches onto its large foils.

Right: Once in flight, the platform is very stable. It is expected that sailing upwind, two-point foiling will be achievable. – Andrew Delves photos. them foiling early as a great spectacle rather than chasing higher speeds at the expense of more difficult lift-off and flight control.”

As for mixed gender crew, he said the two trials had swapped crew positions and functions and it did not make much difference who did what. “Everybody could take any position, no problem,” he said.

Bianca Cook helmed the first trial outing and trimmed in the second. “It was a lot of fun,” she said. “I only wish I was young enough to be able to compete in the event next year!

“I think this is going to be a great success and the gender diversity makes it really interesting.

“To have this rule in place can only be a positive for the sport of sailing, and paves the way for female sailors to be involved in major sailing events such as the America’s Cup.”

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Quiz nights could prove addictive fun “It’s a fun thing to do. An opportunity for a great night out with friends, family and colleagues with food and drink specials on offer,” is how the Squadron’s regular game host Andrew Delves describes the Squadron’s fortnightly quiz evenings.

“We have our regulars – I guess quizzing could be addictive – but every night we see someone new. It has become so popular we have had to move it to the Ballroom.”

The questions are supplied by Believe it or Not, New Zealand’s largest provider of weekly pub quizzes, trivia, quiz questions and quiz nights to the corporate and charity sectors. With topics as diverse as TV & Cinema, Royalty, Music, Old Stuff and Sport & Games, there is bound to be someone in the team who knows the answer.

Prizes include a $100 RNZYS gift/food & beverage voucher for the winner, wine for second and third, plus a couple of spot prizes.

Teams can have a maximum of seven players, so if you and your companions are keen to exercise the grey matter, contact Andrew to book a table, ADelves@rnzys.org.nz.

The next quiz date is July 23rd.

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Celebration, Achievement, Legacy to hallmark 150th Anniversary Last year we surveyed RNZYS members to find out what you all think about our upcoming 150th Anniversary. A look through the survey results showed that three words were consistently used to describe what matters most to our members – Celebration, Achievement, Legacy.

The RNZYS 150th Committee and SubCommittee put their heads together and has created a full calendar of events that deliver just that! There are numerous opportunities for members to get involved and be part of the celebrations and it’s time to pull out your diary and mark the dates. (Please refer to the 150th Calendar of Events link at the end of this article).

“2021 will be a ‘Year to Remember’ with an entire year’s worth of special events and business as usual, on and off-water events, all forming part of our 150th celebrations,” said Vice Commodore and Chair Major Projects 2021, Aaron Young.

Volunteer Programme: With such a huge task ahead, the club has formed several committees to undertake the planning and delivery. There is also a huge team of volunteers who are helping across a range of roles from meeting and greeting and running club tours to on-water course marshalling for various regattas. If you’re interested in lending a hand, please contact Kim Bond, email: kbond@rnzys.org.nz.

Opening Day: The club will open its sailing season later this year on Saturday October 3 with the first reveal of a number of 150th Anniversary elements. Please show your support, and come to the club to join what will be the beginning of our 150th celebrations.

Our doors will be open to welcome all members and their families to take part in the day’s activities. Whether it’s getting out on the water for the Opening Day regatta, or having lunch in the Members Bar and standing on the deck to watch the cannon fire and enjoy the passing boat parade, there will be plenty of action guaranteed. We will have activities for children and our rich history will take centre stage member stories, history talks, and even a film or two to demonstrate the club’s incredible legacy.

New Year Regatta: Our 2021 Anniversary Year will start with our traditional New Year’s Eve sail to Kawau Island, and annual Kawau Island race on New Year’s Day. Bring your favourite wine and a picnic basket ashore for music on the lawn of Lidgard House with fellow RNZYS members and guests.

Great Barrier Cruise: For the more adventurous, there’s a three-day cruise to Great Barrier Island. On arrival there will be lots of activities planned including a hangi on the beach. If you’ve never made the trek on your own boat and always wanted to,

this is your opportunity to join experienced Squadron members who are only too happy to show you the ropes and get together for a gin at the end of the day and share cruising stories.

Racing Opportunities: If Ocean racing is more your cup of tea, you can join the Moonen Yachts Sydney to Auckland Race, departing Sydney on 30th January 2021. Those of us back in Auckland will want to participate in the Auckland Anniversary Regatta on Monday 1 February. If you’re heading north in January, why not fly your Squadron burgee while competing in the Bay of Island Race Week.

America’s Cup summer: Wherever you are based over summer, you’ll be wanting to kick back and follow the action as the flying machines start the much anticipated, PRADA Cup from the 15th January followed by the America’s Cup in March.

In February it’s the revamped Youth America’s Cup with more than 12 nations from around the globe sending teams. The sailors and their families will gather at this RNZYShosted event that is already capturing media attention due to the impressive boat design and the two male-two female gender rule for racing. The curtain-raiser youth event will have you on the edge of your seat.

After all the foiling adrenalin, the Classic Yacht Association’s Classic Regatta will provide graceful viewing with many RNZYS past-

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Mastercard Superyacht Regatta: The Mastercard Superyacht Regatta includes four days of racing and will see some of the world’s most impressive superyachts come to Auckland. RNZYS has an incredible family of corporate members and sponsors who are making our 150th celebrations part of their own. Major sponsor, Mastercard has extended their partnership as naming sponsor of the Mastercard Superyacht Regatta and other supporters of this world-class event include ATEED, Barfoot & Thompson and Royal Huisman. Follow the superyacht entries on our website and take a walk around Silo Park and the Viaduct marina to be wowed by these majestic vessels as they start to arrive into Auckland over the next few months.

B2B Dinghy Regatta: One of our standout 150th events is the brainchild of our 150th Committee Chairman, Colin Carran – it’s the inaugural Bridge 2 Bean Rock Dinghy Regatta.

“Bridge 2 Bean is a bit like the Round-the-

Bays on the water,” said Colin. “I hope it will become an annual event open to everyone and ensuring that getting out on the water is more accessible to people.”

The RNZYS has partnered with several yacht clubs, and Yachting New Zealand, to bring the ‘Bridge 2 Bean’ (B2B) event to life, with the vision that ‘New Zealand is the place to be in 2021 and visitors to Auckland during this time are in for a treat like never before when it comes to celebrating our rich sailing heritage.’

Vice-Commodore Aaron Young is right behind the event and says “Like many of us, having raced dinghies as a youngster, I am passionate about making this inaugural B2B race an ongoing fixture for Auckland. To create this marquee event around the America’s Cup is a great opportunity for us to include as many dinghies as possible from all over the country.”

Parties and more: Of course, March is the month we are all waiting for and the start of the America’s Cup… more about that in upcoming Breeze articles. And, there will be a Member’s Party before the big day!

In future issues we also share details about the events happening post-America’s Cup – yes there is life after the Cup. Our calendar includes plenty more with the RNZYS 150th Ball, Mastercard Youth Training Programme Alumni regatta and our Sustainability Projects, including the Kawau Island restoration project lead by General Committee and 150th Committee member, Peter Boardman. This is a legacy project you will definitely want to be part of and we will be updating members on how to get involved over the coming weeks.

• To stay up-to-date on the RNZYS 150th events planned over 2021, you can read the 150th stories in Mainsheet every Thursday, join our Facebook page (if you haven’t already) and visit the 150th events pages on our website www.rnzys.org.nz/rnzys-150th-2021/.

For a full list of events and dates go to www.rnzys.org.nz/rnzys-150th-2021/rnzys150-calendar/.

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Members’ Bar meal specials are proving a great hit with the hungry horde Story and picture by Debra Douglas Many of us exited the coronavirus lockdown a little more plump than we went in. While we definitely didn’t starve during that time, there was one thing we all hungered for – someone else to cook our meals.

Squadron Executive Chef Jean Brito and his team are here to the rescue. Lockdown was an opportunity for them to come up with new recipes and flavours. And there is no doubt about it, the new menus, the members’ specials, the takeaway option and very special prices are proving a hit.

Member Debbie Whiting is a great fan: “On the first Quiz Night from the specials menu I chose the beef salad (Grain-Fed Beef Eye Fillet, Smoked Carrot Puree, Spinach, Truffle & Parmesan salad). It was fresh, tasty and generous and just $10.

“On the second Quiz Night I enjoyed the market fish wrapped in prosciutto with plenty of fresh greens, chorizo and delicious white wine sauce. Again $10. If you had the same on Ponsonby Road it would have been a $30 main.

I’m looking forward to round three.”

The Members Bar specials are $10 and $15 and themed according to the day: Friday, Pie Day; Saturday, Pizza; Sunday, Roast; Mexican Monday; Tuesday, Curry; Wednesday, Pasta; and Thursday, Grill.

“The most popular dish is always the curry special,” said Jean Brito. “We broadened our selection by going to all parts of the world that

boast good curries and took time to investigate and develop. Pasta, though, would come in a close second.

“The family-style takeaways are an initiative which we hope to make a permanent feature.

Members can enjoy at home simple dishes like Corn Tortilla, to the more sophisticated, for example, Whole Beef Wellington.

“It’s a big thank-you from the kitchen to response we have had. Thank you for your good comments. Especially when members ring up and say their meal was delicious. That’s the best reward for any chef.”

Above: It must be Wednesday … RNZYS executive chef Jean Brito serves Chicken Pasta Bake with Putanesca sauce, sun-dried tomato, gherkins, capers and aged Parmesan cheese. A very tasty dish for just $10.

• Squadron menus can be found in Mainsheet and on the Squadron’s website.

For takeaways, email your order to takeaways@ rnzys.org.nz, or call Phone 360 6800. Order before 5pm the day before and pick up from 12pm the next day.

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The Kids’ Christmas party saw four Young generations at the RNZYS: (L-R) Vice Commodore Aaron, his father, Frank, grandfather Jim, daughter Sienna (5) and son Ben (9).

Jim Young: a lifetime of curiosity and innovation Incurably inventive and always exploring new ways to make boats go fast, Jim Young never let age dull his inspiration. As recently as last year, well into his nineties, he attended a Young 88 open day and talked about turbocharging the popular and evergreen design with a longer spinnaker pole.

Following Jim’s death in June aged 95, Young 88 class president Mike Leyland paid tribute to the restless imagination of the prolific designer and boatbuilder at the RNZYS prizegiving, noting that thousands of families had enjoyed his designs over many years.

He recounted Jim’s faithful attendance at Young 88 events and recalled asking him about the secret to his success. After a long pause, Jim murmured, “I wonder. I wonder about this. And I wonder about that.”

That curiosity spanned a long career and an extensive portfolio of boats from dinghies, to innovative keelboats and popular launches.

He built his first canvas canoe at 14 and came to prominence with his 1949 Sanders Cupwinning X-Class dinghy, White Heather.

In 1958, intrigued by a magazine article by

Nathanael Herreshoff, he produced Fiery Cross, a slender 45-footer with a canting keel. “To my knowledge, the canting keel on Fiery Cross was not only a New Zealand first, but also a world first,” he wrote in his autobiography.

The racing rules of the time forbade moveable ballast, so Fiery Cross had to race with its keel pinned in its vertical position.

This helped cement a lifelong belief that rating rules hampered performance, although he also admitted that wrestling with the mathematical formulae gave him headaches.

“The only rule is the rule of the natural environment – home to the true sailor,” was one of his idioms. He also quoted with approval a comment by contemporary Kiwi designer, Bo Birdsall, who said: “If a feature in hull design is penalised under the IOR, then it has to be good. If you want a fast boat, look at the rules, note everything that is penalised and put them in your design.”

Of his Young 88 design, he said: “The boat had to be honest, straight-forward and practical, completely free from rules and all coming within a modest budget.”

The boat became an enduring icon, with more than 160 built and the class still providing some of the most spirited racing in New Zealand more than 40 years after its debut.

Most of the leading lights of New Zealand yachting have owned or raced Young 88s on their march through the ranks.

His more extreme Rocket concept, a flared skimming dish, heavily reliant on crew weight for stability followed. “I believe that it was the outstanding performance of the Rocket 31 that finally inspired the growth of what today is known world-wide as ‘sportsboat’ or ‘sportyachting’,” Young contended. “Sailing had again become fun.”

Long after age prevented him from sailing, he was still wondering about speed and was enthusiastic about kite-driven foiling yachts. He was convinced that in this combination “lies the ultimate in speed sailing and serious fast winddriven transport.”

As Mike Leyland said, Jim Young, still wondering right to the end, “was always ahead of the curve”.

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The 2020 RNZYS Annual Prizegiving was held across two nights this year as we had too many members attending to be able to host it all on one evening, a great show of support from members and a tribute to how many crews we have involved in our club racing series, with nearly 400 attending across both nights.

The evenings were split up by divisions, and there were plenty of prizes and trophies to be handed out across both. The entertainment included a Q&A session hosted by P. J. Montgomery.

Trophy presentations then followed (see the website, rnzys.org.nz for a full list). Our Volunteers were also acknowledged with awards, including Ross Chapman winning Race Officer of the year, Hans Koerselmam our Boat Driver of the Year, and Collette Kraus Umpire of the year – a big thanks and congratulations to them and to all winners this year.

Following the presentations we had live music by the talented and energetic Josh Leys who had attendees dancing and celebrating late into the night. – By Andrew Delves

1/ Crew of Checkmate (owner Vice Commodore Aaron Young).

2/ Crew of Bird on the Wing (owner Committee Member Mike Malcolm).

3/ RNZYS Women’s Match Race Team 4/ L-R Jim Griffin (Tequila) Sarah Gair (36° Brokers), Debbie Whiting (Tequila), Frankie Davis (36° Brokers).

5/ Crew of Carrera (owner John Meadowcroft.)

6/ Crew of Extreme (owners Mark Roberts and Nick Stenson).

7/ Guest speaker Leonard Takahashi interviewed by Life Member P J Montgomery.

8/ RNZYS CEO Hayden Porter, Lucy Jezard (Mastercard), Liz Sellar, Andrew Springgay and Laani McFarland (Mastercard), Aaron Young.

9/ Crew of Playbuoy (owners Jane Pilkington and Roy Dickson).

10/ Performance Programme graduates Leonard Takahashi, Bradley McLaughlin, Josh Wijohn and Tim Snedden.

11/ Crew of War Machine (owners Mike Leyland, Chris Macindoe, Paul McWilliams).

12/ Crew of Wedgetail (owner Garry Scarborough).

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What’s next for the future of the office?

It has been a turbulent few months in markets due to COVID-19.

“The Great Lockdown”, “The Corona Crash”, whatever you want to call it – these have been truly unprecedented times (the most popular phrase of 2020). These events have permeated into most economic sectors, positively impacting some whilst annihilating others.

Property has been one of the most affected, from empty office buildings to ghost malls, this sector has seen a significant upheaval.

Here, we will have a look at the Work-From-Home (WFH) phenomenon and its potential impact on the office.

The Government-mandated lockdowns resulted in most of us abandoning the traditional office for the home office or, in my case, the dining room table. This massive social experiment, for the most part, went surprisingly well. Of the many companies we have spoken to, most have seen an increase in productivity. Even with restrictions easing, The GPT Group, a large diversified Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (AREIT), highlighted that physical occupancy for their office buildings in mid-May was between 10% and 15%.

This whole trend raises a range of questions:  Is the increase in productivity due to adrenaline and/or responsibility being given to many for the first time? Is it because we had nothing else to do with restaurants, gyms and malls closed? Is it sustainable? Or will humans revert back to their old habits?  What impact will there be on genuine collaboration? The micro conversations we have around the office can lead to value-add ideas. Generally, people are opposed to calling colleagues or managers to have these small conversations – they feel they need to have a particular reason to pick up the phone.  If social distancing becomes entrenched in our habits, workspace ratios will presumably have to increase – Cromwell highlights occupancy ratios have compressed by 30% over the past decade.

How much more space would be required under this scenario?

Would this offset the increase in employees WFH?  Are people enjoying WFH because everyone else is doing it and they aren’t missing out on anything? When people start going back to the office, do those who show up and get more facetime with the boss have a better chance of getting that promotion?  All these questions and more go to make up the most important question of all: what will happen to demand for office space?

Unlike previous downturns, we now have the technological capabilities to facilitate WFH. From Zoom to Microsoft Teams, we can remotely collaborate and communicate more effectively than ever before. Zoom in its first quarter update reported 169% annual revenue growth!

It would also be foolish to ignore the many CEOs claiming that either all or a chunk of their workforce will be WFH into perpetuity. Mark Zuckerberg sees 50% of his staff WFH in 10 years, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is allowing his entire workforce to stay home for as long as they wish. “Our bias against working from home has been completely exploded”, according to Dan Spaulding, Chief People Officer of Zillow.

There are a range of studies on this topic and we have looked at many; however, the following three were particularly interesting: GARTNER surveyed 317 CFOs and Finance leaders and found that 74% of companies plan to permanently shift to more remote work post COVID-19.

On the other hand, GENSLER conducted a study of 2,300 employees (rather than CEOs and CFOs!) and found that only 12% of US workers wanted to WFH permanently. “What our research found was that people overwhelmingly want to return to the office”.

Finally, a similar study conducted by GLOBAL WORKPLACE ANALYTICS that surveyed 2,865 employees found that 77% of respondents wanted to work at least one day a week at home, compared to only 31% pre COVID-19, with the median response being two days a week from home.

So, what does this all mean for the future of office?

It is fair to say working from home is here to stay and that companies will become more pragmatic with their space as they efficiently rotate their employees. This will, in isolation, lead to a decrease in demand for office space, the extent of which is very hard to quantify at this early stage.

Most surveys seem to indicate that employees want to work at home two days a week. You could therefore simply assume that there will be 40% less demand! This of course is unlikely to be the case.

In our opinion, the office is by no means dead and will likely continue to play a range of important roles such as attracting and retaining high quality staff and helping to create and maintain a strong culture. In addition, there are many other factors to consider when analysing demand for office space – from high-level, cyclical, supply and demand drivers to more granular items such as tenant tenure and market rent levels.

Undoubtedly, there will be some negative long-term demand impact from the WFH success. Whether this is only 5% or as high as 20% we simply don’t know at this stage.

We will continue to ask ourselves the questions presented in this article and will follow these developments with interest.

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A lot has happened since our last Performance Programme update, with various regattas held at the Squadron earlier this year involving our PP teams, and a brand-new PP squad being announced in May. The Harken Youth International Match Racing Cup took place in late February, and we had two RNZYS PP teams into the semi-finals.

Nick Egnot-Johnson’s KNOTS Racing were up against James Hodgson and his CYCA youth team, and Jordan Stevenson’s Vento Racing took on Aurélien Pierroz from New Caledonia.

On a very breezy day, it was Hodgson and Stevenson who blew into the final with 3-0 victories. The final was great viewing, with Stevenson taking the first race, but the Aussies were too good in the next three races, sailing away to win the regatta convincingly.

The following week, the RNZYS hosted the Harken 2020 Youth Match Racing World Championships, with 12 international teams heading Downunder to compete for the world title. Knots & Vento Racing were again our two RNZYS PP representatives. Unfortunately Stevenson was upset in the quarterfinals against resurgent American Jack Parkin, but Nick Egnot-Johnson made it into the semi-finals to again face Hodgson. This contest had it all and tied at 2-2, Egnot-Johnson led around the final top mark. However a slight mistake on the final downwind leg allowed Hodgson to dip over the finish line in front – a great race, but disappointing not to have an RNZYS team in the final.

YTP and PP graduations were held in

mid-March, with a few PP moving on after a few great years in the programme. These names included Josh Wijohn, Taylor Balogh, Rob Garrett and James Wilson. This made way for the new RNZYS PP Squad, which includes a great mix of male and female sailors: Megan Thomson, Nick Egnot-Johnson, Niall Malone, Zak Merton, Hunter Gardyne, Mitch Jackson, Bradley McLaughlin, Jordan Stevenson, Sam Barnett, Celia Willison, Charlotte Porter, Jake Erson, Paige Cook, Alison Kent, George Angus, Chelsea Rees, Ellie Copeland, Lisa Dartnell, Sam Hume, Serena Woodall and Will Clough.

All of the squad have already been getting right into winter training on the Elliott 7’s and Nacra 20’s since lockdown ended. With the cancellation of many overseas events – including the Governor’s and Congressional Cups in California – our PP sailors have plenty of time to train until their next events which will be the Theland NZ Open National Keelboat Championship (3rd – 4th October) and Barfoot & Thompson NZ Women’s National Keelboat Championship (27th – 29th November) at the RNZYS. The RNZYS Youth America’s Cup shortlisted squad was announced in April, and includes a few PP graduates as well as current members, including: Megan Thomson, Celia Willison, Charlotte Porter, Nick EgnotJohnson and Zak Merton. We should be able to announce the confirmed team in the next edition of Breeze.

By Andrew Delves

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Half the squad are new recruits with the remainder returning to further hone their skills.

We have 15 girls in the squad this year, which is further progress to reaching our target of having approximately 50/50 in any given year.

To date, in the overall performance summary of the YTP, we have two girls in the top three, namely Josi Andres and Zoe Dawson.

Robbie McCutcheon is currently in the lead and is determined to stay there. The overall performance summary includes theory tests, race results, fitness, communication, boat work and attendance results, although it is early in the season. Most of our regattas are later in the season, but all the sailors understand that now is the time to put the work in to achieve success later in the year.

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YTP Race Management Not really counting, but this might be my fourth year as Race Officer for this amazing Youth Programme. I have been very lucky to have Stewart Heine and Janet Airey as able accomplices. With those two, the fun never stops for us out there on the water.

We get to know the trainees very well, and we enjoy seeing them progress both as sailors and people, under the expert coaching of Reuben Corbett. We are fortunate to be able to capitalise on over 30 years of evolution of the programme, and we don’t feel any urge to reinvent the wheel, but rather make any small improvements, which hopefully reflect changes to yacht racing as they occur.

The 2020/2021 programme was fortunately only slightly delayed by COVID-19, and even though there were some restrictions still in place when we started, for example no group briefings before going sailing, no major disadvantages were experienced.

But between Christmas and the onset of COVID-19, a full calendar of events was successfully achieved.

All of the following regattas involved current, ex-, and hopefully future, YTP sailors.

Reuben asked me to race manage the Starling Match Race Nationals in January, which was possibly the first RNZYS dinghy regatta for some time, raced between the bridge and Watchman’s Island.The 12 sailors were selected from regions around New Zealand, and the standard of match racing was incredibly high.

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Following that we held the Harken World Youth Match Racing Championships, in our E7 boats. This time I played understudy to Harold Bennett, the legend of NZ Race Officers. I learned a lot!

Next on the programme was the Harken National Secondary Schools Keelboat Championships, for which we had 16 entries, again raced in the E7’s, and again a very high standard of sailors, looking good for the future, when they hopefully join our Youth Training Programme.

Reuben asked me to be Race Officer again, this time for the G J Gardner Open Teams Racing Nationals in Kerikeri, over Queens Birthday weekend, with sailors racing 420 dinghies. This regatta was dripping with America’s Cup and Olympic sailors, and was sailed with amazingly good manners, very competitive but everyone smiling and having a good time. It was a great event to be part of.

So, a very busy season so far, and lots more to come. A huge thank you to our amazing sponsors, both Mastercard and Harken.

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Issue 130 – August 2020

Right: Extensive beefing up of the mast-step and framing completed.

Below: Ngatira on her way to the to the convalescent home.

A silver lining to Level-4 lockdown Words and Photos

By Stephen Horsley Lockdown came at an opportune time for Ngatira, for it was 10 years since her restoration. I also needed to investigate bad leaks from around the rudder box area; she’d had two swampings that resulted in engine submersions.

The causes were identified as incorrect bilge pump installation in the first swamping and a malfunctioning pump in the second. My insurance company agreed to install a new motor, but the leak was not fixed.

I installed a secondary bilge pump that would send me a text message if triggered.

There was also major water flow from around the mast step area when on the wind.

This area had not been attended to in the restoration

and what I discovered, after a little digging when Ngatira was hauled out in early December, was years and years of band-aid fix-ups.

Cutting away the hood ends around the mast area and exposing the seams was a real eye opener. It revealed some nasty voids from overzealous past owners who’d raked away the stem timbers.

The worst voids were 50mm deep and 10mm wide; a big

ask for a bit of caulking and putty to keep water out.

It became obvious the task at hand was growing into more than another quick fix and discussions with Dave Jackson and Martin Robertson at the Sandspit Yacht Club haul-out yard confirmed that I needed to address the mast step.

It’s the Achilles heel of most of our fine classic yachts. By the time I added

hardstand fees, travel, petrol and other incidentals, it was obvious the budget would blow out before I’d even bought materials.

The solution was to truck Ngatira home, so I could tackle the work myself. The hardest part was ripping into the interior, removing the bulkhead, mast step, floors and the floor shelf.

I discovered that what I’d thought was a reasonable mast step structure was actually a later addition on top of the original step.

I imagine Ngatira always leaked; past owners have reported constantly pumping water when under sail.

Then came Covid-19 and things started looking bad on the work front. Secretly, I was enjoying my time working on Ngatira. I had fantastic advice from good friends Jacques de Kervor

In Pursuit of the Wainamu Dream

By David Cranwell My life seems to have followed a pathway of projects that take decades rather than years.

The Wainamu dream, started over 40 years ago when I bought a copy of Rudder magazine with a 16-page bulletin on how to build a Rozinante. I decided then that I was going to build one. Although family and career took precedence, I never lost the dream.

Then in 1995 Wooden Boat included an article by Doug Hylan. A few years later I contacted Doug, who agreed to build a kitset. I have extremely limited woodworking skills, but thought I could build a kitset.

First joke!

The kitset arrived from Maine, then reality set in.

Many OMG moments later, help arrived in the form of Ian McRobie from Auckland.

Being a yachtie from way back, he was keen to see her.

Ian’s advice was short and to the point. ‘Your planking screws are too short, you need some West System glue,

and you’d better get Robert Brooke to look at her.’

The rest is history. Robert came, saw the project, and recommended I engage Marco Scuderi to complete the build.

This I did.

Marco had many mistakes to rectify, but after almost five years his beautiful masterpiece returned to the Hawkes Bay, courtesy of Boat Haulage. I named her Wainamu after my GreatGrandfather’s 1880’s tug boat of the same name; he used it to tow rafts of kauri logs down the Henderson creek to the mill at Freemans Bay. I had some minor woodworking to complete plus puttying and varnishing. For an amateur such as myself, that has been a huge task.

Over the recent years a couple of videos have kept me going. A Rozinante 28 sailing in Finland, and an Off-Centre Harbor video with Maynard Bray and Roger Taylor sailing Redhead, the Rozinante built

by Doug Hylan.

The journey has been long, but I’m planning to have her in the water later this year.

I’ve been overwhelmed by the generosity of people keen to help me get Wainamu in the water. In addition to those already mentioned, special thanks to Peter Yealands for a boatload of timber, Robert Brooke for his patient

guidance, Doug Hylan for his advice and Basil Mawley for the loan of his shed.

The building of Wainamu is about following a dream and never giving up. It’s an amazing journey with amazing people.

(Ngatira continued . . .) and PeterBrookes. Jacques loaned me a decent band saw and Tanner edge planer, (buzzer), amongst other things, and I was in regular discussions with Peter over the best way forward.

It was decided to start from

scratch and install laminated frames and floors, glued and screwed, and a sturdy mast step spanning six floors with the aft end tying into the forward keel bolt. The stem timber, which I discovered had a scarf joint right under the mast step, had to be

strengthened with strips either side. It also needed a capping, then an apron, for the new floors to rest on.

All this was moving forward at a great pace when we went into level-4 lockdown and I couldn’t be happier. Even Jo said, ‘Go

work on your boat’. I had got in supplies and working on my beloved Ngatira through this time was a dream come true, if not a little daunting at times. There is still a long way to go and I haven’t even started on the rudder box yet – but that’s another story.

Above: Robert Brooke (right) lends an informed and attentive ear to details of the Wainamu project.

Top: Wainamu’s sweet lines revealed.

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current Yamaha’s Digital Electronic Control outboards from F150 to XTO 425 and can be installed in single, double, triple and quad outboard applications.

Helm Master EX boasts enhanced joystick manoeuvrability with smooth, quiet, precise operation, new single-function buttons and new features like Drift Point Track.

Effortless Yamaha Autopilot can be adjusted with the joystick and includes functions such as course and heading hold, track point (NAV along waypoints), and two types of pattern steer that seamlessly integrate with speed control and pattern shift.

Phone (09) 265 6523

RigPro offers yachties comprehensive mobile repair and maintenance service RigPro are the experts in servicing, refits, upgrades and rig optimisation for all classes of yacht. Our world-class expertise has ensured Kiwi sailors enjoy an outstanding sailing experience.

Whether you are weekend cruising, or racing around the cans, there’s no better way to prepare your yacht.

With guaranteed workmanship from professionally trained and accredited technicians, a handy Westhaven location with full servicing facilities and a mobile fully-equipped service van, RigPro ticks all the boxes.

As NZ’s most comprehensive repair,

maintenance and service provider, RigPro guarantees all our workmanship and the products we supply. We’re the team that’s genuinely on-board with you.

Plan ahead to make sure your boat is ready for the busy America’s Cup summer.

Phone Trent on 021 357 360

The Fountaine Pajot MY 40 power cat.

Multihull Solutions has announced a special Open-For-Inspection event for New Zealand cruising enthusiasts on Sunday 2 August providing a great chance to inspect two of the world’s most popular catamarans.

The event, run in conjunction with Ownaship, will be held at the Multihull Solutions Auckland Sales Centre on Westhaven’s Z-Pier and will showcase the brand new model of the MY 40 power catamaran by Fountaine Pajot Motor Yachts, as well as the hugely popular Fountaine Pajot Lucia 40 sailing catamaran.

The free event will run from 10am until 4pm with strict social distancing protocols in place, which also presents a fantastic opportunity to inspect the boats with few others on board.

Inspections must be booked in advance, and there are regular time slots available throughout the day.

The Multihull Solutions team will be on hand to answer any queries about the models on display as well as any questions regarding buying, selling or enjoying your multihull.

Phone 027 451 3131

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Beneteau to hold Westhaven Open Display See some of the biggest and best releases from Beneteau this year at the upcoming Beneteau Open Display, featuring award winning models and New Zealand-first premiers in both power and sail.

Hosted by 36° Brokers at the Pier 21 Sales Dock in Auckland, on show will be a diverse display of renewed and re-imagined models, highlighting how far the brand has come in their 130-year reign in production boatbuilding.

Showcased will be the outstanding Swift

Trawler 35 and 47 (New Zealand Premiere), award-winning Oceanis 46.1 and 51.1, new generation Gran Turismo 40 and 50, and a very exciting Australasian premiere Monte Carlo 52.

The Yacht Collective will also be displaying their latest release syndicate model Gran Turismo 40, available as a 1/6th share and a great opportunity to go boating at a fraction of the cost.

Free admission for August 28-30 event. www.36degrees.nz.

X 4.0 wins high praise and European Yacht of Year “X-Yachts took already excellent boats in the X 4.3 and X 4.6 and refined and refined them to produce this, arguably the benchmark for today’s 40ft performance cruiser.”

This was how Toby Hodges, Yachting World’s member of the jury for the 2020 European Yacht of the Year awards, assessed the X 4.0.

The new X 4.0 won the top award against strong competition from well-known European marques, leading Hodges to sum up: “The X 4.0 is a sailor’s yacht with plenty of modern styling

and proved a lot of fun to helm in comfort.

“Although the focus is on cruising, the ergonomic cockpit set up can still suit racing.” View the judging process at https://youtu.be/7P15SlmOuSw. If you are looking to own an award-winning yacht like the outstanding X 4.0 from the outstanding range of X-YACHTS, call in to Laurie Collins Westhaven and see Wayne.

Phone 09 376 6331

Harken Fosters Ship Chandlery are proud to be exclusive distributors for the Cyclops Marine Smart range. Bringing America’s Cup technology to ordinary sailors, the smarttune® and smartlink® wireless load sensors allow sailors to accurately measure stay tension and line loads in real time, transmitting data either to your mobile device via a dedicated app, or to existing boat electronics.

Cyclops smarttune® makes repeatable headsail shape control available for yachts 26’ – 56’ allowing you to measure and repeat your fastest settings, control forestay sag, headsail shape, or mast bend to manage mainsail shape as you race for optimal performance in all conditions, on all points of sail.

With Cyclops smartlink®, live and dynamic sheet, tack line, cunningham, vang or soft backstay loading is available in real time for yachts from 26’ to 82’.

Phone 09 303 3744

Get in trim for long term sailing enjoyment

Try out a free trial at one of Auckland’s best kept secrets – The Atrium Club – a men-only gym with a rich culture and tradition in central Auckland.

For details: theatrium.co.nz

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