Presentation Night

Last Saturday saw the culmination of the 22/23 season with accolades awarded to honoured club members at our annual Presentation Night. Around 40 members enjoyed socialising over drinks and a BBQ dinner (thanks for salads and deserts to Susan and her merry band of helpers), so much so that proceedings did not get underway until well after 8pm!

First item of business, and to many the only reason to turn up, was the NASA Trophy. The good news is that as members we seem to be stuffing up less this year; the bad news is that we still provided plenty of ‘moments’ for Matt to generate 3 pages of closely typed material. Over the season, we had 3 broken masts, various collisions with buoys, capsizes, and a stolen medal, however Pete narrowly took the award from Craig with his outstanding ability to break other peoples boats and for falling down McRae YC’s stairs with style.

Results

Series	Handicap Championship	VYC Championship
Leongatha Toyota	Gary Plozza	Matt Kiely
Commodore’s Cup	Sam McVilly	Matt Kiely
John Parry	Geoff Rippingale	Matt Kiely
Serious Surf	Gary Plozza	Shaun Freeman
Broadbeach Inverloch Health Club Tarwin River Marathon		Matt Kiely
Club Champion, A Division		Wayne Smith
Club Champion, B Division		Matt Kiely
Club Champion, C Division		Paula Horton

As you’ll see from the above, there was no surprise that Club Champion for this season was Matt who has promised to run improver courses so we can all try and catch up a bit. The winner of the Ralph Drake Brockman Trophy for Most Improved Handicap Champion was Gary, now getting the measure of his Aero. This achievement proved to be so exhausting for Gary that he left the party early to go to bed and missed the awards! Well done to all place getters, and in fact well done to all us sailors for taking on Anderson Inlet’s many foibles and not (generally) stuffing up too much!

Best Club Member of the year was awarded to John Fowler for his ongoing dealings with Council, chasing down grants, building a protection fence for the new AC and repairs to the front and side decking, with Steve Horton. This on top of his stalwart service and contribution to members through the Committee.

John and Elizabeth were thanked for their fantastic efforts in the tower and Susan for her feeding us each Sunday, holidays and high days. Their respective contributions are very much appreciated by the membership (and long may they reign).