WOW……… attached is a great video taken by our multi tasked and multi
talented new Chief Instructor / Assistant Chief Instructor of the PSC Squibs
leaving the marina to race on the river , showing his good skills with a camera
as well as giving instructions how to sail with their years of experience teaching
at PD marina
PSC are about to launch their LEARN TO SAIL courses including DISCOVER
SAILING ( 2 hours ) INTRODUCTION TO SA ILING ( 2 days ) and the original
ADVANCED CREWING TECHNIQUES (2 days ), designed to help those who can
sail but are a bit rusty brush up on their skills
WATCH THIS SPACE
5 of of our 16 UK imported One design Nat SQUIB 19 ft keelboats came out to
race , however even on our beautiful clean waters it is nice to have wind to go
with the sun
The five comprised Rear Commodore Yasid a leading film maker of superb
documentaries with his friend as crew in Ratatosk a mythical Norsk squirrel
and usually known as The Squirrel , then ZOMARK ( Zoe/Mark the first owners
children ) sailed by current and new owner Alyson crewed by Mark s son Oli
visiting from UK who learned to sail on the boat at Wardringfield in beautiful
Suffolk with our senior member/guru Rainer Kloberg as tactician , Oli is a Sea
Scout Leader and we will put him in touch with Com Hilmi the Malaysian Sea
Scout Head, then new members Bill and April Danyduck from the US sailing
the clubs Second Wind a gift by the family of our late member Martin
Grantham , another boat with history , the first owner was a UK Vice Admiral
and the presented the club with a numbered oil print of the boat racing in UK
then Recaa 2 formerly Tom the cat and the Commodores first Squib to be
purchased in the Royal Burnham Yacht Club bar, owner MJ sails with his 2
children Khesh and Rhisi great Opi sailors in their own right ( championship
material ) and members of our BERUANG junior sailing club , sporting a brand
new mainsail made by Lonton and Gray in UK which arrived in the latest
container ,
Sadly missing were our Squib regulars Ramasamy Menon in Lady VG in
Langkawi with his Dehler 38 VG Offshore and Harro Koopmans and Peter Van
Acker who sail Peach 2 currently awaiting a new shroud wire from UK , both
the recently arrived Squibs are sold making 16 in all , we hope to have have
10 racing regularly
Making up the numbers was PSC Commodore Jeremy sailing Cabaret 7 with
regular crew Epee,as acting Race Officer , PSC have introduced new more
sophisticated courses instead of the long flog out to SELAT Port hand mark on
the fairway to West Port. On this day it was a close reach out , Squirrel led the
way and established a 60 meter lead over Cab 7 with Second Wind close
behind , to avoid a single course home we sail over to the north shore to round
an apparently useless pole, Cab 7 under close hauled spinnaker sailed through
the Squirrel and into the distance ,Zomark Second Wind and Recaa fought it
out behind some with some without spinnaker
With Cab 7 looking nervously behind the wind dropped with holes
everywhere , then it filled in from ahead close reach which enabled Cab 7 to
sneak over the line with the others not far behind ….. and it rained too , Having
derigged the boat the Commodore retired to the club veranda to watch the
fun as with a building adverse tide and a low wind directly down the river all 4
boats tried desperately to reach the line never more than 70 meters away , to
an observer happily enjoying a hot milo out of the rain the Commodore
remarked to himself on the standard of sailing which was a tribute to how far
the Squib fleet has come that they kept at it for more than 45 minutes , the
problem without answer was to get close in left you under the wind shadow of
the club house tacking out was okay but tacking back took you back where you
stated , the race was cancelled but Zomark was in front from Second Wind
Recaa and the Squirrel
Our thanks to our instructors Lan and Etah for waiting in the rain for the boats
then under the mandatory outboard motor came in before retiring to the
clubhouse to discuss the race with a hot drink rather than a cold beer !
At this point the Commodore and Race Officer who has now completed his 6
months recovery treatment from non Hoskins lymphoma a type of blood
cancer involving 6 chemo cessions and 23 Radiotheraphy cessions would like to
thank those at PSC who have supported and encouraged him with his
recovery in particular Brother Ramasamy Meno who has faithfully joined every
Sunday race so he was never alone
A life experience like this has caused the Commodore to realise how
important enhancing the facilities and what PSC can offer is for the future of
our sailing club ,a lot of work and effort but establishing the Beruang Junior
club, finding the right instructors ,getting our Byte dinghies complete and
taking on the large space of the cafeteria to be renamed THE INSANITY
LOUNGE after its Patron , so so sad that 2 of our members yachts suffered
major damage on the RSYC pontoon due the uninsured barter trader coming
through
In closing a nice anecdote in a recent radio interview an a yacht club member
advisesd his favorite sailing moment was sitting in a chair on deck reading a
book and sipping a G and T , quite sensible so what is your Ccommodores :
driving a nice cruiser racer like BLUE ANGEL upwind in force 5/6 with the spray
flying , what a sensation , a former Commodore of the RORC once described
ocean racing as standing under a cold shower tearing up GBP 100 note and the
best moment when he finished , but don’t we sailors in our little Squibs love it
Jeremy Camps, Commodore PSCS
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