Dear HMYC member
Every year at the HMYC prizegiving the President’s Award is awarded to the HMYC member that has contributed the most effort to club in the past year. All club members can make nominations for this and one of the persons nominated will be selected from the list of nominated people for the award. The final decision rests with the President (that’s me) with the assistance of the Commodore if necessary. Please send your nominations with a brief motivation why you are nominating that particular person to the following email ambleside@mweb.co.za.
Thank you
Rob Barker
HMYC President
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
MASTHEAD # 7 – May 2013
The 2012/2013 season has now officially closed, but there is still
sailing up at the Club on Sundays, with the von Klemperer and the Brass Monkey
series still to be sailed.
The closing cruise went off very well, and although there was no
wind for the boats to sail up to the braai location, most of them either
motored or were towed there. We even
raised the HMYC burgee at the site and temporarily claimed the area as Club
property!!
One of the containers at the back of the clubhouse has recently been
cleared out, and as a result there are a lot of sails which were stowed there
which must now be claimed. There are
some Hunter mainsails and jibs amongst these, and if you would like to claim or
buy one, please contact Clive Waddy. A nominal
fee will be charged in either case.
The next major event at the Club is the AGM and prize-giving, both
of which will be held on Sunday 23rd June. I hope to see you there. Debbie will provide a cooked 3 course lunch,
for R90 per head, the details of which will be provided later.
There has been a change in the incumbent in the post of Club
Administrator – Heather Marshall has left the employ of HMYC and her place has
been taken by Connie Gray. I wish
Heather well in her retirement, and I’m sure that Connie will soon settle into
the job. The contact details for Connie
are the same as they were for Heather.
The 2013/2014 subscription invoices will shortly be sent to you – we
have kept the increase to a minimum this year, but please will you pay your
subs within thirty days of the date of the invoice? If you want to pay over three months, rather
than a lump sum up front, this can be arranged but you must contact Connie Gray
to set this up. It was agreed at a
recent Club committee meeting that any subscriptions which aren’t settled
within 30 days of date of invoice will attract an interest charge. And, if you haven’t paid your subs within three
months of date of invoice, you will be declared a defaulter and excluded from
access to the Club. We have had to take
this radical decision as a lot of time was spent this past season chasing up
people who were tardy in paying their club subscriptions, and this is
unacceptable. The good news regarding
your subs is that if you are over 70 years of age, and you furnish Connie with
a copy of your ID book, you will be exempt from SAS fees for the new season.
If you have any spare 2 litre ice cream boxes, please will you give
them to Debbie as we will need them for lunch boxes for the SAS Youth Nationals
which your club will be hosting next season?
I hope to see you at the AGM in June, and I
would like to thank all of you for your support during the past season – it has
helped tremendously to know that you care about your Club
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