HEBE JEBES
JUL/AUG 2022
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CLUB UPDATE
As you read this, we are in the middle of the summer. Our two traditional keel sailing events, the Summer Saturday Series and the Typhoon Series have been kick-started on 6 and 12 June, respectively. Every weekend you will see many keelboats racing in the waters of Port Shelter! Since May, sailing lessons, events and racing have resumed as COVID-19 restrictions eased. On 21 and 22 May, we had a very successful Open Dinghy Regatta with around 150 boats and over 200 sailors taking part across these two-day racing events. A seminar on Racing Rule 42 Propulsion was held a week before this event to give sailors a better understanding of Rule 42. This seminar was attended by about 20 persons in person and about 50 participated on Zoom. The attendance hit a recent record high! Thanks to HKSF judges for their support.
BRIDGET CHAN Rear Commodore—Sailing
The Annual Sailors Award Night on 25 May honoured the best performing sailors and boats from Sailiability, Dinghy and Keelboats as well as volunteer of the year 2021. For the past two years, we cancelled the award night party due to COVID but this year the party was finally back! On the Keelboat side, we presented awards to the Boat of the Year (BOTY) and the Sailors of the Year. Congratulation to H3O (IRC Division) and Ichiban (HKPN) for winning the BOTY award and Juliet Ashton and Simon Jones for winning our Female and Male Sailor of the Year awards. As mentioned in the last issue of Hebe Jebes, a BOTY burgee was designed and made to be presented to the winners alongside their trophies. That night, in addition to this year’s BOTY Burgee winners, we also invited previous year’s winners to receive their BOTY burgees including Windseeker (2017), Bits & Pieces (2018), LoTech (2019) and Ichiban (2020). In June, we had the first-ever HKSAR 25th Anniversary Sailing Cup which was jointly organised by the Hong Kong Sailing Federation (HKSF) and three major yacht clubs (HHYC, RHKYC and ABC). This event, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of HKSAR, comprises three races in three waters by the three clubs over three different weekends. Boats can opt to participate in any individual race(s) or all races or team up with other boats to finish all races to compete in the Sailing Cup. This may be the first time that the three yacht clubs have jointly hosted a racing event in Hong Kong. Did you participate? I would like to take this opportunity to thank the volunteers, our management and the staff in our Sailing Office and all other departments for their challenging work and dedication to making it all happen. Have a great summer. See you all out on the water.
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