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22.01.2022 Todays Long River Race was a windy affair with 10 to 20 knot SSE winds. Next event is a 2 day from Port to Laurieton and return next weekend. --------------... Music by Atch SoundCloud: bit.ly/AtchSoundCloud Spotify: bit.ly/AtchSpotify Instagram: www.instagram.com/atchmusic ---------------------- See more

21.01.2022 The mid winter break has seen yachts performing their winter maintenance. In the back from COVID series, Cool Change leads the fleet. Last race is this Sunday.

21.01.2022 Enticer heading out for today’s Ocean Buoy event. Photo credit Liz Stanmore.

19.01.2022 Wind Knocked out of Sails As the sun sets over the glistening water of Wallis Lake, we feel blessed that we live in such a wonderful location. The lake links us... all, from Pacific Palms in the south, west to Coomba Park and north to the shores of Forster and Tuncurry. The Sailing Club on the eastern shore is nestled amongst the ubiquitous palms that are endemic to the area. It is the club members who have developed this once sand-mining lease and maintained this special space. The place is special, so special to all of us. During the week mums and dads bring the kids- too small for the beach and the surf, to play on the shore. On the weekend sailboarders rig on the shore, families gather on the grass and kids play in the water and occasionally we get out for a sail. During the season the club hosts regattas. Big regattas that have lived on beyond the Oyster festival and have a following that is Australia wide and known around the world. The club, the covered areas, the grassed areas, built and maintained by members. All of it, every cent, from the club’s hard work. It knocks the wind from your sails when you find the club broken into, you sort of feel violated, once the anger has passed. Fires lit on the floor- I remember laying that Lino. Cupboards stripped bare of 1st Aid kits- the ones we use to help kids with splinters from those nasty palms, stingoes for the bites and bandages for the wounded. Our communication radios stripped from shelves and torn from rescue boats so we cannot safely conduct races. A Defibrillator. Really! Why would you take a club’s Defib’. Safety gear from rescue boats. More radios, rescue knives- the ones specifically designed to cut through webbing and to save stranded sailors- but useless to open a cardboard box. The Computer, stolen without a power cord and protected by a password. Gone with seasons of results and thousands of photos of fierce competitors. There is more, and the thieving was pure senseless. We rebuilt after the storm took our roof in December 2018, we shut-down through the fires in 2019 and locked up through Covid- cancelled our regattas and scuppered our hopes of a sailing season. This is a low blow. Sadly, we are now committed to replacing our safety equipment and spending our precious funds on rebuilding our little club with alarms, sensors and cameras. Just so we can keep what we have worked for.

18.01.2022 Hi Sailors, The PMYC would like to invite all members to attend a 4 race series, the 2020 Back from COVID social event. This will be an exciting combination series with two ocean buoy and two short river events. Racing will be conducted as per the Notice of Race that can be found on the PMYC web site here https://www.pmyc.com.au/racing/ or directly here 2020 Back from COVID NOR... Prizes will be awarded as per the NoR (1st place in each race plus 1st overall in the series) with handicaps being the greater of the latest for a yacht or at discretion of the race committee. As a number of yachts may be unable to compete in this series, sailors are encouraged to indicate their availability by email to [email protected] Please include which dates you can attend and any yacht preference. Please register for the events as they become available on the PMYC web site. They are open for registration Sunday prior to the event. https://www.pmyc.com.au/home/

17.01.2022 It’s wild off Tacking Point

16.01.2022 Great to see the enthusiasm for our sport.

11.01.2022 Start of today’s wet river race.

11.01.2022 JForce heading to Sydney preparing to compete in the MHYC break out series. Good Luck guys and gals.

05.01.2022 Long River pictures from May 2021

01.01.2022 Looking for the Ex PMYC yacht now racing in Sydney?