5 Dec 2023 | History, random tales
It was at Foys, the restaurant at the Flying Squadron, where us Middle Harbour Yacht Club Cruisers had our annual Long Lunch, where I read a little bit of history about the club on one of the plaques on the wall. Strange that it couldn’t be had at our own club.It...
5 Jun 2023 | History, random tales
by Jeremy Clark, S/V Kai Rani Primitive open fire signals apparently sufficed the early Sydney settlement for its first 26 years . In November 1814, however, the energetic Governor Lachlan Macquarie * requested the services of architect Frances Greenaway (convict)....
2 Apr 2023 | History, random tales, Safety
by Jeremy Clark, S/V Kai Rani The Plimsoll Mark is painted on the side of British Merchant Ships to indicate the draught levels to which a ship may be loaded under various conditions The Plimsoll Mark shows six loading levels, those for: TF –...
4 Jun 2022 | Cruising destinations, random tales, Trips
or – You are never too experienced to not get left with egg on your face! By Gill Attersall, Simply Irresistible Last MHYC Prize Giving Sanna honoured Glynne and myself with presenting to us the Yaffee Trophy, which usually is awarded for a cruise of note. ...
13 Jun 2021 | History, random tales
By Bill Humel. A few of my Memories Articles appeared in the Compass Rose in 2019 and in years before, so I will try to be brief on what has appeared previously. My first nautical experience was paddling an old mattress with a paling on North Curl Curl Lagoon just...
14 Mar 2021 | random tales
By Martin Colebrook. My Dad was a policeman. He was very strict. I grew up in a little village in the midst of farming land in Kent, UK. He was the village bobby and so I had to be a good boy at all times, which I was but was always being told off for something or...
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