The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s Winter Pennant is going to go down the wire to decide the winners of all three divisions after Sunday’s race four of the five-race series on the River Derwent.

Sailing conditions were perfect, a sunny morning with a 10 knot north to north-westerly breeze. With the leeward mark laid just of Nutgrove Beach at lower Sandy Bay the dog-walkers promenading along the beach were given a colourful display of spinnaker handling and mark-rounding.

 Pisces shares top place in Division 1 with Wildwest

RYCT junior member Alec Bailey and his sister Samantha have finished third overall in the International Cadet world championships which ended at Puck in Poland over the weekend.  

This is the second successive years the Hobart sailing siblings have placed third overall at the Cadet worlds, with Alec earlier this year being awarded the Club’s Tattersall’s Trophy for Most Outstanding Youthful Participant in the 2009-2010 sailing season,

Australian International Cadets in training at Puck, Poland

 Marion Cooper, the first woman to be elected Commodore of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, this week made further club history as the first woman to be elected a Life Member.

Members voted unanimously in support of her nomination at the 129^th  annual general meeting,  proposed and seconded by two of the Club’s most senior members,  Veteran Member Brian Mann and 50-Year Member Jack Hansen.

Members of The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania tonight elected Graham Taplin unopposed as new Commodore at the club’s 129^th annual general meeting held at the Sandy Bay clubhouse.

Commodore Taplin, a 35 year member of the Club, succeeds Clive Simpson, who has been Commodore for the past two years but remains on the board as Immediate Past Commodore.

Next Sunday’s Peter Johnston Shipchandlers RYCT Winter Pennant will be an important race for competitors, with only one or two points separating the top two boats in each division after three races.

To mark the 45^th anniversary of their foundation as a Tasmanian shipchandler,  Peter Johnston and supporting partner Helly Hansen are donating valuable gift vouchers or goods for the first three placegetters in each division of race four of the Winter Pennant.