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Well, it was wet for someone last Friday! 

Jim and Adrene put on a great performance, together with Keith, as you can see in the album (centre column) or by watching the slideshow below. And yes, a few of us took a bath, even though we didn't even get close to the equator.

There were some interesting "door" prizes, good food and great company. Yes, we had a ball...

Later in the weekend, we had a bunch of boats at Smiths creek, where Jim Cormack and friends did their best to set a rafting record.

Anyway, Jim, Andrene and Keith were a class act and thanks to the others who helped make it a great night, particularly Janet Dell and Ann Asker. And of course a super special thanks to Jim Cormack for the fabulous pictures.

Dame Margot has been sending regular dispatches on her way North. The first two letters can be downloaded here:

August First Friday had a sixties theme and the usual suspects entered into the spirit of the night.  There was some great music from our "regular band" with guest solist and a terrific quiz which stumped even those with Google phones.

A huge amount of credit goes to Janet and Ann for organising the night and together with the club putting on a great show! Well done!

Jim's pictures as always tell the story. They are in the slideshow below as well as the photo album in the centre column of this page. By the way, blame the undersigned for the captions.

That wasn't a bad Queen's birthday weekend cruise, was it? We lost count how many of us there were at the Barbeque (or on the Ambulance, for that matter). Great company and great music from the "Lana Nesnas Ensemble" The weekend's photo album (see the middle column) and slideshow are now up.

How many cruisers does it take to sink a Catamaran?

More than at Jerusalem Bay this weekend.

You can find the rest of the weekend's photos here.

By Chris Daly

We have just started another week away and took advantage of the strong NNE to sail to JB.  The wind strengthened to 25/30 in the late afternoon so we were prepared for the usual Point Perpendicular welcome - almost. We got hit by 36-41 knots with 2 reefs and 1/3rd headsail as soon as we entered the heads and it didn't let up till we got into the lee of Longnose Point. We were totally saturated and very thankful that nature created this magic little bolt-hole. I'm convinced that JB is a wind magnet. The wind is always 40% stronger down here. We will move to Darling Road for the S change later today and choose our day for a fast return North. Interestingly, when we left Pittwater on Friday, the water temp was around 23 but it dropped to ~19 somewhere past Wollongong.

Craig, who I've been planning next months cruise photography session with, just sent me this picture of the Maltese Falcon being T-boned by a 40 foot yacht during a charity race in San Francisco. Click on the picture for a link to a larger version and more.

By the way, I was a little under-prepared at last Friday's dinner to talk about our photo shoot. The idea is that we'll get a photographer (Craig) to take photographs of however many boats care to participate in November's mid month cruise. There is no obligation to purchase any of the resulting photographs. We'll display some of the results at First Friday in December. We'll try and price the photographs reasonably, although that price of course will have to reflect some of the cost involved. And just to make it clear, this is not an official club activity, but a private effort by the crew of Te Moana to get some nice sailing shots.