returns for 2024

The SeaRoad Ferries Navigators Trophy was awarded to Tanya Wilson aboard Northshore 33 Twice Five for her excellent passage planning and logging of the journey. Edel Doyle, Secretary of the KISS partner club, the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria, presented the trophy on behalf of ORCV Commodore Cyrus Allen. For boat owner and mentor Marg Goddard it was a double victory and definitely worth a ‘twice five’’, given her bad luck in the 2022 Race/Rally with an eleventh hour seabed issue obstructing her departure from the boat’s pen which put her out of that event.

This year, a new award was added to the trophy cache, the KISS Rally Photographic prize, for the best photo posted to social media during the passage event and went to Rachel Cameron, Boat Team Manager for Beneteau 40.7 Boomer. Commodore Niesje Hees from kindred club, Royal Brighton Yacht Club, hosted berthing and dinner on Friday evening for KISS participating boats from other clubs and then drove to QCYC on Saturday for the KISS Presentation.  Her take on the event -

“Congratulations on the KISS program! It was so much fun to be there for the presentation. I could see everyone was having a terrific time and keen to do more sailing. What could be better than that?”

There are many people to thank:. The wonderful Chris and Anne Hunting provided their lovely AMAFLI 3 as the Committee Boat. Rosie Colahan and Alison Roberts-Wray who not only mentored, gave us the use of their boats but helped to run the whole show. Denise Smeaton took a pile of wonderful photos. To our sponsors, Bluewater Sailing School, Boating Central, Mandy Jackson’s Nutrimetics, Paper Sailors Rock, our partners ORCV and She Sails, thanks for everything. The incredible generosity of our boat owners, mentors and presenters gave us wings and once again made our Club the special entity that it truly is.