A nice picture today of where we meet before, and drink after, each race. The CYCA (Cruising Yacht Club of Australia) is one of the real big clubs on the global scale of yacht racing importance. They race large boats offshore every Saturday in summer, have hundreds of millions of dollars of yachts hanging off their marina and they put on one of the biggest ocean races of them all - the Sydney to Hobart. There’s only a select group of clubs right up there at the top and the CYC is one of them.
The good news is that they’re also quite friendly and the downstairs bar, with its outdoor deck is, I reckon, about the best place in Sydney for a beer on the harbour.
I post this because we all spent a lot more time at the bar last Saturday than had been expected, due a small mix-up involving our skipper not realising that there was no race on this long-weekend Saturday. So we all tooled up, headed out onto the harbour, and couldn’t find a fleet or a start boat to race with! A few embarrassed phone calls later and we were heading back to the marina, wet through (it was raining all day) and aiming for the bar. Ah well, the joy of sailing!
Still, sitting by the harbour, telling tall tales and watching the mega-dollar yachts float around ain’t too bad a way to spend a Saturday. At least once you squeeze the rain out of your clothes!
