Reports
Mark Ashton
Alan Reid
Commodore
Here’s wishing all of our members a great Year of the Horse! We
start this Lunar New Year with the Staff Spring Dinner held on
25 February and thank all of you who made a contribution to
the staff Lai See fund this year.
With spring in mind, this year’s Spring Saturday Series started
on 22 February, kindly sponsored by Jeanneau. If you would
like to crew or are new to racing and would like to enter, come
down to the bar on Friday evenings and find out more. The Sail
Committee are organising informal ‘sailors forums’. The Club
welcomes new faces to the races so don’t be put off if you are
new to the sport.
Congratulations to the Hebe sailors who completed the
ABC Four Peaks Race this year. In addition to No One Else
and Ate, Mojito entered this year—with some impressive hill
performances from Nicole Arnulphy and Kylie Ayson. David
Rule, on Stella, also ran a great time on his hill section. This
year’s race attracted three J80 entrants, so perhaps a future
class fleet beckons to the hardy souls out there.
On the club development side, we have now removed all
container offices and the relocation of Marine and Sailing Centre
staff to the main office is complete. The new Garden Bar tent
has been installed and will stand in until we make progress with
new applications to the Lands and Buildings Department.
Looking to future planning, the process of evaluating various
options for the re-provisioning of the Sailing Centre, club offices
and maintenance facilities has begun. We are proceeding with
plans to construct a new electricity substation and evaluating
our options to re-provision the boat racks. The latter has
incorporated three options: first option, strengthening the
existing racks to the requirements of Buildings Department;
second option, fabricate new racks to our own design; and
third option, use a manufactured racking solution.
6 Hebe jebes • Mar/Apr 2014
We will present the progress of the Club’s re-provisioning to date
at a members forum to be held at the Club on 13 March 2014.
Please keep your feedback coming, whether to committee
members or directly to Alan—we need to hear your thoughts on
where you think the Club could do more and where you think
the service is good.
謹祝各位馬年鴻運當頭，步步高陞！為了迎接農曆新年，本會
於2月25日舉辦員工春茗，藉此機會向一眾熱心贊助本公司職
員利是的會員致謝。
緊接農曆新年，今年Spring Saturday Series (春季週六系列賽)
已於2月22日(週六)展開，是次大賽榮獲Jeanneau贊助，如欲
報名或了解詳情，請於週五晚上親臨會所酒吧，屆時航海委員
會將舉辦非正式「選手論壇」，歡迎新手踴躍參加！
今年除了No One Else 及Ate外，Mojito亦參與今年的香港仔
遊艇會四山賽(ABC Four Peaks Race)，在Nicole Arnulphy
和Kylie Ayson領導下創下佳績。此外，Stella在Daniel Rule的
領航下，於賽事中表現也十分出色 ，藉此機會恭賀一眾選手！
大賽並吸引了三支 J80級別的選手參賽，確令大賽生色不少。
至於本會會所發展方面，我們已成功拆除所有貨櫃辦公室，並
把海事部辦事處及維修部遷往總辦事處 。 花園酒吧亦裝上新帳
篷，會在獲得地政及屋宇署批準後，正式開放予各會員使用。
展望將來，我們已開展各項評估工作，包括重置航海中心、各
個辦公室及會所設施維修，同時著手計劃興建全新變電站，以
及評估重置船架建議等 。 重置船架現時有三項選擇：1) 按屋
宇署要求加強現有船架；2) 按我們全新設計訂制新船架；及3)
購買市場上的現貨。
我們將於2014年3月13日舉辦的會員論壇中，與大家詳細匯報
各項工作的進度。若您有任何意見，請向委員會成員或直接向
Alan提出，您的想法有助我們改善本會所提供的服務，達致精
益求精。
General Manager
Kung Hei Fat Choi once more for the Year of the Horse.
https://www.facebook.com/hebehaven is the Club’s Facebook
page where members will find pictures and details of club
events such as food and beverage (F&B) functions, sailing
events, racing results, and other news. On our Facebook page
you can check out Simon Lynch’s YouTube video from the UK
Sailmakers Winter Saturday Series. With its great soundtrack, it
seems calm and restrained in the video with no one shouting at
the crew as they race in Port Shelter.
I hope you a