SPECIAL DELIVERY

I was so fortunate, growing up on Rose Bay, at the age of eight my father decided to build a Heron sailing dinghy to introduce me to the sport and we raced from Woollahra SC. Instantly sailing became a passion and through high school I sailed 5 days per week being able to replace cricket as my sport of choice. Ocean cruising and racing commenced in 1975 when a school mate asked me to deliver and race a 25ft quarter tonner to Eden and back to Sydney. Since then I have done countless ocean races on the eastern seabord and cruises and deliveries in both yachts and power boats. In 1989, I enrolled at TAFE studied and excelled in all the theory courses required for Master 5 qualification. I put this knowledge into practice when I bought a cruising yacht and embarked on many voyages with my young family. In 1992, I qualified as an AYF instructor and was employed at Pacific Sailing School. In 2011 I was headhunted to crew on a yacht in the Sydney to Southport race. I asked the skipper ‘who..