Lowry Bay Yacht Club (Inc)

Date: 1980 - 1989

Reference: Eph-A-BOAT-1980s

Description: Includes:1980: Mana Cruising Club (Inc), Paremata. Activities 1980-81. Folded card 1982: Wellington Yachting Association. Black Heart Rum and Tia Maria yachting calendar 1982-83 "The Quest for the Spirit of New Zealand youth". $40,000 worth of prizes! Proudly sponsored by Countrywide Building Society [1982?] Pamphlet / entry form Paraparaumu Boating Centre Ltd. Advertising flier [1982] 1984: Lowry Bay Yacht Club (Inc). Racing calend[a]r and handbook. 50th year 1984/85 season. 1985: Lowry Bay Yacht Club. 50th season. Summer '85 [1985. Vice-Commodore's report] Lion New Zealand Admiral's Club. Fourth Whitbread Round the World Challenge [with Peter Blake]. Booklet 1985. 1986: New Zealand Coast Guard Federation (Inc). Boatmaster certificate course. Pamphlet [1986] New Zealand Yachting Federation. Join us - sail for sport or recreation. Pamphlet [1986?] (2 copies) 1987: Boat City. Live the dream! Our name brings you in the door - our service brings you back [Booklet. 1987]. 1988: Pioneer Jet Boat Tours Ltd. Jet boating, canoeing. [Pamphlet. ca 1988] Shell Marine. True blue. Don't go to sea with anything else. [Advertising pamphlet. ca 1988] 1989: New Zealand big boat tour. History of the Americas Cup; facts about the yacht "New Zealand". Pamphlet [ca 1989] Charter Link New Zealand. Great boating holidays. Our clients recommend us! [Advertising card. ca 1989] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1985-1998

From: Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club: Records

Reference: Series-6025-2

Description: Comprises inwards correspondence, related documents, and copies of outward correspondence filed by the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club Sailing Committee. Incoming material is addressed to the Sailing Committee, specific members of the committee (Racing Secretary, Vice Commodore) or other club committees and officers who have forwarded documents on. Between June 1996 and May 1998 documents are grouped by month with a cover sheet indicating when they were filed. Before June 1996, documents are filed loosely in approximate chronological order. Regular correspondents include Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club members, officers or committees, and the RPNYC Sailing Academy. External correspondents mainly comprise Yachting New Zealand, the Wellington Yachting Association, the Maritime Safety Authority, and other yacht clubs (Bucklands Beach Yacht Club, Gisborne Yacht Club). Material relates to all matters administered by the Sailing Committee, including various aspects of planning and managing their racing programme: scheduling, event supervision, sponsorship, and issuing sailing instructions. Material also covers protests, complaints or racing accidents. Correspondence with other clubs often relates to the combined management of regattas and offshore races but also includes their club newsletters and documentation about their own racing programmes (invitations to compete, notices of race, information packs). Other material concerns sailing regulations and rules, both generally and in relation to specific classes or races. Correspondence from Yachting New Zealand includes copies of minutes (Executive Council, Keelboat and Offshore Racing Committee) and memoranda regarding new rules or rule changes. Material from the Wellington Yachting Association also includes minutes, memoranda regarding rules, and their Annual Report. Material related to handicapping covers administering the club's handicapping policy and software, election of the handicapper, and responding to complaints about handicapping. Further matters include the appointment of club officers, administering the Yachting Assistance Fund, and trophies and prizes. Quantity: 15 folder(s).

Date: September 1982-May 1998

From: Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club: Records

Reference: Series-6024-2

Description: Comprises inwards correspondence, related documents, and copies of outward correspondence filed by the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club Executive Committee from September 1982 to May 1998. After January 1991, documents are usually filed with a cover sheet indicating the month they were discussed at an Executive Committee meeting. Between 1982 and 1991, documents were filed in rough chronological order. Regular correspondents are Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club members, the Wellington City Council, the New Zealand Yachting Federation, and other sailing clubs in the Wellington region. Other correspondents include the Wellington Regional Council, the Wellington Harbour Board, Lambton Harbour Management Limited, yacht clubs from around New Zealand or the world, sailing or water sports organisations (Team New Zealand, Wellington Yachting Association, New Zealand Water Safety Council), government departments, commercial sponsors, charities, politicians, and notable sailing personalities (Grant Dalton, Peter Blake, Alan Martin, Geoff Stagg, Alan Sefton, Lindsay England). Material addresses various aspects of club administration, often related to financial decisions (budgeting, insurance, club funding, requests for sponsorship). Other recurring matters include elections to club office (nominations, notifications to elected individuals), membership (unpaid subscriptions, conferring life membership, resignations, corporate membership), complaints or disciplinary action, clubhouse bookings or maintenance, Keelers restaurant, activities related to 'The Rip' magazine, and administration of Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club regattas and events. Material also contains letters of thanks or congratulations sent to and from the club, and copies of minutes from the club sub-committees meetings. Material also addresses wider or external matters of interest to the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club. Correspondence from other yacht clubs covers changes to their own organisational structures (elections, resignations), notices of races and meetings, invitations to social events, reciprocal arrangements, member introductions, and memoranda. Correspondence from the New Zealand Yachting Federation comprises copies of their meeting minutes and memoranda sent to affiliated clubs, usually around changes to racing rules and yachting safety. Other external matters also include the development of the Wellington Waterfront and local resource consents that affect the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club or sailing in the region. This includes developments to Clyde Quay Marina, the Overseas Passenger Terminal, and Oriental Parade, and management of Somes/Matiu Island. Arrangement: Documents were originally delivered in ten file boxes labelled with date ranges. Material has been left in order of delivery: either grouped by month where original cover sheets identify the relevant Executive Committee meeting, or left in chronological order where filed without cover sheets. Quantity: 63 folder(s).