The 2012 RQYS sailing season was officially opened by the Govenor of Queensland, Ms Penelope Wensley.
It is always a wonderful spectacle of ‘dressed’ vessels and pomp and ceremony. For this years’ Opening Day I took my daughter Josephine along, and she was thrilled to meet Matt Belcher, our RQYS member and Gold medalist from London 2012. Holding a ‘real’ gold medal made her older brothers very jealous and she couldn’t wait to tell her triple Olympian yachtsman grandfather Ron! For me the day has always been a special time to catch up with the elder members, the ‘old timers’ of my father’s generation, who seem to enrich the the experience of being a member of such a great club with their beautiful boats and stories.
