Who we are

Rowena Cremer
0413 195 932

Sailing resume

2013 – Sydney harbour Regatta – Flying Cloud, Beneteau First 40, trim,  short offshore series

2013 – CYC Wednesday nights, Crone of Silence, Beneteau 47.7

2013 – Flying Tiger NSW State Champs, trim

2013 – Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Race, Wine Dark Sea, Lyons 49

2012-2013 –        RSYS Short inshore series – Wine Dark Sea, Tactician, 1^st

RSYS Perseverance cup, Wine Dar Sea, Tactician, 1^st

2011 - Sydney to Newcastle, Flying Cloud

2011 - Blue Water Series, Wot Eva, TP52; SASC Saturday long and short series, Hickson 30

2010 – RSYS/ CYC various racing. Flying Cloud, Wot Eva, Wine Dark Sea,

2009 - Flying 15 World Championships, Melbourne

2004-2009 RNZYS, RAYC, NZ based racing, Young 88, Far 1020, Elliott 5.9, Farr 41, Etchells

Platu 25, RAYC Short course regatta

MRX, NZ Women’s Championship’s

RNZYS Wednesday Night Series, Hard Labour, Farr 1020, 1st

NZ IRC National Championships, Hard Labour,  1st

2007 - Flying 15 World Championships, Spain

2001-2004 – RQYS weekly racing, Masrm 8.5m, Tapian 4.9, Mumm 30

2003 - Brisbane to Gladstone, Mumm30

2001- Yngling World Championships, Newport, Rhode Island, USA

2000 - Yngling World Championships, Skodstrup, Denmark

2000 - Cowes Week Regatta, Reet Petite, Prima 38

1997 - Yngling World Championships, Stavoren, The Netherlands

1995-1996 Yngling National Championships, World Championships, Sydney Harbour

1995 Yngling Pre-world regatta, Geneva, Switzerland

1993-4 Yngling National Championships

1993-4 Youth Sailing coach, Lasers, Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron

Various regattas- Asia Pacific Laser champs, Illawarra youth regattas, State Champs, Sydney Harbour regattas etc

1989 – Learn to sail – Lasers – Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron

1987 – Learn to sail – sabot, Lane Cover 12ft sailing skiff club

Matilda Ajanko

I come from a sailing family and probably learned to sail before I learned to walk.

I started racing dinghies when I was 9 and qualified for my first optimist Europeans at the age of 11.

After optimist, I sailed other dinghies like 420's and Lasers before moving to olympic windsurfing at 2005.

The same year I started sailing with Melges24,  and did the  World Championships at Lake Garda 2012.

I've always enjoyed keelboat racing as well but never been a part of a big campaign. Instead I've jumped from boat to boat and done any position that had  needed to be filled.

I have worked as a dinghy coach for years and worked for the Finnish Sailing Federation and for numerous different sailing clubs in Finland and in Australia.

My personal goal is to work as a semi-professional sailor but in the end I just want to race on good boats as much as possible.

Hayley Fowler

I have been sailing competitively for just over a year now.

I treated myself to lessons on a J24 then went off to do an off shore course sailing around the Canary Islands for a week - amazing !  So got the bug, came back for a few more lessons and then raced on a few big boats during last years winter series and twilights.

Goals:   My ultimate would goal would be to get to Hobart, but for now I just want be good enough for skippers to want me on their crew.

Barbara Klampfer

Casual sailing with friends

2010 started sailing with Pacific Sailing school on J24s, keelboat crew,helm, spinnaker

2011 Day Skipper Course, Coastal Skipper practical, various deliveries (Southport, Hobart, Newcastle, Port Stephens), casual crew on various boats, Sea Safety Survival Course, Marine Radio Course, Marine First Aid Course

Nov 2011 started sailing as regular crew on Celestial Pirelli (Rogers 46)

2012 various Regattas, Winter & Summer series on Celestial, a few offshore races, deliveries from Hamilton Island, Southport, etc., crewing on other boats in various positions, skippering charter yachts inshore for friends

November 2012 start crewing on a Hobie 18, bought a Spiral and start racing at BYRA

2013 Geelong race week, Port Stephens regatta on Celestial, Winter series on Kerisma (Ker 40)

Nikki Stone

I often joke that I am an undercover mermaid.

Being brought up by a single father who was a Director at MCYC, rather than hiring nannies I would sail in off shore races, regattas and various sailing events with with my dad.

High school years were spent in Lasers, on Windsurfers, surfing and diving.

School holidays were spent in lake Macquarie attending sailing camps.

After a sabbatical from sailing, due to young children, I came back and starting racing on Sydney 38, Calibre.

2009:

Twilights Calibre CYCA Float

2010:

Twilights Various boats MHYC

Winter Series: CYCA: Sydney 38 Calibre, Float Sewer, Results 2^nd

2011:

Twilights CYCA Float Calibre 38

Winter Series, Calibre Sydney 38, Float, Sewer

NSW State Titles Sydney 38, Second trim. Results 3^rd

Hamilton Island regatta: Sydney 38 Calibre , float sewer / second trim

2012:

Twilights CYCA Second trim Sydney 38 Calibre

Winter Series, Calibre Sydney 38, Bow

NSW State Titles Sydney 38, Second trim. Results 3^rd

Nationals Sydney 38 Calibre , Float .

2013:

Monday night spinnaker div: CYCA Equinox: float

Twilight CYCA: Calibre: Trim

Helly Hansen Women’s Challenge: Calibre 38, Line honours Trim

Opening season ladies Day CYCA: Calibre 38: Helm 5^th

Winter series Calibre 38 , CYCA Trim

Wednesday racing RPAYC, Ghost rider MC38, second trim, float

Jane-Marie Bartrum

166 Wakefield St

Adelaide SA 5000
p 0422 972279

DOB 20/4/70

Next of Kin: Gloria Bartrum, mum, 13 Kapala St, Southport. 0417 730159

YA 614987

No medical conditions

2009 Brisbane to Gladstone
2009 Airlie race week
2009 Hamilton island race week
2010 Brisbane to Keppel
2010 Airlie race week
2010 Hamilton island race week
2010 Gosford to Lord Howe

2011 Brisbane to Gladstone

AMANDA DAWKINS

I began pursuing a long held interest in sailing in November, 2012 when I undertook a keelboat crew course.  I was then fortunate enough to have the opportunity to crew on a Sydney 38 during the 212-13 twilight race series.  This cemented a desire to learn more.  I have been training with Chicks Ahoy weekly since its inception.  My present role is in the sewer and on the downhaul.  My immediate goals are to develop my proficiency in this role as well as learn more about the pit.  Sailing is clearly a life long learning journey and I view it as a sport that continually moves you towards new roles and positions as you become more capable.  It is clearly a capacity building endeavour; physically and mentally.   I aim to build credibility as an active team member who makes a positive contribution to the tone of a boat and as such, is seen by skippers as an asset.

Daphne Winstone

Daphne grew up around boats.  Sailing as a child with her family on Panther a 36 ft Sparkman & Stephens one-tonner.  She started dingy sailing at 6 in an Optimism call ‘Octopussy’ (it was the 80s)then moving onto ‘Frog’ a green P-Class.  In her teens she enjoyed her aunts Micron and then moved into Lasers which she still sails.

Daphne started Keelboat racing in Wellington in Port Nicolas' Thursday night women’s races on a Young 88.  Since moving to Sydney in 2004 she has not missed a CYCA winter series (place in three) and has been very active in summer sailing at both CYCA and RANSA.  While she has completed a number of Blue Water races herpreference is around the cans and  windward-leeward races.

This year Daphne has moved from social race to the more serious format of National and State IRC racing placing 2^nd and 1^st respectively on Wild Rose. 

She also took great delight in being invited into the CYCA Women’s development squad and match racing to the first time in 2012.

Michele Colenso

Sailing member CYCA & RSrnYC(UK) with approx 50k nautical miles incl:

- circumnavigation (mostly double-handed)

- 3x Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

- 1x ARC (transatlantic)

- 5x Cowes week, 5x J-cup, 3xRIoW (UK)

- 1x Coastal Classic (NZ - 10.5m Elliot)

- inshore regattas incl. Spain, Hong Kong, BVI, UK, Sydney on wide range of yachts from 30-70'

.

Lucinda Cheke

Lucinda’s love of the water has been ever present.  Whether swimming, boogie boarding, body surfing or even rowing Lucinda has always found a sense of self and satisfaction in water sports. 

Introduced to sailing racing on Sydney Harbour in 2009, Lucinda quickly enrolled in the YA Competent Crew training program to bring her up to speed and catch up on years lost having not discovered the sport earlier in life.  Since this time, Lucinda has completed over 17,000 nautical miles.  In 2010, Lucinda handed in her corporate hat and headed for the Mediterranean where she secured positions on various super-yachts as both charter and delivery crew.  During these fabulous two years, Lucinda completed two trans-Atlantic crossing, sailed up and down the Caribbean coast lines, as well as the west African coast, passing through the Straits of Gibraltar on several occasions,  and regularly crossing  the Mediterranean to the Adriatic sea.  A highlight of her time spent in the Caribbean was racing in the Antigua Classic Regatta and winning the division, on “Stormy Weather”, a 54ft yawl built in 1934 and which one the Fastnet in 1935.

Since returning to Sydney, Lucinda has actively participated in numerous racing events including short offshore point scores, several regattas, summer twilight programmes and the Audi winter series, after successfully completing her first Sydney to Hobart in 2011. In the latest winter series (2013), Lucinda moved to the middle of the boat, having spent most of her racing experience on the bow, to develop and refine her skills in pit (St Hilliers’ Quest, 3^rd overall in A2). 

Lucinda not only delights in the physical aspects of racing, but revels in the technical and tactical aspects of the sport.  However, you’ll also find her equally at home on deliveries, basking under a clear night’s sky, with nothing but the stars above and the sounds of the ocean as she enjoys some time on the helm during her watches.  

Kate Switajewski

Having spent many summers windsurfing as a child in SA,  I became involved with Sailability (assisting disabled people with dinghy sailing) in 2004/2005.  I moved to Sydney in 2006 and pledged to continue sailing.
- 2007 - Completed Competent Crew course
- 2010 & 2011 - CYCA winter / summer series - Calibre (38ft Sydney)
- 2010 &  2011 - Hamilton Island Race Week  - crewed (pit) on Leonardo (50ft Beneteau) (2011,  1st place in Cruising Division 2)
Still have plenty to learn but enjoy sailing as a team sport