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Anthony’s Adventures in Japan
Recently Anthony Collet, Fleet 1 member and owner of #171 Salient, visited our sister fleet in Japan and sends his report:
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Just thought I'd let you know that I connected with Tatsuki Senoo and Goro Fukuda of M242 Fleet 5 in Himeji last weekend and went for an afternoon sail on Tatsuki-san's boat called March. About 8 or more fleet members came down to the yacht harbour and it was really fun to meet them.
They have invited me to join a two-day delivery to Shiraishi Island next week for a regatta on July 5 (multiple classes, and should be about 4 M242s participating). I'll let you know how it goes.
Tatsuki-san is old friends with Craig Strand (#5 Whippet) and also knows Don Martin and other key fleet 1 and 2 members from years past. Tatsuki-san must be quite a guy as I understand that he brought 10 M242s to Japan in the 90's; what a project!
Apparently, there are nine active boats to varying degrees in the Japan fleet. One boat has disappeared. I think five are in Himeji and four somewhere to the west, maybe Okayama. The photos showed pretty old sails, but apparently they have racing sails that are much newer.
I hope all is well with you and you're having a fun racing season.
I'll let you know how the events go.
Anthony
Overflow Moorage for 4 M242’s at the Gibsons Canadian Championships
The M242 Canadian Championship organizers in Gibsons have been working on a variety of topics over the past 6 months, and one of them had to do with arranging free moorage at the floating dinghy school raft that is always in place in past years in a very sheltered location from east, south, and west winds: see the red square in the photo below re its usual location.
As a result, free moorage for 4 M242’s has been arranged and David Guy (Organizing Committee member and a 242 owner) has asked our Fleet to reach out to the first 4 non-Gibsons Registered boats and see if they want to take up this offer. (3 Registered boats are from Gibsons and have their own permanent slips). As of June 19th, 2 open spots are remaining
This moorage is intended to be a quiet, no-party zone, given the proximity to neighboring houses
He’s arranging for a volunteer to run a RVYC-donated whaler back and forth to the Gibsons Landing dock (or the Marina) each morning and afternoon.
The additional speedy option is for the 242’s at the floating dock to pool resources and shuttle folks back and forth on Martins, and use the whaler to help out with first-of-day and last-boat-at-end-of-day shuttling, at a minimum.
You have to Register for the event (https://www.scycsailing.ca/re
2026 Canadian Championship Registration is Open
1. Competitors must arrange moorage through either of the two Gibsons marinas.
2. The Gibsons Landing Harbor Authority (public) Marina has space set aside for competitor boats, but the Gibsons (private) Marina space is dependent on how many folks take their boats cruising that weekend, because they don’t have transient space set aside. As such they have a Waitlist for July.
3. When contacting the GLHA marina ensure that you specify that you are part of the Sunshine Coast Yacht Club reservation as opposed to saying you’re with the Gary White Memorial Regatta.
4. The rates between the 2 marinas are almost the same: GLHA is $2.40 per foot per night plus GST and GM is $2.60 plus GST.
5. Contact info for both Marinas are on the main page of the regatta sub-website.
6. Motherships have the choice of staying at either Marina, or anchoring out: there’s lots of anchoring options off the Gibsons waterfront as well as the Plumper Cove Marine Park on nearby Keats Island.
*Special Event*: Don Martin has agreed to give a presentation at the regatta on the history of the M242 on Friday night, July 17, 6:30PM at The Bay Gibsons. (https://www.
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