Some of the upcoming events are:

• 2024 Surf to City – Sat 10 Feb 2024
• 2024 Moreton Bay Multihull Regatta – Thu 14 to Sun 17 Mar 2024
• 2024 Brisbane to Gladstone Multihull Yacht Race – Fri 29 Mar 2024
• 2024 Lake Macquarie Multihull Regatta and National Titles – Mon 8th Apr to Fri 12th Apr

The 2023 Trophy Night and Christmas party was held in December. 

Thanks to Ian and Debra for organising and Alasdair and Paul for arranging the trophies.

Congratulations to Kestrel for taking out the Club Championship for 2023 and Ian Cooper for being awarded the Goldrush Trophy for services to the club. The winners were:

2023 Race Results were (Performance Handicap):

Historical Club Champions (Club Shield)

Historical Kareelah Cruising Trophy Winners

Historical Surf to City Trophy Winners (Bundy Rum Barrel)

Historical Bribie Cup Winners

The 2023 Annual General Meeting was held in November. 

Positions were voted on and awarded to the following:

Commodore: Adrian Relf
Vice Commodore: Alasdair Noble
Rear Commodore: Chris Dewar
Secretary: Vacant
Treasurer: Birgit Veit

Management Committee Members:

Richard Jenkins
Stuart Porter
Ben Kelly

Cruise Captain: Vacant
Multinews Editor: Chris Dewar
Trophy Officer: Paul Prior
Membership Officer: Stewart Porter

Trailerables Representative: Peter Hacket
Australian Sailing Representatives: Adrian Relf & Alasdair Noble

MYCQ History of Flag Offices

QMYC History of Flag Officers

Gino Morrelli - The Man Behind the Curtain

Gino Morrelli designs are getting a lot of publicity these days with Sailing La Vagabond's Rapido, HH Catamarans, Nacra 17 and the help with the America's cup yachts, but he wasn’t always at the bleeding edge of technology and yacht design. When he was young, his family moved from Texas to Southern California and they bought plans for (and built) a 33-foot Lock Crowther-designed epoxy plywood trimaran, which was the boat that began Morrelli’s racing career. Self-taught in multihull design, he couldn’t have guessed the legacy he was starting.

Over the next 10 years, Morrelli launched his first company building 18 square metre cats while he hung out in Hawaii. He then joined the design team of the Stars & Stripes campaign for the 27th America’s Cup in 1988 against the 120ft NZ sloop. After that his company Morrelli & Melvin took shape when Pete Melvin quit his job and joined up with Morrelli. The partnership would yield many designs including a few Gunboats, numerous Leopard charter cats, the Rapido line of trimarans, various America’s Cup foils, and HH Catamarans. They also worked with Steve Fossett to create PlayStation, a 125ft catamaran with 675 square metres of sail area.

To read more go to https://www.sailmagazine.com/multihulls/profile-yacht-designer-gino-morrelli

Solo Race Around the World

It's never been done before. In fact, to date only four people have ever completed a solo lap of the planet in a multihull. The race started on 7 January 2024 and is expected to take between 40-50 days for the front runners - https://youtu.be/z6GWrYO2ivI

Discusses the challenges these skippers will face as they not only chase the blistering record of Francois Gabart of 42 days, 3 hours, but just try to survive without destroying their foils - https://youtu.be/1kSTD4Wr_kM

SailGP

How NZ Seal their victory in Abu Dhabi - https://youtu.be/-xFd5nqT_e0
Watch the surprising test results of the SailGPs in-development T-Foils - https://youtu.be/-CLMoOvnvIA
Watch the Abu Dhabi highlights - https://youtu.be/BanxFq7Bqgc

10th RORC Transatlantic Race

Sixth Gear Argo takes Multihull Line Honours - https://youtu.be/lclquabSiVc
Race Start - https://youtu.be/9l-sv329KqA

Cure Marine Yacht (Will it be in the 2024 B2G?)

The 70ft Carbon Catamaran - https://youtu.be/78CApOANpXg