JAMES RABY PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
To commemorate James and his passions for photography and sailing, the club runs an annual photography competition.
PENGUIN CLUB AWARD WINNERS
JAMES RABY PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITON
2021 - won by Peter Hands with "Oceanlord off Hysegir - Hebrides"
2019 - won by Roger Shaw with "Ceilidh on Port Tack - Lake Huron"
"SPIRIT OF PENGUIN" AWARD
2021 - Paul Copestake for organising a COVID compliant Anniversary cruise and dinner at Ullapool
2019 - Christine and Nick Roy for their companionship, commitment, attitude and marmalade
2018 - James Raby for his outstanding contributions to the club over the years
2017 - Phil Biggin for long service to the club - completing 20,000 sea miles over 70 cruises
2015 - Julie Ward for organising an Easter Cruise, but not going on it due to work commitments
"GOLDEN GAFFE" AWARD
2021 - Alan Gilmour - for setting off with empty water tanks on the Scillies cruise
2019 - Dave Whipple - for a miserable failure in a real-life"Where's Wally?" by misidentifying Wally's Dock Service as an ice cream parlour!
2018 - James Raby - for his overenthusiastic scrubbing of the heads seat at the end of the Denmark cruise, which took the gloss off the seat and ended up with the charterer billing us for a new one!
2017 - Mark James - who “failed to heed a high pressure warning and encountered a sticky cyclonic squall in the cabin”
"DODO" AWARD
2021 - Jonty Pearce - for his replacement mainsheet traveller improvisation on route to the Scillies
2019 - Wallis James - for her chat-up line in a local Badachro hostelry procuring a refabrication of a lost jib furler locking plate.
2018 - Simon Morton - for innovation and improvisation in producing his calibrated lead-lines.
2017 - Andy Davey - expert towing by Yacht Palmizana of Yacht Katarina to safety by "following the commodorial gonads"