With clear skies, a sou'-easter pushing through Rose Bay and a magical part of Sydney Harbour almost to ourselves - we got to send off a very special club member last Saturday, Roger Hickman.

At the pre-racing briefing we heard from Jen how much Roger loved cartwheeling his Laser, from Commodore Parker where the club's extensive amount of anchor chain has sprung and from Dear Leader how good Roger was at swinging a hammer.

Each boat flew a black memorial ribbon from her mast, and threw a Wild Rose across the start line of our first race. Roger was greatly adored and admired by everyone in the club, and will be dearly missed.