60 Seconds With Kim Ketelbey…

1. How old were you when you first stepped on a boat? 
I don't recall but it would have been on my father's beautiful in-board timber speed boat.  He was a very water skier and the second man in Australia to barefoot ski. I was on the water from a very young age but I didn't get to sail until my mid-twenties when my boyfriend took me out on his Hobie Cat. I thought it was the best moment of my life (because of the sailing of course).

2. If money (& sailing ability) were no limit, what boat would you buy? 
Some sort of sportsboat for when I am not sailing my laser.  

3. What is your sailing goal? 
To get a placing in a Laser race.

4. Tell us the back story to your laser's name? 
My laser is called TAC, an acronym for Take A Chance.  Although I was introduced to sailing in my twenties I didn't get to race competitively until my children grew up and then only on keelboats. I had never sailed a dingy until Roger Hickman suggested I try a laser; "you'll love it KK". So, as with life, sometimes you just have to take a chance and give it a go, whatever your age. He was right.

5. If you could add any ingredient to our already world’s best toasties – what would it be?
The toasties are perfect! Not a drop of Dijonaise in sight.

6. What are your second/third favourite hobbies (obviously assuming sailing holds the #1 spot)
Snow skiing, wildlife (animal variety) and I am trying my hand at golf.

7. Describe what you do for work in less than 5 words? 
Living life

8. What’s the first international flight you are going to book post Covid-19? And why? 
Either Turkey for sailing or India to trek for snow leopards.

9. What’s your favourite TV show, movie, and or book?
MASH.  It will always put a smile on your face.  

10. Tell us something interesting about yourself that members of the club don’t know?
I have sailed 5 Sydney to Hobarts and we won in 2014 on Wild Rose.

Kim Ketelbey