Out & About
ISS/PYA MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATIONS – International Wine Tasting
25th September – YCM
The Meeting of the Associations ‘International Wine Tasting’ was a huge success again with over 250 people attending. A good mix of
captains, crew, press and industry representing the PYA, ISS, Seakeepers, Sybass and AYSS – with some serious networking going on whilst sampling some lovely wines
provided by So.Se.Ma, Froggy Gourment and Shore Solutions. We would like to thank all our sponsors, GMC, Bond TM and Crew Asia for their support and of course to
Norma Trease for putting it all together and Andrew, our President and the girls at ISS for their involvement in the organisation.
Go to the photo gallery to see photos of this event and Monaco Yacht Show Sept 09
CAPTAIN ROGER TOWNER’S CRYSTALL BALL
Date: Tuesday 22nd September
Venue: La Salle du 8 Mai
Hosted by the Professional Yachtsmen’s Association and Blue Water Training
Sponsored by Blue Water Training
Speaker: Captain Roger Towner, UK Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, MCA
The President of the PYA, Andrew Schofield, welcomed everybody to the meeting and introduced Captain Towner.
Captain Towner thanked the PYA and the Blue Water Training for the invitation to come and speak about the future of yachting and how the MCA saw it. He introduced himself by saying that he had spent 26 years at sea in the merchant navy and had spent the last 15 years at the MCA, 7 years of that as the Chief Examiner and now the UK Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen but still maintained a keen interest in the yachting industry.
Subjects discussed included the STCW code revisions, the implications of MLC, the 3000gt ceiling and the ways and means to rise above it.
Click here for full report of the meeting.
‘Not the PYA Ball’ Christmas Party 2008
Friday 19th December, 2008
Maybe it was providence that the Carlton Hotel in Cannes was closed this year for renovations and the PYA had to look elsewhere for a venue for their Christmas party. In a year when many were cutting back, would we have filled the Grand Salon?
But the members were not going to let us get away without some kind of party and the alternative venue of the Quai Sud, a trendy restaurant in Antibes was proposed and the idea of a more informal party was born. PYA members John Morris and Ian Hornsby latched onto the idea and ‘volunteered’ their bands to play and before we knew it, the party was on!
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