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Club Officials | Club Champions | State Champions
How the ARCYRC was formed
"A birth of a club"
It all started with some minds (of the same ilk) coming together at the same time. Actually getting Radio Control Sailors together to agree on anything is a miracle in itself! We took this as a sign. It was around the middle of August 2003 when the group all came together, the reason or catylast should remain lost in history, what was important was the need to progress Radio Control Yacht Racing in the metropolitan area.
It appeared that the formally organised Radio Control yachting in the Adelaide metropolitan area had stagnated and was not growing at the same rate as the other clubs had around Australia. The condition of Radio Control sailing was not necessarily terminal though. The number of unaffiliated sailors at various venues around the metro area indicated some good depth. A long hard look was made at the possible reasons for the growth in some areas and stagnation and decline in others.
Thus bourne out of these initial discussions was the idea for the formation of the Adelaide Radio Control Yacht Racing Club Inc.
If this new fledgling club was to survive, it was becoming aparent that philosophical & conceptional changes to Radio Control Yacht Racing would have to be embraced. Some of the ideas coming forward from the foundation members were:
- That "the new club" would have to stand alone with new membership
- Embrace new technologies, ideas from members
- Be dynamic
- Be able to change as Radio Yachting changed over time
- To foster intra club growth and attendance at interstate regattas
- Form closer links with unaffiliated radio control sailors
- Encourage and implement new racing concepts along with multi disciplined class sailing
to name only a few ideas.
So here we are now, an incorporated club and beginning to grow in a totally new way. At this point we must thank so many people for their encouragement and wisdom in getting this new club and concept of racing out onto the water. We are resisting nominating names in fear of missing someone out and offending them, so to the foundation members and all others joining, "We thank you"
Club Officials
| Year | Commodore | Secretary | Treasurer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Steve Arthur | Ron Parker | Tony Britton |
| 2004 | Steve Arthur | Ian Whitrod | Jurgen Luther |
| 2005 | Steve Arthur | Steve Arthur | Jurgen Luther |
| 2006 | Rob Guyatt | John Johnson | Jurgen Luther |
| 2007 | Rob Guyatt | John Johnson | Graham Ingerson |
| 2008 | Rob Guyatt | John Johnson | Graham Ingerson |
| 2009 | Rob Guyatt | John Johnson | Graham Ingerson |
| 2010 | Rob Guyatt | John Johnson | Graham Ingerson |
| 2011 | Brett Osborn | John Johnson | Graham Ingerson |
| 2012 | Brett Osborn | John Johnson | Graham Ingerson |
| 2013 | Brett Osborn | John Johnson | Graham Ingerson |
| 2014 | John Johnson | Rob Cameron | |
| 2015 | John Johnson | Rob Cameron | |
| 2016 | Brett Osborn | Paul Littledyke | Duncan Groome |
National Champions
2016 IOM Scott Mitchell
Club Champions
| Year | IOM | M | 10R | A Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | John Gratton | Kevin McPherson | Steve Arthur | |
| 2005 | John Smith | Steve Arthur | Kevin McPherson | |
| 2006 | John Inverarity | Rob Guyatt | ||
| 2007 | John Smith | Ron Parker | Mark Britton | |
| 2008 | John Inverarity | Kevin McPherson | Tony Britton | |
| 2009 | Paul Littledyke | Graham Ingerson | John Smith | |
| 2010 | Brett Osborn | Ben Morris | Ben Morris | |
| 2011 | Brett Osborn | Greg Peake | Greg Peake | |
| 2012 | Paul Littledyke | Greg Peake | ||
| 2013 | Scott Mitchell | Brett Osborn | RC Laser | |
| 2014 | Scott Mitchell | Brett Osborn | Jurgen Luther | |
| 2015 | Paul Littledyke | Scott Mitchell | ||
| 2016 | Paul Littledyke | not enough rounds completed | ||
| 2017 |
State Champions
| 2004 10R - Steve Arthur | 2009 10R - Ron Parker |
| 2004 A Class - Steve Arthur | 2010 Marblehead - Ben Morris* |
| 2005 IOM - John Gratton | 2010 IOM - Dallas Deussen |
| 2005 Marblehead - Steve Arthur | 2011 10R - Ben Morris* |
| 2005 A Class - Steve Arthur | 2012 10R - Ben Morris* |
| 2006 10R - Steve Arthur | 2012 Marblehead - Brett Osborn |
| 2006 Marblehead - Steve Arthur | |
| 2006 IOM - John Gratton | |
| 2006 A Class - Steve Arthur | |
| 2007 10R - Dale Lewis |
* = Associate member