Wayfarer 10000



Helm: Liz Feibusch Club: Orford SC	Crew: Frances Lilley Club: Orford SC
Worlds Experience: 2001: 60th 1992: 52nd	Worlds Experience: 2001: 60th
Sailing History: I race at Orford Sailing Club (5 minutes from home) on our East Coast estuarial river which has 16 navigable miles and a very strong tide. It is a very special river & I will tell you more about it when I see you all. Upriver is another Wayfarer stronghold, Aldeburgh Yacht Club, where I sail during Regatta week and at their Open Meeting. Frances & I attend as many Open Meetings, Area Championships and Nationals each season as we can. I did the Worlds at Hayling Island S.C. 1992 as a crew when I was Commodore of the UKWA, & the last one in 2001 at Northern Ireland, East Down Yacht Club, helming Ten Grand. Frances & I did the Dutch Nationals in 2002. When the season at Orford ends, we take Ten Grand to a beautiful local lake (no tides & fresh water!) and join as Winter members to do two ten-week race series either side of Christmas where there are up to 80 competitors. When I'm not racing I cruise with Johnny, my husband and with Summer our dog in our Drascombe Coaster. There's room on it for family & friends too for picnic cruises. We did extended Wayfarer cruising in Wansfell 3277 for twenty years, most of it when the boys were growing up. UKWA member since 1974.	Sailing History: I was born in London & my family had a holiday chalet on the East Coast of England where we spent all our holidays. My father always had sailing dinghys from a Heron to a Jolly boat and I owned my first boat, an Eleven Plus, when I was 15. I then owned a Mirror, then a Topper, followed by a Wanderer and now I too own a Wayfarer which I keep on a mooring on the estuary where I now own our holiday chalet. I became a Dinghy Instructor in 1996 so I spend a lot of time instructing. Some of my pupils are disabled and I find this work particularly rewarding. This is my fifth season crewing for Liz in Ten Grand. We did the last Wayfarer Internationals in N. Ireland. Very occasionally Liz crews for me in my Wayfarer so she doesn't forget what hard work it is! I belong to Orford Sailing Club and I also run sailing activities for fellow sailors on the estuarial river where my chalet and moorings are.
When not sailing: I teach 4 days a week Only 2 more years to retirement after 32 years of teaching. Can't wait! I walk our dog every day & swim once a week to try to keep fit. We spend as much time as we can with our five lovely grand-daughters -the two oldest are learning to sail and three of them are learning to ride ponies when they stay with us. I would rather have sent you a photo of them all than of me!!! And of course every other minute of my time is taken up with being Chairman of the UKWA for the second time! You would have thought I had learnt my lesson last time, but no, I agreed to take the task on again. It is somewhat more challenging this time round, but I like to be involved with anything to do with Wayfarers.	When not sailing: I work as a Carer and I have just started a new job.
Family: Johnny, husband for 42 years; Philip, son and Melanie, daughter-in-law, 3 grand-daughters; Christopher, son and Maria, daughter-in-law, 2 grand-daughters. Lots of relations in San Francisco. We don't want to act our ages when we are on holiday in Canada, so we are not going to divulge them!!!	Family: I have a son in the army and a daughter who spends much of her time working on Thames Sailing barges.