This trophy, in the shape of a stainless steel tankard, has been competed for since 1960 when Brian Naylor presented it to the club. Many members will be unaware of what you have to do to win it, even though the winner's name is mentioned in the minutes of the AGM every year. Brian laid down that it should be for the log of a cruise in a sailing dinghy; i.e. an open sailing boat with a maximum size of some 18 feet. The cruise should be adventurous, but not unsafe or foolhardy, with the main body of the cruise completed under sail. The log should be reasonably well written with continuity, not just a list of places visited, preferably capturing the essence of what dinghy cruising is about.

The winner should be decided by the committee with the President having the casting vote. It should not be presented if there is no log worthy of the honour. In other words, it is not a competition in which the best log of a bad lot should win. In fact, in the forty years of its history it has been won only 27 times. It is probably true to say that length of log is unimportant, and in any case it is arguable that a long log tends to send the readers to sleep! As the only person who sees the names of the winners on the cup is the current holder, I copied the names down at the last AGM for the benefit of everyone else. They are as follows:

John Deacon 1960 Elizabeth Baker 1980 Keith Muscott 1991 Alec Barge 1961 Edwin Dewhurst 1981 Brian McClellan 1992 Eric Coleman 1962 Hugh Clay 1982 Doug Heslop 1994 John Deacon 1963 John Grey 1983 Dave Morton 1995 Charles Stock 1965 John Baden 1984 David Jones 1996 Peter Clutterbuck 1967 Richard Petter 1985 David Sumner 1997 Brian Earl 1968 Peter Bick 1986 Len Wingfield 1998 Joan Abrams 1978 Jim & Renee Bailey 1988 Ed Wingfield 1999 David McClellan 1979 Liz Baker 1990 Alan Granville 2000

Bulletin references for winning articles:-

1960 011/06 1980 087/25 1991 133/25 1961 014/05 1981 090/13 1992 136/14 1962 ? 016/04 1982 ? 094/19 1994 142/24 1963 021/06 1983 101/10* 1995 149/26 (*) 1965 029/06 1984 104/16 1996 151/20 1967 033/05 1985 110/16 1997 157/32 1968 ?? 1986 110/23 1998 161/28 1978 082/16 & 083/07 1988 121/22 1999 162/23 1979 082/21 1990 122/20 & 123/09 2000 166/27

continued in 102/20 (Part II) and 103/18 (Part III) (*) continued in 150/40 (Part II)