Hard work rewarded

Local young gun takes club honours at Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club.

03 December 2019

Nominated by his peers and coaches, Harry Miller, who sails on Red Dog, was awarded Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club’s 2019 Youth Sailor of the Year.

Harry was notably present in almost every Youth Regatta that NCYC attended and stepped up from his crew position in recent years to lead his own teams as skipper in his first Match Racing events in that role this season.

Harry started sailing at the age of five when he and had dad converted a tender into a sailing dinghy which he sailed in Middle Harbour and on Manly Dam in Sydney. In 2015 Harry stared sailing as crew as a Manly junior at Manly 16ft Skiff Sailing Club with Oscar Brownbill. He competed in the Club Championship and State and National Titles.

Harry has been a member of NCYC since November 2016 and in this year, he skippered his own Manly Junior Toffee Apple at Manly also competing in state and national titles. Harry did extremely well and won the Novice Division of the Manly Junior State Titles at Hornsby Ku Ring Gai Sailing Club and at Middle Harbour 16ft Skiff Club.

Harry Miller

In 2017 Harry purchased a 29er which he is sailing with Angus Jones. This year, Harry is crewing with the NCYC Match Racing Team and is in the Youth Development Squad. Harry has also sailed on X rated which won the 24-hour ‘Heaven Can Wait’ event and also competed at Hamilton Island on Sonata.

Harry also assisted his dad, Andrew in delivering Freyja from the Sydney to Hobart, which included sailing through Franklin Sound, which is a narrow waterway between the two largest islands, Flinders Island and Cape Barren Island.

On receiving his award and reflecting on his 2019 year on the water, Harry said that “the goal next year has got to be to receive an invitation to the Nespresso Youth International Match Racing Championships sailed out of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.

it will take a lot of extra training, but we can get there.”

ncyc.net.au

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