The Committee
The CUYC Committee is organised in the standard yacht club structure of Flag Officers (Commodores), Officers, Skippers and Instructors. By the CUYC Regulations, CUYC Officers are elected for a maximum term of one year, and CUYC Skippers and Instructors sit on the CUYC Committee ex-officio. All CUYC Officers have a vote at meetings.
Click on any of the Officers, Skippers or Instructors to see the current person in that role and their job description.
We need you - Join the Committee!
CUYC elects new officers as needed, usually at the beginning of each term. And we are pretty much always in need of new Committee members! If you are interested in a position (either vacant or filled) in the CUYC Committee then please e-mail the Commodore. Getting involved will give you a chance to work within an enthusiastic and very well organised Committee of one of the most active clubs in Cambridge - and provide you with another excuse to go out regularly.
Officers
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Commodore Conor Bolas |
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Vice-Commodore Sailing
Tim Beach |
Vice-Commodore Training
Grégoire Vernaz |
Vice-Commodore Racing
Garrett Bray |
Vice-Commodore Operations
William Eustace |
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Cruising Officers
Daniel Gruenwald Jonas Serry |
Practical Training Officer
Fredrik Liu |
Racing Officer
Chris Cantillo |
Pursers
Sylwia Dulczewska John Morgan |
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Social Officer
Emily Talbot |
Theory Training Officer
Rob Glew |
Secretary
Jonas Serry |
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Skipper Development Officer
vacant |
Bosuns
vacant |
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Quartermasters
Andrew Milbourn Victor Wainwright |
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Publicity and Sponsorship Officer
Morgause Lomas |
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Website Admin
Laurence Cochrane |
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Chief Instructor Jordan Billiald |
Chief Theory Instructor vacant |
RYA Principal Jordan Billiald |
Senior Treasurer Florian Urmetzer |
Instructors
Alumni Instructors
| Florian Gruessing | Imogen Whittam |
Skippers
Alumni Skippers
The Current Committee
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Yo. I'm a student in atmospheric science at King's and I joined the club in December 2015 on their chilly Christmas and New Year trip. I have now passed my YM Coastal and now have the privilege of taking Puffin and Skylark out as skipper! Really looking forward to running more trips and doing some exciting things! The type of sailing I like is adventurous - going to crazy places and doing big passages. I really really like crazy weather. I have ended up the Commodore now somehow, after a couple of years of Pursing and Vice Commodore - so I look after a lot of aspects of the club. Grew up on boats and I bloody love the sea! Commodore Job description: Head of the Club: Overall responsibility for all the activities of CUYC; authorises all activities, finances and external communication on behalf of the Club. Safety: Overall responsibility for ensuring the correct discharge of duty of care and Club safety policy implementation. Committee Chair: Chairs all meetings of CUYC Committee and General Meetings of the Club. Development: Organisation of long-term development plans for the Club. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: commodore@cuyc.org.uk |
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Hi, I'm Tim! I've been a member of CUYC for about 4 years. I've been on some absolutely amazing trips with the Club, sailing around Scotland, Norway and crossing the Biscay! I had very limited sailing experience before coming to Cambridge but have learnt a huge amount through the Club and from each trip I have been on! I am currently a Vice-Commodore of Sailing on the Committee helping to organise our weekend trips and the illustrious Summer Programme! Vice-Commodore Sailing Job description: Sailing Section Management: Authorises the activities of all Cruising Officers and ensures they have details of their responsibilities and that they are properly informed and supported in their positions. Management and delegation of tasks to the Cruising Officers. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: vc-sailing@cuyc.org.uk |
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I'm a first year Engineering PhD student, having completed a Masters last year. Vice-Commodore Racing Job description: Organises all of the Club's Racing Activities; including team selection for BUSA/BUCS Yachting Nationals and Varsity matches; organises racing on Club Boats and promotes Racing through RORC and JOG participation. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: vc-racing@cuyc.org.uk |
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Engineering undergraduate, radio amateur, keen sailor. Mostly a cruising character, occasionally to be found in a dinghy. Vice-Commodore Operations Job description: Operations Section Management: Authorises the activities of all Operations Officers and ensures they have details of their responsibilities and that they are properly informed and supported in their positions. Legal: Ensures CUYC obtains and sustains insurance policies appropriate to Club activities. Monitors details of charter agreements. Manages contractual disputes with charterers. Liaises with Club legal contacts. Documentation: Ensures CUYC Regulations, CUYC Crew Register, Safety Policy, Skipper Manual, Agenda and Minutes of Committee Meetings and any other key Club documentation stay up-to-date. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: vc-operations@cuyc.org.uk |
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Biography not yet supplied. Vice-Commodore Training Job description: Management and delegation of tasks to the Practical Training Officer and Theory Training Officer. Development and Evaluation of the CUYC Training Scheme and courses run within the scheme. Ensuring compliance with RYA and CUYC standards as set out in the training section of the CUYC Manual and in the RYA regulations. Liaises with Instructors to ensure effective implementation of the Training Programme. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: vc-training@cuyc.org.uk |
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Biography not yet supplied. Purser Job description: Financial management: Processing all payments and receipts for activities and permanent funds. Upon completion of events ensures expenses are collated in liaison with the Event Organiser. Preparing the Budget, Half Year Report and End of Year Summary of Accounts. Membership: Management of membership. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: purser@cuyc.org.uk |
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I'm a second year Engineer at Queens'. I've been sailing almost as long as I can remember, starting in dinghies and then moving up on to bigger things. I first got on a yacht during my gap year in 2014 when I was working at Deloitte in London, they have a fantastic sailing club and it really inspired me. Since then I've competed at Cowes week twice and sailed in Sardinia, Gibraltar, Brittany and the UK. Theory Training Officer Job description: The officer in charge of the theory courses the Club runs. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: theory@cuyc.org.uk |
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I'm in my fourth and final year at Cambridge now, doing an MPhil in Classics. Originally coming from Austria, I started sailing on some of the lakes there and subsequently joined CUYC in my first year at Cambridge, but I only really took up sailing again more recently during my MPhil. I'm currently doing my Yachmaster Shorebased course with the club. Cruising Officer Job description: Assists the Vice-Commodore Sailing in the organisation of cruising trips Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: cruising@cuyc.org.uk |
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I am a PhD student in Theory of Condensed Matter Physics. I joined the club in 2016 and am glad to be the Practical Training Officer. Looking forward to organizing more training trips and getting more qualified sailors. Practical Training Officer Job description: Organising RYA Practical Training courses. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: practical@cuyc.org.uk |
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I'm a postdoc in the chemistry department. I spent a few weeks cruising in the Hebrides and then joined the club to get a more varied experience and meet other sailors. Purser Job description: Financial management: Processing all payments and receipts for activities and permanent funds. Upon completion of events ensures expenses are collated in liaison with the Event Organiser. Preparing the Budget, Half Year Report and End of Year Summary of Accounts. Membership: Management of membership. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: purser@cuyc.org.uk |
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3rd Year Physics undergraduate. Grew up doing a lot of sailing in the Netherlands. Joined the club in my second year by doing the YM Shorebased Course and have really enjoyed sailing with the club up in Scotland! Cruising Officer Job description: Assists the Vice-Commodore Sailing in the organisation of cruising trips Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: cruising@cuyc.org.uk Secretary Job description: Takes minutes at meeting and handles paperwork and our archives. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: secretary@cuyc.org.uk |
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I have been sailing for 50 years. This has included working as a dinghy sailing instructor on the West Coast of Scotland and crewing on yachts on the East Coast for many years. I have also been skippered on Quartermaster Job description: In charge of spares and gear on Kestrel and the club's garage in Cambridge. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: quartermaster@cuyc.org.uk |
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I'm a first year PhD student in Biochemistry at Clare and a new member of the club as of October 2018. I started sailing around the Mediterranean when I was younger and eventually did my Day Skipper in 2016. After a recent excursion across the Channel, I'm looking for more adventures so joined CUYC as Social Officer to have fun on land as well as the water. Social Officer Job description: Social programme: submission of dates for socials to the Vice-Commodore Operations, and planning of socials, including end of term dinner. New & potential members introduction: acting at socials to welcome new & potential members and inform them about Club activities. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: social@cuyc.org.uk |
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As you can see from my profile photo I have years of experience, with some of it under sail. Hopefully my accumulated years of wisdom and a flair for a good night out will stand me in good stead to become a reliable and dependable member of the committee. Oh yes and I have a car which I'm told is a bonus! Quartermaster Job description: In charge of spares and gear on Kestrel and the club's garage in Cambridge. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: quartermaster@cuyc.org.uk |
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I am a PhD student in Semiconductor Physics. I joined the club in 2013 and became involved in the Club's committee as a Practical Training Officer. I have been actively involved in the Club ever since. My favourite places to sail are in the Mediterranean and of course the east coast of the UK! RYA Principal Job description: Management and delegation of tasks to the Practical Training Officer and Theory Training Officer. Development and Evaluation of the CUY Training Scheme and courses run within the scheme. Ensuring compliance with RYA and CUY standards as set out in the training section of the CUY Manual. Training Programme; ensuring submission of dates to the Vice-Commodore Sailing for all training activities, with regard to the advice given in the Training section of the CUY Manual. Overseeing the editing and expanding the website training section. Management of the RYA Practical and Shorebased training centres. Email: rya-principal@cuyc.org.uk Chief Instructor Job description: The head instructor. Email: chiefinstructor@cuyc.org.uk |
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I’ve spent most of my time sailing yachts on the Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast of the US. I’m a big fan of Offshore racing and have been fortunate enough to do three Bermuda races and two Annapolis-to-Newport Races in my career. Racing Officer Job description: CUYC Racing Squad training and development: improving racing knowledge and skills. Race selection & entry management. Varsity Yacht Race: organising an annual race with Oxford as part of a RORC/JOG or similar offshore/coastal/inshore race. BUSA Student Yachting Nationals: selecting teams and organising the Club's involvement in the event. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: racing@cuyc.org.uk |
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Fourth year engineering student at Pembroke, been sailing with the club since 2015. Practical Training Officer 2016, VC Training 2017, Theory Training Officer 2018 Website Admin Job description: Database, Website and e-mail lists development and administration. Control and maintenance of style, scripts and code validity. Liaison with SRCF host: ensuring compliance with data regulations and other regulations and maintenance of filespace. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: webmaster@cuyc.org.uk |
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Biography not yet supplied. Publicity and Sponsorship Officer Job description: Organises publicity articles & campaigns: Organising Freshers' Fair and Squash as well as ongoing publicity throughout the year. Collation of photos from events. Manages relations with alumni. Elected until: 17/01/2020 Email: publicity@cuyc.org.uk |
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Is working in the Institute for Manufacturing, Dept. Engineering. Being close to the water is in my family’s blood. My family has been in shipping and managing harbours. I actually came to sailing by a need rather than anything else. A local fire brigade needed additional people to fill in a spot to do a sailing licence. So a friend and I have been happy to help out. By friend as a result bought a yacht and we sailed together for years in the Baltic Sea. Senior Treasurer Job description: Senior Treasurer of CUYC. Email: sentreasurer@cuyc.org.uk |
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Oliver is hopelessly addicted to sailing, even (and against his better judgement) when it's cold and wet. However he particularly enjoys sailing to remote islands in the summertime and, best of all, playing with helicopters! |
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Did all of my early sailing with CUYC before becoming a skipper and instructor. I ran a lot of cruising trips, trained a lot of skippers for their exams, did a lot of maintenance on Kestrel and did a short stint as VC Training. |
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I first sailed in the Tall Ships Race in the late '90s. Since then I've crewed a concrete ketch across the Atlantic, taught teenagers in Canada, dodged superyachts in the Med, and (my favourite) mucked about on the wonderful East Coast. 20 years on, I'm still loving it and learning something new every time. |
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Sailing with the club on and off since 2009. Still can't quite believe to actually have become a skipper now, and is looking forward to running more trips. Is also looking after the behind-the-scenes parts of running the club, as VC Ops and Webadmin. Has mixed feelings about pronouns. |
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I learned to sail in Northern Ireland in dinghys and on a 28 foot yacht in Lough Erne. |
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4th Year Mathmo and scoundrel from Caius. |
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VC Sailing 2010 |
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I did most of my sailing as a teenager and undergraduate, crossing the channel, then Biscay, the Indian Ocean, North Sea and Atlantic. I did my Yachtmaster Ocean at 18 and then arrived at Cambridge and started organising for everyone else to go sailing! Since then I've collected all the instructor tickets and am now more on the sidelines with training, having seen numerous instructors and skippers come after me... So my main job these days is fixing Kestrel and Puffin when all you guys break them.... Perhaps in a few years the boats will finally be up the scratch and I'll have nothing left to do... :-S |
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Having just come along for the theory course, Philip found himself welcomed in to the club and subjected to intense training whereupon he was rather surprised to discover himself a club skipper. It was probably just so that the white hair did not give rise to any mistaken impression that he was actually competent, that it was safer for all concerned that he did acquire a modicum of expertise. |
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While being in the final battle with his PhD, Matt was selflessly heading the club and looked after everything. Together with Giulia and Igor he got and fixed up his own boat (http://yachtauriga.blogspot.co.uk/), crossing the Atlantic and leaving us all for sunnier and warmer shores. He also has a rather strained relationship with pork pies. |
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My day job includes doing research in very cold places on large ships - but I also enjoy slightly warmer sailing in the UK. I finally completed my Yachtmaster Coastal in 2015, and hope to do a bit more skippering in the future. |
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Started dinghy sailing in Sardinia when i was 16, moved on to bigger boats and now the Yacht Club. 3rd year engineer, avid baker and foodie. |
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I've sailed on the coast of Brittany since I was a little kid, was a dinghy sailing instructor there, and then I raced along the atlantic coast of France on several types of yachts before coming to Cambridge in 2013, where I joined the yacht racing team. |
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Hi there, I am a former Post-Doc of the Cambridge University and worked there as Virologist/Immunologist. The time with CUYC was of course the best time in Cambridge, and I still try to be active in the CUYC, and help out on week-trips as good as possible even though I am back in Germany now. |
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I have invented new algorithms in digital image processing, decision making and artificial intelligence. I have originated and applied for two patents as inventor. The inspiration for sailing came from CUYC introductory trip in 2010 and love sailing ever since. |
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I've been sailing for a few years, and started on the committee to help with the summer programme. Ever since I've found myself more and more involved with the club both on the committee and as a sailor/skipper. It's amazing. |
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Grew up in Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany, went on to study physics in Goettingen, Pennsylvania and later Paris, before I moved to Cambridge for my PhD (physics). |
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I've been sailing with the club since I joined the university in 2010. I did an undergraduate course in Engineering and have now started my PhD. I've been to the Canaries, Scotland, Norway, the Baltic and Ipswich and have loved all of it :) |
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I joined CUYC for the theory course, to distract me from finishing my PhD. Now I keep a Wayfarer dinghy at Orford & sail with the club whenever I can. I'm an architect - you can see what sort of things I do at www.5thstudio.co.uk |
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Began sailing in later years of Uni and continued sailing with the club, taking part in the previous 2 summer trips and completing Yachtmaster Coastal in early 2013. |
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I am a PhD student in computational linguistics. I have been with the club since 2016, and look forward to organising more trips! |
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Having grown up on the South Coast and later the Channel Islands I spent a lot of time dinghy sailing when I was younger. I joined in 2013 after arriving in Cambridge and have enjoyed many trips and training courses with the club. In the small amount of time I'm not at sea you'll find me studying for an undergraduate engineering degree, hoping to find a career in the marine engineering sector once I graduate! |
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Enjoyed sailing with CUYC, then gradually got involved with running the club and was on the committee for a while (Purser 2011-2013, VC Operations 2012-13) |
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Ahoi! I caught the sailing bug during my studies at St Andrews, when I cruised a Hobie 17 cat and a 420 dinghy up and down (a small stretch of) the East coast of Scotland. I've got into bigger boats when I moved away from living right at the beach, and joined the club in 2016. I've since been on plenty of trips, e.g. as first mate on the Stavanger-Ipswich return trip of the 2017 summer programme, and qualified as Yachtmaster Coastal in 2018. |
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After Punting around the Baltics for many years I properly learned to sail in the tidal waters of the east coast with the CUYC and have been thoroughly enjoying it. |
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Cornish fisherman / Cambridge bioinformatician. Lots of experience sailing from Falmouth to Brittany and Ireland, looking forward to getting to know the east coast and Normandy/Belgium/Holland with the club. Recently co-opted as bosun and looking forward to getting Puffin looking her best. |
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I came across the happy CUYC gang during the 1st year of my PhD and ended up doing most of my yachting with them - just because they’re awesome! :) As a proper lazy Italian I truly enjoy cruising trips although when the weather gets rough it can be fun…some say?? |
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Giulia is always up for an adventure and currently repairing her own boat together with Matt and Igor, preparing to go on an expedition all the way across the Atlantic. Likes Puffins! |
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Love guru and veteran Puffin fancier, joining the club to offer help in steering members in the right direction. Tireless service to Puffin has led to perfect course satisfaction every time. Like every responsible helmsman you'll never catch him out of his gent tent, and with unbeatable stamina, he'll keep going even once you've fallen asleep! |
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I've joined the club in 2012 and the committee in 2013 as a cruising officer. In 2014 I became a club skipper and took over the role of VC sailing. I've also competed with the racing team in the BUSA Yachting Nationals in 2014 and 2015 (4th and 3rd places), in the Varsity Race 2015 (won) and in the Student Yachting World Cup 2015 (4th place). |
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RYA Yachtmaster Offshore and Kite surfer. |
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Learnt to sail with CUYC in 2005-6. Got totally hooked and carried on to become Coastal Skipper, defecting to racing with OUYC in the process (oops). |
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Committee member and skipper with the club for a few years, started the club’s racing programme. |
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Vice Commodore for a bit, back in 2007. After graduating in 2009 I went on to instruct for UKSA and Clipper before moving to the work boat sector and working on Offshore Wind farm support boats. |
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Finally had to hand in the thesis and submit to working life in 2007 after stretching it as long as possible since the beginnings of CUY. Currently based in Amsterdam, sailing and racing as much as possible, inshore and offshore, when not kitesurfing (which admittedly the Dutch coast is much more suitable for than sailing). |
