Honorary Life Members
Honorary Life Members
Mounts Bay Sailing Club has known many champions over the years. We’re incredibly proud of the contributions our members have made to state, national and international sailing.
Honorary Life Members
In order to recognise outstanding contributions to the Club, Mounts Bay has bestowed the Honorary Life Membership
upon key contributors to the club’s ongoing success. Honorary Life Members are noted below.
upon key contributors to the club’s ongoing success. Honorary Life Members are noted below.
- David Whitehead* - 1920
- Andy Shack* - 1947
- Hazel Kilburn* - 1960
- Syd Dewar* - 1979
- Neil Fogarty* - 1982
- Lyall Gerring* - 1994
- Dot Hancock* - 1999
- Norma Schneider - 2008
- Harold Jahn - 2021
- Mark Dunn* - 1947
- Arthur Kilburn* - 1958
- Rene Howells* - 1961
- Charlie Davis* - 1979
- Con Schneider* - 1990
- Ruth Bayley* - 1998
- Fred Hancock* - 1999
- Fred Mann - 2016
- Ian Beeson - 2023
- Bruce King* - 1947
- Col Taylor* - 1958
- Ken McLachlan* - 1962
- Bruce Glaskin* - 1980
- Keith Bayley* - 1994
- Fay Kelly - 1998
- Jack Cassidy* 2000
- Joy Gerring - 2021
* Deceased.
Past Club Patrons
The Club is also supported by patrons, who are significant people chosen by management from either within or outside the club. In recent times, we’ve had the good fortune of naming many high-profile politicians as Mounts Bay Sailing Club Patrons.
- Hon. W.G. Brookman M.L.C.
- Hon. J.C. Willcock M.L.A.
- C. Deane
- G. Dowland
- A.C. Shack
- B.E. Wright
- B.E. Wright
- L.B. Glaskin
- Hon. J. Bishop M.P.
- Hon. Sir E.H. Brookman M.L.C.
- Dr. J.P. Kenny
- W. Stiles
- W. Arcus
- Hon. F.C. Chaney A.F.C. M.P.
- G. McGann
- H.C. Bowra
- C.G. Schneider
- Ms. C. Hammond M.P.
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