Milestones

CSC teamed up with SingaporeSailing to conduct the Sailing and Sustainability programme, initiated by CSC member Jevan Tan.

The Sailing Events Working Committee was set up to ensure a full sailing calendar.

75th Anniversary Celebrations ? (left) Adriaan Smit, Bob Ashman, Dr Kung Siang Yo, Ng Ser Miang, Anthony Lim & Ong Siong Kai

Anthony Lim
July 2009 to present

The Club’s Constitution was amended with SportSG’s blessings. Members could elect the Club’s Commodore and all Management Committee members.

CSC started sharing its beachfront with members of the public upon completion of the Changi Coastal Boardwalk.

Richard Tan
June 2002 to May 2003

CSC partners Club Rainbow to take chronically-ill children and their families out to sea.

The Sailability programme was started by a group of CSC members.

The inaugural Singtel Optimist Open Championship took place at CSC. The regatta was launched by Lee Hsien Yang, CEO of SingTel.

The Singapore 420 fleet was launched at CSC to promote 420 sailing in Singapore and provide an intermediate class for sailors upon graduation from the Optimist.

The first three-day youth camp was organised by the CSC Youth Club for sailors to train and bond.

CSC hosted the National Inter-schools Yachting Championships, the first time all boat classes competed in the same venue.

The CSC Youth Club for members? children was formed, with Lock Hong Kit as Chairman and Frances Ann Lim as Secretary.

Extensions to the clubhouse were completed ? a new swimming pool, bar and office.

Dr Kung Siang Yo
July 1994 to May 1998

CSC hosted sailing events at the 17th SEA Games. Singaporean sailors won 5 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals.

Ong Siong Kai
November 1991 to June 1994

Formation of the Singapore J-24 Class Association, with Jeffrey Leow as President.

Inaugural Goodwill Regatta between CSC and Enoshima Junior Yacht Club.

Welcome home sailors ? 1989 SEA Games by Ng Ser Miang and Capt Kuttan

The CSC Junior Fleet was launched to encourage children to enjoy the sport and to nurture the talented into national sailors.

The Club was renamed Changi Sailing Club. The Singapore Sports Council (now known as SportSG) became a ?Founding Member? under the new Constitution and retained the right to appoint the Commodore who, in turn, appointed the Vice Commodore, the Honorary Treasurer and the Honorary Secretary.

The Nanking Plate Regatta was introduced after treasure-hunters and former Club members, Mike Hatcher and Max de Rham, donated three 240-year old China dinner plates that were salvaged from a Dutch vessel, the Geldermalsen, that floundered on a reef close to Singapore in 1751.

The new Clubhouse in her early days.

Captain C Kuttan May 1975 to June 1990

Our first Commodore, Captain Goh Choo Keng from March 1974 to??April 1975

The British military withdrew from Singapore. The Club was handed over to the National Sports Promotion Board (NSPB) and was renamed NSPB Changi Sailing Club. When NSPB became the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) in 1973, the Club was then renamed the SSC Changi Sailing Club.

The Club?s Commodore, Colonel Heath and a handful of members held a last Club meeting before they went into captivity for the remainder of the war years (1942 ? 1945).

The starting bell for races was made, courtesy of members, Greenway, Boland and an expert mould-maker, Foxcroft. The bell still stands at the Club.

The Club got its first keelboat, The Paddle and Creek.

The inaugural race of Garrison Yacht Club was held. It was a sailing match of six boats a side and a twelve oared cutter race against H.M.S. Terror. Sea Foam took the top spot in the sailing match and the cutter race was won by H.M.S Terror.