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    Cruiser party with a purpose

    Oct 16, 2019 5 minutes

    WHEN Ken and Rhonda Thackeray started the Shag Islet Cruising Yacht Club in 2009, they could never have predicted what lay ahead. In just over a decade, the story of the world’s most exclusively non-exclusive yacht club has become firmly entrenched in cruising folklore.

    The virtual club, named after tiny Shag Islet in the Whitsundays’ Gloucester Passage, now boasts 6,820 ‘Vice Commodores’ from 17 nations.

    A number of these ‘Shaggers’ as they prefer to be known, congregate in their spiritual home at the top of the Whitsundays during the last weekend of August each year. The annual SICYC Rendezvous is the ultimate party with a purpose, doubling as a major fundraiser for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA).

    In 11 years almost $665,000 has been raised, with $51,238 from the recent 2019

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