JISUMA - BOAT HISTORY

Lance Scott purchased the fiberglass mouldings from Swanson Boat Builders in Sydney and completed the boat in his factory in Cheltenham with the help of club members Alan Beebe, Bill Stockdale and Graeme Watt. The name Jisuma came from using the first two letters of his daughters names Jill, Sue and Mary Lou.

Extract from Sydney-Hobart web site article on the history of the "Quiet Little Drink (QLD)" in Hobart: By 1969, the Sydney Hobart was a truly global affair, attracting teams from across the world to compete in the ultimate Blue Water challenge. With fame came fortune, and the ever-increasing fleets were leading to similarly-increasing formality and grandiose prize-giving events. Concern was growing among Sydney crewman friends CYCA Life Member Tony Cable (from the yacht Adria) and John Dawson (Weatherly) that the after-race social scene at Constitution Dock was in-turn becoming more fragmented, and the official events for owners and navigators only. Not ones to stand idly by, they organised a little get-together at an out-of-the-way pub. The Shipwright’s Arms on Battery Point was chosen as the location, and the event was dubbed with more than a little irony the “Quiet Little Drink”. It was, of course, anything but. Striding into a tiny side-bar of the “Shippies” and startling the sole elderly regular there, the dynamic duo Striding into a tiny side-bar of the “Shippies” and startling the sole elderly regular there, the dynamic duo promptly made their modest order: “Two hundred beers please and keep them coming!” In a very short time, the bar became so packed with crewmen shoulder-to-shoulder that beers were being passed through the crowd one-by-one, and out of the windows to the waiting horde gathering in the street. A short time later, the crew of Jisuma arrived, and quickly realising that a contest was on, one of their number, David Hutchen, strolled over to the darts blackboard and ceremoniously chalked: “Cable & Dawson: 200 beers. Jisuma: 200 beers”. Jokes, singsongs and lie-telling occupied the day, with the final tally, exactingly kept by David Hutchen, reaching 1,467 beers. Incidentally, Hutchen has carried the nickname “Chalkie” ever since that day.

When Lance retired to Queensland he sold Jisuma to Ted Freeman and Don Sanders who later sold her to Bill Rockcliff.

Jisuma competed in the inaugural Melbourne - Hobart race in 1972, and again in 1976.