Cymraeg It is with sadness we report the passing of Huw Tudor.
Huw first became a member of CHPSC in 1967 when the club occupied its first home at Gimblet Rock. His first boat was a little fishing boat called Gay-Anna, after his wife Gaynor and daughter Anna.
He soon became involved with the club management and was elected Commodore in 1977 to 1978.
Huw was a keen racing member of the club with boats Rev De Mer, Revel and subsequently a regular competitive competitor in ISORA offshore racing from 1976 with Gwobr Aur and then Panache. ISORA racing in the 1970's was in the days before GPS, or even DECA, he would often tell later generations!
Huw completed several Fastnet Races and was a team member and Navigator on Gwilym Evans’s Corwynt Cymru with high profile wins in Cork Week, Round Ireland Races, and the Scottish Series in Loch Fyne.
He was Hon Secretary of the ISORA Race week in Pwllheli and Abersoch in 1982 with over 120 boats and famous for the massive sunflower (photo in the bar).
He took great pride in talking about being able to sail with three generations which was more important than the race wins.
Huw established the successful family Estate Agency business in 1968. Huw was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and was awarded a lifetime achievement award in 2008 for recognition in the surveying profession. Huw was an appointed member of the Committee for Wales of the National Trust, a nominated member of the Snowdonia National Park Authority for several years, and a member of the property committee of the Council for World Mission. He also contributed as a Valuer Member of the Rent Assessment Committee for Wales.
He took an active role in the community being the founder Chairman of the Pwllheli Round Table, President of Pwllheli Rotary Club, Chairman of the Llyn and Pwllheli Harbour Users Association and Chairman of Porth Pwllheli, a focus group and driving force behind the establishment of the Marina at Pwllheli. Huw was a Magistrate in the Courts of North Wales for many years until his retirement.
Huw was most proud of the fact that he was an Elder in The Presbyterian Church of Wales and a secretary of the Presbytery property committee for a period of over 40 years.
Father of John and Anna, and of former commodore and Round The World Yachtsman Richard, and of Plas Heli Chairman Stephen.
Huw had great pride and fondness in his family, business, sailing and religion.
The funeral is at Capel y Drindod Pwllheli at 1300hrs Wednesday 22nd March, then at Denio Cemetery and all then welcomed to a funeral tea at Plas Heli / The Club.
