CYCA has kindly offered half-scholarships to DBSC youth members to participate in CYCA youth sailing courses on CYCA’s Elliott fleet. If you are between 13-18, you can take up this offer (subject to availability for each specific course) for any of CYCA’s Youth Sailing Academy courses. The list of courses can be found at https://cyca.com.au/youth/ and further details are available from Jordan Reece on 0433 272 283 / Jordan.reece@cyca.com.au. If you are interested in these scholarships, please email commodore@dbsc.com.au.
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Club Tidiness
We have had several articles over the past few weeks about taking pride of ownership in the club. It continues to be disappointing to find examples of people who don’t demonstrate this pride or sense of responsibility. For example, all the club’s lifejackets were carefully stacked neatly against the wall by one member after Community Day – and someone else has decided they look better strewn across the floor like this:
Someone else, who clearly has domestic problems, has decided to make the workshop their new bedroom, at least judging by the large pile of bedding left in there:
If you are responsible for either of these things, can you please take the time to clean them up before (a)
Club Clean Out
There is an enormous pile of lost / unwanted / unloved clothing in the men’s change room – hanging up on the wall hooks, strewn across the benches, and half in and half out of plastic crates. If this is your gear, please collect it. We will be reminding people each week between now and the AGP – anything left in the changerooms after the AGP, whether hanging up or not, will be donated to charity via one of the neighbourhood “friendly bins”.
COTD Responsibilities
We had a VERY NEAR engine-terminating incident on Saturday. Presumably someone the previous week had flushed the Bergman engine and left the water-cooling connector unattached. Fortunately, one very observant member saw it before the RIB was used. Had it been driven without the connector re-attached, the engine would have been caput! $15,000 later … PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE COTD GUIDE, LEAVE THINGS HOW YOU FIND THEM, AND IF IN DOUBT ASK FOR HELP!
Learn to Run a Race
We are calling for volunteers who are willing to commit to learning how to run a race. We are offering an opportunity for two people to run the winter championship races each fortnight, under supervision from an experienced race officer. There are three races each fortnight, every second Sunday morning at 8.30am, starting 5 May. Trainee race officers should be at the club at 7.30am to set the course and get in position for starts at 8.30. You will be home, with much improved skills, by 11 (after free hot soup and bread from the canteen). If you are interested in this opportunity, please email commodore@dbsc.com.au.
Dance the Night Away at the AGP
Autumn’s biggest party is almost upon us. On Friday, 24 May, we’ll be having our Annual General Party (and Meeting). The formal meeting starts at 7pm, followed by dinner and dancing. We already have 50 RSVPs… but there are still 70 who haven’t responded! We know you don’t want to miss the social event of the season, so please submit your RSVP today here.
Winter Championships
So far we’ve have had 11 people sign up for the Winter Championship, which is down on the 20 or so we had last year. We know there are more winter warriors out there, so if you plan to sail some or all the winter championship, please respond ASAP here. The series will begin on Sunday 5 May and run every second Sunday morning from May through July. Splash is at 8 for an 8.30 start. In addition to the Championship races Brett Beyer will also be running a winter program (BBWP) that includes on-water coaching during the races and fleet level GPS analysis with individual statistics. Seven members have signed up for the BBWP – we need 10 to make it viable. If you are interested in the program, please sign up here.
Time to Pay Up
Annual Dues are required to be paid by the end of the month. (You should have received an invoice from the Secretary a few weeks ago.) Most of our expenses occur during the winter months, when our maintenance program is in full swing, so we need everyone to pay up on time. Thanks to the 38% of members who have already done so. The other 62% of you, please hop online and pay your dues today. Thanks.
Big Boat Race Report
It was an absolutely sparkling afternoon; warm without being hot, a 10-15 knot sea breeze; an almost empty harbour (the 18s are finished for the season, the summers championships are done). But the DBSC big boats were racing!On shore, it was DBSC’s Community Day, with sausages and jumping castles and families; the wharf was crowded with young things headed for ’The Island’. Word was it was that strange site’s last day for the season. And this morning was the end of daylight saving, the turn of the seasons.6 boats presented, all competitive; what would happen today? John Vasey kindly provided the start – from the Paul Adam – starting the start sequence punctually at 1.00pm; and he provided also a well-placed mark at Point Piper.Corinna won the start, but proved uncharacteristically restrained upwind, rounding the first mark fourth behind Sanity, Chenonceau and T&T. She had to fight to stay in touch on the shy reach to Taylor’s
The Week Ahead
Saturday 13 April, 2pm Start – Autumn Pointscore Heats 13 & 14. This is the last Pointscore of the season, and the competition is tight. This is especially true in the Standard Fleet, where only 6 points separate leaders Hadrien, Max and Steve London. So, make sure you come out and make the most of it.