Thanks to everyone who’s volunteered to help drive a RIB during the JJs. We have just one spot left to fill – this Friday, March 1 from 1pm to 5pm. If you can If you can assist, please let Mark Crowhurst know ASAP. Thanks.
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Piling Project Support
Member for Vaucluse, Gabrielle Upton MP, visited to the club last weekend to present a cheque for $24,000. The money is from the NSW Government to replace aging piles underneath the clubhouse. This support is vital in ensuring the longevity of our historic boat shed. We are grateful to the NSW Government for the funding and thank Ms Upton for her continued support of our club.
Member for Vaucluse, Gabrielle Upton MP Presents Grant Funding to Commodore Andrew Cox.
Rainy Race Report
A rainy, gusty, shifty Southerly presented itself to a fleet of nearly 50 boats last Saturday for Club Championship heats 11 & 12 and Autumn Pointscore heats 5 & 6. With massive shifts, you had to continually be monitoring the wind to come out a winner. The results were: Championship– Standards: David Newman (Championship Heat 11) and Marty Trembath (Championship Heat 12); Radials: Campbell Patton (Championship Heats 11 & 12); 4.7s: Ian Louis (Championship Heats 11 & 12). Pointscore(after handicap): Standards: Thomas Beregi (Pointscore Heat 5) and Rod Barnes (Pointscore Heat 6); Radial / 4.7s: Ashton Scott (Pointscore Heat 5) and Emily Ball (Pointscore Heat 6). Thanks to this week’s race volunteers — Jonathan Stone (PRO) and Clare Alexander on the Jazzman, Michael Osborne and Christine Linharton the RIBs, and Alistair Sutherland in the canteen. After racing we enjoyed a beautiful BBQ at the club thanks to the Canteen Crew and Pat and Peter on the grill!
Clean Up Australia Day – This Sunday
DBSC is once again participating in Clean-Up Australia Day,thanks to the leadership of Jonathan Stone. Please come to the club for an hour or so between 11am to 2pm to help remove litter from the beaches around the club. Thanks for your support of the club’s efforts to be a good community partner in this important event.
The Week Ahead
Wednesday 27 February, 5pm – Twilight Sailing. It’s the last few weeks of daylight saving, come and join us for some big fleets. Last week we had 15 on a dreary day. Today’s forecast looks picture perfect, so let’s set a record!Saturday 2 March & Sunday 3 March – Good luck to our 20 members who are headed up to South Lake Macquarie Amateur Sailing Club for the State Masters Championship. If you’re one of them, make sure you’ve officially registered for the event here.Saturday 2 March, 2pm Start – Sprint Racing for those not going to the Masters. PLEASE NOTE — There is NO Learn to Race this week due to the Masters.Sunday 3 March, 11am to 2pm – Clean-Up Australia Day at DBSC. See details below. Sunday 3 March, 2pm Start – Big Boat Racing. Please let Jonathan Stone know if you want to join the fleet.
Coming Up
Wednesday 20 February, 5pm – Twilight Sailing. Saturday 23 February, 1pm Briefing / 2pm Start – Club Championship 11 & 12 plus Autumn Pointscore 5 & 6.Saturday 23 February, 5pm– BBQ on the Deck.
Family and Community Days – Save the Date
During the weekend of April 6-7 we’ll be sharing a bit of DBSC with our family, friends and wider community. After sailing on Saturday April 6thwe’ll have our annual Family Evening. It’s a chance to show off the club to our loved ones, and for our families to meet and mingle. We’ll have a jumping castle, RIB rides, parent / child sprint races, and a family friendly BBQ. On Sunday 7 April, from 10am to 1pm, we’re hosting our inaugural DBSC Community Day. More details will follow, but we’ll need a lot of volunteers for the day, so please mark it on your calendar.
Family Day Fun in 2018.
Boats on Floor
Do you want the good news or the bad? The good news is that the club has been at capacity all year and is now overflowing! The bad news is that this means there are two boats that live on the floor for now.One of those boats is our recently refurbished fifth club boat, and the other is a new member’s boat.The plan is to monitor the situation between now and the end of the season, waiting to see if any natural attrition occurs. In the meantime, we will be speaking to those members who are rarely at the club to see if they might be willing to move their boats until they are able to sail more often. And failing that, we are going to have to “volunteer” people to do so!Until we find a permanent solution, we appreciate your forbearance for any inconvenience the success of our club
Women Shower Thanks
You might have noticed that the women in our ranks have grown substantially over the last year. This is great news, but has caused a bit of a strain on the one shower that was previously in the women’s change room. But thanks to Pat Levy, Geoff Kirk, and Richard Bott a second shower has been created. The women are over the moon and deliriously happy with this development. They report both showers are in regular use already, so thanks to all.
Photo by Clare Alexander.
Learn to Run a Race
Every year, we have a shortage of people we can roster on as PRO for our races. We have now developed a “learn to run a race” program to address this.This program, which follows on from our club-wide competency training, is intended to provide the practical experience needed to act as PRO for our main competition races (i.e. Club Championships, Point Scores and Winter Championships). For those who have acted as a PRO before, it will be a refresher course; and for those who have not, it will be an opportunity to learn. The program will run in conjunction with Learn to Race, which is generally held on every first and third Saturday of the month from September to April. We will initially be asking selected club members to “volunteer” to participate in this program, and be rostered on for training, where you will revise / learn how to run races