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The Metropolitan Championships hosted by Hunters Hill Sailing Club are coming up: 8-9 March 2025. This event is for all ILCA classes and has prizes for Open, Youth and Masters age categories. HHSC is a great venue with copious rigging area, good sailing water right in front of the club and terrific viewing from Clarkes Point park.The Notice of Race is HERE. You can Enter online HERE any time up to 11.30 on 8 March at the club. (Entry fee applies)A group of members from DBSC will be making our way up the river to compete. Please contact David Newman HERE if you are planning to attend, and let him know your intentions regarding transport logistics:Trailering your Laser (and/or others) to the eventSailing (or being towed by a RIB) to the regatta and back each dayTaking a dolly up ahead of time so you can leave your boat at HHSC overnight.

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All sailing photos by Kerryn Smith

Club Championships R11 &12 / Autumn Point Score R5 & 6PRO Peter Collie reports:A challenging day for all. The wind was indecisive and did not follow the forecast; there was a strong outgoing tide, and fast traffic in the Dardanelles with the WASZP state champs. Also, not an easy place to accommodate a southerly shift which is what was predicted.Many thanks to Yves Stening and Ben Byford for their assistance on the Jazzman and Kerryn Smith and Alban Delpey in the Bergman for valiantly moving marks as things changed.That said, we set a course for the average breeze and got everyone off. Each fleet earned one black flag start aided and

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2025 ILCA Oceania & Australian Masters Championships, Westernport Yacht Club in Victoria21 – 24 February 2025 at Balnarring Beach, VictoriaWebsiteNotice of RaceEntryIf you are thinking of attending, please contact Dave NewmanCLub Look-ahead ScheduleWednesday 12 February: Twilight Sailing (5:00pm-ish splash, sailing ‘til 7:00pm)Thursday 13 February: Twilight Racing (5pm splash, Racing 5:30pm to 7:30pm)Saturday 15 February: Learn-to-Race: 9am sharpAutumn Point Score 5 & 6/Club Championship 11 & 12 combined: 2pm warningBBQ after racing: ~5pm

Thank you to the members who are sending through information for the newsletter. If you have content for the newsletter, please email it to newsletter@dbsc.com.au by Monday evening.View all racing results here.The club’s calendar can be viewed and subscribed to here.Make a tax deductible donation to DBSC here.

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DBSC often has a strong contingent at this local regatta which is held in the vicinity of the VYC. This historic one-day regatta is open to all yachts, Lasers, Finns, OK Dinghies, Cherubs, VJ’s, VS’s and historic dinghies. Handicapping is using the yardstick system. Presentation and refreshments back at the VYC after racing. Here are links to the latest information, we have (no SI’s yet).- Briefing is 12:00 live-streamed to VYC instagram page- Approximate warning signal time is from 13:30, with 3 races plannedNotice of Race HEREFree Entry is Required HERE

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Club Sprint RacingReport by Miles Greenwood and James TudballLast Saturday we had another instalment of our Youth Volunteering Program, where a team of our youth sailors manage the onshore and on-water duties. Miles Greenwood (PRO), Elouise Morgan (co-PRO), Healy Ryan and Felix Feng (COTD) and Hamish Crabb (canteen) comprised our dedicated team for the day, along with some minor assistance from James Tudball and Healy’s dad, Craig Ryan.The biggest challenge the team experienced on the day was dealing with the Sail GP exclusion zone, which was active from 2pm and encroached on our patch of the harbour! Sail GP is a great spectacle and fantastic for the sport of sailing, so our ever-positive management team happily settled on a short and sharp course, set within Double Bay, with the top mark carefully placed 50 metres south of the exclusion zone.The second biggest challenge was Hamish’s arm, which is currently in a sling.  His

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2025 Austrlian ILCA Masters Championships, Westernport Yacht Club in Victoria21 – 24 February 2025 at Balnarring Beach, VictoriaNotice of RaceEntryCLub Look-ahead ScheduleWednesday 5 February: Twilight Sailing (5:00pm-ish splash, sailing ‘til 7:00pm)Thursday 6 February: Twilight Racing (5pm splash, Racing 5:30pm to 7:30pm)Saturday 8 February: Sprint Racing (Sail GP Weekend, so 1pm start)

Thank you to the members who are sending through information for the newsletter. If you have content for the newsletter, please email it to newsletter@dbsc.com.au by Monday evening.View all racing results here.The club’s calendar can be viewed and subscribed to here.Make a tax deductible donation to DBSC here.

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Ian Tudball reports from Lake Macquarie:29 DBSC members competed at the NSW & ACT Masters on 1st & 2nd February, held at South Lake Macquarie Amateur Sailing Club.  Our contingent ensured that DBSC was the best represented club at the regatta by far.  The turnout reinforces what a diverse club we are for male and female members aged 13 years to 78 years! It was particularly exciting to have four of our female masters members at the regatta: Katie McHugh, Diana Chen, Pia Hattersley and Tory Epworth.  It was Pia and Tory’s first “away from home” regatta, and we hear it will be the first of many!  The strong representation created some significant logistics to accommodate and transport all DBSC sailors and boats. Take a bow David Newman for organising these logistics.  In a stroke of genius, Dave collared his Melbourne sailing dad, Peter, to combine a Sydney holiday with driving boats

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18-Footers 90th Anniversary Harbour MarathonA handful of DBSC Lasers joined a range of skiff classes for this epic race. It was a gorgeous day with a 10 kt easterly. The start was just off Clark Island with the first mark (the only weather mark, it turned out) immediately SE of Shark Island. Lasers started with Cherubs and a few miscellaneous small skiffs, keeping pace with them until the first mark, when they took off and gradually disappeared into the distance. As yours truly had adopted the strategy of following the rest of the mob, not knowing the upper reaches of Sydney Harbour very well, this didn’t work out well for me. I lost the fleet somewhere in Middle Harbour and elected to cruise back.Daryl Lawrence, who clearly knows his way around the place, stuck it out to the end against an ebbing tide and dying breeze, winning the cash prize

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2025 NSW & ACT State Masters – Lake MacQuarieFebruary 1st & 2nd at South Lake Macquarie ASC at Sunshine, NSWNotice of RaceEntryCLub Look-ahead ScheduleWednesday 29 January: Twilight Sailing (5:00pm-ish splash, sailing ‘til 7:00pm)Wednesday Masters Squad Training for those who have signed up (4:30-9pm)Thursday 30 January: Twilight Racing (5pm splash, Racing 5:30pm to 7:30pm)Saturday 1 February: Harbour Marathon – 90 Years of 18 FootersLaser have a 13:55 first warning and 2pm start – Sailing Instructions HERECost is $20 for laser sailors. Registration Required – Deadline for signing up HERE is 30 January at 17:00.Wednesday 5 February: Twilight Sailing (5:00pm-ish splash, sailing ‘til 7:00pm)Thursday 6 February: Twilight Racing (5pm splash, Racing 5:30pm to 7:30pm)

Thank you to the members who are sending through information for the newsletter. If you have content for the newsletter, please email it to newsletter@dbsc.com.au by Monday evening.View all racing results here.The club’s calendar can be

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90 Years of 18 Footers in Double BayOn Saturday 1 February 2025 instead of Club racing, DBSC Laser sailors are invited to help celebrate 90 years of 18-Footer Skiffs in Double Bay. The 90th Anniversary Harbour Marathon is going to be a day full of excitement, history, and incredible competition. Register Now and be part of this historic event! ILCA sailors registering should choose the “Single Hand Boat” category at $20 (Includes a drink and food Voucher after the race)ILCA Lasers will have a small craft Warning signal at 1:55pm and 2pm Start and the winners calculated on yardstick.The expectation is for the last boat to be finished by 5pmThe Marquee will be in Steyne Park with music and a bar and food going until 8pmSailing Instructions HERE (with Map and Harbour Marks)$5,000 Prize MoneyFood, Drinks, & Live Music: After the race, enjoy delicious food, cold drinks, and live tunes

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