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Saturday 14-Oct: Mini clean-up of the club (noon to 1PM)Sprints (2PM start)Saturday & Sunday 14 & 15-Oct: NSW & ACT Coast Champs @ Gosford SC

Saturday 21-Oct: “Vaucluse Invitational” at DBSC (2PM warning flag)Brett Beyer Saturday ProgramBBQ after racingSaturday 28-Oct: DBSC Competency Training (9:30AM)Spring Point Score 5 & 6 (2PM warning flag)Brett Beyer Saturday Program

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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As part of our ongoing focus on safety and quality of racing, we are again conducting competency training this year for all our members. No matter how competent you think you are; you will learn something important from this training – so please come along. We are asking all members please to block out the morning of Saturday, 28 October, and plan to be at the club at 9:30am.Topics that will be covered are:·Incident management plan, First aid, CPR, defibrillator. How to use and look after our Club Gear (Davits, RIBs, Jazzman, Buoys and Anchors) Race Management – PRO and COTD instructions and course layingThe course will be taught by fellow members – David Murphy, Pat Levy, and Andrew Cox.This is important, so please come and support this critical initiative for the club.

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For those DNSC members going to Adelaide early Feb 2024 for the Laser Masters Worlds (and also those who are not), a number of DBSC Master members who are going to the Adelaide LMW, plus other sailors from overseas (ITA FRA GBR & USA to date), have expressed interest in training out of DBSC beforehand.Mark Bethwaite has offered to run sprint races on the afternoons of Sun 28, Mon 29, Tues 30, and Wed 31 Jan.  Overseas Masters may also join our racing on Sat 27 Jan, subject to boats being available.

Photo courtesy of NSW ACT Laser Association

 Actions:Would those interested in joining this pre-LMW training, please email rodbarnes@dbsc.com.au Would

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We are so excited that the club is full of regular racing members this season. As there are more sailors using the club, as well as the 18-Footers and club hires, we ask all members to try and keep the club tidy at all times. Please store all personal belongings with your boat or take them home with you each week. This includes the change rooms, shared spaces, and all nooks and crannies. This Saturday (14 October) we will be doing a mini spring clean before racing. This means any clothing, sails, spars etc. left lying around will be deemed lost property and dealt with accordingly. We appreciate your assistance on this and hope that you can treat the club as your

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Photo by Thomas Beregi

Club Spring Championships – Races 5 & 6A large fleet of 60 boats, including visitors, was met with 8 to 15 knots shifting between SSW to SSE. A southerly course was laid, with the top mark set well into Double Bay.The wind seemed to build over the course of the afternoon, gusting up to 18 knots, making for quick racing and allowing for plenty of time to enjoy the Championship BBQ.Both fleets showed some exuberance at the start of the first race, but this was promptly subdued with the appearance of the black flag.There were lots of tight battles right across the fleets in both races. While Murray narrowly won out in

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16 September 2023:Learn to Race 9AM, Club Championship Races 3 & 4Brett Beyer Saturday ProgramBBQ after Racing23 September 2023: First Aid Training 7AMSpring Pointscore 3 & 4Brett Beyer Saturday Program

30 September 2023 (long weekend):Sprints (2PM 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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We encourage all members to obtain First Aid Certification and to this end we have arranged an expert trainer (Brian Richards) to run a course at the club on Saturday, 23 September for members. The course is intensive, and is designed for those with no prior first aid training, as well as those wanting to update their skills and keep their certification current. It will start at 07:00 and will finish by noon, to allow those attending to race in the afternoon. The Club will pay for the cost of members attending the course, so book now, there is a maximum of 20 on the day.If you want to attend this course, you must email David Murphy (davidmurphy@dbsc.com.au) by Monday

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If you are starting to accumulate a heap of old sails that you no longer use, we encourage all members to recycle these. Recycled sails are made into motorbike covers, surfboard covers and bike bags, fashionable carry bags, sails for fisherman in the South Pacific, or are resold to leisure sailors through Sail Exchange.. Geoff Kirk is very kindly collecting these, so either give them to him directly at the clubhouse or contact him at gdfkirk@gmail.com.

Image courtesy www.secondwindsails.net

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Our Twilight Sailing is ramping up! Wednesday and ThursdayAfter an extensive survey of our current twilight sailors in relation to our club’s twilight sailing program, we have decided to shift our main twilight night to Thursdays as part of a three month trial, kicking off on Thursday 5 October, listed on our club’s calendar as Twilight Racing.What about Wednesdays?We will keep Wednesday as an informal sailing activity kicking off on Wednesday 4 October, listed on our club’s calendar as Twilight Sailing.Why the change?There was strong support for Thursdays as the preferred night among the existing twilight sailors, particularly due to the safety issues surrounding the CYC big boats on Wednesdays. On Thursdays, our section

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SPRING POINTSCORE Races 1 & 2Last Saturday was a near perfect day to be on Sydney Harbour with 53+ boats getting on the water. When the race crew made our way out around lunch time to lay some marks, the breeze was a 10 – 12 kt westerly north of Clark Island and some steep shifts around to the south west coming out of Rushcutters Bay. With the breeze predicted to make its way around to the south around start time and then roll slightly further east late in the afternoon, we hedged our bets and set up for a south-south westerly, hoping that we’d have only some minor adjustments to make just prior to 2pm.That plan went to custard when the sea breeze gods made an early appearance and instead dialled in a modest south easterly and leaving the start crew scrambling to find some sense and sensibility. At

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