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Important membership information

Double Bay Sailing Club has migrated our membership management to a secure member management system provided by Australian Sailing and RevSport. Please keep an eye out for an email containing information about your membership. This system will be used for managing membership subscriptions. Please keep an eye out in your email for information on our new secure member management system which is provided by Australian Sailing and RevSport. The new system will be used this year for issuing invoices for your membership. You will shortly receive an email from “Double Bay Sailing Club” containing a link to your membership invoice. Click on “View invoice & pay” to launch a web browser displaying your subscription commitment breakdown for the year to come (May 2022 to April 2023). From the web page you have the option to “Download” a PDF copy of the invoice for your records, and using the “How to pay” area of the web page you can select

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This weekend

This Saturday is Easter Saturday, and the club will host an Easter hunt with a difference.The course will be:>> Yellow YA mark to east of Bradleys Head – starboard rounding>> Wedding Cake east – port rounding>> Yellow YA mark off Washaway Beach (Nudist Beach) – starboard rounding>> Wedding Cake east – starboard rounding>> DBSC finish line

 Please note the yellow YA marks must be rounded to starboard (right hand turns)!There will be support boats accompanying the fleet crossing the sound.The intention is to run a handicapped start, with your handicap provided on the day.

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Race report 09 April 2022

On a rare sunny Saturday (for this year at least), the club held ocean pointscore races 9 & 10 in a fading ENE breeze. Our on water team was forced to shorten and then shorten again the second race, with some noting they missed their opportunity to catch up on the final lap!Racing was managed by PRO Geoff Kirk, LTRAR Tim Heath assisted by COTD Kate McHugh and CoCOTD Pia Hattersley. Driving the sandwich presses with Shirley and Paul were John Verco and Jim Dounis. In the standard rigs, 215000 (sorry, I don’t know your name and you need to update it in the results/sign on sheet as well) and Jason Wilkins were race winners and in the radial rigs, Pat Levy and Ian Tudball were victorious.Full results are available on the website.

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THE 2022 J.J. GILTINAN TROPHY REGATTA

Paul Adam has kindly submitted the following report on the recent 18’ skiff regatta held at the club.The JJ Giltinan Trophy is awarded to the winner of the 18 footers world championship. The 2022 championship was held from 4 March to 13 March. After several years of restrictions due to COVID, this year’s event was slightly more normal, in that there were crews from Germany and Denmark as well as Interstate boats from Queensland and WA competing. However, in other respects it was one of the most unusual trophy periods I can remember with frequent heavy rain and at times very strong winds. Racing on the Tuesday was abandoned, with the boats preparing to start, when heavy rain and strong winds made visibility negligible and the PRO judged sailing conditions unsuitable. For the first time in many years this meant that the Friday lay day became a race day, so

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This weekend

This weekend the club will host heats 5&6 of the Autumn pointscore.Partners and family are welcome to come out on our support boats (RIBs and Jazzman) during racing. If you would like to come along, please email Mark Crowhurst to ensure there is adequate space. If you need to plan further ahead, the club calendar can be viewed (and subscribed to) here.

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Sailing stories with Malcolm Page

On Wednesday 16 March the club hosted “Sailing Stories” with Malcolm Page. In a Parkinson style interview, club member Martin White interviewed Malcolm on his sailing story from humble beginnings in dinghies at Hunters Hill Sailing Club to the success of world championships and Olympic gold medals.Malcolm was generous with his insights and candour, providing may amusing anecdotes and back stories on the evening. The club is grateful to be able to host sailors like Malcolm, who not only are generous with their time, but their experience and knowledge, and providing great insights into the experiences at the really pointy end of the fleet.There are many people who contributed to making this night special including Martin for his interviewing and preparation (and also luring Malcolm to the club), John Vasey for the stage and sound set up, Diana Chen who makes every event at the club professional, Peter Collie for being

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