Category: Latest from Double Bay Sailing Club

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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October Long Weekend SprintsSteven London reports:Saturday was a spectacular bright and sunny day, the wind was 10 knots, gusting 15 from NNE, perfect conditions for about 30 sailors who competed in our October Long Weekend Sprints. (and a few 18 footers were also seen in practice for their coming season.)Three races were started at 2pm sharp, a long course for Sprints, with the start set in Double Bay and the top mark was midway between the Bradley’s Head clearwater mark and Shark Island.In the first race, Campbell Patton aced the Standards, and Evie Saunders was first in the radials, and Diana Chen lead the 4.7s.Race two had the same leaders, Campbell Patton, Evie Saunders, Diana Chen dominating their respective fleets.By

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Images courtesy of Australian Sailing FB page

Congratulations to the Thirteen DBSC Youth Members attended the Youth Sail NSW held at Teralba Sailing Club on Lake Macquarie.Well done to all members, and a special call out Miles Greenwood who placed 3rd in the ILCA4 fleet.

ILCA 4 Results (from a fleet of 15):3rd Miles Greenwood4th Ben Costandi7th Harriet Mclachlan9th Charlotte Jenkins12th Zoe Allen

ILCA 6 Results (from a fleet of 27):5th Sara Bruce6th Ali Braden7th Quentin Burns10th Edward Alexander11th Julian Taylor12th Charles Byford14th Cormac Johnston17th Jack Retuccia

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Wednesday 04-Oct: Twilight Sailing commences (5PM splash)Thursday 05-Oct: Twilight Racing commences (5PM splash) Members wishing to sign-up for the Thursday on water coaching please click HERESaturday 07-Oct:Learn-to-RaceSpring Championships 5 & 6 (2PM warning flag)Brett Beyer Saturday ProgramBBQ after racing

Saturday 14-Oct: Sprints (2PM start)Saturday & Sunday 14 & 15-Oct: NSW & ACT Coast Champs @ Gosford SC

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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Spring Point Score Races 3 & 4

Luke Parker reports:

A 5 to 8 knot-ish easterly greeted a fantastic fleet of over 50 Lasers for a sunny day’s racing last Saturday. The course was set in the channel towards Point Piper and Shark Island, and, as usual, the “Dardanelles” provided numerous opportunities and challenges for sailors. (For new players the Dardanelles, also known as the Strait of Gallipoli, is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Asia and Europe).It was “a thinking sailor’s breeze” as shifts and gusts came in from both directions and it was especially important to keep eyes out of the

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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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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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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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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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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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