Category: Latest from Double Bay Sailing Club

Be sure to RSVP as soon as possible for the DBSC Christmas party which immediately follows the Manos Rousso and Dick Tyrell races on December 13, 2026 from 5pm. Please use the link below to say you are coming or (equally important) are not coming, as this lets us know you have not simply forgotten to reply.You can also specify any dietary preferences and if you are bringing a guest.https://www.dbsc.com.au/club-events/2025-christmas-partyLooking forward to seeing you there!

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Club Look-ahead ScheduleThursday 27 November: Twilight Racing (5pm splash)Saturday 29 November: Spring Point Score Races 11 & 12: 1pm Briefing, 2pm First warningThursday 4 December: Twilight Racing (5pm splash)Saturday 6 December:Club Championships Races 7 & 8: 1pm briefing, 2pm first warningBBQ after racingThursday 11 December: Twilight Racing (5pm splash) — last one of the yearSaturday 13 December:Learn to Race: 9am startTyrell and Rousso Races: 1pm briefing, 2pm first warningChristmas Party after racing (circa 5pm)Saturday 20 December: (last races of the year)Spring Point Score Races 13 & 14: 1pm Briefing, 2pm First warning

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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Campbell Patton and Healy Ryan showing good form. All photos by Craig Ryan.

Wangi RSL Amateur Sailing Club, Wangi, NswIan Tudball reports:Wangi is an incredibly friendly and special venue for a State Title, which was confirmed by the large entry list of 122 boats in all divisions, from 4 different states. Not many venues can boast a lush lawn rigging area only metres from the waters edge, with a club house run by friendly volunteers, and coupled with the adjoining RSL Club that pumps out live Rock’n’roll music and a good range of food.A total of 36 DBSC members attended the regatta, 28 of whom store their boats at the Club, many rely on Club trailers and

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On Saturday 8 November 2025 the NSW Member for Vaucluse Kellie Sloane visited our Race Briefing to meet the members.Like many volunteer sailing clubs, our clubhouse is always in need of maintenance and repairs. Lucky for us our past committees and commodores have always proactively maintained our Heritage listed structure, which is held above Double Bay by 47 timber piles.Every year the club continues to actively sets aside member funds toward commencement of the next works project on “The Piles”. This year we were successful in receiving Grant Funding from the NSW Government’s Community Building Partnerships Program. And combine with the club savings this will allow us to undertake works on the substructure of the clubhouse over the next 12 months.

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Sprint RACINGWith a large number of our sailors away at Wangi (see following piece), we set a north easterly sprint course for our normal 2pm start. When we headed back to the club no sailors had rigged but as 1 pm approached they arrived one-by-one until we had eight contenders for the building wind.In all we had six fast and furious races in a breeze that frequently climbed into the high twenty’s, some said over thirty knots. Big smiles all round and a few capsizes along the way. Jim Dounis was consistently 1st in the ILCA 6 while Diana Chen won all the ILCA 4 finishes. To be fair, they were each the only one in their fleet but did finish somewhere in the middle of the full rigs with a bit of self adjusted handicapping. We did lengthen the course a bit as the wind eased a bit, but then the

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Club Look-ahead ScheduleThursday 20 November: Twilight Racing (5pm splash)Saturday 22 November: Learn to Race: 9:00amSpring Point Score Races 9 & 10: 1pm Briefing, 2pm First warningThursday 27 November: Twilight Racing (5pm splash)Saturday 29 November: Spring Point Score Races 11 & 12: 1pm Briefing, 2pm First warning

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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Photos by Peter D’Arcy-King and Brendan Pollard

Spring Point Score Races 7 & 8Date: Saturday, November 8Races: 2Drama Level: Moderate-to-SpicyWind: NE Moderate, with a cameo from the NorthCourse Setting: The Diplomatic OlympicsBefore a single sail was hoisted, we found ourselves in a spirited discussion with the Squadron start boat about who’s water is it anyway, as they decided to set their course in our backyard. Their main move? Threatening to release our buoys like some kind of nautical hostage situation if we laid our wing mark to give our fleet any decent reach.After some tense radio chatter and a few deep breaths. Our marks were moved to minimise any dangers potential or real from the Squadron fleet,

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October 27, 2025I’m writing from Malta as a DBSC member to let you know that I crewed on the J/122 Noisy Oyster that won first place in IRC Class 5 of the Rolex Middle Sea Race last week. It was a great race, over a truly magnificent course, with two active volcanoes along the way. The first night on the leg to Sicily was brutal, with heavy rain that soaked everyone and everything on board. We made good progress up the Straits of Messina, and then rounded Stromboli in the dark, trimming a spinnaker as the volcano’s belching lit up the sky. There were plenty of wind holes, which required a lot of focus to get through, especially as we rounded Lampedusa. But once we hooked into some breeze on the homeward leg to Valletta, we made a steady 10 knots, up to 15 knots off the waves. It was a great victory,

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Club Look-ahead ScheduleThursday 13 November: Twilight Racing (5pm splash)Saturday 15 November: Sprint Racing (1pm briefing for 2pm start)Saturday & Sunday 15-16 November: 2025 NSW & ACT Open, Youth, Masters State Titles, Wangi ASCNORThursday 20 November: Twilight Racing (5pm splash)Saturday 22 November: Learn to Race: 9:00amSpring Point Score Races 9 & 10: 1pm Briefing, 2pm First warningThursday 27 November: Twilight Racing (5pm splash)Saturday 29 November: Spring Point Score Races 11 & 12: 1pm Briefing, 2pm First warning

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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Photos by Diana Chen and Ian Tudball

Club Championship Races 5 & 6With a BOM forecast of Light Easterly winds, the race team set out after the morning of Competency Training, and set up the course as per the forecast. It was going to be a difficult day for the RIB team – shifting the course to follow the wind. By the time we were out on the water, we had 21 Radials and 21 Standards ready to start, and what little wind there was had swung around north to and then to the north west. Race 5 was started as it shifted back and forth from the NWW to NW, and still very light – so

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