Category: Latest from Double Bay Sailing Club

Race report 1 October 2022

As reported by our PRO, Robert Vann:Scattered showers in the morning cleared nicely for our afternoon racing, with a strong turnout for sprints over the long weekend. Sailors enjoyed an 8-12 knot south-easterly breeze in an ebbing tide which led to some tricky racing between Clark Island and Point Piper. The sprint courses were the standard 2X windward/leeward, running for 10-15 minutes apiece.

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It was great to see some tight racing at the top of both fleets resulting in

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Volly of the week!

Double Bay Sailing Club is managed and run entirely by volunteers. As the saying goes, “many hands make light work. There is always work to be done in the upkeep of our shed and the ongoing running of dinghy racing.This week we’d like to thank Jason Wilkins. Jason has recently been helping sailors at the end of a hard day of racing, bringing trolleys into the water and helping the weary up the ramp. He was sorely missed on the weekend.

The club is full of people making wonderful contributions around the place, and sometimes behind the scenes. Let us know who deserves a mention!

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Membership survey update

From our club secretary, Tory Epworth:A big thank you to the club members (almost half of you!) who filled in our survey as well as for your insightful comments. The committee is reviewing the findings now and looking at the areas we want to improve on and how to tackle themThe obvious positive feedback is there is 87% happiness with the club overall… and some great indications about what matters the most to us a group with fleet size and competitiveness, the social aspect of our club, and the important of our volunteer culture ranking highest in terms of what is most important to us as a group. Stay tuned for more info in the coming newsletters, for more insights – plus as action plan for what we want to focus on, to continue to be ‘the best laser club in the world’.

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Training! Save the dates.

The club will be holding training before racing over 2 weekends in October.On 22 October Hugh Leicester will be joining us to provide tips and training for our PROs. Hugh is a former laser competitor and officiated one of the courses at the Tokyo Olympics. The training will be lecture style inside the club. Hugh will cover practical skills and insights from his many years of experience as a PRO, including running international events (mainly for the ILCA class) including the Olympic Games. The topics will include line length and skew, allowing for the current, predicting an unfair start, when to re-start a race, recalls, use of black flag Vs U flag, adjusting course marks for wind shifts, etc. A sign up form for this event will be available in the upcoming weeks.On 29 October the club will hold our annual safety and competency training. David Murphy will be leading

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The Women's Regatta

The Women’s RegattaThe microsite for The Women’s Regatta is now live. The organising committee will be contacting those who have pre-registered interest as well as former attendees of this event. If you know of any female sailors who will be interested in this event, please share the details!We will be asking club members for support in hosting this event, which is key to maintaining diversity at the club. In the meantime, please mark your diaries for Saturday 3 December 2022, where there will be plenty of ways for non-racing members on the day (a.k.a. men) to be involved.

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60 seconds with Healy Ryan

Healy is one of our new, junior members in the club. This week we get to find out a little more about him. If you see Healy (and his dad, Craig) at the club, please give him a warm welcome.How old were you when you first stepped on a boat? When I was 4 my brother and I had to do ‘dad overboard’ drills with a fender we called ‘dad’ in our Traditional 30 and I wasn’t strong enough to do anything other than steer and use the throttle so that was my job.If money (and sailing ability) were no limit, what boat would you buy? An IMOCA 60 (like Hugo Boss)/Clubswan 125 (Scorpio)/ F50 (Australian colours)What is your ultimate sailing goal? To be the best that I can be.Tell us the story behind the name of your Laser? Boat Name: Shift. Start (be on the start at the start)-

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Upcoming events and more information

Saturday 22 October 9am: PRO training, Vaucluse regattaSaturday 29 October 9am: Safety and competency trainingSaturday 3 December 2022: The Women’s Regatta. Sign up for more information here.The club’s calendar can be viewed and subscribed to here.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 midnight Monday.Make a tax deductible donation to DBSC here.

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