Category: Latest from Double Bay Sailing Club

Race report 3 September 2022

From our PRO Ash Deacon:Wet, windy, wild and a tad cold might best describe the opener to the 2022/23 season and Club Championships heats 1 & 2.  Thankfully the >25 knot forecast breeze didn’t quite eventuate albeit many in the 25+ boat fleet assured me it felt like it, and we saw a lot of sailors capsizing to test the water temperature.It was clear that the fleet of ‘true believers’ were keen to race as evident by the hotly contested starts resulting in a few general and individual recalls, black flags, and one OCS.  The team on the yacht Smitten, generously loaned Kirk Marcolina, David Murphy, Justin Davey and Simon Stone, had an excellent and elevated vantage point to view each start.  For future reference, anyone OCS is super easy to detect from Smitten !!The SE course was set early in the day by Craig Sheers (COTD) with Scott Hunter & Quinn Pierson assisting on the water.  By race time the breeze had settled to around 16 knots punctuated with lots of bullets

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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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Clubhouse use this week (Tuesday to Thursday)

Jonathan Stone is hosting a function at the club this week with the Society for Acquired Resilience.He writes:Dear fellow members, sailors.Later this month (September 27 – 29 to be precise) another scientific meeting will, with the permission of the DBSC Management Committee, be held at the Clubhouse. It is a sequel to a meeting held in 2020 (March 9 – 11), just before the COVID lockdowns began.The theme of the meeting is ‘healthy ageing’. There will be ~ 25 presentations from scientists around the world on a phenomenon known as ‘acquired resilience’, the way everyday stresses (like exercise, hypoxia, hunger, solar radiations, and toxins in plants) induce measure improvements in the health of – anyone. Because the young enjoy the resilience of youth, the benefits of exercise, diet management and light-used-as-therapy are more marked in older people. But the benefits can be measured in the young and can be powerful

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Race report 17 September 2022

The day was dominated by rain shifting the breeze around before it returned to the gradient W/NW when the clouds moved away. During briefing there was a heavy dark rain cloud to the south which came in during launching with a big gust. This left shift wasn’t permanent and by the first start, the breeze had moved back toward the right (west) again).The race committee comprised of Luke Parker (PRO) and Richard George (LTRAR), assisted by Diana Chen (COTD and photography) and Owen Kenny (Co-COTD) had their work cut out for them, getting three flights of racing off on time and in quick succession, so sailors could return to shore to watch the football finals.Many thanks also to Ben Byford and Craig Ryan for assisting in a second RIB on the water while David Evenden and Ian Tudball assisted Paul and Shirley driving the sandwich presses in the canteen.

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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 Peter Collie. Peter does many “invisible” tasks around the club, helping with canteen coordination, cooking championship BBQs and as our resident professional photographer. Peter also coordinates all of the event bookings at the club, as well as securing the ongoing hire of the premises for yoga when we aren’t using the clubhouse. Peter and Diana were also the coordinators of our recent season opening dinner, which was a roaring success.

Peter at the Season Opening Dinner

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Upcoming regattas

Following are a list of upcoming regattas.

For further information on laser events please check out the NSW ACT Laser Association events page.David Newman, our laser representative will be helping to coordinate travel for the Coast Championships and the State Open and Masters championships. These weekends away are legendary so stay tuned for further details.

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