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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 are always tasks to be done in the upkeep of our clubhouse and the ongoing running of dinghy racing.This week we’d like to thank our incredible Newsletter Editor, Kate McHugh. Writing this weekly summary of the goings-on at DBSC is no easy task. It requires endless hours of speaking to various DBSC members and then distilling this information into an easy to read format. For the past year and a half, Kate has done a stellar job of chasing up the news and publishing it every Wednesday morning. The newsletter is the most vital way that the club communicates important events, race results, and milestones and it couldn’t happen without Kate.     So hats off to Kate and the many others who take on volunteer tasks at DBSC. If you

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ARE YOU IN NEED OF BOAT REPAIRS?

Mike Dunne is organising a service some repairs for his boat over the winter with an Authorised Laser Repairer. If enough people are interested, he may come to our boat shed instead of us having to transport the boats to him. If you are in need of some boat works and interested in coordinating with Mike please contact Mike or email newsletter@dbsc.com.au in order to compile a list of interested people.

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Away results

We have a number of Double Bay sailors who have been representing the club at various events recently that deserve our congratulations.Over in Mexico we have our older sailors competing in the masters’ world championships.Congratulations to:Brett Beyer – 1st Grand Master ILCA7 Masters World ChampionshipRod Barnes – 9th Master Fleet ILCA7 Masters World ChampionshipPat Levy and Martin White are currently competing at the ILCA 6 Masters World Championship, and we wish them luck and fair winds over the next few days of racing.And over the weekend, some of our younger sailors competed at the East Coast Championships at GRSC. Congratulations to:Daniel Costandi – 1st Laser RadialSylvie Stannage – 2nd Laser RadialBrooke Wilson – 3rd Laser RadialAlexander Bijkerk – 4th Laser RadialEvie Saunders – 5th Laser RadialQuentin Burns – 7th Laser RadialJames Hayhoe – 10th Laser RadialIf you are competing at away events, please don’t forget to register DBSC as your

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Race report 26 June 2022

Our PRO on Sunday, David Newman, reports:With a relatively warmer morning, the cold westerly breeze was lacking and there was some scepticism we’d get racing away (including ourselves). However, we managed to get in three races of three laps with a westerly breeze isolating between 4 and 10 knots throughout the morning.  Under mostly blue skies, it was yet another glorious morning on the harbour. After a quick delay towing boats out of Double Bay, racing got underway. In the radials, Sylvie Stannage showed a clean set of heels for races 1 & 2, but after being OCS in race 3 had some work to do to chase down Quentin Burns who had a great first work, eventually just holding out the fast-charging Sylvie for the win. Ian Alexander was always in the mix with a strong performance for a 2nd in race 1 and 3rd in race 2, and

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VOTFY

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 our volunteer of the financial year, Justin Davey, for the often invisible role as Treasurer. Justin puts in unrecognised hours, days, and possibly weeks in keeping the financial books in order, entering and deciphering where each dollar came from and where each dollar goes. This has become increasingly complex task as the club grows and introduces numerous online ways of paying for things, not to mention the accounting and accruals for many of the major projects the club undertakes. This is a year-round job, culminating in the presentation at our annual general meeting. We are so very grateful for this enormous effort.

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Away, and not as far away…

Evie Saunders has been abroad, competing at Kiel Week, where she has placed an admirable 17th place in the Women’s ILCA 6 competition. Meanwhile sometimes Double Bay guest, Mara Stransky won the regatta.From less far away, Richard George is scouting new sailing locations in Roebuck Bay, Broome where it is a sunny 30 degrees!

Roebuck Bay. Photo: Richard George

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Race report 19 June 2022

On Sunday we were lucky with another bright sunny day, the winter morning south westerly of 5-10 knots, fading in the final race, and an incoming tide. With some cloud and rain about, conditions were not entirely predictable, giving racers “room to think”.Racing started half an hour later than usual, owing to a presentation at the club prior to racing (see article on recent grants, below).The race management team of Peter Collie, David Huber, Kim Ketelby and Ryan Aldrich had their work cut out for them, shortening the course for each consecutive start.The winners for the day were…Standards Championship: Race 1: Alexander Bijkerk; Race 2: Alexander Bijkerk; Race 3: Alexander BijkerkPointscore: Race 1:  Tim Heath; Race 2: Nick Pellow; Race 3: Julian TaylorRadials:Championship: Race 1:  Brooke Wilson; 2: Quentin Burns; Race 3: Brooke WilsonPointscore: Race 1:  Kerryn Smith; Race 2: Daryl Lawrence; Race 3: Brooke WilsonAfter racing we enjoyed tomato soup courtesy of

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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 Ian Tudball. Ian has assumed the role of sweeping the clubhouse under our distributed volunteering initiative, and was seen diligently sweeping the clubhouse after everyone went home on Sunday.

Ian some hours before sweeping. Photo: Peter Collie

Thank you to the many people who have already nominated to take on a task in the club’s long list of duties. If you have yet to do so, can you please contact Kirk Marcolina, to discuss

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