Category: Latest from Double Bay Sailing Club

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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Race Report 02 April 2022

Our LTRAR volunteer, John Chesterman, has provided the following report from racing on Saturday.Multiple opinions were considered whilst setting up a relatively unusual, for DBSC, WSW course which appeared to exhibit a slight southward directional shift toward the top end and was more westerly at the start boat end near the Shark Island bottom mark. The experience of the PRO won out and once final adjustments were made the racing got underway on time. A strong outgoing tide, estimated at 2 knots, assisted clean starts to both races by keeping all boats a safe distance back from the start line.The Etchells were mostly uninterested in our DBSC triangle and there were only a couple of vague intruding yachts thinking it might be a good idea to mix it with a racing laser fleet rounding the bottom mark whilst themselves on a downwind setting.A relatively steady 12-15 Knot breeze, with little

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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 Mark Crowhurst for his contributions to the club. Mark has been a key volunteer at the club for seven years, since joining the club and volunteering for the club committee in 2016. Before taking on his current role as Vice Commodore, he was also Treasurer.Among Mark’s many contributions are his creative thinking, his fundraising skills, and his rostering efforts.Creative thinking – for example, Mark conceptualised, fundraised, and implemented our DBSC power station – which has made us a significant net contributor to the grid, creating annuity income for the club of per annum, and furthering our sustainability goals.Fundraising skills – Mark has led our grant funding

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