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This weekend

Learn to race will be on this Saturday from 08:30am. Please confirm your attendance with Martin White.This weekend the club will host heats 3&4 of the Autumn pointscore.Partners and family are welcome to come out on our support boats (RIBs and Jazzman) during racing. If you would like to come along, please email Mark Crowhurst to ensure there is adequate space. mark.crowhurst@gmail.comIf you need to plan further ahead, the club calendar can be viewed (and subscribed to) here.

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Winter sailing and BBWP

Winter sailing will be returning this year. The winter series will be 30 races held over 10 Sundays from 1 May 2022 to 24 July 2022 (that is, 3 races each Sunday). There will be no racing during the school holidays. (3 Jul, 10 Jul, 17 Jul). The calendar is on the website.This year there will be a handicapped pointscore held in conjunction with the championship for every race. We encourage everyone to participate as there are trophies and honour boards at stake!In conjunction with the winter series, Brett Beyer will offer a Brett Beyer Winter Program (BBWP) for 6 weeks (18 races) on 8 May, 15 May, 12 Jun, 19 Jun, 26 Jun, 24 Jul.  The cost of the program is $360 for all 6 weeks. BBWP subscribers will carry a GPS during each race and will later receive a report and animation showing their GPS tracks vs the fleet, together with

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60 seconds with Mark Gray

He sure has taken his time to do his Q&A, but the timing is impeccable given our session with Malcolm Page on Wednesday. Also, check out those socks from the 1980s!How old were you when you first stepped on a boat? 8 years old. I did a learn to sail course over the 1985/86 season at Hunters Hill Sailing Club with my older brother. My first sail there was in a Manly Junior with the then recently-crowned Australian National MJ Champion, Malcolm Page. If money (& sailing ability) were no limit, what boat would you buy? Beneteau Oceanis 50 or something similar. What is your sailing goal? Sailing holidays in the Mediterranean with family and friends. Tell us the back story to your laser’s name? I bought my Laser second hand and liked the name it came with – “Zone”. When I eventually buy a new Laser, it will be named “Zone II”, as a tribute to the transport zone

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This weekend

This weekend we return to Club Championship heats 7 & 8. The club will be hosting a bbq after racing and family, friends and learn to race attendees are invited to join us after racing for the festivities.Partners and family are also welcome to come out on our support boats (RIBs and Jazzman) during racing. If you would like to come along, please email Mark Crowhurst to ensure there is adequate space. The 18’ skiffs continue racing the J.J. Giltinan Regatta at the club (racing continues to 13 March). There are likely to be 18s in the park all week. There are likely to be boats and their respective crews doing repairs in the evening, and overnight security, so if you’re dropping in the club out of hours, you might find more company than usual.

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No RSVP, no pizza

The club will be continuing our sailing stories events for members, this time with Malcolm Page on Wednesday 16th March after twilight sailing. More details about Malcolm can be found here.We will be serving pizzas at 7.30pm for everyone to be seated at 7.45pm.  If you intend on attending this event, please RSVP so that you are appropriately catered for with Pizza AND SEATING. 

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Winter sailing and BBWP

Winter sailing will be returning this year. The winter series will be 30 races held over 10 Sundays from 1 May 2022 to 24 July 2022 (that is, 3 races each Sunday). There will be no racing during the school holidays. (3 Jul, 10 Jul, 17 Jul). The calendar is on the website.This year there will be a handicapped pointscore held in conjunction with the championship for every race. We encourage everyone to participate as there are trophies and honour boards at stake!In conjunction with the winter series, Brett Beyer will offer a Brett Beyer Winter Program (BBWP) for 6 weeks (18 races) on 8 May, 15 May, 12 Jun, 19 Jun, 26 Jun, 24 Jul.  The cost of the program is $360 for all 6 weeks. BBWP subscribers will carry a GPS during each race and will later receive a report and animation showing their GPS tracks vs the fleet, together with

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New member – David Evenden

David Evenden has joined the club after purchasing James Johnson’s laser. If you see him around the club, please be sure to give him a warm welcome. In the meantime, here is a little about David to help you get to know him.How old were you when you first stepped on a boat? My family came back to Australia from Europe on P & O’s Arcadia when I was 5 years old. I must have been 7 or 8 when I went on my first sailboat, with a school mate and his dad on Pittwater.If money (and sailing ability) were no limit, what boat would you buy? A Pogo 40, because this makes me excited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osFEjGyXMZIWhat is your ultimate sailing goal? Cruising the Pacific. And doing a few offshore races with my own crew.Tell us the story behind the name of your Laser? I bought “Question of Balance” from barrister James Johnson, who I came

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Notes from afar

Mark Bethwaite has reported in from dinner in Villenfranche with good company, former DBSC member Hadrien Bourley. Hadrien returned to Monaco last year where he and Elle finally married after two years of COVID-postponement.Hadrien is well but missing the crew at DBSC. And we’re missing him. On the upside, there’s been more space at the pin end of the start line for the standard fleet since he returned to Monaco!

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