Category: Latest from Double Bay Sailing Club

60 seconds with Andrea Kraus

We are welcoming another new member this week – Andrew Krause. Be sure to give him a friendly welcome when you see him!How old were you when you first stepped on a boat?I was 8 years old If money (and sailing ability) were no limit, what boat would you buy?Wally 145What is your ultimate sailing goal?Have fun and try to be in the group when racingTell us the story behind the name of your Laser?I just bought PEB, but if possible I would like to change the name to something a bit more Italian…was thinking of Picciottina.If you could add any ingredient to DBSC’s world’s best toasties – what would it be?Less ingredient better, love just a cheese on toast. Simple and good.What are your second/third favourite hobbies (assuming sailing is #1)?Love to play tennis, and go to camp cove for a swim in the morning.Describe what you do for work

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And another new member!

Former club secretary Emily Ball and her partner Robbie have recently added to the club’s membership waiting list! They have welcomed baby William Perry into the world on Fri 25 March. At 3.7kg they are hopeful he’ll become a standard rig sailor!Emily, William and Robbie are all well and everyone is enjoying getting to know each other and the many cuddles.

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Important membership information

Double Bay Sailing Club has migrated our membership management to a secure member management system provided by Australian Sailing and RevSport. Please keep an eye out for an email containing information about your membership. This system will be used for managing membership subscriptions. Please keep an eye out in your email for information on our new secure member management system which is provided by Australian Sailing and RevSport. The new system will be used this year for issuing invoices for your membership. You will shortly receive an email from “Double Bay Sailing Club” containing a link to your membership invoice. Click on “View invoice & pay” to launch a web browser displaying your subscription commitment breakdown for the year to come (May 2022 to April 2023). From the web page you have the option to “Download” a PDF copy of the invoice for your records, and using the “How to pay” area of the web page you can select

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Upcoming training

From time to time the club runs proficiency and skills training to ensure the safe and smooth operation of racing, most notably powerboat handling and first aid training. Mark Crowhurst maintains a list of people seeking training (and refreshers) and when we have a critical mass training is arranged. If you believe you require training, please contact Mark by email.

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Help at the nationals!

The club will be lending a RIB to Georges River Sailing Club for the Australian Championships (open and youth) which will be held on 2-8 January. If you, or your non racing family members, are able to assist GRSC in driving the RIB on any of these days, please contact the commodore.Furthermore, GRSC are seeking all kinds of volunteers in hosting this event. If you are available on race days 2-8 January it would be much appreciated. Please contact GRSC Laser Class Captain David Early if you can help.

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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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