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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Congratulations!
Congrats to DBSC members, Evie Saunders and Zander Bijkerk, who won the Qld Open State Championships in Radial and Standard rigs respectively last weekend.
Evie and Zander are pictured with NSWIS coach, Tristan Brown.
Race report 09 April 2022
On a rare sunny Saturday (for this year at least), the club held ocean pointscore races 9 & 10 in a fading ENE breeze. Our on water team was forced to shorten and then shorten again the second race, with some noting they missed their opportunity to catch up on the final lap!Racing was managed by PRO Geoff Kirk, LTRAR Tim Heath assisted by COTD Kate McHugh and CoCOTD Pia Hattersley. Driving the sandwich presses with Shirley and Paul were John Verco and Jim Dounis. In the standard rigs, 215000 (sorry, I don’t know your name and you need to update it in the results/sign on sheet as well) and Jason Wilkins were race winners and in the radial rigs, Pat Levy and Ian Tudball were victorious.Full results are available on the website.
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This weekend
This Saturday is Easter Saturday, and the club will host an Easter hunt with a difference.The course will be:>> Yellow YA mark to east of Bradleys Head – starboard rounding>> Wedding Cake east – port rounding>> Yellow YA mark off Washaway Beach (Nudist Beach) – starboard rounding>> Wedding Cake east – starboard rounding>> DBSC finish line
Please note the yellow YA marks must be rounded to starboard (right hand turns)!There will be support boats accompanying the fleet crossing the sound.The intention is to run a handicapped start, with your handicap provided on the day.
Wednesday twilight sailing
Twilight sailing continues for the final weeks of daylight savings. The forecast is for a southerly fading from 20 knots, a mostly outgoing tide, and some chance of getting wet!
This weekend
This weekend the club will host heats 5&6 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. If you need to plan further ahead, the club calendar can be viewed (and subscribed to) here.
THE 2022 J.J. GILTINAN TROPHY REGATTA
Paul Adam has kindly submitted the following report on the recent 18’ skiff regatta held at the club.The JJ Giltinan Trophy is awarded to the winner of the 18 footers world championship. The 2022 championship was held from 4 March to 13 March. After several years of restrictions due to COVID, this year’s event was slightly more normal, in that there were crews from Germany and Denmark as well as Interstate boats from Queensland and WA competing. However, in other respects it was one of the most unusual trophy periods I can remember with frequent heavy rain and at times very strong winds. Racing on the Tuesday was abandoned, with the boats preparing to start, when heavy rain and strong winds made visibility negligible and the PRO judged sailing conditions unsuitable. For the first time in many years this meant that the Friday lay day became a race day, so
Congratulations to Alexander Bijkerk
Congratulations to club member, Zander Bijkerk, who is now the national open and U24 OK Dinghy champion! See him in action on Instagram.
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This weekend
Learn to Race is scheduled for this weekend, weather permitting. If you wish to attend, keep your eyes peeled for Martin’s email later in the week. If you are interested in the learn to race program, or have any questions, please email Martin. This weekend the club will host heats 7&8 of the Autumn pointscore as well as heats 9&10 of the Club Championship. There will be a bbq after racing on the deck.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. Partners, family and Learn to Race participants are also welcome to join us after racing on the deck for the bbq.If you need to plan further ahead, the club calendar can be viewed (and subscribed to) here.