Wednesday 13 January, 5pm Splash – Twilight SailingSaturday 16 January, 9am – Learn to Race. Come along if you want to learn more about Laser boat handling, balance, boat posture, trim, starts, tacks, gybes, boat set-up and any other race management fundamentals. Please email Martin White at HERE if you are planning on attending.Saturday 16 January, 2pm Start – Autumn Pointscore Heats 3 & 4Wednesday 20 January, 5pm Splash – Twilight SailingSaturday 23 January, 2pm Start – Autumn Pointscore Heats 5 & 6
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Official 2021 Sailing Starts This Week
We hope you all had an excellent holiday, and that the new year is off to a fantastic start. We’re planning a great year of events, and are looking forward to seeing you all back at the club this Saturday, 9 January, for the first two heats of the 2021 Autumn Pointscore. In the meantime, there will be Twilight Sailing on tonight with a 5pm splash.
COVID Rules Update
The new COVID outbreak in NSW and revised Health Orders means we’ve had to slightly modify our COVID rules. The new rules are:No more than 30 people gathered in a public place – this means we cannot rig our boats in groups of more than 30, so we need clear separation of two groups rigging in the park4m2 rule reinstated – this means we can have only 28 inside the club, 20 on the deck, 9 in the men’s changeroom, 3 in the women’s changeroom, and 2 in the canteenWe are reinstating the outdoor canteen ordering systemYou can check out our full COVIDSafe Plan and regulations HERE. Thanks for your ongoing understanding and cooperation.
Laser State Masters – Jervis Bay
The NSW & ACT Laser Association has emailed the Notice of Race and Entry details for the State Masters.Like the Open State Titles there may be a cap on entries so I suggest if you are intending on competing, jump in and enter asap.All the details are below.The event will be run with the usual format of six races over two days. The Notice of Race is HERE. Entry is $60 and you can enter HERE. It’s on again, the legendary Masters Golf Tournament will be held on Friday 12th February the day before the states. Venue is the beautiful Callala Country Golf Club and you need to arrive around noon to sign in, be allocated to a team, have a bite to eat and be ready for a 1:00pm first tee time. Cost is just $25 plus $35 for a cart if you want one. If you are intending to play please email or
Coming Up…
Wednesday 6 January, 5pm Splash – Twilight SailingSaturday 9 January, 2pm Start – Autumn Pointscore Heats 1 & 2Wednesday 13 January, 5pm Splash – Twilight SailingSaturday 16 January, 9am – Learn to Race. Come along if you want to learn more about Laser boat handling, balance, boat posture, trim, starts, tacks, gybes, boat set-up and any other race management fundamentals. Please email Martin White at HERE if you are planning on attending. Saturday 16 January, 2pm Start – Autumn Pointscore Heats 3 & 4
60 Seconds With Emily Ball…
The Watson’s Bay Adventure Picnic Day announced in this newsletter was the brainchild of Emily Bally. So, we thought it was a good time to find out more about what makes this fun-loving Brit tick. 1. How old were you when you first stepped on a boat? Aged 8 in a very tiny harbour on the Isle of Wight (off the south coast of the UK) with my dad in a Bembridge scow. I soon progressed into a topper called Topsy Turvey…… (some things never change). Sadly I stopped sailing when I left the Island to join Army school and then I never managed to get back into it. This was a big factor in moving to Sydney so I was very happy to stumble across DBSC via a random Facebook message from a UK pal’s second cousin (Marty Trembath).2. If money (& sailing ability) were no limit, what boat would you buy?An 18 Footer.
Coming Up…
Wednesday, 25 November, 5pm Splash – Twilight SprintsSaturday, 28 November, 9:30am – Mandatory Competency Training Saturday, 28 November, 2pm Start – Club Champs heats 7 & 8 and Spring Point Score heats 13 & 14Wednesday, 2 December, 5pm Splash – Twilight SprintsSaturday, 5 December, 9am – Learn to RaceSaturday, 5 December, 2pm – Sprint Racing (due to State Championship)
Race Report
It was a beautiful sunny Saturday for Spring Point Score heats 9 and 10. The 6 – 12 knot Easterly was a nice reprieve from the big winds of recent weekends. Congratulations to the competitors who came out on top after handicapping: Full Rigs: Murray Stone (heat 9), and Nick Pellow (heat 10); Radials/4.7s: Daryl Lawrence (heat 9), and Mac Finlayson (heat 10). Thanks to the race committee for putting on a well-run race day: PRO Peter Collie assisted by David Airey, COTD David Huber, CCO/CoCOTD Mark Gray, and Canteen Assistants Andrew Craker and Clare Alexander.
Sunny Saturday sailing. Photo by Diana Valia Chen.
Changeroom Changes
Based on feedback of members and the decreased numbers of COVID cases in NSW we are easing our restrictions on our changerooms / toilets, while still complying with current Health Orders. We are now allowing women to use their changeroom for showering, changing and toilet use, with a maximum of 3 women at a time in the changeroom. We are also allowing the men’s changeroom to be accessed for toilet use only. Men’s showering and changing may not take place in the men’s changeroom and only 9 men can be in the changeroom at once.
Twilights Tonight
Okay we’re getting to sound like a broken record, but tonight looks like another cracker for twilight sailing. A 19-knot NEer is forecast under a sunny sky. Check out the photo below. Who wouldn’t want a mid-week break that looks like that? Splash at 5, Brett Beyer’s program at 5:30. Hope you can make it.
Photo by Diana Valia Chen.



