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One of our members, Harper Spacey, travelled down to the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club in Victoria last weekend for the Vic Youth Champs.  She did extremely well: third overall and first female. She sends the following report:The 2025 Zhik Victorian Youth Championships was a great regatta. The varying winds and strong tide in Sorrento created a challenging environment to sail in, making the racing very tight and competitive. Over four days, we participated in a coaching camp, competed in a two day regatta and heard from Olympian Jim Colley who told us his story of learning to sail as a child to competing in the Paris 2024 Olympics. In the ILCA 4, there was a strong fleet of 27 boats who were all very welcoming and friendly. It was great to compete against a fleet I’d never raced with before. The first day of racing was frustrating as the dying

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Who needs an AGM when you can have an AGP? That’s right, our Annual General Party and Prizegiving has been scheduled for Friday 23 May. Sure, there will be some necessary formalities (AGM) at the start of the evening, but they’ll be over in no time, and the bulk of the night will be all about having fun. So bring along your partners (or parents) for dinner followed by singing and dancing. All Members will receive an official invite next week, so look out for it in your email, and please RSVP!VOLUNTEERS: If you can help, with Setup (Friday 23 May 5pm-7pm) or Cleanup (Saturday 24 May 8am-9am) please email marketing@dbsc.com.au

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All photos by Andrew Cox

Autumn Point Score Races 13 and 14What a glorious day! You can’t beat that balmy mid-Autumn sunshine. And there is no better place to enjoy it than DBSC. 50 sailors evidently agreed with this, lining up for some patient slo-mo racing in a fickle ~10kt breeze. With a morning southerly predicted to migrate to an afternoon easterly, the race set-up decision was left until as late as possible. The wind clocked decidedly left at about 1.30, so the course was set up in the Rose Bay channel and the first start sequence got underway at 2pm. But during the start sequence, the wind shifted decidedly back to the south, producing enormous boat bias and an

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This weekend is the DBSC Easter Saturday Race Around the Harbour. It’s a great event and there may be some chocolates floating around on the day.The intention is to run a handicap start (pursuit race) in a single combined fleet. Individual’s start times are based on your club handicap. These will be provided by the Race Team, so please ensure you make note of your individual start time PRIOR to leaving the beach.The proposed course is as shown here, but this could change on the day, depending on wind direction and strength. Further details will be provided at the briefing on Saturday.

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On Saturday 5 April 2025 the NSW Member for Vaucluse Kellie Sloane visited DBSC to meet the members and officially christen the rescue boat the new “Paul Adam” which was purchased by the club and delivered in September 2024. The new RIB is a Gemini X Waverider 650 with Yamaha F115hp outboard supplied by Sam Newton at All Marine.The

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All photos by Pia Hattersley and Karen Merchant

Club Championships Races 13 and 14 / Autumn Point Score Races 11 and 12What a stunner, gotta love where we get to play every week…  To steal from that classic “The Gods Must be Crazy”, this week the wind gods were in a league of their own. We had all manner of wind directions before the race and course-setting was basically a lottery. The first course in Rose Bay was nuts, the wind was working its way from WSW to WNW… right soooo… back to Double Bay.  And then it all died… no wind, no idea. Being on the Paul Adam is usually a relaxing way to spend an afternoon enjoying

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Last Saturday 5 April 2025 was the official opening of the two new boat ramps on the foreshore of Steyne Park, Double Bay. The event was hosted by Rodney Barnes, Vice Commodore at Double Bay Sailing Club, and welcomed guests:Kelly Sloane (NSW Member for Vaucluse) Mary-Lou Jarvis (representing WMC)Dimitri Mitsidis (representing TfNSW)Warren Sare (CEO) and Simon Nearn (Commodore) of the 18 Footers LeagueMany will recall the dilapidated state of the old ramps before work commenced in June 2024, with the western ramp being so much of a hazard that it was not in use. The new ramps project was completed in October 2024, five years

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On Sunday, the club held its annual adventure day picnic. A picture-perfect day (after our rain-check the previous week), Lasers departed DBSC shortly after noon, chaperoned by our new Paul Adam RIB to meet friends and family at Chowder Bay in Clifton Gardens, enjoying a magnificent picnic catered by Tory and Teddy under the DBSC cabana.Swimming, lunching, eating ice-creams, playing on the beach, water-pistols and sandcastles all afternoon until sailors set off for the leisurely reach/return to Double Bay. Thankyou Tory for organising us and putting on a great spread.

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Annual Membership Subscription Invoices have been sent out for 2025-26Each year in April invoices are sent out to all members, which are due for the next DBSC Sailing Year which begins on 1 May 2025. Please pay your subs on time, many of the clubs expenses like insurance, club repairs, and servicing of support RIBs are incurred over the winter period. If you have not received your invoice, please look in your Junk Mail folder for an email from Double Bay Sailing Club If you have any questions about your invoice, need help, or still can’t find it please contact secretary@dbsc.com.au (Note: the online “Pin payment” via credit card in RevSport attracts a significant service charge. It is cheaper to do a Direct Bank Transfer to the DBSC account shown on the invoice)Club Look-ahead ScheduleSaturday 12 April: Learn-to-Race (9am-12pm) Autumn Point Score Races 13 & 14 (2pm warning)Saturday 19 April

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All photos by Ian Tudball

Autumn Point Score Races 9 and 10It was a monsoonal morning on Saturday, with some models predicting a strengthening black north-easter and others predicting a continuation of the prevailing morning south-westerly, all depending on exactly when and where the low-pressure cell that had apparently plonked itself directly over the clubhouse decided to move. The race management team followed the Seabreeze model and set an ENE course strategically placed to allow rotation to the left if the forecast freshening occurred. Then, with preparations completed early, the team had plenty of time to savour the gourmet delights expertly created by Paul and Shirley, with the cheery assistance of sous chefs Michelle Power and Elle Kerin-Bourely, while

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