Maxim Djura will be working on his Laser over the holidays and is hoping for some company: “I will be doing maintenance on my boat in the morning and early afternoon of 30th and 31st of December. Anyone who has boat repairs to do, is welcome to join me. I have epoxy, flow coat, a polish solution, degreaser and masking tape to share. Please note that I don’t give any professional advice on repair, just the materials.”
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Learn-to-Race Looking for Spares
Have you recently replaced some of you Laser bits, but the old ones are still serviceable? The Learn-To-Race team are needing spares, in particular:Boom vangsDownhaulsRadial (ILCA 6) mast bottom sections. If you’d like to donate, please contact either Martin White or Scott Hunter.
RACE REPORT 16 December 2023
PRO Andrew Cox reports:It was a tough day for the last races in our Spring Point Score Series. During the day, the BOM readings hit all but one of the 16 points on the compass, miraculously only missing SE. Fortunately, during the race period, the official recordings only showed a 45-degree shift range from ESE to ENE. However, as those sailors who were backwinded into the water shortly after the first radial start will attest, we felt shifts on the course throughout the afternoon all the way from NE to the “missing” SE. As if that did not make course-setting (and racing) hard enough, we had the Sail Sydney ILCA 6 fleet monopolizing the Dardanelles, leaving us to set an almost due-east “average-wind” course from somewhere north of Clark Island to somewhere north of the Point Piper YA Mark. After a couple of adjustments to the start line, we were off.
Sail Sydney 2023
Photo by Beau Outteridge
Last week we had 24 DBSC members compete at Sail Sydney across all three ILCA classes. Nine sailors were in the Olympic classes section, and Fifteen sailors competed in ILCA 4’s and 6’s across the Open section. There were some brilliant results, some key learnings and positive improvements, and above all…some highly competitive and enjoyable racing on Sydney Harbour.
2023 DBSC Christmas Party
After a very physical day on the harbour (see previous article), sailors, partners, friends and family gathered for our annual Christmas Party. As the sun receded, the air cooled, and a lovely evening unfolded with great food, fine wine, cold beer and a little bit of dancing.
Thanks to all
RACE REPORT 9 December 2023
TyRrell & Rousso Race Day
PRO Ian Alexander reports:The Double Bay Sailing Club’s annual Tyrrell and Rousso event was held last weekend. The two races – the Richard Tyrrell handicap race and the Mano Rousso yardstick race allow all three classes to be pitted against each other in novel formats that pay homage to two of our great former members of DBSC.Conditions were challenging, with Sydney Harbour turning on a full NE’er gusting up to 25 knots. Despite the tough conditions, the sailors put on an impressive display of skill and determination weathering many capsizes and near misses, but were impressively well-behaved on the start line and around the race track.In
WHAT'S GOING ON
Wednesday 20-Dec: Twilight Sailing (5PM splash)Thursday 21-Dec: Twilight Racing (5PM splash)Saturday 23-Dec: Informal Sprint Racing (1:30PM splash).Monday 1 Jan – Monday 8 Jan: Oceania & Aust. Open & Youth Titles – Adelaide SCSaturday 6-Jan: No Learn to Race Club Sprints (2PM Start)
Thank you to the members who are sending through information for the newsletter. If you have content for the newsletter, please email it to newsletter@dbsc.com.au by Monday evening.View all racing results here.The club’s calendar can be viewed and subscribed to here.Make a tax deductible donation to DBSC here.
WHAT'S GOING ON
Wednesday 10-Jan: Twilight Sailing (5PM splash)Thursday 11-Jan: Twilight Racing (5PM splash)Saturday 13-Jan: Autumn Point Score Races 1 & 2 (2PM Warning)Wednesday 17-Jan: Twilight Sailing (5PM splash)Thursday 18-Jan: Twilight Racing (5PM splash) (including on-water coaching — see previous article)
A quick note from your editor on housekeeping at the club: our membership is quite full, so the facilities are getting a lot of use. This is starting to show, in terms of clutter and debris. If everyone both picks-up after themselves and also goes a bit out of their way to tidy up anything else they spot, our club will remain the sanctuary we all want it to be.
Thank you to the members who are sending through information for the newsletter. If you have content for the newsletter, please email it to newsletter@dbsc.com.au by Monday evening.View all racing results here.The club’s calendar can be viewed and
WHAT'S GOING ON
Wednesday 17-Jan: Twilight Sailing (5PM splash)Thursday 18-Jan: Twilight Racing (5PM splash) (including on-water coaching )Saturday 20-Jan: Learn-to-race (9AM start)Autumn Point Score Races 3 & 4 (2PM warning signal)
Thank you to the members who are sending through information for the newsletter. If you have content for the newsletter, please email it to newsletter@dbsc.com.au by Monday evening.View all racing results here.The club’s calendar can be viewed and subscribed to here.Make a tax deductible donation to DBSC here.
RACE REPORT 6 January 2024
Photo by the editor
A very respectable 18 Laser sailors rocked up to the start line for an afternoon of Sprint Racing, including a couple of overseas masters taking advantage of our lovely harbour to hone their racing skills in advance of next month’s Worlds in Adelaide. The weather gods were kind, turning a light and fickle easterly into a decent 16-knot nor-easter over the course of the afternoon. It was also nice to have the Clark-to-Shark racecourse area mostly uncontested and the harbour relatively traffic-free.Our American visitor showed some impressive speed (once he sorted out the start timing), finishing three of the five short races with 100+ metre leads. The racing was close, with