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Sailing stories – an evening with Malcolm Page

Save the date!The club will be continuing our sailing stories events for members, this time with Malcolm Page on Wednesday 16thMarch after twilight sailing. Malcolm is a three time Olympian and dual gold medallist in the 470 class (Qingdao and London). He was the official Australian flag bearer at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics.Malcom has won the 470 men’s world championships six times and has also won world championships in the 420 and Tasar classes. Following his retirement from Olympic sailing, Malcolm worked at World Sailing as Head of Media, before becoming Chief of Olympic Sailing for US Sailing. He has now returned to Australian Sailing assuming the role of Mixed 470 coach.

Malcolm

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Club picnic

The annual DBSC picnic was held on Sunday 31 January. The event was well-attended by members and their families. The fleet took a leisurely midday sail down to Gibsons Beach at Watsons Bay in a perfect 10-12kt NE breeze. Emily Ball hosted the picnic at Watsons Bay, ferrying supplies (and family-members) across the harbour in a RIB, and providing an excellent spread of food and beverages.  After some lively conversations and an excellent feed later, everyone headed back to DBSC. Some family members, who found themselves on a Laser for the first time, might have experienced the odd “accidental” capsize. Oops. Thanks to Emily Ball for making the day happen, and to everyone who attended!

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Lasers for sale

211474 – James Johnson is selling his laser radial, Question of Balance. $4,500. More details are available on Gumtree. 202771 – Mark Crowhurst is also selling his laser radial, Off the Mark. $5,150. More details of Mark’s boat are available on Gumtree.Please note, Mark is not leaving the club. He will continue to sail, trialling the club boat pool that the club is considering (watch this space).

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Coming up next…

Wednesday 16 February – Twilight sprintsSaturday 19 February – Learn to Race (am) | Vaucluse RegattaWednesday 23 February – Twilight sprintsSaturday 26 February – Sprints | Masters’ National Championships (Westernport, Vic)Wednesday 2 March – Twilight sprints4-13 March – JJ Giltinan Regatta (18’ skiffs)Saturday 5 March – Learn to Race (am) | Clean Up Australia Day (am) | Sprints | Metros (RPAYC)Wednesday 9 March – Twilight sprintsSaturday 12 March – Club Championships 7&8 (BBQ)Wednesday 16 March – Twilight sprintsSaturday 19 March – Learn to Race (am) | Autumn Pointscore 3&4Wednesday 23 March – Twilight sprintsSaturday 26 March – Autumn Pointscore 5&6Wednesday 30 March – Twilight sprintsThe club calendar can be viewed (and subscribed to) here.

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Race Report 5 & 6 February

On Saturday sprint races were held at the club in fresh and squally southerly conditions. Many thanks to Matt Wenke (PRO) and Christine Patton (LTRAR) for conducting racing with the on water assistance of David Huber (COTD) and Ross Ramsay (co-COTD). In the canteen, Paul and Shirley were assisted by Mac Finlayson and Peter Collie.

Tim Heath racing at DBSC in the Sprints. (Photo: Christine Patton)

Meanwhile, a strong contingent of Double Bay sailors travelled to the Bay Sailing Centre in Port Stephens to compete in the NSW & ACT Laser Association State Masters Championships. Racing was fierce and competitive in six races over two tough days with 20+ knot southerly conditions. Our prize winners were Andrew Cox (1st radial

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Volly of the week

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 Rod Barnes. Rod has been our Laser Representative for this and last season and he has done a magnificent job of organising our travelling band of sailors – from coordinating transport arrangements to personally paying for accommodation in the blind faith that we reimburse him (we do!). Rod also spends a lot of time helping with the building and maintenance of our clubhouse. co-ordinated the jobs list for our working bee and managed the procurement and modifications to the boat hoist that we now have at the club.[Editor’s apology: we do not seem to have a good photo of Rod and his lovely smile!]The club is

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Race report 12 February 2022

On Saturday there was good attendance for the first Autumn pointscore races in a tricky east-south-easterly breeze which was affected by big shifts and rain in the second race, eventually glassing out in the second race for the standard rig fleet. There was good competitive racing with excellent execution from the on water team led by Geoff Kirk (PRO) assisted by David Airey (LTRAR), Yves Stening (COTD), Emily Ball and Richard Finlayson. Paul and Shirly were assisted in the canteen by Luke Parker and Diana Chen.Our race winners were Jason Wilkins and Alexander Bijkerk in the standard rig, and Scott Hunter and Daryl Lawrence in the radial rig. We also had two special guests – Rob Lowndes from MHASC joined the first race in the radial fleet, while in the standard fleet, Robert Krohn was visiting from San Francisco, who shouted the bar at the end of racing. He can come

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