Category: Latest from Double Bay Sailing Club

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

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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

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It was a beautiful sunny, warm summer’s day for the start of our Autumn Pointsocre last Saturday. The gentle Southerly was fickle at times – you really had to watch for the shifts and holes. Those who paid attention to the ever changing conditions came out on top.  Those astute sailors were (after handicapping): Standards – Michael Osborne (Heat 1) and Geoff Kirk (Heat 2), Radials – Julian van Aalst (Heat 1) and Quentin Burns (Heat 2).Thanks to this week’s race management volunteers: Alistair Sutherland (PRO), assisted by James Tudball, John Vasey and Andrew Cox, and also to Paul, Shirley, Richard Finlayson and Kevin Gilroy in the canteen. Thanks also to Andrew Dixson, who was rostered for LTRaR, but awoke with flu-like symptoms and self-isolated pending testing – we appreciate his actions in protecting the club and the other members.A special acknowledgement to John Vasey, who stepped in at short notice

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Our super coach Brett Beyer is back with a full slate of training programs. Check out the details below. If you’re interested in signing up for any of the programs, please email Andrew Cox HERE. Also make sure you read all of the terms and conditions HERE. 1.     Brett Beyer Saturday Program – (BBSP)The BBSP will operate for 8 sessions as follows:  30 Jan, 6 Feb, 20 Feb, 27 Feb, 13 Mar, 20 Mar, 27 Mar, 17 Apr.A and B subscriptions are available.The B subscribers will get a fleet-level report on each race, showing:video with commentary on the starttheir GPS track each leg vs the rest of their fleettheir stats on each leg vs the rest of their fleetcomments on the performance of the fleet and correct tacticsThe A subscribers will get all the above, as well as an individual report highlighting technical and/or tactical considerations for them specifically, based on Brett’s real time

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Leave the competition behind and join us for the inaugural DBSC Watson’s Bay Adventure Picnic Day on Sunday 31 January.A 12pm splash followed by an adventure sail down the harbour, maybe stopping via a bay on the way for a quick dip, before continuing on and beaching at Watson’s Bay. We then propose enjoying a few refreshing drinks at Watson’s Bay Hotel before a beautiful sunset sail back home.Please RSVP HERE.We look forward to having you join the fun!

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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.  

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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.

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