From our LTRAR David Huber:Saturday was a very busy day at the DBSC clubhouse beginning with coaching for the Women’s Regatta as well as our PRO competency session presented by Hugh Leicester.Thanks to the learnings in the PRO training perhaps, racing began on time at 1400 with sailors from Vaucluse Yacht Club, Hunters Hill Sailing Club, Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron and Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club joining Double Bay sailors for the first leg of the Vaucluse/DBSC challenge.The line was set perfectly square (as per the morning’s lesson from Hugh). The wind and sea-state certainly tested all who sailed, with the average breeze from the north at 22kts gusting to 30kts with a short high chop made sailing difficult. It was the usual Double Bay triangle with extra chaos at the wing mark gybe. There were lots of capsizes and these increased in frequency as sailors started to tire. Two
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This weekend
This weekend a contingent of sailors are heading to Lake Macquarie for the Coast Championships. Back at Double Bay, we will have sprints on Saturday.This weekend is also the first weekend of the season for the18 footers. Christine will be managing the canteen as Shirley has other commitments.We are looking for a volunteer to help Christine between 12pm and 2pm. If you are able to help, please respond to this email and your details can be forwarded to Shirley…
2022 ILCA 6 Men's & Women's World Championships
The 2022 ILCA 6 Men’s & Women’s World Championships are underway in Kemah, Texas with racing commencing 11 October. Sylvie Stannage, Evie Saunders, and Cote Poncell are competing at the event alongside the Australian Sailing Team and the best single-handed women sailors in the world. You can follow along here.
PRO Training with Hugh Leicester, Saturday 22 October 8.30am to 12 noon
Don’t miss the morning of Saturday October 22 with our guest, Hugh Leicester, joining us at DBSC to talk about Laser course management and his experience as a World Sailing representative at the recent Olympics.Hugh has great credentials. He’s been running ILCA World Championships for 20 years, is currently the ILCA World Council Vice President and is a finalist for the 2022 National Sailing Awards as Official of the Year. Hugh recently officiated at the Tokyo Olympics.For all of us helping our club with race management in any way, we need you to come along to hear Hugh impart his knowledge about race management. You’ll learn so much from one of the worlds best.Please confirm your attendance with Martin White by email. If you have any questions, feel free to call Martin on 04106 27743.
Annual Competency Training Saturday 29 October at 10am
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Coming out of COVID, we’re all rusty on the core skills we need as members and volunteers.On Saturday 29 October we will be running a competency day prior to racing. The training will be conducted from 10am to 12pm and will cover:Incident management and Basic Life SupportRunning a good race (NB this is useful for everyone, not just PROs)Safe use of the RIBs, davits, and radioPlease ensure you have done the following pre-reading:Emergency Rescue: https://www.dbsc.com.au/emergency-rescuePRO and Running a Race guidelines: https://www.dbsc.com.au/pro (both PRO and Running a Race)COTD Guidelines: https://www.dbsc.com.au/cotdBeing current with club procedures is a
The Women's Regatta and coaching clinics
We have organised a series of training clinics leading up to The Women’s Regatta in December, if you haven’t been on the water for a while or just want to improve your skills…The clinics will be held on Saturday mornings from 8:00am – 11:00am and will be coached by Sylvie Stannage at Double Bay Sailing Club. You can either attend one or all of them.The following clinics are available to be booked in advance:Saturday 22 October – Upwind TechniqueSaturday 12 November – Downwind TechniqueSaturday 26 November – Race StartsVisit thewomensregatta.com.au to get all the info on the training clinics as well as the Women’s Regatta itself – to be held 3 December, a one-day event will include races on Sydney Harbour, great food, entertainment, and activities. For the men in the club, we will be looking
This weekend
We have a busy day at the club this Saturday with PRO training (with Hugh Leicester) and a training squad for The Women’s Regatta.In the afternoon, DBSC will be hosting the first leg of our interclub with VYC.There will be a BBQ on the deck afterwards with members of Vaucluse invited to join us. In the spirit of the event, we encourage all members race and stay around for the post-race festivities!
Upcoming events and more information
Upcoming Events15/16 October: Coast Championships, SLMASCSaturday 22 October 9am: PRO training (please RSVP)Saturday 29 October 9am: Safety and competency training (mandatory for all sailors and volunteers)Sunday 13 November: Battle of the Sound.19/20 November: Open and Masters State Championships, Wangi WangiSaturday 3 December 2022: The Women’s Regatta. Sign up for more information here.The club’s calendar can be viewed and subscribed to here.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 midnight Monday.View results here.Make a tax deductible donation to DBSC here.
Wednesday twilight sailing
Besides providing critical midweek salt water therapy, the twilight program will help all sailors with boat handling. Short, sharp races with boats in close quarters. We aim to splash about 5pm and hold multiple quick races until there’s no one left. You’ll be very welcome if you can’t get there until 6pm. We’ve found we are better locating to the north of Clarke Island because the CYCA racers start at the mouth of Double Bay and also use the Point Piper YA mark in their course. So, you’ll typically find us using the naval mooring (white can) off Clarke Island as one buoy. We’ll nominate another buoy as the other mark. It could be the top or bottom depending on the breeze. We use rabbit starts to get racing underway. Someone is volunteered to be the rabbit and they move below the bottom mark. When everyone else is settled, the rabbit signals they
Race report 1 October 2022
As reported by our PRO, Robert Vann:Scattered showers in the morning cleared nicely for our afternoon racing, with a strong turnout for sprints over the long weekend. Sailors enjoyed an 8-12 knot south-easterly breeze in an ebbing tide which led to some tricky racing between Clark Island and Point Piper. The sprint courses were the standard 2X windward/leeward, running for 10-15 minutes apiece.
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It was great to see some tight racing at the top of both fleets resulting in