News and other stories about real people, places, and events in Waverley and nearby suburbs.
It’s been great weather for ducks lately. Or has it? This week a duckling took refuge in the clubhouse, such has been the weather (too intense even for ducks)! On Sunday, a duckling was found taking refuge in the clubhouse. After a merry dance around the club, John Vasey was arrange for a local WIRES volunteer to come and rescue it.
The good news is the skies are clearing and it is forecast to be sunny in time for Wednesday twilight sailing. You’d be mad to miss it!
Photo Credit: 18’ Skiffs on Facebook
We are still looking for volunteers to help fulfill our roster for the affiliation agreement with the 18’ skiffs. There are shifts in the canteen and on-water that we need some help with.Help is required in the canteen from 11:30-14:00 (you could even watch the racing on the ferry afterwards) and also on a support RIB from about 1pm to 5pm (no need to watch from the ferry as you’ll be amidst the action).If you have a couple of hours free on a Sunday afternoon, please consider helping out. View the dates we need filling (and put your named down) in this Google sheet HERE. Thanks for your support!
Along with the bruises and lost pride, on Saturday some members lost property as well. Rob Bruce collected hats on the Dene Bergman, and these have been left on a bar table in the canteen area if anyone lost one of those…Maxim Djura has lost blue optimum time OS3 watch somewhere in the men’s change room. Has anyone seen it?Luke Parker has had someone switch booties on him. He now has a pair of Vaikobi booties drying on his boat. If you have lost these and have Luke’s booties, can you please switch them back?
Saturday 29 October 0945: Safety and competency training (mandatory for all sailors and volunteers)Saturday 12 November – Women’s Regatta Training: Downwind TechniqueSunday 13 November: Battle of the Sound.19/20 November: Open and Masters State Championships, Wangi WangiSaturday 26 November – Women’s Regatta Training: Race StartsSaturday 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.
From our PRO Nick Pellow:We had a strong turnout for heats 7&8 of the Spring Pointscore. The wind was a shifty westerly varying from gusts of 20+knots down to near during the end of race 7.Each of the races had a different favoured tack to the top mark – indicating just how variable and long lasting some of the shifts were. There were some large lead changes in both fleets as the wind died and some boats were either out of wind, or in the outgoing tide, or both.The Standards saw Daniel Costandi win race 7 and Commodore London take home the chocolates for Race 8.Whilst in the Radials, Ian Tudball won race 7 with Murray Stone winning race 8.Thanks to COTD, Yves Stening supported by Ben Byford for laying a decent course given the tricky conditions. At one point they even ferried the PRO to the top mark anticipating
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 Kirk Marcolina. Kirk filled the role of newsletter editor for years. He has also been the club’s resident videographer for our events and instructional videos. Since retiring from the newsletter, Kirk has once again stepped up to another large job at the club – coordinating the distributed volunteers across the broad range of jobs to be done outside our racing roster. We are so very grateful for Kirk’s contributions.
Kirk at our season opening dinner with Max, Nick and Campbell.
Double Bay Sailing Club will now use the Sailor app for race sign on and sign off.We encourage all members – remote and local to the club – to download the app and use it for sign on this Saturday 5 November. Sign on provides us with up to the minute information on members sail numbers for scoring and helps identify who is out on the water for each race.This replaces our previous “remote sign on” web page process for remote members.It is the same app engine that is used by the Australian Laser Class Association for regattas. In the near future, this app will also incorporate our race scoring and results.More information and brief instructions can be found on the DBSC web site HERE.Or just download the app and give it a go! Sailor is available as a free download from the iTunes and Google Play Stores.
Photo: Brett Beyer
With a combination of funds from the NSW Government Local Sports Grant Program and Membership Subs, a number of volunteers have been hard at work organising and implementing this long awaited upgrade to provide our Jazzman start boat with a bimini frame and cover. While we continue to wait for the cover to be made, resident handyperson Craig Sheers donated an old sail and went to work fastening it to provide a temporary solution for racing last Saturday where it was much appreciated on one of the sunniest days we have had this season. Thank you to all those who helped in organising the funding and getting it made up, including Pat Levy, Craig Sheers and Diana Chen.
This week is the last chance to register for the early bird ticket for The Women’s Regatta.Entry fee until Sat 4 Nov is $60 (adults) / $40 (students & U18) which includes yoga, breakfast, workshops, racing, and cocktail reception.Entry fee from 5 Nov – 2 Dec is $90 (adults) / $70 (students & U18).Please note: entries will not be accepted after 5pm on 2 December.NOR available for download from thewomensregatta.com.au
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Upcoming EventsSaturday 22 October 9am: PRO training (please RSVP); VYC InvitationalSaturday 29 October 10am: 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.