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
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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
Congratulations to our regatta competitors!
We’ve had a large contingent of members away at regattas recently.Big congratulations go out to Evie Saunders (41), Sylvie Stannage (49), and Cote Poncell (75) who competed at the 2022 ILCA 6 Men’s & Women’s World Championships in Texas.At Lake Macquarie we had a great contingent competing in the Coasts with great camaraderie on and off the water. Congratulations to all!Standard:2. Daniel Costandi3. Campbell Patton4. Alexander Bijkerk8. David Newman12. Ian Alexander13. Geoff Kirk17. Murray Stone19. Mike DunneRadial:1. Brooke Wilson2. Martin White4. Andrew Cox9. Kate McHugh14. Pat Levy4.7:1. Healy Ryan3. Benjamin Costandi6. Charles Byford
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It's time to brush up on your PRO skills!
Everyone at the club is rostered on to help with race management during the year. To ensure our race management is up to standard, the club has arranged training with Hugh Leicester at the club this weekend.If your skills could do with a brush up, and let’s face it, we all have room for improvement, then this is your chance to learn from one of the best in the business! Hugh has been running ILCA World Championships for 20 years, is the ILCA World Council Vice President, officiated at the Tokyo Olympics and is a finalist for the 2022 National Sailing Awards as Official of the Year. Please confirm your attendance with Martin White by email or call Martin on 04106 27743.Be at the club at 08:15 for a 08:30 start!
Annual competency training – 29 October 2022
Annual Competency Training will be on 29 October at 09:45 to 12:00 (next weekend before racing). Please ensure this is marked in your calendars.
Sunday RIB driver(s) required
John Vasey graciously helps DBSC fulfil our affiliation agreement with the 18s by supplying RIB support to their fleet every Sunday. John is unavailable to do so from 30 October until the end of the year, so we need volunteers to help out. If you have a boat licence and are interested in helping, please email the commodore ASAP and/or you can see the dates required and put your name against a day in this Google sheet HERE. The day goes from about 1pm to 5pm, and we have detailed instructions from John on what’s involved (also there are other support boats out there with you). It’s a great day out on the harbour and you get a unique opportunity to see the 18 footers sailing close up. Thanks for your support!Steven London, Commodore DBSC
Sunday canteen volunteers needed
Our club fees are subsidised by the income the club earns from our Canteen for the 18s on Sundays. Almost every Sunday over the season, Paul and Shirley volunteer their time to provide the Canteen and other no-shore services for the 18s. We need your help to keep this running, specifically next Sunday 23 October we need a volunteer from 11:30am to 2pm.Going forward there is a list of dates that we need helpers in this Google sheet HERE, or email the commodore. Thanks for your support! and Thankyou to Christine Patton and Clare Alexander for your help last Sunday! Steven London Commodore DBSC
Race report 15 October 2022
From our PRO Steven London:Over 20 Lasers turned out for a sunny and picturesque Saturday Sprint Racing on Sydney Harbour. The course was off Shark Island and into Rose Bay, with light shifty winds about 10 knots starting from the SE but soon shifted to the East. There were 4 sprint races about 20 minutes each, then the last race was a series of broad reaches back to the club house – up to the top mark, then Point Piper YA mark, over to the KFC and back home to the clubhouse.Winners in the Standards included Yves Stening, Luke Parker, Andrew Simpson, and in the Radials, Alistair Sutherland, David Huber, and David Airey.Thank you to our on water support Steven London (PRO), David Murphy (LTRaR), Keryyn Smith (COTD), David Devlin (CoCOTD) assisted by Derek Hand. We also had extra helpers out on the Start Boat Josh and Xander who cheered
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 our resident architect, John Chesterman. John is always helping behind the scenes putting considerable efforts into current projects like the redesign of the Handicapping Table area which will include storage for a lot of the gear that currently sits on display on the floor or table, and also exciting future projects, like extensions to the clubhouse that are in the planning stages. When not putting his fine drawing skills to the task of designing a new deck, he can be found with the hammer and chisel making repairs to the existing deck at our annual working bee. Thank you, John!
A note on racing this weekend
The PRO is well aware of the Sydney Swan’s 4.45pm semi-final kick-off. While sailors won’t make it to the SCG in time for the game (you probably don’t have tickets anyway), expect prompt starts so we can enjoy the game. In the circumstances, expect a bias towards individual recalls vs general recalls! So don’t be a couch potato or skip sailing for the footy. With a little support from Huey, everyone can enjoy 2 races, a hot shower and be settled in front of the 18 footer’s TV for the first bounce!