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This weekend

This Saturday is Easter Saturday, and the club will host an Easter hunt with a difference.The course will be:>> Yellow YA mark to east of Bradleys Head – starboard rounding>> Wedding Cake east – port rounding>> Yellow YA mark off Washaway Beach (Nudist Beach) – starboard rounding>> Wedding Cake east – starboard rounding>> DBSC finish line

 Please note the yellow YA marks must be rounded to starboard (right hand turns)!There will be support boats accompanying the fleet crossing the sound.The intention is to run a handicapped start, with your handicap provided on the day.

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Race report 26 March 2022

Our PRO, Alistair Sutherland has provided the following report from racing on Saturday.A small but enthusiastic fleet took to the water for Autumn pointscore races 5&6.Race Officers Alistair Sutherland and Derek Hand made an early call to set the windward mark up in Rose Bay, and run the racing between Shark Island and Point Piper, with the “Dardanelles” living up to its reputation as a thinking man’s game. Large shifts of up to 30 degrees in the east / southeast breeze meant that having the head out the boat and getting on the correct tack was the order of the day.  Some did better than others, with Richard George and Pat Levy taking out the wins in the two radial races.  In the standard rig, Ryan Aldrich persevered around the course and his tenacity to make sure he finished paid off with a handicap win. Mike Dunne took out the other

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Important membership information

Double Bay Sailing Club has migrated our membership management to a secure member management system provided by Australian Sailing and RevSport. Please keep an eye out for an email containing information about your membership. This system will be used for managing membership subscriptions. Please keep an eye out in your email for information on our new secure member management system which is provided by Australian Sailing and RevSport. The new system will be used this year for issuing invoices for your membership. You will shortly receive an email from “Double Bay Sailing Club” containing a link to your membership invoice. Click on “View invoice & pay” to launch a web browser displaying your subscription commitment breakdown for the year to come (May 2022 to April 2023). From the web page you have the option to “Download” a PDF copy of the invoice for your records, and using the “How to pay” area of the web page you can select

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Race report 16 April 2022

RACE REPORT SATURDAY 16 APRIL 2022On Saturday the club held the last of its LTR sessions led by Martin White and ably assisted by Pat Levy, Steven London and Peter Collie.With the breeze from the west dying at lunchtime, racers stayed back in the clubhouse for an extra half an hour after the briefing, enjoying toasties made by Rod Barnes, Jules Hall and Tim Heath. In Shirley and Paul’s absence, it’s rumoured that a rogue jar of jalapeno peppers made it into the mix (someone has been reading the 60 seconds segment).Once the breeze began to fill in again, attendees headed out the club’s inaugural Easter Hunt, designed by Rod Barnes, in what can only be described as a “light but hopeful east-nor-easter” or “better than rain’. Facilitated by PRO Justin Davey, LTRAR Finn Kirk, COTD John Conroy on the Jazzman and Co-COTD John Vasey accompanied by LTR enthusiast Amanda,

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Race report 12 March 2022

After nearly three weeks, it finally stopped raining and our club championship heats 7&8 were conducted on the brown soup formerly known as Sydney harbour in moderate north-easterly conditions.Rod Barnes cleaned up in both races for the standard rigs, while James Tudball and Andrew Cox each scored a win in the radial fleet. Full results are available on the website.

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Vollies 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 all of the volunteers who have assisted in the canteen during the J.J. Giltinan series. In particular, Shirley and Paul deserve much respect for the effort they have put into having the canteen up and running during the event, with an enormous volume of toasties for hungry 18’ skiff sailors. It has been a tremendous effort!

Shirley with Ian Tudball. Ian was just one of the volunteers who assisted Shirley and Paul during the week. Photo credit: Diana Chen

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This weekend

Learn to race will be on this Saturday from 08:30am. Please confirm your attendance with Martin White.This weekend the club will host heats 3&4 of the Autumn pointscore.Partners and family are welcome to come out on our support boats (RIBs and Jazzman) during racing. If you would like to come along, please email Mark Crowhurst to ensure there is adequate space. mark.crowhurst@gmail.comIf you need to plan further ahead, the club calendar can be viewed (and subscribed to) here.

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Winter sailing and BBWP

Winter sailing will be returning this year. The winter series will be 30 races held over 10 Sundays from 1 May 2022 to 24 July 2022 (that is, 3 races each Sunday). There will be no racing during the school holidays. (3 Jul, 10 Jul, 17 Jul). The calendar is on the website.This year there will be a handicapped pointscore held in conjunction with the championship for every race. We encourage everyone to participate as there are trophies and honour boards at stake!In conjunction with the winter series, Brett Beyer will offer a Brett Beyer Winter Program (BBWP) for 6 weeks (18 races) on 8 May, 15 May, 12 Jun, 19 Jun, 26 Jun, 24 Jul.  The cost of the program is $360 for all 6 weeks. BBWP subscribers will carry a GPS during each race and will later receive a report and animation showing their GPS tracks vs the fleet, together with

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