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
Hoist training
Rod Barnes will be conducting hoist training on Saturday 30 April at 11:30am in the clubhouse. If you require using the hoist to access your boat on non-racing days, this training is compulsory. Please confirm your attendance at this training with Rod.
Upcoming training
From time to time the club runs proficiency and skills training to ensure the safe and smooth operation of racing, most notably powerboat handling and first aid training. Mark Crowhurst maintains a list of people seeking training (and refreshers) and when we have a critical mass training is arranged. If you believe you require training, please contact Mark by email.
Mooring available!
The club has a commercial mooring available for lease in Double Bay. It is a commercial grade mooring suitable for a yacht up to 50’. If you are interested in leasing this mooring, please email the commodore.
Help at the nationals!
The club will be lending a RIB to Georges River Sailing Club for the Australian Championships (open and youth) which will be held on 2-8 January. If you, or your non racing family members, are able to assist GRSC in driving the RIB on any of these days, please contact the commodore.Furthermore, GRSC are seeking all kinds of volunteers in hosting this event. If you are available on race days 2-8 January it would be much appreciated. Please contact GRSC Laser Class Captain David Early if you can help.
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,
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
Twilight sailing, pizza and Malcolm Page
Twilight sailing is on! The forecast is for a gently ESE followed by sailing stories with Malcolm Page from 7.30pm. Please ensure you have RSVPed for the pizza!
RSVP for Malcolm and Pizza!