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Double Bay NSW 2028
Australia

The best ILCA / Laser sailing club in the world, located in Double Bay on Sydney Harbour.

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Volly of the week

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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 Daryl Lawrence. Each week Daryl prepares the handicaps and publishes the results. This is a time consuming job, with plenty of “feedback” (and heckling when he places well).

Darryl (centre) loves the social functions almost as much as he loves the handicap job!

Thank you to the many people who have already nominated to take on a task in the club’s long list of duties. If you have yet to do so, can you please contact Kirk Marcolina, to discuss how best you can become involved.

The club is full of people making wonderful contributions around the place, and sometimes behind the scenes. Let us know who deserves a mention!

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Postcard from the Isle of Wight

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While some of our members are away competing, others are busy… lunching?

We received this lovely photo from the Isle of Wight where Diana Chen and Emily Ball recently caught up with Pippa Batchelor.

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Away results

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We have a number of Double Bay sailors who have been representing the club at various events recently that deserve our congratulations.

Over in Mexico we have our older sailors competing in the masters’ world championships.

Congratulations to:

Brett Beyer - 1st Grand Master ILCA7 Masters World Championship

Rod Barnes - 9th Master Fleet ILCA7 Masters World Championship

Pat Levy and Martin White are currently competing at the ILCA 6 Masters World Championship, and we wish them luck and fair winds over the next few days of racing.

And over the weekend, some of our younger sailors competed at the East Coast Championships at GRSC. Congratulations to:

Daniel Costandi – 1st Laser Radial

Sylvie Stannage – 2nd Laser Radial

Brooke Wilson – 3rd Laser Radial

Alexander Bijkerk – 4th Laser Radial

Evie Saunders – 5th Laser Radial

Quentin Burns – 7th Laser Radial

James Hayhoe – 10th Laser Radial

If you are competing at away events, please don’t forget to register DBSC as your club (or one of them) and let us know where you’re competing!

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RACE REPORT 05 JUNE 2022

Daryl Lawrence

Our PRO on the day, Daryl Lawrence, reports:

A cold stiff 15knot breeze from NNW greeted a sparse fleet for Sunday morning. Seven standard rigs plus one visitor and nine radial sailors raced heats 13, 14 and 15 over a short course tucked well into Double Bay. The course was lengthened for heat 15 with little time wasted between races. It meant everyone was back to shore by 10:30 for Paul's hearty vegetable soup and a hot shower. The Championship results saw Evie Saunders score three bullets by convincing margins. Full rig heats were shared by Geoff Kirk (heats 13 and 15), and Nick Pellow took out heat 14. On handicap, Evie won heat 13, and Brooke Wilson won both 14 and 15 ... so an all-female affair for the radials. The standard riggers saw Geoff Kirk winning heat 13, Nick for heat 14 and Mark Lewkovitz in heat 15. Thanks to Daryl, Jim  and Coté on the Jazzman, and Richo and Kerryn freezing in the RIB.

Full results for both series are available on our website.

Photos by Kerryn Smith

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NOT ALWAYS AS IT LOOKS

Kirk Marcolina

Sometimes things aren’t always what they look like…

Last week it was reported that Martin White had a capsize problem at the bottom mark and spent some time there. Martin has corrected us that this was not quite the case. He did have an incident with another boat and waited to collect himself and ensure the other sailor was okay. Upon realising the fleet were some distance ahead by then, he did some mark rounding practice.

There’s an important point in all of this, which is the obligation under the racing rules to render assistance. The Racing Rules of Sailing are all rooted in the basic principle of sportsmanship. So much so, that the very first rule of racing (1.1) reads, “A boat, competitor or support person shall give all possible help to any person or vessel in danger.”

We’d like to congratulate Martin on this display of sportsmanship at the club, and wish him, and our other Masters sailors heading to the world championships in Mexico, the very best for the event.

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VOLLY OF THE WEEK

Kirk Marcolina

Double Bay Sailing Club is managed and run entirely by volunteers. As the saying goes, “many hands make light work”. There are always tasks to be done in the upkeep of our clubhouse and the ongoing running of dinghy racing.

This week we’d like to thank our incredible Newsletter Editor, Kate McHugh. Writing this weekly summary of the goings-on at DBSC is no easy task. It requires endless hours of speaking to various DBSC members and then distilling this information into an easy to read format. For the past year and a half, Kate has done a stellar job of chasing up the news and publishing it every Wednesday morning. The newsletter is the most vital way that the club communicates important events, race results, and milestones and it couldn’t happen without Kate.     

So hats off to Kate and the many others who take on volunteer tasks at DBSC. If you have yet to do so, please contact Kirk Marcolina HERE to discuss how you can get involved.  

The club is full of people making wonderful contributions around the place, and sometimes behind the scenes. Let us know who deserves a mention!

Kate McHugh, Newsletter Editor extraordinaire

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ARE YOU IN NEED OF BOAT REPAIRS?

Kirk Marcolina

Mike Dunne is organising a service some repairs for his boat over the winter with an Authorised Laser Repairer. If enough people are interested, he may come to our boat shed instead of us having to transport the boats to him. If you are in need of some boat works and interested in coordinating with Mike please contact Mike or email newsletter@dbsc.com.au in order to compile a list of interested people.

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Race report 29 May 2022

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Our PRO on the day, Christine Patton, reports:

After a series of wet Sunday mornings in this Winter Championship Sunday dawned dry and relatively warm with a gentle Westerly (with a touch of South) breeze already blowing.    All pretty much predicted by Richard George in last week’s report.

Three clean races got off without recall or restart in a steady 14 knot oscillating wind gusting to 18 knots.

Firstly, hats off to the newer and/or rusty sailors who joined the fleet today.   The day started as a perfect day for such sailors but by the end of the day we saw several white laser bottoms around the bay, but everyone persisted, including a very wet David Evenden determined to finish the last race.  Thanks to Richard Au and Owen Kenny in the RIB keeping the course square and the sailors safe.

In the Standard rigs Alex Bijkerk clinched the day with 2 out of 3 wins despite carving up the dance floor on Saturday, with Daniel Costandi taking the final win of the day, showing us how to hike a boat flat (see photo) in puffy shifty conditions. Rob Vann was a consistent third in that pack. 

Sylvie Stannage won the day but was challenged in the second race by Ian Alexander who is loving the Radial sail!  Andrew Cox (photo) improved all day to take a second in Race 3 where Evie Saunders, in her first showing of the winter sailed away to a convincing lead.

The Jazzman played host to the happy team of Christine Patton and Jason Wilkin ably assisted by scribe Ben Buford (Charley’s Dad) who enjoyed the morning. The highlight was the entertainment provided by Martin White in the third race who capsized in spectacular form at the leeward mark, stayed capsized for some time, retired then went back to practice rounding the same mark several times.  All of that to say ‘Good sailing’ to our Masters group who are off to Mexico next week to race in the Masters Worlds.  

 

Full results for both series are available on our website.

And a big thanks also to Paul Adam, who made a delicious soup, which warmed everyone up after a windy and brisk morning.

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