WHAT'S GOING ON

Annual Member Competency Training Morning

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 19 October 2024 from 9am - 12pm before racing.
We are asking ALL members to plan to attend our annual Competency Training on the morning of Saturday, 23 November.
No matter how experienced you are, your attendance is required. There will be 3 stations based around Safety and Frist Aid, Race Management and Club Gear (laying marks, anchors, ribs, davits, radios)

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Saturday 14 September

  • Learn-to-Race: 9am

  • Spring Point Score Races 1 & 2 (1pm briefing, 2pm first warning)

    • Brett Beyer Saturday Program (BBSP)

• Saturday 21 September

  • Club Championship Races 3 & 4 (1pm briefing, 2pm first warning)

    • BBSP

  • BBQ on the Deck after racing

• Saturday 28 September

  • Learn-to-Race: 9am

  • Spring Point Score Races 3 & 4 (1pm briefing, 2pm first warning)

    • BBSP

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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 Monday evening.

View all racing results here.
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Make a tax deductible donation to DBSC here.

Season Opening Dinner - Sailors & Volunteers 2024

(Photos Peter Collie)

Double Bay Sailors and Volunteers got dolled up for a smashing night out with a bit of knees up at the Lord Dudley last Friday. All our favorite British Icons came out of the woodwork to shake off the winter blues and celebrate the traditional opening of the sailing season.

We were chuffed to bits to catchup for a chinwag, eating the scrummy pub fare, listening to classic British tunes (cheers Tuddy Elton), when our favorite football hooligan got up and hosted a pub quiz! (Ta muchly Master Pellow it certainly hit the back of the net!).

Right so, we crack on talking poppycock till the wee small hours, shootin pool till we were snookered by our very own secretary. And then blimey before you know it we were cream crackered and almost three sheets to the wind when we hit the frog and toad.

Cheers! And look forward to seeing everyone at our first Summer Championship Series race this Saturday.

- The Gaffer

Brett Beyer Saturday Program 2024

LAST CHANCE - Sign up today - CLICK HERE

We are delighted to announce that Brett Beyer will offer his popular Brett Beyer Saturday Program (BBSP) this season at DBSC. 
Brett is an Olympic coach and 15-time Laser Masters World Champion.
There will be 8 Saturday sessions from September to December:

7 September, 14 September, 21 September, 28 September, 19 October, 2 November, 9 November, 21 December.

The cost of the program is $600 (plus merchant fees) per subscriber. We need at least 20 subscribers to proceed. The terms of the program and sign-up form can be found here.

BBSP subscribers will carry a GPS during each race (and a program bib), and will later receive a report and animation showing their GPS tracks vs the fleet, together with fleet-level commentary on each leg, and also a video with commentary of the starts. Subscribers will have access to Brett to ask questions on the water before and after each race (not during the races), and can also later ask questions on the weekly report.

WHAT'S GOING ON

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Saturday 7 September is DBSC Spring Season Opening Day

  • Club Championship Races 1 & 2 (1pm briefing, 2pm first warning)

  • BBQ on the Deck after racing

• Saturday 14 September

  • Learn-to-Race: 9am

  • Spring Point Score Races 1 & 2 (1pm briefing, 2pm first warning)

• Saturday 21 September

  • Club Championship Races 3 & 4 (1pm briefing, 2pm first warning)

  • BBQ on the Deck after racing

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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 Monday evening.

View all racing results here.
The club’s calendar can be viewed and subscribed to here.
Make a tax deductible donation to DBSC here.

RACE REPORT - SATURDAY 24 August 2024

Photos by Katie McHugh

Winter Sprint Racing

By Andrew Simpson

This was the last of the sprint race series, and the annual DBSC Working Bee in the morning ensured a good turnout, with helpers hanging around to sail in the afternoon, meaning a fleet of around 40 took to the water.

The morning weather was a little overcast with the odd shower and a Northerly breeze which the course was set to. By the time racing started at 1.00PM, the clouds had cleared, the sun was out, and the wind had shifted towards the NW and strengthened. The course was adjusted accordingly. The wind continued even more West for a while, meaning a big left bias on the first race, but returned back to a steadier NW of between 10 and 20 kts for the rest of the afternoon. Once the start line was tweaked again, the final 3 races of 5 were on a pretty true course.

We decided to start the Standards ahead of the Radials to avoid them sailing over the Radials, but Sylvie Stannage managed to sail right through that fleet anyway and won by just pipping the first full rig on the line. After that the full rigs pulled their fingers out and finished ahead of the very fast Sylvie who led the Radials home all afternoon.  Hamish Crabb mostly led in the Standards with Luke Parker close by - Luke winning one race despite a 360-penalty handed out by the PRO just before the finish line due to a start line indiscretion.

Races ran to 20 mins, so everyone had a good workout and warmup in preparation for the season start.

Thanks to Robert Bruce (LTRaR), Kate McHugh (COTD) and James Gosling (CoCOTD) for their assistance

Swarm of Worker Bees at Working Bee!!

Thankyou to all members who helped this year in our hugely successful Annual Club Working Bee and especially to vice commodore Rod Barnes for organising us and keeping us on task.

There were those who came down for the early shift at the 6am low tide - removing the rubble, rocks and glass from the beach around the new Eastern Ramp (thankyou Luke Parker for organising), and then a larger group of members were working from 8am to 11am before racing.
We had a record 60 members helping out on the day! A tribute to our volunteer club culture - coming together to support the club.

We managed to get all of our annual maintenance tasks done including: dollie maintenance, rack carpets tighten and replace, workshop cleanout and tidy up, showers and bathrooms cleaning, changeroom walls patch-ups and painting, safety gear and buoys audit and fix-up, splicing new lines for anchors and dollies, sweep out and clear the floor under the racks, cleaning tables and chairs, tidy handicappers desk, club boats maintenance and clean, LTR sails audit, clean rubbish off the southern deck, kitchen tidy and clean, cladding repairs, replacing various floor and deck boards, install new grate at washdown taps, cleanout the Jazzman and the two RIBs, various door and window seals and bolts. Thankyou Geoff Kirk who has also arranged for other trade repairs around the club - fixing gutters and other specialised fixes.

Brett Beyer Saturday Program 2024

Don’t Delay - Sign up today - CLICK HERE

We are delighted to announce that Brett Beyer will offer his popular Brett Beyer Saturday Program (BBSP) again this season at DBSC.  Brett is an Olympic coach and 15-time Laser Masters World Champion. We are very fortunate to have him working with us!
There will be 8 Saturday sessions from September to December:

7 September, 14 September, 21 September, 28 September, 19 October, 2 November, 9 November, 21 December.

The cost of the program is $600 (plus merchant fees) per subscriber. We need at least 20 subscribers to proceed. Please subscribe as soon as possible - as we need to confirm numbers. The terms of the program and sign-up form can be found here.

BBSP subscribers will carry a GPS during each race (and a program bib), and will later receive a report and animation showing their GPS tracks vs the fleet, together with fleet-level commentary on each leg, and also a video with commentary of the starts. Subscribers will have access to Brett to ask questions on the water before and after each race (not during the races), and can also later ask questions on the weekly report.

Another Work-on-your-Boat Day

Now that everyone’s spent a day on the tools sprucing up the clubhouse, Maxim Djura is once more hosting a boat hull maintenance session on Saturday, August 31st, starting at around noon. This is a perfect time to give some love to your boat and get her ready for the upcoming season! Most of what we need is in the workshop, except a buffing machine — please bring one if someone has one.

Please email Maxim if you have any questions.

WHAT'S GOING ON

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Friday August 30th: Sailor’s Season Opening Dinner

• Saturday August 31st:

  • NO RACE - BUT… Luke Parker is organising rabbit starts for those who are keen to sail. Keep an eye out for details in the WhatsApp group

  • Work-on-your boat with Maxim Djura: 12:00PM

• Saturday September 7th is DBSC Spring Season Opening Day

  • Club Championships Races 1 & 2: 2:00PM Warning

  • BBQ after racing

• Saturday September 14th:

  • Learn-to-Race: 9:00AM

  • Spring Point Score Races 1 & 2: 2:00PM Warning

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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 Monday evening.

View all racing results here.
The club’s calendar can be viewed and subscribed to here.
Make a tax deductible donation to DBSC here.

RACE REPORT - SATURDAY 17 August 2024

Photos by Van Allen and Charlotte Jenkins

Winter Sprint Racing

By Charlotte Jenkins

The wind and warmth made for a great day of sprints out on the harbour. With a fleet of over 30 boats, including about eight visitors from Middle Harbour, we went out to find a gentle 6-10 knots from the WNW as we set a windward leeward course of two laps between the two islands.

As the afternoon progressed, the breeze picked up to a solid 15 knots from the west, providing some nice hiking conditions during the big gusts. We managed to complete five races for each class, all with clean starts, where the ILCA 6’s started after 2 minutes and the ILCA 7’s after 3.

Congratulations to Sylvie Stannage, Sara Bruce, and Scott Hunter for consistently high results in the ILCA 6 fleet, and to Rod Barnes, Luke Parker and Ed Alexander in the ILCA 7 fleet. 

A big thank you to the rest of the race team who helped this day go so smoothly: Tucker McKeon as the Co-PRO, Zoe Allen as the COTD, Van Allen as the Co-COTD, Raph who helped Paul with toasties in the kitchen and John Vasey for running the Jazzman, and especially Josh who helped the youth team learn the ropes of how to set the course and run the racing.