Kellie Sloane Visits DBSC - Building Grant from the NSW Government
Steven London
On Saturday 8 November 2025 the NSW Member for Vaucluse Kellie Sloane visited our Race Briefing to meet the members.
Like many volunteer sailing clubs, our clubhouse is always in need of maintenance and repairs. Lucky for us our past committees and commodores have always proactively maintained our Heritage listed structure, which is held above Double Bay by 47 timber piles.
Every year the club continues to actively sets aside member funds toward commencement of the next works project on “The Piles”. This year we were successful in receiving Grant Funding from the NSW Government’s Community Building Partnerships Program. And combine with the club savings this will allow us to undertake works on the substructure of the clubhouse over the next 12 months.
Kellie Sloane at the DBSC Race Briefing
On behalf of the members, Commodore Steven London acknowledged the strong support from the NSW Government, and their continued support of our club over many years.
The grants that are made available to us especially from Government are extremely important to a community-based volunteer club like ours. They enable us to provide a safe recreational environment for the diverse members of our community, so they can get out and enjoy the Harbour and enjoy sailing as a sport. And the surge in membership participation this year is a testament to that -- our 86 boat storage locations at the club are all full, and we often have 50 Lasers out racing each week during Spring, Summer and Autumn, and 30-40 in our Winter racing program - totaling 46 weekend race days each year, and we also race every Thursday afternoon twilight, during the daylight savings months.
A big thank you also to Yves Stening (our Grants wizard) for his constant vigilance and navigational skills (not only on the water, but) guiding us through the grants process, and to our Vice Commodore Rod Barnes for commissioning the latest Substructure Inspection Report from Fontalis, and getting the project underway.
- The Commodore
