2026 Sailors' Dinner
Steven London
All photos by Stephen Reid
Season Opening Dinner — Sailors & Volunteers
Twenty of us gathered at the Lord Dudley in Woollahra on Friday 28 August for the DBSC Sailors Season Opening Dinner, marking the start of the season. The food was excellent, the conversation better, and the evening ran a bit later than several people had planned. Not too late, mind you — plenty of the same faces were back at the club the next day for the Winter Sprints.
Peter Collie deserves a round of thanks. He transformed the room with sails for tablecloths, personalised boat-shaped place cards, and a generous supply of thimbles — enabling us to re-litigate various alleged sailing incidents over main course and settle them once and for all. Or not.
Nick Pellow then ran a cracking trivia night, with a set of questions good enough that the contest refused to resolve itself and had to be decided by a paper aeroplane fly-off. Nick has ruled that correspondence cannot be entered into. Nick, I have the pen. The scrunched-up paper ball was a valid entry as a paper aeroplane, and on further review it remains a valid entry as a paper aeroplane. Congratulations to The Thankers team, led by Andrew Cox, who (allegedly) won.
Thanks to everyone who came along, and to Peter and Nick for the setup and the entertainment. It was a fitting way to open the season. Bring on 2026/27!
Stephen Reid
