East Coast Championships 10-11 June
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The East Coast Champs is on at GRSC on the 10th and 11th of June.
Laser 4.7s and Laser Radials are all included with no age restrictions.
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Lost...have you found it?
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Did anyone find - aqua fleece and pair of sailing thermo socks have been found by someone either in the clubhouse or outside from 2 Saturdays ago? It was lost during the YST training session by one of the youth DBSC members new to the club.
If so, please let Clare know at secretary@dbsc.com.au
AGM RSVPs
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By now you should have received a "paperless post" invite from Madame Secretary for the AGM. We do this to ensure there are adequate eats for the post formality feast, so please use the auto RSVP ASAP.
If you didn't receive a bait, don't despair, just reply to Clare at secretary@dbsc.com.au with name and numbers
Letter from a DBSC fan
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our newsletter travels far and wide, to members, other sailors, and a host of fans who like to read our rants and raves. The following are a few editted words from a cyber fan.....it's an amazing world we live in.......
Thank you VERY much for your continued sending your emails to me.
I am a 79 yo sailing tragic and intend to (if possible ) to Live to 150 –just to ‘bugger the Gov’t up’ – if at all possible.
I was an Army sailor for 4 Syd—Hobarts –73,74 & 75
I was the then the senior watch-keeper on the Parmelia race (from Portsmouth, Uk- Capetown- to Fremantle (we only came 5th across the line)
I have also sailed almost the length of Bass Strait—back in’67 on my wee Red jacket (it was a 17’ 3” L.O.A. Trailer sailer –round Gabo Island clockwise and high-tailed it back to Portsea
i did a couple of tours of duty in Vietnam as an interpreter and linguist
On my second tour I was tasked with showing folk how to sail a corsair; specifically it was my job to make any ‘wanna bees’ acceptable crews -- great fun was had by all I assure you
My last decent race was in the Inaugural Sydney to Rio – round Cape Horn ( of course) again I was a watch-keeper. Sadly it was the ONLY race over this ‘distance—although it WAS THE INAUGURAL RACE IT WAS THE ONLY ONE SO FAR.
At this time I do not have a yacht of ANY shape or size anywhere near my home , but I do a ‘bit’ Of kayak racing -- but that is fitness and strength AND a wee bit of genuine ‘skull-duggery’ and the distances are quite short usually less than 30 K’s- - - - - which suits me Poifectly! ! !! ! ! ! !
Kind rgds to all and Go the new piles -- glad I haven’t any at this time of my life
How to donate for the urgent work
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Hadrien with a H (and hijab)
While our sister club in Europe, Yacht Club de Monaco, is fully funded by the member's annual subscriptions, DBSC relies on members volunteering their labour, random (tax-deductible) donations and very modest annual subscriptions to fund its world-class Laser racing program and humber timber clubhouse.
Each funding model has its own pros and cons, as expounded by dual-member, Hadrien with a H:
"Back home, it was so easy to pay a big annual fee and then just drive and park the 488GTB at the club, leave the blazer in the locker room while the paid crew gets the Farr40 prepped and then enjoy the attention of the Russian guest workers after the racing. When I heard that DBSC was a sister club I expected the same. How surprising that DBSC was not only different, but better. The fees are lower, I discovered that I liked doing the volunteer stuff, and best of all I didn't have to wear the designer stuff. I even got to wear a hijab in a non-judgmental, socially progressive environment."
The point is action is required if you still want to race Lasers in the world's biggest club fleet.
We have $50k in the bank and $50k of expenditure on the remedial works occurring in the next two months, so we need money to do all the other stuff (engine maintenance, anti-fouling committee boat, etc, etc) over the winter-break necessary to ensure we have world-class Laser sailing from August 1.
To donate to the work to fix the piles of the website, the relevant part of the ASF website is: https://asf.org.au/donate/dbsc-development/.
Winter Laser Sprints
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The official (laser; see below) season is now done and dusted, but DBSCers are hardy souls needing regular sailing. And we want to be in tip top form before we host the state titles in November.
Luckily, Winter provides regular morning westerlies that constantly delivers fantastic, traffic free sailing in the area north of Clarke island. Typically the breeze is strongest at dawn and dies off by about 9.30 (as the land warms up), so the early birds get the worms. Sure it's a little cool, but it's great sailing. The cooler it is, the better the westerly blows.
This year we're trying to organise regular informal sprint racing.
Plan is we get to club at 7am. Launch at 7.30. First races from 8, or just before. Return by 9.45, club locked up by 10.30. Home to cook the loved one brunch. The suggestion is that we run sprint races, we launch a RIB each week to set a course and provide rescue support. We'll each take a turn in the RIB, and hopefully, we'll each only do a half shift (swap RIB for a laser).
We're juggling the desire of some to sail Saturdays and others who have kids sports on Saturday or who are looking for an excuse to drop church for a bit of spiritually enlightening wet hiking, so we have proposed a compromise schedule: 1st Saturday and 3rd Sunday of the month.
Peter Collie will manage a doodle account to give us a sense of who is showing up. If you are interested in joining us, Please email him on social@dbsc.com.au as he will build a seperate email list to keep people in the loop. He promises not to send the list to Nigerian scammers.
Final Big Boat Race of Season this Sunday
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apparently the big boaters are more committed than the laser sailors, and their season lasts longer. They race this week. Jonathon writes......
Dear fellow sailors
We race again next Sunday. Seabreeze promises a light south-easterly and a sunny afternoon. It should be very pleasant.
Our last race of the regular season
A 1.00pm start.
Could you let me know who will be there …….?
And remember, keep your radios on VHF 72. And turn them on!
Not enough subscriptions paid
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If you haven't paid your fee yet, please do so. More than ever, DBSC needs the fees more than you need a visit from our short necked friends, Rocco and Moose.
DBSC's subscription collection officers
But, we're not heartless. If there is a problem with paying fees (e.g. you are buying a house, you lost your job, you are thinking of getting a divorce, have drank the Kool-Aid supplied by a "financial advisor" or "wealth management" advisor, etc), please chat to the People's Prince, Troublemaker or Madame Secretary and we'll make arrangements.
For the members yet to pay their invoice, please ensure you PUT YOUR NAME BOX when you do the electronic funds transfer, please? Madame Secretary and Troublemaker don't need more work doing reconciliations.
61st People's Congress ie Presentation and AGM. (Friday, May 26, 7pm)
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Unlike our Korean or Soviet cousins, DBSC has a more ordered transfer of power. It has been so tremendous and beautiful, that the Chinese have adopted it. (If only we could have 10 minutes to explain the model in Trumpistan).
Speaking at the podium last year, our very own Dear Leader, remarked:
"The might of DBSC is not in the quality of our leading sailors, who are excellent, but in the efforts to ensure the administrative state is maintained. The Canteen Crew, The Wise Master and the other volunteers not in official club positions, help support those on the Politburo who enable racing to occur.
While sailing is definitely a discretionary activity for its participants, the work necessary to allow for sailing and racing is certainly non-discretionary. This work must be done by volunteers for small worker-clubs like DBSC. The only reason for members not to volunteer is if they have a loved-one, or least hostile acquaintance, who is volunteered on their behalf."
DBSC's formalities will be a little shorter, but no less spectacular, than those of the Korean peninsular. In short order we host our AGM, make annual presentations, then share food and drinks that Koreans can only fantasise about.
All sailors, partners, parents and friends are welcome to attend.
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