2019 Events Need Your RSVP

If you haven’t done so already, please RSVP for following club events:

Boat Licence Course - 20 January 

There are a few slots left for the 1-day boat licence course. The course costs members $125 and the club subsidises the other 50%. To reserve your place please make payment at the link here.

PRO/COTD Competency Training: 2 February

The session will review what you need to do as PRO/COTD and ensure you keep the fleet safe as you do your yearly volunteer duties. The course will be taught by fellow members who will provide valuable insights regardless of your experience level. Please sign up here. 

State Masters Championship - 2-3 March

DBSC members will be traveling north for the State Masters at Lake Macquarie over the weekend of 2-3 March. Please let us know if you’re able to join us for this fun weekend away here.  

2019 Brett Beyer Programs

We’re still working on the exact details of the BBSP and BBTP for 2019… costs and timings will be announced in the next newsletter (9 January) – so please stay tuned. 

Up Next and Holiday Schedule

We wish everyone a very happy Festive Season and hope 2019 brings nothing but good breezes your way. 

Please check out the holiday sailing schedule below. Also, please note the newsletter is taking a break and will return on 9 January. 

Wednesday 19 December, 5:30 start– Twilight Sailing with BBTS. We had a record 22 boats at last week’s Twilight. Let’s do it again tonight. 

Thursday 20 December & Friday 21 December – Private Functions at club. *Please see note below.

Saturday 22 December, 2pm start – Sprint Racing

Saturday 29 December, 2pm start – Informal Post-Christmas Sailing (See info below)

Saturday 5 January, 2pm start – Sprint Racing

Wednesday 9 January, 5:30 start – Twilight Sailing

Saturday 12 January, 2pm start – Autumn Point Score (and we’re back to normal) 

** Please note, there are big private functions this Thursday and Friday at the club. It would be appreciated if you could so please sail on Wednesday or Saturday this week and definitely no boat repairs. Thanks for your understanding.

Keen to Burn Off a Few Christmas Calories?

There is no racing scheduled for 29 December, but some of us will sail.  Usual time (1.15 pm briefing, 1.30 splash), usual place, probably an unusual format. There possibly won’t be a rescue boat, but we’ll try to set some sort of course. 

No canteen lunch service, so BYO leftovers. 

Sails for Sale

Chris Costandi is selling two of Daniel’s 4.7 sails. Both are in good condition and perfect for new laser sailors coming into the class:

• AUS 207493 - Was used at the Worlds in July 2017 and only a few regattas since - $200

• AUS 207493 - Was used at the Nationals in Jan 2017 and club championship racing for just a few months - $125

Please contact Chris on 0408613182 or chris.costandi@bigpond.com for further details.

Twilight Sailing Tonight

Another awesome Brett Beyer program is on tap.  We had 14 boats last week – still targeting 20 before the year is done. Please come and let’s make it happen tonight.

Christmas Party Saturday

It’s going to be a great night -- 75 people have RSVPed.  The festivities start at 7pm, so after sailing plan on going home and getting spruced up for the big night. To make the event a success we need volunteers before, during and after the party.  (Think setting up tables and chairs, bar, ice, drinks, glasses, lights, sweeping, BBQ, etc.) Please email commodore@dbsc.com.au if you’re willing to lend a hand. 

End of Year Races

This Saturday we have our famous once-a-year Tyrell and Rousso races, which are super fun formats. The Tyrell is a handicapped chase, with the slowest boat starting first and successive faster boats hunting each other down as they start over the next 5-10 minutes per their handicaps. The format makes for what is perhaps the most competitive and exciting race of the season!  The Rousso is a scratch race with a massed start, in which all boats in all classes start together – a yardstick is applied to the winner in each of the classes to determine the overall winner.  By tradition, everyone wears a Santa hat – we will hand them out on the day and hopefully have a few spare on the Jazzman for those sailing from other clubs!  Handicaps and detailed instructions will be available at the briefing (and on the Jazzman for those sailing from other clubs).

Check out the video below where Dene Bergman tells us a bit about the men the Tyrell and Rousso races are named after.

Three RSVPs Please (and more coming next week)

Competency Training 

A new initiative from the club is to host regular PRO/COTD competency and safety courses.

This is an important initiative to ensure we maintain and improve the high standards of racing and safety that our aspirations require.  We would appreciate participation from all members – and no matter how competent you think you are, you will learn something important, so please come along.

The only training for this season will be 9am on February 2nd and the topics that will be covered are:

• Course setting and mark laying / moving

• Race management

• RIB launch

• Jazzman launch

• Radio operation

• Emergency response

• Incident management plan

• Defibrillator Use 101

• CPR 101

• Off-water COTD responsibilities 

The course will be taught by fellow members provide valuable insights to all members regardless of your experience level. Please sign up here. 

Boat Licence Course

We have 4 people signed up and have 4 more slots for the 1-day boat licence course at DBSC on 20 January, 2019. All members should have this licence if you perform PRO or COTD duties. The course costs members $125 and the club subsidises the other 50%.

To reserve your place please make payment at the link here.

State Masters Championship

DBSC members will be traveling north for the State Masters at Lake Macquarie over the weekend of 2-3 March. Please let us know if you’re able to join us for this fun weekend away. So far we have 15 who have signed up… there must be more. We need to know numbers ASAP so we can organise accommodation and transport, so please register your interest here. 

2019 Brett Beyer Programs

Next week, we will be asking who wants to participate in the next instalment of the BBSP and BBTP – so get ready to get better!

Spring Point Score’s Windy Finale

A 25kt NE gradient breeze, together with Sail Sydney, saw a reduced fleet of 28 boats compete in the final heats of the Spring Point Score. The order of the day was to remain upright, and this was achieved by very few!  The second order of the day was stencilled in our brains, thanks to last week’s phrase of the day from Brett Beyer, “more Cunningham”. Thanks to Ashley Deacon and Christine Patton for perfect course setting and race management, and to Yves Stening and Chris Stannage on the water, assisted by Justin Davey and Diana Chen who generously offered to assist in the breezy conditions.  

The competition in the radial / 4.7 fleet was tight heading into the final week of the Spring Point Score.  Peter Collie, who was leading, was unable to attend, and ceded the trophy to Pat Levy with 70.0 points (who is on a roll after his winter series win), ahead of Andrew Cox on 73.5 points.  In the standards, Ashley Deacon was the clear leader on 44.5 points, well ahead of Hadrien Bourely on 53.0 points.  Well done Pat and Ashley.

Andrew Cox and Martin White battling it out on a fast reach. Photo by: Diana Valia Chen‎

DBSC Success in Sail Sydney

From 4-9 December Woollahra Sailing Club played host to Sail Sydney -- a premier, multiple fleet dinghy regatta in Sydney Harbour which is coordinated annually, attracting interstate and international competition. Many of DBSC’s youth sailors took part (along with the very youthful Pat Levy, who was the only master to compete in the radial fleet). Our sailors had some great results. In the 4.7s DBSC was on top of 22 boats: Zac West was the winner (sailing in the 4.7 and radial fleets back to back), Mark Louis 2nd, Brooke Wilson 3rd, Daniel Costandi 4th and Evie Saunders 5th.  In the Radial fleet of 27 boats Otto Henry was first, Campbell Patton was 6th, and Maddie O’Shea was 7th. And in the Standards Finn Alexander took 7th place. Well done to all!