Upcoming events

14 July - Bastille Day. And Sunday morning Winter series heats 16-18!

24 August - The annual club working bee will be held on Saturday 24 August. All members are expected to attend and help get the club ship shape for season start in September.

30 August - The Sailors and Volunteers Season Opening Dinner is on again. Lock it in your social calendars now. It will be HUGE.

28,29 September - DBSC will host the DBSC Women’s Laser Regatta for a 2nd year running. Volunteers from the club make this event truly unique, so plan to get involved over some or all of this weekend!

Mark Bethwaite awarded the Barranjoey pin

On Saturday night we were privileged to witness one of our own receiving the Barranjoey pin at the Australian Sailing Awards at the CYCA.

Mark Bethwaite received his pin in recognition for his 2 x Olympic campaigns and his continuous competitive sailing. Sir James Hardy (who also received his pin) pinned this to Mark’s jacket. The tradition is that one Barranjoey pin recipient puts the pin onto the next one to receive the pin.

The Barranjoey pin program launched to recognise Australia's greatest sailors. 

The uniquely numbered pins will be presented around the country this year and next to those athletes who have represented and continue to represent Australia at the highest levels in sailing. It is named after the yacht ‘Barranjoey’, which was sailed to Australia’s first Olympic sailing gold medal, at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.

A very special moment, and another reminder of how deep the talent in the club runs, and also how lucky we are to have such a highly decorated sailor in our midst!

Well done Maddie!

The depth of talent at DBSC keeps getting deeper!

Madeline O’Shea – Laser Radial – just raced amongst 105 female radial sailors at the Laser Radial Youth European championships this week and came 14th overall – with 8 x top ten results!! Congrats Madeline!

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Henry flies the red, white and blue in Kiel - scores bronze

Our youth member – Otto Henry raced at Kiel Week in Germany this week flying the flag for DBSC and has won the Bronze medal in a 125 Radial fleet!! Woohoo.

Wunderbar, Otto !

Winter series chills out. Record is broken.

Hello Sunday Morning! Photo credit: Brett Beyer

As we started setting up the course in what was predicted to be a typical westerly following the 25 knot winds of the previous day we were feeling too warm and noticed the wind turning to the south. We set up a short southerly course in a genteel 3-7 knot breeze and started about 10 boats in each fleet. After a shortened finish in the first race we made the course even shorter for the second as the wind dropped. Ultimately we shortened this race at the top mark on the second work where the fleet was closest to home and did not run the third race. Later in the afternoon a nice breeze came up but too late for us.

Lets hope for good wind for the last two races of this series.

Results

Radial

Race 1: Stannage Sylvie - ‘Little Miss Persist’

Race 2: Sutherland Alistair - ‘Iron Buddah’

Standards

Race 1: Ian Alexander - ‘Big Dog’

Race 2: Jules Hall - ‘Disko Trooper’

This race also had the slowest average boat speed on record, for any of the GPS recorded races over the past 3 years at the DBSC!

“I’ve never seen less than 1 knot of average boat speed in DBSC GPS series over the 3 years we’ve done this.” - Brett Beyer

Patton to compete for his country at Youth Worlds

Rising DBSC star Campbell Patton has won the right to represent Bermuda in the Laser Radial class at  World Sailing’s Youth Worlds. 

The Youth Worlds are in Gdynia, Poland from July 13 to 20.

Campbell has been working very hard toward this goal, and we wish him the very best. Go Campbell!

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Campbell & Clare - award nominees

Two members of the Double Bay Sailing Club have been shortlisted for NSW+ACT Sailing Awards.

Clare Alexander has been nominated for the Shesails award, and Campbell Patton for the Youth Sailor of the Year award.

We wish both Campbell and Clare best of luck at the award ceremony to be held at the CYCA on July 6.

Save the dates!

• 24 August - The annual club working bee will be held on Saturday 24 August. All members are expected to attend and help get the club ship shape for season start in September.

• 30 August - By popular demand, the Sailors and Volunteers Season Opening Dinner is on again. More details and invites will follow, however this is a PSA (Public Service Announcement) for one of the top club social events of the year and is not to be missed! Lock it in your social calendars now.

The DBSC Women's Laser Regatta is back 28 & 29 September 2019

After a resounding success on all measures, the DBSC’s Women’s Laser Regatta is back again in 2019.

Much of the feedback from participants at the event last year was how great it was to have club members onsite for the 2 days helping out.

This is an awesome opportunity for our club to really shine. Volunteering for this event is a very rewarding experience for members, is a great showcase of our club and also ensures the sailors have another great regatta set on gorgeous Sydney Harbour. Triple WIN!

This is also a shout out to any female sailors who have not yet done so to please express your interest to the event today! Slots are filling up fast so don’t miss out!

Winter Champs Continue Sunday

Sunday 30 June, 8:30am start – The Winter Championship Series is back. Looks like the rain will end before then, so come out to celebrate the last day of June.