Club Person of the Year
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The John Barraclough Award for Club Person of the Year went to Diana Chen who has been an unprecedented force of ideas and action at the club.
Club Person of the Year - Diana Chen. Photo credit: Peter Collie.
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Sailing prizewinners
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Our prizewinners for the sailing season were:
Ron Young Trophy : 2020-21 Club Champion Laser Standard - Rod Barnes
Sally Gordon Trophy: 2020-21 Club Champion Laser Radial - Sylvie Stannage
Don Roach Trophy: 2020-21 Masters Club Champion Laser Standard - Rod Barnes
Don Roach Trophy: 2020-21 Masters Club Champion Laser Radial - Martin White
2020-21 Spring Point Score Winner Laser Standard - Steven London / London Pride
2020-21 Spring Point Score Winner Laser Radial / 4.7 - Daryl Lawrence
2020-21 Autumn Point Score Winner Laser Standard - Michael Osborne / Dragonfly
2020-21 Autumn Point Score Winner Laser Radial / 4.7 - Alistair Sutherland
2020-21 Winter Champion Laser Standard - Luke Parker
2020-21 Winter Champion Laser Radial - Sylvie Stannage
2020-21 Richard Tyrrell Trophy - Hadrien Bourely
2020-21 Nano Rousso Trophy - Rod Barnes
Dene Bergman Trophy: 2020-21 Vaucluse Challenge Champion Laser Standard - Matt Faddy
Graham Read Trophy: 2020-21 Vaucluse Challenge Champion Laser Radial - Mina Ferguson
Little people
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While you were bunkered down at home during Covid last year, some of our members made good use of the time. Congratulations to our members who have recently had babies:
Sara Brooks – Angus
Simon Stone – Charlie
James Tudball – Max
It's still on!
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The ILCA Laser 50th birthday bash was postponed on the weekend owing to an unfavourable weather forecast and a lockdown for our friends in Victoria. The event is now scheduled to take place on Sunday 20 June 2021.
We have 170 boats registered so far and are confident in achieving over 200 on the day! All the details of the event will be updated on the event webpage.
Registrations will remain open via the webpage for additional sailors. Please continue to promote it to all your friends!
Powerboat course
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The club will be organising a powerboat course. This will provide participants with an opportunity to improve boat handling skills, learn more about engines and types of crafts and practise navigation techniques on a passage.
Participants will be able to take their completion certificate to RMS to obtain their powerboat license. This course is for anyone that wants to further develop their powerboat driving skills.
The course will cost members $110 (DBSC will subsidise the remaining $110).
Boat for sale
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Simon Stone is selling his Laser, sail/hull number 196437 - a fine vintage! No leaks and “apparently” it’s relatively light (comment from other members when lifting it out of the rack).
Simon says, “Although the boat hasn’t won any championships that’s a reflection of the owner sailor not the boat ... it has done quite well when visitors have sailed her!”
Comes with radial and full rig spars. 2 radial sails (1 newish) and 1 full rig sail, carbon tiller & extension
Owner reluctantly selling due to arrival of a new family member (baby). Email Simon for more details.
Boat wanted
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Chris Costandi is on the lookout for another Laser for the family. He is looking for a hull from 2014 or newer, with a preference for a full rig set up.
He is also looking for a decent road trailer that can carry 2 Lasers.
If you are selling, or aware of, either of these things can you please email Chris.
60 Seconds With Les Katz
Diana Chen
1. How old were you when you first stepped on a boat? About 13 for a speed boat, and I think around 19 on a sailboat, which was a crappy 24ft endeavour on the Swan river in Perth. I like the idea of sailing and the freedoms it symbolised, read all the books on the crazies who sailed around the world and across the Atlantic single handed and was impressed beyond belief. It tickled my imagination and was what I wanted. My first sailboat was actually a windsurfer, learned the theory, surfed and boogied (board that is) before that, (not well to either).
2. If money (and sailing ability) were no limit, what boat would you buy? Maltese Falcon by Perini Navi – Great outdoor Cinema screen, why dream small. Check it out [HERE]
3. What is your ultimate sailing goal? To finish in top three line honours in Radial class at DBSC when more than 10 people competing on the day.
4. Tell us the story behind the name of your Laser? Was meant to be Mini Mammoth after my bigger boat called Mammoth (the CA mountain we skied at when we lived in LA that my family loved), but after Coxie called me the club heckler, I decided rather the JOKER was a better description.
5. If you could add any ingredient to DBSC's world’s best toasties – what would it be? Pineapple and Jalapeños.
6. What are your second/third favourite hobbies (assuming sailing is #1)? Trying to beat my amazing kids at anything especially skiing or snowboarding, (unsuccessful), and riding my overpowered racing motorcycles at the track and stupid speeds.
7. Describe what you do for work in less than five words? CEO - (best) residential lift company.
8. What is the first international destination you will travel to (once we're allowed) and why? Don’t love travel anymore except for skiing/ snowboarding. Likely LA, Tuscany or Belfast as have business there. Sydney and Australia is best, been lucky enough to compare.
9. What is your favourite TV show, movie, and/or book? TV Show – Sons of Anarchy. Movie – Waterworld. Book – all the Wilbur Smith stuff, especially the Courtneys as Pirates.
10. Tell us something interesting about yourself that members of the club don’t know? Behind the bullshit bravado, clown routine is a gentle soul 😉
Coming up next...
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Sunday 6 June - Winter Series
Sunday 13 June - Winter Series
Sunday 20 June - ILCA 50th birthday bash!
9-12 July 2021- South Pacific Laser Masters, Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron (QLD)
Sunday 18 July - Winter Series
Sunday 25 July - Winter Series (final)
Race Report 23 May 2021
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Once again we had a chilly night and morning which meant the winter land breeze was at play on the harbour. Unfortunately the Royal Australian Navy had other plans for the harbour and after the first race, we had a delay and a shift of course before the second two races.
Race winners in the standard rig championship were Rod Barnes, David Newman and Nick Pellow, while in the pointscore, Ash Deacon, Andrew Foote and Nick Pellow each had a win. In the radial championship, David Huber, Candice Cushway and Andrew Cox each won a race, and in the pointscore Kirk Marcolina, Candice Cushway and Andrew Cox were race winners.
Congratulations also go to Candice Cushway, who achieved her goal of winning a race, and Ian Tudball who achieved his goal of beating Commodore Cox. What will they aim for next?
Many thanks to PRO Gerry Donohoe assisted by Kate McHugh, David Airey and Jim Dounis. After racing sailors were able to enjoy mixed vegetable soup cooked by Paul and lovingly heated by Peter Collie.
The Royal Australian Navy had other plans for the harbour on Sunday. Photo credit: Brett Beyer