The best way to find out about the club is to visit us, and meet some members.
Apart from the week of Christmas, the clubhouse is open from at least noon every Saturday from 1 August to 30 April. Our telephone number is: +61 2 9363 5577.
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79 Bay St
Double Bay NSW 2028
Australia
The best ILCA / Laser sailing club in the world, located in Double Bay on Sydney Harbour.
The AGP is a highlight of the club’s social calendar, and this year is Friday 27th May 2022.
Once again, James Tudball will be providing a band through his business, The White Tree and there will be plenty of catering after the annual general meeting and prizegiving.
To ensure appropriate catering, please RSVP by 13 May HERE.
Photo: Andrew Cox
We are delighted to announce that the Double Bay Power Station has been in full operation since late December 2021 with 82 solar panels covering two of our three roof planes.
This is an important part of our sustainability program, which Kate McHugh is coordinating. The power station idea was conceived and coordinated by Mark Crowhurst, who also drove its funding.
We are very grateful to Dave Sharma and the Federal Government for the most recent funding of $12,000 under the Powering Communities Program, that allowed completion of our second roof plane. As previously published, we are also very grateful to Gabrielle Upton and the NSW Government for earlier funding provided towards both the first and second roof planes.
So far this calendar year, our power station has produced 14.9MWh, of which we consumed 2.2MWh and exported 12.7MWh. We also imported and consumed 1.5MWh, resulting in net exports of 11.2MWh. Our net exports are over 3x our power consumption, which is a fantastic give-back that we are able to provide to the community in the form of green power!
We still have scope to do a third plane of panels – so watch this space!
Congratulations are in order for Christine Linhart, who has given birth to a baby boy, Flynn on 20th April. We can’t wait to see Christine back at the club with Flynn and Oscar in tow!
Congratulations are in order for Evie Saunders who, after competing at the Victorian Youth States over the holidays, has secured a spot on the Australian Sailing Youth Team to compete at the youth worlds in the Netherlands in July.
This is a fantastic achievement that the radial fleet will attest, Evie has worked hard for and deserves.
This photo is from Evie’s Facebook page.
James Tudball is looking to build the club's inventory of musical talent for future club functions. Whether you're an amateur or a world-class professional (like Dean Bergman on harmonica, Marty Trembath on bagpipes and Andrew Cox on stadium rock bass), we're looking for YOU! Vocals, guitar, trumpet...you name it...we want it! Hit up james@thewhitetree.com.au if you're interested in getting involved!
Thank you to the members who are sending through information for the newsletter.
If you have content for the newsletter, please email it to newsletter@dbsc.com.au by midnight Monday.
On Saturday the club held sprint races in light of the public holiday weekend and school holidays. Racing was merrily conducted in a light, autumnal easterly breeze.
Racing was managed by PRO Nick Pellow, LTRAR Andrew Craker assisted by COTD Geoff Boscoe and CoCOTD Quinn Pierson. David Newman and Derek Hand co-piloted the sandwich presses with Shirley and Paul.
This weekend is the final Saturday of the summer season.
Prior to racing, Rod Barnes will be conducting training on the hoist (see article below) We will be racing the final heats of the club championship.
There will be a bbq after racing. Members, partners and learn to race participants from throughout the year are welcome to attend.
(There is no learn to race this weekend).
Come for sailing, stay for the bbq!
Our new boat hoist has been an excellent addition in facilitating retrieval of boats from levels 3, 4, 5 for anyone who ever wants to sail outside of official racing times. Before you can use it, it is compulsory to have completed training and to have signed the certification register.
Rod Barnes will be conducting hoist training on Saturday at 11:30am in the clubhouse. This is the third of these training sessions and will be the last one for quite a while.
If your boat is on levels 3, 4, 5, we strongly encourage you to attend this training and take advantage of the flexibility the hoist provides.
The renewal of membership subscriptions are due on 30th April 2022. We would greatly appreciate it if members could pay their subscriptions this week.
All members should now have received their notice for renewal of membership subscriptions which are now being managed through the RevSport system. It is important that memberships are paid on time as many of our major payments are due during the winter period. The prompt payment of membership subscriptions allows our club to keep running smoothly.
If you have not received your invoice for the renewal of your membership, please contact our club secretary, Steven London.
It is also time to settle any accounts in the canteen. Please pay these on Saturday by EFTPOS or cash. If you are not able to attend the club this weekend, please email Justin to arrange a bank transfer.
