Volly of the week

Double Bay Sailing Club is managed and run entirely by volunteers. As the saying goes, “many hands make light work. There is always work to be done in the upkeep of our shed and the ongoing running of dinghy racing.

This week we’d like to thank Ian Tudball. Ian has assumed the role of sweeping the clubhouse under our distributed volunteering initiative, and was seen diligently sweeping the clubhouse after everyone went home on Sunday.

Ian some hours before sweeping. Photo: Peter Collie

Thank you to the many people who have already nominated to take on a task in the club’s long list of duties. If you have yet to do so, can you please contact Kirk Marcolina, to discuss how best you can become involved.

The club is full of people making wonderful contributions around the place, and sometimes behind the scenes. Let us know who deserves a mention!

Away results

The results from the ILCA6 Masters World Championship are now in.

Congratulations to:

Pat Levy - 10th Great Grand Master ILCA 6 Men's World Championship

Martin White - 7th Grand Master Fleet ILCA 6 Men's World Championship

If you are competing at away events, please don’t forget to register DBSC as your club (or one of them) and let us know where you’re competing!

Pat Levy at the worlds. Thanks to Ash Deacon for sending this photo in. Credit: Charity Palmatier

Funding

The club has been fortunate enough to receive some further grants from the NSW government and on Sunday local member, Gabrielle Upton, attended the club to meet with members and announce the latest grants the club has received.

Specifically, these grants are for:

• Improvements to our race committee boat, the Jazzman;

• Developing instructional videos for the club competency and safety program; and,

• The Laser Sailing Expo (watch this space).

The Minister commented on the professionalism of the club and its committee, particularly noting the quality of the grant submissions (many thanks to Mark Crowhurst) and the ongoing relationship with the club committee and its focus on community engagement.

60 seconds with New Member, Dr. Michael Morris

The club has another new member to welcome, Dr. Michael Morris. Please give Michael a warm welcome when you see him at the club.

In the meantime, here’s what you should know about him.

How old were you when you first stepped on a boat?
On boats since a child

If money (and sailing ability) were no limit, what boat would you buy?
No limit boat would be a laser, because I just love the purity of them

What is your ultimate sailing goal?
Sailing goal is the worlds

Tell us the story behind the name of your Laser?
my laser has no name

If you could add any ingredient to DBSC's world’s best toasties – what would it be?
I haven’t tried one yet.

What are your second/third favourite hobbies (assuming sailing is #1)?
My other hobbies are home based, but mostly involve some exercise

Describe what you do for work in less than five words?
I am an anaesthetist, specialising in heart surgery

What is the first international destination you will travel to (once we're allowed) and why?
Italy

What is your favourite TV show, movie, and/or book?
Favourite is an action book/film like Top Gun

Tell us something interesting about yourself that members of the club don’t know?
I’m new to the club

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Race report 12 June 2022

From our PRO on the day, Mike Dunne:

Brilliant, bright and beautiful…  The only way to describe another special morning on Sydney Harbour.

An amazing and interesting 45 degree oscillating westerly kept everyone on their toes for the three races. There was a good outgoing tide, variable wind from 10 to 20 knots building as the morning went on, with more pressure lanes on the right, and more consistent shifts to the left.  So..  Not a soldiers course.

There were 13 boats in total, with an even split across the two fleets.  No visitors on the day, just the local legends.  Some first time and deserved winners on the day.

It was challenging conditions and watching the racers trying to negotiate the best outcome by prioritising one of the three options at any time was interesting.  The snakes and ladders even at different times on the same leg made the event a winner.   

The race management team of Mike Dunne, Yves Stenning, Thomas Beregi and Andrew Foote worked to set the best course for the conditions, the great news it was the same for everyone and the racing was good, with mixed results across both fleets. 

The winners for the day were…

Standards 

Championship: Race 1: Geoff Kirk; Race 2: Geoff Boscoe; Race 3: Mark Lewkovitz

Pointscore: Race 1:  Tim Heath; Race 2: Geoff Boscoe; Race 3: Steven London

Radials:

Championship: Race 1:  Andrew Cox Race; 2: Kate McHugh; Race 3: Andrew Cox

Pointscore: Race 1:  Daryl Lawrence; Race 2: Daryl Lawrence; Race 3: Andrew Cox

The soup, as always along with a well-deserved hot shower was a pleasure

Full results for both series are available on our website.

Volly of the week

Double Bay Sailing Club is managed and run entirely by volunteers. As the saying goes, “many hands make light work. There is always work to be done in the upkeep of our shed and the ongoing running of dinghy racing.

This week we’d like to thank Daryl Lawrence. Each week Daryl prepares the handicaps and publishes the results. This is a time consuming job, with plenty of “feedback” (and heckling when he places well).

Darryl (centre) loves the social functions almost as much as he loves the handicap job!

Thank you to the many people who have already nominated to take on a task in the club’s long list of duties. If you have yet to do so, can you please contact Kirk Marcolina, to discuss how best you can become involved.

The club is full of people making wonderful contributions around the place, and sometimes behind the scenes. Let us know who deserves a mention!

Postcard from the Isle of Wight

While some of our members are away competing, others are busy… lunching?

We received this lovely photo from the Isle of Wight where Diana Chen and Emily Ball recently caught up with Pippa Batchelor.

Away results

We have a number of Double Bay sailors who have been representing the club at various events recently that deserve our congratulations.

Over in Mexico we have our older sailors competing in the masters’ world championships.

Congratulations to:

Brett Beyer - 1st Grand Master ILCA7 Masters World Championship

Rod Barnes - 9th Master Fleet ILCA7 Masters World Championship

Pat Levy and Martin White are currently competing at the ILCA 6 Masters World Championship, and we wish them luck and fair winds over the next few days of racing.

And over the weekend, some of our younger sailors competed at the East Coast Championships at GRSC. Congratulations to:

Daniel Costandi – 1st Laser Radial

Sylvie Stannage – 2nd Laser Radial

Brooke Wilson – 3rd Laser Radial

Alexander Bijkerk – 4th Laser Radial

Evie Saunders – 5th Laser Radial

Quentin Burns – 7th Laser Radial

James Hayhoe – 10th Laser Radial

If you are competing at away events, please don’t forget to register DBSC as your club (or one of them) and let us know where you’re competing!

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