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Race report 26 June 2022

Our PRO on Sunday, David Newman, reports:

With a relatively warmer morning, the cold westerly breeze was lacking and there was some scepticism we'd get racing away (including ourselves). However, we managed to get in three races of three laps with a westerly breeze isolating between 4 and 10 knots throughout the morning.  Under mostly blue skies, it was yet another glorious morning on the harbour. After a quick delay towing boats out of Double Bay, racing got underway.

In the radials, Sylvie Stannage showed a clean set of heels for races 1 & 2, but after being OCS in race 3 had some work to do to chase down Quentin Burns who had a great first work, eventually just holding out the fast-charging Sylvie for the win. Ian Alexander was always in the mix with a strong performance for a 2nd in race 1 and 3rd in race 2, and Cote showed her light airs prowess with a 3rd in race 1 and 2nd in race 2. Andrew Cox rounded out the podiums with a 3rd in race 3

In the standards, Daniel Costandi was in a class of his own winning all three races by a convincing margin. Geoff Kirk was always in the mix taking a 2nd in race 1 and 3rd in race 3, and Geoff Boscoe continued with his improving form for a 3, 2, 3 scorecard for the day. Yves Stening finished the day strong with a 2nd in race 3.

Thanks to the race management team of Dave Murphy, Mark Gray & Dave Evenden for providing tremendous on and off-water operations, making my job a breeze!

Full results for both series are available on our website.

VOTFY

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 our volunteer of the financial year, Justin Davey, for the often invisible role as Treasurer. Justin puts in unrecognised hours, days, and possibly weeks in keeping the financial books in order, entering and deciphering where each dollar came from and where each dollar goes. This has become increasingly complex task as the club grows and introduces numerous online ways of paying for things, not to mention the accounting and accruals for many of the major projects the club undertakes. This is a year-round job, culminating in the presentation at our annual general meeting. We are so very grateful for this enormous effort.

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

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.

Away, and not as far away...

Evie Saunders has been abroad, competing at Kiel Week, where she has placed an admirable 17th place in the Women’s ILCA 6 competition. Meanwhile sometimes Double Bay guest, Mara Stransky won the regatta.

From less far away, Richard George is scouting new sailing locations in Roebuck Bay, Broome where it is a sunny 30 degrees!

Roebuck Bay. Photo: Richard George

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Race report 19 June 2022

On Sunday we were lucky with another bright sunny day, the winter morning south westerly of 5-10 knots, fading in the final race, and an incoming tide. With some cloud and rain about, conditions were not entirely predictable, giving racers “room to think”.

Racing started half an hour later than usual, owing to a presentation at the club prior to racing (see article on recent grants, below).

The race management team of Peter Collie, David Huber, Kim Ketelby and Ryan Aldrich had their work cut out for them, shortening the course for each consecutive start.

The winners for the day were…

Standards 

Championship: Race 1: Alexander Bijkerk; Race 2: Alexander Bijkerk; Race 3: Alexander Bijkerk

Pointscore: Race 1:  Tim Heath; Race 2: Nick Pellow; Race 3: Julian Taylor

Radials:

Championship: Race 1:  Brooke Wilson; 2: Quentin Burns; Race 3: Brooke Wilson

Pointscore: Race 1:  Kerryn Smith; Race 2: Daryl Lawrence; Race 3: Brooke Wilson

After racing we enjoyed tomato soup courtesy of Paul Adam, some sunshine on the deck and a lunchtime beer (for some).

Thanks to Peter Collie for the photos on Sunday.

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 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.