79 Bay St
Double Bay NSW 2028
Australia

The best ILCA / Laser sailing club in the world, located in Double Bay on Sydney Harbour.

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Metros - 25th and 26th March 2023

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DBSC is hosting the 2023 ILCA NSW & ACT Metropolitan Championships on the 25th and 26th March.        

If you are not intending to sail but would like to assist with on-water support over the weekend, please send an email to rodbarnes@dbsc.com.au.

If you are sailing, the Notice of Race and Entry links are below.

SCHEDULE

Saturday 25th March

09.30 - Registration

11.30 - Briefing

13.30 - First warning signal

Subsequent starts shall be made ASAP after the preceding race.

Drinks & BBQ on the deck after racing.

Sunday 26th March

Breakfast available Sunday morning

12.00 - First warning signal

Subsequent starts shall be made ASAP after the preceding race.

No warning signal after 16.00.

Prize giving on the deck after racing.

ENTRIES

Enter online or at the club until 11:30am on Saturday 25th March. There will be an option to sign on/off via SMS so that sailors who have pre-entered online can deploy from other harbour clubs for the event.

Sailing Instructions will be issued shortly.

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BOAT & TRAILER PARKING

Boats and trailers can be left overnight outside the clubhouse. However, security will not be available.

FOOD & BEVERAGE

The DBSC canteen will be open to offer our famous toasties on both days and breakfast on Sunday. Be sure to stick around after sailing on Saturday for a casual drink and BBQ on the deck.

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Race report 25 February 2023

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From COTD, Kate McHugh…

On Saturday 30 of our Double Bay racers sailed up the harbour to participate in the 91st Vaucluse Regatta in a fresh 15 knot North Easterly breeze. The race committee at Vaucluse conducted two (rather long) windward return races laid just to the south of Sow and Pigs.

Following racing, the team at Vaucluse held a delicious barbecue and drinks in their clubhouse.

The results:

ILCA 7

1. Finn Alexander (DBSC)

2. Campbell Patton (DBSC)

3. Rod Barnes (DBSC)

ILCA 6

1. Cote Poncell (DBSC)

2. Ian Alexander (DBSC)

3. Anthony Scali (VYC)

ILCA 4

1. Healy Ryan (DBSC)

2. Cormac Johnson (DBSC)

3. Caroline Kemp (VYC)

Thank you to Ben Byford who provided on water assistance, and Scott Hunter and David Huber for helping Paul and Shirley in the canteen.

Many thanks also to Vaucluse Yacht Club who hosted a magnificent day on the water.

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Volly of the week

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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 administration and management of racing.

This week, we’re saying a big thank you to Paul Adam.

Paul has shown incredible dedication to the club over his 37 years as a member. Since 1993, Paul has tirelessly run the club's canteen week in week out. This is a huge job that has great significance for the club.

The canteen is a major cultural hub for the club. It makes the club feel homely and inviting. It gives it heart and soul. Paul is the central and continuous figure (along with dedicated canteen-partner, Shirley) of our canteen offering.

The canteen is also a profit centre for the club, contributing >$10,000 to the club's revenue each year. Paul keeps the club stocked in food and drink year-round, requiring many hours of shopping. And he is an astute shopper too, ever alert to opportunities to increase margin through smart purchasing.

Paul is the first to arrive on both Saturday and Sunday (btw, he does it all for the A18s too, which provides significant additional the income for DBSC). His presence ensures the club remains attended and secure while open, and he also monitors the radios, providing the key and critical point of liaison when those rare emergencies arise. Thus, under Paul’s watchful eye, the canteen doubles as a safety and security centre.

And finally, the canteen feeds us all with the world's best toasties. And let's not forget that incredible warming soup Paul makes by hand for our cold winter sailors!

In short, the club would not be the same without Paul. Much of his contribution is often unseen and thankless but should not go unrecognised. Paul is one of the true heroes of our amazing club. Thank you, Paul!

Paul in the old canteen

Paul in the old canteen

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 Andrew Cox who wrote this wonderful submission).

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This weekend

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This weekend we have Clean Up Australia Day prior to racing. Please be at the club by 10am to assist (see detail in the article below).

The JJ Giltinan trophy also kicks off this Friday (see more details in the article below). As a result, there will be a large number of people in the club on and therefore there will not be a BBQ after racing.

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Clean Up Australia Day 4 March

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Calling all volunteers who enjoy a clean environment!

I’ve spent the past few weeks driving around the pristine Tasmanian Countryside enjoying the ‘freshest air’ on the planet, and so I’m inspired to clean up the environment surrounding our club.

On Saturday 4th March from 10am to 12pm, members (and guests) of Double Bay Sailing Club will be conducting a clean-up of the foreshore, park lands and local roadways near our club in Double Bay. 

Trevor Potts (member) will be at the club house at 10am with all the CUAD materials, sign-on sheet, and a short safety briefing. Please arrive by 10am. 

We are also asking volunteers to download the EyeSea app and use it to upload photos of rubbish on the day. It's simple to use. Take a photo and upload it to the app.

Download for android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mariapps.eyesea.eye_sea

Download for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/es/app/eyesea/id1667239428

We recommend you wear sun protective clothing and bring protective gloves (if you don’t have any, we will have spares available).

Afterwards you can treat yourself to a well-earned toastie before sailing!

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JJ Giltinan trophy begins this Friday

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The competition for the 2023 JJ Giltinan Trophy - the 18s world championship - starts on Friday 3 March and runs to Sunday 12 March. Monday 5th and Friday 10 are lay days, which may become race days if earlier races had been abandoned.

You may have noticed the two German boats which have been here for some time, and an increase in number of boats practicing during the week. In the run up this week there are likely to be more 18s in the park, training or dealing with repair and maintenance issues.  

Starting from 2 March there will be additional, special event garbage bins in the rigging area, and there will also be security in attendance at night (if you come down late at night you might be asked who you are). During the competition each 18 will have an allocated position in the rigging area.

The 18s sailors have been asked not to obstruct our use of the space, or conflict with the Yoga classes. The most likely obstruction is if there are boat(s) with rig damage in need of overnight repair – the mast will need to be on trestles overnight until any repair work on carbon fibre has set.

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Rubbish bins

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The rubbish collection services at the club are not council services, yet commercial collection paid for by the club. We aim to minimise waste to landfill and maximise recycling.

Members are reminded there are three bins for waste disposal.

The red top bin is for non-recyclable waste (to landfill).

The blue top bin is for refundable container deposit items. Refundable items in the blue top bin must have readable barcodes. Please do not crush cans and bottles as this renders the barcode unreadable and we do not get the container deposits returned to us.  Coffee cups, milk cartons should not go in the blue top. However Up and Go paper contains now attract the deposit refund, so can go in the blue top. Do not contaminate cans and bottles in the blue top by putting paper towels in them.

The yellow top bin is for other recyclable waste such as paper/cardboard, hard plastic items with a recyclable symbol on them and glass items which are not refundable (such as wine and spirit bottles, jam jars - and tins).

Recycling of soft plastic items is a problem nationally at present owing to the collapse of REDcycle. Soft plastics unfortunately need to be placed in the red top bin for the time being.

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Jason and Isabelle Wilkins donation

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From Commodore, Steven London:

Members of the Club and Committee would like to thank long time members Jason and Isabelle Wilkins for their generous donation of the ILCA Laser "Phinester" for use in the clubs Learn to Race program. The program allows prospective members to "try-out" racing with the club, and this helps us to keep an inflow of new active members out there on the start line every week!

Phinester is a Laser with a history, having started life in the UK and making the journey to Australia with Jason when he immigrated here (hey, it's what Laser sailors do!). It has served him very well over the years and was passed on to Isabel when she joined the club 5 years ago.

To Isabelle's relief, Jason recently upgraded to the famous ILCA 50th Anniversary "Golden Fleece", allowing Isabelle to upgrade also, and so the club is now honoured to look after Phinester in its twilight years, if not in twilight sprints.

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