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Duty Roster Fri 5th & Sun 7th Dec
DATE Fri 5th Dec
SERIES Keelboat/Trailable -
Pursuit Series 1
HEAT 8
START TIME (H) 1800
TOWER - KEELBOAT
SKIPPER & CREW Layla Rose
DATE Sunday 7th Dec - Morning
SERIES Green Fleet - Tacking Practice & Buoy Rules
Red Fleet - Mark Rounding Strategies &
Rules
HEAT
START TIME (H) 1000 1000
COACH Andrew Martin Peter Bulka
DUTY PARENT Snooks Snooks
Boat 1 Ross Martin Ross Martin
Phil(s) Phil(s)
Boat 2 Peter Bulka Peter Bulka
Mono Mono
Rubber Ducky Luke Martin Luke Martin
Kyle Lloyd Kyle Lloyd
DATE Sunday 7th Dec - Afternoon
SERIES Keelboat/Trailable - Sport
Phillip Marine Series - RTB's
OTB Sport Phillip Marine Series
HEAT 8 7 & 8
START TIME (H) 1330 1400
TOWER - KEELBOAT
SKIPPER & CREW Leewana Leewana
RACE OFFICER Ross Martin
COMMITTEE BOAT R1
Natasha Martin
COURSE BOAT R3 Ian Woods
RIB R2
Safety Beach Sailing Club
E-Newsletter Wednesday 3rd December 2014
Commodore: Ross Martin Website: www.safetybeachsailingclub.com.au
Contact: Club email: [email protected]
Roster contacts:
Juniors – Ross Martin: 0431 287 242 (temp)
OTB – Peter Bulka: 0407 814 865
KB & Tbs – Steve Richardson: 0458 087 825
• MORNING BOAT DUTY; Need to be at the club at 7:50am, depart for boat ramp at 8:00. See duty brief on notice board. • DUTY PARENT; This family parent/s are responsible for co-ordinating the on-beach activities for the junior fleets. Need to be at the club by 8:00am, see duty brief on notice board for requirements.
• AFTERNOON BOAT DUTY; Need to be at the club at 12:00pm, depart for boat ramp at 12:15pm. • TOWER - KEELBOAT SKIPPER & CREW, skipper & crew are expected for duty. 2 people are required in the tower & the remainder for Sunday races will assist on the start/rescue/course laying boats. Need to be at the club on Sundays at 12.45pm to report to Sandy McPherson & the Race Officer for the day.
If you are unavailable for your rostered day, please organise a replacement then advise your roster contact.
Please dress appropriately for duty, as those assisting on rescue boats may get wet.
• TOWER - KEELBOAT SKIPPER & CREW, skipper & crew are expected for duty. 2 people are required in the tower at 5:15pm.
Keel Boats & Trailables Message from the Tower. We are very pleased to announce that we now have a hooter in the tower, which can be heard out on the water. Please refer to SI for starting procedures – lights and sounds. As mentioned in last week’s newsletter, as a consideration to the race control people in the tower please observe radio silence 10 mins before the start time, it can be very distracting. Welcome back Mark and Di, who will start sailing with us again Friday. Note: The latest keel boat courses are on the club website. Friday Night Twilight Pursuit Series #1 Race # Race # Friday Congratulations to the following: 1st Lady Cassandra 2nd Amazing Grace 3rd Lola Duty boat Cambrig, thank you to Graeme and Bette Pearson
Club Visitor A very quick snap taken early one morning by our Secretary Jacquie last week. We are such a rural club!
Sunday Series-3 series of 8 races Sport Phillip Marine Ensign Ship Brokers Hidden Harbour Sunday Series #1 Sport Phillip Marine Series - RTB's Race # Sunday Congratulations to the following: 1st The Dark Side 2nd Aphrodite 3rd Wild Goats Duty boat Lady Cassandra, thank you to Mark and Gwen McAuliffe. All results can be found on the club web- site. Duty Boat for next week Friday 5th December - Layla Rose– (5.15pm start in the tower) only 2 crew members required. Sunday 7th December – Leewana (1.45pm start in the tower) 2 crew members only required in the tower, the rest to report to Peter Bulka for OTB Duty Boats will get points for attending
In Pursuit Looking back at Friday’s Keel Boat Race
Friday the 28th was the race best Friday night race so far. Two good reaches to start the race in 10 to 15 knots of wind. Long enough to give everyone a drink and something to eat, then a good old fashion beat home. We were a bit far behind to see how the racing was playing out at the front, however Lady Cassandra with her 2nd win in 3 weeks must be have having a "dog" going well good time.
- Mark, M333 Balance.
Guys, How could you let a 70 year old, 26 foot 6 inch wooden fishing boat beat you?? Lol
- One of You
In Pursuit Con’t Calamity Amity & her Friday night pursuits (The trials and tribulations of two fifty something’s learning to sail.) I’ve just perused Friday night’s results & there she is again: Amity DNF. The shame! We DID finish, we just obviously didn’t know HOW to! It’s almost 12 months since we collected our beloved Hanse 385 from Sydney, & sailed her from Pittwater NSW to Victoria (which people told us we were very brave doing, as we’re novices!) but this racing/pursuit business is MUCH more difficult. I guess it doesn’t help that there are only two of us & we have no ‘crew’ (God bless electric winches and a self tacker!). I’m ashamed to say that our modus operandi when attempting a race is to just ‘follow’ everyone else. Now this would be fine, as you can learn a lot from what others do, IF we could keep up. Husband has a multitude of books on sail trim, but theory & practice are poles apart, aren’t they? And after some difficulties getting out of our berth at the marina (don’t ask!) We were running behind, so crossed the start line well behind all the other girls our size. So glorious it is out there, isn’t it? However when every man and his dog has surged ahead, it’s impossible to tell exactly how everyone is finishing & attempt to do the same thing ourselves. Obviously we got it wrong, again! Of course it would help if we tried to learn the various courses ourselves but first things first, I say, (learning to actually ‘sail’ must take priority!) Yes, we obviously need some serious help! Last season we roped in the lovely Pauline Cleaver to be ‘Lady Skipper’ for us one Sunday & what a buzz it was to be keeping pace with Mr Bojangles at one point! So it’s obviously it’s US that are the problem and NOT the mighty Amity. Fortunately Renaissance and Tango are keeping the Hanses from total shame at SBSC. One day we might be ‘competitive’. but we don’t really mind. A few weeks ago some
fellow said, as we were walking past, “Don’t worry, we were like that too when we started” (whatever could he mean? are we the laughing stock of Martha Cove??!!) At least when you’re always last (very very very last!) everyone else has tied up and gone off to dinner, so we don’t have to do the walk/motor of shame back to our berth. (And no, it’s not because we’re embarrassed at our failures that we don’t come to dinner at the club too - we care for two elderly parents who are always clamouring to be fed post race!) But although our efforts to sail our beloved Amity in a competitive fashion are yet to bear fruit, it’s not about the winning (or in our case just keeping up with the pack!) but the joy of being out there on the ocean on our beautiful girl Amity.& it’s still a wonderful sight all those white sails - even if, in our case, they are always disappearing into the distance! See you next Friday (we’ll be the ones in the lovely Hanse 385 - coming last and crossing the finish line incorrectly!)
- Susan, 385 Amity
On an uneven Keel Looking back at Sunday’s Keel Boat Race
Sunday was always looking a bit sketchy with no wind predicted. We were lucky in the end to have a good breeze for the first two legs with a beat out to 25 then a spinnaker run to R1. R1 to home started as a one legged beat
back to the yellow mark; however ended up being a drift off with next to no wind. Luckily the sea breeze finally hit the water at 3.45pm to enable everyone still out there to come home in a solid breeze.
- Mark, M333 Balance.
Red & Green Dawn Breakers Looking back at Sunday’s Red & Green Fleet.
It was light but there was some wind available for a degree of forward motion, most of the time. Both fleets were straight out to the course for a few races. Greens did very well distinguishing their division flag & gave the Red’s plenty of space at the start line as they were instructed. Good starts for both races! Really parents, you’ve got to get out to the course somehow, they are all truly brilliant, an absolute pleasure to watch & listen to them getting around. It’s a genuinely great sport. The final race between the Red Fleet was fantastic to watch. Nick in his Contender at the top mark was well behind the three Lazers & he fought a great battle to claim each place to win in the end. Also well done to Patrick, he was not that far behind the main fleet & was looking especially strong. Watch out he’s got very little weight & skills that refining every race, the competition should be worried.
- Katrina, 705 Easy Tiger
View from the back of the race Looking back at Sunday’s OTB Race
Oh boy! The race that never happened this week! It was so beautiful out there, the water was crystal clear all the way to the bottom but there wasn’t a breath of wind! I won the ‘Who can stay out & float for the longest’ award & if swimming beside your boat was a comp I won that too! However Luke M was champion at ‘Pushing Pacers Over’. He flipped it more than a dozen times. Tom was the ‘Quickest On & Quickest Off Champ’. Gordon from Sandringham was the ‘Bungless Champion’, his Lazer was drained & back in a flash. After the race was cancelled Bianca won the ‘Rescued only to be Capsized’ right
before the wind came in. Of which was really only thoroughly enjoyed by the A Class boys who hit the water till the sun went down.
- Katrina, 705 Easy Tiger
Bic Open Worlds 2015
Now for some really exciting news
SBSC is putting in a bid to host the Bic Open Worlds to be held Christmas/New year 2015. We have a very strong chance of getting it. This will be an enormous & exciting event for the club to host. If successful we will need a subcommittee & everyone’s help to plan for it. Whilst the Bic’s are a new class, they are an Olympic class & this week long event will put our club on the world stage. One thing our members need to know in preparation for this event is: All competitors wishing to enter into a World event must have previously competed in a National event (in any class). Therefore we would suggest that anyone interested in competing look at entering any of these ASAP: 28/12/14 - SYC Mirror National Champs 06/01/15 - SSCBC Moth Worlds 11/01/15 – WA Minnow National Champs 18/01/15 - SYC Australian O'pen Cup
Collection for those on Duty Honesty Tin at the sign on desk
Well that was a complete failure. We’ll have to think of something else to reward our duty people for their hard work. If you have any idea’s please reply back to E-News. The person that put a $1 in the tin is welcome to collect it, thank you.
Congratulations Grainne In competing in the Cheerleading Nationals in QLD last week. Her team got 3rd & 5th. Well done!
View Today at SBSC 3rd December 12:30pm
Catch up News Tacker’s Enquiries Contact details All tackers enquiries can now go directly to: Grayson Lloyd 0474 857 801 who will be more than happy to assist anyone with information about the coming tackers season. New Membership for Keel Boat Crew A new Keel Boat Crew Membership is now available. It has a mandatory Season Registered Senior YV Silver Card. Annual fee is $220 including Silver Card. Crews without YV Silver Cards are not covered by SBSC or Yachting Victoria’s Personal Accident or Injury Insurance. Keel Boat owners racing with crews without Silver Cards are personally accepting full liability for their crew’s welfare. Peninsula Boat Training In the E-Newsletter back in September we outlined some locally available Victorian Marine Licence Courses to obtain a TSV Certificate.
There was a lack of interest in the Yachting Victoria Power Boat Handling Certificate run over 2 days for $220, as we needed 10 members to get this discounted price an alternative has been found. Peninsula Boat Training has made us an offer to conduct their 4 hour Marine (boat) Licence Course and the TSV test at Safety Beach Sailing Club on Monday 8th Dec from 6:00pm for $90 each for SBSC Members. If you would like to join us please Book with Fiona: on 0418 586 662 or [email protected] 2014/2015 Sailing Calendar
December 2014 27th to Jan 6th McCyc B14 World Champs 28th SYC Mirror National champs January 2014
2nd to 9th WA Tasar Worlds 6th to 16th SSCBC Moth Worlds 18th to 22nd SYC Australian O'pen Cup February 2015
1st SBSC MMYC Challenge
7th & 8th SBSC Martha Cove Regatta
14th &15th McCyc Sabre State Champs
14th &15th DBYC Lidget Cup
28th & 1st SBSC Minnow State Champs
March 2015
8th, 9th & 10th SBSC Tasar State Champs
8th& 9th SYC Hobie State Titles 22nd SBSC MMYC Challenge TBA
SBSC Southern Peninsula Youth Regatta
For Sale Please forward any other details on boats for sale to Katrina: [email protected]
Safety Beach Sailing Club
E-Newsletter Wednesday 3rd December 2014
If you have a story you would like us to share or an event you would like us to promote in our next e-
newsletter make sure to send it through to Katrina at [email protected]
Lost
Rubik’s Cube
It was left somewhere
around the club Sunday before last
If seen please
call Charlie 0400 817 518
Last Days - will be returned
before the weekend if no takers