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Commodore Phill Robbins 0466668541 Club Newsletter
Vice Commodore 14/10/20 Jonathan Horsley 0412798505
Rear Commodore Duty Roster 2020-21 Chris Hallett 0414866998 Club racing depends on each boat's crew volunteering a race day, to run the Secretary show for the rest of us. Participation over the last few years has been Nola Hallett fantastic and roster "round 5" is about to end. 0414866999 The next round 6 of the roster commences with our regatta on Saturday 7 Treasurer Col Woodbry November and runs through to the end of this season. The roster is stored under the "Documents" menu on the club's website. Class Reps Gennakers – Michael Wiley For the rest of this calendar year (not season), all roster duties are filled Catamarans – Michael Cocks except for the Saturday of the regatta (November 7th). Please contact Trailers – Paul Morris Monos – Graham Hams Duncan asap if you are able to do this.
Rowing Officer Roster dates still need to be filled up in the new year as well. Graham Hams
Publicity Officer/Newsletter doesn't suit, it'll be up to the date holder to arrange a swap. Trent Morgan
Training team Club Committee ANZAC Weekend 2021 ALL EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE TO: Due to ANZAC day falling on a Sunday next year there will be no race held. [email protected] A proposal has been put forward to have a race on the Saturday (24th April), even to have the result count towards the personal handicap series. The CONTENTS club is seeking some feedback on possible numbers on the day to decide 1. Duty Roster 1. ANZAC Weekend 2021 the best course to take, whether to have a race, and if so, whether it could 1. Revision to Calendar count towards the personal handicap series. Please email possible sailing 2. Try an RS100 Day availability for Saturday April 24th by contacting Trent at 2. Trailer Sailor Report 9. Gennaker Report [email protected]
19. Monohull Report 25. Catamaran Report Here is the link to the updated calendar 29. Further Announcements 30. Covid-Safe Sailing Reminder 31. New Briefings Process 31. Get to Know a Club Member – Sailors try rowing, rowers try sailing Duncan Dey 41. Reminder – Fees and AGM Although the calendar is showing that the ‘Sailors try rowing and rowers try 41. Idle Gossip th 42. Trapeze Fun – photos by Phill sailing day’ is this Sunday the 18 regretfully Phill reports that this will not be 44. Club Shirts happening. 45. Crew Available/Crew Wanted 46. Upcoming Events/Regattas 46. For Sale/Wanted/Free 1
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Try RS 100 Day
Duncan reports that coming soon will be a day (possibly a Saturday) for people to try out an RS 100. More to be related later….
Newsletter editor trying out Duncan’s RS 100 after last Sunday’s race – it was fun!
Race Reports for October 11th
(Many thanks to Phill and Jane for the wonderful photos this week)
Trailer Sailor Report (Matt Cartwright)
It was low tide at about 10:00 which made the launch difficult for some but with a little bit of patience we got Spudgun in the water with its legal bulb keel around 12:00. With the high tide at approx. 16:00 we were in for a strong flooding current during the race. The wind was a very light easterly and the committee chose the Easterly course 2 which was clearly displayed on the verandah at 12:30 as per racing instructions with windward returns from Mobbs Bay to the North wall 5 times around the top mark and then through the gate.
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There was decent turnout with eX, Treasure Island, Serenity, Heartbeat, Shades of Grey, Spudgun and Incy Wincy on the beach ready to battle it out for the 3rd club championship of the 20/21 season. It was great to see Heartbeat wet again.
Heart Beat is back eX left the beach prior to 12:30 and it was assumed that they had been told of the course selection, they launched the huge asymmetric kite and looked superb while they stormed upriver towards the RSL, away from the starting area at Mobbs Bay. For some reason Treasure Island, Heartbeat and Serenity followed eX while Shades of Grey, Incy Wincy and Spudgun remained close to the starting area.
At the warning signal for the Cats it was apparent that the four ‘upriver boats’ were not going to make the start 15 mins later. The breeze was light around 5-7 knots at the start but ended up blowing a steady 8-10 by the end of the race. Incy Wincy hit the line well in a perfect location closer to the start boat in less current than Shades of Grey and Spudgun.
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Halfway up the first leg Incy Wincy had established a sizable lead and were not to be challenged again.
Graeme and Fiona calm and collected [Dm1]
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The ‘upriver boats’ made appearances in dribs and drabs, but all ended up with dnf or dns as their result[Dm2].
There was a small tussle between Shades and Spudgun on the first work, but it became a soldier’s course with close racing tactics not required.
Although with the ‘upriver boats’ going around a lap behind there were some opportunities for practicing close racing manoeuvres.
The race was unfortunately shortened to four laps as the best sailing was after the finish.
Right: Shades with Todd steering and a guest crew with Andrew having a break
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Final corrected times had Incy Wincy well ahead and revelling in the conditions followed by Spudgun with the lead of around four minutes elapsed not being enough for Shades to take second.
Graeme and Fiona into the wind
I have found that one of the most successful strategies in sailing is to first know where the start is and less importantly to know the course.
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Happy faces on eX
A friendly wave to the photographer from Treasure Isle 7
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Serenity and one of her pretty kites
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Gennaker Report (Michael Wiley and Duncan Dey)
Bill and Duncan battling it out
Five Fifteens and five RS100’s fronted the starter in light winds and a forceful incoming tide.
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Learning the lessons from a few weeks ago, all the boat were careful not to fall too much behind the starting line and miss the start because they were unable to make sufficient progress against the tide. As a result, the start was pretty level, Daniel and Francine in ( ) probably doing the best in hitting the line just on time at full speed and quickly overtaking those boats that had loitered closer to the line.
On the whole, the Fifteens started on the right of the line, and the RS100’s on the left; the latter looking to get into the shallows on the Northern shore as quickly as possible.
Seconds to start
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The battle up the first windward leg was tight for the whole fleet. The RS100’s played the Northern shore shallows to the fullest, short tacking meters from the beach, giving the swimmers there something of a close up show. The Fifteens, with their deeper boards and slower tacks played the shore a little more conservatively. But that wasn’t the only successful approach up the first work. Clare and Matt in tacked out to the South half way up the work to find a lift and a more consistent breeze there, gaining ground in the process.
The battle continued around the first mark; Barry and Anna in and Gary in , the latter sailing extremely well, leading the respective classes around it.
Garry loving it
In the Fifteen fleet, opened up a lead on the next run that it continued to improve on for the rest of the race to the extent it became unassailable, to score an overall win on the day.
The next three Fifteens, , Michael and Tara in and Daniel and Francine in settled down to a long continuous battle which was physically and mentally exhausting given the two hour duration of the race.
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Barry and Anna on the way to a big win of six minutes to the next placing
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Magic Formula’s Matt later reported how tiring the race was
The lead changed multiple times and none of them could ever be secure in the place they were holding. It only took a poor tack or single poor tactical decision to reverse positions.
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The race became even more nail biting as led around the top mark for the last time and the last run became an intense gybing dual. Two thirds of the way down the run to the finish, managed to gybe into ’s wind, shadowing the latter and letting draw slightly ahead.
A decisive point in the race between Magic and Second Wind
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A trailer yacht on its own slow run to the finish then intervened, managing to lift up past its transom but leaving stuck in its lee. gybed away looking for clear air, but before gybing back ran aground, losing its last chance for a fightback, but still crossing only 40 second behind with only 40 seconds behind her after two hours of racing.
The final Fifteen, Ewan and Scott in kept up with the others for the first half of the race, but two capsizes with an inexperienced crew, with the second causing a broken check stay, finally put her out of the race.
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In the RS100s, Duncan in worked to the front of the pack and opened up a lead that stretched to six minutes by the end of the race.
Duncan stretching that lead
Behind him Garry in and Bill in fought a tight dual of their own, with holding out for a narrow 25 second win over , with Vincent in 2 minutes behind them.
A shot showing 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the RS100s and race winner Secret 16
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Happy Bill
Bill and Vince head for the sand
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Although a bit further back again, it was a pleasure to welcome Seamus into the gennaker fleet, bringing up the rear in a borrowed RS100. Seamus did really well on his first race in an RS100: no capsizes and using the kite throughout – losing some ground on the first few laps as you expect of a newbie but got quicker for the second half of the race, as one does when learning.
Seamus in his first race in an RS100
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Monohull Report (Mark Pierce)
Ten Monos competed in Champ Race 3. There were three Lasers, three Impulses, two NS14s, a Devoti D-One, and a 59er. A delightful (predominantly) Easterly breeze, and blue skies, made for a very pleasant afternoon on the water.
A fun Sunday outing
There were some quite extraordinarily good performances this race. Trent and Daisy crossed the line over 11 minutes ahead of the nearest Mono! They won on yardstick by over nine minutes (…and this is after Trent so sportingly went around, pre-race, coaching the newer Mono sailors on the vagaries of the river tidal movements) Very well done folks ☺
Paul came second on yardstick, beating arch-rival Cameron by over three minutes. Paul’s been training hard, and finely-tuning his Impulse. It looks like the hard work’s paying off.
But the amazing result of the day belonged to Evan. Evan was sailing a full-rig Laser for the first time, having progressed from the 4.7 rig. He is relatively new to sailing, and was participating in, I believe, his second-ever race as a skipper. Evan came a very respectable fifth on yardstick. Great work Evan ☺ 19
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Battling the tide on the first work
Evan, Paul and Cameron in a close tussle on the second upwind
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Also doing well in a Laser 4.7 was Laura, who came in sixth, after Evan.
Laura laying low
Greg was still sorting out some teething issues with his newly-acquired D-One. Mark and Julie opted for their small “storm rig”, just in case the pleasant light Easterly turned into an unpleasant gusty strong NorthEasterly. This plan, of course, guaranteed that it didn’t ;-).
Des thrives in stronger winds, and isn’t so competitive in the lighter stuff. Jisnu tried out a Laser 4.7, and didn’t finish (he reported he lost track of how many laps he’d done).
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Trent and Daisy, and then Graham Hodgins, got the best starts, at the northern end of the line.
All eyes on the starter
A broader view of the start
Graham lead briefly during the first windward leg.
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But Trent and Daisy got past him, and from then on were unstoppable.
GG in the rivermouth
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Rumour has it that two “gun” single-handed Mono ex club members will soon be returning to fleet………watch his space ☺
Thanks to the Channer lads for doing Duty, and to the Club Committee for making all the fun possible in these Covid times ☺
Thanks to Ric and Roland in the start/rescue boat
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Catamaran Report (A report in pictures this week)
The start from the start boat
…and from shore also showing Phill having just taken the photo above
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End of the first downwind leg
Michael in A on his second work with John in Wokat heading downwind
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Col (right) and Tony having a close race to get across the line, Tony got there, but Col won the day
John in Wokat
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The lead Michael had on Col
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Don’t mess with the starter
Further Announcements
1. If you still have a club trophy, please bring it back to the club so we can get it engraved.
2. Crewing. If you are crewing on a boat in club race then you need to be a member or use a sail pass. This is a requirement of the club and it also provides you with some personal accident insurance cover. If you obtain a stand-in crew then please ensure they register with Sail Pass. In future, boats with non-member crew without a Sail Pass for that day will not score points for that race. Sail Pass is free for three sessions and is accessed from our website at www.rrsrc.com.au/registration
3. If you come down to the club during the week, then please email Jonathan that you were in the club on [email protected]
4. If anyone knows of a sailor who would like to learn to be our starter/rescue boat operator then please ask them to talk to Phill by email or phone. We would prefer an experienced sailor, but primarily need an able-bodied person for this important role.
Phill
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Covid-Safe Sailing Reminder
Firstly, you must NOT come back if you feel unwell or experience any new symptoms, respiratory or other. Play it safe and stay home. When you do arrive, there will be a sign-in desk set up on the club veranda and everyone is expected to hand sanitize then sign in: skippers on the race sign-in forms and crew, officials and visitors on the contact register form. This is the only time you will be allowed onto the veranda. Only officials will be allowed into the clubhouse. Come dressed ready to sail and be able to change in the yard or your car, to minimize use of our change rooms. No items to be left in change rooms please. Bring your food and drinks and esky, if needed, as the clubhouse and kitchen are off limits. Although a major part of why we sail, socializing in person must be kept safe. Sitting on the veranda after racing is considered too difficult a time to maintain social distance, so we have made the difficult decision to close it down. Chat with your friends in the yard but keep good social distance. We will have a Duty officer each week as usual, however their duties will be different now. The club and change rooms should be clean before they arrive, so the Duty Officer is not expected to do cleaning. And with no kitchen duties they should have a lot less to do.
Their first job will be to check or set up hand sanitiser in each of the change rooms, then set up a table on the verandah with hand sanitiser and two types of sign-in forms: the usual division based race sign-in forms and a general attendance register for everyone else. Skippers sign in on race sheet, while crew, officials and visitors sign the attendance register. It will be up to everyone to sign-in. The duty officer does not need to police it. The division based race forms will then be used for scoring, and when finished passed onto the handicapper who will enter all names into an electronic attendance register. Duty officer will likely be scoring races with an assistant, or helping on the rescue boat if required.
One of the most difficult things to do is to remember to keep your social distance when in a familiar setting with friends, yet this is what we must learn. To assist everyone in this, the other role of the duty officer will be to act as a Covid-Safe guide around the club and remind people to keep their distance when they need reminding. The committee will support them in this role. We have to assume that at some time during this pandemic an asymptomatic carrier of the disease will come to the club and we want everyone to stay safe if this occurs. If everyone is prepared to make some sacrifices in how we interact on our club site then we can continue to sail and stay safe.
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Briefings Process
As part of our Covid-safe plan there will be no briefings in the clubhouse. Instead, there will be a whiteboard displayed from the verandah at 12.30pm with the course and number of laps for each division.
You will need to download and print out the 6 standard courses from our website here www.rrsrc.com.au/documents and bring them all to race days. Look at the relevant one. There will also be the chosen course map on display downstairs on race day, and you can have them on your phone as well. There are 3 NE courses, a SE course as well as a W’erly and E’erly.
Division reps must inform the Vice Commodore or Commodore before 12.30pm if they want a different number of laps to the default shown on the Course map.
Get to know a club member
In this series of interviews with club members we are showcasing long time member Duncan Dey.
Name: Duncan Dey
Number of Seasons at RRSRC: 25 seasons
Name and type of boat sailed: RS100, single-handed gennaker
Role on Boat: sailing fast
Roles in the Club (now and previously): duty roster now, class rep previously
Where did you learn to sail? In what class/classes of boat? Duncan learnt in early teens as forward hand for three seasons on a VJ “ ” skippered by older brother Alex. We studied the wind on our Middle Harbour course most days from home on Wyagine Point (north head of Balmoral Beach), travelled the country and were Junior National Champions in about 1963. Duncan’s spinnaker hoist was the fastest known, usually setting when the rounding mark was midway along the boat. He skippered a VJ “ ” with younger brother Bruce for two years (see pic 1965), then built a double-chine Moth in 1968, then sailed for UNSW in Lightweight Sharpies in State and National comps. 31
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Duncan steering his VJ in 1965
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Duncan in his VJ again In the 1970’s he raced A-class catamaran in Darwin. The boat was blown far away by cyclone Tracey and never found. Duncan had already returned to Sydney and crewed on NS14’s until he lapsed - to travel the world as a hippie, as an Australian Volunteer Abroad and as a dad in landlocked Austria. In 1994 Duncan returned to Australia, and to sailing by putting a crew-hopeful notice on the board at RRSRC. Victor Holmes grabbed him onto NS14 #1540. They had several seasons of wonderful racing against Graeme Fleming. Duncan then had Daniel live with him for two years. They sailed Flying Eleven #1046 - the dad was 46 years old and Dan was 10 (see pic 1998).
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Duncan steering a Flying 11 with his son Daniel in 1998
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After that Duncan had 15 years skippering NS14’s: #1445 Aero 3 e, #1783 home-modified Flight ... , #1945 Aero 11a #2013 Tiger .
Duncan steering Whatever in 2008, just in front in this group in the shallows off the RRSRC clubhouse
Duncan steering In a Frenzy in Adelaide 2008
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Duncan’s best result was 5th in NSW Championships in 2010 in (see pic 2010 Gosford).
Duncan steering In a Frenzy, NSW championships, Gosford, 2010
He was usually about tenth in other States and Nats. See pics r, in Adelaide, bumps. The NS14 Association squirmed as Aero 11a’s came out of the mould and smashed records. The boat is a narrowed Aero 9 - too narrow to pass muster. The bumps were added to meet the class width measurement.
The controversial bumps on the NS14 Aero 11a
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The Association grandfathered the Aero 11a after six were built. That means you can sail one but not build one. The newer Tiger design is almost as fast and now very popular. Age should not weary them but Duncan switched to something easier to right after a capsize and bought Vince’s RS100 #438 now called (see pic ).
The familiar present-day sight of Duncan going fast in his RS100 Casper
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Five years later the Nationals were sailed in light weather and he took the 2019 crown. Daniel came to stay again in 2019 so Duncan bought Mark Goltz’s NS14 #1857 (see pic Harwood).
Duncan’s son Daniel returned and raced with Duncan in NS14 Aphrodite at the latter part of the 2019/20 season. Harwood March 2020
That boat has just gone, to be sailed one-up by another Graham. Duncan hasn’t finished learning to sail, he’s still learning.
Have you been a member of other sailing clubs, if so, which? Middle Harbour Amateur Sailing Club
What class or type of boats have you sailed in your life? As above, plus Duncan raced and cruised with Garry Scott (now RS100 #243 ) in Garry’s F18 and F24 trimarans, including racing in the two of the famous Bay To Bay races and in the Whitsundays. Big thanks Garry.
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Best sailing experience? Regattas, regattas, regattas.
Another shot from the 2019 RRSRC regatta
Worst sailing experience? 1. biased starting lines. 2. snapping a rudder blade on the far side of Lake Illawarra in 20 knots. 3. crossing the finish line with my NS14 crew (Janet) underwater.
Best results in a series at RRSRC? See the boards on the clubhouse walls, when COVID allows viewing them.
Suggestions on how sailing as a sport could be improved? The collegiality of sailing is its greatest asset. Sailing Associations should balance their support for the top end of the sport with some for the rest of us.
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Why do you go sailing? I’ll die if I stop sailing. COVID nearly killed me, indirectly.
Apart from the cheese/dips and crackers why do you sail at RRSRC on a Sunday? If there were a better waterway, I’d be there. Rivers often force us to sail near the banks, including in wind shadows from tall buildings. I love open water sailing.
Are there any sailing dreams you aspire to? Another 55 years of sailing.
Any advice for up and coming sailors? Look, listen, learn. And if you know something, share it. That also inspires other points of view.
Would you like to share one thing that people at the club might not know about you? Open book, no secrets here.
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Reminder – Fees and AGM
You must have pre-paid your race fees to have your race counted as we are cash free.
Membership fees are due. A Covid-safe AGM will be announced soon
Idle Gossip – Please send anything interesting sailing or club related to [email protected].
Here is a link to some great 12 foot skiff sailing from a couple of weeks ago by former Australian champs Nick Press and Andrew Hay posted on the Australian 12 foot skiffs Facebook page. The race had been called off due to a very strong westerly, so they went out and had a blast! They were estimated doing about 20 knots – with their 4th rig – probably their smallest.
And footage of the boat as they went past the club house here.
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Trapeze fun (as snapped by Phill)
Going out without being hooked up
Trying to find the hook, Francine starts to realise what’s going on
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Nearly got it!
Well that was fun
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On with the race
Club Shirts
Here’s your chance to wear the colours of your club, to proudly display what you do every Sunday – wear a club shirt!
Royal Blue Club shirts payment required at time of order into RRSRC account with your name as reference BSB: 728728 ACC: 22288328
Email or text Nola with size [email protected] or 0414 866999
Mens Long sleeve polo - $37 Short sleeve polo - $35 Cotton T-shirt - $20
Ladies Short sleeve polo - $31
(As worn by Secretary Nola and Commodore Kids Phill – reflective safety vest optional) Cotton T-shirt - $17
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Crew Available/Crew Wanted
➢ John Willey has recently joined the club and is available for crewing.
John has been racing all his life, most recently Etchells in Bris. Would be a good crew.
➢ Potential new member wants crewing position: Sam Edwards 0449140150
“I work as a teacher at Southern Cross School. I have experience sailing for a few years with my own small boat; Holfast trainer and a Moth, and spent a little bit of time on yachts. No racing experience. I’m a confident water person and easy to get along with. Cheers.”
Upcoming Events/regattas Big River Sailing
With the easing of restrictions relating to inter-regional sporting events, the Big River Sailing Club advises that the regattas planned for Oct and Nov will proceed.
Single Handed Regatta 24/25 Oct 2020
Bridge to Breakers 21/22 Nov 2020
The regattas will be managed in accordance with the Club's Covid-19 Safety Plan. NOR and Sailing Instructions to be available soon.
For Sale/Wanted/Free to a Good Home
If you have any sailing related items for sale or if you want to buy something sailing related and want it put in the newsletter please let me know – [email protected]
Sail Repairs in Town
Col Woodbry and Andrew McInnes have reported that sail repairs are available in Ballina now. The business is called Undercover Canvas. They have a new staff member that is experienced in sail repairs.
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For Sale - RS 100 No. 272 "Raw Speed"
RS 100's are an international high performance single-handed skiff with gennaker for exhilarating off-wind speed. One design rules ensure all boats are highly competitive. Carbon fibre mast and excellent sail controls allow for adaptation for a wide range of crew weights and conditions.
This boat will develop your skills and provide a challenging platform to enhance your individual sailing mastery. The single hander to own! New boats sell for $19,895. Special price -
Only $9000.
Lowest Price for one of the last two RS100’s for sale in Australia now. Excellent racing condition. 5th in Aust titles. Hull and fore deck refurbished for perfectly smooth hull. Comes with good quality 8.4 main and gennaker, mast cover, rudder cover, trolley, boat cover. Call Vincent on 02 6688 4480 or email [email protected]. I have 2 boats again and will be buying a brand new RS
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100 to sail at the club next year..
Watch the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-9wfj9Zj68
Visit the Website: http://www.rs100sailingaustralia.net/
Test sail today! It’s fantastic fun. No crew. Give it a try!
For Sale - RS 100 No. 371 "Swing Shift"
One of the last two RS100’s for sale in Australia now. Excellent racing condition. 1st in Aust titles 2017. Excellent racing condition. Comes with 2 sets of sails - near new and also good quality 8.4 mains and gennakers, mast cover, rudder cover, trolley, boat cover.
Call Vincent on 02 6688 4480 or email [email protected]. I have 2 boats again and will be buying a brand new RS 100 to sail at the club next year..
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Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478
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