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Commodore Phill Robbins Club Newsletter 0466668541 05/02/19 Vice Commodore Jonathan Horsley 0412798505

Rear Commodore Chris Hallett 0414866998

Secretary Nola Hallett 0414866999

Treasurer Norm Hunt 66291366

Class Reps Gennakers – Duncan Dey Catamarans – Col Woodbry Trailers – Ian Michie Monos – Graham Hams

Rowing Officer Gerald Anderson

Webmaster Mark Pierce LISA BLAIR, CIRCUMNAVIGATOR OF

Training team AUSTRALIA AND ANTARCTICA, Graeme Turner GUEST SPEAKER AT THE CLUB ALL EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE TO: Lisa Blair sailed around Antarctica single handed and last year sailed [email protected] around Australia single handed. She will be presenting a talk at our club on the 14th Feb at 6.30pm. Cost will be $20 which will go towards supporting her next trip.

Biography Lisa Blair THE FIRST WOMAN TO SAIL SOLO AROUND ANTARCTICA Whilst completing her Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Southern Cross University, Lisa Blair secured a job as a hostess on a sailing boat in the Whitsundays on 2005. Once discovering sailing Lisa wanted to learn more and was inspired from books about solo sailors like Kay Cottee, Robin Knox-Johnston and Jessie Martin. Lisa decided to change her course in life and gather the skills to become a solo sailor herself. Lisa since clocked up more than 50 000 nautical miles of ocean sailing before embarking on her record making voyage.

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After Circumnavigating the world in the Clipper 2011-12 Round the World Yacht Race Lisa went on to work for Alex Thomson Racing on their 60 foot racing yacht sponsored by Hugo Boss. She then acquired her RYA/ MCA Yacht Master Offshore, a Master Class 5 (Australian Skipper ticket) and her MED 3 (Marine Engineering). Lisa worked as skipper of the 68 foot long, Ex America’s Cup, Racing Yacht Southern Cross sailing around the Whitsunday Islands, in 2014 Lisa sailed twice across the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand SOLO clocking up almost 3 000 nm of solo sailing experience in preparation for her Antarctica record.

Following that Lisa is a sailing instructor in Sydney, skipper of Ex-American Cup Yachts Sprit and Kookaburra and worked for Manly Fast Ferries. Lisa acquired her yacht in November 2015 – previously named Funnel-Web - and skippered it in the 2015 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. After 3.5 years of planning and gathering funds Lisa set off on January 22nd, 2017 from Albany in WA with the goal of becoming the first woman to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Antarctica with the secondary goal of breaking the current record of 102 days held by Russia.

72 days into her solo voyage and ¾ the way around Antarctica Lisa suffered a dramatic and life threatening dismasting in storm conditions more than 1000nm from land. Lisa managed to save her yacht, was rendered fuel from a passing container ship, built a jury rig and motor sailed into Cape Town, SA. 2 months later Lisa re-started her voyage, crossed her track at the position of demasting and continued back to Australia. On July 25th Lisa made history and became the first woman to sail solo and unassisted around Antarctica with one stop.

Lisa was awarded the Spirit of Adventure award by Australian Geographic and the Seamanship Award by the Ocean Cruising Club and finished off the year by partnering with The Magenta Project.org and leading the first all-female team in 16 years to race in the Rolex 2017 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race on board her yacht Climate Action Now. Lisa has now sailed over 70 000nm and turns her attention to finishing her first book titled Demasted which is to be published by Australian Geographic.

Following an incredible year in 2017 Lisa set off in the New Year with the goal of becoming the first woman to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Australia. Lisa succeeded on the 17th of December when she sailed into Sydney Harbour after facing down storms, drifting as she was becalmed, a near sinking and safely navigated around the many reefs and rocks. Lisa established a new record time of 58 Days, 2 hours, 25 minutes and 29 seconds.

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Presentation Outline

Australia Solo in 58 Days

Topics: Motivation, Goal Setting, Resilience, Female empowering, Inspirational.

Duration: 1 hour

Audience: To be enjoyed by all ages and no sailing knowledge is required to enjoy. Lisa customises her presentations to meet audience requirements.

Overview: In 2017 Lisa Blair became the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica with one stop. She suffered incredible storm conditions and a dramatic de-masting but not even a month after completing and surviving this she was already preparing her next adventure. Lisa aimed to become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Australia. Lisa has always seen a circumnavigation of Australia to be a much harder journey than Antarctica and a greater risk of failure. Lisa explains:

“Sailing around Antarctica was mostly open water and once you could handle the storms it was just a process of ticking off the miles whereas with the Australia circumnavigation I am close to land almost the whole of the circumnavigation bringing with it challenges like increased traffic, reefs, rocks, changing weather influenced by land and extreme sleep deprivation, one mistake and I am on a reef or washed up on a beach and its game over”.

Join us in enjoying a positive, empowering story of all the highs and lows of sailing solo around Australia in 58 Days including her almost sinking on her final run to the finish line.

Feedback “Lisa’s is a captivating presenter. She delivered a real-life story of courage and resilience that left us inspired with the power of persistence to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals.”

Steve Harris - CEO The Brand Agency

“Lisa’s story is captivating. Firstly enthralling us with her dream and passion for her task at hand, then taking us on her journey of euphoria, tears, heartbreak and finally success. Lisa is an extraordinary lady with a big heart and special story to tell. Those that take the time to listen to her come out of with life lessons and are better people for it.”

Domenic Genua – BIA Sydney International Boat Show

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Race Reports for February 3rd

Monohull Report (Mark Pierce)

Des (impulse), Paul (NS) and Mark (Laser) had a very close race, at the rear end of the fleet, apart from the slower Pacers. Roy (RS Aero) was with us for a while, but pulled away to join the leaders. Paul eventually pipped Mark at the line, by just a few seconds - with a rapidly improving Des, just behind. Champ Graham Hams won convincingly. Greg (Laser), and Cameron (Impulse) had a close battle for 2nd place, with Greg eventually prevailing. Roy came in 4th.

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With only 10 mins separating the first and last Mono, there was a feeling of elation amongst the slightly slower boats. Paul has spent most of the season, tweaking and taming, his NS Aero9 - with his hard work now paying off. Des came 4th, on yardstick, in this Championship race - proving the old saying that "practice makes perfect". Though not one of the slower boats, Greg Spencer's 3rd place in Laser "Bubbles" was a great performance. "Bubbles" is a very old Laser (recently rescued, for the cost of a few hundred bucks, from years lying, full of water, in a garden). She's called "Bubbles", because of the, very sizeable, bubbles in the glass on her deck. She's got a very old, baggy, sail, with virtually no on-the-water sail controls - and a tiller extension so short that any meaningful hiking is out of the question. Greg's placing goes to show that you don't need to spend mega-dollars on a boat, to perform well!

Greg in ‘Bubbles’

Alter Ego, Raver and Hamin’ It Up 6

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Pacer Report (Trent Morgan)

The second rounding of the windward mark

Pacer Trio

Trent and Daisy arrived at the club to see Steffen and Reuben rigging ‘Jumpin’ Joie’ and thought this is great – another pacer! Not long before the launch it became apparent that ‘Penny Puffin’ was being rigged as well. Yes, a pacer series!

As Trent and Daisy in ‘Puddleduck’ hugged the island trying to get out of the tide to arrive at the start it became apparent that getting to the start line on time was going to be tight. So tight that Trent and Daisy were hoping Ric would delay the start until they got there, ‘Shades’ was even behind ‘Puddleduck’, trying to get there. However to Trent’s dismay the cats were released on time, the monos took off and ‘Puddleduck’ ended up starting more than four minutes late. The race felt over before it had started for the ‘Puddleduck’ crew. There was only one thing to do – get the ‘duck’ flying and make up the ground.

With steam pouring out of Trent’s ears and Daisy doing extremely well to put up with her father’s rants and not push him out of the boat, the chase began. ‘Jumpin’ Joie’ and ‘Penny Puffin’ had started on time and raced upwind with the other monos, Steffen and Reuben reaching the top mark before Penny Puffin. ‘Puddleduck’ made up some ground, enough to see ‘Penny Puffin’ sitting low 7

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in the water with the skipper bailing rapidly. Apparently a near capsize had occurred. They shook it off and followed the mono fleet out towards the southern mud flats. Trent and Daisy had never sailed this course (nor had Steffen and Reuben) and Trent thought, ‘why are the fleet travelling all the way over there, only to have to travel all the way back’? It seemed as if they were trying to sail the course leaving the marks to starboard? So… ’Puddleduck’ hugged the northern bank of the river trying to evade the tide and it worked – gaining on the other pacers, seemingly overtaking ‘Penny Puffin’ and almost gaining level pegging with ‘Jumpin’ Joie’ – until…the wind shadow hit ‘Puddleduck’ and they ended up rounding after ‘Jumpin’ Joie’ by a fair way. On the next upwind Trent and Daisy caught right up to ‘Jumpin’ Joie’, thinking ‘Penny Puffin’, once overtaken, was out of contention. Wrong! At the top mark ‘Penny Puffin’ was right behind the other two.

This was close. Second downwind – Steffen and Reuben seemed to try to follow the route ‘Puddleduck’ had taken downwind along the northern bank, while Trent and Daisy decided to travel the southern mud flat route. ‘Penny Puffin’ went right down the middle. Steffen and Reuben seemed to change their mind and follow the other two not long after, but at the bottom mark the flying ‘duck’ had flown to the lead. On the third upwind it was becoming apparent that ‘Jumpin’ Joie’ had some boat speed, overtaking ‘Puddleduck’ on the way up, only to have Trent and Daisy take the lead again at the final top mark rounding. ‘Penny Puffin’ had also hauled in ‘Jumpin’ Joie’ which was right behind them at the rounding of the mark.

The final rounding of the top mark

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Puddleduck heading to the Northern bank for the final run

Neck and neck – an amazing race, especially considering this was the first time Steffen and Reuben were progressing through a full race, the first time they had raced together. Both have only just completed learn to sail this season! Trent then learnt why one doesn’t sail the northern bank to get out of the tide – the wind ran out, while the other two progressed down river having correctly chosen to sail towards the southern flats. ‘Puddleduck’ went back to the middle but the other two had re-established a good lead.

Coming back up the final work to the finish Trent and Daisy worked on perfecting their tacks, doing everything they could to haul in the other two. Using as much tidal assistance as possible and sailing as straight a line as possible to get back home, Trent and Daisy had pulled ‘Penny Puffin’ back in by about the Ramada, then threw a quick succession of tacks to hug the northern bank to try to get their nose across the line before ‘Jumpin’ Joie’.

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On the home stretch

Unbeknownst to Trent and Daisy, Steffen thought he had to leave the finish mark to port and cross the finish line from the East. This slowed ‘Jumpin’ Joie’ and ‘Puddleduck’ crossed the line receiving the hooter. A DNF was awarded to the unknowing Steffen and Reuben. ‘Penny Puffin’ crossed not long after – what a race!

Steffen was understandably bemused. Trent and Daisy had done the same thing in their first race finishing that way last season – an Upriver race, and felt that ‘Jumpin’ Joie’ deserved a result after their effort and due to the circumstances of them not knowing how to finish having never done it before! So after discussion with Brendan who was in the tower, then Phill, the race was awarded to Steffen and Reuben. Well done! A great effort for such inexperienced sailors. A worthy mention should be given to the crew of ‘Penny Puffin’ who pushed both the whole way.

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Trailer Sailor Report (Col Hinwood)

Nice fleet for the first Championship day for 2019. Reg, Shades of Grey, Incy, Rabbit & the 2 RL24s Treasure Isle & Spudgun, with Bad Blood away being measured. With new boats in the Nacra & F15 Classes, can also say we will have WhiteTail adding to the Spider fleet soon. Growing fleets are a direct result of good club management, good Start Boat crews, & good course selection.

Good Start Line set by the Start Boat crew, with an outgoing tide and an Easterly wind coming straight down the River on the Trawler Harbour Course. Wind was a perfect 12-15knots, & sailing the course just … nice!! Shades was maybe missing the normal course , as somehow, before the Start, they got stuck on the sandbank between the Mobbs Mark .. which wasn’t there of course, & the Red buoy .. we know that spot .. on a falling tide .. anyway some concern as to whether Shades would make the Start, & .. it didn’t. A Good Start from the fleet tho, with Shades a minute late ..& a nice tight upwind, then set & over to the left bank towards the ferry to try to dodge some out tide. The race ended up as usual between Reg & Rabbit & Shades who never recovered from the bad start, then a gap to Incy, Spudgun & Treasure Isle … nice grouping with plenty of battles.

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Treasure Isle

Spudgun finally got in front of Incy downwind, only to have a kite halyard jam in the block .. up top … so .. goodbye Incy .. Looks like some good battles ahead for that group.

We did 4 Laps then home, & the work home was good sailing, trying to work out current patches & wind patches meaning lotsa tacking.

Treasure Isle had a successful race only to find it impossible to get the trailer out of the mud .. with additional help from a Channer Rescue Landrover all to no avail .. nothing for it but to .. relaunch the boat, tie it up & …have a beer & meditate .. with a rising tide improving retrieval conditions. Advice from the verandah about getting a smaller boat were .. most unkind ... I have nothing to say about trailers getting stuck & vehicles bogged ..

As usual Reg was in .. & packed away before the mob, & Bad Blood appeared for the veranda drinkies after returning from a SMS remeasure session at RQ .. the things we do ..

What the sailing ?.. well it was just a great day .. tack tack tack.. Gybe gybe and the boats were finishing in the order they should, & no-one had a clue as to who won what .. had to wait for Results to be worked out, with so many different handicaps .. Ended up with conditions favouring Rabbit by 12 seconds to Reg, with Incy 1 minute behind Reg.

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Reg and Run Rabbit Run

Shades, not content with a grounding before the racing, decided on a radical Finish Line shoot with extreme heel to avoid another tack .. = parked some metres from the Line, tic … tic … tic ..& by the time the boat was extracted & sailed across the Line, was only just ahead of Incy over the Line & way behind on Corrected. I also have no comment to make about boats going aground, with a history of same as well.

Surf to City next Sunday with Elvis, Bad Blood [with Bill as crew] & Shades our boats attending, on PHRF + SMS. Good Luck guys .. need a tad more wind than forecast at the moment, but any day sailing is better than ..

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Gennaker Report (Duncan Dey and Michael Wiley)

Numero Uno

The large fleet of Monos seemed to behave sensibly with the line favouring starboard and the start boat at the port end. Sadly, it was a long way to the start line against the current and Garry in RS100 Hooray and Daniel and Francine in the 15, Numero Uno, were both late; the former as a straggler in getting down to the line, the latter by getting distracted in practicing trapeze steering after a long absence from skippering.

Despite sailing up river, the breeze was a gorgeously steady ESE’er that shifted occasionally but not enough to rule out the dominance of tide. For the RS100, the go was to sail east with the tide mid-stream to north-bank then return west without it on the south bank, ducking north for the navvy marks. For the faster 15's they often found it profitable to ignore all but the worst of the tide on the spinnaker run and play the centre, where some nice gusts would send them jetting directly towards the leeward mark.

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Trade Secret

National champion Formula 15 Barry, in Secret, with Anna back on board as crew, had another very close race with Mr Bond sailed by Michael and Tara. On the whole Secret pulled away on the works only to be run down by Mr Bond on the spinnaker runs, with the boats often within touching distance at the bottom mark. But on the last work, Secret struck out for a comfortable win by 1 minute from Mr Bond.

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Meanwhile, Mike's new F15 Magic Formula sat in the carpark awaiting the next away event or the sale of Mr Bond (since season points cannot be transferred to a new boat).

Duncan brought RS100 Casper home third over the line and on yardstick. No capsizes occurred! Only a few cats and trailers had to be avoided. I wish they'd focus on the space beside me rather than on me. You know, the pothole rule: look at it long enough and you'll put a wheel straight through it.

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F15 Numero Uno skippered by national champion forward-hand Daniel Bradford was late to start, with nationally-experienced crew Francine. They finished fourth on scratch and fifth on yardstick. Garry was likewise late with fifth and fourth.

Garry in ‘Hooray’ 17

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Catamaran Report Photos only

Norm powering upwind 18

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Chris and Nola in ‘Finely Tuned’

No Waiting 19

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RS 100 Nationals January Long Weekend 2019

Big thanks to Vince for getting the Port Stephens Sailing & Aquatic Club (is sailing not Aquatic?) to run the 2019 RS100 Nationals on the January long weekend, plus the Nats for the Formula 15s class.

We had 9 races over 3 days, all but Race 7 in strong east to nor-east winds. Of the 15 entrants, four came from our club. We also dragged Paul Greer in Vince's old boat south from Lake Wivenhoe. The rest of the fleet bar one were from Port Phillip Bay.

David Williamson took the lead in most races and in the series to finish with 6 firsts and a second (7 races count out of 9). Paul Tadich came likewise decisively second on 16 points (1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4). The next 3 boats were tight. Bill Heuchmer took out third place and Vince was fourth, after a tie-break from Tom le Grice fifth.

Duncan only found speed for half a race, finishing that one second but the series tenth. He also found 10 litres of water in the boat and regretted not emptying that out each evening. Garry finished his first seven races in an RS100 to come in 15th - well done you!

Rob Morton from Wallagoot Lake club near Bega is arranging the 2020 event, with first venue preference being Jervis Bay. This will be fun.

LOST

LIFE JACKET Missing, from Club or carpark, 2 weeks ago. “Coast Mate” brand, XL PFD. It’s blue and yellow, with “Mark” written on the front, in black letters, and has a whistle. I suspect that it “walked” from my boat, that was outside club, next to path, while we all were in doing defibrillator training. But, I could have left it/dropped it in car park.

Ring Mark 0421932945”

ROWING IN THE GUTTERS

Chris Hallett (in charge of the grounds) has asked that a thank you be given to that regular blue- sailed racer for cleaning the gutters on the rowing shed. Chris also asked for rowers to please take note. The gutters were jam packed and at one point a branch had grown to the thickness of a thumb in between the building and the gutter.

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raceQ’s

From Graeme Fleming

FYI We used this app at the Sail Paradise regatta as it was compulsory for all Yachts. Amazing playback of races

Welcome to raceQs, the innovative sailing program that will change the way you sail!

To confirm you registration please click to link below

Check out this video for a quick demo of the raceQs sailing system.

Download It Download and register the FREE raceQs app, available in the iPhone store or the Android market.

Go Sailing With just a push of a button, create your own 3D replays by recording a race with raceQs’ free smartphone app. The app is also a powerful race computer designed to help you sail faster. Learn More

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Watch It After you are done sailing, login to your raceQs account on a computer to view your automatically generated 3D race replay. Learn more

Share It Easily share your replay with your crew, post it on Facebook, or replay it at the Yacht Club. If you prefer, you can always choose to keep your replay private.

Need more help now? Check out our website and FAQ. We would love to hear from you with your questions and suggestions by email [email protected]

Thanks,

The raceQs Team

Commonly Asked Questions

Do I need to keep my phone on deck, in view of "open sky" like my GPS?

No, the app will still work below decks, safely stowed in your bag. You can even set it to automatically shut-off when your phone battery reaches various levels.

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USE OF CLUB TRACTOR

We had some problem with retrieving the RIB last Sunday during a very low tide. I want to explain what went wrong and what we should do in the future. The plan was a standard boat retrieval plan used many times by many sailors in the past. The tractor and trailer backed into the water so that the rollers are just below the surface. Then the boat drives onto the trailer and the tractor pulls it out immediately. It is based on timing and not sitting on wet sand for longer than about 20 seconds.

What was the actual outcome: - The boat ran into the trailer; was not lined up straight and could not drive onto trailer; had to be hand winched on; took 10 minutes while the trailer and tractor sank into the sand. Thus: - The tractor gear linkage got broken when trying to get it unbogged. - RIB nose damaged when it ran into the bottom roller on trailer. - End roller on the trailer was bent.

Why did it go wrong: Our unique problems: 1. battleship nose on RIB I.e. straight up and down nose. This makes it very difficult to drive or even slide it onto the trailer without a lift up onto the first rollers. 2. fragile fiberglass hull with only a strong area along the keel means that it will be easily damaged unless all the weight is carried by the central rollers. 3. very shallow slope into water, so the trailer had to go a long way into the water and then probably still didn’t get deep enough to drive our straight nosed RIB over the rollers.

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Conclusion: This type of normal boat retrieval strategy won't work here.

There are very specific requirements for retrieving our RIB safely at low tide: - tilt on trailer must be used so the end roller can be lowered below the water level. - RIB must be lined up exactly with the centre rollers on the trailer and probably lifted onto first roller manually. Needs two People to guide it; one at the front and one at rear keeping it straight as well as one on the winch. - the tractor must stay out of the water so it does not sink into wet sand, as loading the RIB is a slow process. We may experiment with using a snatch rope to pull the RIB closer to the ramp so the tractor stays out of the water. We will also experiment with laying boards under the trailer and tractor rear tyres while in the water. - If retrieving on beach in front of club the trailer cannot be on much side slope or else the RIB will slide off central rollers and get damaged.

New Rules re Trailer: 1. At low tide you must ask one of 3 people to supervise (Chris Hallett, Jonathan Horsley or Col Woodbry) 2. At high tide approved drivers are ok to retrieve or launch on the ramp.

We will find a process that works and is safe for the RIB. Phill

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IMPORTANT INFO FOR USERS OF CLUB LASERS Laser top and bottom sections need to be assembled in a particular way, or the top-section can snap. (See pic) All club Laser mast sections have a blue arrow on them (see pic). For correct assembly, the arrow on the top-section should meet the arrow on the bottom section (see pic). If the arrows on your two mast sections meet, but the sections don’t slot in together, you’ve selected either two top-sections, or two bottom-sections. While the club encourages innovation, this mast configuration will probably not work! Happy Laser sailing, cheers Mark

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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

Kids Cotton T-shirt - $17

(As worn by Secretary Nola and Commodore Phill – reflective safety vest optional)

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Idle Gossip – Please send anything interesting sailing or club related to [email protected].

“We need more sail area!”

Upcoming Away Events

• FASTWAYS CAT WEEKEND Southport. Friday 8th – Sunday 10th February

• 23rd February 2019 – ‘The Great Race’ – Southport Yacht Club 28

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Hollywell Sailing Squadron to Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron

• 2019 MARICAT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 23rd/24th February FISH RIVER SAILING CLUB Lake Oberon, Jenolan St, Oberon For further information contact: Grady McNee, Maricat Association NSW & ACT Inc. on 0432511817

• 16th/17th March – BRSC (Harwood) Annual Regatta Sat/Sun

• 4th/5th May – Bay to Bay

If anyone knows of any more events or would like an event posted please let me know – [email protected]

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Wotif Offer to our Club!

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Crew Available/Crew Wanted

Seamus, an enthusiastic graduate from our last Learn to Sail course, is keen to continue his learning by crewing on any boat available. Seamus has already crewed on a NS14, Nacra 5.8 and Spider 550. Please help him continue his involvement with the club by giving him a place, if possible. Email his mother Jill at [email protected] if you have a spot for him

If you need some crew or are wanting to have a sail in a race please make your intentions known here by contacting [email protected]

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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]

Gill Boot I can bring them to the club on Sunday so • wrap around super grip sole natural rubber people can try them on pre or post-race (non-marking) - Laura [email protected] • and reinforcements on toes and heels and Barely worn sides for protection Size 39 (UK/Australia 5.5) • non-ferrous zip with Velcro to keep it in $80 (down from $110) place • best trapeze boot out there! • unisex colours • 5mm neoprene for warmth

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More photos from last Sunday

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