Club Newsletter 4/12/19
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Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478 Newsletter Items, Idle Gossip, etc to Mark Pierce [email protected] (deadline midnight Tuesday) Commodore Phill Robbins 0466668541 Club Newsletter 4/12/19 Vice Commodore Jonathan Horsley INTERMEDIATE SAILING – VOLUNTEER INSTRUCTOR URGENTLY NEEDED 0412798505 As you may know, Laura and Seamus have been running the intermediate sessions on Rear Commodore Sunday mornings since our Learn to Sail classes in Sept. Chris Hallett 0414866998 Laura can only do one more Sunday before her Phd commitments take her time away. I will be running the last session of the year on the 15th Dec with Seamus. Secretary Nola Hallett 0414866999 Intermediate sessions are proving very popular and are an important way for beginning sailors to get into club sailing. Only yesterday a new family joined the club with a goal of Treasurer using these sessions to get the kids into sailing. This is a vital way of growing our club Col Woodbury membership. Can we please have a volunteer to run the class from January 19th til Feb or March next Class Reps year. Seamus has offered to help run the classes again. If you can only do some of these Gennakers – Michael Wiley dates that would be fine as I can fill in the other dates. If two or more people volunteer then Catamarans – Michael Cocks the dates can be shared. Please let me know if you can help in this important role. (The Trailers – Paul Morris club will pay for an interested party to get a boat licence if needed.) Monos – Graham Hams Rowing Officer Laura will be able to take over around April when she has the time again, Cheers, Phill Graham Hams Website Admin Mark Pierce Publicity Officer Trent Morgan Training Club Committee ALL EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE TO: [email protected] CONTENTS 2. Club News 7. Quiz 7. Idle Gossip 8. Race Reports 19. Upcoming Away Events 20. Marketplace From Michael W - “By the way Mark, could we include at the front of the Newsletter a special thanks to Tara who as duty person provided (out of own funds) a very special post-race spread.” Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478 CLUB NEWS From Trent ☺ I was just perusing the Twelve foot skiff page on facebook and found this list from 1972, eighty starters at the Drummoyne 50th year regatta. If you look carefully, right at the top, ‘Alter Ego’ – skipper G. Hams. If you look down to one of the number 24s – the boat ‘Tomato’ – skipper ‘D. Morgan’. D. Morgan is my father – a former Australian 12 foot skiff champion, and unbelievably Graham Hams has now raced against three generations of my family, over a period of at least forty seven years. Graham had a very generous handicap back then – not so now for personal handicap races! (A pic of Trent’s Dad on next page – Ed) 2 Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478 3 Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478 Sailing Champions League Asia Pacific 2020 Qualifiers Entries Now Open With the successful launch of the National Sailing League – Oceania last April (NSL video) and the winning team Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron going on to beat the best clubs from Europe to be crowned the “SAILING Champions League – Worlds Best Club“, (SCL video) we have expand the NSL from one event to a Final and Qualifying events. The format is that the top teams from each Qualifier will earn the right to compete in the 2020 NSL Final and obviously be the pathway to take on the best clubs in the world at the SAILING Champions League in Europe in October 2020. The Sailing Champions League Asia Pacific Northern Qualifier will be held at Hunters Hill Yacht Club 14/15th March 2020. The top clubs from this event will be invited to the Sailing Champions League Asia Pacific Final April 3-5 at Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron Entries are now open for the and Northern Qualifiers and we are keen for your club to be represented to be a part of this exciting new series. The format of the Northern Qualifier is that it is open to all clubs in NSW, Queensland and ACT to send teams to represent their club in this fully umpired fleet racing in 7m keelboats comprising of up to 30 heats (12-15 per race) and culminating in a top four final series. Teams will compete in a new fleet of six supplied RS21’s (the official boat of the SCL-APAC events) included in the entry fee and thus it is a true step on / step off regatta. The event is open to all ages and sailing backgrounds from dinghy sailors to keelboat sailors all competing on a level playing field. At the qualifier there are three divisions (all racing together) being: 4 Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478 • Open – teams of a maximum of four with minimum of one female • Women’s – teams of a maximum of five, all female • Youth – team of a maximum of five with a minimum of one female (U21) And we encourage clubs to enter in one, two or all three divisions, and although we hope to maximise the number of clubs and spread across States please get you entry in early (or contact us in regards to your interest) as entries are limited to the first 24 teams. We believe that this interclub, one design, small fleet racing, concept is just what Australia’s clubs and sailors have been crying out for. To link this with a pathway to crown your club as the best in Asia Pacific and then to travel to Europe to fight for the title of ‘Best club in the world’ in open, youth and women’s divisions is very appealing. In order to confirm your entry please review the Notice of Race and complete the entry form. Confirmation of acceptance of your entry will be made once full payment of entry fee is received. However, should you have any questions or concerns please contact either Howard or Mark directly and if you have not already please see the following two short videos. Sailing Champions League Asia Pacific was successfully launched in Sydney in April 2019 as National Sailing League Oceania. Go to www.nationalsailingleague.com.au to see results, photos and videos from the event. To see the wrap-up video and images click here. Sailing Champions League is Asia Pacific's Club vs Club, supplied boat (fleet of new RS21's), fully umpired, fleet racing competition for clubs large and small to race on a level playing field to identify the best club in Oceania to then go on to take on the best clubs in the world at the Sailing Champions League in Europe. In 2019 the top Oceania Youth Team (RSYS) competed at the Youth World Championships in Kiel, Germany and, the top open team (RSYS) won the Sailing Champions League World Open Final in St Moritz. 5 Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478 To enter teams in SCL events, your club must be a member of NSL (Class Association & affiliated with Australian Sailing). If you competed in the 2019 NSL Oceania Final, you are already a member. If you are not a member sign up here and to enter teams in any of the events or find out more about NSL go to www.nationalsailingleague.com.au. Don't delay. There is only room for 24 teams. Enter now. We look forward to seeing your team at the Northern Qualifier event. Sincerely, Howard Elliott Mark Turnbull OAM Director | National Sailing League Director | National Sailing League Mobile +61 (0) 411 508 810 Mobile +61 (0) 414 470 066 [email protected] [email protected] 6 Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478 QUIZ (Please send any good Quiz questions to Mark [email protected]) NO WINNER YET! - Name the class of each boat (at a recent Harwood Regatta), with a visible sail or hull number. You need to send a list of boats, numbers and classes SPOT THE FAKE NEWS There’s a new occasional segment in the Newsletter, starting this week………spot the FAKE NEWS. Winner is the first to send me the correct answer to [email protected] IDLE GOSSIP (Please send anything interesting sailing or club related to Mark ([email protected]) Rumour has it that a prominent Mono sailor is looking to purchase a trailer-sailer – mainly for cruising, but possibly to race sometimes with the Trailerables Division – watch this space………………. 7 Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478 Gennakers 1 Dec 2019 (thanks Michael & Duncan) The northerly wind and up-river course left us on a tight reach going east and a loose reach going west. Many boats did catamaran starts on port and those on starboard tacked quickly onto it. F15 Second Wind (Michael and Tara) did well at the boat (port) end of the line but RS100 Casper (Duncan) and F15 Magic Formula (Zac and with Bill on the wire) starting closer to the starboard end still ended up on a higher rung of the ladder.