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Commodore Phill Robbins 0466668541 Club Newsletter Vice Commodore Jonathan Horsley 23/12/20 0412798505

Rear Commodore Chris Hallett 0414866998

Secretary Nola Hallett 0414866999

Treasurer Col Woodbry

Class Reps Duty Roster 2021 Gennakers – Michael Wiley – Michael Cocks We are now mid-roster and Big Thanks to those who've done their day so Trailers – Paul Morris far. You keep us racing, as do the Committee and Rick, Roland & Jeff. Monos – Graham Hams The roster is on the club's website. There are three vacancies before Rowing Officer Easter: 24 January (long weekend), 7 February, 14 February (up-river race). Graham Hams There are six more dates after Easter, then it's into the Website Admin 2021-22 season.

If you're available, please let Duncan know (email him or the club). In Publicity Officer/Newsletter January he'll be allocating dates to skippers. It will then be up to them to Trent Morgan arrange swaps.

Training team Club Committee Race Reports for December 6th

ALL EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE TO: [email protected]

CONTENTS 1. Duty roster 2. Trailer Sailor report 13. Monohull Report 25. Report 31. Gennaker Report 44. Covid-safe Sailing Reminder 45. New Briefings Process 45. Further Announcements 46. Club Shirts 46. Crew Available/Crew Wanted 47. Idle Gossip 47. For Sale/Wanted/Free 51. Sail Repairs

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Trailer Sailor Report (Colin Hinwood)

Twas the Sunday before Xmas .. twas in brown flood water meeting the ocean blue at the Top , twas to be a benign balmy 12-15 knots ….. bbbzzz wrong!..

Minor Flood just cleared in time to squeeze in the last race of the year. Thru the week it did look doubtful it would be on, and on the day only 4 boats, and turned up.

The amazing thing was that the raging out-floodwater tide .. didn’t actually happen .. much. Sure we had that funny fresh water wind against tide chop, but no fear of being swept out thru the bar when the tide changed.

Race Started well with all players starting nicely, into a building 10knot Nor Easter.

And they’re off!

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However the angle to the Top Mark was once again set too far East, meaning no tacks .. so off we plodded in procession-drag-race style, with the predictable order rounding the Top Mark. Wind all thru the race was lighter at Mobbs, to crazy blowy at Top Mark, giving some spectacular bear-aways by the skiffs… who pretty well got smashed by the conditions … Rescue Boat busy busy.

So the course was split into 2 halves .. at the sand spit .. ending up blow-like crazy Top Mark and lighter but watch out .. at Mobbs.

Spinnakers finally showing .. yeah .. and first run in 20 knot gust saw [with Charlie] screaming down on the fast planing , but .. just didn’t quite get him at the Bottom Mark .. but close enough to get a grin on on CT.

Hanging on

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Chasing, chasing

First run on was messy so didn’t quite get the blasting run of , but made up for it all other runs.

So first 2 laps the fleet was tight on CT, with stronger wind sections around 20knots. Then it blew.

Hot too, and no time for a drink of water .. concentrate and .. hang on!!

Rabbit with Phill looking like he’s hanging onto some reins

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Spudgun moving through the super fast spit section

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Who can explain but .. the wind at the Top Mark for the bear away was .. crazy!! with the next crazy line-of-breeze halfway to the Spit, then hang on again.

Quite capable of a strong gust at the Bottom gybe mark too ..at the end of the fetch.

Apart from one bad run, was in its element, sailing 2 up Ian and Seamus, and upwind always looked better than and , both overpowered and feathering and trying to restrict flogs.

Upwind also looked correctly powered .. funny on overpowered days, it always looks like the other boats are doing a better job than thineself? [Xmas language].

was doing just fine lightly crewed .. until the wind stepped up .. then couldn’t hold height in the works, needing another tack and slipping back .. struggling ..

Serene expressions on Seamus and Ian

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…whilst putting on the highest speed ever recorded on board, according to Ian

An overpowered Incy about to escape the brown palette 7

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Incy passing Mobbs with a ‘little’ wind pressure

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not on the flying broad reaches tho .. but was flying too, and beat soundly CT in the end.

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…and again

was only just leading the pack in the 20knot laps, and was not looking good on CT, but once it got to blow … blasted away often to spinnaker max speeds … gone .. but still only beat by 2 minutes CT. 10

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And .. the .. winners are grinners .. nice when a yacht that looks the part in the race actually wins it!!

Ok .. that’s the /stormy part of the Season done with .. maybe we can go back to 10-15knots now for the New Years racing.

Merry Xmas all.

Powering up for the final blast

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With the author lapping it up!

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Monohull Report (Trent Morgan)

Five starters for the final race of 2020. Evan in with full rig – ‘a mistake’ he later said, ‘over powered’. Paul and Des, the dynamic duo, Graham Hodgins in his NS14, and Daisy and Trent in NS14 .

Trent had had a Covid test at Byron on Friday morning in a queue full of people from Avalon and at 11am on Sunday morning still did not have a result. Having been in mandatory isolation for more than forty-eight hours he rang Byron and Tweed Hospitals a few times each to seek an answer. A doctor at Tweed finally answered the phone, consulted a computer and announced the result was negative. Trent was happy – he was free to sail. It’s possible however that if he hadn’t called around he might have still been in isolation waiting for the text – not sure what happened.

Anyway, there were five starters, NE 1 course, river putrid. Before the start out the front of the club the wind demonstrated some muscle but there were lengthy light patches and there was hope for some subtle racing – as opposed to survival sailing.

Four out of five went for a port start, Evan running the line a little, hugging the start boat but nearly missed the line when trying to bear away before the start under a gust and losing steering. Des and Paul tucked in behind as the gun went. Graham tried a starboard start but managed to cross in front.

The first work wasn’t much of a work, in that most chose to sail on port then lay the mark, set not too far from the green channel marker and tantalisingly close to the blue/green oceanic water being pushed out slowly by the river tide. It would have been nice to have sailed in that blue/green water!

Paul slipped into second position, followed by Graham, then Des, and then Evan, who had a tough time on his works with the large laser sail.

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The Monos take off, Graham out of picture to the left on starboard

Paul and Evan working past Mobbs, the birds hanging out on the sand with the wall underwater 14

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Des and Graham at the same point

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This order remained the same for the remainder of the race. The main change being that the wind strength increased – a lot.

These two have been having some great close racing of late. Here they round the bottom mark for the first time

Paul’s bow flying fish leaping out of the brine

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The works became more work like as the wind seemingly swung more from the East, either that or we were just being blown towards the wall, or it seemed that way. Either way couldn’t sail the same line as the first work and had to put in a few tacks to make the buoy.

GG nice and flat – yay!

As the race progressed the outgoing tide/flood water started to exert its influence too, making some nice choppy sequences, especially from the top mark back towards the sandy point and slightly beyond.

The real thrill, the moments when things seemed to be happening pretty quickly without having time to do them, was the bearing away at the top mark. Whoosh! might have been a word to describe getting around it. The acceleration was massive – for all the boats. The Impulses were flying, spray from both sides at height. 17

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Des making spray

Paul making spray 18

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The were flying, although they don’t throw spray like many other boats, but they were travelling.

Retro gaining momentum

Evan reaped maximum benefits from the large Laser sail as he also flew, another happy sailor out of those in the fleet who couldn’t help but whoop as they took off. 19

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Evan getting that Laser moving!

The thrill continued well past the sandy point. Trent was aware that photos were being taken as flew past the point but it was probably just as well he had his sun veil on because any photo without it would have picked up a facial expression probably best described as a grimace – a result 20

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of the intense concentration required to keep the tiller steady as the boat rocketed and chop was overtaken. It felt as if one slight non-smooth movement of the tiller would have instantly sent the boat over – knife edge stuff. VERY FUN. The smile on Daisy’s face says a lot.

GG moving – Daisy smiling

With a NE race where we were in the unaccustomed position of working WITH the tide towards the river mouth, and with the work being quite short, and with a mighty wind blowing us to Mobbs on the runs it meant the triangles were completed quite quickly. Many circuits were being racked up, each subsequent circuit being sailed in progressively stronger wind. It was perhaps like the increasing difficulty in handling one of those of flight training G-Force capsules which goes around in circles faster and faster, the longer one stays in it the more difficult to endure.

About halfway around the course ’s boom vang snapped, at least the part attached to the mast step, there was still a little tension left from the ropes leading to the crew which stopped the boom completely boom rising, but after that the sail shape was really ugly, downwind especially, with the top half of the main wrapped around the stay, the bottom half and boom lifted up with a very slack leach.

(Right:) One little rope taking the strain of all the vang; time for a new system 21

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Having glanced at the clock in a brief respite from planing at high speed, after about the fourth rounding of the top mark and approaching the gate Daisy noticed Paul had headed in, having pulled out of the race. This seemed a surprise as Paul looked to be sailing well and was possibly in the running for taking the day.

Paul moving nicely upwind

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then went through the gate and were surprised to receive a hooter, well before the normal elapsed time for a race. Roland had called it, no doubt because the wind was getting rather hairy scary out there at times. The club weather station recorded a maximum gust of 26 knots on the day but from the reports of the rest of the fleet it seemed the strongest wind was reserved at the top end out of the bridge area. Paul said he had thought that when he went through the gate he would get a hooter thinking had finished as he couldn’t see (behind him a lap ahead on the downwind). He got no hooter but went in anyway, with crossing the line as Paul put his boat on the dolly.

Graham crossed the line next. He had kept going after Paul pulled out, thinking that Paul might realise the race was still on, seeing him continue on, then perhaps resume racing? Des flew in next and finally Evan, who had to endure three capsizes, one of those one of those downwind laser capsizes to windward.

In the club championship race had done enough to take the win, then well done to Des taking his second second placing in the champs races this season.

Des takes second

Graham was in third, Evan in fourth and Paul with an unfortunate DNF. The results were the same for personal handicap as well.

Many thanks to Blade in the tower – great job. Many thanks to Roland and Jeff in the start/rescue boat, who were busy – but not with the mono fleet – well done mono fleet. Thanks to Duncan for assisting with the setting of the course. Thanks to Tara and Blade for handing out Christmas treats at the end of the day! 23

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The brewing storm as we unrigged

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Catamaran Report (Geoff Benson)

The cats come out to play ‘while the committee were away’ - haha

A challenging afternoon on the water for the four cats who made it to the starting line for the last race of the year. The down river, northeast course meant there was little protection from the gusty 15 knot north North-easterly breeze which progressively built in pressure to over 20 knots as the race progressed.

Geoff chasing Michael on the first triangle

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The conditions got the better of Jish on who not long after the start got caught in irons and drifted onto the submerged rock wall on the south side of the river. He headed homeward and made an early exit from the car park before the race finished. Glad he came sailing much earlier in the day and had a good sail off the beach with family/friends.

Jish on the first leg, one rock showing in the wall in the background indicating how high the tide was

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Michael led the cats around the course until at the wing mark a big gust got under his A Class, lifted it up and flipped him over. Fortunately he drifted safely through the entrance to Mobbs Bay before righting his boat and getting on his way again.

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Michael blazing downwind with Geoff forging to windward

Geoff on his Nacra 4.5 was the next casualty who on his final lap rounded the windward mark and heading downwind for the finish when a 25 knot bullet of wind sent both bows under and him flying over the front, breaking his tiller handle as he went. One of his more spectacular crashes! After getting the boat upright he was able to follow Michael home and over the finish line with his remaining functional rudder. 28

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Bit of wind pressure?

Tony on his Taipan had a good start and was able to play it safe in the stiffening conditions. While he was slow to get around the course he was able stay upright. Not wishing to push his luck, he made the wise decision to head for shore one lap early as the wind conditions intensified.

While Geoff got the win on corrected time with Michael runner up, the other members of the cat division who were not able to make it to the days’ racing can take some solace. If you had to miss a days sailing, then this one with the brown flood waters and over 20 knots of wind was not a bad one to miss. 29

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Tony blazing downwind, Geoff doing the same upwind

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Gennaker Report (Michael Wiley and Duncan Dey)

Larger Gennakers Report (Michael Wiley)

Although the gennaker fleet was probably the best represented fleet on the day, the closeness to Christmas still meant several boat were absent due to other commitments. So three Fifteens, the 49er and three RS100’s fronted the starter.

A fresh, typically gusty, NE’er meet the fleet as it lined up for the start.

The line had a slight port end bias, but not enough to reward those who were tempted into starting on port. Michael and Tara in found a gap in the line up big enough to let it run the line on starboard in the last few seconds, hauling out on the gun to intercept and cross port tackers; Duncan in and Barry and Anna in , with the former clipping as it ducked and taking a penalty.

Post start

Secret leading early

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Magic Formula

held its lead through several tacks up the first work until a prolonged double tea bag from a sudden wind shift let Liam and Ewan in the 49erFX and slip ahead to lead around the first mark. suffered three capsizes as it rounded the mark and set it’s kite, letting Clare and Francine in and several RS100’s through too.

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The 49er was impressively sailed in the difficult conditions; setting their kite early and carrying it well in conditions where other chose to wait and then often found themselves heading for the rocks soon after setting it.

The 49er FX also flying along

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As the race progressed, the wind increased; becoming especially nasty and vicious up near the open waters South of Missingham Bridge.

had been going well,

Clare and Francine doing well but on the second last work got itself into a sequence of capsizes that lost a lot of time and exhausted the light crew.

was the next casualty, the top ripping out of its jib and its boom vang exploding, putting it out of the race.

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That left only to ease itself around the rest of the course, unable to make up the ground lost to the RS100’s by the early capsizes, but as the only twin wire to finish.

Michael and Tara with Magic Formula in the background(flying) before they pulled out

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Smaller Gennakers Report (Duncan Dey)

Christmas wishes came true with Commodore Phill calling the race on, despite trepidation about flood water from last weekend's rain. Websites showed that the flood (rated "minor") had already passed. High tide at 1:30 meant we had deep water in the River. Run-out tide could be felt by the end of the race but was dominated by wind, which came in a beauty. Spinnakers were sometimes not flown and capsizes were had.

Roland and Jeff nailed it again with a perfect start line: short and square to the wind. And a mono- hull sailor in the rescue boat as it laid the buoys also paid off: the windward marks weren't tucked in under the rock wall; they were close and square to the wind; they weren't up near the Marine rescue tower; and the leeward mark was east of the Mobbs Bay entrance and as far south as possible. These improvements caused nobody any grief but grief was had for other reasons, mostly wind related, with two of three F15's pulling out. Mike & Tara did an amazing job despite capsizes including under spinnaker, to collect fourth place on corrected time. Bill was only 20 seconds behind them over the line.

Of the three RS100's, Bill sailed a flawless race.

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It was the usual port upwind and starboard downwind. Improved buoy locations meant that tacks were required to lay the top mark. Gybes were not needed downwind as the frequent puffs had us running square and deep.

Duncan was slow, preferring to run without kite to Sandy Point, and launch from there. Garry was close behind, launching earlier and not swimming.

Garry putting on the speed

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Garry flying again

The gap between them was only two boat-lengths on the last run but Duncan ran deeper to the line, getting there 24 seconds ahead of Garry and taking second on corrected time.

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A common sight on the day – good racing between these two

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Bill took first.

The start of a sequence which was perhaps the fastest boat speed on the day. From GG the Newsletter Editor saw this run – it was something. 40

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Col Hinwood said he and Phill were ‘cheering Bill on as he screams past’

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Still going like a rocket

This may be the first time that all RS100's beat all F15's. It may also be the last.

A tern perhaps overseeing Garry on the subject of ‘flying’ – it would have had to have been impressed! 42

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Had to keep putting these photos in – spectacular!

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Covid-Safe Sailing Reminder

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. 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. Although a major part of why we sail, socializing in person must be kept safe. 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.

Further Announcements

1. 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

2. If you come down to the club during the week, then please email Jonathan that you were in the club on [email protected]

3. We are planning to hold the AGM on February 7th at 10am, before sailing.

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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 (As worn by Secretary Short sleeve polo - $31 Nola and Commodore Phill – reflective safety Kids vest optional) Cotton T-shirt - $17

Crew Available/Crew Wanted

➢ My name is Fabiana Vieira, I live in East Ballina and would like to volunteer myself as a Crew. I have a little experience, having sailed a few times in Darwin NT on and other small boats around 4 years ago. But I am pretty keen and fast learner  I am originally from , 37

• Mobile phone: 0244 651 409 email: [email protected]

➢ John Willey has recently joined the club and is available for crewing. John has been racing all his life, most recently in Bris. Would be a good crew.

[email protected]

➢ 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 , 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.”

➢ Crew available – Claire Rankin - capable of sailing a one-person catamaran, I also have much to learn from sailing with other people, especially those more experienced.

My details are - email: [email protected] phone: 0409159280

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

A very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year to all! Stay safe, sail heaps, and racing is back on January 17th.

Best Wishes from the newsletter team

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]

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For Sale - NS14 skiff – Cosmic

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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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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.. 49

Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478

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Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478

Free Donated to club to anyone who wants it. Medium size wetsuit pants. See pic. Contact Phill.

Sail Repairs in Town

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.

3/1 Endeavour close Ballina Ph 02 66865116

Until next year…. 51