Open Day for Season 2025/2026
2.5 weeks to go!
Open Day will be on Sunday 12th October. Both OTB & Keelboats fleets will have already been notified by the captains of the race start times etc; if you have any questions, please contact Peter Chipperfield or John Nicholas respectively.
Thank you to all members that have promptly paid for their yearly membership. There is approx. 30% of our membership base yet to renew their membership. If you have not found your membership renewal email, please check your junk mail inbox. Contact
Off The Beach News
The sailing program has been posted on our website, here is the link for you, OTB Program 2025-26
Keelboats
- One excitement will be the anticipation we’ll feel for our Navigational Challenge. Massive fun. I did it on Rogue in the good old days before COVID. The inspiration for this was Mornington Yacht Club’s race of the same name. Ours will also have the option of a clockwise or anti-clockwise course. It will be scheduled for later in the season (provisionally the end of March). See Course 32 in the sailing Instructions.
- The Margaret Hollamby Series will now be sailed as a 3-race dedicated series. It will no longer be an option in the Friday Twilight Pursuit Series.
- The Sailing Instructions will feature, with emphasis on Para 17.2 of the Safety Regulations concerning SailSys Sign-on and Crew Declaration requirements
- SailSys – A real-time demonstration on the big screen of what the Tower sees and how they manage it, as well as adding people to your crew register, adding crew to a race, the simple copying across the crew from the previous race in the series, and using one’s phone to manage on the day
- Series entry to include statements on Man Overboard, Insurance and the minimum Cat 5 Safety declaration. See NOR Rule 4.2. Each yacht has a directory on SailSys for the easy upload of documents and any other files you may wish to save on the system such as bread recipes
- Note also that the NOR Rule 4.2 specifies when a yacht must complete her MOB practice. I recommend that yachts cruising but not racing also undertake the M(orW)OB drill
- Another Till Brauckmann triumph is the set-up of a WhatsApp group for skippers looking for crew and potential crew looking for a yacht to sail on. Crew must of course have an Australian Sailing Number
- I hope to get someone to talk about cruising.
- In my humble opinion doing the occasional Friday twilight would be good practice for cruisers. So let’s get out huge numbers for the Twilights to keep the Tower Volunteers on their toes. The Racing Rules of Sailing and the Sis apply. https://www.sailingresources.org.au/rules-hub/rrs
- And offshore and at night: COLREGS https://www.imo.org/en/ourwork/safety/pages/preventing-collisions.aspx
Working Bee
ORCV
Working Bee
The Annual Working Bee will be held on Sunday, 5th October. As always, there are plenty of jobs to get through, with teams of members needed both at the club and in the boat shed at the ramp.
A full list of tasks will be shared in the week leading up to the day, so everyone can come prepared with the right equipment.
It’s an all-hands-on-deck effort, and we’ll finish up with a BBQ in the yard to thank all members who lend a hand.
Boat Licence & WWC Credentials
The Safety Beach Sailing Club strive to be compliant with all necessary accreditations. If you hold a current Victorian Boat Licence or Working With Children's check which would be of value to our club, please pass this information on our secretary Veronica at
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