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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 2nd November

Off The Beach News

Howdy Gang.

First up, my apologies to the A class guys. It was my first go at being RO and I set the course a bit long. I also had the top mark extension sitting right in a patch of dead air, so try as they might, they couldn’t get around and had to bail out of the race, bummer. That aside, the rest of the fleet managed to finish the race in around 45 minutes for the 420s and an even hour for the Tasar's, with poor old Rob Fleming just avoiding being timed out 19 minutes after that. Rob had persevered and gotten round that top mark- twice!

This week the wind was onshore, but like last week with the offshore breeze, the wind was stronger closer in to the beach- go figure! After some consultation with some wiser heads, it was necessary to bring the top mark in a fair bit and across as well. While this was being done by my able rhib teams, Ross Martin sailed past and casually asked if I would like the bottom mark moved over. “Sure", he replied sarcastically, not for a moment thinking he was serious. Imagine my surprise when someone said “well you don’t have to worry about shifting the bottom mark” and I looked across to see the Cisco Kid up to his old tricks, with the anchor in his boat while towing the mark over to the right spot. And this was during the start sequence! After that act of kindness, I felt bad that I had to disqualify him for not doing a 360 after touching a mark. Although I suppose you could argue that it wasn’t a laid mark until he actually laid it! Okay, okay, benefit of the doubt, I’ll let him off this time.

After shortening the course a fair bit for race two, I expected it to be over a lot quicker than race one, but alas no. The vagaries of the SBSC wind meant it was only about 10 minutes less for all classes. Ah well, nobody can say they didn’t get their monies worth- except the A Class guys. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed myself and want to thank Russell, Wayne, Fiona, Alistair and especially Deirdre whom without I would have been up to my neck in the proverbial.

Don’t forget that this week is round one of the Club Championship series, so don’t miss your chance to get your mits on that coveted trophy. The water is definitely getting warmer and the wind has been good (mostly), so Safety Beach is by far the best place to be on a Sunday.

Last but not least, this weeks Hercules award goes to Campbell Martin who had his mast come out on the course but then managed to lift it off the water with the sail still up and slot it back in to his Laser and keep going. Noice work!

That’s all for now, see you on the water. Cheers, Pete Chippy

Russell & Wayne hard at it! The gloom and doom of this photo says it all!

Tasar Training Day

Tasar Victoria have posted the following onformation on their facebook page.

Tasar Training at Safety Beach Sailing Club December 3rd 2022. If you’re attending the Nationals in Toronto in December, this is a must do training session under the careful gaze of Pete Hackett. Arrival at the club is 9am for a 10am on water session. Please register your interest by emailing Pat Pedicini at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

What's On In November

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Keelboat News

Results:

See full results here for the weekend.

Friday Twilight Pursuit (Race 4)

Race cancelled

Sunday Summer Series (Race 2) Winners

Div 1

PHD Vincitore Peter Russell

AMS Mr Bojangles Pauline Cleaver

ORC Vincitore Peter Russell

Div 2

PHD Cirrus Tim Bardon

AMS E’toile John Gordon

Thanks to everyone who helped out in the tower over the weekend, in particular duty boat ‘Liberty’ on Sunday.

This Weeks Race's

Friday 4 November – Twilight Pursuit #5

First Warning Signal: 17.25H Pursuit Start

Tower: Race Officer: Andrew Stocks

Duty Boat: Fransiska

Please check your Friday Pursuit Time and remember the new start procedure:

Start times will remain in AEDT nominally, but the light sequence / countdown takes precedence in any discrepancies.
Individual boat “Start” times on the entrance list will be changed to only show ‘minutes after’ the nominated race start time (e.g. ‘+25’ will be listed for a nominal 1755 starter).
The official race start time is as per the tower light sequence, and there will be 10sec countdowns at 5 / 4 / 1 / Start (1730) on ch69 for boats arriving at the start area later.

Sunday 6 November – Club Championship #2

First Warning Signal: 13:25H Boat Start
Tower: Race Officer: Mal Winder

Duty Boat: Rells

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Photo Of The Week

Setting a course with NO WIND didn't stop Alistair from trying his best to take accurate readings! All smiles whilst getting it done, great job Alistair!

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 26th October

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Hmmm............ it spells E N E W S

New Members

The Executive Committee and members would like to welcome the following new members to Safety Beach SC. We look forward to meeting you at the club or on the water in the very near future.

Marco, Lucas, Christian Mifsud & Helen Michelis
Andrew & Patricia Atkin

Congratulations

The Safety Beach Sailing Club would like to congratulate Natasha & Michael Nugent on the safe and healthy arrival of baby Jasmine Fifi Roma Nugent, born 19th October 2022 @ 10.05pm, 4302 grams 52cm. We cannot wait to see baby Jasmine at the club this summer.

Well done guys!

jasmine

Off The Beach News

Howdy Folks.

Wasn’t Sunday an absolute cracker! I just love those good stiff offshore days, especially when the wind does exactly what it’s predicted to do. Geoff set a ripper course, nice and close inside the mussel farm and reasonably short with the idea of getting three races in. The wind started off fine, around 10 knots with the A class boys getting out very early to take advantage of the building wind before it got too strong for them. Our much depleted field of 13 boats was a slight improvement over last week but greatness still eludes us; we’ll get there I’m sure.
Race One started in around 10-12 knots with stronger breeze to be seen closer to shore (go figure, eh) with some lifts and knocks and quite a few holes here and there. Enough to keep you thinking that’s for sure. With a very short turnaround between races, we started Race Two in 15 plus knots and it was over before we knew it. Great fun with some ripping reaches. No complaints anywhere because we knew Race Three was on its way! And Three did not disappoint, unless you were driving an A class cat. These guys wisely pulled the pin as the wind built to 20 plus knots and those things break easily and are damned expensive. The one exception in the A-class camp was Ewan who decided to tough it out in his non foiling boat- until it started to foil anyway! It was then that he decided that now was a good time to pull the pin! Wise move Ewan. The rest of the fleet was really feeling the joy that is a good wind over a dead flat sea, magic!

We all finished safely and headed for shore on that long beat home secure in the knowledge that when we got to the beach, it would be sheltered and easy to land. Great to see all the juniors waiting in the shallows to help with landing the slowcoaches and dragging them up the ramp- and their boats too! All in all, it was a great day on the water and I hope I’ve made you jealous if you weren’t there. Many thanks as usual to Geoff and Deirdre on Start, Katrina and Drew in Woodsy and Mono and our newest best friend Simon in Sutherland .

Now l know this weekend is a long weekend and a lot of you might be heading away, so if you are, stay safe. But if you aren’t, come for a sail, it’s guaranteed to be a repeat of last week.

Last but by no means least, congratulations to Natasha and Mike on the arrival of baby Jasmine. We can’t wait to see here and wonder who will be the first to get her in a boat- Grandma or Grandad?

Cheers all, Pete Chippy

What's On In October

Keelboat News

Thanks to everyone who attended the Skippers and Crew meeting on Sunday. Full notes from the meeting will be distributed in this Thursday’s Keelboat email. Please note the important change (outlined below) for the Friday Twilight start procedure.

Results:

See full results here for the weekend.

Friday Twilight Pursuit (Race 3)

1st E’toile John Gordon

2nd Marrakesh Neil Hawker

3rd Vamonos Nick Jones

Club Championship (Race 1) Winners

Div.1 PHD Marrakesh Neil Hawker

AMS Mr Bojangles Pauline Cleaver

ORC Vincitore Peter Russell

Div.2 PHD Fransiska Peter Morrison

Thanks to everyone in the tower, in particular duty boats Christela and Lumiere, and Geoff and Deirdre on the water. The racing could not go ahead without all your help and we appreciate you!

This Week’s Races:

Please check your start time Friday Pursuit Time

Friday 28 October – Twilight Pursuit #4

First Warning Signal: 17.25H Pursuit Start

Tower: Race Officer: John Wemyss

Duty Boat: Marrakesh

Please check your Friday Pursuit Time

As discussed at the Skippers & Crew Meeting, there have been some recent issues with the two tower computers not syncing. This is being investigated, however in the interim please note the following start procedures for Twilight pursuit races:

Start times will remain in AEDT nominally, but the light sequence / countdown takes precedence in any discrepancies.
Individual boat “Start” times on the entrance list will be changed to only show ‘minutes after’ the nominated race start time (e.g. ‘+25’ will be listed for a nominal 1755 starter).
The official race start time is as per the tower light sequence, and there will be 10sec countdowns at 5 / 4 / 1 / Start (1730) on ch69 for boats arriving at the start area later.

Sunday 30 October – Summer Series #2

First Warning Signal: 9:55H Combined Tower Start
Tower: Race Officer: Mark Watson

Duty Boat: Liberty

As discussed at the Skippers and Crew Meeting, please remember to keep well clear of MC channel prior to starting, particularly on busy Sundays over summer with increased traffic. Also, please keep well clear of fixed Piles when rounding to avoid contact / damage to pile infrastructure.

Winners are grinners!

At our last presentation night, Pauline & Greg from Mr Bojangles received a voucher to Crittenden's Wine Centre. They recently took the opportunity to redeem their voucher for a tasting experience that far exceeded their expectations. Pauline & Greg took some bottles of your Pinocchio Prosecco to a celebration with their yachts crew on Sunday. Everyone was very complimentary. Here are some of the crew enjoying a sip after their sail on Sunday

Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron is happy to announce entries are open for the annual Petersville Regatta, December 27-30 in the pristine waters off Blairgowrie and surrounds. Free marina berthing for the event with option to stay on. Join us for this family friendly event. Limited to 39 visiting boats and filling fast. More info and entries atpetersvilleregatta.com.au. or call Race Director Phil Beattie on 0408 502 698

Golf Day

Beach Patrol

Due to unforeseen circumstances Octobers beach clean was moved from the 16^th to the 30^th.

Our next beach clean will now be on the 30^th October 9.00am at Safety Beach opposite Provincia.

Due to the delayed clean up, if any of our volunteers get a chance to go down to your closest beach a do a bit of a clean up it will be greatly appreciated.

Community Consultation Survey

The Club has been contacted by the Shire looking for feedback regarding their Dogs in Public Places Policy. If you would like to read or comment on the draft policy please use this link to have your say.

Thanks

Tony

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 19th October

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New Members

The Executive Committee and members would like to welcome the following new members to Safety Beach SC. We look forward to meeting you at the club or on the water in the very near future.

Michael Manson
Edward, George, Elsie & Noraidah Atkin

Off The Beach News

Hey there guys and gals,

In the words of that great Aussie icon - "Where the bloody hell were ya"? On a day with great sailing conditions, sunshine and a steady-ish wind, we could only manage eleven boats on the water....very sad! Admittedly, the water looked like a really bad coffee, and tasted about the same, but you didn't have to drink it, just sit on top of it!

All that aside, the boats that did come out all had a ripper sail. The wind was quite brisk to start with, around twelve knots, but eased back to around eight for most of the day. There were a few holes here and there, but nothing too bad, and mixed in with a few really good wind shifts, there were some big gains too be made if you knew where to look, (I didn't know where to look obviously).
It was good to see Glenn Lazzar out on an RS Feva with Xavier Graham, teaching him a few pointers (they did know where to look)! A big shout out also to Duncan and Hamish McColl, who travel longer to get here each week than they do sailing. Hamish will miss most of the season as he trains with the Fire service over summer. Great stuff Ham! Of the eleven boats we did have sailing, there were four 420s, three Tasar's, a Tera, a Windrush and a solitary Sabre. Where have all the Sabre's gone? They can't all have bad backs, bung shoulders or drinkers elbow. Come on you lot, fire up, the waters not that cold!

A big thanks to Geoff E & Dierrrdre S on Start, Bill M & Rob C on Woodsy and Al M with Russell
T aboard Sutherland. Without you guys each week, there would be no sailing.

The weather is looking a bit soggy this week, but things will change and I'm sure we'll get a sail in, guaranteed. Would I lie to you? Probably. Anyway, that's enough drivel for this week. Get yer bum in a boat and get on the water!
Cheers, Pete Chippy

And don't these guys look amazing with their matching outfits? Who wore it better, the skipper or the crew?

Glenn Lazzar with Xavier Graham sailing on the RS Feva glenn xav

Hamish & Duncan McColl sailing on the 420

Committee News

This week we would like to let you know all about the Social Committee!

Chair; Ann Matheson. Assisted by Deirdre and David Snooks, Mem Mackie, Robin Weymss and Sallylou Hamilton.

Role; To provide and support a range of social activities for all SBSC club members.

Things to know; We recently arranged a Christmas in July function at the club and a mini Artists Trail through Red Hill and McRae.

We would love to hear your ideas for social events. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your suggestions.

What's On In October

Keelboat News

Results:

Friday Twilight Pursuit (Race 2)

1st Fransiska Peter Morrison

2nd Renaissance David Donaldson

3rd Balance Mark Bulka

Sunday Summer Series (Race 1) Winners

Div.1 Anthea John Wemyss (PHD, AMS, ORC)

Div.2 D’etente Roy Ashcroft (PHD)

E’toile John Gordon (AMS)

Thanks to everyone in the tower over the weekend – Race Officers’ Tim Bardon (Friday), Graeme Ainslie (Sunday), as well as Tom McCullough, Amanda and Marg.

See full results here for the weekend.

Skippers and Crew Meeting:

Sunday, 10.00am, SBSC

An Agenda has been sent out to Skippers and Crew in a separate email. We would like to see as many of you attend as possible.

This Week’s Races:

Friday 21 October – Twilight Pursuit #3

First Warning Signal: 17.25H Pursuit Start
Tower: Race Officer: Judy, Duty Boat: Christela

Please check your start time Friday Pursuit Time

Sunday 23 October – Club Championship #1 – Boat Start

First Warning Signal: 13:25H
Race Officer: Ian Pearse
Tower Duty Boat: Lumiere

Club Merchandise

Our wonderful club member Marg Fleming has taken on the role of handling Club Merchandise.

ORDER DETAILS:

1. Item Description

2. Mens or Ladies

3. Size

4. Quantity

Orders will be submitted to A2Z Promotions when the minimum order of 10 has been reached. Payment will be required at this time.

Please email your order details to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Photo Of The Week

Photographer; Mika (Junior Member - Age 13) Subject; Dromana Pier

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Happy Birthday

Wishing a Happy Birthday to our Club Person Of The Year for 2021-2022 Greg Lowe. It's his last year in the 40's........and because I write the newsletter and I am his wife, I am letting you all know that Greg is celebrating his date of birth, today 19th October. I'm sure you may see Greg at the club over the next few nights waiting for someone to hug him, or shake his hand, and maybe......buy him a beer!! (insert wink!!). If you'd like to give a shout out to any up and coming birthday's, please don't be shy, drop me an email. Oh and as I write this, I've had no word yet on the pending arrival of the newest member to the Martin/Nugent clan, come on Tash!

greg lowe

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 12th October

New Members

The Executive Committee and members would like to welcome the a returning member to Safety Beach SC. We look forward to seeing you at the club or on the water in the very near future.

Ross Kenner

Opening Day 2022-23

What a perfect day for Opening Day 2022/23. After three years of interrupted openings (we seriously forgot we had to do this and can anyone remember how we do an opening day?) perfect breeze greeted both the OTB and Keel Boat fleets on the water allowing for a course of about 11/2 hours. The Commodore and guests aboard the best dressed boat “Corinthian”, courtesy of Peter Hollings, were situated just off the club for a sail past to salute the new Commodore, Tony Christmas.

It was fantastic to see a great turn out for the formalities upstairs after racing, even though we were missing a huge number of members either still up north, overseas or otherwise engaged, but the number of about 120 members and guests enthusiastically ushered in the new season in style. It was great to welcome Niesje Hees from RBYC and Bronwyn Evans from McYC along with Antonella Celi and Pierre Uri from the MPSC. Local State Independent hopeful, Charelle Ainslie officially opened the season after Commodore Tony Christmas welcomed members and guests and talked about the genesis of the club. Andrew Clark was an apology, as was his cannon, due to a cold, however our flag raisers in Finn Meijer and Zac Lowe raised the flag as the anthem was belted out.

As the formalities ended, the concertina doors were opened and revealed a Snooks catered spread for the ages, which was greedily devoured by all in attendance. A great job again as always by Snooks Catering. The season is now here! Lets hope we have an incredible season with no prangs or protests on the water, no incidents of any description, merely a season of fun, family and friendly competition at the best club on the bay.

Cheers, Andrew Martin Rear Commodore

From our Commodore

I wanted to thank everyone that participates in the working bee held a couple of weeks ago. I heard from a number of dignitaries on the Opening Day how great the Club was looking including the lawn areas.

A big thank you also to David and the team from Snooks Catering who put on a great lunch/afternoon tea which kept everyone satisfied with many continuing the party at the bar until 6pm.

Thank you to the boat owners that dressed their boats and themselves up for the sail past and for everyone that sailed past Corinthian and gave 3 cheers.

Unfortunately, this year we were unable to herald the opening with cannon fire as Clarky was struck down by a bug. We will have to aim the cannon for a symbolic firing in the near future.

No doubt we are all looking forward to a wonderful season. See you all on the water.

Thanks

Tony

Off The Beach News

Hi Gang.

Well we're off and flying for 22/23, and didn't we have a cracker of a day for the Santa Cup. Sorry, that sounds like a racetrack on Mario Cart. The Commodore's Cup was held in excellent conditions, with a twelve knot breeze and a nice bit of sunshine. It was a bit shifty, but then, at Safety Beach, we wouldn't expect it any other way. We had thirteen boats on the start line and eleven finishers. Not a bad effort for Day one, and I'm sure that numbers will rise in the next few weeks as we all shake the cobwebs off and the walking wounded return to match fit.

I'm sure that the opening festivities will be covered in detail elsewhere in the Enews, so I'm not going to say too much about it, except to remark on the quality of the food and the briefness of the speeches. Great work Tony on your first Opening as Commodore and to everyone else who had a hand in making it such a great day.
This week is round one of the Red Dolphin series, so dust off your boats and yourselves and get your bums on the water. It doesn't get any better than this!

That'll do for now, cheers Pete Chippy

Vale Phillip Neate

Along with his parents, long term early Club Members. Phill was a Mosquito sailor the clubs volunteer electrician.

Older members will remember him. He died on Wednesday 5th October from asbestos dust poisoning.

Submitted by Eric Grey - Life Member.

What's On In October

Keelboat News

A great weekend of sailing and socialising to kick off the season. The nasty weather cleared in time for the first Friday twilight and 12 boats took to the water. Congratulations to Peter Morrison and crew ‘Fransiska’ on their win. Another four boats finished before the 7.30pm sunset, however the wind dropped out towards the end and the rest (having rounded the yellow pile) were DNF’s – so close! Thanks to duty boat Vamonos, Amanda and Elaine in the tower.

Sunday’s fleet were out on the water early with their flags flying high. Thanks again to Peter Hollins for hosting a nice party onboard the Commodore’s yacht ‘Corinthian’ for the sail past. And also thanks to Elaine and Judy in the tower and Geoff, Deirdre and Chipper on the start boat for a successful race. Results for the Commodore’s Cup were Div. 1: Vincitore and Div. 2: Fransiska (with one POB I believe!)

See full results for the weekend.

This Week’s Races:

Friday 14 October – Twilight Pursuit #2

First Warning Signal: 17.25H Pursuit Start
Tower: Tim & Marg, with Duty Boat Cirrus

Please check your start time Friday Start Times

Sunday 16 October – Summer Series #1

First Warning Signal: 9.55am Combined Tower Start
Race Officer: Graeme Ainslie
Tower Duty: Tom & Mal

The Division List is available here

If you are interested in participating in Sunday races and your boat is not listed, please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will get you added asap.

Upcoming Dates:

Saturday 22 October, 2.00pm MYC Club Championships (1st Round) – MYC have invited any AMS handicapped SBSC boats to compete in their club championship races. Please contact MYC to enter.

Sunday 23 October, 10.00am – Skipper and Crew Meeting

You will find the Notice of Race for the 2022-23 Season HERE.

Start Sheet and Results pages have been posted so, please take note of these links below for future reference:

ORCV News

October 28^th – Devonport, The Rudder Cup.

Now on the Melbourne Cup long weekend, you can now be part of the Rudder Cup race to Devonport, the oldest ocean race in Australia, a qualifier race for Hobart.

November 9^th & 13^th - Bowman Course – Master the Pointy End

“Master the bow position and you will always have a boat to sail on. Skill up and be confident and you can go places with it. Being a good bowman, opened opportunities to sail on some incredible boats, with some of the best sailors in the world, taking me to places that I had only dreamt of going!” is how Peter Dowdney sees the bow. Join Peter and learn from his 30 years' experience on the next Bowman’s course.

Club Merchandise

Our wonderful club member Marg Fleming has taken on the role of handling Club Merchandise. Please email your order details to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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The Bloody Long Walk

Mornington Peninsula

Taking place on Sunday 16^th October: It starts at Quarantine Station and finishes at Martha Cove Marina. Martha Cove have sent us the attached notifications. The course goes past the Club, under the channel and finishes at Martha Cove. I expect walkers will pass the Club from mid-afternoon. There are no road closures and the car parking/pick up area is in Martha Cove, not on the foreshore by the Club. For more details please click here.

Photo Of The Week

Photographer; Greg Cleaver Subject; Mr Bojangles Location; Hidden Harbour

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Off The Beach News

What's On In October

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Winners are grinners!

Golf Day

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Community Consultation Survey

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Has anyone worked out why you keep seeing these flags at the top of the page? Could it spell something? Hmmm

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From our Commodore

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