Howdy gang.

Well, yet another blow out last Sunday. This is getting to be quite a habit of the old Weather Gods and I think we should all think about changing religion. Not to the Dark Side though! Those JetSkis would be the death of us all. It kind of feels like the weather has changed already and I don’t know about you, but I looked at the clock on my phone yesterday and it got dark about an hour earlier than it did last week, weird eh?

 

We all rolled up on Sunday hoping against hope that the forecast was wrong, or that it might at least ease a bit at least. With a 20 plus knot wind blowing, it was decided that the on water start for the keelboats would be changed to a tower start rather than send out the Start boat and a RHIB when it was unlikely the OTBs would be happening.

 

When I rocked up to the yard, Muzza McNeil, (just about the coolest dude in the Club), was rigged up and ready to go! He said he was itching for a sail as he hadn’t been on the water for weeks. So, with many hands helping him on to the beach, our daring test pilot, AKA, sacrificial anode, (certainly not the ‘crash test dummy’ that some cruel bugger said), hit the water and was off like a rocket, straight for McCrae. And he kept going, straight for McCrae, no turning around for this boy. I thought he was going for the sand, as it got to the point where his sail was indistinguishable from the beach huts. Eventually he tacked around and in pretty quick time he was back with us. With a near perfect dismount, he strode up the beach to riotous applause and was met by Grace L, who said “ Well Muz, you’ve well and truly scratched that itch!”

 

In the mean time, Zac L, not to be outdone, had also gone out in his Laser. And while Muz had managed to keep upright, Zac, with a bit less discretion, went in more times than we could count. Talking to him when he came in, with a big grin on his face, he said “ It was crazy out there!” Coming from one of the craziest kids in the Club, I think our decision to abort racing for the day was justified. 

 

One more day of sailing next Sunday and then a week off for Easter. Most of the Club will be heading to Lake Boga so perhaps we should incorporate some of our series’ into those races, just sayin’.

 

That’s about it for this week, but I can’t sign off without mentioning one of the greatest losses to SBSC for a long time. Those dirty rats in Western Australia have stolen Natasha Martin! As we speak, Tash, Fiona and Jasmine are driving over there, where they will meet up with Mike to start their new life. I’ll bet any money that Fiona will be shedding so many tears on that trip that they will have to rename the Nullabor Plain the Nullabor Forest!

 

Good Luck to Tash, Mike and Jasmine. I’m sure we will see them back at the Club at some point.

 

Cheers for now, Pete Chippy

When it comes to protesting an incident that occurs during a race, there are a number of steps a competitor must take for a protest to be considered valid when it gets before a protest committee for determination. Some of the required steps occur on the water and others back onshore when actually submitting the protest. Each of these aspects is covered here.

First up, on the water, if you feel you’ve been infringed against and may want to take it further you must hail ‘PROTEST’ immediately so the other party hears it and has an opportunity to absolve themselves. Word such as ‘do your turns’ will not cut it! Secondly, if your boat length is greater than 6 metres you must display a red protest flag at the first reasonable opportunity, unless there are extenuating circumstances (see RRS 60.2). Under normal circumstances, World Sailing considers 20 seconds to be the outside. With a keelboat, you should have your protest flag to hand in the cockpit when you are racing. If someone has to go below, rummage in a drawer to find it and it takes you 2 minutes to display your protest flag, then it’s very likely when the protest gets to a hearing it will be deemed invalid.

Just because you’ve hailed ‘Protest’ and displayed your protest flag (if appropriate) does not mean you have to go ahead with it when you get ashore. If the boat that infringed against you, unless there is damage, has taken a penalty then you can generally forget about it at this stage.

Once you get ashore, if you are going to proceed with a protest it must be submitted in writing within the time limit specified in the Sailing Instructions. If no time limit is specified in the Sailing Instructions then under the RRS it is 2 hours from when the last boat finishes the race. For other protests it is 2 hours from when the protestor becomes aware of the situation. The Safety Beach Keelboat Sailing Instructions have a 2 hour time limit after the last boat in the Division finishes. The OTB Sailing Instructions are 90 minutes after the last boat in the Division finishes.

The basic contents for a valid protest are as follows:

• The protestor and protestee,
• The incident,
• Where and when the incident occurred,
• The name of the protestor’s representative.

This does not need to be on an official Protest Form. So long as it is in writing it can be on a piece of toilet paper, in an e-mail, in a text message or any other form of written communication and lodged within the time limit (see RRS 60.3).

In the case of OTB protests at a club event, this would most likely be written on a piece of paper. And in the absence of the race committee being back at the club or anyone being in the Tower, it could be handed to the OTB Captain. There are Protest Forms in the Tower.

With keelboats, submitting a protest within the time limit may be a bit more problematic though not impossible. In some cases, it may be possible to submit the protest whilst still racing if you’re sufficiently tech savvy. Probably the best method (if you can’t get back to the club) is to send the details to the keelboat e-mail address clearly stating that it is a Protest and include all the basic contents listed above. The e-mail will be date and time stamped when it is received, so that will cover the issue of when it was received regardless of when it is actually read by someone. Also remember, it does not need to be the skipper or owner who lodges the protest, so one of the crew could bring a written protest back to the club after racing if the skipper or owner are unable to.

Some of the above is being reviewed and will be specified differently in the Sailing Instructions for next season, where appropriate.

 

Regards Geoff Eldridge

  

The bi-annual Skippers and Crews is on this Sunday morning - prior to the afternoon Club Championship race.

Whether you're racing in the afternoon or not, we would really appreciate you all coming along to hear what's happening, particularly over the Winter racing season, and it is also your opportunity to provide input and feedback.  See you there!

1st	Christela	Greg Clark
2nd	Anthea	John Wemyss
3rd	Limelight	Bernard O'Hanlon

1st PHS	Rawhide	C. Barwick & G. Sergeant
1st AMS	Rawhide	C. Barwick & G. Sergeant
1st ORCc	Vamonos	Fiona Jones

Friday was a great evening to finish off the summer twilight season with a 'fun' pursuit race (optional spinnakers).  24 starters, but only a handful of boats opted to run a spinnaker (8-10kt WSW) out to SB1 with a kite run home.  Most of the fleet finished before the sunset but a few timed out unfortunately!  I'm sure they still enjoyed the sunset.  Thank you to our tower crew of Elaine Nicholas (RO), duty boat 'Amity' and our tower stalwarts Amanda Malin and Lynlee Coutts.

 

Sunday was a different story with a robust 25-30kt W, gusting 39kt at South Channel!  With no OTB boats taking to the water (except for a couple of adventure seekers), it was a Tower Start and shortened course. Thank you to Till Brauckmann (RO) and Amanda Malin for their race control.

Race Start Time (AEDT)	12:55H Boat Start
Race Officer	Rob Rainsford
Duty Boat	Easy Day
Tower Assistant	Dawn Clark

 

Shimmer and Unprecedented represented SBSC in the ORCV West Offshore Coast Sprint (Cat. 3) race on Saturday.  By all reports it was very bumpy getting out the heads but the rest was a lovely sail.  Shimmer finished 1^st PHS, 2^nd AMS and 3^rd ORCc, and Unprecedented also did well with 3^rd PHS, 3^rd AMS and 2^nd ORCc.  Not the conditions for photos, but Shimmer snapped one (below) of the happy crew! More info here.

The next Cat. 3 race is the ORCV Apollo Bay race on Saturday 24 May 2025 (see more details below).

The below photos are courtesy of Adam Stan Photography and were taken on Saturday when the ORCV West Offshore Coast Sprint was happening.

Come and join us at Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club for our Easter Regatta, Saturday 19th April and Sunday 20th April with Monday 21st as a resail option. Something for everyone, a Cat 7 event, providing two racing divisions - Queenscliff Cup ( Division1) series with 5 races over two days and the Commodore's Female Helm Trophy Trophy ( Division 2), a two race series for female crew to take up the helm for Races 3&4.  Plus hot roast dinners and fired up pizza ovens at the end of the day for hungry sailors - not to be missed!  Enter now for the Easter 2025 Queenscliff Cup, Commodores Trophy and Celebrations as berths will fill quickly.

 

Coming up on the ORCV Calendar 

 

The ORCV Beyond The Bay program is a 20-week course designed to give boat owners, crew, and aspiring sailors essential information and practical skills to plan and complete an overnight cruising passage or participate in a race. The program includes on-water training, plus Safety & Sea Survival, Weather, and Navigation courses - all at a competitive price of $995 for ORCV members and $1,295 for non-members.  

Reserve your place here: https://www.orcv.org.au/training/beyond-the-bay 

 

The Apollo Bay Race is a Category 3 race starting at Queenscliff and leaving Port Phillip Heads before turning right along the coast to Apollo Bay. It is an ideal race for those new to ocean racing with its shorter length, 52 nautical miles, and proximity to the coast. Early bird registration is open until 3 May 2025. 

Register here: https://www.orcv.org.au/apollo-bay  

 

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Howdy Gang.

Well, it's official, sailing has been moved to Monday. Or Tuesday, maybe Wednesday. In fact, any day except Sunday! I've had people ringing me, begging to be on race duty because they know they won't have to do anything. Sorry, that last bit isn't true, I never have people ring me begging to be on duty! 

 

All jokes aside, the season is rapidly drawing to a close and it hardly seems like we've had more than a half dozen sails all year. Last Sunday was typical in that it dawned bright and sunny but with a howling Easterly blowing offshore. It looked great from the deck but if you cast your eyes a bit further out to sea, you would've seen the whitecaps , and even closer in, the constant barrage of bullets would've sent anyone running for cover. 

   

As an indicator of how things can get out of hand when it looks nice in close, a lady decided to take her stand up paddle board out for a ride around 12. o'clock and soon got to the point where she couldn't paddle back against the wind. She tried swimming while towing the board but this was a losing battle. Next stop, Williamstown. Luckily for her, the RHIBs were still in the water at our new birth after being used for the Adam's 10 regatta. Some eagle eyes in the tower spotted the lady in trouble, called down to the yard where Rick P and Mono leapt into action and took one of the RHIBs out to her rescue. Same goes for us OTBers. If you go out in strong offshore wind without the safety net of rescue boats and something happens like a capsize, that boat can get away from you mighty quick. Even a simple gear breakage can mean disaster without a motor. Perhaps our keelboat friends ain't as dim as they sim!

 

Anyway, short story long, sailing was cancelled for the day, but there was still some healthy competition to be had. Some smarty brought along the Giant Jenga and the carpet bowls made an appearance, so the day wasn't a complete loss. The bar and kitchen were open and Sunday Sounds was on with some good vibes, so those that hung around had nothing to complain about (didn't stop us though!)

 

As an aside, I was up at Rick P's house today (Tuesday) checking out his deck. The view over the water is spectacular , and it was perfect for sailing, so maybe Tuesday is the day for racing. Rick has two decks by the way, a big one up top and a much smaller one down low that he only uses on special occasions. He has actually trimmed the bush around the smaller deck to make it look bigger. Even though it is small, Rick is very proud of his deck and has polished it to a high sheen.

   

OK, enough silly buggers. As the persistent and pragmatic sailors that we are, we'll try again next week. Club Championship series so be there to get your name on that big shiny cup and live on in Club history.

 

Thanks again to the people who showed up to crew the race boats even though it was a no go. Rick P (him again) as stand in RO, Super D as Asst RO (after being on duty all Saturday with the Adam's 10 regatta) Greg W as driver on Start, Paul F and Aurelia M on Woodsy with Keith B and Julian N on Sutherland. Legends all.

 

(Please note: the planned "Tack and Trawl" Race for this Sunday, as published on Facebook yesterday, will not be going ahead, it's just going to be a normal Club Championship Race)

 

Cheers till next time, Pete Chippy

 

 

1st	Lumiere	Ian Pearse
2nd	Shimmer	Steve Twentyman
3rd	Mr Bojangles	Linda Wooley

 

Last week was the final race in Friday Twilight Series 2.  

Congratulations to the Series winners:

1st	2Xtreme	Andrew Clark
2nd	Y Knot	Rob Rainsford
3rd	11:11	Till Brauckmann

 

1st	Vamonos	Fiona Jones
2nd	2Xtreme	Andrew Clark
3rd	Rawhide	C. Barwick & G. Sergeant

Thank you to all tower crews over the weekend... Friday night: Ross Martin (RO), duty boat 'The Office' and Elaine Nicholas. And Elaine was back there again on Sunday with duty boat 'Betise'.

 

The State Championship had a perfect day of racing on Saturday - completing 5 windward-return races. Results 

The Adams 10 Association wanted us to pass on "a massive thank you to everyone involved in preparing for and running the states last weekend. Everything ran super smoothly, the racing and courses were great and dinner at the club was exceptional as always. Everyone has said a massive thanks and commented how well run the event was.  And we really appreciate the club incorporating us last minute to get an event in this season."

 

Race Start Time (AEDT)	17:30H Pursuit Start
Race Officer	Elaine Nicholas
Duty Boat	Amity
Tower Assistant	Amanda and Lynlee

Please ensure you advise the tower (via VHF radio) prior to the race if you intend using a spinnaker and add a 3 minute penalty to your published start-time.

Come and join us at Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club for our Easter Regatta, Saturday 19th April and Sunday 20th April with Monday 21st as a resail option. Something for everyone, a Cat 7 event, providing two racing divisions - Queenscliff Cup ( Division1) series with 5 races over two days and the Commodore's Female Helm Trophy Trophy ( Division 2), a two race series for female crew to take up the helm for Races 3&4.  Plus hot roast dinners and fired up pizza ovens at the end of the day for hungry sailors - not to be missed!  Enter now for the Easter 2025 Queenscliff Cup, Commodores Trophy and Celebrations as berths will fill quickly.

 

 

Incase I haven't already told you this.....I've been working hard over the last coupe of weekends to improve the bare walls of the training room. With many years worth of green fleet and junior sail training photo's, I've been able to create a large photo wall to celebrate the youth of our club. I hope this will inspire our current cohort of juniors to continue their sailing journey with SBSC. So many friendships are created from sailing, and with these friendships we see the joy of buying boats together, heading off to regattas together, and holidaying together. In all sporting clubs, families form lifelong bonds through their kids sport, and speaking from personal experience, SBSC has been instrumental in forming bonds for our family. Next time you are at the club, please pop your head in and have a look at all of the smiling faces on this wall and think of how lucky we are to be in a club like SBSC!

 

Now, a few years ago, when the clubs dining area was renovated, a lot of memorabilia was removed from the walls and never re-hung. So with some guidance from Tom McCulloch, and the help mother nature (too much wind), I was able to inspire Peter Chipperfield and Bill Manning to help me re-hang many of our framed burgee's that had been siting in a corner collecting dust. We are not finished yet, and if sailing conditions are better over the next couple of weeks, I'll be hanging the rest of these frames without assistance. If you are keen to help, I'd appreciate your time, as a second eye is always helpful.

 

If you have something at home that would look great on the walls of the training room, please reach out and I'll try my best to find a spot for it. Here is a couple of photo's of our progress in the room.

Thanks Fiona Lowe

Lake Boga Yacht Club Easter Regatta is just around the corner.

As you may already know, our club have a huge contingent that make the journey to this regatta each year. It is a fun weekend away and a very welcoming regatta. More details can be found HERE.

And here is a photo of last years crew, if you have ever wondered who actually goes from our club.........

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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.

 

Howdy Gang.

Well, wasn't it nice to get a sail in finally? After all the weather catastrophes and days off due to regattas, I was about to propose a change to the sailing instructions to move racing to Mondays! I gave up checking the wind apps prior to Saturday, but things were looking good at last. Even Sunday morning looked good, with 5 to 10 knots offshore predicted for most of the day, then building to over 15 by 5.00 o'clock. 

 

A really good fleet of 20 boats showed up for the day, even Norm K hit the water, as it was within his over 20 degrees and under 20 knots rule. Even before we left the beach things weren't going exactly to plan. The wind was definitely around 5 knots, but in the completely opposite direction to 'offshore'. Nonetheless, out we all went with grins from ear to ear ( well most of us anyway ), and with the course laid and the flags set, race one got away right on time. Almost flawlessly too I might add, except for the old 'broke the line' hooter. I was in the second start sequence and saw a couple of boats dip back and restart, but apparently not the actual offender, bummer.

 

The race was chugging along nicely for the first lap or so, with the fleet spreading out, or bunching up, as per the usual style. With eight Sabres out there, all on the same leg for the second beat, it was fairly tight for the first three spots. Fiona M in front, went left and got stuck on a bad knock and let Rick 'The Maestro' P and James 'The Flash' T past on the opposite tack lift. Katrina M, myself and a few others including some Lasers were running 100 metres or so back, and I thought, " Hmm, never going to catch them now", only to look up and see Rick and James completely stationary and Fiona roaring straight to the mark! Ah, that fickle wind, time to tack. A really big shift to the left and suddenly we'd overlaid the mark, what's going on? Tack again ( straight in front of Dave B on his A Class, sorry Dave, luckily HE knew what he was doing ). Around the top mark onto a dead run to the wing , and there up ahead, about 100 metres from the mark was all three Sabres and Muzza M in his Laser, all camped, sails flapping. Katrina, Paul M and myself were running nicely on port towards them, thinking "The breeze will pass through us and take them away before we get there". Not to be, we sailed right through them towards the mark, only to be knocked again for a beat to the mark, strange omens here! The wind had finally gone around to offshore so it was a nice starboard reach to the finish. Rick, of course, had gotten around the wing first and Fiona, of course, snuck past on the way to the finish, which left Katrina on the left, myself in the middle and James on the right, all line abreast heading for the Start boat. We literally crossed the line, bumping uglies and the Start boat for a photo finish.

 

The rest of the fleet finished a lot more sedately and then the juggle of whipping up the marks and trying to figure out where to put them for race two. Easy from a sailor who hasn't had a sail for weeks' point of view, " Just chuck 'em in and let's get going!" Not so easy from the RO's chair with the wind still shifting and dying out as well, and as it was a Club Championship race, things had to be by the book. Sadly, Geoff put up the old AP over A and we had a really nice sail back to the Club. Ah well, one race is still more than we got for the whole three days of the Tasar, 420, FD titles two weeks ago!

 

Thanks to whole race team, who did a sterling job of getting us on the water. Geoff, Super D and Gregg W on Start, Nick B and Ben G in Woodsy and Simon H and Tony the Boat Builder ( AKA Taipan Tony / A Class Anthony ). More name changes than a Government department that boy!

 

Now, I'm sorry for leaning heavily on Sabre / Laser battle in the second lap, but it was so I could raise a couple of questions re: the rules. On the run to the wing mark it was KM on the left, PM in the middle and myself on the right (nowhere near the mark at this stage). We were all on port tack and KM was insisting PM head up to give her room. It was said so convincingly that I moved over to give PM room, but He was not budging. It wasn't until later that I thought " Hang on, KM was the windward boat". Was a penalty required? Then on the starboard reach over the finish line, all boats side by side, KM on the left again, myself in the middle and JT on the right. KM forced us all over so we were touching sides with JT rubbing the Start boat. Should we all do penalty turns? Should the RO have disqualified us all or at least protest JT, then he protest me then me protest KM for not giving mark room as overlap had been established? All these questions and more will be answered at the FREE Racing Rules Trivia Night to be held at the Club on Saturday 3rd of May ( that's the night before the last day of sailing for this season). Come one, come all and test your knowledge against International Judge, Rob Ware, who is donating his time for free. Even if you think you know all the rules, I'll bet you don't ! See the Enews for all the details.

 

That's about all for this week, see you next Sunday ( or Monday ), the weather will be PERFECT ! Cheers,

Pete Chippy

1st	Rawhide	C. Barwick & G. Sergeant
2nd	2Xtreme	Andrew CLark
3rd	Marrakesh	Neil Hawker

 

1st	Rawhide	C. Barwick & G. Sergeant
2nd	2Xtreme	Andrew Clark
3rd	Vamonos	Fiona Jones

 

1st	Mr Bojangles	Linda Wooley
2nd	2Xtreme	Andrew Clark
3rd	Shimmer	Steve Twentyman

 

1st	Mr Bojangles	Linda Wooley
2nd	Shimmer	Steve Twentyman
3rd	2Xtreme	Andrew Clark

As the nights get shorter and balmy champagne sailing weather forecasted, it's all about choosing the shortest course and hoping you all make it in before sunset!  Thank you very much to the Friday night tower crew of Dianne Jackson (RO) assisted by Lynlee Coutts and Jann Wilson, and then Jeff Savage (RO), duty boat Tumi and Dianne Jackson for Sunday's race management. 

 

 

Race Start Time (AEDT)	17:30H Pursuit Start
Race Officer	Ross Martin
Duty Boat	The Office
Tower Assistant	Elaine Nicholas

 

This weekend the club is hosting the Adams 10 Victorian State Championships and three SBSC boats are competing.  Best of luck to Organised Chaos, Rawhide and Vamonos!  And a big 'THANK YOU' to the members who have volunteered to help out both on and off the water.  On Saturday the SBSC bar will be open for drinks from 4.30pm and there is a dinner as soon as is practical after racing (around 6-6.30ish).  All club members are very welcome to join the competitors for this dinner.  Please book your tickets through this Trybooking linkand come and join the fun - we'd love to see you there!  The club is also open Sunday afternoon, with 'Sunday Sounds' and prizegiving.  

   

We are excited to announce that registration for the "Beyond the Bay" 2025 program is now open! 

This program is tailored to enhance the skills and confidence of sailors preparing for offshore adventures, ensuring they are well-prepared for the challenges and joys of offshore sailing. 

In your marina, you possibly have a yacht that has a dream of sailing the Whitsunday’s, heading to Flinders Island, and having more confidence to take that step. The ORCV’s Beyond the Bay complements many programs that run within your club as a program that focuses on ocean sailing with ORCV mentors onboard guiding with the ultimate and final event being a sailing exercise out and back through Port Phillip Heads. 

Why "Beyond the Bay" is Ideal: 

• Comprehensive training from seasoned ORCV instructors. 
• Practical and theoretical sessions designed to build expertise. 
• A great way to foster team confidence and camaraderie. 

Register Today: https://www.orcv.org.au/training/beyond-the-bay

Lake Boga Yacht Club Easter Regatta is just around the corner.

As you may already know, our club have a huge contingent that make the journey to this regatta each year. It is a fun weekend away and a very welcoming regatta. More details can be found HERE.

And here is a photo of last years crew, if you have ever wondered who actually goes from our club.........

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What a huge success Ciaran's Cup was last Friday night. To be in contention for the cup, competing boats needed to have junior sailors onboard, with juniors being classed as 21 years and below. We had 11 boats carrying 19 juniors. Our eldest junior was 19 years old and our youngest was 6 years old. The winner of the cup was Nick Meijer, who sailed onboard Just Cruisin' with Neil Whitaker. The night was a great opportunity to host Nat Sevoir from Community Bank Southern Peninsula, as she has been pivotal in our junior sailing programs success through the community grants. Nat sailed on Shimmer with junior member Nathan, skippers Steve and his crew. I would like to thank Ciaran for being there to present the winners, and also all of the boats that hosted juniors, Anthea, Fransiska, Happy Days, Just Cruisin, Shimmer, Unprecedented, Vamonos, Vincitore, Whiskers, Y Knot, and 11:11.

I look forward to seeing how big we can make this event next year. Fiona x 

1st	Just Cruisin’	Nick Meijer (&Ciarans Cup)
2nd	Vamonos	Fiona Jones
3rd	2Xtreme	Andrew Clark

 

1st	Vamonos	Fiona Jones
2nd	2Xtreme	Andrew Clark
3rd	Mr Bojangles	Linda Woolley

Thank you very much to the Friday night tower crew of Elaine Nicholas and duty boat Ninjo for their race management.

 

Race Start Time (AEDT)	17:30H Pursuit Start
Race Officer	Di Jackson
Tower Assistant	Lynlee Coutts & Jann Wilson

We are excited to announce that registration for the "Beyond the Bay" 2025 program is now open! 

This program is tailored to enhance the skills and confidence of sailors preparing for offshore adventures, ensuring they are well-prepared for the challenges and joys of offshore sailing. 

In your marina, you possibly have a yacht that has a dream of sailing the Whitsunday’s, heading to Flinders Island, and having more confidence to take that step. The ORCV’s Beyond the Bay complements many programs that run within your club as a program that focuses on ocean sailing with ORCV mentors onboard guiding with the ultimate and final event being a sailing exercise out and back through Port Phillip Heads. 

Why "Beyond the Bay" is Ideal: 

• Comprehensive training from seasoned ORCV instructors. 
• Practical and theoretical sessions designed to build expertise. 
• A great way to foster team confidence and camaraderie. 

Register Today: https://www.orcv.org.au/training/beyond-the-bay

Lake Boga Yacht Club Easter Regatta is just around the corner.

As you may already know, our club have a huge contingent that make the journey to this regatta each year. It is a fun weekend away and a very welcoming regatta. More details can be found HERE.

And here is a photo of last years crew, if you have ever wondered who actually goes from our club.........

If you wish to contribute anything to the Enews, please submit your content to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Tuesday 8pm each week to make the deadline. Please note submissions may need to pass through Executive Committee for approval from time to time. Love photography? Submit your Photo Of The Week to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in high res, (and it does not have to be about sailing). Follow us on our socials: Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok