What's On
Rear Commodore’s Mutterings
Hi all,
Wow, What a spectacular day on the water on Sunday. With a healthy combined fleet of 30 boats in winter, anyone observing could be confused that we were in the middle of our regular season. Great also to see a huge number of members at the club afterwards enjoying the fire, musical sounds from Mietta and the warmth of club spirit.
With a beautiful off shore Easterly of about 10-12knots, everyone would have enjoyed the promised best breeze of the Winter season. From my position on the course, it looked like the Keel Boat fleet enjoyed a windward leeward course out to 25 and back with Vincetore, Shimmer and Cirrus taking the podium positions. The largest and the smallest boats finishing that close together means the handicapper is probably doing a great job! I was asked a few weeks ago if we were going to run the final races of the OTB winter series on Sunday given there were supposed to be so many members not available. Ironically we had the best turn out of the series. Thanks to Ross Martin, Deirdre Snooks on Start and Rob Campbell and Paul Martin (not related) on the Rescue RHIB for providing a fantastic course and for making yourselves available. Great to see Luke Martin (related) and Luke Marchisani out on the water for the first time in a while in their Cobra catamaran. Hopefully we’ll see plenty of both of them this season.
Great to see another new 420 in the yard and also Gary Cameron (President of the 420 Association) join our club. The SBSC has also been asked to store the 420 association’s demonstration 420 for any youth that wish to give one a go. Needless to say the club has said yes. We look forward to assisting the 420 Association foster the 420 fleet in Victoria.
As we approach the commencement of the 2023/24 season, I’ve been heartened by the offers of help, particularly when it comes to keeping our rescue craft maintained and odd jobs around the club requiring attention. Many hands make light work and to those who offer help, my sincere thanks. The club recently purchased a second hand 5m RHIB for the purposes of coaching. This RHIB will be stored in the stacker at D’Albora Marina at Martha Cove. Whilst this will cost the club about $450 per month, the plan is to offer this RHIB for hire by many of the clubs and associations that ring us requesting to hire our RIHBS. We plan to use that income to offset the costs of stacking the RHIB out the back. The benefits of this are, that our coach Matilda Richardson, can simply step on and off the boat and spend more time coaching than launching and retrieving. The new season commences on Sunday the 8th of October. NOR and sailing Instructions plus the OTB calendar and Roster will be out soon.
Cheers, Mono
Keelboat News
Results
Brass Monkey Winter Series (Race 7)
1st |
Vincitore |
Peter Russell |
2nd |
Shimmer |
Steve Twentyman |
3rd |
Cirrus |
Tim Bardon |
Here is a link to
full results, as well as updated start times for the next Brass Monkey pursuit race on
Sunday 10 September.
Another fantastic winter’s morning race with 17 boats starting and finishing keeping our tower crew busy. Thank you to Amanda Malin (RO), Glenys Hitchen and Dawn Clark for volunteering their time.
This Weeks Race
Winter Fun Friday Series (Race 8) Friday 1 September 2023
First Warning Signal:
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13.55H Pursuit Start |
Race Officer & Tower: |
Andrew Arblaster |
A confirmation email (with course number) will be sent out to all skippers and crew on Friday morning, before 11.00am. Remember, your start time is different to the Brass Monkey series, so please check your pursuit time here
LEO Survives MOB Training
The Coast Guard’s MOB dummy LEO managed to survive two MOB drills last Sunday after the Brass Monkey Race.
Risky behaviour led to him slipping of the stern of ANTHEA when his tethers failed, but he was retrieved – not without some difficulty and two attempts, and in calm conditions. He was then passed to Y KNOT for their go.
A boat hook to grab a handle behind his neck and that is tricky, need to start at front and walk to stern so you can get multiple goes. We did ours without motor and getting the boat close enough, but going slow enough was not easy. Once hitched with boat hook he could easily pull someone overboard or break boat hook from the drag if boat can’t be slowed down. Rumours he weighs 85kg are exaggerated. Official inscribed weight is that number but in lbs = 40kg. Still, heavy enough to haul out wet.
LEO is looking forward to the next dunking from the KB fleet. He lives locally and can even possibly be delivered to your boat – call Tony Christmas 0400 789 616 or John Wemyss 0409 410 866.
Reminder of the 31 October deadline for MOB declaration, whether it is with LEO or something / someone else is up to you. Some photographic evidence would be good.
John Wemyss
Yknot’s successful MOB recovery
Hamilton Island Race Week
We had a few familiar face up north this year for Hamilton Island Race Week. Bigger Day Out, Baruch, Allegro and Rick Rogers (that we all know from Maximum Limit), sailing on his Queensland based yacht, L’Espirit.
Congratulations to Rick and the team on L’Espirit who had a very successful regatta ending up winning their division in both EHC and ORC AP. Apparently, they concluded the regatta with a very fine celebration.
2023-24 Summer Program
The 2023-24 Summer Season is fast approaching. Part 1 of the program and roster has now been published on the website (under
Keelboats Race Documents) and can be viewed
HERE. We are hoping it will be a bumper season both on and off the water. Please mark important dates in your calendar – especially if you are rostered on for duty. Also note we are holding the
Skipper and Crews Meeting before the season starts (on Sunday 24 September).
ORCV News
The ORCV are exited to let you know that entries for the Rudder Cup (Melbourne to Devonport) are now open.
For more information and to enter the 'Oldest Race in Australia' please
click here
Coming Up
Club Merchandise
Get you order in now to ensure that you are decked out in the latest Club Merchandise for he start of the 2023-2024 season Contact Marg Fleming on her email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to discuss your options. The youth t-shirts (with names on them) will have another order put in soon, so if you missed out on first round orders, please contact Marg to make sure you get one in the next batch, which will be processed by end of March. These t-shirts have been a hit with the juniors and will be great to wear to regatta's etc.
Photo Of The Week
Race to the finish – Brass Monkey Race 7 - Lori Wilson
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