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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 2nd April 2025

Photo Of The Week

Thanks Linda Wooley for the sunset photos from last Friday's "timed out" race.

Off The Beach News

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

Keelboat News

Results

Friday Twilight Pursuit (28 March)

All boats timed out. Thanks Mel Kelly for the photo

Sunday Summer Series PHS (30 March)

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:

Friday Twilight Series 2 - Overall Results (Pursuit)

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

Friday Twilight Series 2 - Overall Results (AMS)

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'.

Adams 10 Victorian State Championship

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."

This Week's Racing

Friday 4 April

Fun Twilight Pursuit Race (optional spinnaker)

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.

Sunday 6 April

Club Championship Series – Race 10

Race Start Time (AEDT)	12:55H Boat Start
Race Officer	Till Brauckmann
Tower Assistant	Amanda Malin

Easter 2025 Queenscliff Cup

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.

Training Room Improvements

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......... boga 12

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 26th March 2025

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.

David Corbett and Family
Steve Gray

Off The Beach News

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

Keelboat News

Results

Friday Twilight Pursuit Series #2 – Race 9

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

Friday Twilight AMS Results

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

Sunday Summer Series – Race 9 PHS

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

Sunday Summer Series – Race 9 AMS

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.

This Week's Racing

Friday 28th March

Friday Twilight Pursuit Series #2 – Race 10

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

Sunday 28th March

Sunday Summer Series – Race 10

Race Start Time (AEDT)	9:55H Tower Start
Race Officer	Elaine Nicholas
Duty Boat	Betise
Tower Assistant	Elaine

Adams 10 Victorian State Championships

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 link and come and join the fun - we'd love to see you there! The club is also open Sunday afternoon, with 'Sunday Sounds' and prizegiving. Adams 10

ORCV News

Beyond the Bay 2025

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.

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......... boga 12

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 19th March 2025

Photo Of The Week

Junior member Lukas enjoying Ciaran's Cup, onboard Fransiska.

Thanks Pete and crew for making his night special.

Parking Fines

We have had reports of a few members being fined for parking on "nature strips" on 2nd February. Rob Campbell is investigating this and would like you to contact him if you have been given a parking fine recently. As a precaution, could all members please try and stick to parking on the gravel area of the carpark and not a slanted part of land next to tanbark, as this could be classed as illegal and attract a fine. Contact Rob on email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Junior Keelboat Night

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

Keelboat News

Results

Friday Twilight Pursuit Series #2 – Race 8

& Junior Crews Night - Ciaran's Cup

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

Friday Twilight AMS Results

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.

This Week's Racing

Friday 21 March

Friday Twilight Pursuit Series #2 – Race 9

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

Sunday 23 March

Sunday Summer Series – Race 9

Race Start Time (AEDT)	9:55H Tower Start
Race Officer	Jeff Savage
Duty Boat	Tumi
Tower Assistant	Di Jackson

Sunday Sounds March 2025 PLUM stacked logo in jpeg

ORCV News

Beyond the Bay 2025

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.

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.

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......... boga 12

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 12th March 2025

Photo Of The Week

Along with the Flying Dutchies and Tasars, the 420 State Titles were held over the weekend. Victorian State Titles usually only have Victorians in them. No so with the 420 class! The camaraderie between the states is pretty wonderful, and is a testament to the accessibility of the class, the friendly nature that the class, and the parents of the class. Having competed against each other only 8 weeks ago in the Nationals at Woollahra Sailing Club NSW, some of these sailors couldn't wait to come to VIC to compete against their peers again, even though their results will not count for anything.

In this photo we have Fraser age 16 (SA), Will age 16 (SA), Claire age 17 (NSW), Paige age 16 (SA), Will age 17 (NSW), Darcy age 15 (SA). All of them know they cannot sail for a result at the State Titles, and all still prepared to travel to OUR club to compete against THEIR friends! Phenomenal effort guys!

Off The Beach News

Howdy Gang.

I wish I was writing with much happier news about a fantastic regatta result with loads of SBSC sailors up on the podium, but alas, it was not to be.

The weather for the whole weekend was perfect, except if you wanted to go sailing. We had a load of boats in the yard for the Tasar, 420 and Flying Dutchman State Titles , about 45 boats in total, all double handed. That's a lot of competitors checking out our Club. From All reports, they held no grudge for the lack of wind. On the contrary, they were all very impressed with SBSC; from the venue, the facilities, the organization and the friendly, helpful members on hand. I think the term ' Good Vibes' was tossed around quite a bit.

All those 'Good Vibes' don't come without a lot, and I mean A LOT of hard work behind the scenes. The various committees have been organizing this event for a long time. Geoff has put in an extraordinary effort with the NOR's , SI's and rosters etc, and then parked himself in the tower for the whole weekend. That's a tough gig at the best of times, there's only so many crosswords and sodukos you can do.

The weekend started late on Friday night with Fiona Lowe putting out her 'Regatta Parking Only' sign to block off the car park, then she stood there all morning, big stick in hand, to fend of the cyclists. In the yard there were people marshaling trailers and boats, helping with registrations and so forth. The race team was around the back early to load up the RHIBs and Start boat with everything necessary to run the show. On a side note there, a big thanks to all the Keelboat bods that willingly put up their hands to help out on the RHIBs. We had John Wemyss, Rob Rainsford, Nick Jones, Andy Clark and John Bacon (John filled in for Clarky when he had to leave for a plumbing emergency on Saturday. No worries Clarky, it happens to all of us at that age).

As well as those guys, we had the usual suspects on the water; Erik M driving Start with Super D and on water RO Lou Hutton, Simon H, Ben G, Jaida R, Mal W, Pete C and Neil and Lorraine W all cruising around in the RHIBs.

All this organizing comes to naught though if the weather Gods are favoring the picnickers instead of the far more important Sailors. I'm starting to think this Weather God owns a jet ski and has a nasty sense of humour! The Race Officers did their very best, sending the RHIBs hither and yon looking for wind but apparently it was all in Brisbane. In the end, the call was made each day, with great regret, to pull the pin. To the credit of the competitors, they accepted the outcome with the pragmatism that is essential if you are a sailor. And they left with the knowledge that a great weekend, in a beautiful spot, was had by all, and there's always next time.

On a brighter note, in other regattas recently, our SBSC A Class sailors did us proud last week at Elwood SC, with Stu S and Dave B taking out 3rd and 4th in the Flying division( I'll bet they were flying if you remember last week's wind) and Ewan C ended up 10th in the Classics in what I'm told was a very hot fleet.

Also competing this weekend were Mark B and Gingerbread Bill M in the Impulse Vic titles at Altona YC. In a fleet of 42 boats, Mark took out 1st place with five 1sts after two drops of 3rd and 5th ! Bill was in the mix at 16th. Well done guys. What I got out of that was that they sailed seven races!!! Ba#$*@ds!>

That's about all for this week folks, see you all on Sunday for round two of the Lions Club series.

Cheers, Pete Chippy

Geoffrey and friend in the tower waiting for some good news from mother nature, wind gods, and anyone who can help!!!!!

Yard Storage and Key Holders

There have been a few reports of boat parts going missing from boats stored in the yard. Just to remind you all, we are all a team and we all need to have our boats in working order when leaving the beach. If you have been in a position where you have broken something, or forgot to bring something to the yard, please DO NOT REMOVE PARTS FROM OTHER BOATS! And if you have removed something from another boat, please replace it as soon as you can. It is not fair to the owner of that boat, we all know how crappy that feels and we are better than this!

With regard to locking up the yard, please please please, if you are one of the last to leave and have a key, lock the gates, regardless of thinking someone else behind you will do it. Over the weekend we found the driveway gate closed, but not locked and the corridor to changerooms left open and the lights on. As key holders we are ALL responsible for making the yard safe. THIS IS NOT THE JOB OF SNOOKS STAFF!

Keelboat News

Results

Friday Twilight Pursuit Race

1st	Just Cruisin’	Lorraine Whitaker
2nd	11:11	Till Brauckmann
3rd	Fransiska	Peter Morrison

Friday Twilight AMS Results

1st	Maximum Limit	Rick Rogers
2nd	2Xtreme	Andrew Clark
3rd	Rawhide	Cam Barwick & Graeme Sergeant

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

This Week's Racing

Friday 14 March

Friday Twilight Pursuit Series #2 – Race 8

& Junior Crews Night - Ciaran's Cup

Race Start Time (AEDT)	17:30H Pursuit Start
Race Officer	Elaine Nicholas
Duty Boat	Ninjo
Tower Assistant	Elaine

Sunday 16 March

Club Championship Series (Race 8) and

Long Distance Sub-series (Race 4)

Race Start Time (AEDT)	9:55H Tower Start
Race Officer	Lynlee Coutts
Duty Boat	Summer Breeze
Tower Assistant	Lynlee

Friday 14th March

Friday Twilight Pursuit and Ciaran’s Cup (Junior Crews Night)

Thanks to the skippers who have been willing (and able) to take some juniors out on Friday night, to compete for Ciaran's Cup It's a very special night in the keelboat calendar and we look forward to seeing you all back at the club for post-race presentation of the cup. We have one boat left still with vacancies for juniors, please let Fiona know asap 0466 632 357.

All junior members (and parents) are welcome to sail on this night, even if you don't participate in the junior sail training you can still experience the joy of sailing on a big boat. If you would like your junior to participate, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Did you know that a junior member is classed as a member below the age of 21!!!!)

Geographe Bay Race Week

SBSC sailor John Nicholas has had some success recently over in WA. Below is the happy crew of Fortuosity, owned and skippered by Janet Hornbuckle, Commodore of Royal Perth Yacht Club (wearing the shades). They won the Premier Cruising division on countback from two other yachts. On the left is John Nicholas and on the right is his son Ben (tactician and past Tasar World and National Champion). From the Perth Annex to Busselton is a two-day passage with a stopover. Same on the way home.

John reports that the most 'exciting' bit was on the spinnaker run home for the finish of the last race. Three boats on equal points for 1st. A squall hit and they broached, leaving John to disappear underwater on the leeward rail. He eventually emerged with his PFD deployed. The other two boats also fared badly in the squall, so they won. Well done John - great to hear reports of SBSC sailors competing around the country!

Sunday Sounds March 2025 Save The Dates March 2025 PLUM stacked logo in jpeg

ORCV News

Unprecedented wins race to King Island

Congratulations to Andrew McGrath and Ben Thompson on winning the Melbourne to King Island race - and double-handed at that! Unprecedented were 1^st AMS, 2^nd ORC and 1^st Double-handed. Shimmer also had a great result; 3^rd AMS and 4^th ORC.

Read the full ORCV article HERE and below is a pic of Andrew and Ben celebrating with their trophy and cray!

Beyond the Bay 2025

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.

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.

Rip Tour Port Phillip Heads (Sunday,16 March)

You can read a book, diagrams and marine charts, but seeing it from the water with expert guidance is different. The annual Rip Tour is a practical on-water training event where experienced offshore navigators share information on how and when to transit safely. Everyone gets a headset so they don’t miss any commentary on navigation aids, tides, lead lights, shipping channels and a copy of the ORCV’s Rip Guide. The 2025 tour departs Queenscliff at noon on Sunday, March 16. For your convenience, you’ll be able to catch the connecting Searoad Ferry from Sorrento at 11 am. Book your place for this unique learning experience: https://www.orcv.org.au/training/rip-tour-of-port-phillip-heads

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......... boga 12

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Latest Club News

Photo Of The Week

Off The Beach News

Keelboat News

Results

Easter 2025 Queenscliff Cup

Training Room Improvements

Save The Date

Submission's

New Members

Off The Beach News

Keelboat News

Results

Adams 10 Victorian State Championships

ORCV News

Save The Date

Submission's

Photo Of The Week

Parking Fines

Junior Keelboat Night

Keelboat News

Results

ORCV News

Save The Date

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