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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 20th March 2024

Off The Beach News

Howdy OTB Gang.

Well not a lot to report this week I’m afraid. After missing the last few weeks due to bad weather and the long weekend, we were all looking forward to a good days sailing on Sunday. The day was beautiful and with a small zephyr of breeze near the beach things looked just a tiny bit promising. But B`gosh!and Begorrah!, old St Pat had other ideas. Out on the course there was bugger all wind and owing to an on water start for the keelboats, the course was a looong way out. Geoff had no choice other than delaying the 1.00 KB start by nearly an hour just to get them away, which made our start similarly late. Some of the fleet took to the water early to at least get some sail time as it wasn’t looking good for an afternoon race.

So after a long, slow sail out to where the patrol boats were, it actually seemed pretty good. About 18 boats lined up for a single start and everyone got away okay. But sure enough, not ten minutes into the race , St Pat said “You lot would be much better off back at the Club enjoying a nice pint of Guinness”, and he promptly turned off the wind! Race abandoned, head for shore. And then we saw that he really is a benevolent Saint, as he sent forth a lovely breeze to hasten us back to the Guinness. Job done, that was all she wrote, and not a snake to be seen!

Thanks to the race team for trying their best to give us a race, especially as they had to be on the water an hour early for the KB start. We had Geoff and Super D, t`be sure, t`be sure, in the start boat, Greg W and Finn M in Woodsy and Zack L and Drew M ( filling in for Fiona M, who was filling in for Duncan Mc ). Thanks also to James A ( that man is everywhere! ) for heading out the back and launching all three boats.

One more sail next week prior to Easter and the mass exodus to Lake Boga, so lets try to get a heap of sailors on the water. That just about sums it up for this week, I’ll try and get some reports re: the various titles that many of our sailors went to over the long weekend, it has to be better than my rubbish.

See you next Sunday, and if you get a chance, how about a quick prayer to AEOLUS, the Greek God of Wind, for something nice for a change. I’m sure he has stopped listening to me.

Cheers, Pete Chippy

Green Fleet Sail Training

Junior sail training has been blessed with some really wonderful weather, and this Sunday's forecast is looking like a great day for our last training session. If you haven't come down to witness all the smiles and fun times, I recommend you get down to the club, grab a Snooks coffee and witness our last official session for the season.

Nick and his team will have many other activities planned for the morning, including a sausage sizzle and Easter Egg Hunt. It's never too late to bring a friend along, so remember to spread the word about junior sailing. The training time is 9.30am – 11.30am. See you there.

Junior Keelboat Evening - Friday 22nd March

Each year our Keelboat division invite all junior members to experience sailing on a big boat. This night is always a special treat and guarantees much rivalry between boats, as all skippers and their junior crew will be sailing for sheep stations, bragging rights, and all other expressive terms you can think of !!! In conjunction with this week’s Twilight Race, the club will be running our inaugural “Ciaran’s Cup” Annual Race. This race is new to the program and has been introduced to the club as a special Junior Keelboat Award.

All boats participating in the twilight race must have junior crew onboard to be in contention for this award, which has been named in honour of the event creator Ciaran Snooks. Ciaran’s Cup is a perpetual award and will be presented to the winning skippers and their junior crew by Ciaran on Friday night. Fiona Lowe has been organising junior crew for the night and has gathered up 13 juniors, who have now been placed on 6 different boats for the race. Make sure you welcome our juniors and if you have any photos that you’d like to share from the night, please email them to Fiona for e-news and socials fThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Keelboat News

Results this week:

Friday Twilight Race

1^st Twilight Pursuit	Tumi	Jenny Thomson
1^st Friday AMS	Patriot	Jason Close

Sunday Club Championship

1^st PHS	Scamp	Peter Voigt
1^st AMS	Vamonos	Fiona Jones
1^st ORCc	Scamp	Peter Voigt

All the results can be found at 2023-2024 Keelboat Results

Thank you to the weekend tower teams of Dianne Jackson and duty boat Ghost (Friday night) and Till Brauckmann, Dawn Clark and Elaine Nicholas (Sunday).

Rescheduled Junior Crews Night - Friday 22nd March:

As the Junior Crews Night was postponed last Friday night, the inaugural 'Ciaran's Cup' annual race will be held this Friday. Thanks to all the skippers who are taking junior crew onboard. See you all back at club for presentations.

sunday 24th march

bendigo branch manager

ORCV News

24th March The annual trip tour of Port Phillip Heads, departing Queenscliff at 10.00 am. The tour provides for well-planned and executed transits of the Heads, with an emphasis on doing so in low-powered vessels (like yachts), and provides information to participants on the numerous navigational aids and strict procedures required for safe passage through. For more information and to book. https://www.orcv.org.au/training/rip-tour-of-port-phillip-heads
March 29th – Port Fairy Race starts just after midday on Good Friday and is category 2. Crews will enjoy the hospitality of the Port Fairy Yacht club, and boats up to 2.8m draft will mooring in the Moyne River. Entries are open here https://www.orcv.org.au/port-fairy
April 20th – Enjoy some category 3 races with the short format West Offshore Products Coastal Sprints. A daylight start and short course which is planned to have crews back home that night. Come try ocean sailing and join the fleet here https://www.orcv.org.au/coastal-sprints
For all other events, please check out the Calendar - ORCV

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. Taking orders now for youth t-shirts with names on the back.

Photo Of The Week

Fiona Lowe with Ciaran Snooks, who is holding our newest perpetual trophy "Ciaran's Cup", to be presented to the winning skipper of Junior Keelboat Night Friday 22nd March.

Fiona Ciaran

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 6th March 2024

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.

James McLennan and Family
Russell Miller
Josh Raymond
Eric Kaczmarski

Off The Beach News

Howdy OTB Gang.

Sorry about the weather last Sunday, that was my fault. I ordered up some strong wind to mess with the Mt Martha sailors and accidentally went a bit overboard- literally ! So as it stands, for the second year running we have missed out on our chance at redemption. And with their and our calendars full for the rest of the season, we will have to wait until next year. Bummer! Thanks anyway to all the people that volunteered to help on the day and earlier to set things up, Yer blood`s worth bottling.

On to other things now. As this weekend is the Labour Day long weekend where we were going to be hosting the I14 state titles but aren`t, and a lot of the sailors , eg: the A class cats and Tasars, being away for their state titles and generally not a lot of bods around, it was decided to leave this Sunday as no official OTB sailing. That being said, if you want to go for a sail there is nothing stopping you using the yard. Just be careful, and make sure the gates are locked when you leave please.

While on the subject of State titles, Gingerbread Bill M and myself ventured up to Black Rock the weekend before last for the Sabre states and what a cracking weekend it was! 65 entries and only 2 from SBSC :-( , we`ll have to do better next year guys and gals. 65 boats made for a very long start line and with every race starting under a `U` flag they were taking no prisoners. Saturday started with strong wind that built as the day wore on. As Sunday was predicted to be very light, Race Management opted to run 3 races on Saturday to ensure they completed a series just in case Sunday was a bust.

Let me tell you, those three races were all over an hour long and with travel time and the obligatory shifting of marks, we were on the water for over 6 hours ! And the waves up there are completely different to our nice gentle Safety Beach swell. They would rise up vertically in front of you, smack you in the face and say `Stop Right There Sucker!`so I did, many times. Bill on the other hand fared much better, he must have been on the favoured side of the course. Day two, as predicted, was very light but good enough to sail so we set out again for 2 more races, again over an hour long, another 5 hours on the water- sheesh, give a guy a break! The wind in the last race dropped out to zero in places and you could see groups of boats parked up together as you snuck up on them ( or visa versa ) only to take off again with much yelling and bumping - loads of fun !

Eventually the race was shortened, but with the fast sailors being fast and only a 15 minute window to finish after the first boat, just 20 of the 63 starters made it in time. Of those 20, our boy Bill was number 2! Giving him 18th place overall and 3rd in Grand Masters for the weekend. Great job Bill. Good to see a great representation by the female sailors too, with 7th,8th and 15th being ladies and 15 female sailors in total, nearly a quarter of the fleet! `How did You go Chipper?`I hear you ask. Don’t ask. But we all had fun, it was a well run regatta and the Sabre group are all friendly and eager to help each other out, from the top sailors to the cellar dwellers like me. I had no trouble sleeping that night and was very glad to have Monday off.

That’s about it for this week, good luck to everyone away for titles and we`re looking forward to hearing all about it.

Cheers, Pete Chippy

Green Fleet Sail Training

We are coming up to our last two sessions of junior sail training and the wind is forecast to blow a little bit stronger than the past weeks. Fear not, Nick and his team will have many other activities planned for the morning if we cannot get onto the water. It's never too late to bring a friend along, so remember to spread the word about junior sailing. The training program will continue for the next two weeks 9.30am – 11.30am every Sunday of the following dates:

Sunday 17^th March
Sunday 24^th March

Junior Keelboat Evening - Friday 15th March

The date is set for Friday 15th March, which is also St Patrick's Day! Boats usually leave the marina by approx 4.45pm, so you would need to be available from that time. If your junior would like to participate in this evening please send us an email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Tuesday 12th March so that we can organise boats. Parents and guardians are most welcome and encouraged to accompany their juniors on this evening. The club have a great night planned for St Patricks Day, so consider booking dinner once you finish sailing.

Keelboat News

Results this week

Friday Twilight Race

1^st Twilight Pursuit	Le Tardis	Dee Mason
1^st Friday AMS	Vamanos	Fiona Jones
1^st Female Helm	Le Tardis	Dee Mason

Congratulations to Jaqui Bange on Fransiska for winning the 2023-24 Margaret Hollamby Female Helm Trophy which will be presented on this years presentation night. Big thank you to the tower team of RO Amanda Malin, Jann Wilson and the crew from 11.11 who not only assisted in the tower but also took care of laying the mark near 25 despite the brisk and wet conditions.

Sunday Summer Series:

1^st PHS

Lumiere

Ian Pearse

Thank you to the tower team of Jen, Jeff and Jacqui from Tumi. All the results can be found at 2023-2024 Keelboat Results

Junior Crews Night - Friday 15^th March

Each year our Keelboat fleet invites all junior members to experience sailing on a big boat. This night is always a special treat and guarantees much rivalry between boats, as all skippers and their junior crew will be sailing for bragging rights! Calling all Skippers and Boats wishing to help out with our Junior Keelboat Night please drop a line to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ASAP.

sunday 24th march

bendigo branch manager

ORCV News

OCEAN RACERS SET COURSE FOR DESTINATION KING ISLAND

On the 9^th March 2024, the 114 nautical mile race across Bass Strait, organised by the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria and supported by the King Island Boat Club, starts. The fleet will set off from Queenscliff bound for Grassy Harbour, and this year's 53rd ORCV Melbourne to King Island Race promises thrilling battles throughout the feet. Racing under AMS, ORC, multihull, double-handed, and PHS, boats compete for the King Island Trophy awarded to the overall winner on AMS.

Sailors don’t race in this event just for the sailing. One mention of crayfish, the infamous rib eye fillet steak sandwiches and local cheeses has the fleet of close to 200 sailors onboard salivating, ready to knock down the door to the wonderful hospitality of the King Island Boat Club, which uses the event as its major annual fundraiser.

We would like to wish our local boats, Shimmer, Summer’s Lease, Ginan and JokerX2, a safe and speedy passage to Grassy Harbour (seen below).

king island

24th March The annual trip tour of Port Phillip Heads, departing Queenscliff at 10.00 am. The tour provides for well-planned and executed transits of the Heads, with an emphasis on doing so in low-powered vessels (like yachts), and provides information to participants on the numerous navigational aids and strict procedures required for safe passage through. For more information and to book. https://www.orcv.org.au/training/rip-tour-of-port-phillip-heads
March 29th – Port Fairy Race starts just after midday on Good Friday and is category 2. Crews will enjoy the hospitality of the Port Fairy Yacht club, and boats up to 2.8m draft will mooring in the Moyne River. Entries are open here https://www.orcv.org.au/port-fairy
April 20th – Enjoy some category 3 races with the short format West Offshore Products Coastal Sprints. A daylight start and short course which is planned to have crews back home that night. Come try ocean sailing and join the fleet here https://www.orcv.org.au/coastal-sprints
For all other events, please check out the Calendar - ORCV

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Photo Of The Week

Paynesville Classic Boat Festival. Pic of Amity in Grand Parade. (Note SBSC burgee on transom!)
Grand Parade for 200 entries was Saturday 2nd and Parade of Sail was on Sunday 4th.
amity

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 28th February 2024

Sail Peninsula 2024

That’s a Wrap!

The Marina Martha Cove/Berwick Land Rover Sail Peninsula 2024 regatta had it all, producing the full gamut of testing winds.

Friday evening’s McLardy McShane Twilight Stern Chaser was, simply put, hard yards with a solid 20-25knts and gusts over 30. Many of the smaller, lighter boats wisely decided to stay shore-side and avoid becoming aquatic tumbleweed heading to Williamstown. Meanwhile, for those that managed to resurface and blink salt from their eyes after a long beat to 25, there was a furious-fast-is-fun ride back to the beach, especially if you had a sports boat underneath you – here’s looking at Rush and Morning Mist etc, jamming their speedos in the teens.

Due to the weather on Friday night and some quick thinking followed by quick action, our onshore event was pivoted inside upstairs to everyone’s relief. An Italian style buffet from Snooks Catering was enjoyed by all and Ron & Collin from “The Ron Kingston Duo” kept the night rolling with their classic tunes. What great voices and talented musicians. Night finished up around 9.30-10pm which was much appreciated by the sailors – that meant for some well-earned shut-eye so that those attending could rest up and regain their stamina again for Day 2 of racing.

Saturday dawned better for our marque race. Gentle breezes from that ever-reliable southerly direction for the Berwick Land Rover Passage Race to Blairgowrie and back. Hang on, reliable? – nuh nuh, Arthurs Seat is in the way. Unlike Friday, there was nothing solid about the Saturday’s wind – shifts and holes littered the course and was making the bunkers and roughs/golf option look good. Long day on the gunwales, but at least it was flat, warm and dryer!

As the song goes “Oh what a night”….. Thankfully the weather put it on for us on Saturday night ….. the buffet was simply delicious – David and his team excelled yet again with the red emperor being a crowd favourite. “Disco Inferno” was absolutely A-mazing, kudos to all who were literally on the dance floor from the moment that the band started playing – certainly not for the faint hearted!! Clearly the song list took many on a trip back down memory lane. A few well known “non-dancers” couldn’t even resist the temptation and were seen strutting their stuff! The comradery and fun was real. Huge thank you to everyone that came along and supported the night and some who also managed to score themselves a bargain with our auction items. Nicely done!

Sunday’s forecast for the Margaret Crittenden Memorial Challenge/Team Race, sponsored by Crittenden Wines was for even quieter winds. But an enticing carrot was dangled early with perfect sailing conditions to the top mark, then a nice run to 25 with the bigger boats getting through the gate and on to R1 before it slowed to NOTHING. Everybody seemed stuck wherever they were, except if lucky enough to be under Martha’s Point. Unsolicited 360 turns on the spot were popping up. But, like a lunch break, after an hour we all got going again and were back at it – desperately trying to beat the time limits. Very tough for Tiger who missed it – only 50m short of the line. Thanks to all competitors for making the effort and coming along to our Event. Congratulations to all the divisional winners and podium placers – it was great to see so many back at the club for Sunday’s presentation, especially those who still had to sail home to Mornington. Here’s the list (with full results available here):

	PHS	AMS
Div 1	1^stRush (MYC) 2^nd Ginan (MYC) 3^rd Unprecedented (MYC)	1^st Rush (MYC) 2^nd Ginan (MYC) 3^rd Javelin (MYC)
Div 2	1^st Mainstay (RYCV) 2^nd La Mer (SYC) 3^rd Executive Decision (RYCV)	1^st Mainstay (RYCV) 2^nd Executive Decision (RYCV) 3^rd La Mer (SYC)
Div 3	1^st Anthea (SBSC) 2^nd Razzle Dazzle (SYC) 3^rd Le Tardis (SBSC)	1^st Himalayan Women (MYC) 2^nd Anthea (SBSC) 3^rd E’toile (MCYS)
Div 4	1^st Tiger (HYC) 2^nd Crowded House (SBSC)
Adams 10	1^st2Xtreme (SBSC) 2^nd Executive Decision (RYCV) 3^rd Bo Derek (BYS)	1^stExecutive Decision (RYCV) 2^nd 2Xtreme (SBSC) 3^rd Vamonos (SBSC)
Margaret Crittenden Memorial Team Race		1^stMornington Yacht Club

Thanks to our major sponsors Marina Martha Cove and Berwick Land Rover… Nothing much would happen without the support, both financial and in-kind, from these companies and the extensive long list of additional sponsors & supporters – please make sure you check out their acknowledgement following on after this article.

We still have SP polos available for purchase in both the light blue colour (SP24 - $50) & white (SP23 - $40). If anyone would like to purchase, please send Deirdre a message on 0417373679 with your order (name, size/colour) and she will be in touch.

Also make sure you ‘like’ and have a look at the Sail Peninsula Facebook Page to check out all of last weekend’s action and festivities.

Finally, and you simply cannot say this too any times, a BIG THANK YOU to all our volunteers (see below). There is a lot of them and they make it happen. Many are repeat masochists (there must be a better word I know, but nothing comes to mind) who simply keep putting their hand up each year to make Sail Peninsula one of the premier sailing events on The Bay.

See you all in 2025! Lock in the dates – 21-23 February 2024.

John Wemyss

KB Captain

COMMITTEE & VOLUNTEERS

SP24 COMMITTEE

Veronica Psaila (Chairperson) , Geoff Eldridge, Di Jackson, Deirdre Snooks, John Wemyss Linda Wooley, Chris Parks, Keith Bayliss

ON WATER TEAM

Lou Hutton (Assist. R.O.) Drew Mattingley, Deirdre Snooks, Ross Martin, Greg Lowe, Phil Wooley, James Everitt, Andrew Taylor, Ewan Campbell,

TOWER TEAM

Geoff Eldridge (P.R.O), Lou Hutton (R.O), Di Jackson, Amanda Malin, Elaine Nicholas,

JURY & PROTEST COMMITTEE

Mal Eaton, Mikayla Thompson , Glenys Hitchen, Luke Tupper, Ben Fels (on standby)

SP24 GRAPHICS DESIGN, PRINT & VISUALS

Ciaran Snooks

PHOTOGRAPHY & MEDIA

Chris Parks from “Effective Working Image”

PRIZES / SKIPPER BAG & MERCHANDISE ORGANISATION

Di Jackson, Linda Wooley, Deirdre Snooks, Veronica Psaila, Jann Wilson

REGATTA ADMIN. OFFICE

Robin Weymss, Kathy Hudson, Deirdre Snooks

WELCOME OFFICIAL

Ann Matheson

CATERING & EVENT MANAGEMENT

David Snooks & his Team of Chefs & Staff.

OTHER

Andrew Stocks – All electrical work & lighting Andrew Clarke – Behind the scenes assistance with Regatta, MC’ ing & along with his staff - help with set-up. Pete Morrison, Campbell Martin – assistance with set up Mark Lawrence – MC on Friday night

Thanks again to all of our wonderful Sail Peninsula Sponsors as listed below: sp sponsors

Off The Beach News

Mount Martha Challenge

This Sunday 3rd of March is our turn to host Mt Martha in our annual Round the Hill Challenge. We used to win this unopposed but the last few years they have cleaned us up big time! This is mainly due to them having more boats on the water. We out sail them in most divisions but come up short on numbers. So this year I’d like every able bodied sailor to not only sail themselves but also bring your friends, bring your enemies, I don't care as long as they sail for us and not MMSC! Remember that racing starts at 1.00 not 2.00 and ramming is allowed ( as long as nobody sees you ).
Jokes aside, this is a really fun event and the Mt Marthans are a great crowd who enjoy coming around to SBSC as much as we enjoy going to them. It would just be nice to grab that trophy back again !

Cheers, Pete Chippy

Green Fleet Sail Training

Sunday 17^th March
Sunday 24^th March

Junior Keelboat Evening - Friday 15th March

Keelboat News

Calling all skippers and boats wishing to help our with Junior Keelboat Night, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you can help.

sunday 24th march

bendigo branch manager

ORCV News

Melbourne to King Island. Entries are now closed for King Island with 32 yachts from around the bay joining the race on the March long weekend.
24th March The annual trip tour of Port Phillip Heads, departing Queenscliff at 10.00 am. The tour provides for well-planned and executed transits of the Heads, with an emphasis on doing so in low-powered vessels (like yachts), and provides information to participants on the numerous navigational aids and strict procedures required for safe passage through. For more information and to book. https://www.orcv.org.au/training/rip-tour-of-port-phillip-heads
March 29th – Port Fairy Race starts just after midday on Good Friday and is category 2. Crews will enjoy the hospitality of the Port Fairy Yacht club, and boats up to 2.8m draft will mooring in the Moyne River. Entries are open here https://www.orcv.org.au/port-fairy
April 20th – Enjoy some category 3 races with the short format West Offshore Products Coastal Sprints. A daylight start and short course which is planned to have crews back home that night. Come try ocean sailing and join the fleet here https://www.orcv.org.au/coastal-sprints
For all other events, please check out the Calendar - ORCV

Sail Peninsula Photo Dump

Sail Peninsula Facebook Page has quite a few photos for you to check out. Here is a small sample of them......

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Club Merchandise

Photo Of The Week

Martha Cove by moonlight. Taken by Fiona Lowe 8.50pm Saturday 15th Feb

martha cove moonlight

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 21st February 2024

Sail Peninsula 2024

The Sail Peninsula 2024 is this weekend. There are some great entertainers coming along this year, so if you don't want to miss out, BOOK NOW!!! We look forward to seeing great support of our club’s annual regatta from the SBSC fleet. To Enter please CLICK HERE and the Notice of Race is available HERE.

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Off The Beach News

Howdy Gang,

Wasn’t Sunday a great day to be alive, on or off the water? Of course on the water was definitely better, as the 26 starters will attest! For once the wind did exactly as predicted by starting off light (great for the new bunch of Juniors in the morning) then steadily building to the 10-15 knots we were promised. It might have gotten a little higher but not much, Geoff said they had readings down to 13 and up to 19 knots as a peak. I’m sure there were a few gusts of 40-50 knots at times, at least that’s what the Laser group told me!
Good old course 5 gave us some really fun reaches, and being a Northerly, there was some pretty good surf to catch as well.

As the wind built for race two, a few bods headed home, but on the whole most of the fleet handled the conditions fairly well (with the exception of the afore mentioned Lasers). Speaking of Lasers, we had six on the water this week and a couple still on the beach. That`s getting to be a sizable fleet, and with the growing number of Impulses, division three is no longer the sole domain of the 420s. Leaving the beach, I was treated to the humorous sight of Doc Taylor with one foot in his Impulse, chasing it around like a wayward horse in the mounting yard until it finally tipped over. I shouldn’t have laughed as 30 seconds later I was doing the exact same thing, with the exact same result! Just goes to show, you’re never too old to learn. Thanks for the lesson Doc. Also thanks to the Race team of Geoff/ Deirdre on Start, Greg/Fiona Lowe on Woodsy and Abbey E with Matt W in Sutherland. Great job everyone, lots of mark shifting and powerboat chasing.

Next weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday is SBSC`s premier event, Sail Peninsula, so there is no OTB sailing. But, BUT, the following Sunday 3rd of March is our turn to host Mt Martha in our annual Round the Hill Challenge. We used to win this unopposed but the last few years they have cleaned us up big time! This is mainly due to them having more boats on the water. We out sail them in most divisions but come up short on numbers. So this year I’d like every able bodied sailor to not only sail themselves but also bring your friends, bring your enemies, I don't care as long as they sail for us and not MMSC! Remember that racing starts at 1.00pm not 2.00pm and ramming is allowed (as long as nobody sees you). Jokes aside, this is a really fun event and the Mt Marthans are a great crowd who enjoy coming around to SBSC as much as we enjoy going to them. It would just be nice to grab that trophy back again !

That’s all for now. Good luck to those going to the Sabre States at Black Rock and for everyone involved in Sail Peninsula.

Cheers, Pete Chippy

Green Fleet Sail Training

Our juniors have had amazing conditions over the last three sessions. It is such a thrill to watch these new kids enjoying what we all love. Remember to spread the word about junior sailing to all the kids in your world. The training program dates will run from 9.30am – 11.30am every Sunday of the following dates:

Sunday 3^rd March
Sunday 17^th March
Sunday 24^th March

Keelboat News

Wishing all the SBSC boats good luck and great racing for Sail Peninsula this weekend. It's going to be a fantastic weekend on and off the water. It takes a lot of work in many different areas to put on this event which showcases our great club, so please also show your support by participating in the onshore events. Book your tickets @ https://trybooking.com/COZBN. It's a great opportunity to catch up with other sailors, great food, drinks, and support our sponsors and the efforts of our volunteers.

The club is also open Thursday night so head on down to be part of the build up to the main event. The bar opens at 4pm, live music, dinner from 5.30pm, and watch some race action as we warmly welcome the Mornington pursuit race finishers. Great to hear a few SBSC yachts are also heading up to MYC to compete.

Sunday’s Club Championship Report (Race 8)

By Andrew Arblaster (RO)

On a perfect day for sailing 7 boats started the long race 8 for the club championship with 35 crew. An 8kt southerly filled in just prior to the stat at 10.00. Mr Bojangles made the start of the day at the tower end at full pace. Vamonos started close to the green pole and used her superior pointing ability to sail straight to the yellow pile and round first. Vincitore was second followed by Mr Bojangles.

The next leg of the course was a beat to 19. The boats that stayed in the centre of the course achieved better speed and direction. Vincitore overtook Vamonos. 2Xtreme sailed an excellent leg to be close to the leaders. A spinnaker run to 25 followed with few passing lanes. From 25 to the yellow pile started as a tight reach with Vincitore using their large jib Topper. The reach became more of a beam reach as the wind backed to the SSW. Vincitore found the dreaded yellow pile hole in the wind was becalmed as the other boats came down under spinnaker with a fresh breeze.

The two Adams 10’s avoided the hole by shying up and going closer to Dromana before gybing back to the yellow pile. Mr Bojangles used her ability sail deep under spinnaker to take a direct route. Lumiere and Marrakesh were in a close fought duel down this leg, within a boat length of each other and the lead changing many times. Marrakesh had buoy room at the yellow pile and was able to open a lead of 30 seconds by the green pile.

On the reach to R1 the wind continued to increase and moved further to the SW. Empara was able to overtake Lumiere. There was a long beat out to 19. 2Xtreme made up some ground and Mr Bojangles sailed a good leg as a consequence of the increased breeze strength. All boats enjoyed a long easy spinnaker run to the yellow pile, shying up the spinnaker for the final leg to the finish.

Thanks to Di for helping with the set up and tutorial on the new system and Dawn Clark for making sure all systems were followed.

Click HERE for full results.

bendigo branch manager

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Melbourne to King Island. The steak sandwiches alone are worth the trip with this (Category 2) 114-mile race starting at 0300 hours on Saturday, 9th March 2024, off Queenscliff over the Labour Day long weekend. Grassy Harbour offers a safe anchorage in all weather and the legendary hospitality of the King Island Boat Club. Early entry closes February 16th. For more information and race entry. https://www.orcv.org.au/king-island

The annual trip tour of Port Phillip Heads is on Sunday, 24th March, departing Queenscliff at 10.00 am. The tour provides for well-planned and executed transits of the Heads, with an emphasis on doing so in low-powered vessels (like yachts), and provides information to participants on the numerous navigational aids and strict procedures required for safe passage through. For more information and to book. https://www.orcv.org.au/training/rip-tour-of-port-phillip-heads

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