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Juniors and Summer Series Race 3 this Sunday

Juniors Sailing

  • Start 8:45am NSW (7.45am QLD)
  • Booking required – reply to this email to ensure a space is available beginners welcome.
  • Meet: TVSC container – Fingal Head Boat Ramp car park
  • Approx 11am: Pack up. Juniors to assist with boat rigging and unrigging and washing.
  • Finish 11.30am (10.30 QLD)
  • Cost per session: $5 per JUNIOR / Gold coin donation concession – All proceeds to boat and club maintenance, safety boat fuel etc.

Summer Series Race 3

  • We are racing the next two Sundays!
  • Corsairs and Multihulls Class Champ Race 2
  • Duty Officer – Bill Fenelon 0411 123 405
  • Contact Crew Master Alison  before Sundayif you want to sail as crew or need crew for your boat – 0434 982 922
  • Briefing (Compulsory) 12pm  at Fingal Head Boat Ramp – Car park opp. Sheoak Cafe
  • Race Start not before 1pm
  • Contact duty officer if you can help with any support roles. 
  • Non-members:New Adults complete indemnity form . 
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Try Sailing – a HUGE Success

With all our photographers on the water today the photos don’t really do our Try Sailing Day justice. We can definitely pat ourselves on the back for a very successful day – perfect weather and I saw lots of smiling faces returning from the water.

Thanks to everyone who came down and we hope to see ALL of you again. Big thanks to helpers today who were, in no particular order,.. none of this happens without you … Reg on safety boat , Mark S, Jessie, Gudrun , Jocelyn , Craig, Lex, John, Bill, Alison, Peter R, Mick & Jana, Tom W, Tony L, Isaac & Taj ….. we rock ! Thanks for a great day 🙂

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Merchandise for Sale

Short sleeve polo shirts available in white, royal blue and women’s in colours aqua and pink for $35!! Lots of t-shirts too including Tumbulgum T’s on special only $10.

Bucket hats available $20 for adult sizes, $15 kids sizes.

For those travelling to Harwood next weekend, we have stylish club caps for $15.

Navy or white long sleeve polo shirts are $25, and white with 3 colours print are $30, great for sun protection when rigging your boat.

Check them out at our merchandise rack on any sailing day or get in touch with Monique.

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This Sunday – Try Sailing Day + Social sail (and Juniors)

The forecast looks good for our Try Sailing Day this Sunday.

We have enough Corsairs at this stage for taking people out – so everyone else COME AND JOIN US on the water for a fun sail so all our visitors can see a variety of boats.

⛵If you have booked for a Try Sailing experience the schedule will go out tomorrow – by email + SMS. All sailing will be in the morning. Remember we operate on NSW time.

A few more places are available – email if you want to book or call Alison 0434 982 922.

If you are helping out – yes we do still need you – Alison will give you a call tomorrow (Saturday).

Start time is 9.00am NSW Time and we will be off the water by about 1pm at latest as there is a large outgoing tide (High Tide at 11am)

Have a great weekend – hope to see a big crowd of sails on the water on Sunday!

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Birds Eye View

A big thanks to Matthew Plummer for this excellent birds eye view film of our race on Sunday 29 Oct – look out for Matt out on the water – he’s jumped ship from Tim Molloy’s corsair and got himself a Hobie 16.

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Race 2 Summer Series

14 boats with 34 Crew contested the 2nd race of the Summer Pointscore Series including 8 Corsairs contesting Race 1 of their Class Championship Series and 4 Multihull’s competing in Race 1 of their yardstick based series.

First to finish the course was Hobie 16 “Sledder” (Dave Chester & Isaac Poulsen) and first Monohull was Odin (Daniel Seider, Adrian Dokter & Tamara Sheppard).  8 three-handed Corsairs competed in Race 1 of the Tweed River Corsair Championship. This was the largest turnout of Corsairs the club has had, but still not the full fleet!

The 5 race summer series is held once a month and expected to be closely fought.

Sunday’s race was an endurance event, with the fleet tacking against a strong shifting breeze combined with a fast flowing flood tide, sailors hard to work hard to beat the elements.  Racing was very close in the Corsairs, with the first three boats only 30 seconds apart after one lap, but in the end, winner of heat 1 was Corsair “Odin”.  Second went to Corsair “Epic” (Peter Skinner, Taj Krasna and Mark Storrier) and third to Minnow (Bill Fenelon Max Hennessey and Jessie Normans) 4th went to Keenas and 5th to Swell Lady .

Race 1 of the Multihull Yardstick Championship got off to a fast start with Dave Chester and Isaac Poulsen on Hobie 16 “Sledder” nailing the start and leading the fleet around the course. John and Saffron Cook were always close on Weta Tri “Scored a Tri” with another Weta Tri (Lex and Martin Branch) not far behind.

First Multihull to finish was Sledder (Dave Chester & Isaac Poulsen, getting the win by 5 minutes from Weta “Scored a Tri” (John & Saffron Cook )

Some boats found the conditions difficult and withdrew after one lap, Swell lady had a capsize, and we all got to see the boats big blue bottom.

A good result today for club loaner boat Tasar “Hippocampus” (Mike Mansted and Imogene Mansted) finishing 4th out of the monohulls.

The Sailing club is in need of Licensed Boat drivers to drive our rescue boat during Sunday races. Please phone Bill 0411 123 405.

Next Sunday the club will host Junior Sailing and social sailing from 9am email tvscmail@gmail.com

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Try Sailing Day on the 5th of November

Ever wished you could hop on a boat and fly along without the need for petrol power? The members of the Tweed Valley Sailing Club invite you to join them on Sunday 5 Nov at Fingal Head to try sailing for yourself. Dinghy sailing can be a competitive sport or a recreational pastime for all ages. Bring the kids or come on your own – you will be warmly welcomed and will learn how to crew on a 16ft Corsair or one of the clubs smaller dinghies. Experienced sailors are also welcome. This is a FREE event for those who haven’t previously attended a TVSC Try Sailing Day. Otherwise $5 pp

TVSC is a community oriented club and aims to show that sailing is an affordable, accessible and fun sport. Our summer race series runs Oct to March & the winter race series is May to August. We also have regular fun sailing, adult training and weekly Juniors sailing as well as away weekends. Contact tvscmail@gmail.com or call 0434 982 922 for more information

Please book here.

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Race 2 is coming up! Sunday, 29th of October

Forecast is looking really nice. Should be a great start for the two class champ series on this weekend – Corsairs and Multihulls (NOT Impulses – error in calendar)

Good luck to all the Lasers and Impulses heading to Harwood this weekend for the Singlehanders regatta.

URGENT – Safety Boat Drivers NEEDED FOR THIS SUNDAY – and for rest of season – Bryan away this Sunday.
We are down to 1 regular driver (thank you Bryan). If you would like to drive a safety boat for our races this season we would love to hear from you. Once a month would be ideal – or more or less, whatever suits.
Training given + Australian Sailing courses.
If you know anyone who might be able to help please ask them to get in touch

If you miss a race to do Safety boat/on shore duty you STILL GET POINTS in the series.

Please see the email for more details.

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Big River SC – Single Handed Regatta 28/29 Oct & Bridge Breakers 11/12 Nov

See below – Message from Big River SC (Harwood, Clarence river)

To assist their preparations, please RSVP your intention to attend either regatta to hariet@outlook.com .
There will no doubt be a big crowd of TVSC boats crew at these regattas – please also let TVSC know if you are going.

There is still racing at TVSC on Sunday 29 Oct – it’s Corsairs/ Multihulls class champs not single handers class champ week so the lasers & Impulses are all free to go.

The regattas a great fanily friendly events – the camping at the sailing club is included in race fees.

See you there on the 11 Nov & good luck to our singlehanders going this weekend. The rest of us will be racing at Fingal on Sunday !

Bill Fenelon
0411 123 405

Another sailing season starts and we hope to see most of you at both our …
Single Handed Regatta on 28/29 October and the
Bridge to Breakers on 11/12 November,

Attached are the notices of race for both these regattas.

This is also advance notice of the date of our Annual Regatta 10/11 MARCH 2018.

We decided that our formula is so successful that we shouldn’t change anything. Our race fees remain the same as last year, our camping area will again be well mown and welcoming, our meals are always tops, the Commodore’s sticky date puddings memorable, the competition friendly but sometimes fierce, juniors who have started racing catered for and finally the buzz and vibe that all of you bring to these events. Weather? well we can’t change that either.

Please reply to our Commodore Hariet Woodrow if you have any queries, especially if you are a first timer, either by email hariet@outlook.com or phone 0409 664 511

Looking forward to catching up with you all again,

Pam Ditton, BRSC Secretary

NOR B-B 2017

NOR SH 2017

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RECORD CREW NUMBERS in the First Race of Summer Sailing on the Tweed

19 boats took out 40 happy sailors for the first race of the Tweed Valley Sailing Clubs 7th Summer Race Series on Sunday 8th October with some of the closest competition to date.

Line honours went to father and daughter team John & Saffron Cooke on their Weta Tri beating the first monohull, Kate Yeomans (Laser) by only 10 seconds which was a great start to the season for Kate in only her second series sailing Lasers. It was a Laser class championship race so an important one for the Laser sailors. The boys had better look out for Kate – the light conditions suited her and she was over a minute ahead of Gary McCrohon with John Hayward seconds behind.

The 8 Corsairs included first time racing with TVSC new member Daniel Sieders on “Odin” who led the Corsairs for 2 laps but was taken out on the last lap by Peter Skinner on Corsair “Epic” helmed Max Hennessy and grandson Caspian Nickless. Third Corsair across the line was Alison Blatcher with crew Marg Walgers and Andrew Jaggers on Melita III. There was close racing between the rest of the corsairs too showing this seasons Corsair Class championship starting on Sunday 29 October could be anyones.

Bill Fenelon and crew Taj Krasna on classic NS14 “Tornado” probably had the biggest smiles of the day as they got a win in the first NS14 class champ race. It must have been a tense last leg as they crossed the line only 3 seconds ahead of last years NS14 champions Glenn Slight & Kynan Luescher. Well sailed both crews.

The club welcomed lots of new sailors today including 7 beginners going out for their first race after a short training sail in the morning. Juniors sailing is run by club members on most Sunday mornings at Fingal Head for girls and boys aged 8 to 17 only $5 per session. Adult try sailing sesssions are also available. Contact us for more information.