Category: TVSC

Racing is on this Sunday.  Skippers please register here.  (No juniors in the morning sorry)

Briefing at Midday

One race, with handicap start times.  Provisional handicap start times will be published on the website tomorrow and final start times presented at briefing.  (The idea is that the slower boats start first.)

Depending on how busy the boat ramp is, the start will be on the water or from the beach.  We’ll decide that at the briefing.

We should have plenty of spots available for crewing, so if you’d like to sail, please leave your details here (if you haven’t already) and a skipper might contact you.  Either way, come along on the day even if you haven’t secured a spot.  (The earlier you arrive, the easier it is to organise.)  Skippers, the list of the available crew is here.

We also have the club pacers and laser available for hire on the day.  Please contact Craig on 0413 052 898 if you’re interested in taking out one of those boats.

In other news, our catamaran sailors are racing at the Bad News Regatta at Currumbin Alley this weekend, so feel free to drop by and say hello.

See you Sunday!

Some of our members came together yesterday to do a working bee on the container and club boats. Great work!

• Juniors this Sunday
• Adult Try Sailing sessions this Sunday
• Working Bee Thursday morning at 9 am (ish)
• Racing in Two Weeks Time, with Handicap Beach Starts

Juniors Sailing

Juniors Sailing is on again this coming Sunday morning from 9am.

Please register here.

Adult Try Sailing

A number of our volunteers have offered to run some Adult Try Sailing sessions this Sunday morning. Each session will run for an hour and is intended for people new to sailing, who’d like to have a go. These will be one on one sessions. The cost is $5 and you must register online. We may open up additional spaces, depending on demand.

Please register the appropriate session here. If you register and are unable to attend, then please notify us as soon as possible, so that we can open the space for someone else.

Working Bee

John and others are running a working bee this coming Thursday morning from about 9 ish. (His words.) Please get in touch with him, if you have the time to help out for that morning. His number is 0431 025 497.

Next Race – Beach Starts

Our next race day, in two weeks time, will be a single long race, with handicap start times, leaving from the beach. Each boat will be given an individual start time for when they can leave the beach with slower boats departing earlier and the faster ones having to play catch up, during the race.

Briefing on the day will be midday and start times will be posted on the website from Saturday and shown at the container Sunday morning. Please arrange your registration and crew early, if you need them. You can register here.

The beach might get a bit busy, so if you have a later start time, then please hold off on putting your boat on the beach early and also shuffle down to the end.

Day Four of our Winter Season is this coming Sunday and Juniors is on in the morning.

Race Briefing at Midday

Skippers, please register your boat entry here.

Those going to Juniors in the morning, please register here.  (Juniors are very welcome to race in the afternoon too.)

If you’d like to crew and do not have a spot, then please put your name onto our available crew list.  If you come down on the day, you might be able to get a last minute ride too.

Skippers, you can look at the list of available crew here to make arrangements.  (The list had a big gap, which has been fixed up.)

We have two Pacers available to be booked for the day.  You must be a member to book and the cost is $15 per booking.  Please book here.  (Please note that approval must be given by our Commodore too.)

See you Sunday!

Day Three of our Winter Season is this coming Sunday and Juniors is on in the morning.

Race Briefing at Midday

Skippers, please register your boat entry here.

Those going to Juniors in the morning, please register here.  (Juniors are very welcome to race in the afternoon too.)

If you’d like to crew and do not have a spot, then please put your name onto our available crew list.  If you come down on the day, you might be able to get a last minute ride too.

Skippers, you can look at the list of available crew here to make arrangements.

We have two Pacers available to be booked for the day.  You must be a member to book and the cost is $15 per booking.  Please book here.  (Please note that approval must be given by our Commodore too.)

Our membership fees are now half price for the rest of this season.

See you Sunday!

With no current breeze, nothing forecast and it being Mothers Day, John has cancelled this morning’s Juniors session. He’ll still be there doing some boat work, if anyone’s interested in helping out.

See you next Sunday!

“SheSails” next Sailing event is on Saturday 22nd May 2021, for all female members of the club, including those women from previous courses who have not yet become members.

Those women who have participated in our past monthly events are now confident in rigging and derigging a sailing dinghy, and now sailing solo.  Spending as much time sailing on the water is the only way to improve your skills and understand the theory of sailing.  I also appreciate their continued support of the SheSails program.  

Rigging to commence at 12 pm, as High Tide is at 5:13 pm.  A safety boat will be on the water to provide assistance. 

There will be the choice of sailing a pacer together or sailing solo on an X3, and a laser.

The cost is $5 per person, which will cover the fuel expense for the safety boat.

For those members who have their own boat, you’re welcome to bring your boat and sail with us!

Once again, I look forward to seeing you on 22nd May at 12 pm. 

John would like to run a Juniors morning session most Sunday mornings through until June, to continue what Bill was running.

While this Sunday is ANZAC day, we thought we’d start small and see if a few juniors would be interested in sailing.  We’re limiting this first day to six attendees.

If you’re interested in helping out for some of these days, then please contact John on 0431 025 497.

Start Time: 9am
Finish Time: Before Midday.

Juniors are expected to setup and pack away all items, including boats.

Registration for the day is here.

If your child is not a member, then they must also buy a sail pass for the day here (or they can buy their membership – half price for the rest of the winter season.)

(There’s no racing Sunday afternoon.)

Well, another great day on the water at the TVSC.  It was good to see the water getting back to some sort of clarity after the recent rains.  Hopefully we will see the bottom in a few weeks.

First up a big and continued thanks to Brian, Reg, Bill and all the others who do an amazing job of keeping the rescue boats and other club facilities up to scratch, so that others can get out and sail.  It is great to know that a rescue boat is available and will work when we break a mast or need other support.

The weather and day was perfect for most sailors with a 10 to 15kt breeze, typical warm weather and some 15 boats on the water including Juniors.  Some good tussles were seen between the Lasers and also the Corsairs.  Well done all in the shifty conditions. The handicap results are here.

Lessons were learned on raising and lowering spinnakers on at least one of the Corsairs.  A lesson to all for being prepared and then rounding marks cleanly.

A fairly uneventful day for most with some good competition at the start line.  It was then a two field race with many working hard against the current to the top mark, and others leaving the rest of the sailors in their wake.  Unfortunately, a broken mast on one of the “new” club pacers saw Rachel practice the new skill of making a boat tidy ready for towing.

A well done shoutout to the juniors who all seemed to have a great time and handled themselves spectacularly well both on and off the water. What wonderful additions to the membership of the club.

See you in two weeks!

Doug Haig