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Juniors and Try Sailing Sunday morning, followed by our Summer Series Race 9

After a massive turnout last Sunday (20 juniors!) we are geared up and ready to go again this Sunday. Please note there will be no Juniors on the following two Sundays (4/3 and 11/3) as we have our annual “Chinderah Challenge” race and the Harwood Annual Regatta weekend that most of our volunteers attend. We will be back for Juniors on the 18th of March.

Booking Essential – cost is $5 per person sailing or gold coin donation concession.

The forecast is looking good for our 9th Pointscore Race and Race 5 for the NS14 and Laser Championship series.  Briefing is at midday NSW time.

If you can help with Juniors, the Safety Boat or want to crew, then please get in touch.

More details are available in the email notice.

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Juniors Sailing this Sunday, followed by a Fun Sail.

After a couple of weeks off, Juniors is back on this Sunday morning from 8:45am NSW Time.

Booking Essential – cost is $5 per person sailing or gold coin donation concession.

Your first sail is free.

Juniors is for ages 7 to 17

Can you help?

People are needed to help pack up boats at 11am. Training given.

A fun sail will be held in the afternoon.

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Perfect sailing conditions, and a record fleet on the Tweed on Sunday.

Tweed Valley Sailing Club conducted its 8th race of the Summer Series with a good steady 15 knot Northerly breeze and a helpful ebbing tide. 20 boats competed, crewed by 44 sailors, with a further 10 people in support roles and rescue boat.

Sunday’s main event was the Penultimate Race (Heat 4) of the North Coast Corsair Class Championship. This is a race of “One Design” boats, each carrying 3 crew, and setting spinnakers down wind. It’s a scratch race, so not handicapped, and the competition is very intense.

The Tweed Sailing club hopes to have an Australian Champion in this class in the near future…

This race marked a record fleet for Tweed Corsairs, with ten boats competing crewed by 30 sailors.

Winning today was Qld State Championship runner up, Corsair “Swell Lady”, skippered by Monique Smith with crew Matt Andrews and Deborah Flannery.

They have proven to be an awesome team and also won today’s handicap Pointscore, leading from start to finish against a very determined second placed Corsair “Odin” sailed by class Stalwarts, Skipper Daniel Sieders, with Adrian Dokter, and Tamara Sheppard.

Third place was Corsair 199 “Minnow” with skipper and Club Commodore Bill Fenelon, with experienced crew Robert Preston and Kynan Luescher.

Always very close behind, was 4th placed Corsair 490 “Keenas” (Mark Reynolds Craig Foley & Taj Krasna ) followed a mere 20 seconds later by fast finishing Corsair 102”Melita 3, (Alison Blatcher, Marg Walgers & Karen Vidler.

The top five Corsairs completed the long course on the Fingal reach in one hour and forty minutes, with only ten minutes separating them at the end.

It was a lovely day on the water and enjoyed by all.

Sailing on the Fingal Reach is also great for spectators, and many lined the river bank to enjoy the spectacular of Sail, from close up !

The sailing clubs next event is on Sunday the 25th of February. All are welcome and many boats require crew.

People with boating licences are very welcome to help out by driving our rescue boat.

Bill Fenelon TVSC Commodore.

 

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TVSC Summer Series Race 8 this Sunday

Forecast is looking good for our 8th Pointscore Race and Race 4 for the Corsair and Multihull Championship series.  

No Junior’s or Try Sailing before the race this week sorry.

The race notice has been sent out by email.  (Please email us to be included in future emails)

Monique Smith is this weeks Duty Officer, assisted by Mark Storrier – I know everyone will make their job easy. 

Contact Monique by Friday if you can assist with any jobs this Sunday. 0409 761 908

URGENT – Safety Boat Drivers needed for the rest of the season – If you know anyone who might be able to help please ask them to get in touch

PLEASE check the attached Duty Roster to see if you have any duties coming up.

See you all Sunday

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No Juniors This Sunday (11th February)

Sorry, but due to most of our Junior instructors/volunteers being away this Sunday there will be no Junior sailing in the morning.  The afternoon club race will go ahead as planned.
 
Juniors will be back next week (Sunday 18th Feb from 8:45am)  See you all then.
 
Cheers,
Dave Chester
Juniors Coordinator
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Cruise to the Chinderah Pub for Lunch at 12 Midday on Sunday (No Race)

All welcome to Lunch at the pub at 12 NSW time.
 
RSVP by Saturday morning for lunch – email or text 0434 982 922
 
 
Info for Next Sunday
  • This is a social sail – so no official safety boat.
  • Suggested departure from Fingal approx 10.30am. Allow an hour to sail to Chinderah – tide with us & currently wind forecast is southerly. 
  • Boat owners will be organising their own crew – if anyone has a space let us know. Consider swapping crew after lunch to give more people a sail… or even swapping boats !
  • Corsairs /Hobie can raft up on the pontoon – please bring padding to go between boats.
  • Lasers could be lifted out onto the grass (High tide so no beach)
  • Other sailing options –  sail at Fingal in the morning and then drive up to the pub  – or sail after lunch from Fingal and meet the fleet coming back.
  • Approx 1.30pm Departing Chinderah to sail back to Fingal – remember to bring your spinnakers !!
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Juniors and Teens Sailing Wednesday and Thursday Morning (24th and 25th Jan)

It’s very late notice, as it was a challenge to get enough available volunteers for midweek – as always it all comes together – thanks team!

They will be relaxed mornings – no racing to worry about in the afternoon.

X3s and Sabots + 1 Corsair on both days.

Please RSVP by SMS to Alison 0434 982 922 if you’re not already on the list so we know how many boats to rig.

Sign on & rigging from 8.45am NSW time
Off the water by 11.45am
Sailing Fee – $5

Sausages after sailing on Wednesday – BYO lunch on Thursday.

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Local Sailors Hit Sail Paradise

Tweed Valley Sailing Club were proud to be represented by 5 of their members crewing in the races at the Sail Paradise Regatta week at Southport yacht club this year. Experienced sailors Craig Foley from Tugun on Stormy Petrel V & Deborah Flannery from Bilambil on Shirley Valentine & John Pring on Wildflower 2 have been regularly sailing on the “big boats” during 2017. Their experience on dinghies on the Tweed River gives them a head start on other potential crew. Even with only a few months of sailing experience with TVSC Andrew Jaggers from Chillingham and Jessica Normand from Byron Bay found spots on KD Girl and Ramble Tamble respectively and had the time of their lives in the winds gusting to 20 plus knots.

Stormy Petrel V, KD Girl and Shirley Valentine on the start.

There were other TVSC connections though. One of the club’s inital start up members back in 2011 – Rob Westmorland from Bilambil still sails his Laser dinghy for fun but now spends his spare time on some of the best yachts in Australia. His love for sailing has really paid off and he and John Pring have started 2018 on a real high.

Andy on KD Girl

The yachts competed in 5 races over 4 days with TVSC’s best result being Wildflower II coming FIRST in their division and Stormy Petrel V coming in 2nd in the Cruising Yacht Spinnaker division.

Jess at the helm of Ramble Tamble.

I think we’re likely to see more TVSC members up at this great regatta in 2019. in the meantime they have a year to practice with competition no less fierce (but friendly!) on the Tweed with another club race with TVSC at Fingal Head this Sunday afternoon.

If you too would like to have a taste of sailing contact the club by email tvscmail@gmail.com or call club Commodore Bill Fenelon 0411 123 405.

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Juniors in the Morning and Heat 3 of the Corsair Class Champs this Sunday

Greetings Sailors,

I hope you all had an enjoyable and relaxing break over Christmas.

We can now get on with the business end of the season with 3 Corsair Class Championship races remaining and two NS14 / Laser Championship heats to go.  

The season ends with race 10 on the 25th of March, now little over two months away.

Remember the very important date coming up in March, The Harwood Regatta on the 10th & 11th of March. We are hoping a big fleet of TVSC Corsairs will attend this regatta and we can establish the East Coast Corsair Championship.

Bunning’s BBQ

Big congratulations to Kevin and Jenny for a superbly organized Bunning’s BBQ. And a big thank you to all who participated and help raised $1500 for the club.

This was a highly successful day and we may have some new members from it.

Racing on Sunday

Get ready for an epic Corsair Race this Sunday. This will be Heat 3 of the Corsair Class Championship and anyone could win.

We now have 13 Corsairs registered with the club. This is amazing to have such a large fleet of one design 3 handed boats. Nearly all are using spinnakers! We also have some quality boats in our fleet.  I think this is the best racing I have been involved in and I’m really looking forward to Sundays Race.

Corsair Class Ranking List

So far this series, after two races, three boats share equal first place, Epic, Odin and Minnow. Only one point behind in 2nd place is Keenas, 3 points behind Keenas in 3rd position, Swell Lady, equal fourth but 10 points back with 2 DNF’s is Capers and Melita. Next with a DNF & a DNS is Swallow, then the next six boats have all recorded two DNS’s (worth 15points) Nimbus, Peggy, Dominatrix, Rockin Robin, and Corsair 616.

This Sunday’s race will feature the return of Monique’s legend sheet hand, Matt Andrews and we can expect to see fireworks from Swell Lady, as Monique will try to salvage her season. Odin will be very fast and will go well in the fresh breeze, Keenas has been very fast in all races and got the bullet in Race 2, Peggy will be making an appearance and we can’t wait to see it go ! There’s a rumors they have a new “Big” kite!  And previous Class Champion Kevin Burke will be also in the hunt. It promises to be a great afternoon

Looks like we will have a stiff breeze of between 15 & 20 knots, (36kmh) shifting from NNW to SE during the race. At start time the tide will be in full ebb flow and will continue and slowly slacken, so we better hope the wind stays in the North.  Lucky its Corsairs cause it’s going to be very shallow at the finish.

Juniors 

Juniors will go ahead this Sunday, starting at 9am. All members are urged to get involved with helping out at juniors,  and rescue boat drivers are needed. It’s a relaxed morning and a chance to get some experience driving the rescue boat. Plus there’s time to get to the She Oak for Breakfast before the afternoon race.

I look forward to seeing you there on Sunday.

Bill Fenelon   TVSC Commodore.