“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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
One of our club NS14’s is available for the winter season. Please call Bill on 0411 123 405 if you’d like to use it.
See you Sunday!
All times are NSW time, which are now the same as Qld time…again.
Based on the survey results, we’re going to race every second Sunday, until September. (There are a few events that will interrupt this schedule.) The website has a provisional list of race days. At the moment, that will give us nine days of racing for the season.
Some of those days will be special events, yet to be determined, otherwise we’ll be racing two short races most days. (With no class champ specific days.)
Our membership fees are now half price, too. We’ll be offering our Pacer dinghy’s for single race day hire, to members only, during winter. (You must be a member to book. A booking link will be available soon.)
A notice of race for the first race day will be sent out next week.
(Possible dates for the Tumbulgum Passage annual river race are yet to be determined too.)
Racing was cancelled yesterday for Class Champs Day 5 and Handicap/NS14 races due to bad weather and dangerous river conditions. The rescheduled race day for the 28th of March (this coming Sunday) was also cancelled due to the presumed persistent river conditions that will remain for the rest of this week.
Final results for the season will be confirmed soon.
We have moved the NS14 Day 5 date to this date too, which previously was scheduled for the Easter long weekend. There will be no race days over the Easter long weekend, as we imagine that the boat ramp might be a little busy.
Lasers, Corsairs and Juniors will be racing one long race. (Juniors might have a change on the course on the day) NS14‘s will be racing two short races.
Skipper registration, interest in crewing etc are on the event pages. (It’s the one skipper registration link for all skippers, no matter the entry class.) If you haven’t registered, then your result will not be recorded. Everyone must check in on the day for covid registration.
Juniors are welcome and encouraged to race. Please call Bill on 0411 123 405 to discuss.
Please note that the Racing Page on our website now describes our four main race courses. As skippers, please get familiar with these, as we’d like to work on keeping our briefings…briefer.
Another record fleet sailed on the Tweed river last Sunday, contesting race 9 of the summer point score & Race 8 of the NS14 Class Championship.
20 boats sailed on the Fingal reach, while storms threatened, on an overcast afternoon. Although it turned out to be delightful sailing conditions.
Joining the fleet was an intrepid group of 8 junior sailors, experiencing their first start in a full fleet.
The breeze was in the south and very gusty and shifty, normal on the Tweed but challenged the junior sailors who had many capsizes.
Matt and Melissa on Impulsive Matt.
The big race today was the NS14 class championship, contested by 3 boats. Arch rivals “Flight 24” (Adam Hurt & Kate Yeomans) and “Impulsive Matt” (Matt Andrews & Melissa Le Roux) were both keen to get points on the board and got away early on a longer course. Two races were held and either boat scored a 1st and a 2nd while 3rd was “On & Off (Dave Robinson & Kynan Luescher).
The 2 top boats have raced closely all season but todays results place “Flight 24” in front overall. With two races remaining, “Impulsive Matt” will need to win both to win the championship and hope “Flight 24” gets a 3rd.
In the Pointscore series, two races were held, and 1st was International 420 “Lets Disco” (Steve Grimes & Kai De Sousa), 2nd was Laser “Vickie 2” (Maurie Meyer) and 3rd, Corsair “Gidget” (Craig Foley, Deb Beard & Kate Stock)
In race 2, 1st was Laser “Betty” (Moosis Rieder), 2nd was Laser “Glider” (Andy Lamont) and 3rd was Corsair “Its Academic” (Dr Peter Ross, Ben Jarvis & Kelvin Daly)
Winner in the juniors Yoshua Mahony in Sabot “02”
Junior sailors were in the mix, although results were difficult to determine. “Ant Eater” (Ari Manu Gorman & Edward Miles) sailed all over the river. Chasing the NS14’s at one stage. Multiple capsizes didn’t dampen their enthusiasm, and they were last boat off the River. Following the course, Yoshua Mahony in Sabot “02”, demonstrated determination, and finished 1st in the juniors. It was a case of the Turtle and the Hare, as Ant Eater zoomed around all over the river, Sabot “02” got the bullet.
TVSC’s next event at Fingal Head will be Sunday the 7th of March at 12:00
