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October 19th, 2022

19/10/2022

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Hi Everyone , I cant believe it but even more rain is on its way and will possible include strong winds all the way to the weekend so I suggest everyone keeps an eye on the weather and if you are not sure on sunday morning either contact the office or check facebook or our webpage at 7.00am sunday for possible cancellations , if there is no notifications posted it will be sailing as usual .
Our sailors on sunday would have seen a new edition to our sailing fleet with a 29er racing skiff arriving at the club all the way from sydney where Scott and Dan went to check it out . It will be an interesting addition to our sailing fleet once they sort out the rigging as its a bit more complicated than a laser or Bic skiff but wonce its sorted it should be a lot of fun.
We are holding a haloween sailing morning on the 30/10/22 with sailing games and generally a lot of fun so come along dressed for the day I even might get dressed up myself ! so for details see the girls in the canteen or games director Charlie !!! .
Just in passing for everyone the club has been battling with council all year regarding excessive water usage bills and supposed water leaks but after constantly checking for leaks at showers and taps plus checking outside the building its now looking like it may be a water meter fault causing the club to receive extremely high water bills totalling over $5,000 p/a so lets hope its sorted soon .
8.30 am Sunday Juniors 
With the day starting totally different from saturday where it was blowing between 25 and 30 knots by lunchtime sunday started with light winds and mainly blue skies and with 9 young sailors signing on plus our usual  sailors in reece harvey tristan we soon had the boats rigged and ready . I took on the briefing again mainly because I wanted to mention the haloween event and catch up on how everyones knowledge is progressing .
Jaso and Guy set a reaching course in what we worked out was roughly n/w/n winds at around 4/6 knots which as usual at times moved west then back north so the buoys were moved around a bit but in general everyone coped . As usual thanks to Jade , Harvey, Reece , Tristan for taking some new sailors out for a sail even if there was the occassional capsize and also thank to Taylah who taught a new sailor in the shallows which obviously helped her sore legs ? why the sore legs well she walked and ran on saturday in a fundraiser for cancer for nearly 9 hours so well done Taylah. I dont always do this but I noticed one of our new sailors who has only been sailing solo for a couple of months really doing well with the set early courses so well done Gemma keep up the good work.
10.30 am Youth Training 
Our Youth training group has expanded with the purchase by several members of Open Bic Skiffs bringing our fleet to 9 plus one laser at this time so we are getting a good fleet of keen young sailors out there learning the inns and outs of sailing .Most of these sailors were at yepoon and we could tell that six days of training and racing certainly made a difference especially in attitude and also skill levels . We are now at briefings exploring such things as sailing step ladders using wind gusts , positioning in the boat and of course tacks and gybes . Our course enade up sailing from a red mark at the club to the outer port mark near the canal so roughly upwind in a south direction and then broadreach on the return at around 6knots . Usually Harvey is the best but Reece showed everyone how to do the downwind whith his boat healing to windward to gain more boat speed and it looked really good to me . The bulk of the group struggled a bit at first on the upwind but after a couple of laps everyone was keeping their sails on and doing less tacks to get to the mark. Finally we had a talk about return to shore as quite a few boats crashed on return instead of turning to the wind and stopping the boat and jump out and hold the boat so guess what they will all be reminded of on their next sail..
1.30 pm Open Racing 
With the wind turning n/e with an occasional swing more east we used the north course with a start down at runners and a top mark at the top of soverign and a rounding at the entre between ephriam and soverign .
The wind was really consistant at around 8/10 knots and with a close close reach start it was perfect for a quick getaway with Ross getting a blinder against the full rigs . There were only three boats with Ross being joined by Nic and Tom in full rigs while I convinced Ross to sail radial just to have reasonable speed against the full rigs which he did at first but he did over time loose ground especially when he tried continuous gybes downwind ??? and I am still waiting for the reason why . Tom beat Nic by one second over the line probably because they were trying to sail each other away from the finish line then had to gybe accross once they realised that they were about to sail past the finish boat . Ross we believe won on time handicap because of what the guys were doing which was lucky for him because his gybing really did put him behind and yes both charlie and I had some queries for him back on shore
Upcoming Events 
30 october Haloween sailing 
19-20 november windsurfing championships 
18 december Club Christmas Party.

CU on the water
J Murphy


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October 12th, 2022

12/10/2022

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Hi Everyone , Sorry for no newsletter last week but as usual lately I had some skin cancers removed again this time under my left eye so I was a bit headachy for a couple of days but much better now so we are back in action.
Firstly we should mention not only our junior and youth sailors but also all the parents who took the time to travel all the way to Yepoon so their kids could compete in the Training and Regatta with a special thanks to Kelly and Scott for helping organize the paradise point sailing club team . I have heard plenty of stories about the event unfortunately starting with Tristan suffering a green stick fracture of his wrist the night before practice started and even though he tried to sail with a cast it wasnt possible but there is always next year mate ! Our team did really well starting with the green fleet with Harvey coming third and Reece , Xavier and Laya all showing massive improvement through the three days of training then racing . Laya even recieved an award for determination and never giving up.
Daniel and Jade in open fleet also finished inside the top ten including jade tearing a sail and having to borrow a sail from Bevan but still finishing 7th and 8th while Ross in 4.7 finished 12th in his very competitive fleet , Now the word is out in the sailing community that P.P.S.C.has some great talent on the way up the sailing ladder so well done everyone I am very proud of you all.
8.30 am Juniors 
The day started with light winds and scattered cloud so reasonable sailing conditions so everyone soon had their boats rigged and we were off to briefing which I presented for a change as our team of instructors  were all to chicken to take it on . While at the white board I noticed these young sailors with a bit of prompting wer more involved than previously with some very good answers to our standard set of questions .With the winds roughly out of the w/n/w at around 2/5 knots the start crew slowly set a course to match the wind conditions and we also allowed gybing with I must admit pretty good results including Xavier who was really nailing the gybes with smooth transitions from side to side and good boat speed . There was the odd scream from a certain boat while the new captain was learning to steer apparently it had something to do with too much speed ? here,s a tip girls screaming doesnt slow a sailboat down but letting the main off does !! . We did pull the pin a little bit early as a squall came through although it wasnt so much the wind it was more the really cold rain buy all in all a great sailing morning.
10.30 am Youth Training
This class is really taking on some purpose especially now that our yepoon sailors are back at the club and also with three sailors in the bic,s recieving their own boats ( Reece , Harvey , Tristan ) so everyone was keen to get on the water . I again did the briefing mainly as Charlie still hadnt fully woken up ( late night ) so as I was in charge I threw in some technical stuff just to see the confused looks while they tried to understand things like apparent wind effect. We set a really difficult course across the outgoing tide with basically an upwind and broadreach course . Daniel and Harvey plus Ross were allowed to sail south for a challenging work back towards the club and with the wind shifting and dropping off it was certainly a challenge . Our new bic group did struggle somewhat buy in general they got the idea with some help from the safety boat well except for charlie who was still not quite awake . I tried to concentrate on close hauled and mainly worked with Laya , Xavier and Reece and Iam pretty sure everyone was sick of hearing the word up up by the end . Things were actually going fine until Daniel sailed back and decided he was bored so he stood up and sailed so you guessed it everyone started standing up and so what happems in light winds when you stand up well you go backwards !!! Thanks Dan .
1.30 Pm Open Racing
Due to some confusion amongst the senior sailors only Casey turned up for racing so we had to cancel but its back next sunday ( 16/10/22 ) and yes apparently Charlie will be awake next weekend so look out everyone as spin the bottle will be back  !!!
Upcoming 
Haloween Sunday Sailing which I think is the end of this month but I will check with Claire and Kelly who are in charge . So whats happening apparently haloween games and dress up so come along in costume and enjoy the fun !
State Windsurfing titles 19th 20th November so no club sailing that weekend but come down and watch how the windsurfing sailors do it !
Club Christmas Party 18th december booking essential
Try Sailing Fundraiser Sunday the 15/1/2023

CU on the water
J Murphy

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