Hi Everyone , Well 2024 is here but what a wild ride from the 25/12/2023 I was luckily away so I didnt have to go through what would obviously have been a pretty scary experience and I honestly was shocked when I returned home on the 29/12/23 at the extent of the damage . I hope everyone survived ok and didnt suffer too much damage , even the sailing club got off pretty lightly with some boat damage , roller door damage and it looks like carpet replacement upstairs as it was soaked by the rain. Thank you to the locals who helped Geoff pull two dinghys from the water where the wind blew them and carry out temporary repairs to our roller doors just to secure them temporarily .
Well thats the bad news now the good news which is that the gold coast city council has steeped in and is this year financially supporting this worthy event so we now also have facepainting , jumping castle and kayaking as part of the event so special thanks to our division 4 councillor Shelly Curtis for helping support this yearly event..
So when is it on well this sunday the 14/1/24 from 8.30 am until 1.30 pm so its a great day to bring family and friends to the club to have some fun and also try sailing with our members taking people for a sail and all it costs is a $5.00 donation to go to the Gold Coast University Hospital , no booking is required just rock up and have some fun !
8.30 am Sunday Juniors
Well being the first sunday of the new year we didnt expect many sailors with a lot of people awayon holidays and as expected we only had 5 sailors sign on but that was ok as originally I wasnt sure if we would be operating as on thursday the water quality was not good but by saturday afternoon the smell had gone and the water was starting to clear. The boys all teamed up in a tera and definitely had some fun and I took two returning sailors and we went through some tacking before they went out towards the buoys . The wind was roughly south with a bit of gusty moments which did give especially my two some moments but once the let the sail off in the gusts they were soon just cruising around . My two in jared and jule,s had such a good time they are looking at doing next weeks sailing camp so they can brush up their skills .
10.30 Youth Training
As with the 8.30 class we new that this group would also be small with Halle , Leila and Zach turning up for the first sail of the year . Zach was a bit rusty on laser rigging mainly with you guessed it bowlines while the girls mainly leila were a bit rusty with rigging . The conditions were stronger than the early group with the winds turning more south/south/east and gusting up to solid 12 knots so you guessed it there were a few early capsizes especially on the broad reach back toward the beach . Everyone went in and they were all getting frustrated until they all finally listened to me regarding how much sail to let out and also what to do when the boat started to fall on the on the gusty broad reache,s ( pull the sail on ) Iam in the process of setting both their training and race days and it should be ready by the end of the month as this year there is more focus on training while still retaining at least one race day per month . Hopefully I will be able to start on it after this weekends try sailing day and monday and tuesday sailing camp.
1.30 Open Racing
Racing back mid february currently Tom has a broken foot and Steve has a knee requiring surgery !
Holiday Camp
With six sailors signing on and all of them having sailed before it was a pretty easy camp especially on monday where they all trained until lunch and after lunch we let them have some fun on a tera . Annabel and Joseph sailed their own boats for the first time so there were some wild turns and occassional capsize but they had great fun while mitchel , jack , Leila and Halle kind of sailed a tera and I say kind of as they were having fun. On day two with light westerlies we decided to take them for a run to the deep hole and of course the moment we turned around to come back the wind died out so we firstly towed up the teras then went back for the bics who for some strange reason turned around and ended up half way to labrador before we could grab them apparently they thought we werent coming back for them ????? even though we told them . The two boys got stuck drifting in front of hollywell but thanks to a couple of guys from SYC who had just come from the marina after fuelling they grabbed the boys for us and towed them until the wind came back . So who was the best sailor on the day well it was the least experienced sailor in little Annabel who when the wind died just drifted to the beach and started walking until the wind came back and then sailed home . Jade reckoned that she deserved a chupa chup for her efforts and we all agreed so well done Annabel.
Upcoming
Try Sailing Day 14/1/24 starting at 8.30 am
Sailing Camp 15/16 january 9am until 3pm daily
CU on the water
J Murphy
Well thats the bad news now the good news which is that the gold coast city council has steeped in and is this year financially supporting this worthy event so we now also have facepainting , jumping castle and kayaking as part of the event so special thanks to our division 4 councillor Shelly Curtis for helping support this yearly event..
So when is it on well this sunday the 14/1/24 from 8.30 am until 1.30 pm so its a great day to bring family and friends to the club to have some fun and also try sailing with our members taking people for a sail and all it costs is a $5.00 donation to go to the Gold Coast University Hospital , no booking is required just rock up and have some fun !
8.30 am Sunday Juniors
Well being the first sunday of the new year we didnt expect many sailors with a lot of people awayon holidays and as expected we only had 5 sailors sign on but that was ok as originally I wasnt sure if we would be operating as on thursday the water quality was not good but by saturday afternoon the smell had gone and the water was starting to clear. The boys all teamed up in a tera and definitely had some fun and I took two returning sailors and we went through some tacking before they went out towards the buoys . The wind was roughly south with a bit of gusty moments which did give especially my two some moments but once the let the sail off in the gusts they were soon just cruising around . My two in jared and jule,s had such a good time they are looking at doing next weeks sailing camp so they can brush up their skills .
10.30 Youth Training
As with the 8.30 class we new that this group would also be small with Halle , Leila and Zach turning up for the first sail of the year . Zach was a bit rusty on laser rigging mainly with you guessed it bowlines while the girls mainly leila were a bit rusty with rigging . The conditions were stronger than the early group with the winds turning more south/south/east and gusting up to solid 12 knots so you guessed it there were a few early capsizes especially on the broad reach back toward the beach . Everyone went in and they were all getting frustrated until they all finally listened to me regarding how much sail to let out and also what to do when the boat started to fall on the on the gusty broad reache,s ( pull the sail on ) Iam in the process of setting both their training and race days and it should be ready by the end of the month as this year there is more focus on training while still retaining at least one race day per month . Hopefully I will be able to start on it after this weekends try sailing day and monday and tuesday sailing camp.
1.30 Open Racing
Racing back mid february currently Tom has a broken foot and Steve has a knee requiring surgery !
Holiday Camp
With six sailors signing on and all of them having sailed before it was a pretty easy camp especially on monday where they all trained until lunch and after lunch we let them have some fun on a tera . Annabel and Joseph sailed their own boats for the first time so there were some wild turns and occassional capsize but they had great fun while mitchel , jack , Leila and Halle kind of sailed a tera and I say kind of as they were having fun. On day two with light westerlies we decided to take them for a run to the deep hole and of course the moment we turned around to come back the wind died out so we firstly towed up the teras then went back for the bics who for some strange reason turned around and ended up half way to labrador before we could grab them apparently they thought we werent coming back for them ????? even though we told them . The two boys got stuck drifting in front of hollywell but thanks to a couple of guys from SYC who had just come from the marina after fuelling they grabbed the boys for us and towed them until the wind came back . So who was the best sailor on the day well it was the least experienced sailor in little Annabel who when the wind died just drifted to the beach and started walking until the wind came back and then sailed home . Jade reckoned that she deserved a chupa chup for her efforts and we all agreed so well done Annabel.
Upcoming
Try Sailing Day 14/1/24 starting at 8.30 am
Sailing Camp 15/16 january 9am until 3pm daily
CU on the water
J Murphy
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