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Sunday November 15th

23/11/2015

 
Hi Everyone , as we get closer to Christmas, our Try sailing Day and Club Xmas Party are getting even closer ( Sunday 6th of December ), we are already in the planning stages for next years big Events, and with the ever increasing number of new junior sailors on Sundays we will also be looking at letting everyone experience both different boats and formats .

8.30am Juniors

With a very iffy forecast, we were lucky to have this class running as conditions early were around 4/7 knots so everyone managed to get out on the water and sail the southerly winds . With the help of a few of our senior junior sailors everyone had the chance to both practice steering and general crew work , its amazing how with a little encouragement even our 5 and 6 year olds are mastering sailing . I saw Ava steering the laser , Mary steering a Tera , Jasmine steering a Tera ( with coaching from Pat ) and the list goes on .

10.30am Juniors

With again help from Pat, this again was a good session and even though the wind was increasing with a dead southerly building, he did some great work with both Kaleb and Spencer, who by the way was actually the best on water in the Teras for the session . Cody had a bit of trouble with the conditions, so he and I worked on technique closer to shore, while Ollie despite a lot of encouragement in both the Bic and the Tera spent a lot of time capsized and getting towed ? Hopefully he will do better next week . Finally we need some more girls to sail with Jess since Maya broke her arm, so if you are keen girls let us know and we can move up !

Open Bic

Well, by the time both Dallas and Pat got out to the start line it was blowing 20 knots, so reaching across the start line was in order with Dallas absolutely flying and Pat the same except when he wasn't nearly nose diving . Casey joined them as well at the start, so that must have been why the were all very early for the start even though Tianna was yelling at them to get back . By the time they all reached A mark the wind had increased to around 25 knots, and with Dallas the only successful one at the bear away the others just continually capsized until we packed up Pat's boat on the shore and Michael jumped in with Casey to sail her home as it was just too windy .

Adult Racing

Well being a bit wild, we only had a small fleet of six lasers and as with the Bics by the time they reached the A mark it had really gotten wild with waves over a metre and winds gust up to thirty knots so there was a bit of swimming going on including the Jetski Crew who actually capsized the ski before the start ( it certainly was entertaining ).
The bulk of the course was in the bottom half of our channel just to keep everyone out of the worst of the conditions, but it was still wild and fast . I was very tempted to borrow Will's boat just to have a couple of screaming reaches in front of the club but someone had to pick up the buoys .
HOW WINDY WAS IT ? One wave that hit the start boat went over the roof yes over the roof so well done to everyone who sailed !

Additional Notes

Volunteers Special Event : If you are free on the Australia Day long weekend we are looking for shore crew , boat crew and canteen crew for the Wind surfing Nationals

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