Oct 26

IMPORTANT – Attention All Yacht Skippers.

  • October 26, 2011

New Yacht Courses for Sunday Summer Series.

The Sailing Committee has revised the Sunday Yacht Courses and the new courses will be adopted from the start of the Sunday Summer Series.Note that there have been no changes made to Twilight Courses.

A great deal of work has gone into this revision of the courses to attempt to the standardise the length of courses to make handicapping fairer. The new courses are slightly longer however, so Handicaps have also be revised accordingly with most boats receiving a lift to reflect the slightly longer race time.

Make sure that you print off a set of the new courses and take them with you on Sunday. If you seem to be sailing in the opposite direction to the rest of the fleet ….. check that you are looking at the new course sheet (and tear up the old one!).

If you have any feedback regarding these course amendments, drop around to the club on Monday evenings from 7pm to discuss.

Hope to see you on the water this week end.

Smooth Sailing

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Oct 18

SLMASC Laser Squads tackles the Coast ….

  • October 18, 2011

The Laser Coast Championships were sailed at Toronto last weekend (15-16 Oct) and for the first time our ‘SLMASC Laser Squad’ travelled away together to take on the best on the coast.

SLMASC was represented by Sam Booth, Scott Singleton-Turner, Scott Charlton, Joel Newman, and Jordan Gates in the Laser 4.7 class, with Clive Jones sailing in the full rig division.

Conditions were quite light and shifty on the Saturday, and slightly stronger on Sunday, with 5 of the planned 6 races being able to be sailed.

All sailors represented the club well in the tricky unfamiliar conditions, with Sam Booth finishing 2nd in the 4.7’s, and Scott Singleton-Turner being just pipped for a podium finish, finishing in 4th place. Both Sam and Scott also managed a race win each in their division (the smiles were priceless).

The newly formed ‘SLMASC Laser squad’ have plans to tackle other major regatta’s togther during the current season, beginning with the Zhik Single Handed Regatta on their home turf in just over a week’s time. If they can do this well in their first major away regatta, be watching for some great results from them at home in the Zhik next week!

Isn’t it great to see how quickly these guys (and gals) have progressed. This time last year most of them had just moved out of sabots, purchased their first Laser and were wondering if they were up to even entering in a regatta …. now they’re winning at them! Great to see not only the excellent results and level of improvement, but also the way they’re doing it …. having lots of fun togther.

Well done to all who competed …. bring on the Zhik!

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Sep 14

We’re Off and Racing …..

  • September 14, 2011

Last Sunday saw the official start of the 2011-12 season and what a great day it turned out to be. There was a good rollup for Learn to Sail classes, Dinghy and Yacht racing, encouraged no doubt by the pleasant change in the weather on Sunday morning. Light but shifty breezes ensured everyone could ease there way back into the swing of things (except for the course setters!), but also made for some great close racing through out each of the fleets.

The weather forecast for all of this week is simply stunning right through until early next week, so if you missed getting out on the water last week, start making your plans for this weekend. Summer is knocking on the door, so get organised and make the most of it.

Lifes to short to miss a week of sailing!

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