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Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.rrsrc.com.au

P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478

Newsletter Items, Idle Gossip, etc to [email protected] (deadline midnight Monday)

Club Newsletter 2/12/20

Important Announcements

1. The Clubhouse is opening again for member use on sailing days, so we can all get in out of the sun in this hot weather, or out of the rain if we get lucky. Social distancing rule of 1.5m will apply on the veranda and limit of 25 people inside the club at any one time. Tables and chairs will be set up at suitable distance apart for members guidance. You will also be able to use the kitchen, kettle and urn and fridge, however no food or drinks will be sold. If you use cutlery or cups then please wash them up or put them in the dishwasher. If the area’s excellent Covid status changes, we may have to reconsider this of course.

2. There will be an outdoor Christmas BBQ after last sailing for the year on 20th December. It will be held in the rear club yard. Free sausage sizzle and some free (slightly out of date) soft drinks and juices. Two volunteers to run the BBQs would be appreciated. BYO serious drinks and party hats.

3. We are planning to hold the AGM on February 7th at 10am, before sailing.

Race Reports for November 29th

Gennaker Report (Michael Wiley and Duncan Dey)

Larger Gennakers Report (Michael Wiley)

To sail, or not to sail, that was the question:

Whether 'twas nobler in the mind to take Arms against a Sea of Challenge,

Go forward and confront a fear of high wind and race cancellations

And by opposing it, to suffer bruises, damage and failure;

Or to suffer the slings and arrows of outraged competitors

Dedicating an afternoon to your family

Commodore Phill Robbins 0466668541 Vice Commodore Jonathan Horsley 0412798505 Rear Commodore Chris Hallett 0414866998 Secretary Nola Hallett 0414866999 Treasurer Col Woodbry Class Reps Gennakers – Michael Wiley Catamarans – Michael Cocks Trailers – Paul Morris Monos – Graham Hams Rowing Officer Graham Hams Website Admin Publicity Officer/Newsletter Trent Morgan Training team Club Committee

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CORRESPONDENCE TO: [email protected] CONTENTS

1. Important Announcements 1. Gennaker Report 14. Monohull Report 19. Catamaran Report 26. Trailer Sailor Report 30. Harwood Regatta Report 32. Covid-safe Sailing Reminder 33. New Briefings Process 33. Further Announcements 33. Reminder – Fees and AGM 34. Club Shirts 34. Crew Available/Crew Wanted 35. Idle Gossip 35. For Sale/Wanted/Free 39. Lost and Found 40. Message from the Commodore

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Risking the crushing knowledge the race was held anyway.

And others went through to finish.

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There was movement around the boat yard for the word was passed around

That the winds from the north were on their way.

They were gusting 37 knots so the experts proclaimed.

Too much for you to sail in so they said.

All the skiffs had mustered, gathered around the yard.

For the sailors love a challenge so they think.

But there are limits to this insanity.

And some of them had doubts.

What would be the program for the day?

The Admiral of the fleet might be a jolly good chap.

But idle talk of a suicide race for skiffs.

Left some to think of what was best to do.

The old salts among them, with crusty skin and hair.

Thought back to times far past.

The intended final suicide sortie of the High Seas Fleet.

Ended in the mutiny of the crews.

Double the guard on the beer esky they said.

We’ve got this.

She’ll be right.

And so it was for all involved.

Which brings us to the gennaker report.




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In the end, after all the fuss and uncertainty, all six Formula Fifteens, the 49erFX and two RS100’s fronted the start. The skiffs were a tad late getting to the start area, leaving them little time to get the starting sequence time and evaluate the starting line. The strong east/west axis of the line, although true to the wind and fair, disorientated some skippers and that, with strong gusts upsetting tacking plans, made for a ragged start.

Post start

The gennakers on the way to the top marks

But it made little difference to the position at the top mark, with Michael and Tara in ,

Barry and Anna in , Tom and Brendan in and, after a capsize, Liam and Ewan in the FX, rounding in a tight bunch with the other Fifteens very close behind.




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Part of the tight bunch rounding the top marks

After some hesitation, tried for a spinnaker, but only had it halfway up before

realising she was heading for the mud and cancelled the set. also went for a spinnaker,

headed off at high speed to the mud and needed to douse it, leaving , leading by a small margin at the bottom mark.

Barry and Anna still going fast without spinnaker




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Difficulty in lining up a tack for the top mark and the wind shadow at the separation mark often

meant that any boat that had pulled ahead to a small lead lost it on the rounding. Plus lost its lead there with a double teabag capsize.

For the first three laps, the FX slowly eased to the front with , and forming a tight group with the lead between them changing constantly.

The second work

frequently went for a kite but virtually never made a big gain from it, but then, rarely lost a lot either.

and played a safer game.

And then from somewhere behind, Matt and Clare in finished their tussle with Justin

and Francine in and Daniel and Pip in and entered the lead boat fray, closing on the leading Fifteens.




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The relatively rare site of a kite on an F15 on this day




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Second Wind and Secret playing a ‘safer game’, looking like they were as fast as with kites on a normal day

Daniel and Pip trying to make up ground




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Magic Formula and Mr Bond also trying to bridge the gap

The kind of thing which kept most crews cool on a very hot day!




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Clare and Matt absolutely motoring, without kite

At the top mark for the last time, you could have thrown a blanket over the first four Fifteens.

The precarious top mark rounding region




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The final places were essentially set on the next run and bottom mark rounding. set a kite and, maybe for the only time in the race, made a gain. Not a big one, but enough.

Secret setting the kite

beat to the bottom mark, but did a better rounding, easing slightly

ahead. capsized, putting it behind.

Approaching the final rounding of the bottom mark




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The final work was uneventful; at least if you ignore the enormous gusts, lulls and wind shifts; all the normal stuff in the river.

The FX heading home

The FX took the gun, won on VYC and the six Fifteens finished within a just over four minute spread.

All in all, everyone thought it a pretty fun race

Smaller Gennakers Report (Duncan Dey)

Roland set a cracker of a start line, very even and quite short (so that favoured ends don't get crowded). Vince was late arriving and fumbled his preparations, leading to his first swim. Duncan got away cleanly from the port end, which put him on the right tack going east. Sadly, the gusty northerly meant a loose port work east and a tight starboard run west.




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Duncan in his newly repaired Casper

We suffered dead patches at each end but the course was correct and the best available.

The two RS 100s crossing paths in one of those dead patches




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There were only two of us in the small gennaker fleet. Vince ran a kite on each leg going west, while Duncan played it safe with no hoists.

Vincent having fun

Even then, was simply blown over by one gust. Without kite gust strength must have been over 20 knots. Each time Vince caught up, he'd swim, or just loose it onto the muddy south bank.

The eventual gap was 1.5 minutes but all RS100's were beaten by all F15's and the 49erFX :-( That's what happens on reaching courses.




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Monohull Report (Des Mayblom)

It was a hot, windy blustery day that separated the men/women (political correctness is everything) from the boys/girls (or should I say younger less able people). Graham Hodgins turned up but

decided that discretion was the better part of valour (a good call). Paul in was babysitting, and I hear got the green light just minutes before start time (bummer). Daisy (Trent’s

secret weapon of mass destruction) found better things to do ( – ), and Trent seconded Evan in as crew. There was a rumour that an NS14 state champion was going to give us a run for our money but it just amounted to a rumour as when the starting hooter went there were just two of us.

The course was up past the marina, and was straight down and back, basically one tack runs, with the wind gusting, swirling and (worst of all for yours truly) just dying. The Cats and Gennakers did a longer course up and down the river and while the course was busy I didn’t notice any really close calls which was nice. Don’t know where the trailers went.

Graeme Garden and Olde Golde at the start

The two of us lined up at the start line and when the hooter went, took off like a powered boat. They just disappeared into the spray. I thought to myself that this does not bode well. Glad that I took the option of only four laps instead of five. So, I puckered my anus, held onto




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the little boat with it and took off in pursuit. It was not so much sailing as surviving. Got to the top mark in short order and as I was about to round the off-set when the wind died due to the shielding from the buildings along the shore. If the tide had been running in the other direction 360’s would have been the order of the day. The run back up the river was just letting the mainsheet out and holding on (love that about Impulses).

Des with mainsheet out and holding on

It was almost pleasant being able to see the Cats and Gennakers flying along and each being able to plan how we were going to pass each other rather than having to react at the last second.




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On the second lap Trent and Evan went past whooping with joy. I did not respond, my anus was struggling to hold on and I set my mind to not getting lapped. But as each lap went by, I could see that it was going to be a close thing.

Des apparently steering by the seat of his pants

I am glad to say that they missed out by a couple of metres and yours truly finished the race at the back of the pack but contented.

It's possible Evan was whooping at this point, GG moving pretty quickly




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The gybes got better as the race progressed

After the race I went looking for Trent and Evan to give a half-hearted congratulations on sailing as well as they did in very difficult conditions and found out that they capsized. But before the start (bummer, why didn’t they save it for when it mattered).

Des keeping cool




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All in all a good day. I was worried about the heat of the day before the race but the wind and the spray kept things cool and it was a challenging, exciting, exhausting but satisfying day out on the water.

GG heading home enduring the wind shadows at the start of the strait

With Des hot in pursuit




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I would like to thank Roland and Rick in the rescue boat, the club committee and workers for making it possible for us to all have such a great time.

Catamaran Report (Jonathan Horsley)

The forecasts all week were for 20 plus knots and a very hot day. Sunday morning was light northerlies and the intermediate sailing had a good session. With the wind northerly and an outgoing tide the only option was the upriver NE course. When laying the course, the wind strengthened, and it was clear with the wind out of the north that there would be no real work and plenty of reaching. As start time approached the wind settled into a highly variable 10-18 knots from the NNE. Cat fleet numbered only 4, a very small turn out for a Championship race, maybe

the forecast put many off sailing. The fleet included the diehards on , ,

“ ” (Michael on his A class with new name) and Unfortunately was missing, get well soon Colin.

The start line was set south of the monos bottom buoy and even though it was well balanced start

line all cats opted for a port Start. Just after 2-minute warning flag had a swim, an

indication of the conditions to be faced in the race. The remaining cats lined up with

being first across followed by and Tony righted started short time later.

Michael first across the start line




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The first “work” was a follow the leader with all cats able to lay the top buoy after the port start.

The chase is on

was first around closely followed by and . followed the normal practice on this course and gybed away to the southern shore looking for more

consistent winds. opted to head due west and bear away in the stronger gusts to get

to the southern shore. followed the same tactic.

Neck and neck on the first run




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Halfway down was only just ahead of and it stayed that way around the bottom buoy. With strong wind and mostly reaching course the leading cats passed the starting area before the trailers had started, less than 9 minutes for a lap.

Tony at speed upwind

At the top buoy for the second time lead from . again followed the normal practice on this course and gybed away to the southern shore looking for more consistent winds. Just after gybing back to starboard, Michael said he thinks he was out on trapeze when his tiller broke. He wasn’t holding onto anything and in he went, parting from the cat. The cat




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took off and eventually capsized but some distance from him. Michael put in valiant effort to swim after his cat but even after it capsized, he did not have a chance to catch it.

The skipperless and drifting Chin in Eyes Up

A passing fishing boat went to pick him up, but Michael was too tired to haul himself in after trying to swim after his boat with the tiller in his hand. He had realised he didn’t have much chance of catching his boat swimming like that, so he had ditched the tiller. Exhausted from the swimming chase, and unable to climb into the fishing boat he grabbed the side and urged them to drag him along, which they did.

Michael hitching a ride on the side of the fishing boat




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He got back on his boat and was going to continue racing without the tiller.

Michael retrieving his cat

Apparently, the rescue boat had found his tiller and gave it back to Michael. He used some tape (which he carries in his lifejacket) to strap it on and off he went. Apparently, he also lost his cap but that was picked up too so he got that back as well. It should be noted that at least one of the trailers was heading to pick up Michael when the fishing boat arrived.

With Michael’s incident, was handed the lead with moving into 2nd place,

passing . John showed great skills to keep upright when hit by a very strong gust on the downwind leg.

As the race progressed managed to lap all the other cats and headed up through the narrows with a full lap lead on the fleet.

The narrows provided all the usual treats with strong gusts and then no wind and challenged all the cats.

finished 13 minutes ahead of with another 10 minutes back, after another swim during the race.




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John on one of those downwinds

finished about 10 minutes behind but was not counted as a finisher due to outside assistance. The application of the yardsticks did not change the over the line results for the Championship round.




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Tony with reduced rig for the conditions

Many thanks to Rod and Garry for doing duty and all those club members who helped. Thanks to Roland and Jeffery for running the rescue boat. A challenging afternoon’s sailing and looking




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forward too many more this season. A well done to Ethan on for staying calm and collected throughout a challenging race, many times the cat lifted one hull very high going to windward or dug in the noses going down wind.

Jonathan and Ethan with some speed

Trailer Sailor Report (Matt Cartwright)

The forecasts early in the week were looking like 25- 30 knots from the north which was worrying but some of the forecasts changes on Saturday with some suggesting it would be significantly lighter. When I Arrived at the club around 10:30 there was a light northerly blowing so I thought we may have escaped the blow. The tide was ebbing all day with a low 0.38 M at 15:00.

Five boats turned up to compete in the 5th club championship and 11th point score for the season;

, , and The NE Course 3 was set which has the trailer division sailing a separate course up towards the river mouth while the other division sail west of the RSL. This is the second time we have sailed this new course and I am not a fan. Both times the wind has been true north, maybe with a bit of west and it results in a soldier’s course where tacks and gybes were only required on the marks and angles did not allow spinnakers to be flown; not proper racing.




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We arrived at the starting area first and the breeze had freshened and was gusting to 20 knots. Rolly asked me to check his line which was extremely pin biased so I advised him to move north, which he did but as the first leg was to be still one tack so the best option was a porthand start which all boats took up.

Just after the start

Shortly after the start it was ahead followed by , and

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The lead three shortly after the start




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Rabbit showing her heels early on

Treasure Island and Alyth

At the top mark the same placings had not changed but with its planning ability

passed on the beam reach ‘downwind leg.

As previously mentioned with the wind true north there was little opportunity for racing tactics as

there were no tacks or gybes except at the starboard rounding marks. was seen




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attempting to cheat the tide on the reach by following the shore line but this seemed to provide little advantage and the order of boats did not change.

For line honours it was , , , , closely followed by .

The two Careels late in the day

On corrected time for the club championship it was , , , and

. This course might work in a true north easterly, but it certainly doesn’t in a northerly and needs to be reviewed if we are to enjoy proper racing.




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Harwood Regatta Report

Four RS100's attended the BRSC regatta on 21-22 November. Several other RRSRC members sailed their cats and yachts. It was another epic weekend at Harwood. We were spared the roaring nor-easter on the Saturday - the wind was lighter, more northerly and less gusty than some other years.

Sunday's nor-easter was stronger, and had more east in it by the end of sailing.

Graeme Fleming raced his big yacht in the Saturday race. This involved the trip for him Fiona and one other crew from Yamba to Harwood for the start, then the race to Iluka and back, overnighting at Harwood, and the sail home to Yamba on Sunday.

Ian Bowles sailed his yacht well, with big smiles as his son Callum joined him for the weekend. They took out third in their division.

Ian Michie took out the fast cats division in his A-class. Other Ballina sailors were Anthony Goddard second the Nacra 4.5's (or was it in the slow cats division) followed by Alan Melville, in

Phill's former . Phill himself is waiting to recover from ops and other corporal damage.

The four RS100's competed against Adam & Kate in NS14 #1824 and with Brian

sailing solo and fast in his MG14 (Aero 9 hull). Paul Greer joined us from Qld in RS100 #440 and is getting faster and faster, as he did over the weekend. Vince sailed Saturday only

in #371 . Garry was there in #243 and Duncan in borrowed hull #495 (big thanks to Phill Robbins) but racing as #438, the numbers on his mainsail.

Duncan got a good start which put him out ahead of all but two or three of the many Lasers and sundry Monos that shared our start. Vince ran aground on the first river bend and was blanketed by the mono fleet. Strangely, it was single tack from the second bend to the mark at Iluka. Duncan got there ahead of Vince, and stayed in front to the finish. The wind being more north than usual meant he zig-zagged west in a series of raise / lower spinnakers. Going south on the next straight was similar. On the last straight we did run form bank to bank, gybing three or four times.

The NS14 won the division by a mile, the MG14 was next, then Duncan, Vince, Garry and Paul (who was dragging a corner of fin-case gasket).

Sunday was one race in light air before lunch, and two after. The morning course was all over the shop with nobody not taking a wrong buoy or a wrong direction. Duncan took the race from the NS14 with the MG14 third.

The Sunday afternoon course didn't favour RS100's as it was two works into the tide and one run with the tide. Paul travelled well and took third over Duncan fourth. For the last race, Duncan followed the Laser mob upwind on the south bank, discovering that it is out of the tide. God bless local knowledge in rivers.

Smiles all round, fewer capsizes than usual, a couple of masts in the mud, a lot of singing on the Friday night, and a see you all in March for the next Harwood regatta.




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Saturday ‘Bridge to Breakers’ action at Harwood Regatta

(photo: Hariet Woodrow/Big River Sailing Club)




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Covid-Safe Sailing Reminder

Firstly, you must NOT come back if you feel unwell or experience any new symptoms, respiratory or other. Play it safe and stay home. When you do arrive, there will be a sign-in desk set up on the club veranda and everyone is expected to hand sanitize then sign in: skippers on the race sign-in forms and crew, officials and visitors on the contact register form. Come dressed ready to sail and be able to change in the yard or your car, to minimize use of our change rooms. No items to be left in change rooms please. Although a major part of why we sail, socializing in person must be kept safe. Chat with your friends in the yard but keep good social distance. We will have a Duty officer each week as usual, however their duties will be different now. The club and change rooms should be clean before they arrive, so the Duty Officer is not expected to do cleaning. And with no kitchen duties they should have a lot less to do.

Their first job will be to check or set up hand sanitiser in each of the change rooms, then set up a table on the verandah with hand sanitiser and two types of sign-in forms: the usual division based race sign-in forms and a general attendance register for everyone else. Skippers sign in on race sheet, while crew, officials and visitors sign the attendance register. It will be up to everyone to sign-in. The duty officer does not need to police it. The division based race forms will then be used for scoring, and when finished passed onto the handicapper who will enter all names into an electronic attendance register. Duty officer will likely be scoring races with an assistant, or helping on the rescue boat if required.

One of the most difficult things to do is to remember to keep your social distance when in a familiar setting with friends, yet this is what we must learn. To assist everyone in this, the other role of the duty officer will be to act as a Covid-Safe guide around the club and remind people to keep their distance when they need reminding. The committee will support them in this role. We have to assume that at some time during this pandemic an asymptomatic carrier of the disease will come to the club and we want everyone to stay safe if this occurs. If everyone is prepared to make some sacrifices in how we interact on our club site then we can continue to sail and stay safe.

More excellent social distancing modelling by members of the gennaker fleet




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Briefings Process

As part of our Covid-safe plan there will be no briefings in the clubhouse. Instead, there will be a whiteboard displayed from the verandah at 12.30pm with the course and number of laps for each division.

You will need to download and print out the 6 standard courses from our website here www.rrsrc.com.au/documents and bring them all to race days. Look at the relevant one. There will also be the chosen course map on display downstairs on race day, and you can have them on your phone as well. There are 3 NE courses, a SE course as well as a W’erly and E’erly.

Division reps must inform the Vice Commodore or Commodore before 12.30pm if they want a different number of laps to the default shown on the Course map.

Further Announcements

1. If you still have a club trophy, please bring it back to the club so we can get it engraved.

2. Crewing. If you are crewing on a boat in club race then you need to be a member or use a sail pass. This is a requirement of the club and it also provides you with some personal accident insurance cover. If you obtain a stand-in crew then please ensure they register with Sail Pass. In future, boats with non-member crew without a Sail Pass for that day will not score points for that race. Sail Pass is free for three sessions and is accessed from our website at www.rrsrc.com.au/registration

3. If you come down to the club during the week, then please email Jonathan that you were in the club on [email protected]

Phill

Reminder – Fees and AGM

You must have pre-paid your race fees to have your race counted as we are cash free.

Membership fees are due.

A Covid-safe AGM is scheduled for February 7th at 10am.


https://www.rrsrc.com.au/documents/

http://www.rrsrc.com.au/registration




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Club Shirts

(As worn by Secretary Nola and Commodore

Phill – reflective safety vest optional)

Here’s your chance to wear the colours of your club, to proudly display what you do every Sunday – wear a club shirt!

Royal Blue Club shirts payment required at time of order into RRSRC account with your name as reference BSB: 728728 ACC: 22288328 Email or text Nola with size [email protected] or 0414 866999

Mens Long sleeve polo - $37 Short sleeve polo - $35 Cotton T-shirt - $20

Ladies Short sleeve polo - $31 Kids Cotton T-shirt - $17

Crew Available/Crew Wanted

➢ John Willey has recently joined the club and is available for crewing. John has been racing all his life, most recently Etchells in Bris. Would be a good crew.

[email protected]

➢ Potential new member wants crewing position: Sam Edwards 0449140150

“I work as a teacher at Southern Cross School. I have experience sailing for a few years with my own small boat; Holfast trainer and a Moth, and spent a little bit of time on yachts. No racing experience. I’m a confident water person and easy to get along with. Cheers.”

➢ Crew available – Claire Rankin - capable of sailing a one-person catamaran, I also have much to learn from sailing with other people, especially those more experienced.

My details are - email: [email protected] phone: 0409159280







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Idle Gossip – Please send anything interesting sailing or club related to [email protected].

Comedian Griff Rhys Jones goes for a sail on a NACRA F20 in his fascinating series with him travelling through New Zealand. Here is the link. Go to 30:47 in the documentary to find the sailing segment. He seems to do surprisingly well! Those not familiar with this class it is like the NACRA 17s which visited our club, fast foiling cats.

For Sale/Wanted/Free to a Good Home

If you have any sailing related items for sale or if you want to buy something sailing related and want it put in the newsletter please let me know – [email protected]

For Sale: Mainsail and Jib for Hartley 16 both in good condition and comply with Association

measurement rules. $300 contact Rod 0406 798 974

For Sale: Heavy Duty Storm Jib - would suit yacht around 8 to 9 metres in length. Very good

condition. Luff 4.6m - Leach 3.9m - Foot 1.95m $180 contact Rod 0406 798 974

For Sale: Rhino Roof Racks would suit VW Caddy - Renault - Nissan vans.

Good condition. $130 contact Rod 0406 798 974.

For Sale - NS14 skiff – Cosmic

Force Five Mk2 hull, good set of Barracuda sails, new mast, beach trolly . All in good condition $2300

Call Graeme 0414281699



https://iview.abc.net.au/video/ZW1850A001S00




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NS14 ‘Cosmic’




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For Sale - RS 100 No. 272 "Raw Speed"

RS 100's are an international high performance single-handed skiff with gennaker for exhilarating off-wind speed. One design rules ensure all boats are highly competitive. Carbon fibre mast and excellent sail controls allow for adaptation for a wide range of crew weights and conditions.

This boat will develop your skills and provide a challenging platform to enhance your individual sailing mastery. The single hander to own! New boats sell for $19,895. Special price -

Only $9000.

Lowest Price for one of the last two RS100’s for sale in Australia now. Excellent racing condition. 5th in Aust titles. Hull and fore deck refurbished for perfectly smooth hull. Comes with good quality 8.4 main and gennaker, mast cover, rudder cover, trolley, boat cover. Call Vincent on 02 6688 4480 or email [email protected]. I have 2 boats again and will be buying a brand new RS 100 to sail at the club next year..

Watch the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-9wfj9Zj68

Visit the Website: http://www.rs100sailingaustralia.net/

Test sail today! It’s fantastic fun. No crew. Give it a try!



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For Sale - RS 100 No. 371 "Swing Shift"

One of the last two RS100’s for sale in Australia now. Excellent racing condition. 1st in Aust titles 2017. Excellent racing condition. Comes with 2 sets of sails - near new and also good quality 8.4 mains and gennakers, mast cover, rudder cover, trolley, boat cover. Call Vincent on 02 6688 4480 or email [email protected]. I have 2 boats again and will be buying a brand new RS 100 to sail at the club next year..





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Free Donated to club to anyone who wants it. Medium size wetsuit pants. See pic. Contact Phill.

Sail Repairs in Town

Sail repairs are available in Ballina now. The business is called Undercover Canvas. They have a new staff member that is experienced in sail repairs.

3/1 Endeavour close Ballina Ph 02 66865116

Lost and Found

Lost

Child’s black hat with flowers. Please contact Paul on [email protected] if you found it, or know where it is.

Found

Near the boat ramp a couple of weeks ago





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Until next week….

A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMODORE

Great job with the newsletter Trent and Jane.

Even though I haven’t been able to sail much this season so far I feel like I haven’t

missed out on it all. Being able to follow the action in the newsletter stories with

matching photos is nearly as good as being there.

Thanks again

Phill


Documents

Club Newsletter - revolutioniseSPORTsecret weapon of mass destruction) found better things to do ( – ), and Trent seconded Evan in as crew. There was a rumour that an NS14 state