Safety Beach Sailing Club Keelboat & Trailable E-News

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1 Safety Beach Sailing Club Keelboat & Trailable E-News 19 th February 2019 CLUB CAPTAINS NEWS: I was lucky enough to be up in the tower for the Sunday Club Championship race and had to check twice when RELLS signed on with 7 people on board!! We had some lovely flat seas for the Sunday Race but unfortunately not enough wind for the yachts competing to even complete the shortest course we have. Can t think of too many better ways to pass a pleasant Sunday than drifting along the cliffs at Mt Martha. We hope you are all getting ready for Sail Peninsula 19. This great weekend begins on Thursday with the MYC Twilight Race to the SBSC Tower. Join Lady Cassandra as she sails down to Mornington leaving the Martha Cove entrance at 16:30H. Please see details below on how to enter and sign on for this race. Please note that if you want to compete in any of the Sail Peninsula Races then you need to enter the SP19 regatta. The very popular Friday Twilight Pursuit, the Passage Race to BYS and the Sunday Course Race are only open to SP19 entrants. A big thank you to Rob Weir for the Rules Trivia Night. A great evening of rules and animations. The best message was to avoid collisions at all costs and outsail the opposition on all legs. If you would like to learn a bit more about the Racing Rules of Sailing check out this link below: %202022%20PDF%20Version%202%20%28corrected%20version%29.pdf?dl=0 Look forward to seeing you all over this weekend. Fair Winds Mark McAuliffe KB Captain WHATS SBSC SAIL PENINSULA nd 24 th February ONLY 3sleeps to go and the long-term weather forecast is looking like we are going to have a great sailing weekend so how can you resist!! If you haven t entered, then get onto it NOW GO TO

2 COMMONWEALTY BANK TWILIGHT PURSUIT RACE Mornington Yacht Club to Safety Beach Sailing Club Thursday 21st February 2019 Looking for something to do on Thursday night??? Why not head up to Mornington YC and do their Twilight Pursuit Race back to SBSC. SBSC will be open for dinner so drop back to the club for a meal and/or beverage A great way to finish off an excellent day. To ENTER please send an to Steve Bardsley at raceadmin@morningtonyc.net.au before 9:00Hr on the 21 st February. You will need to advise your Sail Number, Boat Name and Design / Type of yacht. Boats berthed at Martha Cove must Sign On for the race by telephoning the Race Office ( ) no more than 45 minutes and no less than 15 minutes before the scheduled start of the race. The scheduled start of the race is 17:45H When you sign on you will be advised of your start time. Special Sailing Instructions can be found on the SBSC web-site at Krystal Weir Visit - Sunday March 10:30H We look forward to welcoming Krystal Weir to SBSC Krystal's sailing achievements are inspirational and include: Laser Radial World Champion 2004 Beijing Olympian 2008 London Olympian 2012 Australian female sailor of the year x Australian National Champion Laser Radial Women's Hobie 16 World Champion 2014 and 2016 Krystal will be coming along to share some of her skills and knowledge with everyone at the Club in particular to motivate our young OTB junior sailors. Her philosophy is "nothing great in life is ever achieved without enthusiasm" and believes there are no limits in sport or life. We are very excited to have her at the Club and look forward to seeing you this event.

3 Combined MYC/SBSC Race #4 - Sunday 24 th March. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!!!! As per Race #2 MYC have kindly offered to provide the boats to run our combined race but we need on water crews to help on both the Start and Course Laying Boats. If you are not sailing it would be great if you could volunteer a few hours of your time to assist. Please send us an to keelboat@sbsc.net.au RACING RULES TRIVIA Thanks to Rob Weir Can you work out which boat is at fault??? Answer can be found later in the e-news 1. Start - Boat End. Yellow tries to pass between Blue and the committee boat. There is contact with Blue which breaks one of Yellow's guardrail stanchions. Penalise: Neither Blue Yellow Both TOWER NEWS: LAST WEEK S RESULTS Friday 15 th February Friday Pursuit Series #2 Race 5 Congratulations to: 1 st Lady Cassandra SB423 Mark McAuliffe 2 nd Savara SB33 Greg Murcott 3 rd Liberty B760 Mark Watson Thanks to RO Ian Bond who was ably supported by the Tower Team from Mustang Sally

4 We were very honoured to have one of our recent 50year members, Richard Hill, bring his yacht Anxious over from Queenscliff and join the fleet for the Friday Pursuit Race. We have been told by a very reliable source that it will soon be sporting an SB prefix on his sail!! We hope to see Richard back for a few more sails at SBSC before the end of the season. Racing Rules Trivia the correct answer is: Sunday 17 th February Club Championship Race #7 Unfortunately, the weather was not so kind to the fleet on Sunday and no yachts were able to complete the course within the specified time limit. Big thank you to RO Des and the crew from Lady Cassandra for their patience in the tower. Please see some shots below of the Sunday fleet!

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