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RBYC Racing News 22 01 2008
SATURDAY SUMMER PURSUIT (Race 1) - Last Saturday we had 13 boats enter, leaving none to race on centre course he..he..he. Anyhow, Spindrift continues her winning streak with another win, with Zardos coming in 2nd and Longbow 3rd. Some other boats either flew a spinnaker in this non extras series or started on the wrong side of the start mark which explains all the DSQ's and DNS's. Anyhow, it was a well attended race with some good racing in easy conditions even mixing it with a fleet of Sydney 38's competing in Skandia races passing through our course.Click here for full results. LASER ASIA PACIFICS - Sarah Blanck wins the Women's Radials! Click here to get the full story from Sarah herself. Click here to visit her website sarahthesailor.com. There are links to her website on our website if you have any problems. TOP OF THE BAY KEELBOAT REGATTA - Entries are beginning to come in for the March Long Weekend regatta only 45 days away. Entry procedure hasn't been easier and cheaper than this. So don't waste anymore time. Click here to enter now. GEELONG TEAMS - RBYC have plenty of boats going down south to compete in the Skandia Geelong Week regatta this weekend. Your Sailing Committee have selected boats from the Audi Series to compete in the teams racing. Unfortunately there weren't enough of our boats to fill an AMS team but we have the best representing us in the other teams: IRC Team - B26 Reverie Alan Woodward, B45 Rush Ian & John Paterson & B9797 Ninety Seven Alan Saunders PHD Team (Advertiser Cup) - B 353 Magazan 53 Gary Rowswell & Nick McGuigan, B6324 Where's Wal? Roger Jepson & B63 Schuss Denis McConnell We wish them all the best. Click here to view the complete list of entrants in this years Skandia Geelong Week including the teams. DRAGONS LADY SKIPPERS RACE This successful event was first held in season 2006-2007, and is on again on Saturday 2nd February 2008. The RBYC Dragon fleet is offering lady skippers a day at the helm, with plenty of mentoring and fun. The race is planned for the day with a 1410hrs start. If you would like to participate or find out more about this event, please contact Sally Williams on 0418 381 227 or at nickwill@bigpond.net.au We would welcome a prompt response for organising skippers and boats. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON RACING HEARNE'S HEROES - Wednesday January 23 2008
Following last week's exciting and brisk sailing conditions, this week the BOM Forecast for Wednesday is looking very pleasant with "Variable winds to 10 knots then seabreezes around 15 knots developing in the afternoon. Waves mainly around half a metre". An ideal day for the start of the first race of the new Aggregate Series with warning signal at 1355hrs. No excuses for not being out this week with the forecast idyllic sailing conditions - see you there!!! SAILING PROGRAM FOR SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND 2008 There has been a change to the program. The racing will take take this form: 1400 Etchells - Non Aggregate Race 1405 Combined Divisions - Malta Cup (IRC) also part of the PHD, AMS & IRC Aggregates. **Use the RBYC Sailing Instructions booklet issued 1 Oct 05** 1410 Dragons - Lady Skippers Race 1415 Jubilees - Vanessa Cup Season Aggregate Race 22 CREW MATCHING - There have been a few new names added to the noticeboard in the last few days. Please check it out if you're a little short. There are still people wanting to try out twilight sailing, so if you can oblige them, please let me know by email sailing@rbyc.org.au SUMMER TWILIGHT SERIES - Race 2 tomorrow night and the winds look like they will be a lot kinder for us. Pat Langley Australian Sales Manager of Line 7 Marine will be on deck tomorrow, skippering Splash Gordon the Farr 40 from CYCA you may have noticed tucked away in row 6. We hope Pat will join us for dinner afterwards. Click here for the weather forecast. Please keep clear of the starting line until it is your turn to start. Many boats are not doing this and getting in the way of others trying to get a good start. Please be aware that the penalise police will be out in force tomorrow, so avoid being hit for 5 and stay clear of the line. SARAH BLANCK FUNDRAISER RBYC and SS&CBC are jointly supporting Sarah Blanck in her Olympic campaign for the Laser Radial class. She is currently the only Victorian selected for the Australian Olympic team and although some funding is made available to team members from Yachting Australia it is nowhere near enough to conduct an international campaign necessary for success at Olympic level. Sarah is doing well having won the recent Australian titles and the Asia Pacific championships last week. Members have held fund raising functions in the past to support Olympians including Mark Turnbull, Tom King and Sarah in previous campaigns. We are doing it again onTuesday 5 February at the Athenaeum Club and it would be great if you could attend. Kevin Sheedy will be the guest speaker. Other guests will be Andrew Plympton, President of Yachting Australia, John Bertrand and Simon McKeon. It will be a great night of sailing stories and conviviality. The donation is $600 or $1200 for a couple. The donation is tax deductible through the Australian Sports Foundation. Please advise Jill atkinson on atkinsoncci@bigpond.com or phone on 9598 5803 Click here for your invitation CLUB RACING THIS SATURDAY As per the program there will be a non aggregate non extras race from the race tower. Feel free to enter if you are around. Start at 1400 hrs using Home Courses.
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