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TY Delegates report 10 January 2015

10/1/2015

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TY Delegates report 10 January 2015 
I arrived at the sailing club today to find Digger and Roger sitting on their deck chairs in the shade of Grey Fox sipping cups of tea. The first sailing day back after the Christmas New Year break is often a slow one as I guess most people are still in holiday mode or perhaps returning from a national or state title regatta. For Digger and Roger who are seasoned retirees I suppose this is standard operating procedure for them. Anyway the first race day post holiday usually runs at a relaxed pace allowing for time to catch up with sailing friends and listen to their holiday stories. It’s a nice pace for creating the right conditions for kicking of the second half of the sailing year. Even the weather cooperated with us, dishing up a gentle 5 to 8 knot Easterly and a pleasantly overcast sky. 
The breeze was a little uncooperative making the setting up of the course a challenge for Hugh and Paul our duty crew. They did a great job to get us all started and finished.
TY Starters today consisted of, Momentum with Ray, Barry and Roy aboard, Frou Frou with Alan, Ian and me aboard and as mentioned above, Grey Fox with Digger and Roger aboard I don’t know about how the other sailors felt but just having a few weeks away from sailing makes me rusty and today was no exception. We all got away with a clean start, but things didn’t go exactly to plan after that for Frou Frou and Grey Fox. Frou Frou’s usual manoeuvring precision was a little slower to begin with me, Alan and Ian re-establishing our team work again after many weeks of not sailing together. During the last triangle I was blinded by sun screen in the eyes (don’t you hate that) and was steering with my eyes shut for most of the up wind and downwind legs. Ian recons it was the best I had steered all race and should shut my eyes and chill out more often. I tend to agree. Even sailing with Zen power we couldn’t narrow the gap between us and Momentum who even with the small headsail set were disappearing into the distance. Grey Fox on the other was experimenting with spinnaker sets that, from Digger’s and Rogers’s perspective, did not benefit her forward progress much. No doubt with practice Digger and Rodger will be all over it in no time. 
The general feeling expressed by those who sailed on the day was of pleasure. It’s nice to be back on the water and mixing it with our sailing family. 
Pointscore 12 Results
Place Boat Name Corrected time (PBH) in minutes 
First Momentum 89.14
Second Frou Frou 90.56
Third Grey Fox 98.08

Weather conditions are looking promising for next week’s race day so make the effort and come on down to the Lake for your New Years dose of hamburgers.
Coming Events
Lake Illawarra Yacht Club is running the Australia Day Regatta. Information Fliers for the event are on the PKSC sign on table.
An event not to be missed is the St Georges Basin and Sussex inlet TY Regatta is again being run over the weekend of 31 January to 1 February. So get organised to participate in this one.
The End Trev
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TY Race report 9 Jan  2015

9/1/2015

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TY Delegates Report 9 January 2015
Momentum and Frou Frou turned up for today’s race, fresh after the Christmas New Years break. What we lacked in numbers today we made up for in enthusiasm with more crew turning up than crew spaces available. It was particularly nice to see new people interested in giving sailing at our club a go. I do hope we can keep this interest and regular participation up. 
Aboard Momentum were Barry, Ray, Phil, Richard Lech and new crew Lillian. Aboard Frou Frou were Andy and our 2 new crew Liam and Kirralee.  
Just because there were only 2 starters in the TY division today did not mean that we took things easily. The competition was hot and we had an exciting close start with Momentum climbing over the top of Frou Frou to take the advantage up the first work and rounding the top mark well ahead of Frou Frou.   
Like most sailing days aboard Frou Frou, and most other boats I have been on at lease, we decide on who will do what as a team.  
The tacticians’ role fell to Kirralee, which by the way she performed with great diligence. Standing in the companionway hatch she has a commanding view of the course and fleet. Kirralee offered very important encouragements aimed at improving our performance and position in the fleet. Things like, “Are we first yet” (interpreted by me as we are doing ok but could do better) and, “Why are those boats catching us and why are there boats still ahead of us” (interpreted by me as, we need to concentrate more if we are going to catch up) and, “This race is taking longer than I expected, are we there yet” (interpreted by me as, we need to improve our crew work if we are to make fewer mistakes if we are to finish before the end of 2016). Don’t you think it’s good having fearless crew aboard who pull no punches in giving thoughtful advice? 
Just as Kirralee made her mark as the tactician Liam proved invaluable in the cockpit. He trimming the jib and hoisting the spinnaker like a professional and by the end of the race he was tacking and jibing and steering on the reaches and downwind like someone with years of experience.  Liam even helped to rescue Andy who had unfortunately slipped over the side during a spinnaker pole retrieval manoeuvre. I must admit that for an old bloke Andy sure can hang on. In Andy’s defence, the front of the boat is not his usual familiar position aboard.  
Liam told me he had experience on motor boats, but this was the first time on a yacht for him and Kirralee. Even so they both took to a sailing like it was second nature and really earned their keep as crew during the race. For Andy and me the kids made today’s race fun. 
Talking to Barry in the rigging area after the race, we both agreed it was a great sailing day and that everyone aboard both boats enjoyed the experience. With any luck there will be more days like this to come in the second half of the season.  

Results for Pointscore 11
Boat Name   Position  Corrected time PBH (CBH)
Frou Frou       First         92.77 (92.77)
Momentum     Second     94.09 (94.13)

Sussex Inlet and St Georges Basin Sailing Club Regatta
I made an error with the date of the Sussex Inlet, St Georges Basin Regatta in the sailing calendar. The date should be the weekend of 6 and 7 February. My apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. It’s one regatta we don’t want to miss.
Next Saturdays race is Championship 5 and Pointscore 12 for TYs. I need crew for Frou Frou if anyone is available. 
I hope you are all able to join us for what should be a good race.  

The end Trev
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