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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 3rd April 2024

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Lake Boga Report

Each year the Safety Beach Sailing Club has a large attendance at the Easter Regatta, and this year was no different, with 17 families making the trek to “Boga”. The sailing contingent consisted of 30 sailing members in 7 different classes of boats. The forecast looked amazing on paper, and temperatures did not disappoint, unlike the wind, which at times was non-existent. With temps around 30 degrees plus, the regatta managed to put out 5 races over 4 days, allowing lots of opportunities to cool off in the lake.

Results were varied across the different classes, our 420 youth dominated, as we were the only club with representation in that class. No surprises in the Tasar group with some excellent results from the Martin family rivalry. Bill Manning stepped away from the comfort of his Sabre to try is hand in the Impulse, with 3^rd overall in this class. Most impressive title goes to Abbey Everett and Matt Whitaker for First Juniors Overall in the regatta, and their names etched into a perpetual trophy!

Well done to all sailors and their support crew for another great trip to Boga.

Mono hull results HERE

Catamarans results HERE

Lake Boga Yacht Club Photo Gallery HERE

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Keelboat News

This Week's Racing

Friday 5 April - Fun Twilight Pursuit - with Spinnaker
First Warning Signal: 17:25H Pursuit Start

Sunday 7 April - Club Championship Series Race 10
First Warning Signal: 12:55H Boat Start

Winter Program

Our winter program starts on Sunday 19 May 2024. As sent out via email to skippers and crew members this week, click here for link to the 2024 program:

Click HERE to enter either the Brass Monkey Winter Pursuit Series (fortnightly Sunday mornings), or the Fun Friday Winter Series (fortnightly afternoon races).

bendigo branch manager

ORCV News

April 20th – Enjoy some category 3 races with the short format West Offshore Products Coastal Sprints. A daylight start and short course which is planned to have crews back home that night. Come try ocean sailing and join the fleet here https://www.orcv.org.au/coastal-sprints
For all other events, please check out the Calendar - ORCV

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Get you order in now to ensure that you are decked out in the latest Club Merchandise for he start of the 2023-2024 season Contact Marg Fleming on her email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to discuss your options. Taking orders now for youth t-shirts with names on the back.

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 27th March 2024

Off The Beach News

Howdy Gang,

what a great time we had on Sunday. The weather was perfect, the wind was perfect, the course was perfect and the only thing missing was more boats ! A lot of people gave it a miss as they were packed up ready for the Lake Boga Easter Bash as well as for a lot of other reasons, but for the dozen or so lucky buggers that were there it was an absolute cracker! With at least two of each division represented, there was competition for all and the leads changed many times in both races with the wind staying steady but moving around a bit. Ross M as stand in RO set the course nice and close to shore and then handed over responsibility for running the races to Super Deirdre, who did a sterling job (of course)!

Wayne J and Russell T were manning Woodsy and were in charge of the top and hitch marks. Most of us were intrigued by the position of the hitch mark in the first race ( apparently the wind had dragged it to leeward ) but after they repositioned for race two, Zack L and Finn M decided it was better off where it was so did a crash tackle in the Quest and dragged it back there. I hope they did their penalty laps!

Mark L and Rob F were there roaring around in the Windrushs along with four A class cats, perfect day for them. Only three Sabres but we shared the fun around none the less. Nick M, Grace L and James A enjoyed some great surfing on the waves. James enjoyed the still warm water so much he went swimming several times and still declared there was nowhere else he`d rather be. Also enjoying an out of boat experience was Neil W, who in a scene reminiscent of “Cool Runnings” managed to tip in right before the finish line, and like a true Olympian, pushed his Contender over the line to a standing ovation from the crew of the Start boat, including Wife Lorraine who managed to get a great picture of Neil`s smiling face as he drifted past. All in all it was a great day on the water and nearly as good up on the deck afterwards. So if you weren`t there; sucks to be you !

Thanks also to Fiona and Tash Martin for doing a great job in Sutherland and to all the non sailing helpers on the beach, you made a great day even better.

Lastly, a huge congratulations to Nick M and all his gang of cohorts for the fabulous job they have done with the junior gang of kids each week. Without them , and the kids, our OTB fleet will dwindle out as more and more of us old farts go over to the Dark Side.

So see you all in a couple of weeks, have a safe Easter and good luck to everyone heading to Boga (about half the club it seems)

Cheers, Pete Chippy

Junior Keelboat Evening - Friday 22nd March

Last Friday night we held our Junior Keelboat Night. With the introduction of the inaugural “Ciaran’s Cup” we had lots skippers volunteering to put juniors on their boats. In total we had 7 boats, hosting 13 juniors and 5 parents. The first boat across the line, with juniors onboard was awarded the cup. Congratulations to Nick Jones & Fiona Jones on their Adams 10 “Vamanos” for crossing the line first with junior crew Zara & Evelyn. If success is measured in smiles, I rate this event as 100% success. Thank you to all of our wonderful skippers, parents, committee, volunteers, and David Snooks & Deirdre Snooks of Snooks Catering.
If you haven’t heard the back story of this night, Ciaran Snooks created this event over 14 years ago, to make our two sailing divisions, OTB & Keelboat, more accessible and inclusive to junior members. Because of this genius plan, we have seen so many smiles and enjoyment from Ciaran’s idea, and many juniors becoming regular crew on keelboats. So what better way to pay tribute than to name this event in his honour. Thank you Ciaran for humbly accepting this idea and allowing us to honour your wonderful plan for many more years to come.

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Results this week:

Friday Twilight Race 9

1^st Twilight Pursuit	Vamonos	Fiona Jones
1^st Friday AMS	Vamonos	Fiona Jones
Ciaran's Cup (Junior Crew Trophy)	Vamonos	Zara & Evelyn

Friday Twilight Series 2 Overall

1^st Twilight Pursuit	Vamonos	Fiona Jones
1^st Friday AMS	Unprecedented	Andrew McGrath

Sunday Summer Series

1^st PHS	Vincitore	Peter Russell
1^st AMS	Vincitore	Peter Russell
1^st ORCc	Vincitore	Peter Russell

Congratulations to Vamonos and Vincitore for their 'clean sweep' wins on Friday night and Sunday. All the results can be found at 2023-2024 Keelboat Results

Thank you to the Friday night tower team of Judy Champion (RO), duty boat 'The Office' and Deirdre Snooks, who saved the day with her (non-rostered) debut in the tower on a Friday night! All those well-honed skills she has from recording finishes for OTB week in/week out really transferred over nicely to the keelboat tower finish - especially with the entire fleet (25 boats) all finishing within an 8 minute period with the setting sun as a backdrop! Many thanks too to the Sunday tower team of Elaine Nicholas (RO) and duty boat 'Empara'.

Enjoy your Easter break everyone, and see you back on the water the following weekend.

bendigo branch manager

ORCV News

April 20th – Enjoy some category 3 races with the short format West Offshore Products Coastal Sprints. A daylight start and short course which is planned to have crews back home that night. Come try ocean sailing and join the fleet here https://www.orcv.org.au/coastal-sprints
For all other events, please check out the Calendar - ORCV

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Photo Of The Week

Junior member Nathan Anderson taking instructions from Rod Smallman on Shimmer during Junior Keelboat Night. Thanks Chris Parkes for the photo.

Nathan

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 20th March 2024

Off The Beach News

Howdy OTB Gang.

Well not a lot to report this week I’m afraid. After missing the last few weeks due to bad weather and the long weekend, we were all looking forward to a good days sailing on Sunday. The day was beautiful and with a small zephyr of breeze near the beach things looked just a tiny bit promising. But B`gosh!and Begorrah!, old St Pat had other ideas. Out on the course there was bugger all wind and owing to an on water start for the keelboats, the course was a looong way out. Geoff had no choice other than delaying the 1.00 KB start by nearly an hour just to get them away, which made our start similarly late. Some of the fleet took to the water early to at least get some sail time as it wasn’t looking good for an afternoon race.

So after a long, slow sail out to where the patrol boats were, it actually seemed pretty good. About 18 boats lined up for a single start and everyone got away okay. But sure enough, not ten minutes into the race , St Pat said “You lot would be much better off back at the Club enjoying a nice pint of Guinness”, and he promptly turned off the wind! Race abandoned, head for shore. And then we saw that he really is a benevolent Saint, as he sent forth a lovely breeze to hasten us back to the Guinness. Job done, that was all she wrote, and not a snake to be seen!

Thanks to the race team for trying their best to give us a race, especially as they had to be on the water an hour early for the KB start. We had Geoff and Super D, t`be sure, t`be sure, in the start boat, Greg W and Finn M in Woodsy and Zack L and Drew M ( filling in for Fiona M, who was filling in for Duncan Mc ). Thanks also to James A ( that man is everywhere! ) for heading out the back and launching all three boats.

One more sail next week prior to Easter and the mass exodus to Lake Boga, so lets try to get a heap of sailors on the water. That just about sums it up for this week, I’ll try and get some reports re: the various titles that many of our sailors went to over the long weekend, it has to be better than my rubbish.

See you next Sunday, and if you get a chance, how about a quick prayer to AEOLUS, the Greek God of Wind, for something nice for a change. I’m sure he has stopped listening to me.

Cheers, Pete Chippy

Green Fleet Sail Training

Junior sail training has been blessed with some really wonderful weather, and this Sunday's forecast is looking like a great day for our last training session. If you haven't come down to witness all the smiles and fun times, I recommend you get down to the club, grab a Snooks coffee and witness our last official session for the season.

Nick and his team will have many other activities planned for the morning, including a sausage sizzle and Easter Egg Hunt. It's never too late to bring a friend along, so remember to spread the word about junior sailing. The training time is 9.30am – 11.30am. See you there.

Junior Keelboat Evening - Friday 22nd March

Each year our Keelboat division invite all junior members to experience sailing on a big boat. This night is always a special treat and guarantees much rivalry between boats, as all skippers and their junior crew will be sailing for sheep stations, bragging rights, and all other expressive terms you can think of !!! In conjunction with this week’s Twilight Race, the club will be running our inaugural “Ciaran’s Cup” Annual Race. This race is new to the program and has been introduced to the club as a special Junior Keelboat Award.

All boats participating in the twilight race must have junior crew onboard to be in contention for this award, which has been named in honour of the event creator Ciaran Snooks. Ciaran’s Cup is a perpetual award and will be presented to the winning skippers and their junior crew by Ciaran on Friday night. Fiona Lowe has been organising junior crew for the night and has gathered up 13 juniors, who have now been placed on 6 different boats for the race. Make sure you welcome our juniors and if you have any photos that you’d like to share from the night, please email them to Fiona for e-news and socials fThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Results this week:

Friday Twilight Race

1^st Twilight Pursuit	Tumi	Jenny Thomson
1^st Friday AMS	Patriot	Jason Close

Sunday Club Championship

1^st PHS	Scamp	Peter Voigt
1^st AMS	Vamonos	Fiona Jones
1^st ORCc	Scamp	Peter Voigt

All the results can be found at 2023-2024 Keelboat Results

Thank you to the weekend tower teams of Dianne Jackson and duty boat Ghost (Friday night) and Till Brauckmann, Dawn Clark and Elaine Nicholas (Sunday).

Rescheduled Junior Crews Night - Friday 22nd March:

As the Junior Crews Night was postponed last Friday night, the inaugural 'Ciaran's Cup' annual race will be held this Friday. Thanks to all the skippers who are taking junior crew onboard. See you all back at club for presentations.

sunday 24th march

bendigo branch manager

ORCV News

24th March The annual trip tour of Port Phillip Heads, departing Queenscliff at 10.00 am. The tour provides for well-planned and executed transits of the Heads, with an emphasis on doing so in low-powered vessels (like yachts), and provides information to participants on the numerous navigational aids and strict procedures required for safe passage through. For more information and to book. https://www.orcv.org.au/training/rip-tour-of-port-phillip-heads
March 29th – Port Fairy Race starts just after midday on Good Friday and is category 2. Crews will enjoy the hospitality of the Port Fairy Yacht club, and boats up to 2.8m draft will mooring in the Moyne River. Entries are open here https://www.orcv.org.au/port-fairy
April 20th – Enjoy some category 3 races with the short format West Offshore Products Coastal Sprints. A daylight start and short course which is planned to have crews back home that night. Come try ocean sailing and join the fleet here https://www.orcv.org.au/coastal-sprints
For all other events, please check out the Calendar - ORCV

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Photo Of The Week

Fiona Lowe with Ciaran Snooks, who is holding our newest perpetual trophy "Ciaran's Cup", to be presented to the winning skipper of Junior Keelboat Night Friday 22nd March.

Fiona Ciaran

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Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 6th March 2024

New Members

The Executive Committee and members would like to welcome the following new members to Safety Beach SC. We look forward to meeting you at the club or on the water in the very near future.

James McLennan and Family
Russell Miller
Josh Raymond
Eric Kaczmarski

Off The Beach News

Howdy OTB Gang.

Sorry about the weather last Sunday, that was my fault. I ordered up some strong wind to mess with the Mt Martha sailors and accidentally went a bit overboard- literally ! So as it stands, for the second year running we have missed out on our chance at redemption. And with their and our calendars full for the rest of the season, we will have to wait until next year. Bummer! Thanks anyway to all the people that volunteered to help on the day and earlier to set things up, Yer blood`s worth bottling.

On to other things now. As this weekend is the Labour Day long weekend where we were going to be hosting the I14 state titles but aren`t, and a lot of the sailors , eg: the A class cats and Tasars, being away for their state titles and generally not a lot of bods around, it was decided to leave this Sunday as no official OTB sailing. That being said, if you want to go for a sail there is nothing stopping you using the yard. Just be careful, and make sure the gates are locked when you leave please.

While on the subject of State titles, Gingerbread Bill M and myself ventured up to Black Rock the weekend before last for the Sabre states and what a cracking weekend it was! 65 entries and only 2 from SBSC :-( , we`ll have to do better next year guys and gals. 65 boats made for a very long start line and with every race starting under a `U` flag they were taking no prisoners. Saturday started with strong wind that built as the day wore on. As Sunday was predicted to be very light, Race Management opted to run 3 races on Saturday to ensure they completed a series just in case Sunday was a bust.

Let me tell you, those three races were all over an hour long and with travel time and the obligatory shifting of marks, we were on the water for over 6 hours ! And the waves up there are completely different to our nice gentle Safety Beach swell. They would rise up vertically in front of you, smack you in the face and say `Stop Right There Sucker!`so I did, many times. Bill on the other hand fared much better, he must have been on the favoured side of the course. Day two, as predicted, was very light but good enough to sail so we set out again for 2 more races, again over an hour long, another 5 hours on the water- sheesh, give a guy a break! The wind in the last race dropped out to zero in places and you could see groups of boats parked up together as you snuck up on them ( or visa versa ) only to take off again with much yelling and bumping - loads of fun !

Eventually the race was shortened, but with the fast sailors being fast and only a 15 minute window to finish after the first boat, just 20 of the 63 starters made it in time. Of those 20, our boy Bill was number 2! Giving him 18th place overall and 3rd in Grand Masters for the weekend. Great job Bill. Good to see a great representation by the female sailors too, with 7th,8th and 15th being ladies and 15 female sailors in total, nearly a quarter of the fleet! `How did You go Chipper?`I hear you ask. Don’t ask. But we all had fun, it was a well run regatta and the Sabre group are all friendly and eager to help each other out, from the top sailors to the cellar dwellers like me. I had no trouble sleeping that night and was very glad to have Monday off.

That’s about it for this week, good luck to everyone away for titles and we`re looking forward to hearing all about it.

Cheers, Pete Chippy

Green Fleet Sail Training

We are coming up to our last two sessions of junior sail training and the wind is forecast to blow a little bit stronger than the past weeks. Fear not, Nick and his team will have many other activities planned for the morning if we cannot get onto the water. It's never too late to bring a friend along, so remember to spread the word about junior sailing. The training program will continue for the next two weeks 9.30am – 11.30am every Sunday of the following dates:

Sunday 17^th March
Sunday 24^th March

Junior Keelboat Evening - Friday 15th March

The date is set for Friday 15th March, which is also St Patrick's Day! Boats usually leave the marina by approx 4.45pm, so you would need to be available from that time. If your junior would like to participate in this evening please send us an email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Tuesday 12th March so that we can organise boats. Parents and guardians are most welcome and encouraged to accompany their juniors on this evening. The club have a great night planned for St Patricks Day, so consider booking dinner once you finish sailing.

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Results this week

Friday Twilight Race

1^st Twilight Pursuit	Le Tardis	Dee Mason
1^st Friday AMS	Vamanos	Fiona Jones
1^st Female Helm	Le Tardis	Dee Mason

Congratulations to Jaqui Bange on Fransiska for winning the 2023-24 Margaret Hollamby Female Helm Trophy which will be presented on this years presentation night. Big thank you to the tower team of RO Amanda Malin, Jann Wilson and the crew from 11.11 who not only assisted in the tower but also took care of laying the mark near 25 despite the brisk and wet conditions.

Sunday Summer Series:

1^st PHS

Lumiere

Ian Pearse

Thank you to the tower team of Jen, Jeff and Jacqui from Tumi. All the results can be found at 2023-2024 Keelboat Results

Junior Crews Night - Friday 15^th March

Each year our Keelboat fleet invites all junior members to experience sailing on a big boat. This night is always a special treat and guarantees much rivalry between boats, as all skippers and their junior crew will be sailing for bragging rights! Calling all Skippers and Boats wishing to help out with our Junior Keelboat Night please drop a line to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ASAP.

sunday 24th march

bendigo branch manager

ORCV News

OCEAN RACERS SET COURSE FOR DESTINATION KING ISLAND

On the 9^th March 2024, the 114 nautical mile race across Bass Strait, organised by the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria and supported by the King Island Boat Club, starts. The fleet will set off from Queenscliff bound for Grassy Harbour, and this year's 53rd ORCV Melbourne to King Island Race promises thrilling battles throughout the feet. Racing under AMS, ORC, multihull, double-handed, and PHS, boats compete for the King Island Trophy awarded to the overall winner on AMS.

Sailors don’t race in this event just for the sailing. One mention of crayfish, the infamous rib eye fillet steak sandwiches and local cheeses has the fleet of close to 200 sailors onboard salivating, ready to knock down the door to the wonderful hospitality of the King Island Boat Club, which uses the event as its major annual fundraiser.

We would like to wish our local boats, Shimmer, Summer’s Lease, Ginan and JokerX2, a safe and speedy passage to Grassy Harbour (seen below).

king island

24th March The annual trip tour of Port Phillip Heads, departing Queenscliff at 10.00 am. The tour provides for well-planned and executed transits of the Heads, with an emphasis on doing so in low-powered vessels (like yachts), and provides information to participants on the numerous navigational aids and strict procedures required for safe passage through. For more information and to book. https://www.orcv.org.au/training/rip-tour-of-port-phillip-heads
March 29th – Port Fairy Race starts just after midday on Good Friday and is category 2. Crews will enjoy the hospitality of the Port Fairy Yacht club, and boats up to 2.8m draft will mooring in the Moyne River. Entries are open here https://www.orcv.org.au/port-fairy
April 20th – Enjoy some category 3 races with the short format West Offshore Products Coastal Sprints. A daylight start and short course which is planned to have crews back home that night. Come try ocean sailing and join the fleet here https://www.orcv.org.au/coastal-sprints
For all other events, please check out the Calendar - ORCV

Club Merchandise

Photo Of The Week

Paynesville Classic Boat Festival. Pic of Amity in Grand Parade. (Note SBSC burgee on transom!)
Grand Parade for 200 entries was Saturday 2nd and Parade of Sail was on Sunday 4th.
amity

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Junior Crews Night - Friday 15^th March