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.

Howdy Gang.

 

Wasn’t last Sunday a great start to the season? It was great to see 17 boats on the water and a lot more in the yard tweeking and making sure all is in readiness for an epic sail this week. While the wind could have been a bit fresher, we at least got a race in and all those on the water finished in less than the cutoff  90 minutes (even Keith B who took very little encouragement to skip the hitch mark and make a hasty run for the finish line). Once the racing was done (and the breeze picked up- of course), it was back to the Club for what I reckon was one of the best feeds we’ve ever had, so thanks Dave and Crew for doing what you do so well.
 

Apart from the yachts on the course, we of course had our intrepid race team, headed up by RO,VC, Life member and all round nice guy, Mono Martin, who as well as running the race, was instrumental in organising and MCing shindig upstairs. With him on SB1 was the perfectly named Judy Champion carefully taking down times in the absence of Super Deirdre Snooks, who is swanning around the Mediterranean with her daughter Grannie- what a life! Also with them was new member to the team, Greg Weston, one of our social members who has kindly put his hand up to help out on the RHIBs and is spending a couple of weeks on the start boat to get a feel for things. When you see Greg, please make yourself known to him as it’s these people that allow you to go sailing instead of manning the RHIBs.
 

This week sees the return of Geoff as RO and he has a surprise for us all in the form of an extra mark on the water! We are introducing a blue finish mark on the opposite side of the start boat to make things easier for the scorers to work out who is finishing and who is just sailing through the start line instead of going around it. This is going to take some getting used to and there will be many briefings and much complaining, but it will be a good thing. And apart from that, blue is my favourite colour!
 

As l hope you have seen, the duty roster is out ( and many thanks to Bill Manning for helping me to lock that task down, as I was struggling ). Di has posted it on the website and you should have it on email and text as well as a copy that will be on the notice board outside the change rooms so you should have no excuse for missing out, click this link to have a look. I was thinking of having it printed on toilet paper and distributing it to everyone but it was cost prohibitive so that’s out sorry.
 

And last but by no means least, it’s official, Taipan Tony is no more! From now on Mr Rogers shall be known as ‘A Class Anthony’ and he has vowed to take all marks correctly to port - even if it’s a starboard course, so look out if RO Geoff has that green flag flying!
 

Cheers for now, see you all Sunday for our normal 2 pm start ( 1.57 first warning),

Pete Chippy

 

 

Congratulations to:

1st – Friday Twilight Pursuit	Renaissance	David Donaldson
1st – Friday AMS	2Xtreme	Andrew Clark
1st – Commodore’s Gold Cup	Anthea	John Wemyss

 

What a great way to start the 2023-2024 Summer Season.  We had 17 boats out on the water for the first Friday Twilight Pursuit in lovely sailing conditions but also very chilly.  Welcome to Running Bare who were out for their first Friday sail with SBSC.  Big thanks to all the tower volunteers.

I am sure everyone had an interesting time finding and rounding 25VM.  Please make sure you do your best to round these virtual marks and if in doubt give it a wide berth rather than cut the corner.  For those of you that are using a mobile device with Navionics to navigate around the course the SBSC virtual marks should be showing up in their correct locations.

For all the results please click HERE

 

Twilight Pursuit Series 1 -  Race 2 & the Inaugural “Tony’s Trophy Race”

 

First Warning Signal:	17:25H Pursuit Start
	Race Officer:	Tim Bardon
	Duty Boat:	Cirrus
	Tower Set Up & Results:	Tim & Dianne

 

We are very proud to announce the Inaugural Tony Lohman Perpetual Trophy Race.

Tony has been an active member of the keelboat fraternity since the early days of keelboat racing at SBSC. He has crewed on many of our fleet over the years including After Midnight, Aphrodite, Bushranger, E’toile, Jaslin,  L’etoile, Mr Bojangles, Tardis, Therapy,  ToniK, Y Knot and Tumi. Tony has a love of sailing and the Club and particularly Friday Twilights.

 

We are saddened by the news that Tony is terminally ill, and the Keelboat Committee has decided to honour Tony and his passion for Friday twilight racing by naming the first Twilight race of every season The Tony Lohman Trophy Race “Tony’s Race“

Unfortunately we couldn’t align all the ducks in time for last week’s race so, this coming Friday twilight will be the inaugural Tony’s Trophy Race. We are hoping Tony can be on the water and will be at the Club after the race where the winner will be presented with the Perpetual Trophy. 

 

Please make a big effort to be out for the race and also to get back to the club after the race for this very special presentation. Start Sheet - HERE

 

Club Championship Series – Race 1

 

First Warning Signal:	12:55H Boat Start
	Race Officer:	Till Braukmann
	Tower Assist:	Julie Jones
	Results and Set Up	Till and Dianne

For all boats planning to head to Geelong for the FOS 2024 please get on board with the Passage Race from Mornington YC. 

 

This is part of the Festival of Sails Entry and sounds like a great fun way to get your boat and crew to Geelong.  To enter CLICK Here and select the ‘Mornington Peninsula Series’

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. The youth t-shirts (with names on them) will have another order put in soon, so if you missed out on first round orders, please contact Marg to make sure you get one in the next batch, which will be processed by end of March. These t-shirts have been a hit with the juniors and will be great to wear to regatta's etc. 

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