Safety Beach Sailing Club NEWS 31st July 2024
SBSC 58th Annual General Meeting
- Bill Manning,
- John Di Martino,
- John Bacon,
- Neil Whitaker,
- Fiona Lowe
- Rob Rainsford - Vice Commodore
- Andrew Martin - Rear Commodore
- Mem Mackie - Secretary
- John Matheson - General Committee
- Phil Wooley - General Committee
- Social Committee
- Sailing Committee
- Sail Peninsula
- Training Committee
- Yard Master
Life Member Award
Congratulations to Andrew Stocks who has been awarded the Life Member Award at the AGM on Sunday. Andrew Stocks (aka Stocksie) is a founding member of Safety Beach SC and has been an active sailing member for most of those years. In more recent times has joined the Keelboat fleet primarily sailing on Fransiska with his good mate Peter Morisson. Andrew he has always been happy to offer a hand around the club as required, be it with an electrical job, volunteering to do duty for both club races and regattas, or helping as required at the annual working bees or whatever else is needed at the time and with a minimum of fuss or bother. Of more recent times Stocksie has been offering to do more and more with Keelboat activities ensuring our tower lights are always working, he is a regular in the tower on a Friday evening to make sure we all get out for a sail. He was kind enough to offer his assistance when keelboats where just in their infancy at SBSC and tower helpers were hard to come by and is still helping out 14 years down the track. He has also been a big help with our Sail Peninsula regatta especially on set up day when he spends most of the day hooking up all the wiring and back again on the Sunday afternoon to pull it all down again. All of this is done with a smile on the face and a willingness to do more to help. For his enduring hard work, passion, and enthusiasm for Safety Beach SC over many many years Stocksie is a very deserved recipient of Life Membership Award.
Off The Beach News
Winter series sailing is on again this Sunday. Duty Roster for the winter series can be found HERE
Race Bibs
Keelboat News
Results
| 1st | Happy Days | Paul Copeland |
| 2nd | Etoile | John Gordon |
| 3rd | Shimmer | Steve Twentyman |
This Week's Racing
Friday 2 August - Fun Friday Winter Series - Race 6
First Warning Signal: 13:55H Pursuit Start
Race Officer: Andrew Arblaster
Domain Article featuring Safety Beach
ORCV News
ORCV DYSC Marine Supplies Winter Series
The ORCV Discount Yachting Winter Series program for racing and cruising is based on passage style racing within Port Phillip Bay. The Series comprises four races including a destination race to Blairgowrie, a destination race to Geelong and two short passage races around fixed marks. www.orcv.org.au/winter-series
Safety and Sea Survival courses (Sunday 8 September and Sunday 1 December)
Featuring a full-course that is an Australian Sailing affiliated program and prerequisite for ocean racing, and a refresher course that is required every five years, ORCV’s Safety and Sea Survival courses are a great opportunity for sailors to brush-up on their skills and achieve the required certification. In addition to racing, the courses also offer great insight for sailing and cruising. The June courses sold-out, with September or December dates now available for registration. Spot are limited. www.orcv.org.au/winter-series
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