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this issue Commodore’s Report
Class Reports 29ers at Sail Sydney
Christmas Treat Photos
YOUR COMMITTEE
Commodore
Andrew Wilson
Vice Commodore
Clayton Erwin
Rear Commodore
Stuart Sloss
Rear Commodore
Ian James
Hon Secretary
Michael Dean
Hon Treasurer
Position Vacant
Committee
Janet Thomas
Chelsea Baker
Jake Fitzsimons
David Horn
LIFE MEMBERS & LEGENDS DAY
Saturday 16th February A great day at the club for Life Members & Legends
Spraytalk Perth Dinghy Sailing Club
SUMMER EDITION — DECEMBER 2018
Best wishes from Flag Officers and Management
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Commodore’s Report
It’s hard to believe Christmas is on our
door step with half the season gone
already. As most of us prepare for
Christmas lunches and finalising work
commitments there are a few of our
members embarking on traveling over
the state/country and world to com-
pete in Australian and world champi-
onships.
The Open Bic world championships is
being conducted in New Zealand, The
Australian and Youth Championships
are being sailed in Hobart, the i14’s
and Cherubs are being sailed in Ade-
laide with the Javelins being sailed
down at the Gippsland lakes in Victo-
ria. I would like to wish all those travel-
ing by road or plane, a safe and suc-
cessful journey and I sure the members
will look forward to hearing all about
your successes upon your return.
While our fleets are traveling the club
will be hosting the heron Australian
championship from the 28th of Decem-
ber through to the 4th of January. It is
great to see the Herons gain some
members back into the class as they
have a long and distinguished history
at our club. Be sure to come on down
to the club during the event, to cheer
on our young and old members and
enjoy the ambiance our club has to
offer.
Since the clubs opening day the club
has enjoyed some great racing and so-
cial nights to start off our busy season.
The highlight so far and much to the
delight of our many younger members
was the annual family fun/Christmas
treat with Santa bringing plenty of
Christmas cheer and joy. Its great to
see our club being enjoyed by both
young and old and highlighting what
we do best, having fun. Other meal
nights on the social calendar so far
have been a BBQ night and a spit
roast/40th Birthday. All well attended
and enjoy by our members and friends.
While the sailing is happening every
weekend your committee has been
busy preparing the club for further
ground works to cater for our mem-
ber’s needs. We have received our
building permit for our storage com-
pound with works to begin on the re-
taining wall early into the next year.
This will then open up the front of the
Andrew Wilson
club for some “beautification”
works. Planning is under way to
commence the men’s shower refurb
once the season finishes and our
house and grounds manager is in
the process of procuring lounge
seating for the club. This is on top of
the general maintenance required
to keep the club functioning day to
day.
On behalf of the committee, I would
like to wish all our members a very
merry Christmas and great, big, hap-
py new year. I would like to thank
you all for your support and I look
forward to seeing you all around the
club in the year 2019.
Commodore Andrew Wilson
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International 14 The International 14s have had a posi-tive start to the season, with close to ten boats racing every Saturday, fol-lowing the return of the traveling boats from San Francisco Worlds, where PDSC was represented very well. Stuart and Eike after the success they had at the last Perth Nationals again teamed up for this regatta and sailed very well to finish 15th. GE and Willow had a bit of bad luck with their new Bieker mast unfortunately suffering some damage in heat two, they were able to use their spare for the rest of the regatta and handled the tough conditions very well to finish 19th. Brothers Courtney and Elliott onboard Snatch despite not being able to sail much due to working in different states sailed very consist-ently to finish 31st in the 61 boat fleet.
It has been good to see the return of Dane and Scotty this year after taking last season off.
Newest 14 Sailor Emelia has been mak-ing the most of the early morning light breezes to get used to challenges of sailing 14s. We hope to see her racing soon.
In early January the Australian Champi-onships are being hosted by Adelaide Sailing Club. WA is sending five boats across to compete; Brams, Luggy, Syd, Luke and the old Vances. This is the last regatta prior to the up-coming Perth Worlds, which the entire WA fleet is busy preparing and training for. Steve Vance
ON THE WIRE
Autumn 1991
A Guide to Good Crewing (continued) Pre-Start Maneuvers
Once you are on the water, but
before the start be as unhelpful
as possible (this also applies
after the start). Do not under
any circumstances wear a watch.
If possible, claim bad eyesight as
an excuse for not telling the
skipper where other boats are.
Otherwise, let him assume it’s
stupidity on your behalf, or tell
him things at the last minute
when you’re sure he has already
seen them so he will tell you to
shut up before long.
Sit in the bottom of the boat, do
not balance and refuse to hoist
the kite. Some crews like to
check the kite is not tangled, but
if you have made the skipper rig
up this should not be necessary
as it is his fault if it is tangled.
Lining up for the start, do not
pull the jib out until the last mi-
nute and abuse the skipper for
poor maintenance if it will not
unfurl properly.
Author—Typical I14 Crew
Stu & Eike — Totally in control on San Francisco Bay Not!
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Javelin So with the season approaching a 1/3rd
of the allotted sailing days and the fat
man in the red suit about to call, let’s
review where the Javelins are at.
We have 10 boats registered for sailing
with one extra boat showing early in-
terest in joining but we haven’t seen
them since week one. So far no one
boat is dominating the fleet; we have
had three Club Championship Heats
which resulted in three different win-
ners. For the five races to count thus
far for the Consistency Championship,
there have been five winners, with the
steady as she goes boat “The Edge” so
far being “the Senior Cits” of the fleet
(by virtue of a combination of age of
both crew members and not just the
fact that the “master” in the red and
white boat has a crew that is half his
age) doesn’t cut the mustard here.
The SCs lead by a solitary point over
the more classy connections. This
proves the fact that there is nothing
like being consistent in the consistency
series.
We start our State Heats this month
and no doubt the keen rivalry will be
carried on for the treasured Basil
Wright Memorial Trophy for the class.
As these notes are being written I no-
ticed that one of the connections are
out sailing in preparation for the forth
coming Australian Championships to
be held at Paynesville’s Gippsland
Lakes Sailing Club in Victoria over the
December-January period. They are
Paul Cochrane and Dan Moore in “the
quick” JoAnne. Notice the change of
the skipper to PC, as the Master is off
in the New Year to have his body re-
tuned so he can sail for another few
decades. Best wishes to Billy Devine
for a quick and smooth return to sail-
ing.
Others to make the trip to Victoria are
Gordon Thomas and Dave Miller in
Beastier and Dan Firns and Matt Clark-
REDISCOVERY IN THE WILDERNESS
Ceduna—South Australia 1993
Some regattas are watersheds in the life of a sailing class, and the 1993 Ceduna Nationals were just that for the Javelins. The class was struggling for numbers in the late 1980s and early 1990s and had changed the sail plan for of the boat to try to engender more interest. Following a fairly successful Na-tionals in Perth in 1991-92, and Interdominions in NZ, the Jave-lin association decided to break with tradition an hold its Na-tionals at Easter at a neutral venue, Ceduna.
Seven boats headed east in con-voy with our first break near Southern Cross where Dave Creed and Gary Kerman pro-duced a footy. The vigorous game of kick-to-kick resulted in a few gravel rashes and the odd specky.
We celebrated Steve Clarks birthday at Baladonia. Not hav-ing any birthday candles, we lit a glass of Sambuca to propose a toast. Steve’s speech was long-winded and by the time he got the glass to his lips it was red hot, and stuck there. Sambuca was to play an important place in the whole Ceduna experi-ence.
Rod McGregor Sail Oh!
Kerman Contracting kerman.com.au
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Javelin (continued) Massera in the Phelgm. Good luck and
fair sailing to the team and we look
forward to hear of their exploits and
hopefully return to WA with the cham-
pionship trophy.
Breaking News heard in the last few
days, is that the yacht club at Lake
Cootharaba, just north of Noosa Heads
in Queensland are up for hosting the
2020 Australian Championships and
potentially the South Pacific Champi-
onships during the Easter break in mid-
April 2020, given that all parties still
need to ratify the move. I am sure we
will hear more of this in the near fu-
ture and as a discussion point at the
General Meeting during the Victorian
Championships. The Qlders are buy-
ing Javelins at the moment and with
a WA boat on the way there, they
will have a fleet of Javs sailing. It ap-
pears that those sailors currently in
MG14s are looking to migrate to “the
Hot Yot!”
For those who are avid followers of
FaceBook and who have sailors as
friends, (and who wouldn’t want to
be a friend to a sailor!) no doubt you
would have seen the videos of the
Javelins, Cherubs and I14s sailing
downhill with kites in the fresh SW
breeze on 1st December. Great foot-
age by photographer Lindsay Preece
of Ironbark Photos. If you haven’t
seen this yet, take a look and enjoy
not only the sailing skills and river
traffic but the shots of the black
swans going about their own busi-
ness on our beautiful Swan River.
Maybe our clever editor(s) to the
Spraytalk may be able to do the
download thingy and have the foot-
age on our electronic copies of this
edition! No pressure Michelle!
See you on or near the water.
GM for DM
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Cherub
Over the weekend of the 8th – 9th of
December PDSC kindly held the Cher-
ub State Championships. 8 races were
crammed across 2 days with varied
conditions which was exactly what we
were after for a fair championship.
We were lucky enough to have the
Singaporean 49erFX sailors Olivia and
Griselda jump in for the regatta, we
hope you both enjoyed the Cherub.
Just a couple of special mentions, Bri-
en Hennessey saved the day by lend-
ing us his Rib so there was enough
support and mark laying boats, thanks
so much Brien!
Christmas and New Years is fast ap-
proaching, as is the Cherub National
Championships which is held at Largs
Bay Sailing Club, Adelaide. 4 Cherubs
from WA will be making the trip across,
3 of which are from PDSC, best of luck
to:
• Hayden Grunt and Todd McVee
(Smurf Crease)
• Virginia Horn and Jacques Audet
(Serenity Now)
• Jac Harding and Teesh Cook (Fine
Mess)
• Richard Howell and Linda Smith
(Black Betty)
Christine Hunt kindly volunteered her
weekend to be the RO and came with
extra volunteers, thanks a million
Chris and Dale. And of course the usu-
al suspects: Willow, Calvin, Jo-Anne,
Lesley and all the PDSC volunteers and
flag officers, thanks a million!
State Championship Results:
1st Place - Hayden Hunt and Todd
McVee (Smurf Crease)
2nd Place - Aaron Wright and Brendon
Wright (Silver aka TNT)
3rd Place – Matt Midolo, Matt Hanra-
han and Jack Hanrahan (Who Made
Who)
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Sabre
For him just when he was getting his sailing form on the up.
That’s about it for now wishing all those at the club doing nationals all
The season has started well with up to 13 boats sailing each week.
Tony Carr has been the stand out per-former having won every race he has sailed. We wish him well at the nation-als in Brisbane in January.
We are still looking for a boat for Ray Martin not an easy task if you Know of anybody with a Rolls Royce for sale at a Commodore price let me know.
Our fleet numbers have suffered lately with 3 of our sailors being coerced by their wives into oversees holidays in the sailing season this will be banned next year.
Bruce Brodie hopes to be back sailing in January his doctor has given the ok it will be just a matter of how the leg per-forms it has been a very frustrating time
Confucius Say:
To win, one must first know the course
the best and a merry Christmas to all club members.
Bill Gillham
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29ers Over the 7 to 9th of December, 4 PDSC
29ers competed at Sail Sydney out of
Woollahra Sailing Club.
• Rosie & Oliver
• Kieran & Ben
• Genevieve & Elenore
• Sam & Jono
Over the 3 days of racing, the wind
ranged from 15-25 knots which tested
our heavy wind sailing skills. The har-
bour was filled with traffic which add-
ed to the challenge but made it a buzz
and an awesome experience being able
to sail within metres of 100 foot super-
maxis training for the Sydney to Ho-
bart.
After some issues with the charter
boats and a few avoidable capsizes,
the results weren’t looking too good
but we learnt a lot and hopefully we
will be back next year for more.
Jono Sam & Jono contemplate entering the Sydney -Hobart
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O’Pen Bic Wow what a weekend it was.!
This year RFBYC hosted the Open Bic State Championships over the weekend of the 8th and 9th December. PDSC were represented with 9 sailors across the 3 fleets, with 6 of them being in the silver fleet, the future looks good.
The weekend started with the AP up early on Saturday morning. Once the wind kicked in, the sailors headed out and managed to get 2 races in before the lunch break. A longer than normal lunch time, due to the congestion of the keel boats starting in the bay, saw the kids entertained on the beach for a few hours. A big thankyou to Hayley Clark who gave her time to come and have a chat with the kids. She spoke of some of the exciting places around the world that sailing has taken her. The group were mesmerised by some of her tales. Especially when she was describing
2019 O’PEN BIC WORLDS
Good luck to our PDSC sailors
heading to the Open Bic World
Cup in new Zealand.
Under the watchful eye of
coach Denis Jones, these kids
have undertaken a rigorous
training schedule to prepare
themselves for competition.
Olympic and Americas Cup sail-
ing legend Sir Russell Coutts
will oversee the regatta as Com-
modore of the Manly Yacht Club
in Auckland. Russell’s experi-
ence and passion for sailing is
sure to rub off on to our young
sailors.
Our team heading to New Zea-
land:
• Drina Bucktin
• Aiden Grove
• Jenna Everett
Good luck and have a great re-
gatta and holiday!
some of the favourite foods from places. After her chat, Hayley stayed on for a while to oversea the adven-ture race. The kids were paired up for this two up race. A short course out to a RIB, collect a chocolate bar and back to the beach. Lots of laughs as the winner, Angus Cameron from RFBYC charged up the beach still holding his Chocolate bar. Followed on with some very interesting Tug of War games.
The kids returned to the water for a 4.30 start and back to the serious business of racing. Two more races were completed in the afternoon ses-sion.
Sunday morning and another early start saw the sailors hit the water straight after the briefing to try and get some races in before the sea-breeze kicked in and the wind got to
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O’Pen Bic (Continued) much. 3 races were completed in the morning session. Leaving only 1 race to complete after lunch.
The much sought after Parents Race was run during the lunch break. Rules were broken, maybe a few bodies as well. We learned that sail-ing a Bic is not as easy as it looks, just ask our intrepid photographer Tom Hodge, who decided to give it a go, wearing his GoPro. Can’t wait to see that footage!. Congratulation must go to Chris Puls who won the medal, despite missing the briefing and being the last to make it to the start line.
With the wind building the RO de-cided to leave the silver fleet on the beach, thus their regatta results were complete. The gold fleet on
the other hand had a great race, with the final results not decided till every-one had crossed the finish line.
It was some pretty exciting racing right till the end. A big congratula-tions go to our PDSC sailors who took home the championship title in all 3 Fleets.
Gold Fleet—Jenna Everett U/13 — Drina Bucktin Silver Fleet - Cameron Furlong
A special mention goes to Oceana who took home the coaches award for the weekend. The RO Jeff Taylor, presented a sportsman ship award for the week-end that I think also deserves a spe-cial mention. This young sailor after each racing session was sighted tack-ing back around the start boat at the
end of each racing session before head-ing back to the beach. Turns out he was going back to thank the start crew. This young man was Lachlan Putt and he was awarded the Sportsmanship award.
Photo Credit—Tom Hodge Media
WA Team Heading to NZ
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Signet UK Winter Newsletter—2018
Notes from a trip Downunder
As I was sat by the pool (tough life eh!)
in Alice Springs avoided the worst of
the heat chatting to Otto (new German
friend who I had met whilst travelling)
and a conversation about how we'd
been to most of Australia except Perth
morphed into booking flights to address
this in about half an hour. It was only a
couple of days later I had a vague recol-
lection that someone had previously
mentioned that this was where the Aus-
tralian SigneT contingent was based. A
quick enquiry on the Whatsapp group
Sail Oh!
Signet Trivia
In 1975, the Signet Associa-tion decided to attempt to enter into the Guinness Book of Records, by sailing the greatest distance by a 12ft dinghy in 24-hours.
This event was planned and conducted with great gusto. A course was set in an area located between Quarry Spit and Old Dol-phin south of Heron Buoy. Signet crews were required to transverse the course in relays to achieve the maxi-mum number of laps.
All went well from 1000 hours start until the wind died at about 1900 hours. However, whilst they did-n't set a new world record, fantastic fun was had by all.
confirmed as much and as luck would
have it Paul Nicholson was already in
touch with them via a chap called David
Horn.
Armed with his email address I sent a
message which basically said I'm in
Perth next week, sail SigneT's in the UK
etc etc and didn't think much more of it
beyond the fact it would be very lucky
for my three day visit to coincide with
him being free, let alone going for a
sail.
Very quickly I received a detailed and
enthusiastic response basically saying
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Signet (continued) we are near the city centre, come and
have a sail! I thought this was pretty
remarkable so decided to push my luck
a bit and test the water for bringing
along Otto as a total beginner - once
again David couldn't have been more
enthusiastic.
We arrived in Perth at about 9am,
found the check in location for our
Airbnb at 10 and then worked out the
sailing club was about a 6km walk
which would give us a great view of the
harbour and would be achievable by
our agreed meeting time with David of
midday so off we went... We arrived at
the club which was buzzing with kids
training and adults milling about help-
ing with this and/or rigging their boats
ahead of afternoon racing. The club
sails in fleets - the SigneT obviously
along with several others including
Open Bic's, Cherubs, Javelins and Inter-
national 14's (they are actually hosting
the Int. 14's worlds in 2020). All classes
race in fleets with a typically laid back
Aussie handicapping system within
each, which wasn't fully explained to
me, but basically entailed someone's
clever spreadsheet and the fact that
you got time added on for the next
race if you won and vice versa if you
lost with similar but less extreme
changes for boats in the middle posi-
tions. I really liked the fact that the em-
phasis was on fun and everyone getting
out on the water with a smile on their
face.
The first major difference was that all
the boats were stored on site in a shed
so they rig from scratch each time but
since practice makes perfect this didn't
take long at all. David was kindly going
to lend me his boat for a while prior
to racing to allow me to get out on
the water and give Otto a ride. Given
he hadn't met me until that morning
this generosity is testament to his
character - a lovely guy. We were also
introduced to other SigneT sailors
(unfortunately their names escape me
- it was a lot of hello's and handshak-
ing!). They have 7 boats which are
keenly raced weekly from October
until March/April.
As some of you may have seen from
the photos I shared at the time there
are some interesting 'bimbles' which
have evolved down under. In no par-
ticular order:
1. All boats have spreaders..
2. All boats have a spinnaker chute.
3. Some boats have no stern buoy-ancy tank and a false floor - think Fleetwind style with a slight skiff influence.
4. Some boats have a fixed sea style rudder blade.
5. Some use a radial cut for their mainsails.
Before coming back ashore to give
David his boat back for the racing. I
was really pleased (and slightly re-
lieved) not to have broken it plus
pretty chuffed by the quality of the
city views we had got from the water!
Thinking that would be the end of our
great time at the club we were having
lunch when the offer was made by a
club member to get in a RIB to take
some pictures. We jumped at this and
some of them aren't bad either and I
will share these with them (see below
for a flavour).
Midway through the race a building
breeze (20 knots plus consistently)
meant that some of the kids were tir-
ing so I was plonked on top of a turtled
Open Bic and sailed it in. It must have
looked fairly comical - my legs were
the same width as the hull but I had it
planing at one point! It was a great
day and David made a point of saying
there's an open invite to anyone who
ever finds themselves in Perth to do
the same - I would highly recommend
taking this up on it if you can - the city
views were stunning! Naturally I
offered to return the favour and it
looks like one of their sailors might be
interested in a sail whilst in the UK
next June.
My travels generally but especially this
experience make me realise that in the
phrase 'nothing ventured nothing
gained' couldn't be more appropriate!!
Jon Leedi
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Did you know?
Our Commodore from 1913 to 1915
was Robert Connell.
Robert Connell was also the Western
Australian Police Commissioner from
1913 to 1933 making him the long-
est serving Police Commissioner in
Western Australia.
The son of an Irish coast guard
named Lot Connell, Robert Connell
arrived in WA in 1886 and immedi-
ately joined the Police Force. In 1894
he was transferred to the Detective
Branch (later the CIB) and rose
through the ranks - Sub-Inspector
(1899), Inspector (1904) in charge of
the CIB and Chief Inspector (1911) -
to eventually take over as Commis-
sioner after the downfall of PC Fred-
erick Arthur Hare.
As a Sub-Inspector at Kalgoorlie he
was badly injured in the line of duty
(1900) and had to be temporarily
placed at Albany. After taking office
as Commissioner under difficult cir-
cumstances, he followed through on
many of the improvements planned
or begun by Hare.
Along with Matthew Smith, Connell
deserves to be remembered as pos-
sibly one of the two most important
Police Commissioners in WA history.
Connell was a forward-thinking,
strong willed officer, one capable of
developing fairly intense personal
likes and dislikes, but who also
strove to maintain a balance be-
tween the different arms of the
Force. The Traffic and Liquor and
Gaming branches were founded dur-
ing his years in office, while major
reforms shook up the mode of po-
lice education in 1915. A man of
strong convictions and considerable
energy, Connell used his annual re-
ports to convey his misgivings about
government inaction in responding
to such social issues as child abuse,
the plight of deserted mothers and
illegal street-betting.
The introduction of women into the
Police Force was another key change
in direction. As Commissioner, Rob-
ert Connell was an interesting figure
in public life – he spoke, wrote and
acted like a model gentleman of the
Victorian era. He was the grandfa-
ther of the famous 'wheeler and
dealer' of the WA INC years, Laurie
Connell.
When Club Historian Rodney Smith
set about collecting historical pho-
tos of past Commodores, Robert
Connell’s proved to be the hardest
to find. Eventually, after deep re-
search, the link between Commo-
dore and Police Commissioner ap-
peared and a photo was located.
This photo is now proudly on display
along with all former Commodores
in our clubhouse, however not all is
as it seems.
If you look very closely at the photo
you will notice that Robert Connell is
wearing his Police Commissioners
uniform and not the Perth Dinghy
square rig
Archive Antics
Robert Connell
Police Commissioner 1913
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Things are quietening down in the office with the bulk of memberships now paid & up to date. Thank you for everyone’s patience while we got through it all. Revolutionise the new registration system is working well and is im-proving the admin and reporting.
Current fleet numbers are as follows. There are still some boats not fully financial this is mostly due to crews not being financial and these sailors are currently being followed up. Mudlarks are not included in the below list – due to majority being club boats. Since the last Spraytalk
PDSC welcomes the following new members:
• David Von Felten
• Matthew Clark-Massera
• Hayden Hunt
• Daniel Firns
• Matthew Goodwin
• Matt Midolo
• Olivia Cowan
• Ashley Cowan
• Ashton Harris
• Jane Kemsley
• William Bradley
• Scott Bradley
• Rebecca Pavey
• Graham Drabble
Please keep in mind if changing sail equipment or crew - please complete a change of equipment/crew form available in the office/sailing notice-board
If you have a non member sailing with you as a crew/skipper or the boat is visiting from another club - they must complete a visiting sailor registration form - available on the website, office and sailing notice-board.
Those who have boat storage at the club – please ensure you have your storage sticker on your boat which is included in your membership pack if you applied for boat shed storage. Also ensure the current season park-ing sticker is on your vehicle as we are actively monitoring parked vehi-cles on PDSC grounds.
Don’t forget if you have news for our website or boats for sale please send through details to me so I can include on our website. Chelsea Baker
From the Registrar's Desk What Makes PDSC so unique?
Our club is one of the only
yacht clubs in Perth that is op-
erated purely by volunteers.
Every aspect of the club from
the start crew, rescue boat
drivers, coaches, office staff
and those running the canteen
and the bar do so on a volun-
teer basis.
PDSC also has the reputation as
one of the most family orien-
tated, friendly and welcoming
yacht clubs in Perth and yet
capable of producing world-
class sailors.
There are many benefits to be-
ing a member of PDSC, which
are outlined in our member-
ship booklet.
We encourage all members to
help out with any aspect of
PDSC and continue to uphold
our reputation as one of the
best yacht clubs in Western
Australia.
Boat Class Number registered (full fi-nancial) as at 2/12/18
I14 12 (10)
Javelin 10 (9)
Signet 8 (7)
Heron 7 (6)
Cherub 5
29er 9 (5)
JD 1 (0)
Sabre 13
Open Bic 17
WASP/Moth 4 (3)
Total 86 (75)
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Opening Day 2018
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Opening Day - on the beach
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Perth Waters Regatta
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Volunteer at PDSC
The heart of our club are our volunteers.
PDSC is completely volunteer operated.
Without our volunteers, races would not
be sailed, results would not be recorded,
the club would not be cleaned or main-
tained, food and drinks would not be able
to be purchased, no administration would
be done or regatta management carried
out.
Please do not hesitate to come forward if
you would like to lend a hand and help to
run this great Club.
Merry Christmas from the Dinghy Club
Best wishes for a fabulous Christmas
and a Happy New Year from Flag
Officers and Management of
Perth Dinghy Sailing Club
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Thankyou to all our families who have taken part in the roster this season so far. Your help is greatly appreciated!
We have met many new faces this season which has been fantastic.
Remember if you are unable to attend your families shift please organise either another member or ask to swap with someone else.
We look forward to feeding the masses again after the Christmas break .
A reminder that once a month we
have a Crash The Canteen day,
where we will allocate the whole
day to a class. This is a day where
each class will provision, prepare
and sell anything of their choosing.
Maybe a hamburger day, or on a
cold day some pasta for lunch. Each
class will be expected to fill the ros-
ter for the day.
The remaining dates for each class
are:
1. 2nd February Javelins
2. 23rd February Bics/Mudlarks
3. 9th March Sabres
4. 6th April Cherubs/29ers
See you all at the club
AH
Talking Shop How can I help?
The season roster is sorted but we
can always do with an extra set of
hands—even if it is just to pour the
wine
If you would like to assist please
contact Luisa Mollan on
0406 155 061
or email:
We are happy to have anyone help
out in the canteen. It’s a great way
to get to know your fellow mem-
bers.
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Merry Christmas Everyone! - From Santa
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How to order this great gear?
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Cap $20.00
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Spraytalk
A day when Life Members and Legends are reacquainted. Legend's and sto-
ries form old are embellished whilst new legends are created as the day
progresses.
New Years Ever—31st December
A day for families and friends to relax by the Swan River and then enjoy a
BBQ and view the fireworks form one of the best river vantage points.
Australia Day — Saturday26th January
A massive night on the social calendar! All members and friends are invited
to party on down at the Dinghy Club. A celebration of the year that was and a
time to make resolutions for the year ahead.
Life Members & Legends Day— Saturday 16th February
Upcoming Events
Perth Dinghy Sailing Club Inc
Hackett drive
Cawley Perth
Western Australia
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60th Australian Heron Championships—28th Dec -4th Jan
The upcoming Heron National Championship Regatta will be hosted by our
club from 28 December 2018 to 4 January 2019. This will be the 60th National
Championship Regatta for the class. Members are urged to come down to the
club and check the action out.
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