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JULY/AUGUST 2013 JULY/AUGUST 2013
DOWNWIND Racing Association Newsletter Racing Association Newsletter Diary Dates
August Sat 17: Short‐handed Race 6 & Presentation Wed 21: CYCSA AGM
September Sun 1: Father’s Day Sun 22: CYCSA Safety Day
October
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
We’re about to wrap up our Winter Season so I’d like to thank all of you who supported the Winter and Short Handed Series this year. Congratulations to Greg Manuel and Trevor Conyers on their Winter Series Div 1 and 2 wins respectively. It’s been a stellar season for That’s Life as they also won the Port Line Cup this year. Well done all! Congratulations to our wonderful Duty Crew stalwart Ron Yeates. On application by REX, the CYCSA board has recently awarded Ron with an Honorary Membership in recognition of nearly three decades of continual volunteer service to our Racing Association and the CYCSA in general. Please congratulate Ron if you see him around the club. Thank you to those who attended the recent AGM, our program has been finalised and it will be online shortly. This coming season we will also offer a NON-SPINNAKER division in our Coaster Series which may hopefully encourage a few cruising boats to join us out on the water. Research is proving beyond doubt that people want to race, but race socially (hence the popularity of twilight racing) so we think that a Non-Spinnaker division for our non-windward/leeward racing could prove to be popular. If you know anyone who may be interested please encourage them to nominate.
Mon 7: Labour Day By now many of you would have heard about the AMS measurement system. Public holiday Wed 9: Skipper’s and Crew Debriefing Sat 12: Race 1 Summer Series Sat 26: CYCYSA Opening Day
William has an article in this newsletter which will explain a little more about it. We do have boats already which are measured for AMS and REX will be able to produce results for those boats. Our hope is that, after monitoring it for this season, we should have enough boats to include AMS series results in the future. On a final note, Yachting Australia have nominated Sunday October 27 as their National Discover Sailing Day. The timing is unfortunate as it is the day following our own Opening Day but we do believe that it would be wonderful to support this initiative. The format for this day is to take people for a short jaunt out of the marina, hoist a sail, cruise a short distance and return to dock. We would anticipate that a window of 2-3 hours would suffice. We would ask that any racing skippers who may be able to provide their boat (and skeleton crew) for a few hours on this day to contact Craig Evans or myself as soon as possible.
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