The weekend of January 11th and 12th featured the Despy Medal and Tarwin River Marathon races. The Despy Medal is aimed at levelling competition through personal handicaps, ultimately favoring slower sailors. The Tarwin River Marathon faced a thunderstorm, causing challenges, yet all participants returned safe. Awards were given across divisions.
I will get around to posting a summary of our regatta from last weekend soon, but I thought it would be good to share with you some of the articles and comments others have posted already. The Southern Wooden Boat Sailing website is a great weekly read edited by Mark…
Last Saturday saw the culmination of the 22/23 season with accolades awarded to honoured club members at our annual Presentation Night. Around 40 members enjoyed socialising over drinks and a BBQ dinner (thanks for salads and deserts to Susan and her merry band of helpers), so much so that proceedings…
SGYC played host to 16 Scouts and 6 leaders from Narre Warren last weekend, introducing them to our beautiful inlet and the deceptive currents we all know so well! The group split into two, with one half kayaking and the other sailing in the morning and then swapping for the…
Conditions couldn’t have been much different for sailing over the weekend of 8th and 9th January. Saturday saw the third running of the Derek Despy Medal Race Series with consistent moderate south westerly winds of 10-14 knots on a low to rising tide. Rob McNair as OD set a triangular…