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News from Geoff Bonus July 2010

Hi All NSW Sydney 38 Owners

 First of all best of luck and fair sailing to Swish, Eleni, The Goat, J Steel and Zen for the Sydney Gold Coast yacht race starting tomorrow. The forecast and routing shows that this could be a small boat yacht race so do not be suprised if you see a 38 on the podium, as per the 2009 Hobart race. Staying ahead of the Archie 31 with the Tow Truck boys on board may be the big challenge.

 Some important dates...

 AGM Septemeber 15 at RSYS. An agenda and resolutions for voting will be out early next month. Get there if you can and if you cannot please be sure and provide your proxy as we will be voting on sails, crew weight, mastheads etc.

 NSW STATE TITLES 2010

Will be hald at RSYS Fri 29/Sat 30/Sun 31 October. Separate emails will begin late August regardinmg this event but we would like to get an idea of entries asap to assist with planning for the regatta. Let's make this another fabulous event. There will be free berthing in the pond from RSYS, beers and a BBQ on the dock on after racing Friday and lots more. PLease get organised and put this in youir sailing calendar.

 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011

Will be held at Geelong Race Week. Think 18-22 knots of SW and dead flat water every afternoon and you will get the picture. The Vics are arranging this event, the 38 Nationals are the main attraction and they have boats coming from SA and TAS to attend. Early indications are 13 entries PLUS any NSW boats attending.

 IF YOU ARE A POSSIBLE/PROBABLE FOR THIS EVENT PLEASE LET ME KNOW BY RETURN EMAIL ASAP SO I CAN LET THE ORGANISERS PLAN FOR THE EVENT.

This season the focus will be on a smaller number of bigger and better attended One Design events. and a draft calendar will be available early August.

 Cheers all

Geoff Bonus

Now this is more like it! Winter Series Race 12    
Fri, 4 Jul 2008

'Playtime for the Dolphins - Audi Winter Series 2008'    Brooke Paton

Audi Winter Series 2008 Race 12 - Sydney 38 Divisional Report

Now this is more like it!

We all know any day is always a good day on the harbour, even without constant breeze, when the sun is out and even more especially when the dolphins are out to play as well.

Oops… It’s happened again! And I thought sail makers had followed the ‘KISS’ principle in making a spinnaker, being that the ‘Head’ connects to the ‘Halyard’, but obviously not simple enough for some. This time it was Contentious Issues Bowman that got it wrong. (Sorry Geoff and John, I couldn’t resist.)

And it has been proven on board ICOM Utopia this week that woman do have more patience… than men!

Congratulations to 'Messo' and the crew on their first win of the Audi Winter Series 2008. That looks like some good spinnaker timing Mel. Not only did they finish first on scratch nearly two minutes ahead of Ichi Bandit, but first on handicap as well.

Overall Provisional Results after race 12 for the Sydney 38 division are first Alan and Tom Quick’s Outlaw, second Clayton/Foye/Gordon/Peckman’s The Goat and third Peter ‘Messo’ Messenger ICOM Utopia.

With only one point separating the top four boats it is still very close racing.

by Brooke Paton

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2011 Nationals Geelong