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September Update

Published 11:00 on 31 Aug 2023

Your Club needs you !

Sunday 10 September is "Clean Up Your Club" Day (well for an hour or so) We are hosting a busy bee to tidy up our club. We would love as many hands as possible to help us with some painting and patching, cleaning and tidying to get our Club ready for the summer ahead. Please spare some time on Sun 10 September from 10am - 12pm. Please come and join us. Donate 30 minutes to 2 hours of your time. We aim to make it fun and purposeful!

We also have our "Discover Sailing Day" on Saturday 7 October with over 200 registered visitors set to attend our club. We would love the help and support of our members, from helping clear the yard on the day, to coming down on the day and rigging up your vessel. Bring your family down and take them sailing - there are many ways you can be involved at this event. We help train our volunteers. There are plenty of opportunities for our members to upskill and complete first aid training, powerboat licence courses, learn mark laying and more. Our calendar shows our next available training days. Come and join us

WSC is excited to host our WSC She Sails 2023, in conjunction with NSW IODA OptiChicks. This event is open to all sailors keeping a strong focus on keeping girls and women involved in sailing.

Sign up for our She Sails/Opti Chicks event on 23 and 24 September. Supporting women in the sport of sailing, this weekend will have guest speakers, opportunities to meet other female sailors, opportunities to take your friends and family members sailing, try out another vessel and more.

If you would like to attend or be involved - reach out to us at [email protected]

A gym at the club !

Locals Gym is located on level 2 of the club. This is where you will find owner Liam and head coach Mitch. Liam has generously offered our members 20% discount. Member pricing is set out below: Open gym $24 per week (access to the gym unsupervised outside of group class times) 3 x group classes $47.99 per week Unlimited group classes $63.99 Personal training session $89.99 Come and speak to Liam or Mitch to find out more. 0414 473417, [email protected] No joining fees or minimum period for any membership, can cancel anytime with 2 weeks notice. All group classes and personal training sessions last for 45 minutes. Group class timetable: Monday-Friday: 5am 6am 6:45am 12pm 5:30pm 6:15pm Saturday: 7am 7:45am 8:30am

Sail Sydney

Sail Sydney 2023 is on 9-15 December for Olympic Classes and 14 - 17 December 2023 for Invited Classes and 16-18 December for Optimists. Racing will be on the harbour and also at Botany Bay. We are expecting the Notice of Race and Sailing instructions to be released in the next week or so.

Sail Sydney website

Proposed event schedule

Sail Sydney website

420 World Championships in Alacente Spain

WSC was represented by 3 boats - in the Womens fleet, Hanako Tomishima / Grace Morrow; and in the U17 Fleet, Martin Leibhold / Elia Sellers and Goro Tomishima / Luca Alexander. With 277 boats from 20 countries, split across 3 fleets (Open, Womens, U17), it was a huge learning experience for all the teams - from the scale of competition, to dealing with the unusual sailing conditions of that part of the Mediterranean, to coping in the European heat wave. WSC proudly hosting the NSW 420 State titles 23/24 September.

Half of the car park (behind the tennis courts) will be closed for the Red Cross Clothing Drive Thursday 14 September through to Sunday 17 September.

Holiday bookings now OPEN!!

Tackers, Teens and Adult programs running all year. We look forward to the days getting longer and warmer, and an action-packed time ahead!

Bookings here

Holiday camp registration

Summer/Spring Series

Our Summer Racing Series begins on the second weekend in September with the Moths and Waszp racing Saturday 9 September with warning signal at 3pm and General Fleet racing Sunday 10 September at 1.30pm. Special mention to the series sponsors supplying race day prizes to competitors for division placings. Welcoming 'Off the Beach' dinghy classes to join us at Woollahra Sailing Club this Spring & Summer. Dates 9 September 2023 - 7 April 2024. Optimist Spring & Summer series (Sunday with dates TBC) More information and series documents can be found at this link Remember club racing is free to members and we would love to see as many of you take part as possible. This season runs every weekend from 9 September till 3 December.

Spring Series registrations

Spring Series details