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Tasar – NSW state championships – post

Description
The Tasar Association of New South Wales Incorporated in conjunction with Woollahra Sailing Club, as the Organising Authority, invite you and your crew to the 43rd NSW Tasar Championships from Saturday 22nd February to Sunday 23rd February 2020.

Eligibility and Entry
Entries will only be accepted for Tasar Class yachts, whose skipper and crew are both members of an Australian Sailing affiliated club and one of whom is a financial member of a Tasar Association which is affiliated with the World Tasar Council.

To join your local Tasar Association, please open  www.tasar.org , then browse to the Regions menu. Within this section you will find details of membership and your regional Tasar committee contact details.

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Club News – December 20 2019

Happy 2020 from Woollahra Sailing Club 
We had a wonderful year at WSC and we would like to thank all our members for making it special.
From January to December we held local, national and international events targeting a wide variety of ages, skills and backgrounds.
Our beautiful club will be closed from December 20th to January 6th. New Years Eve – Please be aware that the access to the Club, pontoon and wharf will be restricted from 3pm, 31st Dec to 6am, 1st Jan. This is to ensure all boats, equipment and people remain safe.
We would like wish good luck to all members competing in various competitions over the ChristmasNew Year period. We look forward to following their progress online.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Woollahra  Sailing Club.
Tom Slingsby wins World Moth Championships 
Woollahra Sailing Club member, Tom Slingsby, finished his year in the best possible way, winning the 2019 World Moth

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Club News – January 10 2019

We are back!
We hope you had a great holiday season and Woollahra Sailing Club is looking forward to have an incredible 2020 with all of you.
The Summer Series will start again on Saturday, January 18th, for another season full of adrenaline and races.
Summer Series
Saturday January 18th
Moth/Waszp: 3pm start
Sunday January 19th General Fleet
General Fleet: 1.30pm start
We would like to remind everyone to register for club racing online,  if you have not already registered for the Spring and Summer series it is just click on the following link: Online entry If you don’t enter we may not be able to record your details in the results.
For youth programmes and adult fleets see full details on the Club website.
For information about the Volunteer roster see Summer Series on the Club website.
For Optimist fleets see the Optimist Summer Series page.
Splash Sydney Harbour!
Celebrate Australia Day the right way with a splash in the world’s best harbour. Back

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Twins in a 29er!

Twins and teammates Lilly and Matilda Richardson, from Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula are twins are trying new things and mixing it up.

“We just got into the 29er,” says Lilly, the eldest (by about ten minutes).
The have been sailing the boat for two months and recognise it is a difficult class to get skilled at. Particularly as next year is the final year of high school. Lilly wants to study medicine, Matilda psychology.
We all get the deal with twins, right? The look the same, have similar personalities, hobbies and passions. Right?
Wrong. “We started (sailing) at the same time but I hated it,” Lily explains. So she boycotted it. “Dad kept shoving me back in my Opti until … I wasn’t so scared.
“I think I got a little bit jealous of Tilda sailing and I wasn’t there.”
Their father no longer sails. “He just likes to come out and watch us.”
Which leads to the

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𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐲𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐲

“Pint sized windsurfer has never ‘sailed’!”
By Stephen Brook
Friendly and welcoming, just like her community, RSX windsurfer Courtney Schoutrop, 20, knows she is in a minority at Sail Sydney.

But that doesn’t bother her at all.
“They are all pretty friendly, the sailors that I interact with, but we all tend to stick to our discipline,” says the Queenslander, who trains at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron in Brisbane.
“At my club we are down the other end, really segregated from the boats, but when we see them we say hi.”
She has not been tempted to try sailing – except once.
“I got in a Laser once and capsized. That’s my boat experience.”
“Windsurfing is hard, it can be mentally challenging, physically hard at times too.”
Managing the pain can be the toughest challenge as the sport can be intensely physical, particularly in light winds, when the board needs to be “pumped” to increase speed. Courtney holds

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