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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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“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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𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐲𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐲 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐫 𝐎𝐟 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬

Written by Stephen Brook

 

Sofiane Karim, is an 18-year-old French sailor, a sailing coach, and when it comes to describing his love of the sport, a poet.

 

“You play with the elements,” he says of sailing Laser Radials. “You play with the water, you play with the wind, play with the current, with the clouds everything,” he says.

 

“And you also have to take care of the boat and you have to take care of yourself.

 

“You learn a lot by sailing, that is why it is my favourite sport.”

 

Sofiane is in Australia on a gap year, coaching at Woollahra Sailing Club and here to “learn English” even though he can speak it perfectly.

 

Home is Antibes (“Have you visited? You must”), between Cannes and Nice on the French Riviera, where the winds are lighter than Sydney Harbour and the water often choppier.

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Written by Stephen Brook
Most of the time, Brin Liddell and Rhiannan Brown are on the same page.
The two 17 years olds, competing in the Sail Sydney Nacra 15 class, have an easy familiarity with each other that comes from crewing together for two seasons and being friends since they were eight.
And sometimes they even finish each other’s sentences.
For both, passionate parents were their entrée into the sport: Rhinnan’s mum first showed her the ropes when she was just five, Brin’s dad campaigned in Tornadoes at the Barcelona Olympics, while his mum crewed on the tall ship Young Endeavour on its world voyage when she was aged 18.
The pair hope to sail all the way to the Youth World Championships in Brazil next December, and the youth spot will be decided early next year.
Brin steers, while Rhiannan crews. Asked how that was determined, Rhiannan replies succinctly, “He was already in it.”
And

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Legends of Woollahra Sailing Club – Brett Beyer
By Yves Stening
In November this year, Brett Beyer was honoured by the NSW/ACT Laser Association with Lifetime Membership.  Usually this kind of award comes to an athlete at the end of a distinguished career, a mark of respect for a once great contributor.  However, while Brett’s contribution has indeed been great, he receives this award while still at the top of his game, both as an athlete and coach.  
In the last 18 months alone, he has achieved the following:
Sailing 
Laser Masters World Championships, Dublin – 1st
Laser Masters World Championships, Netherlands – 2nd 
Australian Laser Masters Championships- 1st 
NSW Laser Masters Championships – 1st 
South Pacific Laser Masters Championships – 1st 
Coaching
Currently coaching WSC’s Sylvie Stannage – Laser Radial, for path to Paris, 2024
Regularly coaching DBSC fleet programs 
Private Coaching 
His past achievements are extraordinary, by any standards.

Won 13 Laser Master’s World Championships, and Podium places in 4 others
Olympic Laser Coach

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Please be advised the 61th Annual General meeting for Woollahra Sailing Club will be held at 7pm on Thursday August 29th 2019 at the Function Room at Woollahra Sailing Club, 2 Vickery Ave, Rose Bay
Details of the AGM and election of directors are available on the Club’s website at: https://www.woollahrasailingclub.org.au/the-club/reports/agm-2019/
These documents include:

Agenda for the AGM – including the motions received.
Proxy vote form for the AGM.
2019 Financial Report.
Minutes of the 2018 AGM.
Further details as provided on the nominations for Director.

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Election
With the closure of the nomination process for Directors, I can advise we have received four (4) nominations for Director of WSC. They are (alphabetically):

Irene Ellis
Warren Sare
Jeremy Spear
Diane Vukelic

As per the WSC constitution, 13.6 Transition (a) The terms of Elected Directors are to be staggered so that the term of two Elected Directors, as determined by a majority vote of the

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Dear Members,
Here’s the weekly roundup from your club
Xmas in July/Summer series prize giving
Sun 28 Jul 2019 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Come and join fellow members and friends this July at Woollahra Sailing Club for ‘Christmas in July’. A festive event including a winter feast, some Christmas tunes, and a presentation for the Summer Series of Sailing. This is also an opportunity to see the progress being made to the new ramp which will be nearing completion by then.
Price: $10 per adult, $5 per child. Book here:
Xmas in July/Summer series prize giving

AGM 2019
The Board of Woollahra Sailing Club advise the Annual General Meeting for 2019 will be held at 7pm on Thursday August 29th 2019 at the Function Room at Woollahra Sailing Club, 2 Vickery Ave, Rose Bay.
Details of the AGM and election of directors are available on the Club’s website at: https://www.woollahrasailingclub.org.au/the-club/reports/agm-2019/
Term 3 Learn to Sail &

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The Board of Woollahra Sailing Club advise the Annual General Meeting for 2019 will be held at 7pm on Thursday August 29th 2019 at the Function Room at Woollahra Sailing Club, 2 Vickery Ave, Rose Bay .
Details of the AGM and election of directors are available on the Club’s website at: https://www.woollahrasailingclub.org.au/the-club/reports/agm-2019/
These documents include:
1. Election Notice
2. Nomination Form
3. Notice of Motion Form.
Members will receive financial statements, notice of motions, nominations and proxy forms on August 8th 2019. If you have any questions regarding the AGM or nominations, please do not hesitate to contact the office at elections@woollahrasailingclub.org.au
Please note: In order to participate in the election of directors or the AGM you must be a current fully paid up financial Ordinary Member of the Club. Ordinary Members are Sailing Members (including honorary Sailing Members) and Life Members.

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Dear Members,
Here’s the weekly roundup from your club.
2019 NSW & ACT Sailing Awards Finalists Released
With a record year of nominations across all categories, Australian Sailing announced last Saturday at the CYCA, the winners of the 2019 New South Wales & ACT Sailing Awards
Congratulations to our special members Gaye Rosen and Martin Gill for winning the prestigious “Volunteers of the year award”.
Woollahra Sailing Club would not be the same without your incredible support and beautiful smiles.
WSC Holiday Camps #SheSails
The July holiday camps are run by our incredible instructors, all local ladies who shaped every attendee with their amazing skills.
SheSails is an Australian Sailing campaign designed to recognise all of the amazing female contributors to our sport, and to encourage women  to enjoy sailing through organised activities at your local sailing club.  SheSails aims to:

Promote and celebrate female participation in the sport of sailing
Provide new and existing female sailors with the opportunity to enjoy activities at their local sailing club with like-minded people
Provide clubs with

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Dear Members,
Here’s the weekly roundup from your club 
Youth Sailing World Championships – Poland 2019 
Congratulations to our member Will Cooley and Bec Hancock (RSYS) for becoming the 2019 World Champions – Nacra 15. Will and Bec delivered an outstanding performance winning the title with one day to spare at the Youth Sailing World Championships in Gdynia.
Good luck to Ryan Littlechild, Jack Ferguson and all Australian sailors for their last day of racing.
More details regarding the world Championships can be found here: https://bit.ly/2xSPYrT
2019 Optimist World Championships – Antigua
Continuing in a well-established tradition of WSC Optimist sailors competing internationally.
Well done to WSC member Ethan Lozevski for his 89th place out of 255 competitors.
More details regarding the world Championships can be found here:
http://2019worlds.optiworld.org/en/default/races/race
Xmas in July/Summer series prize giving
Sun 28 Jul 2019  1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Come and join fellow members and friends this July at Woollahra Sailing Club for ‘Christmas in July’. A festive event including a winter feast, some Christmas tunes, and

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