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The last regatta in the Northvaal Grand Prix series finally got underway last saturday. The wind played ball and some excellent racing was had. Gareth Baxter dominated the regatta winning all 7 races. 4 Races were completed on the Saturday.Matthew Bennett, Mr consistent, held in there to produce a fine second but not without serious challenges from the Hadley brothers. Warren Hadley in paticular showed that the older sailors had better keep an eye on him often challenging for first spot.Gillian Meintjies was not on form after a long layoff but I know that she will be back. Angie had the misfortune of breaking a toestrap which kept her out of some of the races.

The Grobler brothers competed 2 up, the way the Dabchick was designed. I am sure with a little more experience and coaching these guys are going to take off. The wind was a little strong for Bianca on Saturday but she came out on the Sunday to sail 2 races.

Sunday was cold but the wind held to allow a further 3 races to be sailed.

It was a pity that the postponement from the previous weekend did impact on the numbers, but having said that ,those who took part had a great end of season sail.

The Picture gallery has been updated.

Date Saturday, 9th June 2007

Venue Victoria Lake Club, Germiston

Time 6pm – please be on time, we have a full program,

Soon after Sailing of King of Clubs Regatta

Dress Casual

Cost R60.00 per person, children under 10yrs, R40.00

RSVP By the latest Friday, 1st June 2007.

Jeanette 011 452-3991 evenings

Colleen 011 902-3779 evenings

Deposits or full payments can be made at the Winter Challenge & GP6 on the weekend of 19/20 May 2007 at VLC

Menu

Roast Chicken & Roast beef, roast potatoes, new potatoes ,

Rice, Gravy & veggies

Ice-cream and chocolate sauce

Tea & Coffee

Program includes, Winter Challenge Prize Giving, GP Series Prize Giving for Optimist and Dabchick’s,

Shosholoza and Mirror Worlds Presentations, NOA Awards.

Dabbie Jib and Main Draw…..you have to be there to win!!

Only one race was started on saturday which was eventually abandoned when the wind died completely. The start saw Gareth and Warren going right and picking up the wind first . Tim Gibbons worked his way up the fleet passing Warren into 2nd but was still quite away from Gareth when the plug was pulled, just as Gareth drifted towards the Leeward mark.A good decision by the Race officer.

On Sunday the wind appeared much to late to allow enough time for the requisite number of races to be held. By concensus it was decided at a skippers meeting to postpone  until next weekend.Many skippers have a lot riding on their result in this regatta results and need to participate to secure final GP placings.

Lets go and support the regatta with the same numbers that turned up this weekend

Regards

Owen 

A quick note to let everyone know of the existence of the new site gallery - available now at www.dabchick.za.net/gallery. Email us any and all photos to add…

Also just to note that the reason that the images are so big when you view them is because I thought that most would prefer larger images - I’ll work on some system for making them smaller soonish, but the point is they are there and everything is still usable.

I received the following Mail from Mark Dingley in Australia.I have sent him some more pictures and I hope to send a set of 2nd sails soon.

Cor was kind enough to e-mail me a copy of a set of plans originally drawn in 1956 which I have started transferring the information into CAD format which I can then transfer to our Computer operated overhead router giving me precise accuracy with all the components. Once this is done I will make a couple for our yacht club as it has a great little sailing school and will be a great springboard into the Australian market…well heres hoping. More than that I keep looking for pictures for design ideas, rigging etc.

As far as up to date technology is concerned I will be drawing on your expertise. I understand there are fibreglass boats in production in SA. Are there any other advances in the class….remembering it was over 20 years ago I was racing Dabchicks.

Thank you

Mark Dingley

PS: If you have an old set of Sails I would pay to have them shipped out here. I have a couple of close friends in the sail making industry, I could get to create a pattern for AUS 001

VLC CLUB

P.O. Box 77 Germiston 1400
Telephone (011)825-3530/873-9300

Victoria Lake Club Winter Challenge Including the Optimist and Dabchick GP 6

NOTICE OF REGATTA

DATES
Saturday 12th May & Sunday 13th May 2007.

VENUE
Victoria Lake Club - Germiston.

CLASSES

Open to all optimist and Dabchick dinghy’s, 5 boats constitute a class

RULES
All races will be sailed under the 2005/2008 Racing Rules of the ISAF. The SAS prescriptions to the Rules and applicable class rules. The Regatta is open to all recognised SAS Clubs and Associations, as well as a member in good standing of the respective class

SCORING

Low point scoring will be used, 1st discard after 4 races, 2nd discard after 8 races

ENTRIES

Entry Fees: R60.00
Entries will be accepted up to 30 minutes before the start of racing on each day

SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

Sailing instructions will be available on the window at registration.

SCHEDULE OF RACES

The first race will not start before 1pm on Saturday, 12th May 2007 and the last race shall not start after 1pm on Sunday, 13th May 2007

LIFE JACKETS

Life Jackets are obligatory for all participants

PRIZE GIVING

Prize giving will be held at the Junior Dinner, at Victoria Lake Club on Friday, 1th June 2007

Catering is available at the club; Victoria Lake Club has a licquor license, therefore, no Alcohol, may be brought onto the property.

The final event in the series takes place at VLC on the 12th and 13th of May. The final positions could well change as the points difference between some sailors is not that big.

This is the Last Dabchick event of the season so lets all turn out in force.

See you there.

Owen

I have updated the National Rankings, but as only one provincial has been sailed, they only reflect the postions after Western Cape. The next 3 Provincials all happen around September this year,so watch this spot.

Please mail me with any corrections etc

Owen

(1 x best 2 Provincials + 3 x Nationals)

Sailed: 1 Discards: 0

Rank Sail No Helm Western Cape Eastern Cape NorthVaal KZN Natal NATIONALS Nett
April 2006 September 2006 September 2006 October 2006 December 2006
1 3414 Ross Dyer 1.0 1.0
2 3389 Andrew Hill 2.0 2.0
3 3422 James Stock 3.0 3.0
4 3357 Danielle Jarvis 4.0 4.0
5 3417 J J Liddiard 5.0 5.0
6 3381 David Eastman 6.0 6.0
7 3413 Alex Mc Clarty 7.0 7.0
8 3344 Daniel Moreau 8.0 8.0
9 3392 Geoffrey Kilpin 9.0 9.0
10 13 Brent Trolllip 10.0 10.0
11 3400 Thomas V d Ploeg 11.0 11.0
12 3351 Karen McClarty 12.0 12.0
13 3425 Christian Bischoff 13.0 13.0
14 3361 James Mc Wha 14.0 14.0
15 3388 Lars Esdar 15.0 15.0
16 3382 Nick Bush DNC 16.0
16 3426 Leo Davis DNC 16.0
16 3409 Chris Gough DNC 16.0
16 3418 Vicky Stock DNC 16.0
16 3368 James Ballantyne DNC 16.0
16 3412 Thomas Nortier DNC 16.0
16 3362 Kate James DNC 16.0
16 3387 Ashleigh Crosland DNC 16.0
16 3252 Robert Louw DNC 16.0
16 3343 Theo Yon DNC 16.0
16 1077 Ryan Hadley DNC 16.0
16 3322 Warren Hadley DNC 16.0
16 3330 Rudi Mc Neill DNC 16.0
16 3365 Sean Van Rensburg DNC 16.0
16 13316 Emma Walker DNC 16.0
16 3316 Claire Walker DNC 16.0
16 3173 Brendon Burgess DNC 16.0
16 3366 Scott Quarmby DNC 16.0
16 3358 Alicja Grzesiak DNC 16.0
16 3300 Zac Liell-Cock DNC 16.0
16 2974 Meryl Louw DNC 16.0
16 3378 Raymond Monk DNC 16.0
16 3370 Chris Kets DNC 16.0
16 330 Alexandra Utermark DNC 16.0
16 3380 Jessica Hogg DNC 16.0
16 3333 Tim Gibbons DNC 16.0
16 3410 Gareth Baxter DNC 16.0
16 3335 Matthew Bennett DNC 16.0
16 356 Tim Forson DNC 16.0
16 3377 Gillian Meintjies DNC 16.0
16 3227 Angela Fraser DNC 16.0

Ranking is scored on best two Provincials x 1 and Nationals x 3. Nationals is not discardable. A DNC for Provincials is scored for the largest provincial (WC) =15pts.