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Safety is our focus, safety related news articles are shown below.

Safety is embraced and encouraged before and during sailing events.  It is fundamental to our training, our racing and culture.

 

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Weather Course - June 25 & 26, 2011.

 

The one constant that's always changing - you NEED to know the weather! No matter whether you're an old sea dog or a newbie, the weather will treat you the same. The ORCV leads the way with training for all offshore racers and cruisers. The upcoming Weather Course is just one such example. The key educator will be the informative and entertaining Kenn Batt. Kenn grew up around yachts in Tasmania and has completed many significant ocean races. Kenn's name pops up at several yachting events around Australia and as a job he works for the BoM as a Senior Bureau Officer for the Tasmania/Antartic Region, based out of Hobart (so he knows his stuff and the area, too).

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There are three ways to get some of his expertise:
1. All About The Weather. This is the basic understanding of weather and it will run for one day on Saturday 25/6/11 at a cost of $85.00 for financial ORCV members and $100 for non-members and non-financial members.
2. Yet More Weather. This is all about advanced weather understanding, including long distance ocean racing and tropics. It too runs for one day on Sunday 26/6/11 at a cost of $85.00 for financial ORCV members and $100 for non-members and non-financial members.
3. From Becalmed to Force 12. The complete synoptic picture, it combines both the Basic and Advanced curriculum over both days at a cost of $150.00 for financial ORCV members and $180 for non-members and non-financial members.


Go HERE now to read the outline and more importantly, get the form!!!

 

 

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First Aid for June 5, 2011.

 

Applying First Aid with a Yachting Focus is on this Sunday, June 5. You can still be a part of it and either keep your spot in your crew or make yourself even more indispensable, as a result!

The thing is, there's not too many times when it all goes a little sideways and you don't need some urgent help. Fingers, abdominal issues, eyes, concussion and split skin seem to be perennial favourites. Wouldn't you like to be in a position to help? I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time sailing with doctors and nurses around, so fortunately, I cannot speak from direct knowledge on this one, but I would think having more than one great first-aider in the crew would be very cool, indeed. (Cat2 requires one soul per crew to be qualified. Cat1 is two. (- and one one was a horse, Basil Brush.)

So here's the deal. There are a couple of spots still available for both the CPR annual update and also the entire course. It costs $190 or 220 per person, depending on your status with the ORCV and the update is just $80 or $90.

 

Go HERE now to read the outline and more importantly, get the form!!!


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You know, the more I think about it, the more I realise how lucky I was to be blessed with such great fellow crewmembers!!! (And many thanks to you, my friends). Anyway, do it for yourself, your friends and your family.

 

 

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New Tassie Weather.

 

No. The Apple Isle has not upped anchor and gone to the top of Cape York. The BoM has very kindly sent out a bulletin relating to the new forecasting sysytem they have deployed and it has some cool things about waves and the like. So whilst no on would really want to be heading there right now, in just a few months we are going back, yet again, so this may prove to be beneficial...

The Tasmanian arm of the Bureau advises, "There are major changes to marine forecast and warnings that will occur in the last few days of June." So don't say you were not told.

Inside the document listed below, you'll get to see what all this means.

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And this...


Go HERE to get the latest information from the BoM in Tassie.


Right Oh. Winter Series coming up, but before that, there's the First Aid Course on June 5 and in between the two is the Australian Women's Keelboat Regatta at the Squadron from June 11 to 13.

 

Racing, racing, racing...


 

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Class Photo.

 

The class photo was always a big deal, but not for us here with the SSSC Class of May. We've got more than a few of them.

It was time to get wet on Sunday, so here are the pics associated with that. If you can see your face and we've not named you, send us line and we'll fix it up straight away...

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Gloria Estefan - as in, Conga!

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The half time huddle (not) - seriously, this procedure could really keep you ready for the last two quarters!

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LRB - Hang on...

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Help is on the way.

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Once you've been helped in, it's your turn to go and right it! WooooHoooooo. Ian Lindsay from Team BO tells us that it's "Sparksy, Tony Sparks, who appears to have decided to have a little snooze at the side of the pool."

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Right. Show 'em what you got!

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Give it plenty, lad!!! Ian Lindsay also thinks this may be Sparksy as well...

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Before the pool, there was some more instruction, so say hello, yes WAVE, to Vice Commodore, Simon Dryden, as he takes one of the classes through the section on waves.

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Me thinkey John Weatherley is over the other side, second on the right. BP player that one - Quiet Achiever... racked up quite a few miles that fellow.


Right Oh. Winter Series coming up, but before that, there's the First Aid Course on June 5 and in between the two is the Australian Women's Keelboat Regatta at the Squadron from June 11 to 13.

 

Snap, snap, snap.


 

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Waterborne.

 

Not some nasty virus or the USN Seals about to land on your doorstep...

It's just that the SSSC class of May had the pool today, Sunday and by the looks of it, what a lovely day it was too!

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Well done to all particpants. May you have all your new skills foremost in your mind whenever you're sailing and never be required to use some of them.

Right Oh. Winter Series coming up, but before that, there's the First Aid Course on June 5 and in between the two is the Australian Women's Keelboat Regatta at the Squadron from June 11 to 13.

 

Get into it - we are.


 

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