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Congratulations to the Maroochy Youth Sailors who represented at the 2025 Musto Optimist Championships from January 10-16. The event was held at Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron in Manly, QLD.
Special mention to Huon Jones for being awarded 3rd male in Green Fleet.
QLD was well represented with the group of youth sailors sailing in Green and Open Fleets.
Well done everyone on a great week!
Our signature Event - the Maroochy Head of the River - is scheduled for Sunday 16 March this year.
This unique race, explores the various reaches of the Maroochy, from the sandbanks near the Maroochy River mouth, under the Sunshine Coast Motorway Bridge, and upstream towards the Bli Bli Bridge. It’s long, but challenging and interesting!
Make a note of the date - and we’d love to see you join our fleet on the day!
More details shortly.
As we start our Summer Season of Sailing, we welcome Memberships from interested sailors.
Membership Fees for just the Summer Season ending June 30, 2025 are discounted by 50%. Further details and registration details are on our Membership web page.
Temporary Memberships (Sail Pass) are available free of cost for three sails - again details are on the Membership page. They are great way to see if you enjoy our Sport! Come and talk to us at the Club!
Our Summer Sailing Season starts on Sunday 19 January with a Fun Race - a River Runners Event- usually a few short races round the marks to loosen the tight muscles after the Christmas Break and regain that magic touch on the tiller extension. Briefing at 12.45pm with racing to start at 1.30pm.
We take a break from from our Sailing Program over the Christmas -New Year period.
Club Sailing will resume on Sunday 19 January with a River Runners event.
But for many of our Members, the Christmas recess enables them to travel to other venues to test their skills against all-comers. In the Christmas period, some competing in the SAIL BRISBANE event at RQYS, Manly.
Then in mid-January, quite a few of our young Optimist Sailors head away to the Australian National Optimists Championships, held this year also at RQYS, Manly, joining a fleet numbering in hundreds - comprising both experienced sailors, and those relatively new to the sport.
But to all Members and Friends of Maroochy, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The amended version comes into effect on 1 January 2025 and will be current through to 31 December 2028.
Sailors participating in Racing should have a knowledge of the Rules so that they can compete fairly and safely on the water, both for themselves and their fellow competitors.
Usually the amended Rules are not radically changed, but rather minor amendments are made to improve clarity and address issues that have become apparent!
Such is the case this year, with quite a number of clarifications, and re-wording of definitions. Actual Rule Changes are relatively few.
PLEASE CHECK OUT AT LEAST THE CHANGE DOCUMENTS BEFORE OUR SAILING RE-COMMENCES IN MID-JANUARY.
Among our young Opti sailors excitement is building as they prepare for the National Championships, to be held this year at RQYS in Brisbane - almost our backyard!
They will face somewhat different sailing conditions at Manly than most are accustomed to on our Maroochy River courses..
To assist them to “acclimatise” to open water sailing, and develop a different skill set, last Sunday (23 November), they raced in Mooloolaba Bay after launching directly off the beach. Thanks to their Support group who set the race course and arranged on-water Official Boats for the youngsters. It was a very successful and enjoyable afternoon!
Hopefully there will be at least one more sailing session off Mooloolaba before they head to the Championships to test their skills against hundreds of other Optimists from around Australia in multiple divisions in mid-January!
Recently there has been some discussion about the early days of the Maroochy Sailing Club on Chambers Island. An video made from 8mm film originally shot by George Coulson in the 1960’s has been re-edited by David Thompson and posted to Youtube for all to easily enjoy!
While we all enjoy our Sailing in a variety of events on Sunday afternoons, we would not be able to run the afternoon program without the assistance of Race Officials and Volunteers who provide on-water Direction and Support to the Sailing Fleet, especially the younger sailors just starting their Sailing Journey.
All Adult Racing Members are expected to act as an Official a few times a year to run the afternoon program - essentially Starting and Finishing the Races from the Committee Boat. As Average Points are awarded for this task, no sailor is disadvantage when calculating Series Results at season end!
To provide some certainty, please nominate your preferred “Duty Day(s)” on the following Google Spreadsheet for the 2024 Spring Season — DUTY ROSTER
The Notice of Race (NOR) and Sailing Instructions (SI)
for our 2024 -25 Sailing Season are now available.
Copies are posted on Our Documents page.
While we sail under the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) prescribed by World Sailing and Australian Sailing, the NOR and Sailing Instructions define our local Club rules and requirements. Racing sailors need to have a knowledge of our local rules!
Maroochy Sailing Club accepts Fair Play Vouchers as payment for both Membership and Course Fees.
If you have children who have a Fair Play Voucher, please contact us for advice as to how you can best utilise this Voucher to participate in our Club Program or Training!
For further information contact Registration Officer, Peter
FAIR PLAY VOUCHERS WELCOME
MSC has some storage facilities for active Club sailors. Usually there are very limited vacancies!
The Club’s Boat Storage Policy (link) has just been updated for the 2024 -25 season.
Members with a boat stored at the Club should check and comply with the updated policy!
Persons wishing to join the Club and store their boats on-site must apply for and receive storage approval before any payments are made or boats moved into storage!
