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LAST UPDATED 16 th Oct 2008

The NS14 Coaching Day has been moved to CNLSC on Dec 6 th 2008 and
combined with the Sprint Series on the same day.
The scheduled Open and Pacer championship race will be held at normal DS time.

FORMAT
9.00 AM Start.
Theory session by Michael Nash
11.00 AM first Sprint Series rounds.
Midday lunch-
1.00 PM Second Sprint Series rounds.
3.00 PM Open and Pacer Champ race - all welcome to participate - split start timing.
OP start 5 mins ahead of rest of fleet.

Summer Point Score - Top Skipper - David Cox
Summer point Score - Top Crew - Annette Wright
Winter Point Score - Top Skipper - Russell Moore
Winter Point Score - Top Crew - Annette Wright
NS 14 Series - No mad - Peter Spicer and Cathy Cox
Pacer Series - David Humble
Single Hander Series - Pie n peas - Graham Cook
Summer Series Yardstick - Hypernuts
Liverpool Cup - TCF - No mad
Liverpool Cup - Yardstick - No mad
Commodores Award - Adam Tricky
Appreciation Award - Lynne Williams

A draft of the 2008/2009 racing calendar is available on the calendar page.

The ADMIN page has a Duty Roster posted for the 2008/2009 season.
Please check the Notice Board and study the roster.

On the grassy slopes of Grand Flanuer Beach at Chipping Norton Lake,skippers and crews prepare their NS14's for racing.
The MT is a Metropolitan Trophy, for which NS14's race at selected yacht clubs around the Sydney area throughout the year,this was our turn.
The current National Champion,'Tigger Too' skippered by Hugh tait from the Northbridge Yacht Club,showed his winning skills with a runaway win in squally shifting winds on our fantastic lake.
2 nd and 3 rd places were filled by our own 'Nomad' (Peter Spicer) and 'Rainbow Spirit' (Russell Moore).

After 2 years in the build and many weeks waiting for the right light winds for her first sail plus some frustrating gear failures during sets up on the bank,Stan Allen's R/C model of the 2004 Sydney to Hobart winning Nicorette finally gets out on the water.
There's more info on her in the 'Twinbeach Modellers' pages under projects/Au,but basically,she's 2 metres long with 11 remote functions including a fully automatic functioning canting keel.

Now that she has successfully passed her first sailing test,the web pages will be further added to with more info on her details and how she was built.

Congratulations to skipper David Cox and daughter Pip (crew) for their excellent 4 th place on handicap aboard Rhapsody.
Of the 6 CNLSC Ns14 teams that competed in the NSW NS14 State Champs at Toronto,Lake Macquarie over the 2007 Easter long weekend,Rhapsody was the only member yacht to finish all 6 races.
A strong 25+ knot squall blasted the 57 boat fleet during the first race,causing havoc and damage to our other 5 entrants,Rhapsody kept it all together and made it to the finish line.

As we are now taking video of our sailing activities on the lake,I thought it would be neat to include a short clip on the gallery page.
As I am limited with web hosting space,the clips have to be kept very short,about 2 mb in size and 20 secs duration.
I will also be adding similar clips for the model yachts and of course for Nicorette when she can finally hit the water.

I do intend to 'swap' clips around regularly,not have the same one playing all the time.

Both web sites are now combined into one.
The Twinbeach site is still there with only the front page and is automatically redirected to the CNLSC site in 5 secs.

I'm not all that satisfied with the menu's so any feedback would be much appreciated.

Starting from Feb 2007,the sailing days for the model yachts will change from 1st and 3 rd sundays of each month to the 2 nd and 4 th sundays of each month.
This was brought about by our mates at Sydney A's, sailing now at Penrith, having to switch around to suit the requirements of their new venue.
Also,the sailing calendars for both groups have now been combined into one on the CNLSC site and Twinbeach will be linked to it.
Another project in the pipe is to combine both web sites into one,saving both time and space.

The first of the clubs competition race reports,which also includes race results, for the 24 th June has been posted on the RESULTS page.
Clicking the 'link' on the page for the resp date,as more are added,will take you directly to that report.
There is a 'RESULTS' link for the resp days on the CALENDAR that will also take you directly to that report.
A progressive pointscore table will be added very shortly and will most likely be placed at the very bottom of the page with a link at the top so as not to block the 'RESULTS' links.

Lynne was the 'backbone' of this report,in that she jotted down some pertinant notes for me as well as taking some photos with my camera,which she then emailed to me,including also the race sheet.

I ask for all members on start duty to follow Lynne's lead by taking brief race notes to help with the creation of race reports,can even write the full thing if you wish to be involved with the process.

Our next aim is to have these reports published each week in the newspaper.

The dinghy sailors put their regular sailing to another day to assist CNLSC-Twinbeach Modellers to run the East Coast 12 Metre State Champs on the weekend of 11 th and 12 th march 2006.
Apart from Frank Spittle (modeller) as RO on the saturday,all other official duties were performed by dinghy sailors,thus freeing up modellers normally involved,enabling them to compete.
Our Commodore Russell was there both days and served as RO on the sunday.Others who gave of their time were Lynne,Phil,Paula,Rod,Tina and Matt.
Lynne was again the behind the scenes player providing all with food and keeping the mobile fridge topped up to quench everyones thirsty throats.
Our lake played it's part with perfect weather and conditions for the model class showing once again to all the appreciative participants that the lake really is great for all forms of yachting.

Chipping Norton Lake Sailing Club and Twinbeach Modellers enjoyed a great day at Parramatta Park for the Australia Day display.
We had several model yachts there representing 3 classes,A class,EC 12,and the new Au maxi's.
Also on display was Chris Denman's NS 14.
Our main purpose for being there was to make more people aware of Yachting, specifically Model Yachting,rather than just trying to get some new members.
There were many thousands of people roaming the park and taking in all the displays and from the general conversations overhead,we were surprised at just how many were unaware that Model Yachting even existed.
More amazing was that many were also unaware that Chipping Norton had lakes and we sailed on them.
We have to therefore say that our mission was accomplished and we look foreward to doing the display again next year.

Chipping Norton Lake Sailing Club and it's members have been without a web site for some time after the loss of their host. As I was building a new web site for Twinbeach Modellers I figured I may as well do the main club site too.
Please report any difficulties to my personal email address shown at the bottom of this page,
or click this link-- EMAIL BUGS NOW --to send me a bug-report.I also welcome any comments about the site.

Ultimately this site will have as many features and information sources as time and space will permit.
I have a 10 mb limit to this particular web addy but have a further 4 x 10 mb spots available to link with as required and shared with the Twinbeach Modellers site,so I'll be keeping it as tight as possible.

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