Lane Cove 12ft Sailing Skiff Club in Longueville, New South Wales, Australia | Amateur sports team

Lane Cove 12ft Sailing Skiff Club

Locality: Longueville, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9428 2276

Address: Stuart St 2066 Longueville, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.lc12ftssc.org.au

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25.01.2022 Congratulations to Samantha Parker this years Winner of the Helen Molesworth Medal for outstanding Volunteering! - https://mailchi.mp//samantha-parker-winner-of-the-helen-mo

25.01.2022 The Learn to Sail program is underway despite the wet weather.

25.01.2022 Some photos from Abbotsford by Stephen Fuijwara.

24.01.2022 NSW/ACT Instructor of the Year Winner- Sailing a Laser does have it's Issues!- https://mailchi.mp/592/nswact-instructor-of-the-year-winner

24.01.2022 Tough Day of Sailing! Club Dinner- Saturday Dec 19 - https://mailchi.mp/23747dae79c4/club-dinner-saturday-dec-19

22.01.2022 Story of the day; all racing abandoned.

22.01.2022 A little video the Belmont Cherubs put together

22.01.2022 Adventuring up the river today

21.01.2022 Great excitement as the new RIBs arrive today.

21.01.2022 These are a set of interesting sessions from the RYA on the Racing Rules of Sailing. They are still available on youtube.

21.01.2022 Slow start for the Upper Harbour Championship. 17 starters Looks like a split in rigs, Woodford Bay boats going 2nd, club boats big

20.01.2022 Big thanks to Lola, Nick, Ed, Jack and of course our sailors for a fun few days OutThere Sailing & exploring the Harbour

20.01.2022 The results for yesterday's first race of the season are now available on the Club's web site here: https://www.lc12ftssc.org.au/racing/race-results

19.01.2022 New Western Shed Rebuild About to Begin! - https://mailchi.mp/cd/new-western-shed-build-about-to-begin Artists Impression of New Building!

18.01.2022 COVID-19 safe seating and on-line webcasting for this year's Annual General Meeting

17.01.2022 RUST has installed new transit wheels on the Commodore's Launch to make it easier to get it across the concrete apron .

17.01.2022 Ted and Helen's big day out. Off to Mackenzie Marine for their annual servicing.

16.01.2022 ...and new bolts to keep the LTS shed doors open.

15.01.2022 Better late than never. Lane Cove 12ft Skiff "Aussie" sailed by Dave Porter makes the front cover of Seacraft magazine.

14.01.2022 Sailing Success Stories Start with Sabot #Repost @tslingsby with @make_repost Mum just found this pic of little old me back in 1995. Why I am facing backwards, I don’t know. Why my eyes are closed, I don’t know. But I seem to be having a great time. When I first started sailing racing I was teamed up with my sister. She had to pay me 20cents per race to stay on board the boat and not swim to shore. Even after I started enjoying it out there, I would not tell her so she kept on paying

13.01.2022 12 Cherubs on the start line for heat 2 Club Championship

13.01.2022 4th rig run, westerly @ LC12SSC Nod and Nick

13.01.2022 For the third time this season racing abandoned for all classes

11.01.2022 An achievement by the Club Secretary that is unlikely to be surpassed

10.01.2022 The new canteen screen has been installed to better protect our canteen volunteers in preparation for Opening Day.

10.01.2022 Bill Mobbs is getting a spring clean at RUST in advamce of Learn to Sail.

10.01.2022 While the 12s are away, the Cherubs come to play

10.01.2022 There will be very limited numbers allowed into each area of the Club on Saturday and until further notice. Before you come down please read the Information Package that you can find here: https://drive.google.com//1FfXtoH9nO2o6mxdDm2-QwzD-I/view

09.01.2022 What to do after today's sailing? Watch Americas Cup racing from Auckland.

08.01.2022 It was an historic day for the Club as the piling barge arrived to start work on Lane Cove Council 's new Marine Access Facility which will include our new shed. Piling work will commence next Tuesday.

08.01.2022 Celebrating the Flying 11 Fleet 2019/20 Season Winners - https://mailchi.mp/81f095d1f8af/flying-11-season-winners

08.01.2022 Current Lane Cove Laser sailor James Synge and 12ft Skiff sailor Andrew Hay were in the headlines a few years ago.

07.01.2022 Thoughts from Mike Sanderson on the revival of Cherubs in NZ

07.01.2022 Race start Hey Charger Trophy, 12 12s faced the starters gun, 1 out in sequence with broken tiller.

07.01.2022 Cherubs getting ready and off racing

07.01.2022 This year’s theme for International Women’s Day, ‘choose to challenge’, seems to perfectly describe the Cherub class. The Cherub fleet challenges sailors to com...pete on an equal playing field, regardless of their gender. This culture of inclusivity has fostered a unique on-water race environment filled with friendly competition and camaraderie. Off-water this exists between sailors and spectators alike. As NSW Comitttee member and long-term skiff sailor, Andrew Glassock put it in his summary of the 2019/2020 Cherub Nationals Championships, I don’t think there is any other open skiff class that is as successful as the Cherub class in gender equality and promoting female participation in sailing. Certainly, the rate of female participation in Cherubs is unrivalled in other Australian skiff classes. During their last national titles at Darling Point Sailing Squadron, before COVID-19, 15 out of the 29 helms within the participating fleet were female. Perhaps more excitingly, four crews were comprised entirely of women. Not only did our talented female Cherub sailors ‘choose to challenge’ at this event; they rose to the occasion. In fact, every perpetual trophy bar one was taken home by a mixed crew. Women have long had a history in the Cherub class, but female participation has grown exponentially within the last decade. To some extent, this may be a credit to the design of the boat, which allows women and men to enter the class on an equal playing field. It is few who can resist the temptation of a fast and agile craft prone to exhilarating downwind sailing. If you ask Cherub sailors though, they will happily tell you their gender balance is more so a testament to the encouraging and open-minded temperaments of both the men and women who represent the fleet. Lily Peel has skipped her boat ‘Short, Tired and Emotional’ for six seasons, sailing with female crew Cathy Pagett for five of those years. For Lily, the question of gender equity within the fleet has never really crossed her mind. She believes that whilst she may have a few more swims than some of her heavier male counterparts in a 25-knot southerly, being a woman in the fleet has never been a point of contention or disadvantage. For Lily, there are not female and male Cherub sailors - there are just Cherub sailors. We are so proud and privileged to have a gender-equal fleet and strive to promote gender equality in sailing as one of the pillar stones of our Association. We would like to take this occasion to thank all the beautiful women in our fleet and encourage others to join in the fun. May we continue to foster an inclusive and diverse fleet for generations to come. #internationalwomensday2021 #skiffsailing #australiancherubs #ChooseToChallenge

05.01.2022 Very proud of our 'Instructor of the Year'

05.01.2022 It has taken much longer than it should have but we have finally got the Flying 11 youtube channel up, starting with four training videos on the routines for ta...cking, gybing, sets and drops. Enjoy and pass it on to any newcomers. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA7JqFtsEaeKc17HATuB_zg Thanks to John Dransfield for footage and @beauoutteridge for production.

05.01.2022 Best of luck this week to Samantha Parker who is a finalist in this year's Australian Sailing NSW Awards which will be announced this week!

05.01.2022 Latest 12 to hit the water - Stiff

04.01.2022 and they are fast learners ... #outtheresailing Australian Sailing - NSW & ACT

04.01.2022 And so starts the 2020 - 21 season

04.01.2022 Day 1 of the Allen Flying 11 NSW States

04.01.2022 How long since you last crewed David Winning? Lucky Jack Winning has lots of experience training new crews

04.01.2022 It's with sadness that I inform the Club of the passing of Helen Molesworth this morning in her 97th year at Royal North Shore Hospital. Helen, who was born in 1923, was a great supporter of LC12ftSSC from a very early age. During the Naming Ceremony for the Ted Griffith Helen had some very interesting and funny stories to tell of her years at the Club. She started sailing in a 12ft skiff at a very young age crewing for her brother. Back then the role of the smallest crew w...as to just sit in the bottom of the boat and bail out the water. This was not a job that Helen overly enjoyed but being as tough as she was she was always there on race days! She also told us that the Woodford Bay mark was just that, it was set right up against the western shore of Woodford Bay because back then Helen remembers there being only one boat moored in the bay. A little different now. While she might have stopped sailing with her brother she always had the Club in mind. Helen was instrumental in helping the Club acquire our two Arvor response boats and her goal to see more women in sailing was a passion of hers. The Helen Molesworth Medal is an acknowledgement of her long support of the Club and it was her desire to see it awarded to the Club member who excelled at volunteering and helping at our Club. While she might not have visited us at the river very much over the last few years she always brought a sparkle and a laugh when she did come down. As a Club we're all better off for the support and the friendship that she showed all of us and today the Club has lost one of it's finest Members. Max Gundy - Commodore

02.01.2022 With racing cancelled for the day due to a 20-30kt westerly, Nick Press and Andrew Hay put on a show in their 12ft Skiff Sydney Sailmakers.

02.01.2022 Another new boat underway

02.01.2022 Spectacular week with Learn to Sail that would not be possible without our amazing instructors.

02.01.2022 Sailors join us this Saturday for the LC12ftSSC eSailing Championship to decide our representative for the Australian eSailing Championship https://www.lc12ftssc.org.au/racing/esailing-championship

01.01.2022 Our latest Learn to Race graduates have been enjoying February Friday Twlights and building skills in #sabots #Flying11's & #Laser4.7's

01.01.2022 Congratulations to our finalists Ed Coates and Sammi Parker