Radio Sailing Association W.A. Inc.

Entries are now open for the 2012 IOM South West Championships & 2012 IOM South West Handicap, to be held on 16th & 17th June at Geographe Radio Yacht Club, Busselton.

Competitors may enter the Championships OR the Handicap event, but not both.

Download the Championship Notice of Race and Entry Form, or the Handicap Notice of Race and Entry Form

Logged in RSAWA members can submit their entry online.

The above event is to be held on Saturday 30th June at Harrington Waters. This event will be a Fun Day event open to all in place of normal Saturday with racing starting 1pm. For those wishing to enter, you should arrive no later than 12 noon.

1. The event will be a handicap event.
2. Teams will be selected on the day prior to the first race by the PRO
3. Teams will consist of  three or four skippers dependant on numbers attending.
4. The resulting scores of each skipper from each race go to a team tally.
5. The whole team will incur any given handicap/s for following races.
6. Skippers arriving late will be allocated to a team at the discretion of the PRO.

The aim is to encourage tactical racing and team spirit, with a little bit of friendly rivalry between competitors and the ultimate aim of doing it for the team. If this type of event is shown to have enthusiastic support from our clubs, then it could be developed further.

An invitation to skippers from all clubs to attend is extended. A possible change in the future may be that it becomes an inter-club event where skippers/clubs may wish to organize their own teams. Other variations of this are also open for discussion. All this is food for thought, and any future direction of this type of event will be guided by the reception and feed-back from these fun-day type activities.

(Points 3, 4 and 5 may be varied on the day as new ideas are discussed and tried)

RSAWA Sailing Day at Austin Cove, South Yunderup - Saturday May 5 2012.

Radio Sailing’s first day sailing at Austin Cove in South Yunderup was an overwhelming success.

Austin Cove is a new land release which is being developed by the Satterley Property Group. They have developed a lake which is large, open and very clear. In conjunction with Satterley’s, the RSAWA organized a trial sail at the new lake.

In the morning, eight Ten Raters fronted up, despite a rather dodgy weather forecast. Fortunately, the morning storms passed over very early in the morning, and by the time we arrived, the sky was grey, but the weather remained fine. There wasn’t much wind at the scheduled start time, but within half an hour, the racing was underway.