Hi All

This is an update regarding the Lake Lefroy Land Sailing Club annual regatta usually held on the September long weekend at Lake Lefroy.

After last year’s regatta (2015) it was brought to our attention that we may not have had all the correct permissions and licenses we should have. As a result we have started the process of applying for license through the department of lands WA. While we are not aware of any reason for the license to be withheld the approval process is not yet complete.

This means that until all the correct licenses and approvals are in place the LLLSC will not hold any formal events at Lake Lefroy. Although the club will not host an event, the Coolgardie Shire council continues to support land sailing on Lake Lefroy.

As such many of the local land sailors intend to meet up at Lake Lefroy on the September long weekend for an informal camp out and social sailing. During the course of the weekend LLLSC would like to facilitate discussions about the future and format of our annual regatta.
Items for discussion include:
- The ratio of short to long course races
- The ratio of organized races to social sailing
- Frequency of events
- State titles
- Event fees and costs
- Possibility of organizing an “ultra-marathon”
- Is there enough interest to have a “Class 5 experimental division” at future races?

LLLSC would like to extend an invitation to all interested land sailors to join us for a weekend sailing, hanging out and shooting the breeze. We note that in recent years, due to sailing conditions and time constraints sailing has been limited to a very small portion of the lake. This year if conditions permit, various local sailors will be offering guided excursions to explore some of the further extents of the lake. Come and enjoy the full potential of one of the best land sailing venues in the country.

Regards
John Hawkins-Salt
Commodore, LLLSC

Just wondering how many people are planning to come up for the Sep long weekend?

I will give you some idea after our next club meeting at the end of this month, of course I will be coming. Got to match my yacht against those crammed sails
Cheers
Vic

He he.....he said crammed sails

Yes in for sure.
Greg, Scotty and Micky as far as I know from Esperance as well.

I'm aiming at arriving lunchtime Thursday.
Will have to leave at a reasonable hour on the Monday though, as I fly to New Zealand Tuesday.

you do realise that 90mile beach is only 90 kms long don't you

Sail to the end and come back, near enough to 90 kiwi miles!

When the first settlers travelled up the beach it took 3 days. A horse could walk 30 miles a day so the beach must be 90 miles long. ( do the maths)

The horses walking in soft sand could only manage about 20 miles a day, it was not noticed at the time which showed the beach was in fact 55 miles long.

There will a few of us from the sandgropers making the trip, looking forward to catching up with everyone, what is the latest on the lake condition.

I am hopping the changes that I have made to my yacht work.

Will also bring my class3 and Bleriot

Cheers
Vic

I was out on Lefroy today, SE winds pushed the water that covered everything last weekend away to the north, surface is excellent.

Ponds full of water.

Prediction for the long weekend, yeah, nah, maybe, possible.

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bryan said..
Prediction for the long weekend, yeah, nah, maybe, possible.

sounds about normal then.......

All good if the ponds are dry--ish ..
But wet and relying on southerly's.......
better bring another carton

in my professional opinion as lefroys most experienced saltcondition predictor is that the lake will be
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Does anyone have a spare virgin we can sacrifice to the lake goods?

See you guys Thursday around lunchtime.

Just Greg and myself from Esperance this year, the others have to work.

Ready to roll, On board, the Bleriot,club88,class5 and class3, see you all there

The annual trip to Lake Lefroy was great fun, with the lake in perfect condition and consistent winds all weekend, a group of us decided to go for a sail for a distance similar to a marathon, later we did some sailing together around some marks that we found on the lake . It was a great time and everyone enjoyed themselves, Looking forward to many more.
I managed to get a few pics, some of me fooling around in period dress with the Bleriot



























, great fun.

Looks very much like an awesome weekend was had by all!
Jeez Vic, your Bleriot looks great [as does all your fleet]

Is it my eyes playing up, or has Chook gone and raised his ballast handicap a bit?

I was planning on sneaking out to Lefroy, but ended up having to spend the weekend trying to [unsuccessfully] "put the pin back" into Dads grenade [ZD30 patrol]

would much rather have been messing about on salt...........


stephen

Couldn't ask for a better weekend away. Great weather, superb sailing surface, great company and the night sky provided a million star camping experience. Wouldn't have missed it.

Hear hear, great weekend.
Best surface i've ever sailed on.
SN -chook did say he had a fat time

what an amazing piece of salt we were blessed with this year.. winds were all too strong or too light.
was great to cruise the lake with a fleet of friends just because we could.great to see some sailors return to the lake and get straight into the hijinks.
congrats to the people who volunteered to look after the clubs trophies for the next year and to those who tried so hard to vie for the honour.
Vuic bermingham is lookingafter the lightning nickel class 5 trophy after sailing around Crockett rock and back the most times in 1.5 hrs(6 times) closely followed by chook henderson and Lefroy newby Ewan Cockril.

Greg Smallman held his own in claiming the Andrew Bates Perpetual Marathon Shield followed by 5.6 virginJason Phillips and the chookster in 3rd
Next day saw perfect winds for some sailing and as someone had left some flags on the lake the cl5 and mini Race series trophies were presented for caretaking. embarrassingly every Lake lefroy local was unable to sail due to a variety of commitments, so i have to thank Sue,Phil and Jason for starting scoring and finishing in our absence. very embarrassing situation.
chook showed just how much experience hes gained in the last year( hes kited and sailed 10,000km since last last sept!!!!! ) resulting his beating the marathon master.followed by Mark fauntleroy and Ewan cockril again. In the minis,the master of the short course Jason phillips blitzed all 6 gatherings,beating the Esperance BA,s Greg smallman AND chook Henderson.
i have to say that this year it wqas a privelege to be there with you all, thanks greately to the patron of the Bleriot Society of Australia, Vic Bermingham for allowing me to test the new mast and get up my confidence at sailing on only 3 wheels at over 60kph