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View All News 8/9/2011 Wednesday Nights are nearly Here! Don't forget, Wednesday racing starts the first week of October. So get your entries in. 8/8/2011 Just 2 More Winter Series Race Days As of Saturday 5.8.2011, Mystery and Lucy are tied on points, with 2 days and 4 races to go, its going down the wire. Challenger's new kite by Hopper Sails looks like it will do the business, providing they don't get snow blinded by the extremely white colour! Good to see Challenger first round the top mark in the first race, crew must have shit themselves 'cause it all went sad straight after. 21/7/2011 Minutes of meeting 4.5.11 Diamond Association Victoria Minutes of meeting 1805hrs, Monday 16 May 2011, Royal Yacht Club of Victoria Present: P. Cannon, C. Brenan, D. Rae, M. Gibbs, C. .Mead, A. King. Apologies: Minutes from Previous Meeting: 4 May 2011. AGM New Positions Elected President – P. Cannon Treasurer – C. Brenan Secretary – D. Rae Measurer – G. Fell Race Scheduler – G. Fell Fundraising and Website coordinator – C. Mead Raffle; Boat Owners are responsible for collecting tickets by end of May. tickets and Money to be delivered to C. Mead Association to pay for repair Of Novice Skipper Trophy. M. Gibbs requested Dodo nominations to be emailed to him. C. Brenan to be responsible for organising band for Presentation Night. P. Cannon to approach RYCV General Manager regarding menu for Presentation Night. $40 per head to be allowed for food with two menu options. Entre and Main course to be included. $10 per head to band. Trophies Sidchrome Lucy C. Brenan G. Stooke Irish Logic G. Fell Novice Rough Cut D. Rae A Hill Redback P. Cannon States Redback P. Cannon Aggregate TBC Treasurers Report $1,900 in Bank. $5,300 in Term Deposit. Agenda Items: Resolve dispute over awarding of Gordon Stooke trophy to Irish logic, G. Fell. General Business: 1. Website updates. 2. Function 3. Raffle Money Minutes of Meeting 1. Gordon Stooke Trophy: Dispute by C. Mead over the result being derived from the Race Calendar or the Website? The two documents differed. Problems with the Website and Race instructions Highlighted by C. Brenan. M. Gibbs said race 2 included as a spare if the Port Arlington race didn’t go ahead. Discussed 3 options, being; 1. Long Distance Race, 2. 2x Heats and 3. don’t award. Voted 5 – 1 In favour of awarding the trophy in Accordance with its intent, (long distance race) over 2 heats. Agreed to Award the Trophy to G. Fell. 2. A. King agreed to help C. Mead keep the website updated. 3. Function: Names to Cam by 18 May. Table booker/Skipper to be responsible for collecting payment on night. 4. Running order to be 6:30 drinks, 7:15 Dinner, 8:00 Presentation , 8:30 Band etc, to close at Midnight. 5. Raffle Money: To be delivered to C. Mead asap, latest Wed.1 June. Return any unsold tickets also. Meeting Closed at 1855 hrs 12/5/2011 PRESENTATION NIGHT 50th Anniversary of Diamonds. All past and present Diamond sailors, come and join the celebrations at RYCV on Saturday night, 18th June 2011. $50 per head for Dinner and Band. Drinks at bar prices! Organise a table or just join the fun, RSVP to Cameron Mead - 0417 342 725 or Email him before 18th May please. 4/11/2010 Boats weigh in As you all know we weighed all the boats except Challenger and here are the results. Corsair 1,065 kg Irish Logic 1,210 kg Lucy 1,115 kg Mystery 1,200 kg Osprey 1,150 kg Redback 1,160 kg Rough Cut 1,155 kg Zircon 1065 kg 21/9/2010 Diamond Meeting Diamond Association Victoria Minutes of Meeting 6pm Tuesday 14th September, Royal Yacht Club of Victoria Present: P Cannon, M Gibbs, G Fell, T Fiore, C Brennan, D Rae, Alesh, D Prosser, P & G Gunner, L Christopherson, P Nelson, Apologies: C Mead, Absent :J Permazel Steve Belle. Minutes from April meeting: Callum Brennon elected as Treasurer not Secretary. Presentation night a success at $50 per head Winter Class Monkey a success 5 boats competing Osprey wins Interest in the Diamond Invitational has dropped series now abandoned. The committee has also gone off the idea of handicap racing Twilights are raced under handicap and scratch systems. Bowing night Marshall to investigate running this successful night during the daylight savings period. Blues Train a lack of interest was expressed by the majority of people around the table. Raffles Lynda to donate case of wine reds and whites, Cameron to organise win your weight in beer, Lisa Deppeler has offered to donate 2 nights for a couple at Aire River Escape to the value of $580 Association fees set at $80 payable before October 6th, no money no points Treasurers Report: $5,000 in term deposit earning 4% to be rolled over 24th November for a further 6 months. $540 in our transaction account Association owes RYCV $140 Agenda: Race programme M Gibbs to ensure that all dates including, Summer Class Monkey, Lipton Cup, Gordon Stooke are on the Association web site race schedule page. T Fiore and P Neilson to approach HBYC to run States on Labour Day long weekend 2011. Weighing day to be held Sunday 3 rd October in conjunction with the dismantling of the Club marquee beginning at 1 pm class rules to be checked to ensure bars are weighed correctly. Wednesday Twilights new Start time now 6.10pm five minutes after Div 3. Tent to be erected Fir 1st October 4 pm start all skipper inform crews, many hands. Money raised from raffles to boost association coffers to maintain trophies possibly insure the, to subsidize Association functions, donations to charities. Trophy Protocol. A. Trophies to be returned to the President at the completion of the season for engraving. The trophy should be returned as received, cleaned and polished. Please refrain from using abrasive cleaners. All trophies should be handled respectfully. Most of the trophies are close to 50 years old and are inscribed with our class history. As the trophy holder you become the custodian. All current trophy holders are asked to list every winner in chronological order, please email this list to Cameron Mead - cam@ideograph.net.au so tht it can be stored on the Diamond website in cased of loss or theft. General Business: The RYCV’s General Manager has asked that all Association members abide by the Liquor Licensing laws ie: any alcohol consumed on club premises “must” be purchased at the club. Also any non members be signed in. Tim Fiore asked Lynda Christopherson to provide him with all association members emails as one of his crew members is marketing sailing tops. Lynda Christopherson has asked that all association members provide up to date email addresses Callum Brennon to investigate the insure of insuring Association trophies. Meeting closed 7.04pm 23/2/2010 Diamond State Titles The dates for the Victorian State Tiltles are now on the 17-18 of April, and are to be held at RYCV. Entry Fee is $75 dollars - make sure you down-load the Notice of Race with the Entry Form and get it in to the office at RYCV before Sunday 11 April. Download Notice of Race and Entry Form 14/12/2009 Merry Xmas & Happy New Year A fair amount of Diamond sailors are swapping boats to bigger boats for the annual races to Hobart - Sydney, East Coaster and West Coaster. We wish all the guys Merry Christmas and safe trip down. And remember to only stop drinking when you you can't stand up any more! 7/12/2009 Long Distance Race Don't forget we have a race to Portarlington this weekend. Two boats are confirmed. 9/10/2009 Diamonds go to the greens I would like to invite you all to a night on the grass at Spotswood Kingsville RSL 7.00 to 11.30pm start The night will be the first diamond lawn bowls tournament the teams to be put together closer to the date and numbers of participating bowlers The cover charge $20.00per head includes a barby and bowls. Gary Fell is putting up the state champions trophy for the winning team and cam is putting up the doe doe for the loser. If you could RSVP as soon as you can I can throw some numbers at them. There will be a person to show you how to bowl so it a goer. Can’t wait to get my hands on the trophy.- Marshall Gibbs 28/9/2009 Season is not far off As you will all be aware the sailing season is upon us once again. The first race is the Range Series so make sure you all get your entries in. Also please put your Wednesday night entries in as we need at least 6 boats to get our own start. 10/9/2009 Doug gets HAMMERED at Bucks Days Last week as most of you know, we all went out to celebrate Doug's (Mystery crew member) Bucks Day. All went well with the majority - as most, specially Doug can't remember leaving the 3rd drinking spot. Mind you we found him on his bike, but sideways, laying in the middle of the road. For those that can't remember we did another 4 pubs (I think) after that. Our sympathy to Mick Hoy, after his face plant off the push bike. Facial reconstruction was done the next day as his blood alcohol level was well over 0.2. - The doctors were enquiring as to how he got all those red whelts on his arse! - Special thanks to the girls at the Spottie for that! 19/1/2009 New Diamond Website Features crew login where you can select a yacht to race on, and have access to other crew members details...	Next Race 25 Feb, 2012 State Titles Series States - Heat 5 & 6 Latest News 8 Sep, 2011 Wednesday Nights are nearly Here! Don't forget, Wednesday racing starts the first week of October. So get your entries in. ... View More

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