As
you would have seen on the website earlier, Sabres
have begun sailing in Western Australia with numbers
dramatically increasing over the past year.
The Association is now
registered as well as being affiliated with Yachting
Western Australia and very soon we should be affiliated
with the Australian Sabre Association.
We
are currently sailing from the Perth Dinghy Sailing
Club located at Matilda Bay on the Swan River.
We held our inaugural
AGM Saturday 29 th August and combined the meeting
with a welcomed visit from Phil Johnson (the National
Measurer). We had an excellent roll up of Sabre
skippers, who found Phil's visit very informative
on all aspects of the Sabre. Phil trained our
WA State Measurer Robert Depiazzi on how to correctly
measurer our boats as well speaking at the AGM.
We would like to thank Phil for making the trip
over and thanks also to Mike Simpson for helping
arrange the visit.
We currently have 13
boats with 11 skippers, with interest growing
continually. Boat construction over the winter
months has been intense. 7 Boats have been constructed.
At
the start of the season in October we should have
10 boats definitely starting, with the other boats
joining the fleet as they complete construction.
To publicise the Sabres over here even further,
we are going to visit other yacht clubs opening
days, envisaging that they might start up their
own fleets.
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