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<div style="BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1052377230MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black">The new season is almost upon us and the club has been lucky enough to convince a local Sharpie skipper (and club member), Glen Seeley to give us a hand with training up crews to race the clubs two boats.</SPAN></div></DIV>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv1052377230MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; RIGHT: auto">Sharpies were an Olympic class in 1956 (Melbourne Olympics) and really fly when the breeze gets up. The local association sails on LBG on Saturday's, has a great program of state title races and a new sponsor, so there's lots happening this year. </SPAN></div></DIV>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1052377230MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black">Australian Sharpie Association: <A href="http://www.sharpies.com.au/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#800080>http://www.sharpies.com.au/</FONT></A></SPAN></div></DIV>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv1052377230MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; RIGHT: auto">Sharpies are challenging to sail being long and skinny with a big mainsheet and spinnaker. To maximise performance requires lots of tweeking of the settings and excellent crew coordination. Three crew are needed for each boat - skipper, sheet hand and for'ard hand.</SPAN></div></DIV>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv1052377230MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; RIGHT: auto">Crew members will need some experience. Glen has asked for people who are </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; RIGHT: auto">capable of sailing a laser on LBG <U>when there are whitecaps</U>.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black"></SPAN></div></DIV>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto" class=yiv1052377230MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; RIGHT: auto">If you can meet this basic level and want to get involved with the club's flagship class for the 2012-13 season then contact Glen asap to get your season underway.</SPAN></div>
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