At Elwood Sailing Club we pride ourselves on being a family friendly, inclusive and active club. To further these values we welcome Kate Lathouras as the interim new training manager. Kate brings a wealth of experience from her competitive sailing background to her professional knowledge in program management and looks forward to building a platform for junior and youth sailors here at Elwood Sailing Club. Kate also works as the Communications Officer for Yachting Victoria. Please introduce yourself if you see her around the Club.
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New Tackers Course starts 30th January – Something for the Kids for the Weekend
After the successful pre summer and Summer Holiday tackers and adult start sailing courses. Elwood Sailing Club will be running a new set of courses beginning the 30th January for 5 weekends. If you are interested in teaching your children how to sail – please check the web site under Learn to Sail or contact training@elwoodsc.com
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year
On behalf of General Committee we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year.
For those of you competing in Championships in the coming weeks, we hope that you all do better than you anticipate and have a lot of fun at the various regatta’s. It would be nice to have a few pictures and a report or two for the web page in the new year.
Merry Christamas and good sailing to you all.
Mark Foster
Commodore
First Aid Course – 8 Nov – Free to Members
Elwood Sailing Club is running a First Aid Course – any member is welcome to take part – for first time or if you took this course a few years ago as a refresher. It is free to club members (normally priced $100.00 per person) please contact Sarah on manager@elwoodsc.com to book. Continue reading
ISAF World Cup St Kilda 7-13 December
The ISAF Sailing World Cup regatta running from the 7 – 13th December will be held at the new St Kilda Sailing Precinct and will provide high quality racing to our sailors. We encourage you to get involved in this highly regarded international sailing event. Further details and links below…
World’s success for Alisanne Green
We would like to congratulate Elwood SC sailor Alisanne Green on her return from the Hobie Worlds held in Lago do Garda. Where she took 16th place. Alisanne is also part of the training gang to Blaine Dodds (South Africa), the new world champ. Continue reading
Elwood’s Got Talent Open Mic Night – 20 Aug
Leaving on a Jet Plane, Jet, Jet Airliner, Wooden Planes, Air Force One, Aeroplane, B52s, Paper Plane, Benny and The Jets, Big Jet Plane, Hear My Train a Comin’, Midnight Train From Georgia, Indian Pacific, Locomotive Breath, Rock’n’Roll Train, Crazy Train, Night Train, Train Kept a Rollin’, Mystery Train, Blue Train, Train in Vain, Slow Train Coming, The Cars, Pink Cadillac… get there any way you like… just get there
8pm til midnight Thursday 20 August @ The Elwood Sailing Club Elwood Foreshore Continue reading
2015 ESC Annual General Meeting, Thursday 30th July @ 7:00pm
The 2015 Annual General Meeting of Elwood Sailing Club Inc. will be held at the clubrooms on Thursday 30th July , the bar will be open from 6:30pm and the meeting commencing at 7:00 pm. Continue reading
F18 Worlds – Kiel, Germany
ESC sailors and 2015 Victorian F18 champions Chris Boag & Tom Salt are currently competing in the F18 World Championships being held in Kiel, Germany. 
They are in good company, competing with fellow Australians Glenn Ashby & Brett Goodall and over 160 other boats. You can follow their progress on the official website or facebook.
Let’s hope they also bring back some of the latest 2 handed cat sailing techniques!
Race Rules & Pizza Evening – date change
Rob Ware will be presenting a talk on Racing Rules at the ESC clubrooms on Thursday 16thth July, @ 7pm, this date has been moved from the 9th. Rob’s experience in rules is vast and extremely valuable – a night not to be missed. Rob will be talking about the 
tactical application of rules – “how to beat up the opposition and stay out of trouble”
Perfect theory practice during the winter. We will be providing pizza and a beer, all for $10.00. Please book in advance with Sarah Thompson at manager@elwoodsc.com as the pizzas will need to be ordered.