Register now for the Longy Annual Dinner

Register now for the Longy Annual Dinner

You can now register for the Longy SLSC Annual Dinner through the SLSA portal by clicking here. Please make sure you enter your Full Name followed by Longy Dinner in the Payment Details box, thanks. The details for the dinner this year are as follows: Saturday June 2...
Matt Piper and Longy on the Manly Daily front page

Matt Piper and Longy on the Manly Daily front page

Matt Piper’s inspirational story has made it onto the front page of the Manly Daily dated 2 May 2018. This follows an earlier article published in the Sydney Northern Beaches Surf Lifesaving newsletter. To access the Manly Daily story, click here....
Congratulations & annual dinner 2017/2018

Congratulations & annual dinner 2017/2018

Fellow Longy Members I would like to congratulate each and every one of you (and in particular our patrolling members) for contributing to another excellent season at Longy. Although the final numbers are not yet in we provided approximately 5000 hours of beach...
Nippers final session report & photos

Nippers final session report & photos

Nippers Final Session and Presentation Day – by Mark Smith Yet another superb Longy afternoon! We have been blessed with great weather this season and Saturday the 3rd March was no exception. Great weather and great conditions once again. There was a buzz of...
Long Reef Vets crowned Australian champions!

Long Reef Vets crowned Australian champions!

The Longy Vets (President Peter Kinsey, Treasurer Mal MacCormick, Dave Sams, Rob Pearson and Bruce Gaal, sweep) traveled west to Perth’s Scarborough beach to take on the challenge of the 2018 Australian Championships. Our Vets compete in the >260 years...
Matt Piper – Longy radio operator extraordinaire

Matt Piper – Longy radio operator extraordinaire

Another amazing story regarding one of our Longy members, Matt Piper, was published in the March issue of Shore Break, the Sydney Northern Beaches Surf Lifesaving newsletter. This is what it said: “New Long Reef SLSC member Matt Piper is a remarkable man. A...
From near drowning to endurance ocean swimming

From near drowning to endurance ocean swimming

Our club is home to some really interesting characters. One of them is Eric Bateman who is a passionate endurance ocean swimmer. Here is his inspiring story … “Hi. My name is Eric. I’m 45. For the first 42 years of my life I was a land based mammal. I...
Help please: end of season club clean up

Help please: end of season club clean up

To All Patrolling Members We would like to invite you all to help participate in an end of season club clean up to get everything organised and cleaned for the winter. We would like to do this so that we can identify any equipment that needs replacement or repair and...
Longy’s international influence

Longy’s international influence

At the start of March Hamish Christie one of our patrolling members was selected to represent Surf Life Saving NSW on exchange over in New Zealand. The exchange program saw two candidates from NSW head over to New Zealand to learn the ways the Kiwis patrol, learn some...
Meet Longy’s Newest Patrollers

Meet Longy’s Newest Patrollers

Last weekend Longy welcomed it’s newest patrollers. The group were put to the test with a ‘condensed’ bronze medallion course (less weeks than normal). Both the trainers and the candidates worked incredibly hard to get a second Longy group through...