Albert Sailing Club’s winter sailing season continues on saturday 16 June with Race 4 in our 8 race Winter Series. The club’s annual two day regatta is being conducted on the following weekend.
Race Officer: George Andrysik
Crew: Geoff Saliba, Owen McMahon, Lynette Staunton, Jose Urias
A Working Bee has been programmed for 9am – noon on 16th June to cleanup and undertake maintenance in our clubrooms, boatyard, boats and equipment in preparation for the upcoming regattas. We need a good turnout of club members and interested visitors. Come down in old clothes. Bring some gloves if you have them. Also looking for a leaf blower or two, and put some tools and cleaning buckets in the cat boot for use if required. Club Racing in the afternoon commences at 2pm will a long course format for senior and youth classes, and short race format for Opti and Minnow junior classes.
The forecast for saturday looks OK for some good winter sailing
Saturday 16 June Partly Cloudy, with Shower or Two
Min 9 Max 16
Winds Northerly 10 to 15 knots.
Albert Sailing Club is hosting two major regattas in June and July. We are looking for a good turnout at each.
* Albert Sailing Club’s Annual Winter Regatta is on saturday 23 June (pm) and Sunday 24 June (am and pm). The regatta takes a short course format with races, of around 30 to 45 minutes duration in the northern half of Albert Park Lake. The Notice of Race and online Entry is available on www.albertsc.org.au . We strongly prefer ASC members and visitors to enter online before Wednesday 20th, whether sailing one or both days.
* The 2012 Australian Schools Teams Championships is being hosted by Albert Sailing Club from Thursday 12th to Sunday 15th July. This will be a big event wtih 22 schools teams competing. Intensive planning is underway. We need a good number of volunteers on each of the four days, particularly for shore based roles. Please consider your availability and emailvicecommodre@albertsc.org.au or add your name to the list in the club foyer.
The June issue of the club’s Mudpuddler Newsletter was mailed out this week. Thanks to Helen Cvjetan our Newsletter Editor, Bill Avallone for Printer pickup and attanging postage, and our members who helped out with labelling last saturday.
On the 25th of June the Port Phillip City Council (the Albert Sailing Club’s local council) will be running a Responsible Serving of Alcohol (RSA) course free of charge for volunteers of clubs. The course will run from 6:15 to 10:30PM and is free for club members. An RSA qualification will allow you to serve alcohol from the bar. Anybody who would like to participate in the course please let Luke (rearcommodore@albertsc.org.au) know and he will forward your details to the Port Phillip Council.
Rod Thomas
Commodore
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Thursday Snippets 14th June 2012
Partly Cloudy, with Shower or Two
Min 9 Max 16
Winds Northerly 10 to 15 knots.
Albert Sailing Club is hosting two major regattas in June and July. We are looking for a good turnout at each.
* Albert Sailing Club’s Annual Winter Regatta is on saturday 23 June (pm) and Sunday 24 June (am and pm). The regatta takes a short course format with races, of around 30 to 45 minutes duration in the northern half of Albert Park Lake. The Notice of Race and online Entry is available on www.albertsc.org.au . We strongly prefer ASC members and visitors to enter online before Wednesday 20th, whether sailing one or both days.
Here is a link to a short article on the Regatta on Sail World Australia http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Albert-Sailing-Club-Winter-Regatta/98312
* The 2012 Australian Schools Teams Championships is being hosted by Albert Sailing Club from Thursday 12th to Sunday 15th July. This will be a big event wtih 22 schools teams competing. Intensive planning is underway. We need a good number of volunteers on each of the four days, particularly for shore based roles. Please consider your availability and emailvicecommodre@albertsc.org.au or add your name to the list in the club foyer.