This week the limit for exercise in Melbourne has been extended from 10 kilometres from home to 15 kilometres. This allows a few more of us to go sailing on Albert Park Lake as part of our exercise regime.
On the afternoon of saturday 2nd October there will be a few down sailing on saturday afternoon. With all of us able to get out and about further there will be no late afternoon ASC Zoom catchup session.

     If you have a boat in the club boatyard and a boatyard key you can now directly access the yard on any day of the week. For those with a boat in the yard without a key it will be open from 1.30 to 2pm on saturday 2nd for movement of boats in or out of the yard, and opened for a short period mid afternoon. If coming down to sail you need to login with QR code at the middle boatyard gate, wear a mask at all times on shore, and maintain distancing in line with gathering limits.

    The clubrooms including the club foyer are not allowed to be opened for club members, most likely till early November or possibly end of October depending on when Melbourne reaches the 80% double vax target. The exception is the year 12 SEDA educational group who will resume midweek classes at ASC at the start of Term 4 on 2nd October.

    The first weekend of October is normally the start of the Spring sailing season for Melbourne sailing clubs but again not so this year with government restrictions in force. All events in October have been postponed including the 150th APYC Opening Day event which has been rescheduled to 28 February.

    For those within 15 k’s of the Lake in addition to weekend sailing we have a few members sailing midweek when the weather is fine and it fits their schedule. Usually wednesday afternoon. It was tuesday afternoon this past week with Jack out in his Impulse, Silke and her daughter in Mirror, three juniors in Laser 4.7’s, and another junior in a RS Zest. Picture is of Andy in Laser 4.7 and his brother Max in Zest enjoying the Melbourne Spring weather.

Victoria moves to Daylight Saving, with clocks to move forward one hour at 2am on sunday 3rd October.
Enjoy the extra hour of daylight (?) and keep safe

Rod Thomas
vicecommodore@albertsc.org.au

Three items this week 
* Another saturday afternoon Zoom catchup at 4.30 saturday 18th for ASC members and friends of ASC. Details at base of this Snippets.
* The Spring edition of our quarterly club Newsletter is now available on the home screen of our club website www.albertsc.org.au. It provides a good overview of club activities in the winter months and upcoming when we can resume. There are also flag officer reports, and a number of articles of interest including one on boats sailed at ASC, and one on golden year for Lasers. Fprward a copy to friends or family who may be interested in sailing at Albert Park Lake.
* There is some good news on sailing on Albert Park Lake for people who live within 10 kilometres of the Lake, in particular for those with a boat stored at home.
We received advice from Australian Sailing Victoria on 15 September confirming that Sailing is allowed as a form of exercise.
Updated Governement restrictions for Melbourne from 18 September allow exercise up to 10 kilometres from home for 4 hours, with one other person or up to 5 from 2 households if they have had two COVID jabs.

If you have a boat stored away from Albert Sailing Club you can bring it down to sail on Albert Park Lake. All clubroom facilities remain closed, including the foyer, upstairs clubrooms, changerooms and toilets.

For those with a boat in the club’s ‘open air’ boatyard we are working to provide access on a very limited basis. Entry through the club foyer is not permitted.
We have a couple of club committee members living within 10k’s with a key who can directly access the boatyard.

For the weekend of 18/19 September, the boatyard will be open from 2pm to 3pm on saturday 18th. Entry for members and winter associates with a boat in the yard via the boatyard gates closest to the club foyer.

We will advise of times and arrangements for boatyard access, possibly once or twice per week, on the club website home screen, and in weekly Snippets. All who enter must comply with the ASC COVID Safe Plan, including QR code sign in, physical distancing and wearing of face masks.

Zoom login details for saturday 18th
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84619785781
Passcode: ASC
(Meeting ID: 846 1978 5781)

Rod Thomas
vicecommodore@albertsc.org.au

Spring has arrived but sadly with lockdown no activities at Albert Sailing Club or access to clubrooms and boatyard continues. There will be another of our ASC saturday afternoon catchups via Zoom from 4.30 to 5.30 on saturday 21st August. ASC members and friends of ASC most welcome to connect in to the informal saturday afternoon chat sessions. The last couple of saturdays we have had 8 – 10 people online. There is scope for a few more. This week’s login details are below.

Also sadly the two day CitySail Women’s and Girls coaching regatta on Albert Park Lake on 11 and 12 September has had to be cancelled. We recognise the significant work put in by the APYC organisers for theis event. We at Albert Sailing Club are keen to re-commence club activities, including Women’s and Girls activities, when Government Restrictions make it possible to do so.

Details for ASC catchup at 4.30, saturday 4 September
Join Zoom Meeting by PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87648842616
Meeting ID: 876 4884 2616
Passcode: ASC

Upcoming
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On tuesday 7^th September at 7PM AEST Australian Sailing is launching an Olympic Webinar Series which will have interviews with some of the key players from the Australia’s Tokyo Olympic Sailing team. The series kicks off on 7th with Michael ‘Blackers’ Blackburn, who won a bronze medal in the Laser class at the Sydney 2000 Olympics and has been the coach of the gold medal winning Laser class Australian at the last  3 Olympics. Michael will discuss his experience at the Tokyo games and in the lead up to the games, followed by a Q&A session. Online bookings (free) are required for the webinar  on https://www.sailing.org.au/events/111085/ by Monday 6th September.

On thursday 9th September, we have the monthly ASC general committee meeting at 7.30pm. This will again be an online Zoom meeting. Any members wanting to raise an item for the meeting or attend should email secretary@albertsc.org.au.

Enclosed to this email and Facebook post is “Sailing meets art”. The visual artist, Stefan Szczesny, painted the 17 sustainability goals of UNESCO on 17 mainsails of the German Sailing League’s fleet of J/70 one-design sailboats. The boats with the stunning artistic sails were sailed in the culture regatta “Sailing #Art4GlobalGoals” from Rhine to Düsseldorf in Germany on Sunday 22nd August . Do we have any artists or budding artists with Australian sailing themed art to share online with others ? 

Rod Thomas
vicecommodore@albertsc.org.au