Hi ASC members and Snippets followers\u00a0 Week 4 of the 6 weeks Stage 4 lockdown restrictions in Melbourne. On saturday there will be another ASC Drinks and Chat 4 to 5pm at Doug’s Virtual Bar on\u00a0https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/81143239910
Also an online an ASC Virtual Sailing Session at 2.30. To participate send an email to Steve via rearcommodore@albertsc.org.au.
News in this week that\u00a0\u00a0the 2021 Australian Wooden Boat Festival scheduled for Hobart in February will not be proceeding due to the COVID19 situation.\u00a0 The next festival is now being planned for February 2023.\u00a0This is Hobart\u2019s best summer festival, Tasmania\u2019s largest free event, and one of the world\u2019s premier wooden boat festivals. A number of us have attended this biennial festival in the past, in a number of cases sailing on Melbourne’s tall ship Enterprize.\u00a0 The organisers explored a\u00a0whole range of options for a 2021 festival ranging from\u00a0an event heavy with fencing, security, and strict crowd controls\u00a0to the possibility of moving the whole Festival online. In the end it was decided that it was too big a risk in the middle of a global pandemic from health logistical and financial perspectives. They have committed to\u00a0ensure that the festival flourishes again in 2023.
Retrospective
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It is now 18 years since the publication in 2002 of\u00a0“Sandy” A. J. Mackinnon’s book ‘The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow\u00a0A.J. Sandy’s book provides a charming and\u00a0 eccentric account of his year long adventure sailing a Mirror dinghy on\u00a0a 5000 kilometre nautical odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea. Sails magazine recently caught up with Sandy at home in Victoria to discuss his reflections on his amazing journey\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.sailsmagazine.com.au\/reflections-fantastic-voyage\/
ABC Conversations also earlier this year re-broadcast Richard Fiedler’s interview in 2014 with Sandy McKinnon on his Jack de Crowe Adventure.\u00a0
https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/programs\/conversations\/sandy-mackinnon-rpt\/12199356\u00a0\u00a0
Many of us have enjoyed the book and can recommend purchasing a copy or loaning\u00a0 through a public library when they re-open.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Rod Thomas
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