February 6, 2013 
ABYC's Bird Beach
                                                                                                                                                             Photo -BCaron
These birds are happy to take advantage of the small beach formed by the low lake level.  This is the area on the lake side of Blue Wall and will probably disappear when (if) the water rises. 
In This Issue
Upcoming ABYC Events
Walls, Docks & Rafts
Advertise in ABYC Events Book
Pile Driver Resurrected
Weather Seminar
NOAA Printable Nautical Charts
Valentines Menu

Upcoming ABYC Events

Wednesday - Wing & Games Night  

Thursday - Pasta Night 

Friday - Fine Dining 

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07  Thursday - Winter Lecture Series (Weather Seminar

08  Friday - Valentines Evening

21  Thursday - Town Hall on "Winter Storage with Mast UP"    

 

Wednesday - Wing & Games Night  

Thursday - Pasta Night 

Friday - Fine Dining 

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07  Thursday - Winter Lecture Series (Mike Filey, Toronto Historian)  

 

 

Sue Hamilton
Walls, Docks and Rafts
- from Sue Hamilton, Work Party Co-ordinator
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Yes, it's true - work parties continue every Saturday morning at the club.  Some of the mornings have been pretty frosty, but it hasn't prevented our hearty sailors from coming out to contribute to the important work needed to maintain our club, harbour walls and docks. 

 

1. Stephen Trevitt and team continue to work on wall repairs.  We were experiencing some mechanical issues with the pile driver over the past several weeks, causing some delays to the project.  A big thank you to Johnny Ballman and Roger Marsh for sorting out our somewhat temperamental pile driver and coaxing it back to life.  We were able to finally pile drive a sheet of metal last week! 

 

2. Mike Leroux and team are working on dock repairs.

 

3. Alfie and the Bubbler Boys are out every week keeping our docks bubbled.

 

4. There is a project starting up to build 5 new work rafts.  Once the materials are delivered - tentatively scheduled for Feb 16 we will be looking for volunteers to:

    Dismantle existing rafts
    Alter the steel frames for the floats
    Install the floats
    Install the decking
    Launch the rafts
Advertise in the ABYC Events Book

- from ABYC Sailing Committee 

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ABYC Members advertise in the Events Book for 2013.  

 

Starting at $100.00 for a quarter page black & white ad; colour is only $125.00.   The cover pages have been taken by returning advertisers but space is available.

 

There is an option for everyone, from black & white or colour and full page to a 1/4 page business card,

 

Please contact [email protected]  for the rate card or information on advertising in the 2013 Events book.

 

 Winter storage with mast up? 
Town Hall - Thursday, February 21, 7p.m. 
Photo - Roger Marsh
Pile driver resurrected 
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Work on the seawall got a big boost last Saturday when a group of ABYC members were able to successfully revive the aging pile driver.  Although this invaluable piece of equipment was instrumental in building the existing wall around our bay as well as the docks, it has not been used for quite a few years and has sat idle near the mast crane area. 

Last Saturday morning Stephen Trevitt and his team, in spite of howling winds and freezing temperatures, managed to reactivate the pile driver (with the Technical help of Johnny Ballman, Roger Marsh and Harbour Master Paul Lefneski) and drive the first steel sheet along blue wall.

The resurrection of the pile driver is the result of a lot of effort by many people in addition to those present last Saturday. 


From Bob Hedley, VC-Marine:
After the hard working efforts of Stephen Trevitt, our Sea Wall team leader and several key helpers who are dedicated to maintaining our sea walls, docks and harbour, the Pile Driver was back up and running. 

I want to acknowledge the leadership of Paul Lefneski our Harbour Master and the team work of Allen Lewis, Roger Marsh, Chris Pappas, Ralph Weckesser, Ron Boudah, John Ballman and others.  It was through their persistence that the nearly 40 year old Pile Driver was brought back to life and was again driving steel plating along blue wall.   We're back in business.

Weather 

NOAA printable nautical charts

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If you are planning on cruising the south shore of Lake Ontario this summer (or to other areas in the U.S.A.), you will need up-to-date charts.  NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has introduced new official BookletCharts that cover the 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline and the Great Lakes.  These contain most of the information found on NOAA's full-scale nautical charts, but it is presented as reduced-scale.

 

Since the Booklet Charts are easy to access from the Web, easy to print, and easy to carry in a pocket, NOAA officials hope that tens of millions of recreational boaters who may not normally use charts will use these. 

 

Several years ago, the Office of Coast Survey introduced experimental BookletCharts as PDFs in an 8�-by-11 inch format, to test public demand and use.  The product has been tremendously successful, receiving kudos from recreational boaters and boating organizations.  Coast Survey has subsequently upgraded the chart displays and navigational information for the official product.

 

Please note that these are for US areas only.

  

For those interested, these charts can be accessed at the following link:     BookletCharts 

 

Click on Great Lakes and then select the chart you are interested in.  The charts can be printed or saved as *.pdf files. 

Valentine Menu 
Winter Hours Of Operation

 

Bar

Kitchen

Gas Dock

Monday

             CLOSED 

           CLOSED 

Closed for the Season   

Tuesday

             CLOSED 

           CLOSED 

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Wednesday

     4:00pm - 11:00pm

    4:00pm  - 10:00pm

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Thursday

     4:00pm -   9:00pm

    4:00pm  -   8:00pm

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Friday

       NOON  - 11:00pm

      NOON  - 10:00pm

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Saturday

   11:00am  -  9:00pm

    8:00am   -  8:00pm

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Sunday & Holidays

   11:00am  -  7:00pm

  11:00am  -   6:00pm

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 ABYC Office Hours:  8:30am - 5:00pm (Monday - Friday) 
For Dining Room Reservations call 416-698-4498 Ext 222 or email [email protected]  
Ashbridge's Bay Yacht Club
30 Ashbridge's Bay Park Road, Toronto, Ontario M4L 3W6 
Tel. 416-698-4498   Fax 416-698-5760
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