November 27, 2013 
DIANE  
"I am fine, very frustrated and very sad but I will survive"
 
Photo from YouTube interview  
 
"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit"
                                                                                                                                                                                J.R.R. Tolkien 
In This Issue
Upcoming ABYC Events
2013 Racing Awards
VC-Marine - Sea Wall Repair
Great turnout last Saturday
Seawall Repairs
Christmas Parties
Job Jar Clarification
2013/2014 Lecture Series "Racing Around the World"
Diane is Safe & Sound

Upcoming ABYC Events

Friday - Fine Dining 

Wednesday - Wings Night 

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Friday - Fine Dining 

Wednesday - Wings Night 

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04  Wednesday - Tree Raising   

06  Friday  - Christmas Dinner/Carolling

08  Sunday - Children's Christmas Party

12  Thursday - Movie - Racing Around the World Alone 


ABYC 2013 Racing Awards

ABYC's racers held their annual Racing Awards Night last Saturday evening with a many trophies and special awards handed out.

Some of the major trophies and awards went to the following recipients:


Ashbridge Trophy
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This is the most prestigious sailing award in the club.  It is awarded to the skipper who, while  flying the ABYC burgee, brings the most prestige upon the club through accomplishments in either, or a combination of, club, and/or local and/provincial, and/or national, and/or international competition. 

The skipper will be selected by a jury of his or her peers  and the jury shall remain secret.

The winner for 2013 is Winston Beckett (Fortitude).

The following was read by Rear Commodore Paul Brennan:

To the Skipper who, while flying the ABYC burgee, brings the most prestige upon the club.  Fortitude took 1st at PCYC Open, 1st at QCYC Open, 3rd at EYC Open ... and the clincher ... 1st in class and 1st of 38 at the RCYC Open/IRC Canadians.

Congratulations to Winston Beckett, and all the crew that helped him accomplish this
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Stapleton Trophy
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Awarded annually to the best overall boat in the club racing that has also distinguished herself in racing events outside the club. 

The skipper will be selected by a jury of his or her peers and the jury shall remain secret.

The winner is Stephen Trevitt (Crime Scene).


The following was read by Rear Commodore Paul Brennan:

For the best boat in the club, also distinguishing herself in outside races.  You've seen her club results ... she also took 1st at ABYC Open, 1st at QCYC Open, 2nd at PCYC & EYC opens, 3rd in RCYC Open, and combined with LYRA results one LYRA Boat of the Year.


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Fauvette Trophy
Photo - Alison Wardman
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Junior Sailor of the Year.  Awarded to the most proficient junior sailor or the junior sailor who best represents the Club in outside events.

The winner this year is Rowland Goddard.

Rowland earned the Fauvette Trophy through his extraordinary progress in racing Optimists in 2013.  Roland only started sailing in 2012, and he joined the racing program in the fall of 2012, when he began to learn how to race Optimists.  From this brief introduction, in 2013 Roland showed tremendous commitment to Optimist racing, sailing 8 events in the 2013 season.  In mid summer his efforts paid off and he graduated from the beginner Green Fleet to racing in the Championship fleet, and in late August he posted a 50th place result of 77 boats and while it's not explicitly tracked, he was most likely the highest placing 1st year participant at the event.  Roland capped off his season in Hamilton with a top half finish at the Cornish Hen Regatta in Hamilton.  His racing results reflect his high degree of discipline in his training as identified by multiple coaches who worked with him.


Full list of Trophy & Award Winners
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Presentation Night Photos
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Photos of trophy presentations can be viewed at the following link:

Note from VC-Marine
- Bruce Morrison, VC-Marine
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Seawall Repair 

Please volunteer for this critical project.  Contact Stephen Trevitt for your task assignments.

 

Yard Cleanup

I want all members' property left on the ground or attached to the fence moved away from the fence and relocated to your cradle, especially your ladders. 

This is your last warning before the fence area is cleaned up and everything left behind will be declared abandoned and disposed starting Dec 1, 2013.

 
Sue Hamilton
What's happening Saturday mornings? 
- Sue Hamilton, Work Party Coordinator
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We are continuing on the wall repair activities lead by Stephen Trevitt.  This job will continue on throughout the winter, breaking only for two weeks around Christmas.  If you are part of the regular team, or would like to be on the regular team please send an email to [email protected].  We would like to manage a list of emails to communicate information to the team.

On Saturday mornings, Stephen starts the job as soon as he arrives and may not be up in the club house - the work is being done in the dry sail area, so when you arrive, look for Stephen in that area.

 

Team lead Joe Simpson is running two projects.  One is the rail track repair, and the other is the work raft repairs.  Joe is usually up in the club house until 9:00 am, and then can generally be found around Casa Ballman.

 

Team lead Mike Leroux is running dock maintenance activities, and could use a few people to help with the third project - building fender board sections
1. Decking two rafts
2. Decking of floating dock that was repaired.
3. Building fender board sections for the dry sail sea wall.

Mike is usually in the club house until 9:00 am, and then out and about on the docks.

Seawall repairs
- Stephen Trevitt
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Many of you will have noticed the progress we've made to date on the seawall repairs.  72 feet of wall along the north dry sail crane is now excavated, the cap is removed and it is ready for us to drive new steel sheets.  The steel is delivered and ready.  The pile driver refurbishing is almost complete - it now has a new engine and the tower is reinforced so we should have a reliable platform to drive those steel sheets.

What we need now is people to do the actual pile driving.  Several people have signed up through the JobJar system and several more have indicated they will help but this needs to be coordinated so that we have the right number of people at all times.  We need 8 people Saturday morning (9:00am to 1:00pm) and 8 different people for the afternoon (1:00pm to 5:00pm).  If you can help, sign up in the job jar system and also send me an email (trevitt at rogers.com) to let me know which shift you are signing up for.  The work is fairly physical, and we are working four full hours in each shift so keep that in mind when you chose this job.  You'll need safety boots and gloves, and warm clothes as it can get pretty cold working in Coatsworth Cut. 

Once I see that you've signed up and I have an email from you with your shift preference I will include you on a weekly email so that you know what work is coming up.
Christmas



Job Jar clarification 
- Michelle Wolfson
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This is a message to the supervisors who have jobs listed in the Job Jar. 

I recently received this email:

 "I'm short of volunteer hours and was hoping to fix that in the next few weekends.  I went to the Job Jar
to sign up for something but ended up confused.  There's obviously a lot listed there but it's very difficult to get a sense of what, if anything, is going on for the next few weekends.  Any tips on where to look?"
 
The Jobs listed in the Job Jar are supposed to have accurate dates that describe the start date and expected duration of the work. Many don't as they were created after the work was completed just so that members could record their work hours.  The jobs will appear as open and ongoing because I can't close the job until I'm sure that everyone who did the work has signed up for and recorded their hours. 

I am asking all members to please sign up for work that you have completed during the year. At the end of December I will be going through all of the open jobs and closing off any of them that are deemed completed so that the database more accurately reflects the work available to members. 

Supervisors, check to see which jobs you have open in the Job Jar. In January, I'll approach you to see if the jobs are still ongoing or if they should be closed off. 

Please contact me if you need any help, I am always just a phone call or email away. 

Michelle Wolfson 416-889-9420  or [email protected]

2013/2014 ABYC Lecture Series

Thursday, December 12th - 7:00pm 

- Jim Allen & Petra Fischer, Co-Chairs, Winter Lecture Series

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Please join us on Thursday, December 12th for a viewing of the sailing documentary

"Racing Around the World Alone" with the permission of Wind Athletes.

 

 

 

'Racing Around the World Alone' is the story of the 2008/2009 Vendee Globe race. 30 skippers embark on a quest to be the fastest to sail 27,000 miles around the world, non-stop, without assistance and alone on 60 foot sailboats.  This is one of the most extreme challenges a human being can face.  The sailors are alone at sea for months and physical and emotional strength are essential.  Growlers (Icebergs), sea mammals, and massive waves are a constant danger.  On any day the forces of nature can bring an end to the best sailor's well made plans.  They harness the wind, hope for safe passage over the sea and push hard to win. They are a testament to the audacity of the human spirit.

On their journey, they will see the world in a way that few ever have the chance to see it.  However, as many a sailor knows, the ocean, though beautiful, is powerful and unforgiving.  They set out to demonstrate that the human will is up to the greatest of challenges. This is their story.  Trailer can be reviewed at http://www.sailingaroundtheworld.tv/

 

Once again, we will pass around the beer jug for Toonie Thursday donations and hope to raise more than the "weather Seminar" last month.  Contributions will be shared between the Junior sailing Program and the Corinthian Fund.  Thank you for your support.
Diane - Safe and Sound

- Jim Allen/Roger van Vlack 

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Diane Reid arrived in Puerto Calero in the Canary Islands early Sunday morning after sailing 300 miles downwind with only her jib.  In short she had broken a spreader bracket and was still having trouble with power on her boat.  The bracket was the top one on the port side.  The only reason the mast stayed up was because she was able to straighten the mast and pull the checkstays on causing the mast to compress the broken fitting which still had some rivets holding.  But this meant that with both checkstays on she couldn't hoist the main.  The only reason the mast didn't fall down was that she was very fortunate with the weather and that she could do the 300 miles on one tack slightly off the wind.  Although she still had about 4-5 hours of technical stopover allowance left, she had to be towed into shore at 2:00 AM so technically her time was up, but subject to review by the Race Officer.

 

Now in Diane's own words here is what happened:

So, as I suspected, unfortunately the Race Officer won't let me restart.  The rules are that we are only allowed 72 hours for stopovers.  I ran out of time at 0730 UTC.  Plus, he was quite concerned from a safety aspect.  Not that I can't manage the boat, but that I would be so far behind the fleet once I put to sea and so far behind the closest support boat by three days, that he said no for safety reasons and the weather bomb that will be in our track in a few days after the highs get slurped out of the system.   It is the right decision.  I think if he had told me I could restart, I probably would have because I want to finish this race so much.  So it was probably wise on his part to deny me the opportunity.  In the meantime, I now have to figure out what and how to deal with the boat and how and where to ship it.  I'm not alone. There arefive of us here all trying to answer the same question.  The five of us are probably going to build the cradles and things we need to ship the boats as it will be cheaper than trying to get our cradles, etc. from France.  

 

Anyway, I am fine, very frustrated and very sad but I will survive :-)

 

Diane's Shore Team lead by her Campaign Manager, Roger Van Vlack are working hard to find ways to get both Diane and her boat safely back from the Canary Islands, which could cost $5,000 - $10,000.  

 

We can all be proud of what Diane has accomplished while flying the ABYC Burgee.  In the end her boat failed her, but she didn't fail.

 

 

- From Tim Hill:

Diane mentioning the internet in Lanzarote wasn't as fast as she might like, observed "I need to go to bed before I launch this computer across the expansive marble foyer".  While Diane is hunting for WiFi connections in the hopes of sending a picture, it's Tim Facebooking again.

The Toronto Star, Toronto's largest circulation newspaper has an item about the Race Committee's decision that Diane was not allowed to continue the Mini Transat.  It is a follow-up from last week's piece on Diane sailing in under jury rig.

Diane's home club, Ashbridge's Bay Yacht Club, acknowledged Diane at the Racing Awards Banquet last Saturday.  Diane was awarded the Rear Commodore's Commendation for Courage & Perseverance.  The recognition was accompanied by a bottle of Goslings Black Seal rum.  When asked if the rum was belated recognition of Diane's win in the Bermuda 1-2, RC Paul Brennan laughed and referenced the many Dark & Stormy nights on the Bay of Biscay.  Diane is gratified with the commendation.  And her support team are gratified that she's offered to share when she returns.

"Thank you Ashbridges Bay for all of your continuing Support" - Diane
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/11/24/toronto_sailor_back_on_land_but_out_of_trans
 

 

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Winter Hours Of Operation

 

Bar

Kitchen

Gas Dock

Monday

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             CLOSED 

CLOSED 

Tuesday

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             CLOSED 

CLOSED 

Wednesday

     4:00pm - 11:00pm

     4:00pm - 10:00pm

CLOSED 

Thursday

     4:00pm - 9:00pm

     4:00pm - 8:00pm

CLOSED 

Friday

     NOON - 11:00pm

     NOON - 10:00pm

CLOSED 

Saturday

    11:00am - 9:00pm

     8:00am  - 8:00pm

CLOSED 

Sunday & Holidays

    11:00am - 7:00pm

     11:00am -  6:00pm

CLOSED 

 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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