Saturday - 20 - Donald Summerville Memorial LORC Race
  Saturday - 27 - Doubletime/Black Pearl Challenge Race

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The CNE has started, the back-to-school sales are everywhere and sadly we are closer to our haul out date than we are to the 2014 Launch date.  Our next AGM is scheduled for September 22nd.  As we draw closer to the AGM and the election of 3 board positions, we would like to remind you that there is still time to consider running for the open positions of Rear Commodore, VC Finance and VC Marine.

We hope you had a chance to review the last few S2S articles where we outlined the position's role and offered some advice and comments from past position holders.  If you have any questions, or just want to chat about the roles...

Gus would like to talk to you about the role of Vice Commodore Marine

Cindy would like to talk to you about the role of Vice Commodore Finance

Petra would like to discuss with you about the role of Rear Commodore

 

Next article...We hope to publish the names and information about those running for election at the fall AGM.

 

Your nomination Committee

Petra Fischer (Chair), Cindy Sampson and Gus Gillespie (We are all in the book!) 

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Following last weeks' preparation steps, we are now ready to drive wall steel.  If we do the whole of white wall that will be 285 sheets in less than 10 days.  We will have to have a minimum of 4 member helpers per day to assist the contractor to supply materials and guide the sheet as it goes into the harbour seabed.  Not a heavy task as the machine does the work but necessary to the flow of work.  All retirees and shift workers are free to apply.  For members who have not seen the video of the sheet driving test, click on the link:  

 

Once the sheets are in place the real work begins with several simultaneous jobs that will secure the new wall upright and secure to the shore and to the concrete cap.  Traditional Tie-Backs made of new materials like epoxy coated rebar will be placed in a 20 ft. excavated trench and secured to a concrete or galvanized sheet steel anchor buried in a second trench dug perpendicular to the first trench.  On the outside of the wall, new in-house constructed walers (20 ft long steel retainer beams) will be snugged up to the sheet and gradually tightened to bring the wall as straight as possible.

 

The top of the wall will be attached to the concrete cap just below the top surface by an epoxy set fastener drilled into the concrete and attached to the steel by nut and washer. The small space between the new and old wall can now be filled with packed pea gravel or small river rock making the new wall and the old wall and the earth and fill behind one solid mass.

 

None of the work described so far requires special knowledge or special skills except for the welding of the waler and the operation of the sheet driver, both which have been taken care of through hiring a contractor and the few skilled welders that are members of the club.  We will assist you to become familiar with basic tools, basic procedures and safe working procedures that you will be confident and able do your part to restore the club walls to their original state.

 

More details to follow in the coming weeks.

 

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The cruise to RCYC started off with 27 boats signed up for this popular destination.   Two  weeks prior to the cruise we received a note from RCYC stating that they could only take 10 vessels due to their Royal Invitational Regatta.  Now the challenge was to whittle down the list to 10 and hope that more spaces open up.  The good news is that our policy of prioritizing boats by sign-up dates works and does not cause unfairness.  I also pleaded with our list to advise if they intended or not to attend.  To make a long story short, we managed to get 11 boats into the club and 2 went to QCYC and 1 boat was left out.

 

Now for the weather; as I was listening to the CBC, I heard the host refer to August as Augtober - It really spells out the type of summer we have been having.  No less for RCYC, strong winds and cold on Saturday and then rain for the better part of the afternoon.

 

Amarone II had prepared 16 lbs of brisket which was slow cooked for 12 hours in 10 lbs of onions, a gazpacho, tomato / basil / feta salad and melons for dessert.  I want to thank Nancy Ogden (Sail la Vie) for all her help in the galley to get all the food prepped on such a miserable day.  We checked the weather radar and we saw that the rain should end by 5:30 and sure enough it stopped at 5:30.  It was great to see 30 people in their foul weather gear huddled under 3 umbrellas having a great time.  At the end of the meal, there was nothing left, give us bad weather to open up the appetites.

 

Next cruise is to WYC and then to the Oakville Squadron on Labour Day.

 

Fair Winds / Bon Vent

 

 

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Thinking about how to fill the long summer days in 2015? Not yet? You should be!

 

The summer of 2015 will see the largest international multi-sport Games ever hosted by our great nation right here in Toronto and the Greater Golden Horseshoe region, rather than watch it on television or from the stands, YOU could be a part of the action! 

 

Why should you volunteer for the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games?  We can give you more than 20,000 reasons why...but how about having a sneak peek of the Pan Am Games Opening Ceremony created by Cirque du Soleil. There's also meals and refreshments during shifts, Games-time access to public transit, exclusive promotions, events, and discounts on tickets and merchandise.

 

Don't delay - volunteer interviews have begun and offer letters are sent in the fall of 2014.

Apply now and be one of the first to tell the world what you will be doing in the summer of 2015!

To help us recognize members of the sports community in the application system, please:

* Complete the sport experience section of the application

* Use the volunteer code VOLSPT

 

 

 

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Blind Sailing Canada is a group of wonderful individuals with a desire to sail, a variety of skills, 3 boats, and need for sighted skippers and volunteers to help them sail their boats.  They have an almost new Catalina Capri 22 and a Catalina 270 which are used for day sailing and cruising out of Marina Quay West.  They also have a J24 which was used by their racers who have competed internationally in Japan.  Take this opportunity to join some of your fellow ABYC members to help Brian and Jasmine, Chris, Sylvia, Craig, Grant, Myra, Tina, and many more.  Learn more about them at http://www.blindsailing.ca/ or sign up via email to info@blindsailing.ca or by calling (416) 489-2433. 

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Although we are still quite some time away from haulout, the September 8 deadline for notifications regarding boat storage is approaching faster.  As the harbour is full, and yard storage this year will be constrained by the work on the seawalls, it is essential for the haul plan that we have an accurate count of those boats that are to be hauled by crane and stored on the club's property this year.  Therefore, anyone who falls into one of the following categories is asked to inform me (copies to the office) if they are planning to haul by crane and store at the club this winter:
 

1. Owners of boats that did not haul/store with us last year (including those who regularly haul/store elsewhere).
2. Owners of boats that were hauled/stored mast-up last year.
3. Owners who stored with us last year but do not plan to do so this year.
4. Members who have a different boat this year and wish it to be stored in the craneyard.

Owners who hauled/stored with us last year and plan to do so again this year, do not need to inform the office.
 
If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me.  (amirvish@hotmail.com)

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My halyards aren't rapping, why are yours?  This problem is easily remedied and we should do it both for our own members who may occasionally sleep over and for our guest visitors who are sleeping over..

 

Ainsley Doell placed 4^th overall out of 34 boats in Laser radial- bronze fleet.  Quinten Beelik placed 33^rd. out of 41 boats in Laser radial-silver fleet.  Former junior and senior team member Shawn Gershman, also in Laser radial-silver fleet, placed 22^nd, despite having his boom break on the most extreme weather day.  Adam Gillies placed 15^th and Tyrus Sherk was 22^nd, in Laser full rig.  Sarah Christensen and Zoe Sherar placed 13^th out of 33 boats in 420-silver fleet.  In the 29er fleet, which got in the fewest races due to the challenging conditions, Sam Bonin and Chloe Carr finished 17^th and Rowland Goddard and Thomas Kidd finished 19^th out of a fleet of 23 boats.

 

Congratulations to the entire team on their summer season!  

  

Photos Christian Bonin

 

 

 

 

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The recently held LYRA 2014 Regatta hosted by ABYC received a good write-up in the online publication "J/News" with several ABYC boats being mentioned - especially Nautical Symphony.  To view the article, click on the link:

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That's all for this week.