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Commodore's Message
Welcome to ABSC 22/23. We're all so excited to see you all sailing soon and enjoying all the fantastic aspects of our club's facilities and the beautiful sailing conditions that we do get in Apollo Bay. The only thing more special than lovely facilities and great sailing conditions is the fabulous array of charismatic members, both new and old that make ABSC so awesome. Let's get together and enjoy it all this summer at ABSC.
Introducing the 2022/23 Committee: Junior Reps: Maiya and Octavia Geekie, Peter (Crock) McTaggart, Paul (Shotty) Cannon, Peter Geekie, Gary Summers, Paul Heland (Secretary), Suzanne Goodison (Treasurer), Jesse Morrow (Vice Commodore), Bruce Johnson (Commodore). Please make the most of these fabulous volunteers by supporting their efforts to work hard to make our club safe, fun, viable and compelling for you to enjoy. Your feedback, advice and assistance is always welcome.
Reminders - Upcoming Events
Working Bee Saturday & Paella Night 15/10/22.
Working Bee at ABSC from 10am. RSVP Jesse Morrow for a job at the working bee or to offer a suggestion (0417289966). Uncle Ken’s famous Paella night from 6pm – . RSVP to Maiya Geekie 0488340805
ABSC Open Day First club race - 29/10/22
On Saturday 29th October, ABSC Members and their guests are invited to celebrate the Opening of our sailing season.
Getting into the spirit of Opening Day will be great fun at ABSC. This years Opening Day theme is “Pirates”, so pull put on your best Pirates garb and dress your boat ! Awards for ‘best dressed boats’ and “best dressed Members’ will be presented after racing.
The day starts with the opening ceremony at 12:10pm near the flagpole and will be followed by the sail past lead by Wild Rose at 1:15pm in a Viral Sailing Anarchy Frenzy. Opening Day racing will be from 1.50 pm as short stern chaser before the main race at 2:30
From 4pm, come back to the club to celebrate with live music from talented local musical ABSC members.
20223/23 ABSC Season Program Mark your safety duty boat days in your calendar now.
Membership News
Membership Renewals are due this month. Lookout for an upcoming email from the treasurer. Thank you for all your top quality work Suzanne.
2022/23 Membership form
Racing News
2022/23 NOR / Sailing Instructions
The Racing Rules of Sailing for 2021-2024
This year the club has subscribed to the Buoy Zone app which we will use to consistently and easily set accurate and true courses with member's mobile phones. More details here
In 2022/23 Geraldine Lewin will become the club handicapper with transitional support from Anton. Thank you both.
Pacer National Championships at Altona Beach Sailing Club this summer
Committee News
The ABSC committee meets at 7pm on the first Wednesday of each month. All members are (almost always) welcome to attend committee meetings. Please see the Commodore's Message for a list of Committee members. Committee updates to all members are provided through regular newsletters throughout the season.
The main tasks facing the committee include: Club Participation and growth, Integrity/ Inclusivity, Harbour matters & strategic planning.
The committee was elected to serve the club's members. Please give regular feedback (both encouraging and constructive) to your committee members to ensure we're all working together to make ABSC the best sailing club we can imagine.
Training News
On Saturday the 27th of August, the Geekies attended the Australian Sailing Instructor Conference at Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron in St. Kilda. What a fabulous and informative event. Australian Sailing have hugely stepped up their support for Sailing Clubs across Australia by providing many programs, framework and supports to enable clubs to more readily retain, engage, train and grow their membership as active participants in sailing. Their vision is for more people to be sailing in more ways, more often. The Conference was well organised and very well catered for!!
Sessions were run on the new AS sailing vision and strategic plan, the new Club Participation program, windsurf and foiling instruction (very exciting) , a terrifically informative session on the new child safety guidelines by the AS integrity officer, Dinghy instruction, Coaching updates and a Windsurf brainstorm session. Meeting other instructors and networking across the clubs and AS staff was invaluable for our team. The final session on remuneration and work conditions for instructors lead to a gutsy debate about the pros and cons of paying for expertise in clubs.
This summer at ABSC, we intend to run a rage of courses to cater for
Adults who wish to improve their dinghy sailing - using Pacers
Adults who wish to improve their keel boat sailing - using flying fifteens
Children who wish to obtain their tackers certificates
Children who wish to do some regular small boat racing
We are all ears in terms of listening to your wishes on how you'd like to improve your participation and enjoyment in sailing this summer at ABSC. Please tell your friends, and stay tuned for further course information and dates.
Pete Geekie 0409224649
Safety News:
Boat owners, please ensure your boats are race ready and safe before you first sail this season.
Use these check lists for safety audit information for both dinghy and keel boats.
Flying Fifteen owners, please ensure your airbags / floatation systems are in good order.
Members corner: In the flesh Vox Pop interviews with club legends; both new and old.
Geraldine Lewin & Peter (Crock) McTaggart
Many thanks to Russell Smith for keeping the lawns around the club looking so fabulous
Junior sailors
The club would like to recognise the contribution the youth members have undertaken to represent ABSC members and to bring their fresh perspectives on ABSC to the committee. Thank you(th).
There are an abundance of ways to include and value young sailors in our club. Click here for heaps of great ideas
For Sale
New club website page to help ensure the fabulous sailing resources we have in town are being used as much as possible. - Yes that include flying fifteens!
To place an add contact - Geeks
Vale Captain Carnage
A rascal and a gentleman
With a heavy heart we must inform our members that we lost Les on the 10th of September. Many of the FF sailors will know Les who came from Lake Learmonth years ago and basically bought the whole FF association with him. Les loved to tinker with everyone’s yachts, whether you liked it or not. Sometimes known as Prof Ratbaggy he was 1 lovely man with a heart of gold, a great sense of humour and who loved to sail.
He will be sadly missed.
Les died unexpectedly in his home in Noosa early on the 10th of September.
Goodbye Les, Carnage, Sir Les, Professor Ratbaggy, Lesley, Roufus, My Best Friend, Professor Sumner Miller... Les had many nick names.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to Verna and Les’s family
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