Sail Away Oct 11 - Albury-Wodonga Yacht Club

Laura ThomsonAs the new Junior Rep is yet to be chosen I am writing a short report to keep everyone up to date in themeantime. The Junior Rep will need to be elected by the Juniors of the club. The rep’s job is to report on juniors’activities each month. This involves an article in the monthly newsletter and updating the ManagementCommittee on things relating to juniors by sending a report to their meetings to be read out.Please consider if you think you would like this role.In next month’s newsletter we will list the candidates with details of who they are so the juniors can then decidewhom they wish to elect. If you wish to nominate please write your name, age, sailing experience and why youthink you should be the Rep. (The details you write down will be what is put in the newsletter).We are all very excited to be the first regional Tackers Centre in Australia. Tackers is for kids aged 7-12, but theGISBS Learn To Sail program will still be running for kids over 12. If you are interested in learning to sail, get yourmum or dad to send an email to awyc.training@gmail.com with your name, age and any prior sail training youhave completed.The season has already started and it’s great to see a fleet of juniors already out there racing. The Junior Helmmini-regatta held on Sunday 2nd October saw windy and choppy conditions. The regatta had three heats (countbest two) with the results:1st Laura Thomson, Oopsy! – 1st, 1st, 1st2nd Kale Geraghty, The Jack Sparrow – 2nd, 2nd, 2nd3rd Simon Thomson, GAZZA – DNS, DNS, 3rdWe are very glad to see Lachlan and Sinead Stone back at the club. It will be great to have some older teens atthe club with so much sailing experience. They competed over the long weekend at the Yachting NSW YouthChampionships at Lake Illawarra in very windy conditions. They finished 10 th out of 21 boats. Great job!Don’t forget that we are collecting the Pauls collect-a-caps so we can raise funds for the junior clubroom. Thereis a collection box near the tea & coffee area.LIFE-JACKETS REQUEST: Anyone with old lifejackets lying about thatthey no longer need, please consider donating them to the Sailabilityprogram. Especially kids or smaller sizes.“Sail Away” October 2011