Hello Everyone,

The wonderful, warm, windy sailing days are quickly approaching and it is time to renew your membership. In order to plan for this centenary EYC season we need to know all the details of your anticipated membership renewal as well as to ensure your trailer/cabin, dock and mooring ball reserved spaces.

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Edmonton Yacht Club and events are in the process of being planned requiring many club members to volunteer. In addition to the 100th there are many other ongoing volunteer positions needing to be filled to maintain the longevity of our wonderful club and to strengthen the membership bonds.Thank you for filling out the volunteer section of the renewal form.

The Membership and Renewal form can be completed and signed onscreen and attached to a new and separate email.(for organization purposes) and send it to membership@edmontonyachtclub.ca.

All the information needed to renew your membership are on our Members page.

As there are many details involved in getting the club ready for the season, the membership renewal forms are requested at your earliest convenience and the final due date is March 31, 2023. Renewal invoices will be sent out in early April.

Looking forward to seeing all of you this season!

Thank you,
Ken Wright
EYC Membership Director
membership@edmontonyachtclub.ca

EYC member Jeff & Lois Burton are selling a sewing machine...

The TN-146 is a zigzag, walking foot sewing machine suitable for sewing zig zag stitching on medium to heavy weight materials including leather, vinyl, canvas, neoprene and synthetics.  The TN-146 has a maximum stitch length of 5mm and a maximum width of 10mm.  This machine is perfect for repairing/making sails (can stitch a 2, 3, or 4 stitch zigzag pattern), making wallets, purses, leather straps, orthopaedic braces, wet suits, awnings, covers, tarps and other similar products.

• APPLICATION:  For Medium to Heavy Materials
• MAX SEWING SPEED:  1,800 SPM
• MAX STITCH LENGTH:  5 millimeters
• MAX ZIG ZAG WIDTH:  10 millimeters
• BOBBIN SIZE:  Large M class
  
• FOOT LIFT:  13mm (1/2")
• NEEDLE:  135x17
• THREAD:  TEX 30 to TEX 135

Asking $2,400. New, it retails for $2949 + GST. The machine has about 5 hours on it.

Here's a quick note on those suspicious emails we sometimes receive. The first thing to realize is that you cannot trust the sender's name near the top of an email. When a person sets up their email service, they can claim to be anyone. They can enter King Charles III as their account name field and that is what people will see when they receive an email from them.

Take this email, sent by someone who entered Don Iveson in their email setup (Gmail inserted the text in the coloured block):

The red arrow points out the email was sent by onlineofficejobs907@gmail.com. The owner of that address claims their name is Don Iveson, but they could've claimed to be anyone. Don did not, in fact, send that email.

The sender's plan was to build trust with whomever replies, eventually turning that trust into some value. This particular email was sent to all the email addresses on our Contact page.

How not to be fooled? Remember that people are sometimes not who they claim to be! And be suspicious of emails that are "out of character", but that appear to be from people you know.

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog"

The Alberta Sailing Association is "the official organization for sailing in Alberta. [They] develop excellence in all aspects of sailing across the province." They have an urgent need...

Dear Clubs and Schools,

We are in the final hour, if we do not have a response immediately for volunteers for the ASA Casino, we will lose the Casino!

The Casino is on the 9 & 10th of January 2023 at the Deerfoot Casino in Calgary.

The funding for programming of our sport is highly depend upon this money — please direct names to Sarah, the ASA Casino Coordinator immediately: sgrahamf@gmail.com.

We need many many volunteers.  Please pass this email on to anyone and everyone you know in the sailing community!

Thank you,
Stacey
ASA - President

Reduced price, new photos in the attached document.

Telios is a 1979 Mirage 26. She has a fixed keel measuring 4.3 feet and has a 10 foot beam. I am the original owner and the boat has been sailed primarily in fresh water but had three weeks at the coast in the summers of 1980 and 1981. The boat has been well cared for and has spent her winters indoors in a heated space. [Text continues below photo]

See more photos and read more details about Telios in this PDF.

Telios is in her heated boat house located at Sunshine Bay on Wabamum Lake.
The asking price is $24,300. Please contract Ed McIntyre at 780-953-2235 for a viewing.

Come for the yoga stay for coffee or tea! Sailing School instructor Samantha Cunningham is a certified yoga instructor. She teaches Yin practice, incorporating longer holds and fewer poses per class, alongside your breathe to help you begin to open the body a little deeper than before. Like all yoga, you may find a challenge and leave feeling refreshed.

When: September 4, Sunday, 9:30 am'ish
Where: Edmonton Yacht Club beach
Who: People 10 and up
Cost: $12

Please bring a mat, water, a small hand towel. If you have blocks, bolsters, and a blanket, they are nice for yin. Write to Liliana if you have questions, social@edmontonyachtclub.ca.

It appears someone started our whaler's 40 HP motor while the boat was out of the water. This prevented the motor from drawing in and circulating cooling lake water, leading to overheating and the destruction of the motor's impeller (water pump).

While the motor is being repaired, we have put our Sailing School's zodiac on the stand that normally holds the whaler. The zodiac also has a 40 HP motor.

Follow this sequence of events:

1. Lower the whaler or zodiac into the water.
   
2. Then start the motor!
   

Always a good idea to check there is water coming out of the motor (proving the impeller is circulating "coolant").

What do members think about posting some simple signs at the entrances to our property, to help people find us? It might also draw more visitors.

Keep in mind that this idea comes from someone inexperienced in graphic design and commercial signage. If you have expertise, please advise!

Staples will print a 3' by 2' sign on 4 mm coroplast for $98. We'd spend a bit of money on wood and paint to frame the sign and put it a few feet above the ground. Here is a design for the signs:

We could  locate the first sign at our south driveway:

Here is where we could locate a second sign, on our north driveway:

Expecting the total cost would be $350 for the two signs plus other materials. Please send advice, criticism and attaboys/attagirls to Liliana Cordeiro (social@edmontonyachtclub.ca) and Mark Gordon (webmaster@edmontonyachtclub.ca).

[Your editor now realizes the village has renamed Seba Days to Family Regatta, but it's late in the publishing process and we've called it Seba Days for soooo long!]

Below is the content from the village's pamphlet. And did you volunteer by selecting from this list of jobs?!)

Calling all EYC members! We need lots of volunteers for the August long weekend, July 30 to August 1, 2022.

Please click the Volunteer button and choose some shifts to work: