Last week the Top of the Bay was held at Port Melbourne Yacht Club. 11 members from the Albert Sailing Club sailed on the day, in absolutely fantastic conditions. The club came 4th in the overall results and everyone had a great time on the water.

This week we are back to our regular racing program at the lake. Past Commodore and one of our most distant members, Mick Ralph will be down from his palatial Queensland residence to be the OOD on Saturday.

Before racing on Saturday I will be running a coaching session in the morning. I will be looking at boat handling, and will be videoing the session. The training will start at 10:00AM.

At present Terry O'D is searching for volunteers to operate within a team of 4, to maintain the 20 club boats. This is a great opportunity if you would like to learn about boat maintenance. Terry has one gracious volunteer so far, so get in quick before this opportunity passes.

Finally, I will mention things Albert Sailing Club related that are going on online. First up the Albert Sailing Club now is currently referenced by Google Maps correctly. If you search for Albert Sailing Club in the business search the result is right on top of the club house. While on the subject of Google Maps, using an area calculator I can tell you that Albert Park Lake is about 10.8 Acres, 4.3 Hectares, or 43000m² in size.

Another item online is that we use Google Calendars for our racing, social, training and committee events that appear on the club site. You can subscribe to these calendars in your other calendaring applications (Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar). I know most recent incarnations of these applications can subscribe to the online calendars so you can see upcoming club events in your calendar. I am not going to explain how to import these calendars in to every application you need to look into help for that. Hint for Outlook 2007, copy the ICal link and look in Tools-->Account settings-->Internet Calendars. On the Mac, click the ICal link and Apple's Calendar program will confirm your subscription. Here are the links to the club calendars.

• Racing: ICal , Xml
• Social: ICal , Xml
• Committee: ICal , Xml

Thanks

Luke

Big thanks to the following sponsors of the Albert Sailing Club:

Drive Force Couriers