nominations are due on the 4th of march,

1 : If you are attending please put your nomination in berfore the due date.

2 : If for some reason you are attending and wish to pay your fees on arrival you still must put your nomination in by the due date, and you will pay the late fee.

3 : For those that are going to wait and see, you will pay the late fee and will NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE PART IN THE BREAKFAST OR THE HUNGI , as catering will be organised only for those that have nominated by the due date ,NO EXPTIONS.

IN OTHER WORDS PLEASE PUT YOUR NOMINATIONS IN ASAP

all non sailing members will have to fill in the nomination form as a non sailer. The cost for the breaky and the hungi will be $10.00 . I apoligise for the over site , in saying that we would need the nominations by the 4 th of March.

We received this from DR this week. I know others were interested so thought it appropriate to share.
Susan




Read your ALSA Rules
Program for National Championships
Easter Lake Gilles 2008
This Program is run by ALSA Rules
Friday21st February
Scrutinizing and Pilots Meeting, Practice sailing course
Pilots meeting in the evening.

Sail Master Ross Gamlin & scrutinizing.

Saturday 22nd February
Community Breakfast
Pilots meeting 9.00am
Class `V` Racing Providing their sufficient wind
Blokarts &Mini Yacht Racing

This will continue through out the day.

Evening Hungi meal.

Sunday 23rd February
Pilot Meeting 9.00am
Class `V` Racing providing their sufficient wind.
Blokarts Racing & Mini Yachts
Perpetual Racing Marathon

Evening Presentation of Trophies

Hi David
What would the chance of having a rolling start for the minis as i believe ALSA only have standing starts at the Nationals.
Any other minis in aggreeance with this suggestion.I know of at least 5 Blokarts coming from Vic that rather start like this.

two weeks to go.be on my way next friday ,cant wait, if there is some qld,er out there that would like to come get hold of me aasp dave

Have a great time!!

At least our record breaking heat wave is due to end before the event. Man it's been hot down here!!! Just make sure you take plenty of water.

port said...

Hi Hills
Good to hear the heat will be easing!what winds are we likely to see at this time of year is it worth bringing our small sails.

I'm not sure mate, Its in the middle of Ayre Peninsular, a long way from the coast, so there won't be the reliable sea breezes. Its a little to far off to get any forecasts from BOM at this stage. I'd just take all of your sails to be sure.


BTW as you're passing thru from Vic, do a search on googlemaps for "Parham" and check it out to the north. I've never been there but it might be worth a recon and a couple of hours stop on the way there or back. Think I'd better go for a Sunday drive and check it out.

Gidday

Any one know how these titles went???

Shame A.L.S.A SHAME!!

To run an event & treat/talk people the way you did you should never run an event again. You should also step aside from your tasks within A.L.S.A as there are people out there who will push the sport in the right direction.

When A.L.S.A took their bat & ball home & called the event off on Sunday morning?? Shame, Shame!!!

A.L.S.A you need to refund all money that you collected for this event!!

Words can not express the pilots briefing, the rules that were made up during that brieing, the disrespect towards Class 6 Blokart pilots.

A.L.S.A committee you need to put aside your political views as this is not needed at these events.

Bailey

Bailey said...

Shame A.L.S.A SHAME!!

To run an event & treat/talk people the way you did you should never run an event again. You should also step aside from your tasks within A.L.S.A as there are people out there who will push the sport in the right direction.

When A.L.S.A took their bat & ball home & called the event off on Sunday morning?? Shame, Shame!!!

A.L.S.A you need to refund all money that you collected for this event!!

Words can not express the pilots briefing, the rules that were made up during that brieing, the disrespect towards Class 6 Blokart pilots.

A.L.S.A committee you need to put aside your political views as this is not needed at these events.

Bailey

Does this mean there was no National event? No AGM? No new ALSA committee? Pity I could not be there.

On a more positive note on Sunday evening the "stay-to-the-enders" had a fantastic group dinner under the stars with everyones left over food from thier esky's. We had bbq, salads campovens and more - enough food to sink a battleship. Good wine and good company and a gentle breeze!

Only been back a few hours , sorry. see what we can do tommorrow

Oky said...

Hi All

s, Blokarts 1st, 2nd, & 3rd in class 6, I here they even " LAPPED the PHEONIX " on a 2 lap race, well done Blokarts

The mini racing was a cracker to see. the day before minis and blowies were neck and neck in practice. next day in light winds the 5.5m sails came out. .
I can confirm that in light winds with all the bling and carbon fitted a blowie will beat a lefroy mini.but not every time!. Bill Finch managed to pip ben at the post by a few metres in the second race.
The most notable effort was by Val Murphy in a old production blowie who led race 2 to the last mark and claimed 2 3rds for the weekend.
She beat me both races so I must now acknowledge that I can no longer claim the title of Australias second best landsailor and must pass that honour onto Val .
That just leaves me with the Internationally renowned designer Title.

Hi Guys,
Been following the discussions from the nationals. Also checked out the who is ALSA forum. I actually emailed David as an ALSA delegate about the agenda for the meeting. I received no reply. We were not able to attend, but would have liked an input. We also were not notified officiailly about a AGM or the Nationals (so called Nationals). I am the secretary of our club and thought all official notification would go through the secretary. I agree that things need to change and it will have to be done at another nationals and maybe we need to hold it in another state. The nationals I gather were held by S.A. not ALSA so the committee cannot be blamed about the running of the competition, however if the issues that are concerned by some were not competition related then that is different.

Hi Graham,
More people would have come from W.A. if we had more time to arange a trip over. A group of us travelled over last easter and made it known that we would do the trip every two years. And also it would be nice if others made the trip over to W.A. the year in between. There definately was not enough notice of the event being a National title. David said it was from a W.A. sailor that the easter weekend be made a nationals, but who I don't know ,and it was supposedly only one sailor, not a group. People need longer to arrange leave and to safe the money for such a trip as larger yatches nead a bit more effort and money to drag around.This whole event realy did come out of the blue for us.