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Welcome to the Cruising Yacht Association of Victoria
The February meeting will be on Monday 5th February at our function room upstairs at The Exchange Hotel, 39 Bay Street, Port Melbourne. Our February speaker is Robert Latimer from Medical Sailing Mission who will talk about the sailing he does to various islands where his cargo includes medical practitioners and supplies for local villagers. This promises to be an informative and educational presentation - a good start to 2012! Did you enjoy any sailing or yachting adventures over the Christmas break - if so your fellow yachtie members would be eager to hear about it. Just send your articles and photos to me for inclusion in a future Ebb Tidings. As we move totally into the electronic age, we are proposing to reduce the number of paper copies of Ebb Tidings posted out to members and directing members to the website for personal downloading (in colour) of the newest newsletter. Stay tuned for more information about this at the next couple of meetings. Look forward to seeing you at the February meeting. Ian Reichelt, Editor and WebMaster The Cruising Yacht Association of VIctoria is made up of many yacht owners and people who sail, who also belong to other yacht clubs around Australia. There is a common bond with many yachties wanting to meet or obtain information from fellow cruisers on trips that may take place in the future or cruises that have already taken place. This cruising association was formed in 1977 by Geoff Stewart at a meeting at a Melbourne Yacht Club and started with 40 initial members. The philosophy of the cruising association is to provide its members with an environment where information about cruising journeys and technical advice on equipment is provided via a number of forums, including a monthly meeting to meet and hear interesting and educational speakers. This monthly meeting is held eleven times a year at The Exchange Hotel in Port Melbourne on the first Monday evening of each month at 08.00pm Membership of our association also provides a monthly Newsletter published eleven times a year. This newsletter includes cruising stories, news of member's whereabouts, commercial contacts for obtaining products or work done on their boats and articles submitted by members and many other sources of interest. We also share information via a video library which is available to loan to all members and is accessed by meeting the Video Librarian at each of the monthly meetings. There are also some club items available for sale at meetings. The cost to be a member is $40.00 per year payable in advance on the 1st July each year This web site will also contain a copy of the current newsletter, Ebb Tidings, each month for current members to download in colour. Previous editions will also be available for download. You will also find a page of committee members to assist with your inquiries along with a membership form to join the association . Everyone is welcome to attend our meetings at no cost. We look forward to new members joining and are very willing to receive information from members and other yachties for the newsletter. Welcome to our website. Your Editor Ian Reichelt
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