COMMODORE’S UPDATE APRIL 2020
Over the past number of weeks you have all experienced unprecedented challenges as the Covid-19 pandemic paid an unwanted visit to our shores. Extensive preparations and time had been committed to our Club in planning for the year ahead. Our younger sailors already on the water in January & February were feeling the cold as they trained and prepared for events in their Optimists, 420’s and Lasers. The racing and training calendar was full and cruises planned both at home and abroad. Our social scene vibrant with a full schedule of speakers arranged.
The cancellation of our activities, and the closing of both premises, while difficult at the time, was the right thing to do. I am immensely grateful for your support. While activity may appear to have stopped, that is far from the situation. Your Committee have been working hard to ensure we will be ready to resume activities once we have clearance.
We held our April Committee meeting on-line last week. Our finances are in a solid state and we are on target to meet our financial commitments for the year. Clubforce has proven to be a very effective method of managing our membership data. We have new members joining as late as this week along with former members returning. Our pen fee payments are nearing completion. We are testing the feasibility of holding some social activities on-line. Our courses for the upper and lower estuary are booked and we are endeavouring to build in extra capacity for training.
We have reached out to members who have boats in the pen and who have not been using them to see if they could be put to Club use for courses when we launch. The response has been overwhelming, members have donated their boats, foils and sails and more have offered full use of their boats. I sincerely appreciate this commitment and generosity.
With immense pride we saw Malahide Yacht Club becoming the Irish Sailing Training Centre for the Year 2019. An epic achievement, further testimony of the commitment and hard work of so many in our Club down through the years and one which we will rightly celebrate in full, but not just yet. You have a Club you can be proud of. For now keep safe, let us not become complacent, your Committee will continue to work on in the background. We will have a new calendar for racing and cruising. We will be launching our coaching, training and fun nights. Our social scene will adapt and we will be ready to take to the waters and enjoy each others company in better times to come. For now,
Keep Safe.
Daniel Flavin
Commodore
Malahide Yacht Club.
18th April 2020.
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