Dock Talk

Our Foreshore/Dock Volunteer Team has started its weekly dock maintenance and construction activities. We've noticed a disturbing decline in tidiness around the dock: one serious example is the ~15 litres of presumed used engine oil stored in miscellaneous containers alongside the workshop (see photo).

This poses several problems:

• risk of leakage into the ocean

• the containers are unlabeled and therefore the contents are only known to the person who filled them. Disposing of them properly requires knowing what is in them.

• a volunteer has to take time out from their legitimate CFSA tasks to get rid of someone else's waste.

Attn all members:

Access to the parking by STC dock will be blocked off today (August 1st), for a Pacific Fleet Club event.

Happy holidays everyone! First post and its a wet one! Im at the docks, bailed out 5 and 2 (holy smokes....!) After I run BLUESHIFT a bit ill drive around and look for any big signs of trouble. I had a piece of canvas cover that was a bit loose.

Best to you all!

Looking at the weather tomorrow, being favorable for diving. I will at the club at 0930 to change zincs. Any member who wishes to have their zincs changed please message me, 236-508-6531 and I will put you on the list. This being a fundraiser for Able Sail Victoria I ask that you donate, minimum $75 for two shaft zincs changed, $100 for shaft and propeller zincs.

Where we are scheduling multiple boats and are not getting out of the water between boats you will need to be at your boat to hand us the zincs you require changed.

Boat at C-5 (pretty sure the name was Argyle) had two alarms going yesterday (Oct 30). We turned the bilge pump to auto and a fair amount of water drained out - had to take the pump off auto though as the pump wouldn't stop even though the water had been drained. Another alarm was also going - not sure what it was but the battery monitor display was blinking and I think a red service light was on. We pushed a few buttons and I can't recall now how we got that alarm to go off, but anyway, Argyle, you should check your boat.

Claude mentioned that some of the boards on the fingers that Argyle is alongside were loose. He nailed a few down. I found some more and nailed more down. There may be a hammer and nails in the generator box.

Be safe out there!

C