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.

The weekday Dock Crew volunteers have been busy reassembling D dock with an all-metal joint. Unfortunately, about 3 weeks ago a piece of aluminum plate about 1m long went missing from D dock. Below is a photo of its twin. If anyone knows where it is or what happened to it, please let me know. Thanks!

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.

We'll be monitoring dock movements over the stormy winter season, using these Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Loggers. You'll see them mounted on posts, with several LEDs blinking merrily. The purpose is to measure how much movement the various docks experience during high winds, to help design the joints between the docks and the spine.

Currently we have deployed a logger at the N and S ends of A dock, and the E and W ends of the Spine. The loggers record data to an accuracy of about +/- 50cm, once per second. They don't transmit any data - just record it on an internal memory card. For more technical details, google the logger "Columbus P-10 Pro"

Please don't disturb the loggers. I'll provide updates of our data as we collect and process it. Thanks!