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Our Club won the accolade of Irish Sailing last Saturday in recognition of its efforts in promoting sustainability and clean seas throughout its activities and events.

For memory:

• The National Yacht Club was Ireland’s first Club with a Sea Bin – thanks to Twelve-year-old environmental campaigner Flossie Donnelly (see here and here)
• In July, the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta (and all its stakeholder Clubs) was awarded Gold Level Clean Regatta Certification
• In August, the inaugural Irish Sailing Pathfinder Women at the Helm Regatta hosted by the NYC was, as a first for any Club in Ireland, award Platinum level
• In September, the Subaru Flying Fifteen World Championships Regatta was also award Gold Certification

We would like to thank all involved in achieving these milestones, and especially Grainne Ryan for spearheading the Sustainability efforts in the Club.

Sailing Ireland have had to cancel their Annual Conference scheduled for tomorrow         (March 21^st) due to Covid 19, but by innovative use of new technology they will proceed with their Annual Awards ceremony – the last to be hosted by outgoing Sailing Ireland President, our own Jack Roy.

It will be a wholly on line event, accessible on the Sailing Ireland Facebook Page at 18.30 (https://www.facebook.com/IrishSailingAssociation/)

The National YC has three nominees for the Sailor of the Year and the Club itself is a contender for the 2019 Sustainability Awards and the 2019 Inclusion Award. Read More Here

Since the guidelines issued by An Taoiseach last Thursday, Irish Sailing has been in discussions with a number of stakeholders from both competitive and training backgrounds, and have concluded that social distancing is not only difficult to achieve onshore from an organisers’ perspective but also difficult to achieve at a personal level on the water.

For double handers and/or keelboats requiring two or more crew, it is not possible. Even for organised activities involving single-handers requiring safety cover (with two people in the safety boat), it is not achievable.

For this reason, Irish Sailing advises that all organised sailing activity should cease with immediate effect and will be reviewed on 29th March. 

NYC Members can still use their boats and go sailing in a private, non-group organised, capacity. However, the changing rooms are not to be used and we remind all our Members to keep observing the HSE guidelines on social distancing among themselves and with the Boathouse staff.

We will continue to monitor Government announcements and update the advice accordingly.

Thanking you for your cooperation.

We have decided to reschedule the lift-in back to its ‘normal’ mid-April weekend (eg back by one week) to Saturday 11^th April.

The lift-in had been brought forward by a week to Saturday 4th April as the 11^th was during the Easter bank holiday weekend and we were anticipating that some boat owners might be away…

However:

• The weather has been very poor since Christmas and we think the additional time to prepare for the sailing season will be welcomed by owners
• We don’t think that many people will make travel arrangements over Easter or go on with previously made arrangements

If rescheduling the lift-in poses a problem to you, please contact sailing@nyc.ie 

Irish Sailing acknowledges that they are not in a position to give expert advice in respect of the Covid 19 threat and that as a minimum, the advice of the HSE should be followed.

The current advice issued today by An Taoiseach effective until 29^th March, is for indoor mass gatherings of more than 100 people and outdoor mass gatherings of more than 500 people should be cancelled.

Consequently, Irish Sailing has agreed some precautionary measures for their own events to minimise the risk of infection of those involved in their activities: Read More Here