László Mercz donne prochainement des cours qui préparent aux examens de l'Office fédéral de la communication (OFCOM) en vue d'obtenir le Short Range Certificate (SRC) et le Long Range Certificate (LRC).
If you have taken some great photographs or videos and would like to share them with the club, please consider participating in our annual photo and video contest! You can find the details of this year's rules here below.
Many thanks to Luigi Gallerani and Massimo Paladin for their help in organizing this.
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YCC 2011 Photo & Video Contest Rules
Contest Eligibility
To participate, you must be a YCC Member, participation is free of charge.
All photographs must have been taken between 1 November 2010 and 31 October 2011.
The photograph subject must be relevant to sailing in the following contest categories:
- YCC Club Life: (events, portraits, people, maintenance, q-boat...)
- Sport Photographs: (sailing, capsize, regatta, navigation...)
- Art (boats, landscapes, sunsets, details...)
- Video (sailing video, max 4 minutes long).
Printed and JPEG photographs are allowed.
You can submit your photographs online or send them via mail if printed.
Send an email to massimo.paladin@cern.ch for further details on how to submit
photographs online.
For each photograph you have to specify:
- the category
- its title
- a short description (when, where, who... when necessary)
THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 18th November 2011
Ownership/Use Rights
Photographers retain the copyright to their photographs. By entering the
contest, photographers agree to have their submitted photograph used for
publication at YCC Photo Contest web page, where the photograph will be
credited to the author. Photographers also agree to have their submitted
photograph used for future publicity of YCC without any fee, for example in
printed materials, without the guarantee that the photograph will always
be credited to the author.
Judging
Photographs will be judged by the YCC Photo&Video Contest jury. If you are a
member of the club, you can be a member of the jury. Jury member will
meet, watch, discuss, evaluate and vote all the photographs and videos,
selecting the best photograph for each category.
Photographers joining the contest, can be member of the jury!
Jury will do his best to evaluate all the quality parameters of the
photographs and videos.
If you want to be a jury member send an email to massimo.paladin@cern.ch
Prizes
A prize will be awarded to the author of the best photograph in each category.
Sadly, our friend Paul Rabar has rounded the last mark. For more than twenty years, he was at the heart of the YCC lives, contributing to shape the Club to what all of us enjoy at present. Hungarian national, he was a humble man, with understated elegance and sharp irony, inspiring respect and admiration; definitely one of the best sailors YCC has had. He won countless regattas, participated in world championships and was well known in Switzerland, notably in the Yngling class association. Oddly, his favourite sport was not sailing but fencing. Paul won several European and Hungarian fencing championships. In his house, he had literally kilos of medals piled in a glass jar and incidentally it was during one European championship that Paul met Marianne, his wife.
Paul was my sailing father. I first met him in 1992 when I took the Soling test (that was the YCC's big boat before the Surprise era), during which we argued on practically everything. I just did not grasp his ironic lines, which were more than my ego could bear. Sometime later, by fluke, we found ourselves together on a Yngling during a YCC regatta, that we won hands down thanks to his knowledge of the boat. I couldn't help but admiring the man: he must have said seven words in total, but those were the things to say. We continued racing together and became the Yngling team of YCC.
In 1995, at the Buvette he got me stumped by asking, with his distinctive accent, if I wanted to helm Vas-Y (sic) in no less than the Yngling World Championship, which that year would take place on Lake Geneva. Despite being aware that with Vas-y we would not stand a chance, we took part. It was a memorable moment, and for the record we did not get last. Amazingly, Paul was known by at least half of the international teams, something that he found natural, like being known by one's neighbors.
It is difficult to list all he did for YCC. But if you sail Vas-Y, you should notice the two bilge pumps placed on the deck close to each shroud. He mounted them alone, in 95, before the championship. You should look at them with a bit of respect.
I will miss him a lot and I am sure that those of you who knew him will find it difficult to believe he's gone.
Just in time before the cold season, a milestone has been reached: the last walls (kitchen and bathroom) were laminated with fibreglass and epoxy. This involved: 500 person-hours, a major part of which came from YCC members; 500 m² or 350 kg of glass fibre and peel ply, for a total surface area of 120 m²; 300 kg of epoxy; 200 l of silica gel and micro balloons and 5 m³ of polystyrene, donated by Swisspor.The outer surfaces have been painted and fairing of the inner surfaces is underway. We will start assembling the 5 big pieces on Sat Oct 15th. The wooden floor, the kitchen, toilet and bathroom will follow.
The composite part of the boat is now at Honda, in the immediate proximity of the Zimeysa station. Participation in the construction is, as before, much appreciated. Please contact Peter for the detailed programme.
Meanwhile, Dujardin Icofrance has almost completed the aluminium part of the boat. We plan to put the ballast - 5500 kg of lead - in place between Oct 20th and 24th.
Last weekend saw our annual Match-Races for dinghies and Ynglings, organised by Christian Mester and Sanja Damjanovic. This year there were 5 dinghy and only 2 Yngling teams. The wind on Saturday was really good, the forecast for Sunday less so, and so it was decided to complete racing Saturday: a round-robin followed by the final for the dinghies, and a best-of-3 for the Ynglings. Thanks to umpire Patrick Diday and his crew on the Q-boat, to Annamarie Rowe and Tim Foster for helping with starting procedures, and to Haude Morel (photo adjacent) and Makiko Takayama: see https://picasaweb.google.com/101038642569402704263/MatchRace?authkey=Gv1sRgCJnw6P7U2NGuoAE#
YCC match race 2011 for dinghies and ynglings will take place the last week-end of August.
We cannot resist another action photo from Sunday's regatta, this time of Maarten and Bettina, apparently without a sail but having a good time! Yet more great photos from Isolde Burgelin on http://obswww.unige.ch/~hagelber/album/index.html
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| 2011-07-12 YCC Tuesday Practise |
On their return to SLAC, Steve Smith and Terri Lahey have very generously donated two spinnakers to YCC. Although they are to Olsen 25 gauge, they will be suitable for the masthead symmetric spinnaker configuration of our Surprises and - if not regatta gauge - certainly provide us with some fun sailing and practice! Photos: John Fullerton, of Mic Mac's current spinnaker, and Steve Smith, of the donation (yes, the bridge is the Golden Gate - but that will cost us extra...). Many thanks from us all!
