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Classic Yacht recreational sailing on Port Phillip can now resume. From 10 th

Oct onwards, at two week intervals skippers can make individual

arrangements to be back on the water .

CYAA planned activity status for October and beyond.

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Relaxation of Vic Govt. Dept of Health Covid-19 Restrictions 28 Sept
The Vic Govt. DHHS Covid-19 stay at home directions and restrictions on gatherings (No 24, Pages 24 & 25) issued
Sept 28 allow recreational classic yachting on Port Phillip subject to complying with the following:
1. 15 km distance from home rule compliance.
2. Maximum four hours once a day socialising/exercising with five persons aged 18 years or over from two households
who are fully vaccinated.
3. Face mask on when rigging up where 1.5 social distancing cannot be maintained.
4. Face mask to be carried at all times.
5. Carry wipe down equipment to cover multi person use of items of equipment on board.

Current Vic Govt. Covid-19 restrictions require yacht clubs to remain shut down. This means access to club marina’s
will require you to use the clubs QR code to register your presence when passing through restricted area on club
premises. Restrictions by clubs regarding access to a club marina by non boat owners has to be considered when any
recreational yachting is to take place. Recreational sailing activity can only be arranged on an individual boat basis.
Not as a group organised recreational activity.

CYAA and Vic Govt. Safe Boating recommendations
To comply with the Vic Govt. Safe Boating recommendation about notifying a contact of your
on water intentions, CYAA Safe Sailing QR code has been set up. Scanning this QR code with
your mobile phone a generate a prompt asking for name of boat plus when and where you intend
to sail from and time of return. These details of when you to sail and return can be sent to selected
CYAA skippers so our CYAA boats to be aware of who else will be with them on the water. CYAA Safe Sailing QR
code
If take up the CYAA safe sailing notification process shows promise we can consider a refinement, post Covid-19.

This CYAA Safe Boating QR code is now posted on the CYAA web site. Mobile phone use of this QR code will
require another Mobile phone to access the CYAA web site to display the QR code for scanning.

2021/2022 Summer Series start date

When competitive Classic Yachting events on Port Phillip are
supported by our race conducting clubs, we’ll begin our
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2021/2022 Summer Series ASAP. Maybe on 7 Nov. This is
the day our now postponed 2021 Cup Regatta was supposed
to take place. So for those boats whose hulls are all slimed up.
There’s still time to sort out some hull cleaning.

Summers Series Entry status

We have four entries listed but we need some more entries.
Use this link to access the Top Yacht CYAA 2021/2022
Summer Series entry process.

Seabird The Folkboat who won race one of the 2020/2021 Summer Series
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