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Website Server Maintenance

Please note that on Saturday April 18th between 6 AM Atlantic and 10 AM Atlantic (between 2 AM Pacific and 6 AM Pacific) we will be performing server maintenance affecting your website (if applicable) and email service for georgianyachtclub.com.
We will be migrating your services to a new faster server as we are discontinuing the use of some of our older servers.

During these hours, your georgianyachtclub.com service will be inaccessible for a period of time. It is our goal to keep the downtime to a minimum. We will be sending you an email once the maintenance has been completed and service restored. No action is required from you during this maintenance. The actual downtime caused by this maintenance is anticipated to be less than 30 minutes.

thank you for your understanding and we do sincerely appreciate your support.

Pierre Grandmaison
Zenutech / We Care Hosting Inc.

Enhancements and Bug Fixes

Rainy day projects.

The member detail popup now lists all of the committees a member serves on.
The member detail popup was not showing “Year Became Associate” or “Year Dock Assigned” for those members where this data has been entered.
The boat detail was marking any boat without an image as “Secondary Boat.”

Fleet List

I see members repeatedly searching the fleet list by dock. The search field was designed to only take a boat name or partial boat name. (The prompt was added to make that clear.) But it seems there must be a need, so I spent an hour or two implementing search by dock.

You will see a new drop down to specify BOAT NAME or DOCK.
You can enter just ‘R’ to see all the boats in that basin. Or the exact dock number. Remember that on the database docks numbered 0 through 9 have a leading zero. That’s so they sort correctly.
e.g. Y2 will find all the docks Y20-Y29. Y02 will find only that one dock.

You can also use the Dock Mapping Tool to find a boat and member if you know the boat’s location in the basin.

Directory / Member Search

The Member search in the directory pages was only designed to find members by member name. It was not completely dumb: if you searched for “John” it would find Elton John, John Lennon or Boris Johnson.

But we saw members searching for members by boat name. Presumably they knew a boat name but not who owned her.

The logic will now search for either.

We also saw a member desperately searching for a boat by its dock. To implement this would be a bit more work. Is it something you need? Remember, if you know approximately where a dock is in the basins, you can use the dock mapping tool. Hover over the dock, left click. See here.

Weather Widget

A weather widget has been added to the web site. It’s below the menu.
I chose a Tempest station near Johnson Harbour on the east of the bay. The station near Hibou is off-line. If it comes back on line, I’ll select it instead.
The current one has wind speed in km/h. It’s what the owner chose and I can’t change it to knots.

Forum Disabled

Back in 2015 we included a members forum in the web site. It had two categories: “Buy and Sell” and “Tech Tips.” Buy and sell hasn’t been used for over a year. Tech Tips was never used.

I have deactivated the forum. It no longer appears in the menu. If there are no objections, I’ll remove it completely.

Leith Weather Station

I have added a link to John Bryja’s weather station in Leith.
Actually – two links. The “Grid” takes you to a page with live wind speed and direction.

Both are on our links page.

On-Line Fleet List

I have reworked the on-line, printable fleet list to be very similar to the one Joseph produced for sail past.

You can find it here: members/directory/fleet-list.

Unlike your paper version it will always be up-to-date – that is – assuming the database is current.

Members can maintain their own contact details by logging in and visiting their profile. Boat details are maintained by mooring or membership.

Spouses on Committees

It is now possible to include members’ spouses in the lists of those serving on committees.

This means that when directors send out mail to their entire committee, they no longer have to rely on the member passing on the mail to their spouse.

Members:
If your spouse serves on a committee and has their own email address, please login and enter the address in the new profile field “Spouse Email.”
Let Membership or Communications know which committee(s) your spouse is on.
When that’s done, the My GYC / MY PROFILE page will list your committees and those of your spouse so that you can verify it’s all correct.

Directors:
When you use the “Mail to Committee Members” link on your committee’s page, it will include the spouse’s email address. If none has been entered, the email will go to the member’s address.

Note:
Spouses will not receive regular club email and do not become “users” on the website.

Add a Picture of Your Boat to Your Profile

At the suggestion of our Communications Director, Joseph, I have added “Boat Image” to a member’s profile. The image will appear on the boat detail popup.

Log on to the web site (you already are if you are reading this).
Choose “Edit Profile” – usually top right where it says “Howdy {member name}.”
At the very bottom, after Spouse, there is a new entry “Boat Image.”
Click on Browse and choose a file from your computer. Keep it small. 2 MB is the upload limit and it will be displayed max. 300 x 300.
Click on “Update User.”

If you already have an image of your boat as your profile picture, consider making that your “Boat Image” and upload a portrait. We display your profile picture on the member detail popup.