Polo moves to a later start from Tuesday September 8th, in accordance with UQ Aquatic Centre’s Summer schedule. Things kick off 30 minutes later. Meet at 7:45 PM at the pool.
Caring for Sea Kayak Hatches
We’ve noticed sea kayaks are being left with wet stinky compartments or with hatch seals not in place. Information on how to leave sea kayaks, so that the hatches keep dry and safe for the next user, is now on the website.
Caring for Sea kayak Hatches
So you had a great time in the sea kayak? But the hatches had water get into them? Please make sure you wash and sponge out the compartments, wring out the seals, and leave them open to dry. If they are left closed and wet, they become pretty nasty!
= SAFETY =
*Please NEVER clip a hatch cover back without its neoprene seal in place!*
Sealed compartments provide the floatation for sea kayaks. This is a really basic safety issue. If you put the hatch cover back without the seal, the next user may take the boat out without realising that the compartment is compromised. We don’t want to lose the boat (or the paddler…)!
= CARE FOR EQUIPMENT =
Please do NOT leave sea kayak hatch covers hanging loose from the kayak when you store them on the shelf. They can get caught and damaged when other boats are removed.
= CONSIDER OTHERS =
No one likes a wet, damp, stinky “gym-gear” compartment. Please consider the next user. If they have to put food/camping gear/clothes etc into a stinking wet compartment they will not be happy…
HOW TO LEAVE DAMP COMPARTMENTS
After cleaning and sponging out the compartments, please rinse and wring out the seal. Leave the hatches as illustrated (if there is a seal).
Front hatch. The seal hangs down, and the cover is pushed under the elastic webbing.
Rear Hatch: The seal hangs down, and the cover is placed inside the compartment. Please do not place the hatch cover under the elastic webbing, as this will damage it.
Problems viewing the web pages
Message from the web admin
The software the club uses for its website depends heavily on stylesheets. Microsoft Internet Explorer is poorly compliant with standards. Consequently IE displays the pages badly. The pages look wrong because of MS and not the web designers. Please put blame where blame is due.
The Uni of Queensland says they spend 10% of their web development time making web pages and about 90% of their time trying to get them working in Internet Explorer… This website is maintained voluntarily and we don’t have the time to waste doing that (more than enough time has already been wasted trying – with some degree of compromising of the website under the hood too!). UQ has to get their pages working in IE, but we don’t. Please support web designers everywhere and change your web browser! If enough people boycott Internet Explorer then Microsoft will have to fix the program and when they do, you can happily return to IE knowing that you’ll now see the web as its makers intended. This will save an incredible amount of resources around the world that could be used for much more useful things (resources we ultimately pay for). It’s much less costly just to have users switch browsers (why should we be expected to spend ages trying to fix it for people who aren’t prepared to spend a few minutes switching?)
I suggest using a webkit based browser. This is the engine used by Safari (macs, PCs, iphone, iPad, etc), Chrome (mac & PCs), and browsers (Omniweb, iCab, etc). Webkit runs on various operating systems (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, various Unix OS (BSD, linux), Symbian (Nokia), Blackberry, Kindle, and webOS (Palm/HP)). A list of webkit based browsers can be found here. There are plenty of good free non-IE browsers available for Mac & PC (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and more)
Some IE problems –
In IE 7 the page content appears down the bottom of the page (so scroll down).
In IE 8 it was improved, but some of the main page contents are barely legible (increase the font size to help).
If any club volunteers that have the expertise and want to spend the time getting things to work properly in Internet Explorer are welcome to contact the club web admin in this regard, although we’d rather you donate your time to the club doing more useful things!)…
Last Weekly Night Paddle
The weekly Wednesday night paddles finish this Wednesday evening. There will be a Barbecue beforehand at the club shed at 6:15 PM as well – bring a little food.
Don’t forget your lights!
Polo restarts WEEKLY
Polo games restart at the UQ pool on Tuesday evening 18 August at 7:30 PM. This semester we will try to maintain them WEEKLY. This depends on numbers – so keep coming! This follows two weeks of Tuesday night general club pool training.
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Pool Skills night II
General club skills session in the UQ Pool. One of three skills nights for the semester. Don’t miss out! HEATED POOL (27 deg.)
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Pool Skills night I
General club skills session in the UQ Pool. One of three skills nights for the semester. Don’t miss out! HEATED POOL (27 deg.)
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Sem 2 Come and try BBQ
Come along and try out a kayak on the river. Have a look around the club shed and see what is available. Talk to club members. Have a barbecue brunch.
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Sem 2 Market day
New to the university and want to find out more about the sport and the club? Come along and find out at this year’s second semester O-week Market Day.
