General Manager's Report

PAUL C. ARKWRIGHT General Manager Happy Spring and who knows where we will be by the time you read this (which I penned on the first day of CNY). And with my feet firmly under the table now (save for my desk moving—see ‘Driving staff up the wall’ below) allow me to fill you in on lots of positive change that is afoot in all aspects of life at Hebe.

Type D operations in Restaurant & Balcony For those just emerging from hibernation and/or returning from a SpaceX holiday—who might have missed it, the Government is stepping up local measures in respect of COVID variants. In line with this and to keep things as safe as possible for everyone at the Club, by the time you read this we will have moved to Type D operations (or more stringent measures if required by the Government) and will continue to do so until restrictions and life stabilises a bit.

The good news is that this means you can now enjoy meals with up to 4 people at each table at the time of writing. To save you time at check-in, please upload your latest vaccination certificate to your LeaveHome Safe app if you haven’t done so already. Those without proof of vaccination certification/ exemption will not be allowed access to the Restaurant/Balcony with effect from 9.00 am on 4 February 2022. As well as your normal HHYC LHS App QR code scan and temperature check upon entry to the Club, members wishing to use the Restaurant and Balcony will have to do a second scan, and show proof of vaccination status (at least one dose) or proof of exemption before they can enter.

Single Restaurant entry point (near car park): To help facilitate scanning in everyone and checking vax records, we will close off the pedestrian bridge entrance to the Restaurant (in which the “nook” now becomes our temporary General Office reception area), and we will adopt a single entry point to the Restaurant and Balcony for members via the staircases near the car park and member washrooms.

Note during this time, the pedestrian bridge access will be exclusively reserved for: • Accessing the new “nook” General Office and parcel pick up for members • Emergency exit for the Restaurant & Balcony • Disabled access to the Restaurant & Balcony

Sailing Centre gets a new home Rob and his team have now moved into their long-awaited new home next to CY’s Project Office in the boatyard. I was sad to see the SC team leave an empty blue room behind in the General Office, but so happy for them as the team trundled all their belongings over to their new home. It was smiles all round, as the SC team could finally swing a cat in their new office, which as well as animal-swinging functionality, now also features purpose-built secure storage for all our VHF radios, Race Management Pelican boxes, J/80 boxes and Safety Boat boxes. Wow…it’s scarily organised in there right now.

Staff Townhall & annual dinner In the nick of time, before the move to more stringent regulations, we manged to hold the first annual dinner for our staff in two years. We hosted almost every single HHYC staff member at Chun Kee Seafood restaurant in Sai Kung. I used the opportunity to give a bilingual Townhall address to everyone to help explain the rollout of new staff contracts, which was followed by fun and games and plenty of food and drinks for all. The Annual Spring Dinner for GenCom and Staff, is unfortunately still on hold due to on-going COVID restrictions at the time of writing (as indeed it has been for the past two years).

Restaurant & kitchen renovations completed The replacement works of the restaurant AC system started on schedule on 3 January 2022 and were finished eight days ahead of schedule on 21 January 2022. The renovations include a new state-of-the-art Daikin VRV air-con system that saves energy, is customisable for each room, and is also reverse cycle—so it can keep us warm in winter and cool in summer. As part of that big project, which required the closure of the entire Restaurant, we also took the opportunity to simultaneously replace the Hydron air filtration system in the kitchen, replace leaking skylight panels above the Restaurant, deep-clean the floors and repaint the restaurant walls.

Driving you up the wall The restaurant renovations necessitated the removal of all the existing reciprocal club burgees, charts, faded photos and the like from the walls. The survey for what members would like to see put back up on the walls garnered some great feedback and with this in mind, moving forward, a new hybrid model of displaying both old and new photographs will be adopted. These will be rotated from time to time to help share the love and keep it fresh. As for the reciprocal club burgees, we will be creating a compilation of images of all the burgess and presenting them together in one combined display.

Driving staff up the wall The concurrent washroom renovations have created a significant amount of noise and vibration which made working in the General Office … grating … to say the least. So, to help keep the admin team sane, we have temporarily swapped over locations for the General Office (which is now in the blue container near the bus stop entrance to the Club) and the staff canteen (which is now where SC used to be) during this period, which we expect to be for about four months. We have also banned any works during the lunchtime periods to ensure members can continue to dine in peace.

Hey Mr Postman The members’ pigeon holes remain in the same place, but if you have a parcel, we will let you know, and will ask you to pick it up from the new temporary “nook” office near the main entrance.

Onwards, upwards and hopefully a bit more seawards in the near future…

春天快樂，不知道當大家閱讀這篇文章時身在何地 (這是我在農曆初一那天寫的)。現在我雙腿穩穩地在 桌子底下(除了我的辦公桌正在被搬移，詳情請閱讀以下「把員工們逼瘋了」)，先讓我介紹白沙灣遊艇會 在各個方面的正面變化。

餐廳和露台以D類模式運作 對於那些剛剛從冬眠中醒來或從SpaceX假期回來的人，可能錯過最新的疫情消息，政府正在加強針對 COVID-19 變種病毒的措施。與此一致，為盡量確保本會每個人的安全，在您閱讀這篇文章時，我們已轉為以D類運作模式 經營，亦將會繼續此措施直至情況變得相對穩定，政府將來或會要求採取更嚴謹的防疫措施。

好消息是您現在可以在每桌最多4人的情況下用餐（當正在寫此報時）。為了節省辦理登記手續的時間， 如果您尚未把最新疫苗接種證明書上傳到安心出行應用程式，請盡快上傳。由 2022 年 2 月 4 日上午 9:00 起，沒有持有疫苗接種證明書或豁免證明的人將不得進入餐廳和露台。除了在進入本會時要掃瞄安心出 行應用程式的二維碼和檢查體溫，會員亦希望使用餐廳和露台必須進行再次掃描二維碼，並在進入前要 出示疫苗接種狀態證明書（至少接種一劑）或豁免證明。

餐廳單一入口（停車場旁）：為了方便掃描安心出行二維碼和檢查其疫苗接種記錄，我們將關閉餐廳的行 人天橋入口（其中的角落現成為我們臨時總辦公室接待處），同時我們將以停車場和會員洗手間附近的 樓梯作為會員進入餐廳和露台的單一入口。在此期間，請留意行人天橋只會供下列情況使用: • 當進入新「角落」總辦公室和會員領取包裹時 • 餐廳和露台的緊急逃生出口 • 當傷殘人士進入餐廳和露台時

帆船運動中心有新家 Rob 和他的團隊現在已搬進了他們期待已久的新家，位於船廠 CY 項目辦公室的旁邊。當看見帆船訓練中 心團隊在總辦公室留下一個空蕩蕩的藍色房間，難過的應該上心頭，但當團隊將他們所有物品都搬到新 家時，我也為他們感到高興。那裡到處都是笑容，因為帆船運動中心團隊終於有足夠的空間工作了！除此 之外，現在還為我們所有 VHF 無線電、比賽管理 Pelican 保護箱、J/ 80 箱和安全船箱都設有專供安全貯儲 空間。嘩…現在物件存放得整齊多了。

員工大會和周年晚宴 我們在政府臨公布採取更嚴謹規定的最後一刻之前，為我們員工舉辦這兩年來的第一次周年晚宴。我們 在西貢的全記海鮮餐廳接待了接近每一位白沙灣遊艇會員工。我藉此機會向每個人發表雙語大會講話， 以協助解釋推出新員工合約，然後是娛樂和遊戲環節以及為大家提供的大量美食和飲料。不幸的是在撰 寫這篇文章時，由於對COVID的持續限制，總委員會和員工的周年春茗晚宴需要被擱置（過去兩年同樣面 對相同情況）。

餐廳和廚房裝修完成 在 2022 年 1 月 3 日如期開始更換餐廳空調系統的工程，並於 2022 年 1 月 21 日完成，比預期提早八天完 成。作為大型項目的一部分並需要關閉餐廳進行，翻新工程包括更換最先進及更節省能源的的DaiKin VRV 空調系統，亦可為每間房間定制，逆循環的系可令我們感覺冬暖夏涼。我們還利用這機會同時更換廚房的 空氣過濾系統和餐廳上方會漏水的天花板，為地板深層清潔和重新粉刷餐廳的牆壁。

把您逼瘋了 餐廳裝修工程需要先從牆上移除所有現存互惠委員會的燕尾旗、圖表、褪色的照片等。為了解會員對於牆 上應重新掛貼什麼的想法和集合意見，我們進行了一項調查，收集了一些很好的回應，透過考慮到這一點 去邁進，將採用一種新混合模式去同時展示新和舊照片。這些照片將會不時輪流轉換，去有助繼續分享愛 並保持新鮮感。至於互惠委員會的燕尾旗，我們將創建彙集所有燕尾旗圖像，並把它們一同展示。

把員工們逼瘋了 當時同時進行的洗手間裝修工程所造成的大量噪音和震動，這促使在總辦公室工作會表現不耐煩。因此， 為了幫助管理團隊保持理性，我們在此期間暫時交換了總辦公室的位置（現時位於本會巴士站入口附近 的藍色貨櫃中）和員工食堂（現在是帆船運動中心的舊辦公室)，預計情況將持續約四個月。同時我們為了 確保會員可繼續專心用餐，現已禁止午餐時間內進行任何工程。

嗨郵差先生 會員信件格仍然如常安放在同一個位置，不過如果你有包裹處理，請通知我們並邀請你在正門旁邊的新 臨時「角落」辦公室領取。

展望在不久將來遊艇會的發展更上一層樓。