For the past couple months our yacht club, Put-in-Bay Yacht Club in Ohio on Lake Erie, has been allowing us to keep our fleet of Hobie Waves lined up on the lawn right up at the front of the club, along the road and across from the water. It's a great advertisement for the club and for sailing and to recruit new sailors.

Before, we were banished to the far back end of the property, where nobody could see us.

Wow! "For the times, they are a chai-ai-ngin"
Let's hope so, anyway.

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Before: "we were banished to the far back end of the property"

After: "lined up on the lawn right up at the front of the club"

That signifies a very nice change to me. Made me think of the old Bob Dylan song! But in a positive way!

http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/times-they-are-changin
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WHAT!?

For the first time in my life I just joined US Sailing, and while doing so subscribed to Sailing World and Cruising World, also opted for the donate option.

I hope this will do something for sailing.......

Have to report on a great Youth Event in Seattle this weekend. CYC and Sail Sand Point run a Regatta, October Fest every year. This year we had 82 boats on the water, good winds and sun. Kevin Cunningham ran the race from one start/finish line. Opti's, Lasers, FJ's, 29ers, Hobie Waves, and Moths took part. The 10 Moths provided the excitement, foil borne, and cutting thru the fleets at will. Lucky for us, they were all excellent skippers.

Caleb Tarleton

That's fabulous, Caleb! How many Waves?

Mary, only five Waves on the line. Four came down from Comax, BC, Canada. We had six SSP Waves ready to go, free to the sailors. Only taker was Grandson Dan, who placed first. Our last Division 4 Regatta was seven weeks ago. Most youth have switched to other sports. Dan did have a soccer game on Sunday, which he made after the last race.

Caleb

This thread is coming along nicely! Thanks everyone for doing your part!

J

Another friend of mine~~ ( thats two this yr. ) that bought a Hobie 16..... now I don't have any friends to sail with me...

I'm picking up a set of sails and delivering them to HavaMega from Sacramento.

Just Started a google group for Scottish Stealth Sailors (a rare breed) to nuture and encourage same .

Very cool.. where do you sail out of? I did a race or 2 at the Campbelltown Yacht club about 20 years ago..

Helensburgh Sailing Club , on the upper Clyde

http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/

used to do a lead mine race into cambletown many many years ago , trips ashore weren't for the feintharted , bandit country

very cool.. i have been there many many times (Helensburgh, not the club).

Bandit country??? do expalin please... the only thing i found in campbelltown were Las's that wanted to get out of there (worked very well for us Yanks in uniform)

Cambletown has a formidable reputation and dislike of strangers especially yotties perhaps they preffered fly boys , to be fair I think things have moderated from days of tying up to pier and locals spitting down on you , not safe to walk around alone at night .
not the usual scottish welcome


I say "fly boys " as I guess you perhaps were stationed at us airfield near Cambletown.

Next time in helensburgh give me a shout , and you can come and meet the helcats and share some scottish swally

Here is a quick note about what I have done to help sailing in my area. I live in Hayden Idaho, next to Hayden Lake, Lake Coeur d’Alene, & Lake Pend Oreille.

1. I started a trailer-able sailing club 2 years ago called Sailing the Inland NW. Primarily we sail Hobie Cats, AI’s, Keelboats, Sea/Super Snarks, and RC model sailboats. We run one big regatta a year followed by many smaller sailing get-togethers. In 2008 we ran the first Hobie/multihull regatta in 23 years in our area. Also ran the first known AI regatta nationally/internationally.

2. I have been running a disAbled/accessible sailing program called Self Awareness In Leisure (SAIL). My program is featured on the new Paralyzed Vets of America sports video. We are currently working on funding to help our sailors get to regional and national events. We sail Access Dinghies, AI’s, Waves, and Hobie 16’s with Trapseats.

3. I run Its Tiller Time Sailing School and teach on AI’s, Wave’s, Hobie 16’s with and without Trapseats, Super Snarks, a Catalina 22, and a Reynolds 33’ catamaran. I am currently writing a sailing book that will have no biases related to monohulls or multihulls. Plus it will have disAbled sailing tips, games, etc.

4. I started a sailboat shop called SAIL Marine. I sell Hobie’s, Catalina’s, Snarks, and other boats. Plus of course I sell gear, etc. Running a sailboat shop allows me to really support local sailing efforts.

5. After a long time of frustration related to trying to find info about the local lakes and other marine info I started Boating the Inland NW. This website has everything related to the boating and marine info for the Inland NW. I have spent the last 2 years mapping, photographing, and exploring the hundreds of lakes and reservoirs within the Inland NW. The Lakes Guide has been a huge project but it’s really paying big time in brining the club and all things marine together in this area.

All of this has been a lot of work but I have received a lot of satisfaction knowing and seeing local sailors and others benefit from my efforts. Right now the plan is to just continuing working on these 5 projects and keep expanding to grow the sport that I love.

Here are the links to my websites if you would like to see and learn more.

Supporting the new sailing school, now with 20 kids - an all time record in the country.

"Predated" the monohull oriented sailing school: talked the two oldest ones (14 y.o.) into crewing two Supercat 17 that needed crew for the Nationals yesterday. They loved sailing on the wire most of the time and their boats finnished quite well 3,3,3 and 2,1,1 out of six boats.

Hmmmm, despite a few brawls after pubs closed (and ALWAYS due to drunk locals being jealous of the girls attention on the "yanks"..) i didn't find the locals to be unfriendly at all... this was 20+ years ago.

I was in the USNavy, stationed at Macrahansih RAF base. There was very few Americans there.

Thank you for the invite... maybe one day....

Last Sunday we had 15 Boy Scouts learn how to sail and earn their sailing merit badges.

This weekend were teaching kids from a muni tennis team the joys of sailing.

I ask my yacht club, RHYC to offer an invite to the Chesapeake Bay Area Junior Olympics which we are hosting on July 9-11, 2010 to the Hobie Div11 Youth Sailors .... the Organizing Committee promptly offered a invitation!!!!

Now the real work begins ......

Harry