Archive for the ‘Commodore’ Category
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
2008 Canadian Olympian Mike Leigh in the Laser class and 2008 Paralympic Gold Medallist Paul Tingley in the 2.4 mR class both sailed to victory in in the Sail Melbourne Regatta in Melbourne, Australia in December and you will find below a link to the Sail Melbourne website with really ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
In January and February of this new year, a contingent of Canadian sailors in various classes will be racing at designated class regattas in Florida with a view to being selected as Canada's team for the ISAF Youth World Championship. The Youth Worlds will take place in July of this year.
The Youth Worlds is ...
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
I am thrilled to report that, the day after Toronto won the bid for the Pan Am Games, SLSC has won its bid to play host to the 2010 National Laser Masters Championships. On Saturday November 7, the North American Laser Class Association approved SLSC's bid to hold the National Championships (a three ...
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
These are excerpts from the reflections of Paul Heineken, Junior Committee Chair of the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco, CA based on 50 years of junior club sailing experience. The excerpts are from an article which appears in this week's Scuttlebut website (see link below). I thought the reflections were worth a ...
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Isabelle Smith was this year's winner of the Jack Michie Award for sportsmanship and helpfulness at the Club. Isabelle clearly loves the Sailing Club and two years ago she was asked to tell her class at school what she did in her summers. This was her presentation to her classmates. ...
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
Starting tomorrow, August 17, 2009, the St. Margarets' Bay Yacht Club in Nova Scotia will be hosting one of the world's premier regattas. What is sometimes simply referred to as the "Laser Worlds" is split into two distinct events:
Laser Senior World Championship - August 17-August 26, 2009
Laser Masters World Championship - ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
The south wind that dominated the Mid-Ontario Regatta stayed around to provide some great sailing conditions for the Civic weekend regatta. Civic weekend saw 6 fleets hit the water Saturday and the infamous Parent-Child fleet out on Sunday. The conditions both days were sunny with a steadily building breeze.
The Laser ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
The ceremony of christening new ships began in the distant past. The Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians all held ceremonies to ask the gods to protect sailors.
By the 1800s the christenings of ships began to follow a familiar pattern. A “christening fluid” would be poured against the bow of the ship, though ...
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