It is the new year and, in the cold of January, we are starting to plan for the warm (and busy) Summer of 2011. The strength of our program is due in large part to the skills, the enthusiasm, the imagination and the energy of our coaches. We are coincidently looking for skilful, enthusiastic, imaginative and energetic coaches. … Read more
Sharpen your blades, tape up your sticks and say a little prayer for Me (Larry Thomas); Winter cross training on ice is a go at the Fenelon arena! For those of you who haven’t participated before, we use 3/4’s of the rink for shinny and 1/4 for pirouettes, little ones and UN observers. On the … Read more
It blows hard in Kingston in the fall – that is Kingston’s reputation – but at last year’s Fall CORK regatta our sailors saw a different Kingston. It was a quiet affair. Little breezes with patches of no wind, sailors searching for puffs, being quiet in the boats so as not to spill any of … Read more
Claire DesBrisay opened the 2010 Fall College sailing season for the University of Ottawa Gee Gees at the New York Maritime Fall Open. A total of 18 college teams sailed in the regatta, including Columbia, Fordham, US Merchant Marine Academy (Kings Point), Maryland, Rochester, Georgetown, Cornell, Navy, NY Maritime and Hobart and William. U of O and rival … Read more
A bevy of SLSC sailors is racing for their respective University sailing teams this Fall, as Kate Thomas has made the very competitive Queen’s sailing team and may be facing off with Claire DesBrisay and Liz Barr, both of whom will be racing for Ottawa U. Amy DesBrisay and Ellen Lourie have tried out for and made … Read more
What follows is Brenda Devine’s description of how the Devine family emerged victorious in the pressure filled competition for this year’s Silver Plate Award for the best instructor dinner of the 2010 season: a competition that left Chris practically speechless at prize giving, unable for the longest time to announce the winner for fear of … Read more
Greg Tawaststjerna, SLSC alumnus, sailed to a very impressive fourth overall and third place in the Masters category at the 2010 Laser Masters North American Championships sailed on the beautiful waters of the Catalina Channel outside the Los Angeles Breakwater at the Alomitas Yacht Club. The 40 Standard and 20 Radial masters were treated to three days … Read more
Jacob Webster came out victorious in the 2010 Sunday Afternoon Race Series. Sailing with Graeme Shea, Jacob had victories in 3 of the 5 races sailed on the last Sunday of racing – a Sunday that ended up largely as a winner take all day of racing (given the lack of wind on other Sundays of … Read more
This Saturday, it is ‘put the club to bed day’… A day of helping to put our club away so that it is in fine shape to open up again next June…We will have snacks and libations for all the worker bees…and many hands will make light work.
Prize giving begins at 7 pm this Friday at the Church and the Club’s AGM will follow immediately after prizegiving. All are welcome. Come celebrate the kids’ accomplishments and a great year!
This email was received from Glenn Lethbridge, executive director of Ontario Sailing on the Ontario Summer Games – some nice comments on a group of sailors that included our gang: “Please accept my personal thanks to all the athletes, coaches, parents, volunteer drivers, club volunteers and the list goes on. The games went very well, … Read more