More great X-fleet instruction.

Many thanks to Jane Hopkins Gould for taking 2 days to work with the X fleet this week.  Jane drilled starts and docking maneuvers along with a list of basics for our fleet.  Thursday included a nutty bar stop and there was plenty of wind for teaching.  We want to welcome Will DeReburtis to our class and hopefully the weekend X fleet.
Jane, you rock!!!

Wishing the weather would cooperate !!!!!

It is either feast or famine when it comes to sailing school this year.  We experienced too much wind and not enough wind last week.  The Friday races were cancelled due to no wind and the beginners classes remained on shore due to too much wind.  The X-boaters had team sculling races in optis and had a blast. The team of Grant and Winnie took home the 1994 X-inland t-shirts as prizes. 

Gordy Bowers teaches X-Boaters

This past Saturday and Sunday our X-boaters were treated to a clinic with Gordy Bowers.  The 2 day clinic didn't provide much wind but the sailors and crew learned a great deal about body position in their sailboats, proper sail trim, starting strategies and Gordy tuned each X-boat the same as the Inland Champion's boat.  Thanks Gordy and all our x boaters for participating in the clinic.

Friday Races.

Today we had 4 X boats for the Friday race.  It was nice to have Kyle Berglund with her crew Harry Wittenburg  and Grant Robinson with his crew Winne Hunter at sailing school.  The Haggarts just arrived from California with a new set of sails.  Welcome back everyone.  Megan Johnson and Emma Myhre sailed their second set of  Friday races today and, unfortunately, Liam was sick today otherwise we would have had 5 X boats racing.

We are looking forward to the Gordy clinic Saturday and Sunday.

THE O'pen BICS LAUNCH !!!!!

This week all of the parts for the O'pen BIC fleet arrived.  The hulls and sails arrived last week but the rudders and centerboards were shipped separately.  Today was the first day that the instructors we able to take the new boats out for a spin.  Andrew Wilkening and Anders Berglund were the lucky skippers today.  They could have used a little more wind but said the boats are excellent and we will be working the BICs in to the sailing school program.  This fleet is a great addition to the OYC.

Sailing School - Week 1

 Alden Taylor - Opti Racing

 Audrey Farrar - Little Puffs

 Callie Taylor - Little Puffs

 John Alexander - Opti Racing

David - Opti racing

This week at Sailing School allowed all of us to experience every weather condition.  We worked around thunderstorms, west winds up to 25mph, pouring rain and zero wind on Thursday.  Everyone had a great time, the kids learned about knots and wind direction.  The instructors did a great job.

Friday June, 10th
Today was the first Friday Race for the X boats.  Liam Stockdale and Megan Johnson participated in racing today.  In the first race, instructors Chris Moen and Anders Berglund crewed for the X skippers. Looked like all were having fun.  Emma crewed for Megan in the second race.
Next week - Gordy Bowers !!!!!

SAILING SCHOOL BEGINS

JUNE 8, 2011
Today was the first day of X-boat racing camp.  Our guest instructor was C skipper, STEVE AVERY- yeah !!!!.
He did a great job teaching our instructors, X skippers and crew about nutrition, tacking, jibing and the importance of body placement in small sailboats.  Steve spends many hours training in his Laser on Big Spirit Lake, his favorite training is in the Big winds.  He will be traveling to San Francisco in early July for more training in Lasers.  In early August, Steve will be competing in Laser Worlds.
We all want to thank Steve for his help today.  Everyone learned something new.