White Rock Lake Dallas, Texas
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The Main Sheet
March 2002 Corinthian Sailing Club White Rock Lake Dallas, TX
Adult Members Sailing Lessons
The Adult Sailing Program will conduct two classes
this year. The classes will be held on Monday and Thursdays so that students
may participate in the Wednesday night fun races if desired. Sailing lessons
are available for regular and associate adult members at CSC. Classes are in
the evenings from 6PM to 8:30 / 9PM for six sessions. Five of the six sessions
will be on the water. An optional book is available for $15.00. Most training
will be in Flying Scots, but other fleets are urged to participate.
Points to be covered include seamanship, leaving
the pier, sailing upwind and points of sail, tacking, jibing, returning to
pier, man overboard, and basic knots. The May class will meet April 29
and May 2,6,9,13 and 16. The June class will meet June 3, 6, 10, 13, 17 and
20. A third class may be added in July depending on the demand.
To register for class you must call Bob Harrington
after 25 March at 972-276-1954. You may also contact Bob for more information.
Check out the CSC Website!
The 2002 -2--3 Race Calendar and Sunday Race
Sailing Instructions are now on the website. Be sure to note that a red flag
is now required for a protest.
Information on Adult Sailing and Juniors Sailing
Program and Junior Regattas was added to the website. A photo of 2002 CSC
Officers is there as well as an updated membership application. Chris
Dukeminier took some great pictures of January Sunday races that were posted
to the photo album. Some snow pictures were also added.
Spruce Up and Splash Days have been scheduled with
more details to follow as available. February newsletter and updated fleet
contacts are also posted as well as information on the CSC Forums
If you have posted information on the CSC Forums
and it is no longer relevant consider deleting the posting, asking the
webmaster to delete it, or posting a message indicating current status.
Membership Renewals are due March 15. If you
have not already sent in your dues and updated membership information to Frank
Richards please do this immediately. The March 15 deadline will allow us to
get the new Sailing Instructions, calendar, membership cards and gate
combinations in everyone's hands prior to April 1. If you have paid your dues
and do not receive a renewal packet around the 1st of April, please contact
Frank Richards.
From the Race Chairman
Get ready! Splash Day is April 7. This
kicks off the beginning of our “Official Racing Season”. February
has been a little tough on us with some high wind days and freezing cold.
The RC club did get a radio-controlled regatta off a few weeks ago. They
sailed their last races in 30 – 40 mph winds. This provided us with
some good entertainment on Sunday while we did our own two-step. Let’s
look forward to warm and windy for March.
This year we will kick off the Wednesday Night
Races on May 1st. We will use the same format as we did last year.
The races will start around 7pm. So plan to take a mid week break on
Wednesday nights. See ya there.
Race Calendar April ERC Dukeminier 6 Spruce-up Day 7 Board Splash Day 13-14 Mallory TSA/Area F-AYC 14 F/S 17-21 Juniors Governors Cup-AYC 19-21 Black Tie Regatta – RCYC 21 Corinthian 27 CSC Boat Show 27 Corinthian Hired Gun 28 F/S May ERC Harrington 4-5 Juniors Circuit-San Jacinto-HYC 5 F/S Flying Scot Districts 12 Rebel 17-19 Volvo Leukemia Cup - DCYC 18-19 Juniors Circuit-Shoe/Volvo-Lakewood Yacht Club 18-19 Spring Dingyfest-RCYC 19 Corinthian 25-26 Snipe Southwesterns 26 F/S 27 Memorial Day 9 Lightning 16 F/S 23 SMU 30 Snipe (The full schedule through 2002 is on the CSC website.) From the Fleets
Laser Fleet -
Chris Henkel reports the Laser fleet has been a little less active this winter
than in winters
past, but that is about to change. A handful of veteran Laser sailors that are tuning up for the upcoming regatta season, especially the Masters Nationals in April and the Worlds in the Fall. For a detail of the 2002 Laser regatta schedule check out www.laser.org/districts/d15
The Lasers are still sailing with the Butterfly
fleet on Saturdays and anticipate beginning a series as the weather warms up.
Chris anticipates 2002 to be as successful as 2001 for the Laser class in
Texas.
Day Sailors –
There will be a meeting at 1:00 on Saturday March 16 at the White Rock Boat
Club to rejuvenate the Day Sailor racing program. All interested should
attend.
New Members
Welcome to the following new members:
Chris and Margaret Cowan
Matthew & Linda Williams - Associate Carmela Lamberti & Santosh DiMello - Associate
Youth Sailing
Parent Group Meeting:
March 21
In order to encourage more parents of our CSC
juniors to become involved in the program we will have an informal parents’
meeting Thursday, March 21 at 7:00pm in the CSC club house. We hope to
organize a group of interested parents to assist with both junior activities
at White Rock as well as with travel to area and statewide junior regattas.
At the meeting we will discuss our plans for the coming year and consider your
suggestions for ways that the parents can help make the program even better
for our kids. We will also be loading boats for those juniors traveling to the
AYC Junior Regatta that weekend on March 23-24 (see below). If you
can’t make it to the meeting but would like to be involved please contact
Sandy Denison at sandy@sdenison.net or
214/826-3998 to express your interest.
Junior Sail Camps:
June 3-14 and July 8-18.
This summer CSC will sponsor two sail camps open
to both neophyte and experienced sailors. The first camp is
planned for June 3-14 and will culminate with CSC’s hosting of a Texas
Sailing Association Juniors’ Circuit Regatta the weekend of June 15-16.
The second camp will run from July 8-18. Friday the19th will be a travel day
for the coaches and those juniors electing to participate in Texas Race Week
on Galveston Bay from July 20-28. Registration forms for the camps will be
posted on the website and will be available in the clubhouse by April 1st.
As in the past each camp day will begin at 9am and end at 2pm. Each
session will be limited to approximately 30 juniors. The fee will be
$125 for each 9-2 two-week camp session. For a limited number of juniors
interested in racing, we will be offering two extra hours of intensive race
training by the coaches from 2 to 4 PM each day for an additional fee of $50
per session. To register for the camps the junior must have a parent or
grandparent who is either a full or associate member of CSC.
Advanced Race Camp: June 17-21
We also plan to offer a one-week advanced race
clinic from June 17-21 to provide all day intensive training for those juniors
seriously into racing. This will be open to a limited number of juniors
so that the coaches can provide more individualized instruction than is
possible during our general camps. Students who have already
demonstrated an interest in racing or who demonstrate an interest after
completing the June 3-14 camp will be eligible to enroll. The camp fee
will be $75 for the one week session which will run from 9 to 4 each day.
AYC Jr. Regatta: March 23-24
Austin Yacht Club on Lake Travis will host the
next TSA Junior Circuit Regatta the weekend of March 23-24. CSC has
reserved a screened shelter on the AYC grounds where you can spread your
sleeping bag. AYC also allows camping on the grounds and has restroom
and shower facilities. Sandy Denison will be bringing his Whaler
powerboat to provide on-the-water support. He can transport one
additional Opti and another junior parent has offered to trail Sandy’s
double-decker Opti trailer. So, if you want to drive down to Austin with your
junior we can probably get an Opti down there for your junior to sail.
Anyone who is interested please contact Sandy Denison at sandy@sdenison.net
or 214/826-3998.
Optimist Clinic: June
1-2
Tom Coleman from McLaughlin Boat Works is
tentatively scheduled to hold an Optimist Clinic at CSC during the weekend of
June 1-2, immediately before our first camp. This clinic will be open to a
limited number of juniors who have already been through one of our camps.
Racing experience is not required, just a desire to explore how much fun
racing sailboats can be. Coleman’s specialty is working with kids new
to racing and his clinics are guaranteed to instill a love of sailboat racing
in your kids. Tom’s clinics have been featured in OptiNews and in the
March 2002 issue of Sailing World. Registration forms will be available as
soon as the clinic is confirmed. The fee will be $25 for the two-day
clinic.
The Main Sheet - Your
Newsletter
The Main Sheet belongs to each member of the club.
This is an invitation to all members to submit articles about the club,
regattas, meetings, fleets, awards, members, family and community. The
deadline for information is the 20th of the month. Please submit
articles to Dudley Bayne at 3612 Hackamore Ct., Plano, TX 75023, or at CDBayne@worldnet.att.net.
I am also interested in any suggestions on how to improve the newsletter.
Corinthian Sailing Club
Membership in the Corinthian Sailing Club is open
to anyone with an interest in sailing. Club facilities are located at
441 E. Lawther Drive on beautiful White Rock Lake. Phone 214-320-0841.
Email address is info@cscsailing.org.
Mailing address is Corinthian Sailing Club, PO Box 180087, Dallas, TX 75218.
Website is http://www.cscsailing.org.
Both regular and associate memberships are available. Contact the
Membership Rear Commodore, Frank Richards, at frank-r@texas.net
or 214-827-4434 for details.
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