Richard Roberts 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
It was a fabulous showing from the SLSC sailors at this year’s Ontario Summer Games held in Sudbury. All of our sailors had personal triumphs: Amy and Kate scraped off their rust, won the last two races and came home with Silver Medals – the 4th straight Summer Games in which an SLSC boat has medalled … Read more
Day 2 at the Summer Games was more of the light stuff, with a premium on finding wind, being patient with a little luck thrown in. In the 420 fleet, it was a very good day for a crew from Royal Hamilton who vaulted into first place with finishes of 1-1-2-3. They are followed by our … Read more
Amy and Kate, Owen and Max (an SLSC/South Muskoka Team) and Megan are all off sailing our club colours at the Ontario Summer Games in Sudbury – hosted by the Sudbury Yacht Club. After a first day yesterday of light wind practice, followed by opening ceremonies and the parade of athletes from all sports at the … Read more