Get ready for another great week of sailing! The start of the summer has been a huge success. Last week we had 45 amazing sailors come to enjoy the great weather and fantastic sailing. This summer SLSC is clearly the place to be! Last weekend Owen, Sean and Ryan represented SLSC at the Fogh-Boorman … Read more
The Bronze Sail Race Team participated in the annual Port Credit Yacht Club Steerers Training Regatta on Thursday and Friday of last week (July 16-17) and performed very well. Sailing in their biggest regatta ever, the team was fast out on the water and fast on the water when they hit the course. A steely nerved Megan … Read more
Murray McCullough , Ryan Callahan, Owen Thomas and Sean Clynch drove down to Steeltown last weekend to sail the Hammer and do the boys weekend thing. Ryan, sailing a Byte, scored straight bullets (yes, in every race) and Owen and Sean acquitted themselves well as well with all top half of the fleet finishes, ending up in … Read more
Despite the cold and the rain, the Summer 2009 Sailing season started with a bang! We had a record 42 sailors for our first flag raising on Monday morning, including 10 Mosquito kids. Wow! Six of our Bronze sailors immediately hit the road for a four-day training clinic and regatta held at Sail Parry Sound … Read more
Our Bronze level race team got their season off to a fabulous start off the rocky shores of Georgian Bay with a four day training clinic and regatta at Sail Parry Sound. Three teams: Keira Webster and Claire Lourie, Jacob Webster and Nick Agnew, and Megan Thomas and Thom Nyhuus left SLSC with their coach Evan … Read more
This Friday (July 10), beginning at 7 pm, will be the first SLSC dance of the new dancing season…for kids of all ages (6 and over). The theme is pyjamas. For parents, taking place at the same time as the pyjama dance, will be our first informal ‘Curriculum Night’ where pyjama clad instructors will give a brief … Read more
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 it was not necessarily … Read more
Welcome Welcome to another summer at SLSC! On behalf of all the instructors, I’d like to welcome all sailors young and old to what is going to be the greatest summer ever. We are entering a beautiful summer jam packed with dances, singing, games, movies, regattas, and of course, lots and lots of sailing! So … Read more
This Saturday (June 27), Dave Robson is leading an SLSC work crew to take on various and assorted projects and to get a head start on work week. A call is going out to willing boat carriers, carpenters, hole diggers, hole infillers, cleaners, painters, dockhands and labourers of any other ilk. Observers who are prepared to pour … Read more
A team of six SLSC sailors will kick off their summer training and racing season in Parry Sound at the 4 day “Big Sound Training Clinic and Regatta”. Sail Parry Sound has assembled a crew of excellent elite level coaches (including the Canadian Yachting Association Coach Rob Fox) who will be running a clinic and regatta in Club 420s, … Read more
In my report on the death of Trish Wisener – “We have Suffered a Loss” – I noted with gratitude that Trish had asked that those considering a memorial gift consider the Sailing Club. The responce has been wonderful. Donations have been made in Trish’s memory by many from Sturgeon Point and by many from … Read more