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Volume 58 x Number 6 x 2014 Dixie Lakes District Highlights 2014 North Americans *,3,4,5,7,8 1,2 Great customers.. Great results! Happy Holidays.. and thank you for choosing North! Wishing all our customers a great holiday season! Looking forward to the see all at the Midwinters in Sarasota! For assistance with your sails, don’t hesitate to contact our Flying Scot experts: Brian Hayes 203-783-4238 [email protected] Geoff Becker 410-280-3617 [email protected] Photo Art Petrosemolo - nauticalphotography.us onedesign.com Follow North Sails on... flyingscot-201411-scotswater.indd 1 10/20/2014 2:09:00 PM CONTENTS 2014 North Americans *,3,4,5,7,8 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE FLYING SCOT ® SAILING ASSOCIATION 1,2 x x Great customers.. Flying Scot® Sailing Association Volume 58 Number 6 2014 One Windsor Cove,Suite 305, Columbia, S.C. 29223 Great results! Email: [email protected] 803-252-5646 • 1-800-445-8629 FAX (803) 765-0860 Courtney LC Waldrup, Executive Secretary From the President ................................. 4 PRESIDENT SAILING UPWIND: Pointers on Pointing ................. 5 Frank Gerry* The Birth of the Flying Scot ........................... 7 37 Briargate Circle Sugar Grove, IL 60554 Update on National Events ........................... 8 630-466-1161 • [email protected] 35 Years on a Scot Tiller: What I’ve Learned .............. 9 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT John Domagala* How Fleet #111 Grew with the Awesome Support 6119 9th Avenue Circle NE Bradenton, FL 34212 of the Flying Scot Foundation ........................ 12 941-748-3577 • [email protected] Lake Lanier Hosts Scot-a-Hoochee Regatta ............. 14 SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT Bill Vogler* 2014 Flying Scot Midwinter Championships Report ...... 14 9535 US Highway 51 North 2014 Great Scot Regatta and Dixie Lakes Cobden, IL 62920 618-977-5890 • [email protected] District Championship ............................. 16 SECRETARY/TREASURER Man Overboard! How to Get Back in Your Scot ........... 18 Bill Dunham* 700 Route 22, Trinity-Pawling School Loads of Fun at the 2014 Wife-Husband ............... 19 Pawling, NY 12564 845-855-0619 Got Water? We Had Just Enough at the [email protected] MYC 65th Annual Regatta ........................... 20 COMMODORE Diane Kampf* Don’t Miss It!!! Y’all Come to the 2015 NAC ............. 22 185 Union Street Whitinsville, MA 01588 Challenge Grant Match Program ...................... 22 508-234-8047 • [email protected] 2014 Pacific Districts and First Annual IMMEDIATE PAST COMMODORE Charles Buffington* Sandy Douglass Memorial Regatta ................... 24 490 Broadmoor Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15228 In Every Issue 412-388 1666 • [email protected] FSSA MEASURER New Members .................................... 25 Robert J. Neff* Caveat Emptor .................................... 27 PO Box 681747 Charlotte, NC 28216 Starting Line ..................................... 27 443-994-1932 • [email protected] District Governors .......................... Back Cover EDITOR, SCOTS n’ WATER Deb Aronson* 409 W. California Avenue Attention Web Surfers / E-mail Users: Urbana, IL 61801 217-344-8508 • [email protected] The FSSA Flying Scot Website has the latest information. AMENDMENT COMMITTEE Visit it at http://www.fssa.com with your favorite browser. Happy Holidays.. Dan Goldberg* The Email address for regatta notices and regatta results to be published in Scots n’ Water 342 Middlegate Dr. is [email protected] save all articles submitted for publica- Bethel Park, PA 15102 tion in ASCII Text or Microsoft Word. and thank you for choosing North! 412-831-1042 • [email protected] WEBPAGE EDITOR SCOTS n’ WATER (ISSNS 0194-5637) - Registered Trademark. Published bi-monthly by FSSA at One Diane Kampf* Windsor Cove, Suite 305, Columbia, South Carolina 29223. Volume M, No. 1. Subscription is $8 a year Wishing all our customers a great holiday season! Looking forward to the see all 185 Union Street included in annual membership dues. Periodical postage paid at Columbia, SC 29201. Whitinsville, MA 01588 Publication Mail Dates: Issue #1, January 15; Issue #2 March 15; Issue #3, May 15; at the Midwinters in Sarasota! For assistance with your sails, don’t hesitate to 508-234-8047 • [email protected] Issue #4, July 15; Issue #5, September 15; Issue #6, December 15. PARLIAMENTARIAN contact our Flying Scot experts: Postmaster: Please send change of address to Scots ‘n Water, FSSA, One Windsor Cove, Larry Taggart* Suite 305, Columbia, South Carolina 29223. 5809 Memphis Street Brian Hayes 203-783-4238 [email protected] STAFF EDITOR/PROOFREADER: Nancy H. Cooper (800) 445-8629. New Orleans, LA 70124 Geoff Becker 410-280-3617 [email protected] 504-482-7358 • [email protected] ADVERTISING: Christina Hicks (800) 445-8629. DESIGNER (1904-1992) Cover Photo: Martine Zurinskas, with her back to the camera, teaching the first adult learn-to-sail class in the Lake Lanier Sailing Club’s newly purchased Flying Scot. Martine is the Junior Program Director and Gordon K. Douglass was instrumental in establishing the adult learn-to-sail program. Photo: Scott Adams *Denotes Executive Committee Members Flying Scot® and the FS logo are registered trademarks of Flying Scot®, Inc. Photo Art Petrosemolo - nauticalphotography.us onedesign.com Follow North Sails on... Scots n’ Water x Volume 58 x Number 6 x 2014 3 flyingscot-201411-scotswater.indd 1 10/20/2014 2:09:00 PM President’s Message Price is $30.00 plus $8 .00 S&H. To order please call FSSA at (800) 445-8629 From the President Frank Gerry, FS #6060, Midwest District hat are you doing next year? The Flying Scot class takes great be Davis Island Yacht Club near St It’s never too early to start pride in offering 4 major regattas a Petersburg, Florida. Dates are October Wthinking about the 2015 year that we call “National in nature.” 24-25, 2015. Your contact person is Judy Flying Scot sailing season and what These are the biggies, as we say. For Hanlon, [email protected]. your reference here they are: events you are putting on your calen- NEW NEWS! Starting next year we dar. As always we have lots of regattas • FSSA Midwinter Championships – will have an old favorite; St Andrews all over the eastern and middle USA This year the hosts will be Sarasota Bay Yacht Club in Panama City, and some in the Pacific Northwest. Sailing Squadron in Sarasota, Florida, back in the fold as your 2016 For the racing enthusiasts, we have Florida. Dates are March 16-19, 2015. Mid Winters host after several years club races hosted by our 95+ fleets and Your contact person is Ron Pletsch, absence. This should be a popular ven- their local sailing programs. We have [email protected]. ue based on past history. Then in 2017 our district championships throughout • The FSSA North American we will cycle back to Southern Yacht most of our 14 districts and we offer Championships (maybe better known Club in New Orleans. Hope you all will four major regattas that we refer to as as the NACS) – Your host club will be enjoy the variety of venues. Also – you “national in nature.” Bay Waveland Yacht Club in Bay St. will note that we are looking (at this No one can doubt the amount of work Louis in Mississippi. Dates are June moment) for a 2016 NACs location. that goes into planning and delivering a 19-26, 2015. Your contact person is Any good ideas or proposals – please successful regatta. There are those key Claude Dannemann, chdannemann@ contact our 1st VP John Domagala, sailors in the Flying Scot nation that do an gmail.com. who is managing our major-sanctioned- incredible amount of work to make these • The FSSA Atlantic Coast regatta-planning schedule. Our latest events happen. Everything from planning Championships (the ACCs) – will be plan can be found on the FSSA web- food events, how many kegs to order, on the east coast in September, 2015, site under Future Sanctioned Regattas. selecting a PRO and race committee, date and location to be determined. Link is: http://www.fssa.com/content/ ordering the necessary favors, shirts and It’s always a great event – think about fssa-future-sanctioned-regattas. trophies, coordinating dates and times attending. Enjoy your holidays – See you on the cir- with the host yacht club to ensure all cuit in 2015, hopefully at one of the big 4! goes off without a hitch. And on and on… • The one and only FSSA Wife-Husband Frank Gerry O We thank you all for what you do ……so Championships. Your host club will those of us that travel to your events can have a great week, or great weekend. How can we help you hard-working hosts even more? – To me, it’s simple. Attend as many as you can. There is no better compliment to a regatta organiz- ing team than to have a big turnout. whether you attend 2 or 12 regattas, think of attending one more! If a few folks do that, it might make a big dif- ference to the success of the event – and hey, the Saturday night party is even bigger!! See “Midwinter Championships Report” on page 14 for the full story behind this photo. Photo: Bob Maher 4 Scots n’ Water x Volume 58 x Number 6 x 2014 Midwest District SAILING UPWIND: Pointers on Pointing Ryan Malmgren, FS#6077, Midwest District dmit it, don’t you sometimes any amount of boat speed for any time. tions when it is sailed nearly flat. The cen- wish you could point your boat Trust me on this. terboard generates more lift as it moves several degrees higher than the Sail Trim: Contrary to popular myth, through the water when it is more vertical. rest of the fleet, without any the jib is not the sail that determines how With more speed, you are able to take Aloss of speed? While I can’t grant you that high you can point your Flying Scot.