Volume 24, Number 4 April 2014 Lake Michigan SuRF Official Newsmagazine of the Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation All The News That Fits ... IS YOUR CLUB RUNNING A CHARITY REGATTA? Running a Charity Regatta .......................... 1 THIS IS THE YEAR TO START! WII-FM ................................................................. 1 by Glenn McCarthy LMSRF Adaptive Sailing Update ................ 2 2014 Best on Lake Michigan ....................... 3 At the US Sailing Leadership Youth Learning to Sail ................................... 3 Forum in San Diego, California, Beach Clean Ups ............................................... 3 in January, 2014, ESPN Sailing Man Overboard in Cold Water .................... 3 Commentator and Past US Where Do Your Dues Go? ............................. 5 S.S. Badger .......................................................... 6 Sailing President Gary Jobson Building the Mighty Mac ............................... 6 recommended that every yacht Mackinac Racers, Could This Happen ...... 6 club ought to hold a charity Hiking to North Manitou Light ................... 7 New Board Members ..................................... 7 regatta. I might suggest that Frostbiting News ............................................. 7 one of the nearest and dearest Free PDF Nautical Charts ............................. 7 charities we sailors have is US Sailing Forum-Part II ............................... 8 New Acronyms-STEM & REACH .............. 10 Sailing Schools (that is, if your North Sails Sold .............................................. 10 club set your sailing school up Beneteau 36.7 Winter Beer Can ............... 12 as a separate corporation and 2014 Hook Race ............................................. 12 as a charity). What might you Area II Vice Commodore Profile .............. 12 Yacht Clubs-File Aid Application ............. 13 do with a charity regatta to Yacht Clubs-File Event Permit .................. 14 support your sailing school? Londrigan Named to Springfield Hall .... 14 • Eliminate any crew limits. Start Season in Waukegan .......................... 14 Get Summer Sailstice Event Listed ......... 15 • Require every boat to carry not just the students, but their parents, John Simons Bids Adieu .............................. 16 too. You know, the ones paying the bills? Saugatuck Yacht Club 80 th .......................... 16 • Make your race course a big, easy course to sail, so those with less Inshore One-Designs—Get Listed ........... 16 experience are not intimidated by Olympic style racing. Crew Skipper Races ...................................... 16 Sail Chicago Colgate 26 Racing ................. 16 • Give some of the jobs to the kids so they can show off to their parents. Neill Clinic Date .............................................. 17 Make sure all kids do something during the race of importance. Crew Search Party ......................................... 17 • Make a reaching leg where the kids are required to take turns steering, Fun Alert! .......................................................... 17 Safety Briefing ................................................ 18 and no others. Moore Scholarship Fundraiser ................. 19 • Be sure to have time to speak to each parent (who are living Fox Fundraiser & Bone Marrow Event . 19 vicariously through their children) about getting their own sailboat, and to 2013 ORR Great Lakes Championship .. 19 2014 Open Houses ........................................ 20 sail with their children in the long run. 2014 GLSS Calendar ..................................... 20 • If it can be afforded, give each sailing school parent a copy of Nick Fly to Mackinac ............................................... 20 Hayes' book, “Saving Sailing.” J/105 Fleet Meeting ...................................... 21 • Have a hellacious party after sailing, not just food and beverage, a/k/a LMSRF Boat Donation Program ............... 21 Milwaukee SS-SSS Fleet Meeting ............. 21 sustenance, fill this party with fun activities that the juniors and adults Bayshore Offshore Fleet Meeting ............ 22 combined will laugh heartily (think having a hose required to wash the Dredging Updates .......................................... 22 place and people down afterwards!). 2014 Chicago Regatta Fundraiser ........... 22 Sailor Education ............................................. 24 Yacht Clubs Gain ............................................ 25 How cool of an event would this be? Way cool! Heard on the Rail ........................................... 25 Bodacious Dream-Day 176 ........................ 27 Boat Buddys ..................................................... 28 There are plenty of other charities to support if the sailing school isn’t a Inshore Regatta Schedule ........................... 28 good fit: Maritime Museums, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Hospice, Mark Your Calendars ................................... 29 Children’s Hospitals, Breast Cancer, Community Development Association, CMRC 2014 Program .................................... 30 or any bona fide charity you can partner with. Canfield Named Tour Card Skipper ........ 31 US Sailing Changes O'Day & Hanley ....... 32 US Sailing Regional Symposium .............. 33 US Sailing News .............................................. 34 Letters to the Editor ..................................... 35 WII-FM? What Happened ............................................. 37 by Gail M. Turluck About Lake Michigan SuRF ......................... 44 It's amazing how often sailors in the Lake Michigan area ask the question, "What's In It For Me," when we talk about Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation and all the great things it causes to happen for sailing and Lake Michigan SuRF Newsletter sailboat racing every year. To help our participants gain a better understanding of what they gain by being a member, we have developed an updated Individual Membership brochure. Take a look at it here: http://tinyurl.com/LMSRF-IB . The only way to gain those benefits is to jump in and become a 2014 member. That's easy for individuals to do! You may join LMSRF with a paper application at this link: http://tinyurl.com/JoinLMSRF-Print or join LMSRF on line: http://tinyurl.com/eJoinLMSRF . LMSRF ADAPTIVE SAILING – UPDATES AND BOATS FOR SALE by Mike Stapleton, LMSRF Adaptive Sailing Committee Chair Mark Your Calendar : Saturday, April 26th, 2014 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, US Sailing’s 2014 Spring Great Lakes Regional Symposium, Hosted by: SEAS: Sailing Education Association of Sheboygan, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. A portion of the agenda is being dedicated to the topic of Adaptive Sailing - See flyer on page 33 of this issue. If you or your organization has an interest in growing adaptive sailing this would be a great way to get started. Everyone is invited. Chairperson Needed : Although I have been chairperson of this new Adaptive Sailing Committee for only a short time, I need to turn over the baton to someone else willing to take on the worthwhile cause. Like most of you I have become overwhelmed with personal, business and other volunteer activities that need attention including the implementation of our new SailAnyWay chapter in Sturgeon Bay. Anyone that would be interested in chairing the Adaptive Sailing committee for the LMSRF please contact me ([email protected] ) or Commodore Glenn McCarthy ([email protected] ). SailAnyWay Adds 2nd Adaptive Venue : We are excited to announce that last fall, with the help of LMSRF and a local foundation, SailAnyWay was able to purchase a Cape Dory Typhoon. This larger boat will allow us to add a second sailing venue, the Sturgeon Bay shipping channel, to our venues. Sturgeon Bay offers a much larger base of potential volunteers, is closer to Green Bay (where our sailors come from) and it will allow our sailors to compete in weekly races and special regattas via the Sturgeon Bay Yacht Club. Slip space has been donated to us by Skipper Buds and we are installing a “sailor lift” (Hoyer type lift) on their docks. The reason we had not sailed here earlier is “weeds”. Lots of ‘em. There are two other Cape Dorys in the Sturgeon Bay fleet that have proven to beat the weeds. We are excited about this new venue and welcome any of you visiting Door County to come join us any Thursday evening for racing. Contact me if you will be in the area and we will get you on one of our adaptive boats. Adaptive Boats for Sale : Our fleet of three Access Liberty sailboats have served us well for two years. With the addition of our Sturgeon Bay chapter we are planning to modify our Egg Harbor fleet as well. If anyone knows of a Cape Dory or Ensign available at no (or very low cost) please contact me. Either of these two boats are very adaptable, roomy, stable and will sail well in our Egg Harbor and Sturgeon Bay venues. That being said, we will be selling our three Access Libertys. The boats are designed specifically for adaptive sailing and one is equipped with full servo (motor operated steering and sail trim). We have sailed over 20 people with disabilities, including two quadriplegic that could sail solo. The boats are ideal for a location where they can remain in the water for the full season or dry sailed via deep ramps or lifts. They are not suited to shallow water, weeds or shallow launches. If interested please contact me, Mike Stapleton. The fleet of three boats is available for a total of $10,000, including a make-shift trailer for winter storage. We may consider a trade for a weed-shedding