2012 CYA Women's National Keelboat Championship

Name: Norma Turner
Phone: 403-650-8334
Email: normat2012@sylvansailing.ca

Comments: Please forward this to any interested Women sailors.

CYA Women's National Keelboat Championship
August 30 to Sept 2, 2012
Sylvan Lake, AB

Registration opens March 1 on www.sylvansailing.ca

Learn from Home: North U Webinars

Want to brush up on your sail trim or racing tactics?  North U offers great seminars that many HYC members have attended over the years.  But now you can...

...Keep your slippers on and take a seminar from home.           

                         

Brand New this year!

North U Webinars feature the latest in sailing and racing technique presented in a full multi-media format by outstanding instructors. But now you can attend on-line, from anywhere.

Webinars are scheduled for Racing TRIM, Weather for Sailors, Performance Instruments & Expedition Software, and Bermuda Race Strategy. Learn all about it at NorthU.com

Women's Regatta - Sunday 7 August

Ladies! Time for the Fourth Annual HYC Women's Regatta!!!  Find your boats, your crews, and let's go racing!
What a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon... and as is our tradition, please bring a plate of something yummy, to go with the always entertaining post-racing stories!

Call Margaret to register, or drop by the Office and fill in a chit.  (Only $5 per person!)
For more information, or to register online please see;  http://hycwomen.sailspace.net/

HYC holds and wins CYA Womens Keelboat Nationals

By Cathy Harris

After a long and sometimes rocky road, the Womens Keelboat National Championship Regatta finally came to pass. In the end we had ten J22s competing, from four provinces. The kick off was on Friday with a full day of on land and on water coaching ably handled by Geoff Moore of North Sails/North U, and Ron Harris, John Marten, and Pete Amos all three of HYC.

The girls spent Friday afternoon practicing starts, mark rounding, and general boat handling in winds of fifteen to seventeen knots. Friday evening all competitors were invited to stay at the club and enjoy a great meal at the weekly HYC Carvery.

Saturday it was back on the water for the actual racing. The weather gods smiled on us and Ross Tellier, our PRO, ran five races in a variety of wind from five to ten knots. At the end of day one there was a tie for first, and only one point back was third. Saturday evening saw the entire regatta sit down to a delightful dinner, provided by The Grannies for Africa, and then music from The Moonlights.

Sunday proved to be a very light wind day and the competitors were kept on shore until noon, when the wind finally filled, and the race committee got one more race in before the deadline of two o'clock.

Results are as follows:

1st Nicole Bastet of HYC

2nd Marg Hurley of Nepean Sailing Club

3rd Melodie Gummer of Kingston

4th Gillian Thompson of Kelowna

5th Karen Albert of Toronto

6th Erin Harris of HYC

7th Karen Fowler of Bedford Basin

8th Marian Kuiper of HYC

9th Toni Hobbs of Toronto

10th Cathy Bredt of HYC

At the end of a busy and fun filled weekend, it was agreed that next years WKNC would go to Victoria BC, so ladies start now and plan plan on competing. For lots of pictures of the sailing action go to http://www.maysstudio.com/store/gallery.php?gid=388

First Sail

The club was busy this weekend with many boats launching and several crews taking advantage of the fine spring weather to tune-up in advance of the racing this upcoming week.

If you havn't booked your launch date, do so soon.  The season is short, so take advantage of every day you can.

Spring Regatta - Please Register

The Spring Regatta is scheduled for May 28 and 29 and is a wonderful opportunity to blow away those winter cobwebs and get your team working together as a well-oiled sailing performance machine.  Alternatively, you can also approach it as a weekend of fun and pretty relaxed racing and a good way of easing into the season.  Remember that the three Saturday races are also the Saturday A1 series.

The good folks who organize our regattas are testing out a new registration tool that we would like to use for Fruitbowl this year, so please take a few minutes to register by clicking here for the Spring Regatta Web Page.  You will also find the NORs there. There are no obligations associated with registering, but it helps plan for numbers and will allow us to test the software.  If you have any feedback on the tool, please email us at sailing@hudsonyachtclub.com.

Limited Crew Membership

If you wish to have a regular crew sailing with you in racing events, who is not currently a member of the club, this is possible through the Limited Crew Membership.

It's a great deal and allows the person use of club facilities on days when a racing event is scheduled.

It is the skippers responsibility to submit proposals for the Limited Crew Membership.  Please contact the HYC office for the forms and further details.

Crew Bank Sign Up

If you're a skipper building your crew for this season, or a sailor looking for a ride, check out the Crew Bank link on the right of this page.




For those who signed up last year, let us know if you still want to be on the crew bank or if any info has changed.

Send any updates to sailing@hudsonyachtclub.com

Sailing Calendar Updated

If don't have you calendar handy and are wondering when the next race is, you can always click on the link on the right of this page.  It's now been updated for the 2011 season.  There is also a calendar of external events.  Admittedly it's a little J22-centric, so if you'd like some dates added for other fleets, drop a note to sailing@hudsonyachtclub.com.

Spring Sailors' Meeting - Wednesday 13th April

Greetings sailors and welcome back from the chilly depths of winter!  The ice is melting fast, it's time to turn our thoughts to the upcoming season.

To kick-start that process, the Spring Sailors' Meeting will be held at 07:30pm next Wednesday 13 April in the HYC bar.  

Come and hear all about the sailing program for this season and have all your questions answered.

What series are planned?  

Are there any changes to the SI's?  

What inter-club competitions will be sailed?  

How many regattas are planned?  

Do we have a bosun? 

Sign up for your preferred slot for RC.   

See you there!

HYC Women's Regatta

The HYC Women's Regatta will be held on Sunday, 8 August.

• The regatta is open to anyone (so long as they are female).  
• All boat classes are eligible (so long as they have a valid SLVYRA handicap).  
• There are 2 races planned (so long as they happen before 3pm).  
• Skippers meeting at 11:00 in the HYC bar with first gun at 12:30 (so long as there is no AP).  
• Entry fee $5/participant.  

Please register via the office.  NOR and SIs are available on http://hudsonyachtclub.com/racing_documents.html

Sailing Calendar for 2010

There was a great turn-out for the Spring Sailors’ Meeting on Wednesday as members gathered to hear an overview of the program for the year. For more info, and to see the 2010 Sailing Calendar follow the link on the right of this page. Sailing Instructions for club and interclub racing are now posted on the HYC website

• Club program similar to last year with PHRF racing Wednesday nights and one Saturday per month
• For Wednesdays, only 1 re-sail date per series scheduled
• Club championships qualification same as last year
• Interclub sailing continues
• CVL/HYC series on Wednesdays evenings
• LTM Lake Championship series with CVL, CVMO and CNDM to be run again in June
• White sail series on Tuesday nights
• Elimination of Gold / Silver fleet split
• Introducing Casual Sundays
• Relaxed racing just for fun on Sunday mornings from 27 June onwards modelled on the popular Frostbite series
• Show up for a start at 10:30 for a relaxed race around fixed marks. No Race Committee. Keep your own time. No points – just for fun.
• Dinghy Sailing on Thursday evenings
• Targeting at least 2 races per night
• Soling One Meter fleet are changing it up
• Championship qualifications now on Thursdays with Sundays reserved for fun

Women’s Racing On Lake Of Two Mountains

Two successful women’s regattas were held this month on Lake of Two Mountains, despite the frustrating light air conditions. (Oh, you should have heard the unladylike cursing! ;-)

HYC hosted its second annual Women’s Regatta, with six keen crews, including a visiting boat from CVMO, Apsara. Thanks to the dogged perseverance of our Race Committee and Bosun, who searched up and down the lake for wind, we got in two races. And the grey skies couldn’t dampen the great time had by all, both on and off the water! After slow motion racing, the girls repaired to the bar and enjoyed complimentary Sleeman beer and a very tasty potluck buffet! Regatta winners were The PeaceMaker (Marian, Erin, Lise and Lauren), TinkerBell (Cathy H, Melissa, Carol) and Springbok (Femke, Debby, Brenda and Nancy.) And congrats to first-time boats Kevelle (Liz L, Steph D, Jan B) and Freja (Gail, Sheena, Debbie N)!! And there were some rumblings about an illegal sailor on Freja…??

Two weeks later, a bevy of keen Hudson women sailors headed over to CVMO for their annual Régate des Femmes. After an interesting bumper-boats start (the wind dropped completely), the fleet of seven took off… sort of. But with gradually increasing winds (I use the term lightly) and sunnier skies, the race got interesting – but there was still no catching Tumbleweed, the clear winner of day. Congratulations to the first place team, Tumbleweed (Cathy B, Debby, Carol) – and also for your enthusiastic docking! ;-) Under the steady helm of Barb (with Bev L, Helen Henshaw), Beluga placed fourth, with Verboaten (Marian, Erin, Lise, Lauren), in her inaugural race, right behind in fifth place.

This regatta had a special purpose this year, as a fund-raiser for breast cancer, so the theme of the day was PINK! Competitors and friends sipped rosé and enjoyed delicious local OKA cheese.

The organizing committees from both clubs would like to thank all participants and volunteers for making both events a wonderful success! See you next year!!


Marian Kuiper

Régate des femmes

Bonjour à tous!

Comme vous le savez la régate des femmes du CVMO aura lieu ce dimanche. Tous les clubs sont invités et nous espérons une participation en grand nombre!Comme nous éprouvons quelques soucis techniques avec notre site web, je vousfais parvenir directement l'avis de course; nous espérons qu'il sera disponibleen ligne sous peu.

Veuillez noter que le départ est prévu pour 13h30 et que la réunion desbarreuses se tiendra sur le terrain de la marina d'Oka (sous les auvents) à12h30.

Comme notre club de voile n'a pas les équipements nécessaire pour annoncer leparcours à partir du bateau comité (pas de tableau d'affichage) le parcourssera annoncé lors de cette réunion.

Après la régate, toutes les participantes et leurs amis sont attendus pour laremise des prix où vin et fromage d'Oka seront offert!L'avis de course n'est offert qu'en français. Toutefois si vous avez desquestions ou quelques incompréhensions il nous fera plaisir d'y répondre! Soitpar courriel (à cette adresse) ou bien via les contacts fourni sur l'avis decourse.

En espérant vous voir nombreuse dimanche!
Julien J.L. et Marco V.Directeurs de course CVMO

PS: If anybody needs a Notice or Race plse email julien.jehanne-lacasse@polymtl.ca

Womens' Regatta - August 9, 2009

OK, we are keen to run this again (WOOHOO!)... so see you SUNDAY, AUGUST 9th.

Many thanks to our bosun and race committee for re-scheduling with us.
This is a friendly white sail, maybe a good time to trying helming, for those of you who are thinking about it!

Two (2) races are scheduled,
Registration/Skippers Meeting, held in the HYC bar, is 1100.
Warning signal of first race is 1230.
There will be no warning signal made after 1500.
Awards and refreshments will be presented afterwards at HYC.


So, talk it up, get yourselves organized... if someone wants to "coordinate" crews, go for it... I know there are ladies out there looking for a ride (so to speak...;-)
The NOR is available at the Club, please register with the office.

HYC Competes in Buffalo J22 Eastern Great Lakes Championship

By Femke le Duc

Last weekend, the three “little rockets” drove in convoy to compete in the fourth annual Buffalo J22 Raw Bar Regatta.

With 43 entries, featuring the rock stars of the J22 North American circuit, it was the first major one-design regatta for Tinker Bell (Cathy Harris, Jenny Marten, Jessa Amos, Femke) and turned out to be a veritable trial by fire. Eight races were sailed over 2 days in winds of 15-25 knots and waves of up to 8 feet – conditions we don’t often practice in on the Lake of Two Mountains.

We had great support and encouragement from the company of our dear friends and husbands on Jazz (Ron Harris, John Marten, Pete Amos) and Springbok (Michelle Jutras, Ryan Beck, Bernard le Duc). From time to time we sailed close to them, but mostly we got to admire their transoms and awesome spinnaker flying. Both teams performed impressively with Springbok placing 26^th and Jazz 13^th. Jazz would have done even better, except for an OCS in the last race which they didn’t hear as their radio was not working.

It was tough and we got bruised, I went over-board but my crew stayed calm and pulled me back in. I’m very proud of our team and the way we handled the multiple challenges. We had some moments of brilliance too – surfing down the rollers and beating Jazz off the start line (Yeah!). We stayed out there, placed 35^th, came together as a team, had loads of fun and won the party. Definitely an experience to be recommended and repeated.

To see more amazing photos go to the Tim Wilkes website http://www.marinephotography.biz/searchlinksJ22E09.html.

And for full results click on http://www.j22buffalo.com/2009results.html

Centennial Team Race

To celebrate the Centennial of HYC we will be holding a Team Race on Saturday July 11, 2009.
You are invited form teams comprising of any 3 keelboats and to register with the Race Committeevia the Club office or e-mail sailing@hudsonyachtclub.com.
As an added twist the race will be a pursuit race and there will be rolling start signal sequence for all competing keel boats. The start times are calculated based on each type of boats handicap so that in theory we will all finish at the same time!
The scheduled time of the warning signal for the race is 13:25, with the 1st boats starting at 13:30.
The start / finish line will be from the mast on the Webb Pier thus enabling our members on shore to view the race proceedings.
So form a team with your class mates or friends and join in the race of the century!

The Class flags and scheduled start times for each class will be:
Prizes shall be given to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placed teams .
Copies of the full SI’s are available at the Club.
Should the Centennial Celebrations be postponed the race will be run on Sunday July 12, 2009

HYC Women’s Regatta Sunday July 19th, 2009

Hudson Yacht Club is hosting its second annual
HYC Women’s Regatta on Sunday, July 19th, 2009.
This is a fun and friendly white sail race, as part of the growing initiative of female sailors in the area.

This regatta is open to keelboats with a current SLVYRA handicap and enthusiastic crews must be female. This is a wonderful opportunity for women sailors to meet, share resources and ideas, and have fun!

Notice of Race will be posted at www.hudsonyachtclub.com To register or for more information, please contact Marian Kuiper at sailing@hudsonyachtclub.com or call HYC at (450) 458-5326.

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Dimanche, le 19 juillet, 2009, le Club de voile d’Hudson sera hôte du HYC Women’s Regatta. L'événement répond à une croissance dans la popularité du sport de la voile entre les femmes de la région, et est limité à la 'voile blanche'.

La régate est ouverte aux quillards ayant un handicap SLVYRA, un esprit enthousiaste et un équipage entièrement féminin. Il s’agit d’une occasion unique pour les enthousiastes de voile féminin à partager leurs ressources et idées, et aussi avoir du plaisir!

L'avis de cours se trouvera sur le site web du Club de voile d’Hudson (www.hudsonyachtclub.com). Pour s'inscrire, ou pour avoir plus d'informations, veuillez rejoindre Marian Kuiper (sailing@hudsonyachtclub.com) ou téléphoner au bureau du Club de voile d’Hudson au 450-458-5326.

Adult Sailing Lessons

Do you know of any friends or family interested in learning how to sail? Then HYC has just the course. This course introduces the novice, or new sailor with limited experience, to the exciting sport of sailing. Our CYA-certified instructors will provide weekly instruction, on Tuesday evenings from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

The session dates are June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28 and August 4.

Member fee is $200.00 per person, non-member fee is $240.00 per person (if space available), plus applicable taxes.
The registration form can be at:
http://hudsonyachtclub.com/Reg.FormAdultSailing2009.pdf
Sign up soon, the session fills quickly!!

How to Do I Get Involved in Sailing at HYC?

Some great ideas on sailing participation from Holly Frohloff

For many of us sailing is a passion that has grown over a number of years. This often means that we have varied levels of skill and experience or different individual goals. To help us all participate we have many programs at HYC to get you on the water.

Crew Bank:

If you have a boat & need crew or want to crew and need a boat (or have it all but don't know what to do with it!), send an email to crew@hudsonyachtclub.com and we will try to get you out on the water. Please provide your contact information and experience so we can match you appropriately.

The bench near Hy-Seas will be the official Crew Bench. Anyone wanting to crew can present themselves at that bench before a race and we will do our best to get you on a boat.

Stay informed & spread the word - get your name on the sailors' advisory emails and check the notice boards for updates and crewing opportunities.

Learn-To-Sail Program:

HYC offers a great Learn-To-Sail program for adults. Designed to introduce the novice or the individual with limited experience to the sport of sailing. The course should provide the participant with the confidence and skill to sail in a variety of wind conditions and with the basic knowledge of racing skills. Call the office or check out the Club Website for more information.

http://www.hudsonyachtclub.com/sailing_lessons_adult.html

Clinics:

Aug 1-2 - Racing Clinic
Building on the experience gained over the previous clinics, we will focus this year on Racing Skills and Spinnakers. Clinics are open to men & women with some experience. Volunteering to assist in coaching, providing boats and sharing your experience, are also great opportunities to participate in these clinics.

Women's Racing:

With a growing number of Women’s events the camaraderie of this fleet is certainly unmistakable. This year there will be fully owned and operated women’s boat at HYC and several Regattas on the Lake.

July 19 - HYC Women's Regatta
Aug 23 - Régate des femmes (Oka)