The success of our club relies on the volunteer activities of our members. Signup here for your favorite volunteer activities. Activities are grouped under the CLSA committee chair positions.
The board consists of four officers (elected by the membership at the fall banquet), a rear commodore, and a group of committee heads appointed by the officers. The board meets monthly to attend to all of the business behind all of the fun, typically at a location between Bloomington and Champaign-Urbana. Download the by-laws (below) for the formal information.
The commodore coordinating the work of all the other board positions. The vice-commodore is an elected position and it is mainly a commodore-in-training position as the vice becomes commodore in the following year. To help with continuity, the retiring commodore takes the rear-commodore position the year after serving as commodore. The rear commodore is not an officer.
These elected positions require note taking at board meetings and management of club finances.
The main role of the committee chairs is to coordinate the efforts of club members to organize and run activities and events.
This position sets the race schedule, organizes volunteers to run races and regattas and tallies the results of the race season for awards and trophies at the end of the season.
This person organizes others to bring in new members and retain old members.
This position is responsible for coordinating others to arrange for and manage social functions.
This person coordinates the sharing of information to the membership and the public. In the past this has been done via a newsletter and website.
This position coordinates volunteers to provide opportunities for junior members of the club to learn and practice new skills through workshops, practice sessions, clinics, and workshops.
The harbormaster identifies to the board actions needed to maintain the facilities and then organizes volunteers to carry out these actions. Historically this involves organizing and coordinating spring and fall workdays and then tracking the condition of the facilities throughout the sailing season.
This new position is associated with our growing fleet of boats available to members. It is not yet part of the CLSA bylaws. Volunteers are coordinated to maintain the fleet, track the use of the fleet, and recommend repair expenditures to the board.
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A few CLSA cruising sailors are looking to (formally) organize a Door County cruise and flotilla the week of July 24 through August 1st. Over the years, many have visited and sailed Eagle Harbor, Nicolet Bay, Washington Island and Green Bay in general. This year, with your help, we can organize to visit this beautiful summer vacation wonderland together.
Coinciding that week is the 105th Ephraim Flying Scot Regatta. Several Flying Scot teams will attend so we can cheer on our local racers and attend the great parties the Ephraim Yacht Club puts on every year.
Here's what we look to do:
1. Sail around
4. Sail some more
5. Gather at some restaurants to eat...
6. Hang out
7. Watch the 105th Ephraim Regatta races
8. Eat ice cream, sleep...
More information to follow...
Joe Karbarz 309-846-3617 for details.
We look forward to seeing you there!
We have a set of boats that are available to CLSA members. Like all boats, they require constant love and attention. Click on any of our main efforts below and signup to be part of or even lead a maintenance crew on one or more of the boats.
People are needed to ensure the continued maintenance and operation of the committee boat.
CLSA is responsible for keeping the grounds around the pavilion trimmed and neat. The lawn maintenance volunteers can use the lawnmower in the CLSA shed to keep us looking good.
Be a part of the Lido sailing group and maintenance crew.
Help keep the MC Scow in good operating condition. Maintainers will have priority over others to use the boat.
Keep the Ray Green boat in good operation condition. Volunteers will have first rights to use the boat.
This small fleet of Sunfish has been very popular! Help keep these boats afloat!
Please contact a board member to volunteer for any need!
| Position | Volunteer |
| Officers (board members) | |
| Commodore | Joe Budden |
| Vice Commodore | Joe Karbarz |
| Secretary | Tom Galyen |
| Treasurer | Woody Chenault |
| Committees (also board members) | |
| Rear Commodore | Don Johnson |
| Race | Gerry Christman |
| Membership | Bill Vokac |
| Social | |
| Publicity | Deb Aronson |
| Education | |
| Harbor Facilities | Josh Sigmon |
| Other Support | |
| Website | Jim Westervelt |
| Valley Forge Forage | |
| Spring Banquet | The Millers |
| Spring Cleanup/Setup | Everyone |
| Windsurf Regatta | Scotello / Christman |
| Open House | Bill Vokac |
| Youth Sailing Day | |
| Pirates' Day | |
| Flying Scot Glow Regatta | |
| Fall Cleanup | Everyone |
| Fall Banquet | |
| Lawn Maintenance | Chris Wojnar |
| Lido 14 maintenance | |
| Ray Green maintenance | |
| Sunfish maintenance | Andrew Koeser |
| MC Scow maintenance | |
| Committee boat duty | All racers |
This late February hike lets us enjoy the lake from a different perspective, and it provides an opportunity for club members to serve the public and have fun. We meet at Mascoutin State Park's Houseboat Cove hiking trail. The 2.5 mile hike takes about an hour. We enjoy the scenery, the wildlife, and each other's company. We also make it a point to pick up any trash we might find along the way. Following the hike, there's always time for a hot chocolate.
We gather together to praise the passing of the ice, snow, slush, and darkness, and feast and party with anticipation of the coming sailing.
This spring work day gets us all ready to use our sailing and race
We all look forward to work day because it marks the beginning of summer fun. We prepare the pavilion, reconstruct and launch the committee boat, clean up the area, repair the dock, and stabilize the shoreline. Of course, we earn a cookout the same day.
The ladies and daughters share sailing with friends, while the men stayoff the boats, man the galley (literally), and prepare a wonderful barbeque meal. Sailing starts early afternoon and is followed by an evening meal. Often this event is held on a moonlight sail evening in mid-June and is great fun for all!
Several evenings are scheduled throughout the summer months for a cookout followed by a near full-moon sailing experience. The cookout begins at 6PM and sailing follows as your spirit moves you. The lake is great by night. It's fun to watch satellites and stars.
The entire fleet decorated with lights and fanciful themes parades across the lake prior to an evening's moonlight sail.
At this event the party is taken out to the lake. We tie our boats together and share good times. This is scheduled typically near the 4th of July.
In late July we have a special day to make sailing especially fun for all the kids that show up. We teach them some sailing or just go for rides. We try to open the event to non-sailors as an introduction to the great world of sailing.
Created for the child in all of us, Pirates' Day is great fun. We have our traditional cardboard boat race. Boats are constructed before hand using cardboard, one sheet, two broomsticks, duct tape, and plastic milkcontainers. Prizes are awarded for best costumes and winning boats. Of course, a cookout makes it all the more fun. There is the usual raiding of ships in the merchant lanes and great pirate games. This is generally held early September and takes the sting out of going back to school.
This final work day lets us reflect on the good times and prepare the committee boat and pavilion for the winter. Many of us plan to pull our boats on this day so there's plenty of help around when you have to drop that mast.
We hold our fall banquet either in Bloomington/Normal or Champaign/Urbana. For this event, we dress up in our best sailing ties and jewelry, we feast,listen to sailing presentations, and recognize those who won the summer races. We award our club's trophies at the fall banquet.