Carol and Bob Miller are coordinating our CLSA Spring Banquet. We will gather at the Clinton Lake Marina. The Miller's have arranged for the Hickory River Smokehouse to provide us with chopped beef, sliced turkey, baked beans, cole slaw, garlic mashed potatoes, corn bread and beverages (probably iced teas and lemonade). Greg Forrest (the marina manager) will offer beer (and possibly wine) at a cash bar.

Your cost is $15/adult, $8/child (12 and under) and free for children 5 and under.

Contact Carol Miller at cam48@linuxmail.org to reserve places for you, your family, and friends.

Calling all historians, archivists, and people who like to bring order to the world!! We will gather at Dave and Betty Toland's house this Sunday, April 19, at 2 pm to sort through all the paper records of the club. Our hope is that we can toss out duplicate documents and also keep all records in a somewhat central location instead of scattered to the four winds. If you have any records at all from the club, please bring them!!

If you need directions to Dave and Betty's you can call them at 309-662-3372. Betty says she will serve ice cream. Anyone want to bring brownies?!

Time to setup for the sailing season

Backup day for workday in case of rain

Two days of long-distance racing

Potluck Dinner

Second race day

Focus on the future sailors

Lady skippers, choose your crew. Skippers' meeting at noon, races to follow.
We will have a series of, at most, three races, with a potluck to follow. If you need a boat, or some crew, let me know and we'll arrange something.
Deb Aronson debaronson@nasw.org  344-8508

Whole-family fun

Skippers' Meeting at the CLSA Pavilion at 12:00 noon. 

Flying Scot Regatta
Read the Glow II announcement at the top of the home page for details.

Flying Scot Regatta

Championship Triangle Winning boat of the biggest fleet gets a trophy.
Skippers' Meeting at the CLSA Pavilion at 12:00 noon. 

Skippers' Meeting at the CLSA Pavilion at 12:00 noon. 
 
(This race has been postponed to Oct. 11 from September 19 to accommodate CLSA members sailing the the Whale of a Sail.)

Championship Distance Winning boat of the biggest fleet gets a trophy.
Skippers' Meeting at the CLSA Pavilion at 12:00 noon. 

CLSA Work Day
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
10AM - Work Party
 All members encouraged to participate -- as with enough helpers it becomes a "fun party" instead of a "work party".  We will put away the CLSA  FLEET and decide what repairs / improvements may be needed over the winter.  We'll prepare the Committee Boat for the winter, clean up the grounds, etc.
Bring a can of soup/person for the

Get the sailing area ready for the winter

Come back later for all the details!

Ahoy,
 The first 2010 CLSA Board meeting will be January 13th, 2010 at Imo's Cafe at 6PM to plan out the 2010 Season.
(Take I-74 from Bloomington/Normal or Champaign/Urbana and exit to the South onto State Route 54 at the Farmer City exit. Continue South to U.S. Hwy 150 -- the first stop sign and you are already in front of Imo's Restaurant. Imo's has a LARGE and varied menu, along with VERY reasonable food prices. Imo's has provided CLSA a glassed-in meeting room for years totally FREE to CLSA...please consider purchasing some food to thank them.)

Many CLSA'ers go to this show (www.strictlysailchicago.com) EVERY year -- it's that good an experience!

There are great deals to be had on sailboats and sailing gear, sailing seminars to attend (no additional charge, in most cases...), and "the pond" where you can pilot a Radio Controlled sailboat around a Windward - Leeward course.

Where else can you try out various reefing systems for your main next year, winches, pumps, docking echniques, etc. in the Winter?

Of course, Chicago has many other attractions as well...why not "make a 'Special' weekend out of it?"

Many CLSA'ers go to this show (www.strictlysailchicago.com) EVERY year -- it's that good an experience!

There are great deals to be had on sailboats and sailing gear, sailing seminars to attend (no additional charge, in most cases...), and "the pond" where you can pilot a Radio Controlled sailboat around a Windward - Leeward course.

Where else can you try out various reefing systems for your main next year, winches, pumps, docking echniques, etc. in the Winter?

Of course, Chicago has many other attractions as well...why not "make a 'Special' weekend out of it?"

Many CLSA'ers go to this show (www.strictlysailchicago.com) EVERY year -- it's that good an experience!

There are great deals to be had on sailboats and sailing gear, sailing seminars to attend (no additional charge, in most cases...), and "the pond" where you can pilot a Radio Controlled sailboat around a Windward - Leeward course.

Where else can you try out various reefing systems for your main next year, winches, pumps, docking echniques, etc. in the Winter?

Of course, Chicago has many other attractions as well...why not "make a 'Special' weekend out of it?"

Many CLSA'ers go to this show (www.strictlysailchicago.com) EVERY year -- it's that good an experience!

There are great deals to be had on sailboats and sailing gear, sailing seminars to attend (no additional charge, in most cases...), and "the pond" where you can pilot a Radio Controlled sailboat around a Windward - Leeward course.

Where else can you try out various reefing systems for your main next year, winches, pumps, docking echniques, etc. in the Winter?

Of course, Chicago has many other attractions as well...why not "make a 'Special' weekend out of it?"

Meet between the South entrance to the Marina and the water. Time 10 AM -2

If the water is too hard to sail, we'll do a "dock walk" to check out the boats "wintering over" in the ice. In past years, some have folks walked on the harbor ice across the lake(using a battery drill with a L O N G bit to check the ice depth for safety), while others chose to ice skate!

If the water is soft, cabin boats still afloat will gather a crew and sail briefly. One year, the boats returned to the docks in a snow squall (see photos on the CLSA website...)

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From Greg Jobson's email announcements:

We plan to cover the America's Cup on ESPN360. Note announcement below. It also has an explanation on how to subscribe to ESPN360.

I hope you will watch.

Best Regards,

Gary Jobson

ESPN360.com Weighing Anchor with the 33rd America's Cup

From Greg Jobson's email announcements:

We plan to cover the America's Cup on ESPN360. Note announcement below. It also has an explanation on how to subscribe to ESPN360.

I hope you will watch.

Best Regards,

Gary Jobson

ESPN360.com Weighing Anchor with the 33rd America's Cup

From Greg Jobson's email announcements:

We plan to cover the America's Cup on ESPN360. Note announcement below. It also has an explanation on how to subscribe to ESPN360.

I hope you will watch.

Best Regards,

Gary Jobson

ESPN360.com Weighing Anchor with the 33rd America's Cup

From Greg Jobson's email announcements:

We plan to cover the America's Cup on ESPN360. Note announcement below. It also has an explanation on how to subscribe to ESPN360.

I hope you will watch.

Best Regards,

Gary Jobson

ESPN360.com Weighing Anchor with the 33rd America's Cup

From Greg Jobson's email announcements:

We plan to cover the America's Cup on ESPN360. Note announcement below. It also has an explanation on how to subscribe to ESPN360.

I hope you will watch.

Best Regards,

Gary Jobson

ESPN360.com Weighing Anchor with the 33rd America's Cup

Where:

Parking lot SE of Twin Horn Bay (Houseboat Cove, the powerboaters call it...)

Take Mascoutin Beach Road to the CLOSED beach gate (just before the beach) and turn right, following the short turn Northward and the parking lot will be on your left.

ARRIVE by 1:45 pm, so we know who will be walking with us.

Photos of participants are usually taken for posting on the CLSA site...

2PM -- group heads out on circular path that hugs the Clinton Lake shoreline and pennisula that shelters our Twin Horn Bay from wave action.