The monthly letter from our Commodore, Jasmine Lee-Barber!
Hey Sailors!I hope all of you had a great Autumn quarter, and enjoyed the classes you took. We hope to see you down at Supervised Sailing Hours to continue sailing--remember, you can bring a friend to sail with you!
This quarter we've started an informal gathering at 5:30pm in the HUB Student Resource Center before our ALL of our General Meetings which start at 7pm upstairs. These are a great way to meet new people in the club, and free food is provided! During this time, we do miscellaneous things like making posters and chatting informally about the club and any ideas/suggestions. We had our first one yesterday and had a great turnout! We discussed improvements we'd like to see in the club and ate delicious pizza.
The major themes that kept coming up last night are: to increase the number of lessons that we offer each quarter, get better at retaining our membership, and offer more club sailing social events. We'll be trying out some instructor-specific tabling and advertising throughout winter quarter to build up a great instructor crew for spring. If you are interested in teaching, please contact me! Instructing comes with a free membership that quarter. We had some great ideas for club sailing events--such as sailing out to Mercer Island and having a picnics at the Luther Burbank Park, so stay tuned when the weather gets warm.
Our next event is the Second Annual Nutjob Classic! It's an informal race on Thanksgiving morning, and will have some awesome prizes. Check out the website for more info--the details are in the "Annoucements" on the front page. Events during the winter will be confined to keelboats--but hopefully we'll get a few events up on the nicer winter days.
The next General Meeting is on Monday Nov 30th and I look forward to meeting you!!
Jasmine
"events during the winter will be confined to keelboats"
ReplyDeleteDo you mean this literally? Is the club limiting dinghy events during the winter? Or is just focusing more on keelboat and daysailor activities?
Not literally! Wetsuits are strongly encouraged during winter sailing and s. I would like to see events that are able to include people who do not have a wetsuite (or the $100 to go out and buy one)--which would be keelboat/daysailor events.
ReplyDeleteThus, there will be dinghy events (the Nutjob Classic yesterday was awesome!) but I hope to increase the number of keelboat/daysailor events.