2012 Delta Daze 5 August - Encinal Yacht Club
2012 Delta Daze 5 August - Encinal Yacht Club
2012 Delta Daze 5 August - Encinal Yacht Club
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March <strong>2012</strong><br />
FROM<br />
JUNIOR SAILING DIRECTOR...<br />
SOUNDINGS<br />
Andrew Nelson<br />
It’s been a busy month here at the EYC Jr. Sailing Program. Right now we are already<br />
looking ahead and gearing up for summer. Brochures are printed, classes will be online<br />
soon, and instructors are being hired on. We’re also in full fundraising mode right now.<br />
We hosted our annual Crab Feed this year and raked in over $3,500 in tips alone! The<br />
food was great, the sailors did a stellar job waiting tables, and everyone enjoyed themselves<br />
thoroughly. Enough thanks can’t be given to all the parent volunteers that helped<br />
get this year’s production off the ground. Flor Delle Cese and Barb Grove deserve an extra<br />
big thank you for orchestrating the event and feeding 200 people. Andrea Quinn also<br />
deserves recognition for baking all of the cupcakes that gave our young waiters the sugar<br />
induced burst of energy they needed before serving tables. Our next big fundraising production<br />
will be the Jr. Sailing Auction, back by popular demand this year, happening<br />
Saturday, July 21. We are also underway with our T-shirt sponsorship drive, so if anyone<br />
would like their company’s logo on the back of our <strong>2012</strong> T-shirts please let me know.<br />
The high school season is slowly winding down, and already our older sailors are getting<br />
the itch to be back in the Laser or 420. Our NorCal season concluded in late January<br />
with the Oyster Point Regatta, but in two days of racing only 2 races were completed due<br />
to a lack of wind. We still have a two PCISA Regattas left and the end of the season<br />
championships to contend for. We’ll be pushing hard until April and then start shifting<br />
our focus ahead to the Summer BAYS Series and other regional youth events.<br />
Our winter Opti program is<br />
Photo by Tony Shaffer<br />
in full swing right now. We<br />
have nearly twice the number<br />
of Opti sailors participating<br />
now compared to the fall.<br />
We have some new faces and<br />
plenty of returners actively<br />
sailing the Opti this winter,<br />
which bodes well for the future<br />
of our program. Just<br />
last weekend we hosted the<br />
BAYS #3 Opti Regatta. We<br />
had 11 <strong>Encinal</strong> sailors competing<br />
in the 30+ boat fleet.<br />
For several of them it was<br />
ENCINAL YACHT CLUB · 1251 PACIFIC MARINA · ALAMEDA · CA · 94501 · 510.522.3272
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