Lake Michigan SuRF Newsletter - LMSRF
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leading group of sailors was very high) it was nearly impossible to regain the leading position in the<br />
regatta. There was also no throw-out.<br />
Again, I believe I had the potential to win this contest or at least to place among the top three boats.<br />
<strong>LMSRF</strong> helping me financially was invaluable in making this a reality, gaining the great experience and<br />
obtaining the confidence necessary to compete in the future regattas of this caliber. Thank you so<br />
much!—Roman Plutenko<br />
Hurricane Isaac Sunset<br />
by Darren Bowling<br />
Northern edge of Hurricane Isaac?<br />
September 2, 2012 …<br />
It's been sitting here all day...<br />
At Ludington, Mich.<br />
Yacht Club Membership Development Reports<br />
by Steve VanderVoort, Editor, Sail Chicago and John Lemon, Instruction Chair<br />
The year 2012 may well go down as the most successful sailing season in Sail Chicago history. The club’s<br />
new Sail-into-Summer program has been fantastically successful in getting members of our Chicago<br />
community out on the water. Our fleet renewal program has given us a couple of newer boats that<br />
require less maintenance. Our overall financial situation is excellent. Our Strategic Planning Committee<br />
is hard at work helping to define Sail Chicago's mission and goals for the next few years. Their<br />
recommendations may well define our course in the future. Our maintenance program is being<br />
reconfigured in order to make it easier to keep our fleet in outstanding shape.<br />
Sail Chicago's sailing instruction program enjoyed our most successful season yet. Overall, our student<br />
enrollment was up a whopping 65% over 2011! This is due in part to our new Sail into Summer program,<br />
which introduced 90 new sailors to the fundamentals of sailing on our new Colgate 26s. We registered<br />
almost 80 new members, who enrolled in all levels of our sailing classes, a slight increase over 2011.<br />
Remarkably, at the same time we were training a huge number of new sailors, our dedicated instructors<br />
coached a record number of new skippers. To date we have added over 35 new Basic Keelboat skippers,<br />
double last year's number. Part of this success was due to the fleet improvements and consolidation we<br />
implemented over the past year, which enabled us to better utilize and focus the efforts of our volunteer<br />
instructors.<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Michigan</strong> Sail Racing Federation 22 November 2012 <strong>Newsletter</strong>
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