With sixty and above degree temps and the snow melting furiously, our thoughts are assuredly turning to future days on the "high seas." Our 2021 NWSA PROPOSED SAILING SCHEDULE is in our Communique. This schedule will be used as a starting point for our Virtual Skipper’s Meeting discussion on Monday, April 5, at 7 PM. This is when boat owners will have the opportunity for input for the upcoming season. The link for accessing the meeting is the same Zoom link we use for our regular meetings.

- Lorraine Klabunde, 2021 Fleet Captain

Thanks for having a nice forward looking perspective for our upcoming 2021. We need people, boats, ideas, excitement and participation.

- Dave Hutchings, 2021 Technology

Thanks for your inputs, Lorraine & Dave!

- Marc Holdwick, 2021 Commodore

Wow! What a year. Usually we dread the year ending so soon, but this year we are celebrating it!

Although this year wasn’t what we were all hoping for, we as a club made the best of it. Even with restrictions, we still had about 8 sailing events. And thanks to Wayne, we transitioned our monthly meetings to Zoom. Although we would prefer seeing everyone in person while enjoying coffee and cookies (thanks Asayo & Trish), we still kept as much of the bond together as we could.

With vaccines on the immediate horizon, things are looking to be ready by summer next year.  So, unless something changes, we are going to sail forward with that goal in mind.

Since we couldn’t get together in person for a nice club dinner, we held a November Zoom meeting to present our annual awards. Wayne presented the winners of the photo contest and Lorraine gave us results of the sailing season. Congratulations to Casey Bezec and Pete Schleck who were our most active captains. And let’s thank all of the other captains and photographers for sharing their boats and memories with us this year.

At the November meeting we also had our election for the 2021 board. All of the board members volunteered to run again for next year. Thanks to the 2020 board for helping steer our club successfully through some rough weather this year. We also have one new addition to the board. Robbie Leighton volunteered for and was elected to our open Purser position. Thanks Robbie!

I hope everyone has a great holiday season. We all have a lot to be thankful for. So come New Year’s Eve, let’s look forward to and start planning our new year!

-Marc Holdwick, 2020 Commodore

The leaves are changing color and fall is here. I hope everyone had as good of a summer as possible. We had 8 sails this year. A few more were planned, but a stormy September kept us from a few more.

Our sailing seasons are usually much more active, but with a very late start, lockdowns and everyone being very careful, we made the best of what we had.

This month’s meeting will kick off our photo contest. Wayne will take us through the entries and how to vote for the best pictures of this season.

Since we will not be having our usual banquet this year, we are going to have a short “Awards” meeting in November. It will be held on our “usual” 3rd Monday of the month (November 16). Please join us at 7pm on Zoom.

We will announce our photo contest winners and also present our most active captain awards for 2020. We will also have a vote for our 2021 board. There is still one unfilled position that needs a candidate - our Purser (Treasurer for you land-blubbers). If you would like to balance our check book for us, please let Irene Jarmulska, our Member-at-Large know that you would like to help.

Hopefully your boat is all set and snug and ready for the winter ahead. Let’s all remember that next year will be much better!

-Marc Holdwick, 2020 Commodore