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2018 Spring
Spring is finally here and a lot of
things are starting to happen all at
once. April 14th was the Spring
Fling, our first get-together, after
the long winter break. On April
17th, a caravan of MSC volunteers
headed down to the Flying Scot
factory in Deep Creek Maryland to
bring five of our re-furbished
Flying Scots back to Watts
Bay. On April 20th we will
pick-up our new-to-us;
Sunfish and take it to Watts
Bay on April 21st in
preparation for our first Barn
Date. I encourage as many
club members as possible to
come and help out on the
Barn Dates: April 21st and
April 28th. It is a lot of work,
cleaning and rigging our club
boats after the barn storage. I
know it has been said before
but “many hands make light
work” pun intended.
It was great seeing everyone
at the spring fling!
— Dave August, Commodore
FROM THE HELMApril 2018
CALLING ALL KIDS!! The Regatta At Lake Arthur this year will include events of interest to all past participants
of the Annual Sail Camps. Games and Fun events for Optis and Sunfish will be held on the South Shore. In between time on the water you will be able to enjoy all the other
activities that the Regatta has arranged. Make a note of the dates NOW for the 4th and 5th August and start to practice your skills as soon as the weather (and water) warm up! Please
let us know as soon as possible if you will be wanting to participate if only to ensure that we get enough boats across from Watts Bay for you to use. At 4 pm on Sunday afternoon a
race will start for Sunfish and Optis back to Watts Bay. Page 1
5 club Flying Scots we’re driven back
to Watts bay from Deep Creek, Md on
a April 17th by Dan Goldberg, Carol
Startare, Joe Shields, Bill Paviol and
Dave August. It was a snow blizzard at
one point but we made it safely!
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2018 Board Members
Commodore: Dave August
Vice Commodore: Bill PaviolTreasurer:
Carla CostelloSecretary:
Roxanne HaleMembership:Flo Donnelly
Property Director:Erik Knuth
Social Director: Mayte Saenz
Race Director: Jason Harrison
Education Director:Joe Shields
CSP Director: Ben LooseWebsite:
Joe ShieldsEx Officio:Javier Lopez
Fleet 80 Liaison: Mark Benner
Liaison Director:John Bridges
Director at Large: Ken Hale
Sail Camp Director/BTB Editor:
Sarah Paviol
Have an article, a boat for sail, or pictures you would like published? Email our
editor at: [email protected]
2018 Newsletter Article Due Dates:
Summer: July 14Fall: October 13
Winter: December 15
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CSP Report 2018Last October we took the remaining 5 flying scots down to Deep Creek MD where the
Flying Scot Company is located. We had taken the sixth one down the previous year. All boats now have now been taken back to the original design of steel Halyards for both the Jib and Main. bow flotation bags were installed as well as emergency transom ports for safety recovery and to upgrade the fleet to Flying Scot standards. Five of the Six flying scots now have swim ladders and grab rails for emergency man overboard rescue. These items along with a new boom crutch conversion for Awl Wright and Cunningham’s were installed on the 5 that were most recently overhauled The bottom paint on Peach was removed in order to increase its speed for use as a club race boat (this boat has been rigged for a spinnaker for Racing). All 6 Flying scots now have mast sleeve kits to strengthen them at the base. They have all had centerboard gaskets replaced. We want to thank Fleet 80 for graciously helping offset the costs of bringing the Flying Scot fleet up to standards and look forward to continuing our ongoing relationship.
The boats were all picked up on April 18th as you may have read earlier and are in Watt’s Bay awaiting Barn Day for rigging. There have been newly redrafted CSP boat procedures to include the correct use of the steel halyards and adjustment of the Cunningham’s. We do have plans to replace the Flying scot fleet with new main sheet and jib Sheets as well as the Hobie and Sunfish fleet this year. Lastly, a video series of “how to” instructions is in the works. Any member can access them on the website to learn how to do everything from properly raise and lower the halyards, prepare and rig and launch each category of boats in the fleet into the water as well as how to properly leave and come into the dock and basic tacking and jibing maneuvers.
Barn Day is this Saturday April 21 and the following Saturday, April 28 th . If you can help, plan to meet at Watt’s bay anytime between 9:30am and 2pm as lunch will be served for all who help. There are many jobs to be done and even with limited mobility, we can find a job for you.
See you at the lake!
Regatta at Lake Arthur, the annual 2-day event, will be held on the South Shore August 4 camp; 5. This will be the Regatta’s 20 the year and the premier event will be the Dock Dogs Worldwide. It is the World’s Premier Canine Aquatics Competition. We will see high-flying and long-jumping dogs of a wide variety of breeds. Share your love of the water with these athletes and come cheer them on. Visit www.LakeArthurRegatta.org to see what all is offered at the Regatta. The Moraine Sailing Club is committed to our mission statement of promoting sailing in Western PA. The Regatta is the best opportunity for us to do this first hand with the attendance at almost 20,000 people. It also gives us a chance to show our local communities that sailing does not only happen near the ocean, it happens RIGHT HERE! Your board members have chosen to be partners with Moraine State Park, Lake Arthur Sailing Club, and the Regatta for quite some time now. Thanks to John Bridges’ past hard work, the club provides and manages most of the sailing events. The Regatta sailing events will include:
Saturday Aug 4, 201811am Buoy Races for Flying Scots, Sunfish, Keelboats, and Catamarans2pm Youth Sunfish/Optimist Sailing Games3pm Le Mans Start Sunfish/Optimist Sailing Race5pm Catamaran Capsize and Recovery Demonstration7pm Boat Parade Participants Convene (Crescent Bay)730pm Boat Parade8pm Boat Raft-up for Fireworks
Sunday Aug 5, 201811am Bridge to Bridge Race for Flying Scots, Keelboats, and Catamarans2pm Sunfish Capsize and Recovery Demonstration4pm Le Mans Start, Race to Watts Bay Sunfish/Optimist Sailing Race
In addition, the club will be offering “Sailboat rides” to the public. We use this as a method of meeting people face to face and attracting new members. Please volunteer as a skipper of a CSP Flying Scot or Hobie and help the club promote sailing. The board encourages everyone to participate in the regatta by sailing the races and manning the information booth. We would also like to see our Youth Sail Camp kids be fully engaged with Sunfish/Optimist activities. Visit the club’s events page to sign up. Come on out and PLAY!Happy Sailing.
Picture taken from Fall Barn Date 1
Date 1
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Sail Camp News: Just a reminder, 2018 Sail Camp will start Monday, June 25 and end on Friday, June 29. Camp hours are 9:10am sign in - 4pm
pick up. If you would like to volunteer, PA Child Abuse clearances are
required! The link is on the website under youth sail!
Sail Camp Director Position Available Summer of 2016 was my very first year as the camp director and
after that year, I was hooked and couldn’t wait for the next year
to come. My one-year commitment had turned into three and I
am so thankful for all the memories I have created with each and
every one of you! However, upon entering my junior year in
college and taking 19 credits, I have decided that it is time to
step down and let someone else take over.
Please consider stepping forward to contribute to the club and to
the future of youth sailing. The job of an educator is to teach
students to see the vitality in themselves- Joseph Campbell. I
have seen these students grow; from scared nervous little boys
and girls to strong and confident young sailors. They have
worked hard these past few years and deserve to be given the
chance to prove this. Sailing is a unique sport that is not often
seen in Pennsylvania, new students deserve the opportunity to
discover a talent they might not have known they had.
My first year was nerve racking and filled with insecurities of not
knowing if I could handle this great task I had taken on.
However, I had help from the previous director, Ken Sherwood,
and the support of the MSC Board behind me to help guide me
in the right direction and soon those fears faded and were
replaced with nothing more than excitement and eagerness. You
will not be thrown into the dark when taking this position, I will
be there to help and mentor you; even when you know you have
the hang of it, I’ll always be around to help.
If you are interested, please email me at
Thank you all for the wonderful memories, see you on the water!
Miss Sarah Paviol
Director Qualifications-Good communicator
-Good delegator
-Willingness to coordinate with
instructors, parents, and other
volunteers
-Organized
-Responsibilities include:
-Advertise camp, solicit
applications, coordinate
instructional groups, handle forms,
certifications, reservations, etc.
-Accept or delegate other
responsibilities, such as T-shirt,
group photo, etc.
-Be primary contact for parents in
the pre- camp season
-Reserve Davis Cabin and allocate
spaces to instructor/families; stay
on site or delegate oversight of the
cabin to an instructor on site.
Commitment
-20 hours time during winter
-2 days during spring
-full week of sail camp
Racing NewsSpring has finally arrived, the boats come out of the barn and racing will soon start. The Day Steward schedule has been posted,
and we are ready to go! Our Day Steward’s can always use additional help, consider signing up for Race Committee duty and lending a hand, don’t worry about having experience, we all started in the same way, and the RC boat is the best seat in the house for watching and learning. We had a very well attended Learn to Race seminar, and I am looking forward to seeing new faces on
the race course. As was mentioned before, a new class, the JAM fleet is being instituted for those folks who don’t have a spinnaker on their flying scot. (JAM stands for Jib And Main). They will be scored separately, and if 3 or more boats are racing, they will have
their own start. Looking forward to a great race season, and seeing everyone out on the water!
—Jason
O’Day Sailor 17 Asking
$1100 OBO
Ray Wikowski Phone:
412-327-1125 if interested!
1979 O'Day Daysailer II very good condition, new up graded standing rigging, new centerboard pin and gaskets. The center board has been re-conditioned and glassed. Comes with a roller furler jib with a new Sunbrella cover. Jib and main sails have been re-conditioned at Sail Care. New cuddy cabin hatch covers and 2016 Sailor Tailor boat cover. The comes on a 2017 Shore-Landr trailer with extended tongue, trailer has self centering trailer guides for easy loading of the boat. The motor is an electric Minn Kota Endura C2 with 100 amp deep cycle marine battery. The boat package includes life jackets, fenders, anchor with 50 feet of rode, boat cushions and full seat cushions, instruction and rigging manuals. Both the boat and trailer have Pennsylvania titles and registrations
The boat and trailer can be seen after April 21st at Watts Bay slot 101. 2018 mooring fees already paid.
Asking $3500.00
Contact Dave August412/932-7870auggiedc @comcast.net
LIGHT AIR TIPSBy Dan Goldberg
A fact of life at Lake Arthur is occasional days with light air, especially in the summer months. We had two such days at our 2017 Sail for the Grail regatta. I was on the Race Committee pontoon boat those days and observed dramatic differences in boat speed. Some boats were moving well (relatively speaking) and some were not. Based on my observations, and years of previous light air experience, here are some suggestions to get your boat moving. These are specific to Flying Scots, but the same principles apply to most boats.
MAINSHEET – Reduce the mainsheet purchase from the “normal” (for most boats) of 3:1 to 2:1 or 1:1. This will eliminate weight pulling down on the boom, will help keep the mainsheet out of the water when going downwind, and make trimming easier.
MAINSHEET TRIM – When going upwind, leave the mainsheet out further than normal, even if you have to sacrifice pointing ability. The mainsheet will often need to be almost out to the corner of the boat, instead being pulled in tightly. Look at the top batten on the mainsail and don’t let it hook in towards the center of the boat. (This may not be possible if the wind is less than 1.0 knot.) Don’t pinch! When sailing off the wind on a reach, ease (or push out) the boom until the top batten on the mainsheet is parallel to the boom. The forward crew may have to manually hold it out, especially on a broad reach when both the main and jib should be all the way out.
MAINSAIL HALYARD TRIM – Do not crank up the main halyard tight. Instead, look for horizontal wrinkles coming off the mast, all the way up to the top. These are called “speed wrinkles.” They are ugly looking, but the sailmakers design their sails that way. If the wind increases, tighten up the halyard so that the wrinkles disappear from the top half of the sail, but you always want some wrinkles in at least the bottom
third of the mainsail luff.
JIB HALYARD TENSION – Look for tiny horizontal wrinkles (“crow’s feet”) coming off of each snap or attachment point. The jiff luff should almost have slight scallops between snaps.
JIBSHEET TRIM – Similar to the main, don’t let the top batten on the jib hook in towards the center of the boat when going upwind. Keeping it pointing out a few degrees and sailing not-quite close hauled is faster than normal (tight) trim. And leave the windward jibsheet very loose.
OUTHAUL – Keep it tight. This will flatten the bottom of the mainsail and make it easier for the wind flow to attach to the sail.
BOOM VANG – Don’t use any! You can even take it off the boom to reduce the weight pulling down on the boom.
SAILING DOWNWIND – Instead of looking at the mainsail (and spinnaker, if you have one), frequently look behind you. That is where the puffs will be coming from. Also, never sail dead downwind (on a run). Instead, head up to a broad reach, and jibe if necessary to get to where you are going. A good indicator of how high to sail is the jib. Head up until the jib barely fills. If it is collapsed, you are too far downwind.
BODY WEIGHT – Should be forward in the boat and on the leeward side of the boat. This will help the sails assume the right curvature and will minimize hull surface contact.
SKIPPER AND CREW MOVEMENT – No sudden moves! You want the wind flow to stay attached to the sails,
so all movements should be slow and careful (like walking on eggs).
All of the above tips have to do with boat speed. In addition, here are some tips for racing:
STAY CLOSE TO THE STARTING LINE – I have been caught many times too far from the starting line before the race. If the wind dies, it will take a long time to get there! You can paddle, but only until the Preparatory (4-minute) signal.
STAY AWAY FROM OTHER BOATS – In light air, the wind shadows from other boats extend a long distance. So, avoid sailing near other boats, especially clumps of boats where there will be a “picket fence” effect. The wind will see all the other boats as one big obstacle and flow around or over those boats.
KEEP LOOKING AROUND – Be patient and keep looking for any little ripples in the water.
STAY CLOSE TO SHORE – There is often a “thermal effect” near the shorelines, especially in Watts Bay. There may be a little thermal-induced wind there because the shore heats up faster than the water on sunny days. Sometimes there is a little breeze near the shore when there is virtually no wind in the middle of the lake!
GET RID OF DEAD WEIGHT ON THE BOAT – No, not the skipper! But leave things on shore that you don’t really need that add extra weight (heavy tool kits, etc.) You won’t need them if the wind is light.
Sailing in light air is physically easy, but requires a lot of mental concentration. I hope these tips help you in the hot summer months!
In 1967 members of the Trinidad Yacht
Club realized that they were getting longer in the tooth and not gaining new younger members. The fleet of sturday Rebel Class boats was getting morphed into Flying Dutchmen, Catamarans and even more expensive cruising boats. An attempt was made to build a fleet of 9'6" Goshawks, but even these proved too expensive for some families. A start was therefore made to start a fleet of Optimists. A group of friends built one in an evening; one was built with tempered Masonite as a cheaper alternative to plywood; races and camping trips were arranged down the islands and now 50 years later it is good to see Trinidad Optimists attending International events. Fast forward to the USA where, after building Optimists in Chile, Colombia and the African Congo I was able to help the Otto family build an Opti for young Matt (assisted by his sisters) Work with a Swiss father who wanted to teach his son to sail. Thus to the stage when we had 4 wooden Optis plus Betwixt and Pisces making it possible to run a Sail Camp for young would be sailors. Now, in 2018 I have helped a total of 27 families build Optis and the by now annual Sail Camp can count on 10 Optis being available . When looked after with just a little TLC a wooden Opti will last 10 years without serious problems. But, if neglected and left out in the weather, they will deteriorate in a couple of winters.
As kids grow up, leave home or graduate to bigger, faster boats they often donate their Opti to MSC. We have now reached the stage where it is difficult to find volunteers to maintain the wooden fleet of deteriorating Optis. The MSC Board has purchased two Fiberglas Optis to replace two wooden ones that will be given a Viking Funeral this spring to send them on their way to Valhalla. Volunteers are still needed to check rigging, touch up paint or just generally scrub and clean.I am always ready to help a family project to build an Opti, which might include grand pappy, mother and daughter. We can make a mast from a 2 x 4 or you can buy a Fiber Carbon one for $ 500 the choice is yours. The cost to build your own Opti could be anything from $ 150 up. For me, the saddest thing has been that the MSC Optis are only used for one week a year and in the past 15 years only once has there been a meeting of Optis (in North Park) outside of Sail Camp. With new blood in the membership, new boats and keen kids we hope to see more OPTIVITY in 2018. The future depends on YOU, your Board can only do so much.-John Bridges
To sign up for any of theses events, go to our website, click on events and sign up!
We look forward to seeing you this season!
SAT Sep 8 Race Day 9SUN Sep 9 Learn to Sail Day 8SUN Sep 9 MSC Picnic Social 5SAT Sep 15 - 16 Sail for the GrailSAT Sep 22 Harvest Moon PartySAT Sep 22 Fall Series Race Day 1SUN Sep 23 Learn to Sail Day 9SAT Sep 29 Fall Series Race Day 2SUN Sep 30 Learn to Sail Day 10SAT Oct 6 Fall Series Race Day 3SAT Oct 20 1st Fall Barn DateSAT Oct 27 2nd Fall Barn DateSAT Nov 10 Fall Banquet
2018 Calendar of EventsSAT May 5 Race Day 1SUN May 6 Learn to Sail,
Shore SchoolSAT Jun 9 Race Day 2 and
Spinnaker ClinicSUN Jun 10 Learn to Sail Day 1SAT Jun 23 MSC Picnic Social 1SAT Jun 23 Race Day 3SUN Jun 24 Learn to Sail Day 2
MON Jun 25 - 29 Youth Sail Camp
SUN Jul 8 Race Day 4SAT Jul 14 Learn to Sail Day 3SAT Jul 21 MSC Picnic Social 2SAT Jul 21 Race Day 5SUN Jul 22 Learn to Sail Day 4SAT Aug 4 Race Day 6 Lake Arthur RegattaSAT Aug 4/5 Regatta at Lake Arthur (B to B Race)SAT Aug 11 Race Day 7SUN Aug 12 Learn to Sail Day 5SUN Aug 12 MSC Picnic Social 3SAT Aug 18 Learn to Sail Day 6SAT Aug 25 MSC Picnic Social 4SAT Aug 25 Race Day 8SUN Aug 26 Learn to Sail Day 7
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