The water outflow from Lake Superior may be reduced for the month of September just a word of caution, for more info read (click on) the following news stories.

Sault Star Newspaper (internet).

• St. Mary's River bit lower this month, Upper Great Lakes remain below average.

• Superior Water Levels Down: 

The Racing Results has been compiled and updated by our Fleet Captain. She has  sent them to our webmaster who placed them online for you to view.

• Spring River Race Results
• Richards Landing Results
• Summer River Race Results

To ensure the use of our three CL 16 Sailboats, a new committee was formed in June called the "CL16 Sailboat Committee". One of the goals of this committee is to ensure that the CL16 sailboats remain operational for both senior and associate members. The CL16's are also great for our associate members who would like to "Learn To Sail" but  do not own a sailboat. These are the last group of small sailboats still owned by the club as smaller models in past have been passed on to the RYTAC club.  

Since the CL16 have not been in use for a while the CL16 Committee is preparing an inventory report on overall CL16 status to report back to the executive. The committee also got together and launched # 3 boat on Tuesday and deemed it fit to sail. # 3 boat is now located on the anchor platform. To sail it you must remember to close (Lift-Up) the water drains before sailing (drains rain fall as stored on a floating dock) and to include the required Coast Guard items such as; life jackets, bailing bucket, throwing rope, paddle, and whistle. To access the clubhouse for the sails, rudder and tiller will require contacting a senior member who has key access to unlock & lock the clubhouse. In sailing the CL16's do remember that there is a chance you may get wet depending on how you sail hence, dress accordingly.

The CL16 Committee would like all associate members who are interested in sailing the CL16's to contact us so we can demonstrate to you where all the items are stored  and to answer any questions you may have about the rigging and setting of the sails. 

Ahoy Sailors, July 1^st is fast approaching.  Plan to celebrate it at the clubhouse with other club members.  Bring your family and friends and use the barbeque, and or the clubhouse galley to fix your Canada Dinner. Later watch the fireworks from the clubhouse or from the water.

 Yours in fair winds or foul, Sharon Lessard, Fleet Captain.

Hello all, There seems to be a bit of confusion surrounding the Richards Landing Race. Our club is proceeding with the race tomorrow, June 21st. without the participation of the Power Squadron. The details are as follows:

Date: Saturday, June 21/08, Skipper’s meeting at: 10:30 am, Race Start: TBA (but I’m thinking noonish), Destination: Richard’s Landing, Moorage: $1.25 per foot. If you plan to stay a second night, the second night is free. Dinner: Sausages & hamburgers courtesy of ASC; Each group to bring a salad or dessert.

As the club barbeque is undergoing repair and will not be available on Saturday; we’ll have a sailboat version of a Progressive Dinner. We’ll meet with our preferred cocktail at one boat, move to another boat for salads, then have the entrée at a third (maybe 2 boats, one to cook the burgers and another for the sausages & hot dogs) and finally dessert at a fourth boat. Please consider hosting one of the courses at your boat.

Please let me know if you will be attending the social and how many guests you will have. Please remember that people are welcome to meet us in Richards Landing if they are not interested in sailing tomorrow. Yours in fair weather and foul, Sharon Lessard, Fleet Captain, Algoma Sailing Club.

The Algoma Sailing Club would like to say "Thank You" to the folks who have been  donating their old or unused Sailing Books and Magazines. This has greatly expanded our library collection in the upstairs meeting room at our club house. They sure do wet our appetite even more to get out and sail (especially when waiting out old man winter). They are a great resource tool for sailors of all ages and soon a job for the Job Jar will be building a bookcase under the trophy case.

Our first race of the season hit the waves last night.  Gord Simpson (1^st), Phil Routh (2^nd) and Andrew Hallett (3^rd) skippered their boats in a closely contested race.  The results of the race may have been different had the very experienced crew of Andrew’s new boat Natural High had known that 108 was by Purvis’s dock and not opposite City Hall.  A lot of things have to be shaken out in the first race of the season. Lots of people, both members and non members turned out to crew.  Each boat had at least 2 crew members.  Hope to see more of you on boats in the coming races. Yours in fair winds and foul, Sharon Lessard, Fleet Captain.”

Because of the inclement weather since launch, many boats are not yet ready to sail.  As a consequence, we have yet to be successful in having 2 boats to race in our Wednesday night river races.  Given these facts, the hearty sailors, ready to crew and I had a discussion yesterday as to the feasibility of the Lake Nicolet race getting away this Saturday, May 31^st.  The consensus of the group was to move the race back 1 week to Saturday, June 7^th.  I hope that many if not all of you and your family will come out to race and/or enjoy the potluck dinner at the Clubhouse after the race.  The Club will supply the usual barbequed sausages and hamburgers.  Please bring a salad or dessert if you will be enjoying the potluck dinner.

After our rough start to the racing season, I hope that each of you will take part on June 7^th and enjoy the great camaraderie that the Algoma Sailing Club has to offer. Yours in fair winds and foul , Sharon Lessard, Fleet Captain, Algoma Sailing Club

The Dragon Boat Races will be getting under way and will be using our facilities and their boats and equipment will be arriving on site May 30th. Sault Search and Rescue will also have their boats and equipment on site as well.

Please ensure that your cradles are out of the yard and we also need to move the mooring repair platform from its present location and tie it to the breakwall. Martin could use a hand to move the platform if anyone is free this week please give him a call.

The Dragon Boats & search and Rescue will be putting their boats on the west side of the west dock and the east side of the east dock as they did last year so we need to keep those areas clear.

The Richards Landing Race and Barbeque weekend race date has been changed to Saturday June 21 to Sunday June 22 (one week later than originally planned).  This change was required as it conflicted with the Dragon Boat festival that is using our facilities and docks (Executive Meeting May 20/2008).

The Sault Ste. Marie O.P.P. Traffic and Marine Unit Presents: "Boater’s Awareness Afternoon", May 25, 2008, 1:00pm - 4:00pm, at the Roberta Bondar Pavilion, free admission, and the Public is Welcomed. Canadian and U.S. Marine Law Enforcement Agencies will be present along with a host of public marine support service representatives. Have your marine related questions answered before the start of the 2008 boating season.

The Royal Canadian Yacht Club has the honour of extending to the Officers and members of the Algoma Sailing Club the privilege of anchorage for the 2008 season. For more detailed information look under our documents section. 

As a reminder, the Algoma Sailing Club is a Member of the Canadian Yachting Association and you can also read their online Newsletters.

After every Haul-In or Launch, we always have our follow up Cradle Party. Where we all work like bees to move the cradles to our offsite storage area. The storage / transportation cost is $65.00 and will be held on Wednesday May 14 at 4 p.m. 

The Sault Ste Marie Power & Sail Squadron C.P.S. is offering a VHF Maritime Radio Course and upon completion and examination, you will receive a certificate that will entitle you to operate a Marine Radio on the VHF, MF and HF radio bands.

The course will be offered for 3 Tuesday evenings (April 15, 22, 29) during the times of  7-00pm - 9:00pm at the Alexander Henry High School, 232 Northern Ave., classroom #119. The cost of the course which includes a book and a interactive training aid computer CD disk is $50.00

Limited registration due to class size. For more information or to register contact: Gary Decourcy at 949-7202. or visit the http://sault.cps-ecp.org/ website.

Looks like the launch date that the rented crane that will help move your boat from the cribs to the water is on Saturday May 10, 2008. Membership registrations will be postal mailed to all members or you can also download them. Just as a reminder, it is important to ensure that your sailboat is all ready to launch (including any rigging and boat motors), to help reduce the crane rental time that will save us some money. The wearing of Hardhats is mandatory and are available, if you have your own then bring them.

The Pre Launch Meeting (planning meeting) is to held on Friday May 9.

Associate members are welcomed to also come out, meet everyone, and work with an appointed senior member to learn more about sailboats in general. 

A few daring members were testing out their 4-wheel drive vehicles to be the first ones officially to drive to door of the clubhouse. They had an interesting time pulling each other at times to get in and out, but the snow should melt a bit faster with all those deep tracks. The Clubhouse could be opened after the 19th depending on the temperatures (due to freezing of water lines). 

The Algoma Sailing Club Executive Meetings are being held on the 2nd last Tuesday of each month. If you have any ideas, comments, or concerns please send them to us before then to be placed on the meeting agenda (BTW. you know you can contact us anytime). Members are welcomed to attend our meetings as a guest by contacting us in advance and we always welcome and are looking for additional folks to help out on the executive "as with more each does less (Grin!)".

April is here and the new sailing season soon will begin. The following is to bring you up to date on a few items have been added to our website.

A new web page describing the design and history of our Club Insignia Flag (Pennant). They are for sale (contact Brian or Neil) and the cost is $20.00

The 2008 Sailing Events and 2008 River Races  Schedules (attentively) have been posted. There are a few new events for 2008 and the Sailing & Racing Committee is looking for a few more volunteers (including associates) to help out. If you are interested contact Sharon our Fleet Captain. All of last year's Sailing and Racing results data has been preserved by renaming the files to start with 2007. 

For more information on Sailing Books and Videos a new webpage with a link to the search feature of our local public library has been added.

A new area called Documents has been created to list important documents that all club members should be aware of and the locations on the website. Some of these will be posted online whereas some will be printed and provided upon request. 

The Annual General Meeting will be held on February 23 2008, at the Gran Festa Restaurant with Cocktails starting at 6 P.M. with Dinner to be served at 7 P.M. The cost per person is $25. There will be a Cash bar and the menu will consists of perogies and chicken, scallopini, veggies, potato, tossed greens, desert, and tea/coffee.

Do plan to attend and have fun with your fellow sailors.

For your info, the following is a Power & Sail Squadron event. The Sailing Club Exec. feels this may be of interest, and we would like to support the Power & Sail Squadron at this event. For any who would like to attend, "See you there" We can make this our Mid-winter Social Event.

The Sault Ste. Marie Power and Sail Squadron Presents An Evening with Tom Farnquist of The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, Tom will present a DVD show with narration on topics such as

• The Edmund Ftizgerald

• The recent find of the wreck of the 100 year old Steamship – Cyprus

• The Great Lakes Shipwreck Society

 A Discussion Period will follow, Hear fascinating stories of adventures on the Great Lakes. Thursday, January 24, 2008, 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Marconi Club, Admission only $10.00, Cash Bar, Free Pizza.

The New 2008 Algoma Sailing Club Pennant Flags have arrived.  Contact Brian to purchase one for your sailboat, cost is $20.00

Notice the club house will be winterized as of Saturday November 3. This means that outside water as well as inside water will be off (no washrooms), and the outside power will be off as well. We are sorry for any inconvenience.

The Algoma Sailing Club Awards Banquet will be held on November 17, 2007
at the Grand Festa Restaurant. Cocktails are at 6:00 pm, and Dinner is at 7:00 pm,
Menu to follow, and everyone is invited. Club members will be contacted before the banquet. 

During the month of September and October over 300 photos were added to the Photo Album Section. This makes the Photo section an interesting place to visit and to get photos of your boat. It is organized into each year with its own events.

The For Sale section continues to grow and URL links were added at the bottom to point to other local For Sale sources and ones close by.

To improve faster processing our membership forms are now also online. Hence you can at anytime download, print, and mail them in.

The end of the sailing season is close at hand. The Haul Out Crane has been rented and will be ready to go. Hence, be ready, up early, and wear your hard hat.

- The Beaufort Wind Scale has been added.
- More Places to visit have been added to the Links Page.
- The news story of Dave in Wanna sail a Sailboat has been moved to the Photos Section.
- River Racing: Summer and Fall results have been added.

- Weekly Race Results for Spring River and Summer River were posted as well as the  Results for the Lake Nicolet and Richard's Landing.
- The River Race Map was scanned in and added to the website, you can now print out copies and bring them to the races to mark the course for each race.
- The Links webpage has now doubled in size with new places to explore about sailing and also includes Maps and Sault Ste Marie information.
- Cloned some news stories about Algoma sailing Club with pictures discovered of a few years back. One on the Photos webpage with Dave promoting racing and another with Gordon and our local MP on the Trillium webpage.

Our website this month has taken a different look and has been expanded to include some new areas to help promote our club. Some of this months changes were;

- News Bulletins page, general notices like the ones you are reading now.
- For Sale / Buy / Trade section, if you looking to purchase, sell or trade items or boats.
- Race Results, of all of our River Races (spring, summer, and fall) and our Special Events and Races.
- Links page, that lists various sailing related websites on the internet.
- Weather page, for obtaining the latest sailing weather forecasts on the internet.
- Photos page, that we will be developing later this summer and fall to include lots of club photos.
- Sailing Terms, A humorous list of Sailing terms and descriptions.
- Weather banner from Weather Underground on the home page, to provide a quick glimpse for the current weather.
- Domain Names, we've also obtained the algomasailingclub.com doman name in addition to the older algomasailingclub.org domain name, and overtime both will work together pointing to a common website.

If you would like to see other items added to our website feel free to contact any of our website webmasters and them them know.

Dredging the Gin Pole and Docks Area Will commence Monday, June 11. This requires a Silt Curtain be deployed from Monday, June 11 until (estimated) Thursday, June 14. The curtain will extend along the East Dock and southerly to the Shore of Topsail Island .

 This means there will be...

• NO ACCESS: To the St. Mary’s River from our Lagoon for these four days!!!

• NO ACCESS: To our docks from either the Lagoon or the Outside Moorings

The executive apologizes for this inconvenience and thanks you for your co-operation.  There are four unused outside moorings available on a temporary first-come basis for those who feel the inability to sail from the lagoon during this period is a particular hardship. 

• Please remember outside moorings must be vacated for the Dragon Boat Races, Friday & Saturday, June 8 & 9.

 If you have concerns regarding this matter, please contact: Gord Simpson, Tom Carmichael, or Martin Sanderson