Tuesday looks great with sunny skies and temps in the 70’s and winds out of the northwest at 10-15 mph at start time. Dave Stiemsma is the RC, and it’s his pontoon boat for committee boat. Our PRO will be absent for the night, so any questions should be directed to Dave at (269)760-2698. We will be meeting at Brewster’s after sailing tomorrow night, and there will be stories to tell about the Fleet 126 Michigan City one day regatta some of us attended this past weekend. Turtle Soup Anyone?
Dates to remember:
July 27 – July 28: Pere Marquette Regatta CRAM/HCANA Hobie Event
Aug 4: ALCA Float Party
Aug 17: Fleet 126 Race 3, Michigan City
Sept 1: Fleet 126 Race 4, Michigan City.
Resister for Muskegon July 27th and 28th! Last day for pre-registration is Tuesdayt (July 23rd) at midnight! We have at rough guess 13 Hobie 16s that should be in attendance!
Manistee on August 10th and 11th
Port Sanilac August 24th and 25th
CSYC September 7th and 8th
Caseville II on September 28th and 29th in place of Tawas this year
Save the date! Remember our float party is Aug 4th on Austin Lake. Lori and Jerry Mohney have graciously offered to be our hosts for dinner. We have lots of giveaways still waiting to be given away, either by raffle or auction, so hope you can make it! More details to follow.
Tuesday is the second week of the Summer Series, Race Chair is Faith Akert, with Patrick Halpin and Peggy Wray’s pontoon boat as our committee boat. John Hansen is scheduled to help Dixie and Keith run the races. We are looking at winds coming from the South/Southwest at 7 mph, with a 55% chance of thunderstorms. BooHoo! One thing we learned last week, is pay more attention to what’s happening in real time on the lake at 5:30 – 6:00 pm than to only believe your weather APPS on your phone. We had 2 very nice races last week, all 5 or 6 of us who were out there. Also, the course might be somewhere that is not easily visible from your line of site when looking out onto the lake, so if you’re not sure we are sailing or not, ask Julie or me.
This past weekend, Dave and I drove down to see Day 2 of the Michigan Catamaran Championship (Hobie Fleet 126 and CRAM) in Michigan City . It was a fantastic venue, with a PRO, Becky Ashburn flown in from San Diego. We boarded the spectator boat. grabbed drinks from the bar and watched the sailing. Shout out to our fellow Austin Lake peeps. Dave and Gail Stiemsma, Wally Elsner, Gina Noble, and Arch Mercer who were part of this event. Congratulations to Dave and Gail, 3rd place in the Hobie 16 fleet (out of a 3 way tiebreaker for 1st), and Wally Elsner, who came in 1st in the Hobie 16 Open fleet. Next year, this regatta will happen on the same weekend, so you can start planning now! Also, there are several one day regattas on the Michigan City beach, the first one being July 20th. I will pass on more information as I get it.
Looks like we will have wind Tuesday, with sunny skies and temps in the 70s. So it’ll be a great day to get out and sail with winds WSW at 10-15 – ish. Win Larsen has graciously offered his pontoon as our committee boat and volunteered to be Race Chair, with John Koryto helping and learning from Win and the rest of the experienced crew of Keith Mortlock and Dixie Stiemsma. We have a boat signed up for the first two Tuesdays in the Summer Series, July 9th and July 16th, but after that, nada. So please consider signing up – racing will be cancelled any weeks we don’t have a boat and Race Chair.
Someone must have really ticked off the wind gods this series, as we are looking at some version of calm vs light and variable for tomorrow evening race time. I know, we’re not there yet, and living in Michigan, things can change. Win Larsen has graciously offered to bring his pontoon out for our race committee, and Race Chair for the evening is Steve Weatherford, with Dave Stiemsma on-board as assisting. Any news of cancellations will be posted on our Facebook site, and if any folks aren’t regularly on Facebook, please let me know – I will get the information to you via phone call or e-mail (let me know which). We will stop by the landing to spread the word as well. We will gather at Brewsters regardless of whether we race or not Tuesday. It’s time to start talking about the summer float party, which we are hoping to schedule for Sunday Aug 4th.
It’s week 6 and a beautiful sunny day with temps in the 70s. Not exactly summer yet, but we’ll take it! Winds are predicted to be 5-10 mph to light and variable later on, so we’ll see how mother nature is going to treat us! Pontoon boat and Race Chairman is Jerry Mohney for tonight, with Wally on the boat helping out. PRO Julie is out of town this Tuesday.
Julie sent out sailing guidelines late last week. Please remember to review and get back to her with any questions and/or your thoughts. Also, please check out the RC sign up sheet. For years, we have been very fortunate to have ALCA racing on Tuesday nights, and our sailors have gone on to bigger events and represented us well. Let’s continue to make ALCA a continued success by working together to make these nights happen, increasing our sailboat racing knowledge and at the same time supporting each other and having fun!
Tuesday looks promising as far as wind goes, with wind predictions ranging from 10 – 20 mph to 10 – 15 mph and temperatures in the mid 70s, with a slight chance of rain in the late afternoon. Race Chair for the evening is Jerry Mohney and we meet as Brewster’s afterwards. Our Principal Race Officer, Julie has sent over a link for sign-up (Pontoon boats and race Chairs needed!) as a Google Docs file. Any questions, please reach out to Julie or Dan about working with this file. Otherwise, there will be a hard copy of the sign up sheet available at Brewsters after racing.
Here we are at week 4 for the 2019 Spring Series, and I have a great feeling that we will sail today! Winds are predicted to be 8 mph out of the west (SailFlow) at 6 pm, with partly cloudy skies, and temps in the low to mid 60s. Water isn’t too bad off the Austin L shore, but it’s still wetsuit weather in my book! Race Chair for the night is Andy Lenczycki, and the Committee boat is his and Julie’s, with Julie, Keith and Dixie helping to run the races. Remember, we meet at Brewster’s afterwards, and if you haven’t joined yet, tonight would be the time! If you’re not currently listed in the 2019 Series Results, you are not a current member. I will have forms so bring your checkbooks or cash.
Are we sailing or not? Well, that is the question for May this seems! Temps are only going to be in the 50s, with ESE winds 10 – 15 mph. Wind chills a bit cooler of course, and the water is still quite cold. Race chair and committee boat for tonight is Julie Lenczycki, so stay tuned for any announcements. Hope everyone enjoyed the warm weekend (at least Saturday) and we’ve got nicer temps coming up for the holiday weekend, so we can all look forward to some time on the water in the coming days! Hope to see many of your at Brewster’s (if not on the water)
