Pictures taken from the committee boat during the 1st actual week of sailing on Austin Lake (Week #3) for 2018, are posted on the Photos|5/22/18 Tuesday Night Racing tab.

Greetings ALCA Members – if you believe the folklore which says that if it rains on Easter Sunday, expect 7 weeks of rain…are we at week seven yet?? LOL

The constantly changing weather forecast for Tuesday evening looks promising but a little chilly… 65 degrees with a 10% chance of rain and a light (8mph) WNW wind should make for an interesting night.  Dan Troup is our Race Chair extraordinaire with Keith Mortlock, Chad Lenczycki and myself as Committee Boat volunteers.

Watch for email and facebook updates with racing conditions.  If racing is cancelled, join us at Brewsters, 5135 Portage Road about 7:00 pm.  If we race, we will gather there immediately after racing is completed for the nightly results.

I’ve emailed the most current Membership Directory and membership application.  Since we have not raced yet, you still have time to submit your membership application and dues for the 2018 season.  I will have limited copies at Brewsters tomorrow night but you can print, fill out and bring the application along with your dues tomorrow night.  After Memorial Day, if you have not paid your dues I will move your name to the Directory’s Non-member 2018 list and you will be removed from the fleet emails.

If your name is listed under the CC: of the email, it’s because you did not join last year and this will be your last email from the club for 2018.  Please consider joining, if just as a social member.

Looking ahead:

Summer Series Committee Boat and Volunteers are needed.  There are several open dates and we will have hard copies of these lists tomorrow night at Brewsters for you to sign up.  You can see what the Committee Boat needs are by going to the Committee Boat link.

Summer Float Party – looking at either Sunday, July 29 or Sunday, August 5 for this fun event.  Let us know if you have a preference.

Happy Spring everyone!  What a great weekend to get boats into the lake and ready for our sailing season to begin so let’s get started!!

For those that weren’t in attendance at the Spring Kick-Off meeting on April 21, you missed a great ALCA member gift card auction hosted by Julie Lenczycki…Going once… going twice… SOLD!

It was recommended by the fleet officers (and approved by the fleet members in attendance) that due to the less than spectacular spring we have been having, that we postpone the start of the Spring series this year to May 8, 2018.  We will run 8 weeks of Spring series (to June 26th).  We will take the next week off for the week of July 4th, then start the Summer series on July 10th and run for only 8 weeks to August 28th.  Done before the Labor Day weekend.  If weather permits and sailors are inclined we may have a short Fall series after Labor day, stay tuned.