Welcome Aboard!
Our Sailing Club organizes events on and around beautiful Lake Auman (West End, NC). The events include sailboat races, a Learn-to-Sail course, sailing boat tours around the lake and many social activities. All sizes of sailboats can participate in the racing events thanks to the Portsmouth handicap system. Our social events include after-race BYOB Events, Boat Parades, Rafting Parties, Banquets and more. The Events page on this web site provides you some idea of what we do during a year. The Seven Lakes Sailing Club is open to any Seven Lakes resident or landowner who has an interest in the water or in boat related social events.
Bob Fewkes
Commodore
Kayaking on the Lake
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Category: 2019 Announcements
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Published: 25 May 2019
On Saturday May 25th, Ben Benjamin took out a group of kayakers on the lake. They had a great time! The Sailing Club is thanking Ben Benjamin for leading this kayak tour!
Kudos for Yvonne and Steve Short
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Category: 2019 Announcements
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Published: 07 May 2019
Our own Yvonne and Steve Short just returned from Florida where they participated with their Hunter 22 in the 66th annual Mug Race at the Rudder Club of Jacksonville. The Mug Race is the world’s longest river race. They finished in about 7 hrs. Based on corrected time, they won the "Archie Markland Trophy First Monohull Cruiser To Finish" and also won the "First Cruiser-Spinnaker To Finish". They were participating with about 25 multihulls and 60 mono-hulls. A fantastic performance of our club members!
The weekend before the Mug Race they also sailed the Lake Norman Hospice Regatta. They took a 1st and a 3rd place and one no finish.
A big kudo to Yvonne and Steve!
Summary Skippers and Support Crew Meeting
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Category: 2019 Announcements
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Published: 05 May 2019
Ahoy,
Here is a summary of the skippers and support crew meeting held on May 4th:
- All races will start at 1 PM. All kayak and small boat events will start at 10 AM. Notices will be sent out before each such event with pertinent details for participants.
- We have verbal commitments that fill all slots for sailing school. There will be a waiting list in case of drop-outs.
- To encourage more race participation among new sailors, each race will have a race within a race. First, everyone competes against everyone else as in regular races. In addition, all skippers who have never won a race will also be competing against only each other for awards.
- There will be one single start for all boats. The starting line will be lengthened to be less intimidating. Help remind the novices of the rules on the course as needed if it seems necessary.
- We need a few more volunteers for safety boat operators and crew. Contact Bob Fewkes to sign up.
- The boating poker game for non-power boats (sail, kayak, canoes) on June 22th will be open to the first 10 participants to sign up. Each player will collect five cards and bring that poker hand to the BYOB/Pizza party at Johnson Pt. that evening. More on that later.
- The Pontoon Raft Up party will be held jointly with the Lake Auman Sport's Club on Aug 24th. We will anchor near the Fewkes' residence since they have graciously offered us the use of a bathroom.
- Because we changed the picnic date to Sep 14th, we have added a BYOB after the Commodore's Cup Race on Oct 5th so that we have a social at least once per month.
- There is only one cup race this year because of the scarcity of big boats likely to participate and to hold the race early in October when water is still warm enough for small boats.
- Those on the race committee boat should meet at noon so that they can be anchored on station by 12:30.
The first race is May 18th. As Yvonne says: You bought the boat, sail it!
Paul Kirst, Commodore