Welcome Aboard!
The Seven Lakes Sailing Club is a group of primarily Seven Lakes West residents who have an interest in sailing. We organize a program of events that includes sailboat races around defined courses on beautiful Lake Auman, learn-to-sail courses, informal sailing events for non-sailors and social activities. The racing events are run with all sizes of sailing boats from Sunfish to J-22 using the Portsmouth handicap system. Our social events include after-race BYOB’s, Boat Parades, Rafting Parties, Lobsterfest, Banquet, etc.
/>The club also includes many pontoon boat and powerboat members who have interests in sailing and in our social activities. You don’t need to have a boat to join and enjoy the sailing and social events of the club. For more information contact the Club Commodore, Bob Fewkes at commodore.slsc@gmail.com. Membership fee for a family is $25 per year.
Ahoy Folks,
As the season develops and CV-19 continues to loom, we need to reassess our sailing program for this season. The following thoughts:
1. The use of race committee and safety boats can be considered inconsistent with safe distancing practices, both because of vessel occupancy and the role of safety boats in contacting rescuees. Proposed use of JP for conducting races is becoming questionable because of increasingly heavy beach and boater traffic on weekends. In addition, the local weather frequently doesn’t cooperate with our plans.
2. We want to line up safety boat coverage for the remainder of the season. (Race and sailabout events are listed on the website.) Members interested please contact the commodore, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Meantime, the commodore will be contacting past safety boat skippers.
3. When we are able to recommence formal racing, we will need to have committee boats and personnel (operator, SRO, signaler, timer). There are members with experience on committee and we will be contacting them. Please remind us if you’re not contacted. Meantime, if any member is interested in learning to conduct sailboat racing, please contact the commodore, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Bob Fewkes, Commodore