SLSC Members:

Welcome to our new website. Beyond the new "facelift", we needed to update the site's core programs, which has enhanced the website's security and functiionality and to move it to a new server for additional enhanced security.  The biggest improvement is that the website is responsive to the device looking at it. This should make viewing on cell phones, tablets and other handheld devices much easier.  We have also added other functionalities which you might find helpful as well.

Some of those enhancements include:

1. Responsive design, which means that the site should reshape itself to accommodate the device you're using to view it.
2. Registration which simultaneously
   1. Creates a Profile for you and adds your information to the Club's Membership list,
      (The membership list is a full featured list for every member. You can enter as much or as little information as you choose. One big advantage is the ability to directly contact other Members. The list is available only to the Club's registered Members.)
   2. The Profile is editable by you,
      (Should you change a phone number, email address, the type of boat you have , your volunteer interests, etc. you can change them directly via the profile editor.)
   3. Subscribes you to the Club's newsletter, "SLSC's Member Newsletter", and
      (You will automatically be subscribed to the "SLSC Member Newsletter"; however, there are three other newsletters directed to specific groups: "Race Skippers", "Small Boat Skippers"  and "Power Boat Skippers" . Choose all or none, it's up to you. Change them at any time. By the way, all subscribers will receive announcements about social events)
   4. Registers you for Annual Membership in the Seven Lakes Sailing Club.
      (Part of the registration process includes agreeing to the Club's Terms of Use. You will still need to sign and send the Release of Liability form with your Annual Membership Dues before your membership will be activated for the new year. Until activation you will not have access to the Members side of the site or any of the Club's activities.)
3. Able to directly create For Sale items on the site.
   (Once you've registered or "Create an Account" on the site, you will be able to access this feature through the "User Menu" section of the site.)
4. A new "Emergency Notice" and "Important Notice" announcements prominently displayed for last minute event or general site changes.
5. New display software for our Photo Albums which displays across all platforms, in particular Apple products.

We've spent a lot of time trying to find and fix any glitches, however there is a chance some have been missed. We are asking for your help. If you run across any problems, no matter how trivial, such as:

1. the site doesn't rearrange properly or appears strange on your mobile device,
2. a function is broken,
3. some difficultly in doing what's needed to do what you want to,
4. any content typos or grammatical errors,
5. any questions you have that are not covered by the FAQ section of the website,
6. any suggestions that might help the usability of the site,
7. other content that you think would benefit the Members, or
8. anything we've not thought of,

please email the Webmaster. If presenting a problem, it will be very helpful if you take a minute to detail what happened, what page you were on, what you were trying to do, what your viewing device was, the Internet browser you were using, etc. More information is always better.

It is worth noting that although the site has been optimized for mobile devices the gallery images have not. Images can be large data files, so individuals with limited data plans may want to view the photo galleries on devices without data restriction cell phone plans.

We would like to thank all of those involved editing and helping "polish" the site.

This is a complex website with many "moving parts". We apologize for any inconvenience, but with your help we can make one of the best. Thank you in advance.

Bert van Domselaar
Commodore

We  have created a new "Links" category, "Internet Image Portfolio" for any member who has a shared image account like "Photobucket", "Facebook", "Flickr", "Google+ Photos", "Google Direct", etc. Ben Benjamin has offered to share his "Google Direct" account showing, as of today, two of the SLSC races. You will find them on the site at this address: Internet Image Portfolios.

If you have photos of any Seven Lakes Sailing Club events or activities you would like to share with the membership, send a link to the Webmaster. Thank you.

We had our Lobster fest on Saturday evening in the Community Center. It was a great succes
with 90 people attending! The lobsters were as usual outstanding, and we all had a great time.
Thank you for coming out to this fantastic event.
I would like to thank all the volunteers who contributed to this successful evening.
Jean Downer took some great pictures of the event. Click here and look for Lobster Fest to see
them.

Bert van Domselaar,
Commodore

Small sailing boat tour On Saturday July 2, a tour on the lake was organized for the small sailing boats. All participants had a great time. The next event for the small sailing boats will be on July 16. Photos of the event are here.

Today, Saturday June 25, the Seven Lakes Sailing Club held its first races in the Summer Series. The results are available here. Some photos of the races have been published as well. Click here to see them.

The Seven Lakes Sailing Club Sailing School took place from  June 13th to 17th. The following students have successfully completed the sailing class: Claude Pilotte, Lea-Anne Pilotte, Margaret Sheroff, Becky Graham and Sharon Kallio. Congratulations to them! The instructors were Bill Mamel, Paul Kirst, Bert van Domselaar and Ray Taylor.