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G’day Mates
 
We’re at T-minus 24 hours and counting for the deployment of the MOAB!
 
This bash will truly be………………. the Mother of All!   Duck and Cover!
 
Some of us are bringing our bikes for a morning ride, bring your ’sickle’ if you would like to join us.
also bring fire wood for the beachside bonfire if you can.  Bring a floatie or your boat (we are after all a sailing club) please take care with side items you bring that could spoil for the dinner party.
 
Thank you to all who have RSVPed for the Dinner Party saturday night.  I know our chefs appreciate the courtesy.  If you haven’t yet sent your RSVP and want to join us for the party you need to be on ‘THE LIST’ to attend. deadline is midnight june 30th, 801-815-2521, .

NOTE: the Gumball Rally ‘road rally’ in true form is considered illegal by officials, As is our rally.
We use words like “regatta,” race, ”heat” to describe our event, however we must be careful in our
terminology or description of our sailing events, particularly around certain officers of the State so we
don’t get misconstrued as racing, and have to deal with all the red tape, the permits, the event plans, course diagrams, State Park approval, hiring of EMT’s, Million dollar insurance policies (whew! you get the idea).  So please refer to our ‘RACES!’ as a ’sail’ ‘a cruse’ ‘navigational instruction’ (spoken in a soft harmonic tone) when describing these events.

Gumball Rally handicaps will be as the Labeau.

• If you sail with your spouse, putting your marriage on the line you get a break.
• If you have a monster crew you get some relief.
• If your crew is over 70 years of age you get help.
• If  you bring the whole famdamily you get massive compensation.
• If you single hand a double handed boat with full sail you get dinged.
• If you steal another’s crew, because the captain can’t make up their mind to participate, you get applause.
• If your a spectator and forget your lounge chair, you sit in the dirt.

So come sail with us from Thursday afternoon to Sunday afternoon.  We will as always be at the Willow group campsite at Rendezvous Beach at the south end of Bear Lake.

Utah Summer Games

Congratulations! to members of the Utah Sailing Association who brought home the hardware!
Gold, Silver, Bronze Medalists:
Jon Peek, Mark Sheldon, Beverly Riedel, Randy & Pia Bick, Shaun Mendenhall, Coty Creighton, Wade Layton, Brett Slingum.
Not to rub it in or anything; but if you missed the Utah Sailing Associations presentation of the Utah Summer Games you missed out on a wonderfully fun event. As with the reputation of all Utah Sailing Associaiton events; ‘if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing! 

see you on the beach!
 
Sincerely,
Brett Bingham
USA Social Chair

If you missed summer games then you missed out big time!!! it was a blast! I have never seen a race with such tight competition, we really had a fun time.  What a turn out, there were so many new boats with colorful sails filling the lake.  A great time was had by all.

Saturday was basically a drift fest with only a little wind toward the end.  After the race we fired up the grill and chowed down.  Sunday was a different story.  At first it looked like a repeat of Sat, but then the thermal kicked and it was on!!!  We raced three good races.  The last one was a honkin 2 lapper which pretty much wore everyone out. I must say the swift solos look just as good upside down as the do right side up.  We had a finish that was so close that three cats and a laser finished 1 second and about a foot apart!  We had a power boater get angry when we were trying to get our boats out of the water, he cut in front of my boat while I was trying to beach.  He was tried of looking out for sailboats, HA! I want to see so many sailboats at the summer games next year that the powerboats won’t even put in.

We have the 4th of July Gum Ball Rally next, lets hope we have a good turn out. see you soon,

Randy

We are proud to announce that the 2008 Utah Summer Games Regatta will be hosted by the Utah Sailing Association. We had a great turn out at last year’s event and hope to do so again this summer. All levels of sailors are welcome, you are sure to learn something new!

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Shaun and I took his F18 up to Deer Creek on Saturday to get some practice in on his new boat before the Summer Games. Sven was up there with his Inter20, and Brett and Beverly were out on a small motor boat scouting the grounds for the Summer Games courses. The winds were incredible from 11am on and we had a great time double-trapping the boat for most of the day. We had a GPS on board and posted the tracks below…

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Last weekend at Utah lake, The keel boats raced in the first half of
the Utah summer Games.

It started out as a rainy, overcast day. Later
in the morning the sky cleared up and it turned into a beautiful Day.
There was a decent turn out of about 9 boats. Shaun, Coty, Pia, and I
went out on our cats to play while the keel boats did their thing.
Wade, Collette and Werner sailed “Hell of a Woman”, They were there to
represent the USA. It was Wades first race on his boat and they had a
great time. He finished 7th overall, even though he didn’t take a
medal he did beat BYU. Way to go Wade, It was a fun day, I hope the
weather is as nice for the summer games at Deer Creek. Brett did a

great job organizing and I think the Provo sailors Had a great time.

-Randy

Windsurfers unite! in competition of the Utah Summer Games! The Utah Sailing Association is proud to host Utah Summer Games Sailing, at Deer Creek Reservoir, June 21st, 2008.

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Brett has put together a great article entitled Neophyte Racer. Be sure to check it out as it is a good introduction for both mono-hull and catamaran racers. The article goes over basic course layouts and contains links to more detailed racing manuals. This is worthy reading for beginner and advanced sailors alike.

Also, we have added an Events Page that now appears in the main navigation bar above. This page has detailed information for every event & race taking place in the 2008 season.

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G’day Mates
 
As I was pacing, down and back, down and back again and again; (it was the first mowing of the year) I thought to myself ‘man this sure does beat sailing!’ trying to feel better about my predicament, I repeated it out loud, I soooo much would rather be mowing the lawn than sailing at Bear Lake any day………NOT! (exhaust fumes have that effect)
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