NSC is once again offering Social Day-Cruising. You don’t own a keelboat but would like to get on one? You have a keelboat but would like to show others the ropes or need help in stronger winds? We can match you up once a week! Visit our Social Day-Cruising update page.
Despite a very light-air month of August, the Social Day-Cruising fleet was on the water each week for an afternoon cruise with a healthy mixture of experienced and eager new sailors. In particularly light winds, spinnakers went up and swim ladders went down.
There was a great turnout on the NSC grounds July 9 and 16 with a total of some 100 members of the public watching, interacting and some holding purple martin chicks. 236 chicks were banded there.
As reported last fall, NSC teamed up with Deep Blue Clean Up to clear the Aylmer Island shoreline of a total of 100 lbs of refuse! Check out the video to learn more about the initiative and the difference the Seabin in the corner of NSC’s X-dock is making.
Did you know that NSC not only houses some 700 boats, but almost as many purple martins and that their “condos” were built by one of our very own? Find out more on our web page about NSC’s purple martins. During the bird banding sessions on July 8 & 15, hundreds of baby purple martins…
Representatives of each of NSC’s 22 club sailing fleets compete using International 2.4 meter sailboats in short-course, stadium style racing right in front of the NSC breakwater July 23-24. Watch the racing and cheer your fleet representative from the grass just west of the lighthouse or from your boat anchored in close proximity of the…
After the past 2 years’ hiatus due to COVID, we are again planning a real, live Bring on the Bay Charity Swim for Saturday, July 16th. Nepean Sailing Club & Britannia Yacht Club are the swim hosts. We anticipate lots of swimmers plus the usual cast of almost 200 volunteers including two Ottawa Fire Rescue…
The Nepean Sailing Club is hosting the 2022 National Capital Cup with competitors from across Ontario and Quebec. It is Ottawa’s biggest regatta for sailors with physical disabilities and is a preparatory regatta for the national Mobility Cup in September.
Have you ever wished for a slower, more controlled environment to try out racing? Join us for the second of three Friday night sessions May 20, 27, June 3. It’s a ball! Open to all keelboats; non-competitive environment; briefing and on-water coaching; multiple relaxed practice starts; no race registration necessary.
Ottawa Riverkeepers, partners of NSC, are holding their annual Ottawa Riverkeeper Gala on June 1st, 2022. As part of their gala, they host a silent auction that this year includes a donated real beauty of a 15′1″ custom-built sailboat.