A reminder to all NSC skippers and members now the boating season is underway. It is expected that those who use NSC’s facilities and programs on a regular basis, for any reason, be club members. Please ensure that your regular crew (racing or cruising) are, or are encouraged to become, club members.
Is your dock like ours, with all kinds of interesting people and their boats? Have you met them? Have you had a chance to sail with them? To tie in with our club’s 40th anniversary, NSC introduces a new informal event, SWAN. It’s a time to meet your dock neighbours, talk boats and go sailing.
As of 4 June 2019, Transport Canada has announced on their website that the boating ban has been lifted for all of the Ottawa River, including that portion navigable from NSC. Let’s go sailing and boating!
Eric Hill returns to Ottawa March 23-24 to again present his World Sailing-approved Offshore Personal Survival course. This is the same course that NSC hosted in 2014 (see Jacques Adam’s report), and that BYC hosted in 2016 & 2018. In 2019, it will again be hosted at Britannia Yacht Club, 2777 Cassels Street, Ottawa.
There is a new sound being heard around the NSC docks, as sailboats come and go from the harbour; it is the sound of nothing at all. Instead of all the noise and a face full of diesel or two-stroke smoke, more and more boats are motoring almost silently, on electric power.
Imagine being in a big dark room with lights streaking in front and behind you as you navigate the start. That was the feeling at the 2018 NSC Midnight Madness race on 17 August, the race that is held in the dark!
On possibly one of the nicest weekends this summer, 30 boats and about 90 folks met up-river for our signature cruising rendezvous at Baskins Beach. Some by boat and some by road, old friends gathered and new friendships were formed.
As I look around the starting line on Tuesdays, I see boats carrying crews of three or four, some with six or seven. Its August. Summer holidays with families. Odds are that you’re finding yourself short-handed. If so, read on…
41 boats on the NSC course, 14 laser/sailboard on the BYC course! This past Wednesday saw the largest turnout in a long while. Good wind and a fine effort on a busy night by the bosuns/volunteer race committee. Don’t forget there’s social/fun for little boats at Sunday Fundays, including borrow-a-dinghy for any qualified club member.
This program was not continued after the 2018 sailing season. —————————————————————————————————- Announcing the brand-new Sunday Fundays. Go sailing on your dinghy or cat with family and friends on Sunday afternoons in July & August. No boat? Boat too big? Then book a club dinghy! Social sailing, race other boats, BBQ bring-your-own. There’s stand-up paddleboards and…