Sailpast

Get ready to Rock Around the Clock at the Sailpast Sock Hop. Dress up your self, your boat, your family or your dog! The annual Commodore’s Sailpast marks the official start of the 2023 sailing season. We sail, motor or paddle past the Commodore, and then we party. No boat? We guarantee to get you on the water.

Let’s get together to celebrate our community and being together. All NSC members and guests welcome. Aiming for 75 boats this year, so be there!

The day’s events

• 1pm Social time, West Lawn
  Say ahoy! to people you have always wanted to meet. Do the Stray Cat Strut in your costume.
• 1pm Need a boat ride / Got space on your boat?
  Check in at the Sailing Activities booth on West Lawn, or email sailing@nsc.ca. We guarantee to get you on the water.
• 1:45pm Leave the harbor for Sailpast
• 2:30pm Sailpast
  The Commodore anchors out on the lake. Boats parade past the Commodore and salute by luffing their sails, waving a hand, dipping their burgee or firing a water pistol.
• 3:30pm-7:30pm Sock hop on the lawn with the fabulous 50’s sound of “The Fabulous Heartbeats”
  + annual Burning of your winter socks (second attempt ! – and this time the rain won’t put the fire out).

Burgee presentations and volunteer recognition will be at a later date, not at Sailpast this year.

How to sailpast

Decorate yourself, your crew and your boat. Flags and loud clothing are the order of the day. Dress like a high school hop from 1953 in your best rock-and-roll gear!

Sail and motor boats

• Leave harbour by 1:45pm
• Gather on the water at C mark by 2:15
• Gun sounds 2:30pm
• Follow Fleet Captain J/80 Echo Beach and Sail Training 420’s
• Sail or motor in line astern
• Through starting line, round yellow buoy
• Salute Commodore on their moored boat.

Kayak and paddleboard

• Go directly to the Commodore’s boat
• Salute immediately at 2:30pm, ahead of the parade
• Move to the West side of the Commodore’s boat to safely watch the parade.