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Summer Series Week #1 – July 7, 2020

Welcome sailors!
Hopefully, everyone had a nice 4th of July weekend, we saw several boats out practicing and making sure they found all of the boat parts!  I have emailed the updated 2020 ALCA Directory (as of tonight) and as you can see, we have some of the ALCA “Sailing Kids” who grew up in the fleet joining us this summer as skippers with their Mom’s as crew!!
The weather forecast for Tuesday looks HOT and sticky…at 6 pm – 91° feels like 94°  Sunny WNW 7 mph.

See you at the start 6:30 pm sharp for hopefully two races.  Be sure to follow our FB page and look for emails if we cannot sail.
Happy 1st night of Sailing!

Julie Lenczycki, ALCA Secretary

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Rules Session, Tues March 3, 2020

Don’t miss the ALCA rules session this Tuesday, March 3, 2020 in the “side room” at Brewster’s on Portage Road. Starting time is 6:30. Come and eat, or just have a beer while Dave Stiemsma goes over some sail racing rules and answers YOUR questions. We have already gotten a good response from people RSVPing to the event, so don’t be one of the ones to miss out on this invaluable learning event!

2020 Racing Rules of Sailing
2020 Racing Rules of Sailing
Events, News

Upcoming Dates to Know

Your 2020 ALCA Officers met in January and we have some updates:

Dave D and Kathy attended Fleet 126’s (Michigan City) meeting to see what is going on with their fleet and to get information on the Hobie 16/20 North American’s this September that they are hosting in Michigan City.  We believe our own Miss D10, Gail Stiemsma, will be there too so they should bring back Division 10 updates as well.

The officers will meet again on February 26 so if you have anything to bring up, ideas or comments, please respond directly to one of us or reply to this email.
Steve Weatherford has coordinated with Dave Stiemsma for a rules seminar, Dave would like to do this on Tuesday, March 3rd from 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm.  Faith has offered to bring some snacks and the host location is still TBD.  If you would like to offer your home, please contact Steve – 269-323-7805.  Then look for an email from Steve as the date gets closer.
SAVE THE DATE – the ALCA Spring Kickoff Meeting is set for Saturday, April 18th Happy/Social Hour at 5:00pm; followed by a meeting and dinner.  Hosts: Kathy Rubino & Dave Dunlap, 5061 S. Long Lake Drive.  Please bring ideas for summer parties, dates that we need to avoid and other thoughts to share.
Everyone was sent a 2020 Membership form for you to fill out and either mail to Faith or bring to the Spring Kickoff Meeting.  I will keep your email active until the end of May, then only if you have joined will you receive further emails from me or if you do not wish to be included, message me.  We are updating the facebook page as well. 

Follow us and post on Twitter @alca_519 and remember to tag us using any social media (Facebook/Instagram/Twitter) – #fleet519  Let’s see who can get more hashtag posts than Austin Lee!!

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ALCA Year end party updates

Remember we have our year-end party on Saturday, October 19th at Lodo’s.  If you haven’t RSVP-ed your dinner choices yet to Julie and me, please do!  Thank you to those who have already.  The dinner selections are:

  • Sirloin with roasted potatoes
  • Chicken Scampi
  • Fish and Chips
  • Vegetarian Lo Do Pasta

Also, for those of you who have ordered ALCA/World’s shirts, the cost turned out to be $19 each.  Lori will have the shirts on the 19th at the party, please bring your money to pay her then. If you ordered a shirt and can’t make it to the party, please pay Lori some other way. 

Finally, when many of us are planning our ski trips, there’s still more sailing to be had.  A few of us were thinking of getting out on Austin L.  (Sunday 9/6/19) for some fun sailing – the World’s are less than a month away, and we don’t want to forget what being on the boat, at the tiller or jib sheets feels like……. IF the bug hits you, please join us!  
Just thought of something so you can remember the money for the shirts…… $19 on the 19th!  LOL! 

Year End Party Flyer
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Year End Awards Banquet – Saturday, October 19, 2019

This year’s Year End Party will be at LoDo’s starting with happy hour at 5:30 pm and we will eat about 6:30-6:45 with awards and elections to follow. Please RSVP to either Kathy or Julie with what you want to eat. The fleet will provide appetizers for the happy hour but you will be responsible for your entree and it will be a cash bar, they will do separate checks.

Here are the choices to rsvp with by October 14:
Sirloin with roasted potatoes
Chicken Scampi
Fish and Chips
Vegetarian LoDo Pasta

News, Series Racing

Summer Series Week #10 – September 10, 2019

Tuesday (9/10) marks our last night of Tuesday racing in the Summer Series, and a re-emergence of summer weather, with temps in the mid 80’s, sunshine, humid, with a slight chance of thunderstorms.  Winds predicted at 15 – 25 mph from the southwest for the day, and specifically, SW winds at 12 mph at 6 pm.  Time to get out and enjoy!  Jeff Daane will be our Race Chair, on his pontoon boat.  We meet at Brewster’s afterwards, as usual.  

Save the date for the 2019 Year End Banquet – 5:30 pm on Saturday Oct 19th.  We are in the process of firming up plans for the venue and will have the info out soon.

News, Series Racing

Summer Series Week #9 – September 3, 2019

Hard to believe it’s September  already!  Tuesday is week 9 and Race Chair is Jeff Daane with his pontoon boat.  The forecast for tomorrow is a high of 81, with a 55% chance of strong  thunderstorms, with SSW winds at  15 to 25 mph gusting to around 30 mph.  Well see how accurate these forecasts are when tomorrow arrives! 


Save the date:  Saturday Oct 19th for our year end party – site TBD.
Otherwise, Dave and I just got home from Michigan City where we sailed in a Fleet 126 one day regatta.  Very little wind, but tons  of fun!  3 races, all beach starts – CRAZY!  Then we all gathered at Shoreline Brewery for dinner, drinks and socializing.  This was the last race for this year, but there most certainly will be on the calendar for next year!
Stay tuned for what’s going on with Tuesday’s weather!

News, Series Racing

Summer Series Week #8 – August 27, 2019

Dear Mother Nature:  please make the rain stop and give us good sailing weather!  
That’s what we all need to be hoping for Tuesday, as we plan to sail week 8 in the summer series.  the forecast does predict that the rain will stop, and we’ll have sunny skies by race time, with temps in the mid 70s, with winds out of the west around 10 mph.  Race committee boat is Win Larsen’s pontoon, with Dave Dunlap as race chair.  
This week’s help planned help topic as Rules at Marks, please see  your email.  Also, if there are any questions about the two prior topics, please come to Brewster’s with your questions.