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Oak Hollow Sailing Club will be holding its August Regatta this Saturday, August 16th, at the North Marina, with Captains’ Meeting scheduled for 10:30 a.m.

All sailors who plan to sail should have their boats rigged BEFORE the meeting begins. Race committee duties are being handled by Les Eger, Art Hudgins, and Billy and Carrie Clemmer. We will have morning refreshments prior to the meeting, so we can gather and talk about the wind (and perhaps whip some up).

The forecast is for a beautiful day with a significant change of wind direction (nothing new about that) during our race hours.

If you plan to sail, please go to the below link to our Scratch Sheet and sign up. Also, there is a column to sign up for anyone who would like to crew. Also, for members without boats, the club has a Sunfish available for rent (and the City Marina has several for rent), if you are trained and want to captain your own boat. Please contact me if interested in the club Sunfish. The club Harpoon has already been reserved for the day.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Apv8r8wvYxkwdHh6WnFxdWFpXzRtcTNIMFQ2bEpUTUE&usp=sharing#gid=0

Hope to see you all there.

Thanks, and bring some wind!

Paul Walter
2014 Commodore

On Saturday, July 26, 2014, Oak Hollow Sailing Club members, family, friends and guests gathered for the club’s First Annual Blue Chips Charity Regatta, in memory of Nancy Valego, who was a founding and lifetime member of the club and who passed away a year ago from pancreatic cancer. Nancy’s dedication to OHSC and to the sport of sailing exemplified Oak Hollow Sailing Club’s mission of “promoting and enjoying the sport of sailing”. She is missed every day and every event that we hold. It is a wonderful remembrance of Nancy that her beloved Vagabond 14, “Blue Chips” remains in our club and continues to sail with us under the ownership and captaining of Melissa Palmer. Although Melissa is sailing “Blue Chips”, we still see Nancy aboard.
For many of our new members who did not know Nancy, her service to the club resulted in our ongoing commitment to teaching sailing. She was responsible for establishing OHSC as the educators for High Point University’s sailing class. That teaching arrangement has provided the club with the opportunity to keep our dues affordable, and keeps us in an ideal position to share our love and knowledge of sailing with young people who may make it a lifelong hobby. What better way to promote our sport!
The club’s board, when establishing this event, also decided to make it a charitable event, by requesting donations toward cancer research. Two cancer research organizations were selected for donations, a local organization, the Susan Komen Foundation, which Nancy had supported, and a pancreatic cancer research organization, the Lustgarten Foundation. Linda Marsh designed a beautiful tee shirt for the event and Rosalie Austin had them printed. The proceeds from the sale of the shirts will also be contributed to cancer research.
The turnout for the event was fantastic! We had 19 boats who participated in the event with 30 captains and crew, and with the addition of family, friends and guests, we easily had double that total who joined the celebration. There was a lot of planning, organization, and work put into the day to make it such a success. Special thanks to Linda Marsh, Connie Sloan, Rosalie Austin, Melissa Palmer, and Carol Eldred for ALL their hard work! Thank you to all who showed up to participate, honor Nancy’s memory, and donate to such a worthy cause.
Sincerely,
Paul Walter
2014 Commodore
Oak Hollow Sailing Club

Oak Hollow Sailing Club held its July 2014 Regatta on Saturday, July 19th, under cloudy and basically windless skies. We had a great turnout, with 14 boats competing in at least one of the two “races”. Congratulations to Phil Andrews for his two First Place finishes, to Michael Nordahl and Stephanie Delair for their two top three finishes, and to Gene Eldred for his two top four finishes. Full Results and handicap scoring are attached.

Thank you to Connie and Jerry for the morning refreshments, to Henry Dorn for the barbecue and for his help improving the rigging of the club’s Sunfish, and to Warren, Anna, and Kim Walker for handling race committee duties. Thank you to all who participated, as we had about 30 of our members present.

Don’t forget our “Blue Chips Charity Regatta” next Saturday to honor Nancy Valego’s memory and to benefit cancer research.

Sincerely,

Paul Walter
OHSC

To all OHSC Members:
It is hard to believe we are half way through 2014, already! It has been another exciting and successful year for the club, and we still have another 4.5 months remaining of our sailing season. We have had thirteen new member/member families join us so far this year, nine of whom were new to the sport. Eight of the nine have received basic instruction from us so far, with one remaining to be scheduled. Total club membership is 54 members/member families, and 74% of our membership has attended at least one of our functions. We hope to see the other 26% before year-end!
Following are our upcoming events:
Saturday, July 19: July Regatta, Captain’s Meeting, 10:30 a.m. (sign up if you plan to sail or would like to crew (at the following link)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Apv8r8wvYxkwdHh6WnFxdWFpXzRtcTNIMFQ2bEpUTUE&usp=sharing#gid=0
Sunday, July 20: Member skills workshop and Fun Sail
Saturday, July 26: First Annual “Blue Chips” Charity Regatta (supports Pancreatic Cancer Research) sign up to sail and for covered dish at the following link

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i-mlb9alKSrJbnY7ajNS7oYL4jvmIZN1xiveMoGWUns/edit?pli=1#gid=0
Saturday, August 16: August Regatta, Captains’ Meeting, 10:30 a.m.
Sunday: August 17: Member skills workshop and Fun Sail
August 30 to September 27: all Saturdays during this period OHSC will be teaching High Point University’s Fall Semester “Basic Sailing” class. Andy Squint and Paul Walter are the coordinators for this class. Paul and Andy will share classroom instruction duties and we will be looking for assistance from our other club members to help out at the marina for the “on the water” instruction and supervision. We ask all of our members to check their calendars on those Saturdays and offer their help. We will send out a signup sheet for those dates. 100% of the proceeds from HPU tuition go directly to the club treasury and allow us to keep our annual membership dues low, so this is an important and rewarding activity for our club, and for the students.
Saturday, September 20: September Regatta: Captains’ Meeting 10:30 a.m., High Point University students will join us in the regatta and will be sailing the city’s Sunfish. This is a great regatta!
Looking forward to seeing you all!
Paul Walter
OHSC

OHSC held its June 2014 Regatta on Saturday, June 21, with 26 members present, and 16 boats represented. We had several guests who joined us for the day, Dave and Alex Heap who brought their beautiful wooden National 12 to race with us, and Mark Christian who crewed with Andy Squint. New members Steven Boul, Chris Malcolm, and Larry Webster joined us as crew members. Mike and Marie Schram brought some work colleagues to visit with us and they took them out in their boat to give them a taste of Oak Hollow Lake sailing.
Connie Sloan provided our wonderful fresh fruit and other items for our morning refreshments. Race committee duties were efficiently handled by Mike Mullins, Tom Kirkman, and Stephanie DeLair. Thank you so much ladies and gentlemen!

Fourteen boats sailed at least one race during the three-race regatta. Winds ranged from 1 to around 6 mph with some slightly stronger gusts. Congratulations to Phil Andrews with 3 first place finishes and to Melissa Palmer, Carl Simmons and Jerry Eldred for their multiple top five finishes. Gene Eldred also had one of his best regattas with a 3rd place and two other top half finishes. Thank you to all who participated!