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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!

Oak Hollow Sailing Club held its May Regatta on Saturday, May 17 under mostly sunny skies and with average winds ranging between 7 and 10 mph, with higher gusts. Thirteen boats participated with 24 total sailors. Race committee duties were handled by Chris Malcolm and Paul Walter, with early morning help from Tom Kirkman. Thank you to Connie Sloan for providing our morning refreshments (great fruit and pastries). Thank you also to Mike and Marie Schram and Michael Nordahl for bringing their motors as RC boat back-ups. We would like to send special thanks to High Point Rowing Club for allowing us to use one of their john boats so we could proceed with our regatta in a normal fashion.
We had one guest who visited, joined, and sailed as crew with Les Eger, Jimmy McClean. Welcome aboard, Jimmy!
We were able to run three one-lap races, in which 13 boats started at least one race. Congratulations to Phil Andrews for winning all three races, to Gary and Art Hudgins for their 2nd place finish in Race 1, and to Michael Nordahl and Stephanie DeLair for their two second place finishes in Races 2 and 3. Abby Roletter (one of our few high school members) captained for the first time and she is to be commended for her steady improvement in each of the three races, finishing 10th, 6th, and 4th respectively. Way to go, Abby! (Thanks, Mark for sailing with Abby in your Daysailor).

Final results are attached including full handicap scoring.

Thanks to all who participated!

On Saturday, April 19, 2014, Oak Hollow Sailing Club opened its sailing season under rainy and gusty conditions. We had a great turnout with 30 members showing up for sailing, fellowship, and refreshments. We had several of our new members present, the Bouls (Steven, Sandy, and Beth) and Chris Malcolm, and several guests, Jessica and Leah, from Germany, who are exchange students who visited with Becky White.

Refreshments were provided by Mike and Marie Schram and Jerry Eldred and Connie Sloan. Thank you for providing those! They were much-needed as we waited out the rain.

Race committee duties were handled by Tom Kirkman and Tait and Ty Humphries, and they used some new technology for the starts and scoring, along with the improved flag raising and lowering system engineered and installed by Tom. Thanks guys! The day provided proof of the importance of having at least three adults on the committee boat, as there were multiple capsizes, with one severe enough to require the assistance of the safety boat to get sailors out of the water, and assistance in getting a turtled boat righted (with the centerboard retracted). Tait and Ty handled the processes very ably. Thank you guys (from Robert and me). Robert asked that it be passed along to everyone the importance of securing your PFD properly and securely. He said he has had a habit of wearing his too loosely (as he did yesterday), and it caused some initial problems for him when he found himself in the water. There were some good lessons learned from that event.

We had 17 boats signed up on the scratch sheet, but many of our mono-hull sailors wisely decided NOT to sail. Winds gusted to almost 30 mph, with sustained winds between 9 and 12 mph. We had a total of seven boats that participated. Some of us were able to complete 3 races, while a few of us apparently decided a “swim” was a good idea. Capsizes and equipment problems resulted in just three boats starting and completing the third race. Congratulations to race winners Phil Andrews (races 1 and 2) and Warren Mitchell (race 3) and to Michael Nordahl and Stephanie DeLair for three 2nd place finishes. Full results and handicap scoring are attached.

Thank you to all who showed up! It was great to see everyone again after the difficult winter.

Our next event is the May 13th Open House at 6:30 pm at the City Marina conference room, followed by our May Regatta on May 17, and then our Community Fun Day on Sunday, May 18.

Sincerely,

Paul Walter
2014 Commodore