Please see the Invitation for the LYC Annual Banquet. To save paper, I will try sending this out to families that I do not hear back from electronically.

Please reply one of two ways:
1) Print this, mark your preferences, and mail it to me with your check.
2) Email me (pdkreitler (at) gmail.com) with your dinner choices and numbers, and then mail in your check separately.

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Congratulations to Team Holzaepfel for their great sailing season! They sailed a very consistently all year to secure the Fleet Champions Trophy for 2011.

The final places are as follows:

 

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Each year, the Thistle Class Association honors a Thistle fleet that has successfully increased the membership of the Class.  This year, Thistle Fleet 21 at Leatherlips Yacht Club has been awarded the Thistle Class Association Growth and Promotion Award for its efforts to increase interest in the Thistle. 

This is a great honor and shows that our hard work is paying dividends.  A great thanks goes out to all who have helped make this fleet something special.  Let’s continue to introduce new people to the Thistle and help each other get better on the water!

The perpetual trophy is currently at the club on display above the fireplace.

-Paul Kreitler

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Beautiful weather greeted eight Thistles for the fifth Thistle Day of the

year.  Racing was challenging in a light and shifty breeze that rewarded those who made frequent adjustments to keep their boats moving. 

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Are you aware there are over 70 members at Leatherlips under the age of 18? How many do your kids know?

In an effort to introduce young members to each other, Saturday afternoon, July 30th will be the first ever LYC Youth Day. Starting at 2 PM, come join the fun with on shore games and sailboat trips around the lake. Have your kids bring a friend and introduce them to sailing! Following sailing and games, the club will provide pizza and beverages in the club house.

We also need volunteers to help with on shore and off shore activities, and to bring desserts. Please contact Paul if you can lend a hand.

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Saturday, July 2^nd saw 10 Thistles out on the water for the July 4^th competition at the club. The winds were beautiful and the RC got off three races in a nice south-south-west breeze.

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Thistle Fleet 21 sent 6 Thistles to compete in the 2011 Great Lakes Championship Regatta in Pymatuning, Pennsylvania.  A total of 59 Thistles were on the starting line for some very tough competition.  Three races were sailed in total on Saturday only.  Races were cancelled on Sunday because of a lack of wind.  LYC competitors did very well in a challenging fleet.  Read on for fleet results…

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Current Thistle Season Scores are in (Click READ MORE below).  The season runs until Docks Out.  To qualify, each skipper must sail at least half the racing days.  If you travel to a regatta on a Thistle Day, you can get a participation Bye for that day.  The season winner gets the perpetual for a year.

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Six Thistles were on the starting line for

the 3rd Thistle Day of the year.  The day was clear and beautiful.  Winds were very light out of the north.  Just before the starting gun, a breeze line extended down the lake toward the competitors. 

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Saturday, May 14, and Sunday, May 15, 2011

 

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The new Thistle Fleet Champion Perpetual Trophy arrived just the other day.  It is a beautiful trophy from Noble Awards in Florida.  The past two winners, Chris Holzaepfel and Dick Bartz have their names engraved already.  Who will be this year’s winner?  Last year was a very close race for the championship right down to the last day of sailing.  The sailing season ahead of us proves to be an exciting one.

The trophy will be available for all to see at Docks In.

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Congratulations to Dick and Annette Bartz on a well sailed, consistent season!

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Borrowed from Scuttlebutt News:

Dallas Johnson - No Saving Needed
(October 19, 2010) Dallas Johnson submitted a letter in the September issue of Sailing World magazine, where he commented that while everyone is talking these days about “Saving Sailing”, there are still sailing areas - such as his home waters of Lake Minnetonka - that are doing just fine.
As current Commodore of Wayzata Yacht Club, Dallas provides some insight into what’s going right at his “inland lake fly-over world” in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Following a consistent performance on a beautiful afternoon of sailing, team Bartz regained the top spot on the leader board!

Five Thistles were out for a beautiful afternoon of sailing. Fall was in the air with an air temperature of 60 F and a brisk wind out of the north/northeast. The wind speed and direction were variable at times, which made setting a course challenging for the Daysailor race committee. On several occasions, the shifts in direction and pressure left a few sailors (including the author) drifting while the competition sailed away.

Annette and Dick sailed very consistently in the shifting winds to first and second place finishes. France (5-1), Harmon (2-4), and Kreitler (3-3) tied for 2nd through 4th place for the day. And Eric Krause rounded out the fleet with 4th and 5th place finishes. All day the fleet shuffled positions off the starting line and around the bouys. So each team lead the pack at some point in the day. Team Bartz showed us all, however, that it is possible to be consistent even at a place like Leatherlips.

Series Score Update

Competition remains extremely tight for the top three positions in the fleet with Bartz in first place at %, Holzaepfel in second at %, and France in third at %. Be sure to be out for the final Thistle Day on October 31st to witness three excellent teams battling for the season trophy. Full season scores are:

1 - Bartz (87.7%)	5 - Tschantz (79.8%)
2 - Holzaepfel (87.6%)	6 - Kreitler (78.4%)
3 - France (87.2%)	7 - Rodgers (71.5%)
4 - Harmon (81.6%)

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Following a consistent performance on a beautiful afternoon of sailing, team Bartz regained the top spot on the leader board!   

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The summer series scores have been updated.  It’s Bartz in the lead.  France and Holzaepfel follow close behind…

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Thistle Day Update…

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The Thistle Fleet is revving up for a great and active season at Leatherlips.  Our fleet is expanding with new boat owners, which has us all super excited.  We’ve had two great sailing days already including Thistle Day 1 on April 11th.

Rather than focusing on the individual races from the past month, this issue focuses on a single event on the race course.  Read on to challenge your rules knowledge:

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Kit Holzaepfel and Bob France stun the competition with a one-two punch at the Mean Green Regatta, April 24th and 25th!

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Saturday, February 27, 2010, 3:00 pm

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2010 is here and the 2009 sailing season is only a memory. But before those fond memories are too stale in our minds, I want to take a glimpse in the rearview mirror.

2009 was our second season with the Thistle Day format and the first season we scored the Days as a series. The Thistle Day Series 2009 consisted of 8 days of sailing with 18 races. We had 11 fleet members compete with 9 guests joining us on various days. Of those 11 competing fleet members, 6 qualified for the series by participating in at least half the sailing days. Three participants, Holzaepfel, Bartz, and Kreitler were on the water for 7 of the 8 days. Dick Harmon and Evan Rodgers were out for 6 out of 8. Bob France rounded out the group of qualifiers with 5 days. Hess, Savage, Isern, and Krause were out there for 3 days, which was just one day short of qualifying.

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There were six boats on the starting line Sunday for a beautiful afternoon of sailing. On Sunday morning, it looked like we were going to have 8 boats, but Dick Harmon and I lost our crews because of various illnesses and the Hesses couldn’t make it. So, we dropped to 6 boats, which was still respectable.

On the starting line, we had Team Savage with Rick at the helm with his son Mike, Team France with Bob at the helm and John Myers as crew, Team Bartz with Dick and Annette, Team Lido with Steve Moore as skipper, John Lawmon in middle, and Kathy Muenz in front, Team Holzaepfel with Kit at the helm, daughter Laura in front, and Noel Thurber in middle, and Team Kreitler with yours truly at the helm and Dick Harmon learning how cramped the front of a Thistle can be.

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Saturday, April 11th, Skip Dieball of Quantum Sails Toledo came to Leatherlips YC to run a coaching/tuning seminar for the Thistles.  Approximately 30-sailors converged on the club house around 10 AM for an excellent presentation on Thistle sailing while enjoying hot coffee and bagels from Panera Bread.  For an hour and forty-five minutes, Skip covered a wide range of topics ranging from boat set up to sailing the Thistle flat and fast.  He spent a lot of time discussing the dynamic bending of the Thistle (and other boats) mast and how this dynamic bend influences sail design.  He talked about how important mast set up is on land, but how you can’t really tell if a mast is set up correctly until you’re on the water.  He showed a number of photographs of Thistles with either too much dynamic bend or too little to demonstrate how the mast set up effects the sail shape on the water.  Skip also mentioned that it is very difficult to see the nuances of the sail shape from inside the boat and that pictures from outside are the best analysis tool.

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