CSYC 2024 finished the Fall Racing series which ran on Sunday afternoons from September 15th to October 20th (except for October 13th when we had the Colorado Governors Cup Regatta).
A link to the Fall Racing scores: https://csyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Fall-2024-wk5.pdf
What: CSYC Sailgrass (Pursuit Race, Shrimp Boil, and Bluegrass Music)
When: 12:00PM – 9:00PM, Sunday, September 8th
Where: Chatfield State Park and Reservoir
Agenda: 12:00PM – 12:15PM Skipper’s Meeting (BBQ grills at Dock “C”)
1:00PM – 3:00PM Pursuit Race (boats begin leaving start area at 1:00PM)
3:30PM – 5:30pm Sailing with the bluegrass musicians
6:00PM – 7:30pm Shrimp Boil (Marina Point Pavilion near Marina Parking Lot)
7:00PM – 9:00PM Bluegrass Music (Marina Point Pavilion near Marina Parking Lot)
Menu: Boiled shrimp, corn, potatoes. BYOB, and bring appetizers, sides, or desserts to share.
Price: $15 per person
Saturday – Early Evening – July 27th – Please join other fellow sailors for a social, unique and fun cruise, preceded by a meal and social time with good conversation!
Enjoy a late evening cruise and sunset!
This event is open to all Chatfield Sailors.
The Club will provide the Hamburgers (per our normal $3/each.)
Please bring something to share – dessert, side dish, etc. You are welcome to bring your beverage of choice.
Join us starting at 4:45 PM on the marina party food docks, west of the Marina Bldg. We will dine first and depart for the Cruising about 6:15-30 PM. (Weather Evaluation 5:45)
Each Captain will pick up a “game card” between
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm with instructions.
This event is going to be fun!
And, maybe, a bit challenging.
Please RSVP by Thursday, July 25th by texting or calling Trey Hegstrom at 720-443-0663
Or email to Cruising@CSYC.ORG
Sponsored by Colorado Sail and Yacht Club
Longest Day! Celebrate the Summer Sailstice!
Saturday – Early Evening – June 22nd – Please join other fellow sailors for a social, unique and fun cruise, preceded by a meal and social time with good conversation!
Enjoy a late evening cruise and sunset!
This event is open to all Chatfield Sailors.
The Club will provide the Hamburgers (per our normal $3/each.) Please bring something to share – dessert, side dish, etc. You are welcome to bring your beverage of choice.
Join us starting at 4:45 PM on the marina party food docks, west of the Marina Bldg. We will dine first and depart for the Cruising about 6:15 PM. (Weather Evaluation 5:45)
Each Captain will pick up a “score/time card” between 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm with instructions.
This event is going to be fun!
And, maybe, a bit challenging.
Please RSVP by Thursday, June 21st by texting or calling Trey Hegstrom at 720-443-0663
Or email to Cruising@CSYC.ORG
Sponsored by Colorado Sail and Yacht Club
Ladies and Gentlemen of CSYC,
It is with great sadness that I write to tell you that on April 24th of this year Warren Benn, the owner and Skipper of Sweet Scarlet passed away after a long battle with cancer. Warren crewed several years for Linda DeLeon when she was the owner and skipper of Sweet Scarlet and bought the boat when Linda retired from sailboat racing. He was a fixture on Wednesday nights racing in the Capri 22 fleet for many years. He was a long-standing, well-respected member of CSYC and just the nicest man you’d ever meet. Warm and friendly with a quick and subtle wit, Warren was always a pleasure to be with.
We will honor Warren’s memory with an on the water Eight Bells Tribute before Wednesday night racing on June 19th.
Since the age of sail, time has been marked by the ringing of the ship’s bell at every half hour. Eight bells were sounded to signify the end and the beginning of each four hour ‘watch’. The ringing of eight bells during the Mariner’s Eight Bells Tribute is a solemn moment signifying the passing of a mariner’s life. We will honor Warren and his influence on our lives by ringing eight bells – signifying the end of his watch.
All the sailboats participating in Wednesday night racing on 19, June are encouraged to attend. Bill Blunden and the crew of Sweet Scarlet will receive the tribute and conduct the ringing of the eight bells along with Warren’s wife Cathy, and his children Adam and Dana and some dear friends who will be aboard a pontoon boat accompanying Sweet Scarlet. When we sail by and place flower in the water (see instructions below) in addition to honoring Warren we will be thanking them for sharing Warren with us.
The Eight Bells ceremony will proceed as follows:
4:30pm to 5:30pm
5:00pm
5:30pm
5:30pm – 5:50pm
5:50pm
June 19th is very close to the longest day of the year so a late start can be easily accommodated.
On behalf of the Benn family and the Skipper and Crew of Sweet Scarlet, thank you CSYC for honoring Warren in this time-honored way.
Sincerely,
Mark Lindeman
CSYC Commodore
Founded in 2001, Summer Sailstice is the global sailing holiday celebrated on the weekend closest to the summer solstice. Founded on the basis that the non-sailing public doesn’t really understand sailing and most public awareness comes from events or tragedies that don’t accurately represent sailing (America’s Cup, Thurston Howell III, etc), Summer Sailstice was created to unite, celebrate and showcase life under sail, and be a lot of fun. Every year Summer Sailstice unites over 20,000 sailors across the oceans to celebrate and showcase life under sail.
The event is not just to boat owners and crew but for anyone who you think might have an interest in sailing or would like to learn more about it. The event is in partnership with the Dillon Junior Sailing Program as an opportunity to support the next generation of young sailors to become big sailors…..like us! Time to find some new blood out there and keep sailing in Colorado as unique as the majestic Rocky Mountains in which we play.
We have some fun events planned for the afternoon and hoping you can join in.
A meet and greet at the Dillon Marina and introduce new folks to sailing
A pleasure sail around the lake that hosts the World’s Highest Yacht Club
An on the water concert with boats at anchor flying the Colorado Flag, a first for Colorado and the sailing community. The town of Dillon will be flying a drone around to capture this special moment with many boats flying the Colorado flag.
If you are unable to participate, we will miss you but maybe a consideration of supporting the program via the donation page: DYC Junior Sailing Club, INC
Small boat (dinghy) sailing starts in just two weeks. Get your yoga stretches going and your abs six-packed for those long distance hiking beats. NOR and SIs are now posted. Note that your boats DO need to be inspected by the zebra mussel patrol this year every week before you hit the water. PFDs are REQUIRED and wet suits are recommended for the early season activities. If you can join us on Tuesday evenings, remember that we tailgate after the racing, so bring a snack to share (bring on the drunken goat cheese).
Dinghy Demo Day – Saturday June 22
Want to try your hand at small boat sailing? Sailstice is your opportunity! A bunch of us dinghy folks will have our boats in Roxborough Cover at the Killdeer parking lot for you to try. We are there to help and coach as much as you need. No charge, and we will be providing coffee and donuts. We will start setting up at about 8 am, and run through noon or whenever interest fades like a tan in winter. The best sailors in the world started in small boats.
To all sailors:
Union Sailing Club and Community Sailing of Colorado will be hosting a movie night showing the award-winning documentary “Melges – The Wizard of Zenda.” A winter social for all sailors and friends.
This inspiring documentary features the legendary sailing career of Buddy Melges, one of the greatest sailors of all time.
Saturday, January 27, 2024.
5 pm Reception
6-730 pm Screening
Meeting in the Stewart Auditorium @ the Longmont Museum for a social meet and greet before the movie presentation. A cash bar with wine / beer / and non-alcoholic options.
Longmont Museum
400 Quail Rd Longmont, CO 80501
Tickets: $15
https://www.unionsailingclub.org/event-5424666
Proceeds will go toward youth sailing activities.
https://www.wizardofzenda.com/
He won Olympic medals and world championships. But sailing’s biggest prize eluded him, the America’s Cup. Follow Buddy’s extraordinary journey as seen through unprecedented access to over 200 hours of archival footage and interviews with the icons of sailing.
CSYC is sponsoring a team to compete in the 2024 Women’s Winter Invitational Regatta. The CSYC team of Robyn Kline, Barb Haerbig, Liz Lenz, and Robin Jackson were selected to race in the event on February 16-18th in San Diego. Join us in cheering on these women as they compete in this prestigious event.
The following Article was published in Sail-world.com
by San Diego Yacht Club 2 Nov 2023
San Diego Yacht Club’s annual Women’s Winter Invitational Regatta returns this upcoming winter, February 16-18, 2024. Recently having won the US Sailing One Design Regatta Award, this all-woman, three-day competition attracts sailors from all over the world.
The Women’s Winter Invitational is sailed at SDYC directly off the docks in La Playa and features the Club’s J/22 sailboats, which are sponsored by Mount Gay. The course can expect more than 80 sailors over 24 teams for an action-packed regatta weekend on and off the water.
See more about the event here:
https://www.sail-world.com/news/268405/Womens-Invitational-Regatta-returns-to-San-Diego
We at CSYC are very proud and excited to have this team at this regatta!
CSYC is hosting the 2023 Governor’s Cup Regatta on October 14th & 15th at Chatfield.
We need volunteers for the race committee and support staff. You can volunteer at this link: https://csyc.org/2023-colorado-governors-cup/
Please join us for the 2023 Colorado Butterfly Championship to be held at Chatfield State Park on Saturday, September 16, 2023.
Registration information is included in the Notice of Race and the Sailing Instructions links shown below.
For purposes of mailing entry forms, questions, and additional information please contact: Chris Betts at 8982 West Lake Drive, Littleton, CO 80123;
303.917.9761.
Colorado Butterfly Championship Regatta Race Director: Alan Parsons: 720.483.8300;
dinghysailing@csyc.org
Colorado Sail and Yacht Club
Hello CSYC Members,
We’re eight nights away from our annual Fugawe night race! This has always been a very fun CSYC event.
If you’re not familiar with it, the race begins at sunset (following a social raft-up), and ends at midnight. The winner is the boat that has the highest average speed, corrected for rating, within that time span. The course consists of marks 2, 5, and 7, which will have lights on them. The start line is a pair of no wake zone buoys on the south end of the lake, and the finish line is the marina channel markers. You must anchor south of the line, with sails doused and crew below, before the start. Then at sunset you come on deck, hoist sails, weigh anchor, cross the start line and round mark 7. After that you can round marks in any sequence you choose, but you can only loop the same pair of marks twice in a row – then you have to go to the third mark. For example if you round 7,2,7,2, then you have to go to 5 next. And so on. Your goal is to cross the finish line at exactly midnight having rounded as many marks as you can. More detailed instructions are in the attached PDF and Docx.
The club usually chooses a full moon night for this race. On August 5th, 2023, sunset is at 8:08 pm and an 81% full moon will rise at 10:43pm. So there will be 2.5 hours of twilight racing (or dark racing, which is super fun), followed by 77 minutes of moonlit racing. So that will be almost four hours of racing! Also in past years we’ve had some really awesome breeze in this race.There will be a social raft-up starting at 6:00 p.m. down by Mark 6. You can join the raft-up even if you’re not racing. Please bring some food to pass around and share.
I hope every boat in the club will join in the fun of this event! Let’s make it a great turnout! Right now I know Grenadine and Zzzulu are participating; please feel free to reply and indicate that you are participating too! The “RC” this year will be Grenadine.
The Fugawe Regatta rules for 2023 can be found at this link: https://csyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/FUGAWI_2023_Rules.pdf
Mark Lindeman
Commodore
