Our lead speaker will be Katie Bradford. Katie is a veteran of many yacht deliveries, including two transatlantic passages.  Katie has thousands of miles of sailing experience ranging from crewing in dinghies to captaining passenger schooners.  She is past Commodore of the Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association (ECSA), Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association (MRMSA), and President of New London Community Boating.  Katie competes on the Grand Prix sail racing level, so she stays in touch with the need for lightweight, efficient products to improve racing which she and her team create at her business, Custom Marine Canvas of Noank, CT.  CMC provides canvas products to many of the finest yachts in the world, The U.S. Coast Guard (with a recent major project aboard USCGC Eagle) and many shore-based activities as well.  She is a certified Master Fabric Craftsman, and past Chairman of the Marine Fabricators Association and a director of IFAI and NECPA. She keeps up with new fabrics, fittings, and techniques when not sailing.

Katie will lead off the evening and will be joined on a discussion panel by Lesley Berry, Captain of the Bustins Island Ferry, and Heidi Bishop, who captains the famous / infamous “Estrocruise” with her all female crew typically sailing from Freeport to Northeast Harbor, doing untold damage to male egos along the way.

7:00 BYOB and hors doerves, 7:30 discussion.

John Karp and Heidi Bishop’s home, 38 Kings Timber Way, Freeport.

Directions: Bow St from LL Bean, 2.8 miles, see Flying Point Cemetery on left, go up hill .2mi, look for mailbox on left with red and white reflector strip.

Please contact John Karp 865-4108 for more info.  No RSVP required.

The 2012 Season kicks off Saturday May 5th with our annual Float in day. Start off the season right – build volunteer hours!! Great food, big spread, you won’t go hungry!! All skill levels needed – bring your tools – pitch in and join the camaraderie.

Where are the Docks?

See more info about World “Sailtice” day  http://www.summersailstice.com/

This event will be on June 21 (Thursday) and will be run the same as the Weds. Night series. There will be a Sonar Class and PHRF Class (1800 start time). Each boat’s skipper must be a woman. Trophies will be presented at the annual meeting for the 1st place finish in both classes. If there is not a woman on your boat, please invite a friend or club member to take over the helm for the race.

So come out and enjoy a great sail on the longest day of the year!

Sailing Instructions HYC 1st Annual Women’s Cup NOR – 2012

Signup /Registration for women’s sailing!

Registration Form HYC Womens Registration Form 2012

Women’s Sailing Returns to HYC – Summer 2012

Back by popular demand!  If you are looking for a fun way to learn the basics of sailing and/or to brush up on your sailing technique please join a group of women for a fun and supportive sailing program.  The program is designed for the beginner to intermediate sailor who wants to learn sailing fundamentals through a combination of on the water instruction followed by a “chalk talk” by experienced sailing coaches. We sail the club 420’s and may graduate to sailing Sonar’s on our last week. Build confidence in your abilities, meet other women from the community and just have fun on the beautiful Harraseeket River! This program requires a minimum of 12 participants and has the capacity for a maximum of 20.  For 2012 there will be one six week session.

To register for the Women’s Program, please email sailingdirector.hyc@gmail.com for a registration form.

Questions or Additional Information:
2012 Sailing Director:
Kim Dempsey - 203-325-0232
sailingdirector.hyc@gmail.com

or

HYC Sailing Program Coordinator:
Peter McCracken – 207-846-0150

Do you know how to bleed a diesel fuel system?  Change a raw water impeller? Change fuel filters? Torque a cylinder head? If not, you are taking significant risks that you don’t need to!  This stuff isn’t hard- you just need to know how- come find out with a talk by the U.S. importer of Yanmar Diesels, Mack Boring!  (Thanks to Bentley Collins and Sabre Yachts for the networking)

Yes, we actually WILL have a diesel in the house (its gonna be a while before I live this one down…)

BYOB and hors doerves, 7:30 discussion.

John Karp and Heidi Bishop’s home, 38 Kings Timber Way, Freeport.

Directions: Bow St from LL Bean, 2.8 miles, see Flying Point Cemetery on left, go up hill .2mi, look for mailbox on left with red and white reflector strip.

Please contact John Karp 865-4108 for more info.

OPTIMIST DINGHIES
Got an un used Opti Dinghy lying around?  Why not donate it to the Youth SAiling Program!
OLD SAILS:
Old sails needed: The Ronald McDonald House Charities have requested 6 sails from us to be converted into purses for a fund raising auction.  C’mon, you have an oldie somewhere…..contact John Karp to coordinate a drop off 865-4108 or hyccommodore.hyc@gmail.com

Video/Slide show!