Welcome to the Saskatoon Sailing Club

A team of professional naval architects is currently working on committee boat reapirs at the shipyard located on Williams street of Saskatoon. The new floor has already been installed and new carpet glued on it. Other upgrades include new canopy, new cushioned swivel seats and banks for race committee officers and their guests.

Earle (Dave) Mallough, one of the club's charter members and SSC's first Commodore in 1963, died late last month.  He was a man of many accomplishments in his multi-dimensional life.   A full obituary of Earl Mallough is available by searching his name through Legacy.com saskatoon star phoenix.

Members are reminded that May 26 and 27 is  Work Weekend to get the club ready for the new season.

Images from the 2011 Work Weekend

All of the website content has been re-added and it is once again fully-functional. You may still see some changes to the layout or the menu, but for the most part, everything will stay this way. Commenting is possible on any news post. I will also add the ability for members to register accounts on the website. When posting comments on the posts, the commenting system will use a Gravatar for your user image. This is tied to the e-mail you enter in the e-mail field. For more information and to get a Gravatar go here.

Some more things on the menu include a members area, and maybe a buy/sell page. If you have any suggestions for features, please let me know via the contact form. Also contact me if you have any troubles with the site, or notice errors (including spelling mistakes). As always, I suggest you use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to access the site (or the web in general), as Internet Explorer doesn't support some of the newer features of HTML and CSS.

While the SSCA Mobile Sailing School was going on this past week at Redberry Lake, the younger ones were getting a taste of sailing. The "Opti" instruction was led by Provincial Coach and Technical Director, Mark Lammens and was part of the CYA's new program, 'FUN-damentals'....a program designed to get kids on the water at an early age. And it seemed the 7 to 11 year olds could not get enough of actually sailing these tiny Optimist class boats and some even tried racing later in the week.

Lewis Oteruelo moves from 2nd overall last year, to number 1 in Lasers at this year's SSC Regatta.

The Saskatoon Sailing Club's Racing Director, Steve Shirtliffe presented the silver medal to second place finisher, Ilia Rudnitskiy who was in a tight contest with Lewis throughout the series...

and bronze to veteran Laser sailor, Ben Pickford.

The medal for top youth sailing in the Radial competition went to Ellyn Byrns.

There were 10 Lasers competing in 9 races over the long weekend with challenging wind and waves during the first day of competition on Redberry Lake, however, Saturday brought a much lighter but steady breeze. Sunday was a drifter and no races were started. Despite the lack of wind on the final day, the regatta was declared a great success both on the water and ashore.

(See complete RACING results and more Regatta IMAGES on this site).

This is what the new beach area looked like during the Work Weekend...with the foreground area of sand dunes in the process of being levelled for boat parking.

To show just how much the lake level has risen, the upturned sun shade on the far left of the panorama indicates about where we launched our boats last season. The shade was later rescued and will be re-installed on higher ground.

Click on the photos tab on this site for more photos of the Work Weekend.

This is what the beach area looked like Saturday April 23 when Timur and Natalia visited the club. The water had not reached the newly moved buildings and will hopefully not rise in the coming weeks. It was estimated the lake level has risen about 1 foot since last fall, however Steve Shirtfiffe has a report from a reliable source of an approximate 40 cm (nearly 16 inches) rise since last November.

As the photos indicate, water covers the area the club had used for boat storage and rigging as well as vehicle parking.

As the Saskatoon Sailing Club gets ready for another season of activity, Commodore Ken Kozak recently held the annual pre-season executive meeting and a few of the highlights of interest come from Membership Chr, Sue Barrett who reminds all members of the May 31st deadline to get the $50.00 reduction on the Family membership renewals and the $25.00 reduction on the single memberships. After May 30th its $300 for family and $200 for single memberships. To get a printable membership form, see the 'membership' tab.

A reminder that the Work Weekend will be May 28-29...unless bad weather forces us to push it back to the following weekend.

One of the best race management experts in Canada... International Race Officer, Peter Van Muyden of Edmonton was in Saskatoon to deliver a seminar in the theory and practice of race management on March 26 and 27th. Over 2 days he focused on Assistant Race Officer, Level 1 and Club Race Officer, Level 11. It was an excellent opportunity for the members who wanted to learn more about the proper proceedures in race management for weekend races or Regattas. They were not disapointed, learned a lot and our club race management will be that much better for their participation in the seminars!

Ken Kozak, a member of SSC since 1975, has been elected as the new Commodore of the club, taking over from Dale Heath who continues on the executive as Rear Commodore. Other changes as a result of the recent AGM elections include newcomers Angela and Dean Bedard-Haughn who will handle the Secretary and newsletter responsibilities and Steve Shirtliffe as Racing Coordinator. Re-elected were Wendy White as Treasurer, Sue Barrett- Membership Chair, John Oteruelo-Harbour Master and Timur Rudnitskiy-House and Grounds.

Aside from the core executive, John Nanson, Michael Sulatisky, Kirk Ready and Dick White remain as Officers at Large.

The Mobile Sailing School Coordinators this year will be Michael Sulatisky and Kirk Ready with Sue Barrett handling registrations.

Ilia Rudnitskiy continues as the the club's Webmaster.