About the Lake Champlain Yacht Club

LCYC is a member-run yacht club located in a sheltered cove on the southwest shore of Shelburne Bay in Shelburne, Vermont. We offer moorings, activities, and community for our members, most of whom own a sailboat or powerboat.

Current membership is about 200 individuals and families. We have a nice balance of informal and formal social events. Our fleet is about 175 boats: 70% sail, 30% power. From mid-May thru early October we have club racing every Wednesday evening, plus about a dozen weekend races and regattas. We frequently host regional and national one-design class regattas. We are the home of Etchells Fleet 25. We have a robust junior sailing program that is open to non-member youth. We also have organized and informal cruises and rendezvous on our beautiful Lake Champlain, the sixth largest freshwater lake in the U.S after the Great Lakes.

Information about possible improvements

At our annual meeting the membership approved expenditure of an estimated $4000 to $5000 for design and permitting of possible improvements to the club. Most of the estimated cost is for

Perhaps a too hasty discussion and decision....

At our General Meeting (October 18, 2008), we were asked to authorize the spending of $4000 for building permits from the town.

Racing Rules of Sailing 2009-2012

Fellow racers, you might be interested in getting a head start on rules changes for next season. Drafts have been circulating on some of the sailing forums, but the official version is now up at the ISAF: http://isaf.org/20348.php

Here is a good blog that has been following some of the changes: http://rrsstudy.blogspot.com/

Updated definitions: http://rrsstudy.blogspot.com/2008/08/racing-rules-of-sailing-2009-2012.html
Three boat-length zone in rule 18: http://rrsstudy.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-rule-18-three-length-zone-in-rr...
More on rule 18: http://rrsstudy.blogspot.com/2008/09/rrs-18-on-and-off-in-rrs-2009-2012....

I think it would be great to have some between-seasons meetings for interested racers to go over the new rules together.