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.

LAST DAY OF STEWARD SERVICE

Please note the end of steward service is September 28th, 2008.

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.

Olympic Racing Online from NBC

NBC is offering very high quality videos of Oylmpic sailing action. You will need to install the free Silverlight media player software, offered at the site. Here is the link:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/sailing/index.html