Dear sailors, coaches, parents and supporters,

I would like to thank all who took part in the 2018 Optimist Midwest Championship at the Geneva Lake Sailing School. It was our piviledge to host you in Wisconsin and we appreciate your efforts on and off the water that make this regatta a succes. I especially appreciate your patience and good seamanship when it came to dealing with uncooperative weather and late afternoon sailing. In the end we were able to complate 5 good races and determine the Midwest Champion!

Congratulations at all participants for their fair sailing and great sportsmanship. I hope you have all reached your goals and that the experiences you have gained here will help you excel in future regattas. Good luck to all sailors who qualified for the 2019 Team Trials and I hope all those who came short of qualifying will manage to do so the next time.

On behalf of the GLSS board of Directors, I hope we will be seeing you again in a future event at Lake Geneva.

Marek Valasek

Regatta Chair

GLSS Executive Director

Happy Monday.

What a great weekend of "Fall" sailing at Chicago Yacht Club.  Lots and lots of boats on the water on Sunday.  Awesome!

1.  Thank you to Meg Six and Peter Holz.  Always fantastic to have Chicago Yacht Club alumni, assist with coaching.

2.  Congratulations to New Trier, St. Ignatius, Latin and Walter Payton.  All 4 High Schools advanced to the Great Lakes Championships, hosted by Chicago Yacht Club in early November.

3.  This week.  Practice on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  We have Coach Mitch Hall returning.

4.  Some of you have seen Youssef around.  He is in Chicago.  Yes!  This coming weekend he is coaching our Laser sailors who qualified for High School Nationals.

5.  Remember to sign-up for the Halloween Spooktacular the weekend of October 27 and 28.  The event is at Lake Forest...a rocking' weekend.  We have Coach Mitch and Coach Abby lined up.....
5a.  Sign-up on the Google doc and with the event.

6.  Loading for Lake Forest will happen this Sunday after practice.

7.  Mitch wrote an excellent summary of the Midwest Championships and I will post in the blog.

8.  If any questions or comments, please let me know.

Cheers,
DG

P:  (312) 213-1181
E:  gerber@chicagoyachtclub.org

1.  Happy Friday evening.

2.  Nice group of 7 on the water this evening with a few other participants for the unload.  Thank you.

3.  Youssef made Chicago this week and is around to assist this weekend.  He is not our head-coach.  Giving him some time to say hello and check it all out.

4.  For the weekend, we have Meg Six and Peter Holz to lead the charge and coach.

5.  October 20 and 21 we have Mitch Hall.

6.  October 27 and 28, The Halloween Spooktacular we have Mitch Hall and Abby McFaydgen.

7.  November 3 and 4 we have Youssef and on Sunday, November 4...we will do a pot-luck...details to follow.

See all of you tomorrow morning, rigged and ready at 9am.

Cheers,
DG

Monday, October 1.

Awesome weekend.  Congratulations to all of our Chicago Yacht Club sailors.  Great kids, parents and coaches.

Plan for the week:

Mitch will coach an Opti practice on Wednesday from 4pm to 630pm.

Also, we are staffing the race course in Holland, MI this weekend with Mitch on the RWB course and Abby on the Green fleet course.  Therefore, no practice at Chicago Yacht Club this weekend.  If you still want to go to Holland, MI and the JO Festival please sign-up in the next 24 hours...so we have a count.  The load/reload will happen at Wednesday's practice.

Let me know if you have questions.

gerber@chicagoyachtclub.org or (312)213-1181.

Cheers.

Monday, September 24.

First, great to have Mitch join us this past weekend and see so many kids on the water.  Awesome.

Second, plan for the week.
We will load on Wednesday afternoon/evening.  Around 5pmish.  Between the 2 trailers, we have enough space.

All of the assets will drive to Lake Geneva on Friday morning.  We are planning a 2pm unload at the Lake Geneva Yacht Club on Friday with a 3pm-530pm practice.

Registration closes at 6pm.

We have a very nice group attending the event.

If anyone has questions, please let me know.

Cheers,
DG



Upcoming events:
JO's in Macatawa Bay...the weekend of October 6 and 7

Halloween Spooktacular....the weekend of October 27 and 28

Other news:
Midwinters in November....Thanksgiving.  We want to know how is attending by the Halloween Spooktacular.  Thank you.

Orange Bowl....yes, we will train in advance...details arriving shortly.  Somewhere around December 22.

All,

Good morning from Rhode Island.

Our 2018 Resolute Cup team is sailing well...hoping that continues.  As an inspiration to our Opti Team...we are the youngest team here competing.  2 at age 21, 1 at age 23 (skipper Will Holz) and 1 at 32.

The plan for the weekend is Meg Six tomorrow and Jay Kehoe on Sunday.

As for today, Friday, we have no coach.  Our apologies.  If your student/athlete would like to sail, please bring them to Chicago Yacht Club.  We have High School scholastic practice today.

If anyone has comments or questions please call me.

(312) 213-1181...I am on the water and have my phone.

Cheers,
DG

We have a fantastic group of kids signed up for the Fall.  Great to see our Green and Lime fleets continue to grow.

Remember:  Orange Bowl sign-up this morning.  8am CDT.

US Sailing Number, credit card and other information on your child.

Good luck.

A couple of questions about upcoming coaching and I will update the "blog" later today.

Foggy this AM in Newport.

Cheers,
DG