CSC MAINSHEET (October/November 2009) POSTING

by Pam

It’s THAT time of year again. Awards to give out, parties to plan, new officers to elect, next year’s sailing calendar to plan, accomplishments to review, next year’s goals to plan, volunteers to find, commitments to make, and, let’s not forget, holidays, spending, family and in-laws. Aah, I can feel the stress levels and tension starting to build. Yep, ‘tis the season!

A veritable powder keg of emotions. Different opinions, different goals, conflicting obligations, different methods of handling things, and, of course, feelings. Oh, as if the holidays weren’t stressful enough!

Sailors seem to find a state of peace, serenity and rejuvenation on the lake. Sometimes they just want to holler or beat the snot out of someone (without going to jail) and the lake lets them do that too. Cheap therapy. Yep! White Rock will be a hopping place this holiday season. How lucky are we to be able to escape the daily grind and spend time with such a dysfunctional group and actually enjoy it and call it home. Come give the Butterfly fleet a try this winter. We’re a couple of degrees mellower than the normal White Rock sailor.

The Fly Fleet had a great year. We began the year leaning heavily on our CSC members and the use of CSC’s rescue boats for our races and finished the year leaning heavily on WRBC with its new rescue boat, clubhouse and finger piers. Our Wrangle Regatta this year grew to almost 50 boats in 3 fleets (Fish, Flys, Lasers) with many off lake sailors joining us and CSC’s facilities accommodating the bulk of the competitors with the F/S fleet doing committee. Thank you CSC!!

The Butterfly sailors are becoming more active outside of their regular Saturday races. The Fly fleet had as many boats as the F/S fleet for the State Fair this year. The Fly fleet also stepped up and helped out with duty for both the Open House and the Terlingua and added a little bonus at the Open House by taking pictures and videos and posting them on our website.

Several Butterfly sailors have also been active in other fleets and sailed on the Sunfish, Laser, F/S, J/22, and J/24 circuits. Of course, we can’t forget that we’ve managed to coax the currently club-less, former world blah, blah, blah, Doug Peckover, into sailing a Butterfly and he went and won the Butterfly National Championship in Missouri. Some of us also followed his sailing adventures at the Worlds this year where he took a 6th place despite currently being legally blind. We’re anxious to see what he accomplishes after he gets his new eyes for Christmas.

Two of our members, Amber and Dave, upgraded with brand new Butterflys and we’ve had many guests sail our popular fleet boats throughout the year. We’ve run various sailing drills before racing which have been entertaining. The fleet also began tinkering with the concept of a Round Table Club which has taken off slowly and begun moving to different venues. Our website has been a new little twist this year with the addition of all sorts of pictures, videos and articles.

We will continue to sail throughout the winter on Saturdays and we’re just about the friendliest and most helpful fleet around. Come out and join us. We’d love to have you!