Regattas

June

1 TRAP deadline, NOR

11-12 MIR C - Browns Lake NOR

17-19 C Nationals - Maxinkuckee Registration 

24-26 A Scow Nationals - Oshkosh

27 Lake Beulah Sailng School Optimist Regatta

28-29 TRAP - see deadline above

JULY

Quad Lakes

GLSS X, Opti, 420/laser

MC Invite

E Invite

C Invite

I-20 Invite

WYA X

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Light air has plagued the College Nationals for a second year in a row. The ILYA should be proud of its contingent - David Thompson (Hobart and William Smith), Stephanie Roble (Old Dominion) and Will Haeger (Tufts) are sailing as A skippers. Colin Smith (Brown) is sailing B's. Check http://scores.collegesailing.info/s11/icsa-gill-coed-national/full-scores for scores. The event continues at the Columbia River Gorge.

One of the goals that I want the ILYA to accomplish this year is to reduce waste at all of our regattas. As an association we need to do what we can to make sure that our environment is left at least as good as we found it.  Most of us have grown up sailing on these beautiful lakes with clean water and clean shorelines. Sailors For the Sea is an organization that has a project of running clean regattas. Their website reviews many ways that regatta organizers and participants can go green. The ILYA needs to do what it can to follow their lead. Clear Lake has registered the ILYA X Championship as a clean regatta and The C Nationals is registered as well.

As a start I would like to see the ILYA make a push to eliminate disposable water bottles at our events. Cedar Wisconsin hosted the MC invite last year and we handed out over 300 bottles of water. Lake Geneva at last years ILYA Annual Championship handed out over 2000 disposable bottles of water. Nationally less than 30% of disposable water bottles get recycled. Focusing on recycling water bottles will be an improvement but the best answer is to encourage sailors to bring reusable water bottles. I have asked all of our regatta organizers to have water stations available at our events to refill their water bottles.

We need to get our participants, Race Officers and spectators all on the same page. It will be a small step for the environment to attend our regatta's and see only reusable water bottles and avoid those garbage cans filled with plastic. Please help in making our regatta's a cleaner place to sail.

Rick Trester

Here is the website for Sailors for the Sea:

www.sailorsforthesea.org