Our new Safety & Education committee head will be John George.  His focus will be on teaching new club members the basics of sailing as well as keeping our entire membership safe while on the water and at the club. For clarification, the Junior Program focuses on youth sailing while the Safety & Education committee works with adult sailors who need taught the ropes.  Best of luck, John! EJ Williams

A tip of my hat, to EJ this past month. He organized racing on our FJ fleet and the single handed Laser fleet.

The juniors are back at school. Sam is doing his thing in hockey and Olivia is recovering from a accident and out for the year.

I be glad when 2020 is replaced with 2021!

Wayne Myers, Safety & Education      

The junior sailing team has been out practicing periodically at the club.  Unfortunately there is nothing else to report.   Wayne Myers, Safety & Education  

See pictures below of the Junior race team's practice at North Cape Yacht Club in Michigan.   [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="21" gal_title="Juniors NCYC 2020"]

The Junior team is currently at North Cape Yacht Club (just over the Michigan border, north of Toledo) to practice with the NCYC junior team. We went out today in 17 knots of air with everyone doing fairly well. Only a couple capsizes. It was a great open water practice! Tuesday and Thursday this week is more practicing with the North Cape juniors on lasers. Wednesday the ECSC juniors will jump on keel boats for the NCYC Wednesday night beer-can racing. (No beers for them though!) June 25th - 27th, our team is going to Sandusky for big boat sailing with Tony Hubbard on the infamous Integrity, a 35ft dual-masted wooden sailboat. July 10th/11th ECSC juniors will be back at NCYC for a hobie/laser race. After that the team will travel to Sandusky again to practice until the 19th. On July 20th, the team will head over to Put-in-Bay State Park to practice on the island. Since Junior bay is cancelled, we will be running our own practice and races up there. Last week, the ECSC Juniors cleaned up the beach, picked up the cinder blocks around the parking lot, and cleaned up trash around the club. They also cleaned the sailing school & equipment shed, washed down the lower shelter & picnic tables, and washed the main shelter picnic tables & floor. They kids did a bang-up job cleaning our coach boat (racing's old RIB). It looks brand new, especially with its upgraded 50hp motor. We also added some dirt to the lower shelter grass area. There was a large 18" drop that needed fixing. You'll see a new bed of dirt that needs watering and grass to grow. MOVIE NIGHT NEXT WEEK: June 24th (Wednesday) we will be having an outdoor movie night at the lower shelter. All members are welcome to join.  BYO-everything (chair, food, drinks). We will be starting at 9pm, but you can arrive early to hang out. Wayne Safety & Education

It is with a heavy heart we share that the 2020 junior sailing camps have been cancelled. Gathering 40 kids together at any point this summer would pose too large a liability for the club. We have refunded everyone's money and hope to see them next year. The ECSC junior sailing team is adhering to the I-LYA and US Sailing guidelines and protocols for COVID19 safety.  Marion County is still under a stay-at-home order, so Junior Sailing has not had any official practices yet.  We will have more in a report in a few weeks. I-LYA has cancelled all travelers series in June.  Bayweek is also cancelled this year.  I have been working with I-LYA, lawyers, and insurance agents in figuring out a path forward. Sam and Olivia were supposed to have their level one training course in Cleveland, OH, June 1-4 but this has been postponed. We are hoping the Mentor Harbor Junior Olympics will still happen on July 11th/12th. US Sailing is pushing single-hand racing this year to adhere to the social distancing mandates.  This is easy for our laser team.  Technically they are allowing 420 racing if you race it single-handed with no jib... More to come in my report.

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