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Ahoy JSCA Members: Tasars in the News NO SUNDAY RACING THIS WEEKEND AS WE HOST THE TASAR BC's UBC Old Boys Home Opener - Ripper Memorial Match Volunteer Work Party
-Saturday, September 6 @ 1130H The Jericho Sailing Centre Association's 35th Annual General
Meeting will be held Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 1900H in the
English Bay Banquet Room of the Jericho Sailing Centre, 1300
Discovery Street, Vancouver, B.C. The 2007/2008 J.S.C.A. Board
and Committees will report on their accomplishments this past
year and the challenges for the future. Please plan to attend
and participate in the future direction of your ocean access
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Not
all Tasars are shocking. The Tasar BC Championships are on this
weekend at the Jericho Sailing Centre. Aussie boat designer
Frank Bethwaite, who visited Jericho for the World Championships
back in 1989, designed the double handed, hard chined, racing
monohull sailing dinghy as a "couple's boat" so that
the optimum crew weight would be equal to the weight of the
average man plus the average woman - therein lies extensive
opportunity for much discussion, debate, argument and maybe
even some mild shock- but back to the event. Registration is
on Saturday from 1000H-1130H with first start at 1230H. Registration
cost is $25 per boat or FREE if you haven't sailed in any of
the past three Tasar BC's. A $10 North American Tasar Association
membership is required of all competitors. For more info. on
Tasars & the Tasar BC's ZAP over to 
Many
years ago, before the locker room was renovated, I first encountered
one in the dimly lit maze of equipment lockers in the vintage
basement area of the Jericho Sailing Centre. I was investigating
a member report of a foul stench emanating from the area. My
usually less than agile nose led me right to it, a stinky silhouette
within a shadow-back to the wall of a darkened, dead end aisle
way; the only thing standing between it and the fresh salt air
light of freedom, a puzzled manager trying to comprehend exactly
what "it" was. I barely had time to blink when it
suddenly mounted a desperate, ferocious charge, barking like
a crazed, crossed Pit Bull/seal as it flapped across the creaky
wooden floor toward me-extreme agitation exceeded only by smell
- its breath stank like a week long janitor's strike at a salmon
cannery; his slippery, flippery armpits smelled like low tide
at noon on a hot summer's day in Beach Grove: his crotch level
canine teeth flashed like fishing tackle-survival instinct provided
my flip-flopped feet with a quick sidestep right and the even
more frightened sea serpent went roaring by me like a whisker
wind whipping, sea weed slicker, flipper flopping freight train
bound for it's home in the sea-it was only then that I realized
it was a Sea Lion; even then I wasn't so sure.
Many
people have spotted another juvenile California Sea Lion as
well as a Sea Otter in and around the Jericho Sailing Centre
and the Jericho Pier over the past several days. (the one with
big flippers is the sea lion; the one with webbed paws and a
tail is the sea otter-they move on the land very differently-the
sea lion "bounces" from front flippers to back flippers;
the sea otter moves more like a cat.) If you are lucky enough
to spot them, admire them from a distance but do not approach
or otherwise agitate them - the seashore is their home and these
wild animals are known to be fiercely territorial. If you are
lucky enough to get a picture of one of them please email us
a copy. For more info on Sea Lions, Sea Otters and other sea
creatures flip over to | For More Weather Information Please Click on Images Below |
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