Jericho Sailing Centre Association

July 15, 2015
                                                 
in the wind
Ahoy Vancouver Ocean Lovers: 
   
  
Here is what's "in the wind"; coming events and items of interest at the Jericho Sailing Centre, Vancouver's Ocean Community Centre, for July 15, 2015 and beyond:
  
In This Issue
Life @ Jericho
BAILIFF AUCTION
Wavechaser Thursday
English Bay Safety
Enroll in School Programs
Join a Club!
Jericho Folk Club
Safety Your Responsibility
Join our Mailing List!

A Day at the Jericho Sailing Centre - Time Lapse Presentation

 

 

Disabled Sailing Association of BC crew member, and budding digital media producer, Brianna Tsui created this outstanding time lapse presentation of life at the Jericho Sailing Centre on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Well worth a minute of your time for all Jericho junkies!  

Fast forward to:

Time flies when you're having fun! 

Hippie Alert: Vancouver Folk Music Festival This Weekend!

 

Parking at the Jericho Sailing Centre this weekend will be as rare as deodorant on a hippie. If you don't dock your land yacht in the usual stall before 1300H Friday, or 0830H on Saturday and Sunday, you may as well hitchhike a magic carpet ride in a rusty old, eight track equipped, flower child laden, VW van with a groovy paisley paint job and have them drop you off in the vigorously defended Jericho Sailing Centre Loading Zone. The annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival is flip flop flocking its way back to Jericho Beach Park.

 

Not long after the formation of Jericho Beach Park in the early nineteen seventies the first Vancouver Folk Music Festival here featured full on flower power, love beads, incense and peace: it was a celebration of freedom, political activism, and a love revolution fueled  by cannabis, marked by random sporadic bare foot dancing, hoola hoops, arts & crafts and, oh yeah, music- a mountain filled vista of mind mending mystical music to back up all that free speech in a magical Vancouver "Summer of Love"-it was a major "Be In". If you visit this year's Vancouver Folk Music Festival you'll notice, not much has changed.

 

If the wind blows from the west, other than the "up tight" parking situation, Jericho Sailing Centre users won't notice anything unusual this weekend except for some interesting retro hippie fashions and a few more strangers than usual bathing in our washroom basins and drinking water out of our hoses. If the wind blows out of the east it will carry a potpourri of disjointed sound permeating from 5 stages of bongo laced alternative music and the accompanying supporting aromas to sustain your psychedelic, transcendental, paddling, sailing or rowing weekend.

 

In a public park nobody, including the JSCA, gets reserved parking. The only thing we are able to do is make our users aware, advise them to arrive early or use alternative methods of transportation and have vehicles which park in the loading zone efficiently serviced by Buster's "valet parking". From there, we just have to hang loose and go with the flow.

 

Non-conformists, alternative lifestylers driving "road less traveled" ideologies, ever more liberal thinkers further pushing social envelopes, surfers on waves of new consciousness - did today's users of Jericho Beach Park evolve from 1970's hippies? There's certainly a good chance this weekends users did, and if you can't beat 'em, you might as well join 'em. What could be so bad about a little more peace, love and happiness in your world?

 

For info. on the 2015 Vancouver Folk Music Festival trip over to:

 

www.thefestival.bc.ca

THIS WEEKEND: Annual Bailiff Auction Saturday @ Noon

The annual JSCA Bailiff Auction of delinquent and donated craft and equipment goes this Saturday, July 18 at Noon. To see the goods shuffle over to: Bailliff Auction Craft 

 THIS THURSDAY July 16: Jericho Wavechaser Paddle Series  

 

The Jericho Wavechaser takes place out of the Jericho Sailing Centre off the Spanish Bank beaches of Vancouver's south shore.

 

The race series is run by volunteers from Jericho's paddling community and is only $5 for all paddling classes - no charge for members of the Jericho Sailing Centre Association (annual membership $99). There is a fantastic after race BBQ available to all participants for $5. 

 

More and more paddlers are discovering how fun the waters off Jericho can be and what an amazing venue the centre is. There is also something about the beach atmosphere that makes the location feel like the Hawaii of Canada. We will have a safety boat at each race and we keep the race course a surprise! Actually, we try to optimize each race to take advantage of the best bumps we can get.  

  
The 2015 Jericho Wavechaser Paddle Series is held on every 2nd Thursday with the next one scheduled for July 16. For more info paddle over to the Wavechaser webpage.
  
  
Volunteer Crew Wanted: To help with scorekeeping, photography & BBQ.

Jericho Outrigger Canoe Session

Yesterday evening the Jericho Rescue Team was out training and snuck up behind a Jericho Paddling Club Men's Team OC6 training session with our video camera. Check this quick clip out to get an idea of what it's like to paddle a 6 person outrigger canoe here in the Hawaii of Canada:

Jericho Paddling Club OC6

 

For more info on the Jericho Paddling Club stroke over to: JPC

 REWIND: Canadian Outrigger Iron Championship Races

  

 There were excellent Vancouver racing conditions for the 2015 Canadian Outrigger Iron Championships this past weekend. Thanks to Roger Pimenta for all of the outrigger photos in this week's "in the wind". Check out Roger's full album at: Canadian Outriggers Album

For full race results 2015 Canadian Outrigger Championships 
  

 

 

 

Thanks to all the volunteers of the Jericho Rescue Team for supporting our events!

English Bay Safety Seminar                          Next One July 20

The English Bay Safety Seminar was developed for users of the Jericho Sailing Centre to help keep them safe at play on the waters of English Bay. The seminar covers basic water safety fundamentals along with user specific information drawn from the logs of the Jericho Rescue Team who have intervened in thousands of potential "sea disasters" over the past 41 years.

Why make your own mistakes when you can learn from the mistakes of others? Don't challenge Darwin's theory, make sure your water safety knowledge is the fittest it can be. Your survival may well depend upon it. Find the missing links and fill in the gaps in your water safety knowledge by attending a FREE English Bay Safety Seminar July 20 or August 17. All times at 1900H RSVP JSCA office.

Metro Vancouver Water Shortage: Help Us Conserve

 

 


"Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink."

 

With Metro Vancouver water supply declining at a startling rate due to unusually low precipitation in May and June (as well as the current heat wave), the JSCA is asking users of the Jericho Sailing Centre to do their part by using water as sparingly as possible when rinsing sand and salt off of equipment.

 

For more on this, dribble over to: missing the rain

 

SAFETY NOTICE: Swimmers Versus Boats

All good Fun Until Someone Gets an Oar in the Head 

Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation lifeguards at Jericho Beach have asked us to remind users of the Jericho Sailing Centre that all boats must keep clear of the swim area to the east of us. The Park Board has installed new swim area markers to clearly show boaters where they should not be. Recently a swimmer in this area was struck in the head with an oar.

 

Conversely, there is no swimming or wading permitted in the water adjacent to the Jericho Sailing Centre. The area is well signed but every summer we meet people who don't see the signs or think such rules should not apply to them. If you see such a person please let our office or any Jericho Rescue Team member know. 

Summer Schools in Session @ Jericho Sailing Centre

Summer school is in session at the Jericho Sailing Centre. Youth camps for kayaking, windsurfing, dinghy sailing, stand up paddling and skimboarding can all be enjoyed through Vancouver's ocean community centre.

 

JSCA's affiliated schools: Ecomarine, Windsure & MacSailing provide the best in professional, recreational marine instruction for kids (and adults) of all ages for le$$ than you might expect.

 

Summer Ocean Camps

ClubLocarno Rowing Lessons Available To The Public

Introductory Rowing Lessons are available at the Jericho Sailing Centre through ClubLocarno. This program is designed to help you become confident and capable on the water. It covers the basic competencies needed to use the fleet, including:
  • Basic rowing technique
  • Safe (for you and the boat) launching and landing
  • Rigging and de-rigging
  • Recovery from a capsize
  • A review of regulations, club policies and practices, as well as local conditions
Note: You must be able to swim, and have adequate fitness, strength and flexibility. For complete info, scull your way over to: http://www.clublocarno.com/page-862389

Jericho Racing  - Sunday Racing Returns This Weekend: 

     

 

Sunday Racing
Non-regatta Sundays @ 1230H
There will be Regular Sunday Racing this Sunday.
  
No Sunday Racing July 26 as JSCA hosts the 2015 Rum Runner Regatta
  
  
 
Tuesday Nite Racing
Every Tuesday @ 1815H
Now-September 8
  
Check out these photos from Tuesday Nite Racing
  
  
 
 
   
To register for  
Sunday or
Tuesday Nite
Racing programs
tack over to:
  

For a complete

event schedule

barge over to:

 

2015 Jericho Events 

Send Us Your Jericho Photos

 

 

 

Thanks to Dominique Labrosse for sending us our cover photo of a windsurfing youth program.

 

Ocean Schools @ Jericho Sailing Centre 

Jericho Sailing Centre school programs are in full flight for the 2015 season. Dinghy Sailing, windsurfing, ocean kayaking and SUP lesson, rental and season pass gift certificates are available through Jericho Sailing Centre's affiliated schools:

 

http://jsca.bc.ca/schools/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sign Up With Jericho Sailing Centre Affiliated Clubs

Join one of the JSCA's Affiliated Clubs

and get access to a fleet of boats

One of the best ways to enjoy recreational ocean access on Vancouver's largest playground is to join one of the community based clubs based out of the Jericho Sailing Centre. These low cost, not for profit, volunteer driven organizations provide a wide variety of boat access and training programs for dinghy sailing, paddling, windsurfing, SUP and rowing programs as well as social opportunities. Clubs looking for new crew include:

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Discovery Sailing Club - http://discoverysailing.org/

  

Companionway Sailing Club - president@companionwaysailing.ca

 

ClubLocarno - http://www.clublocarno.com/

 

UBC Sailing Club- http://register.ubcsailing.org/

 

Viking Sailing Club - http://www.vikingsailingclub.bc.ca/join-our-club/

 

Jericho Paddling Club- http://www.jerichooutrigger.com/membership.html

 

 

For more info. on all JSCA Affiliated Clubs surf over to http://jsca.bc.ca/clubs-2/ 

 Jericho Folk Club  Tuesday Evenings - Everyone Welcome!

 
 

The Jericho Folk Club presents

Chris Ronald

on July 21 

 

     

Chris Ronald's "keenly luxuriant voice and immaculate songcraft" (The Georgia Straight) have gained him a passionately loyal following around the world. Songs from Chris' third album, Timeline, have reached the finals of the coveted Kerrville New Folk contest in Texas and won him a nomination for "Songwriter of the Year" at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. Chris emigrated from England to Canada in 2002, and his music has been described as a meeting of British roots with North American folk. In live performance, Chris draws on his abilities as a highly skilled singer, storyteller and musician to deliver a captivating show.With musical dexterity and soulful harmonies, the Arntzens will sing their way into your heart. Original compositions, jazz, blues, and folk favorites are all part of their bag of tricks. Led by Georgina Arntzen on vocals and mandolin, with husband Tom on vocals and guitar, and their son Arnt on banjo and vocals, this clan of musicians is sure to get you singing, grinning, and toe-tapping.  

 

Doors open 7:15 with a Fiddle Tunes Session
Open stage 7:45
Session 8:30
Feature Act 9:00

 

NEW SESSION Rooftop Yoga @ Jericho Sailing Centre with Marni

For beginners to advanced, teens and beyond

 

 

 

MONDAYS 29 June - 10 August

(no class on August 3rd)

6:30-7:15a.m. and 7:30-8:15a.m. 


 

6-week session: $72

 

 

Minimum of 4 enthusiasts to run a particular class.

Drop-in fee $16/class.

To register please email marni@psdcoaching.com

 

 Marni Harris is a certified yoga instructor, indoor cycling instructor, and personal trainer. She has lived and worked abroad in Central, South, North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. She is a lifelong sports enthusiast who has been passionately coaching, training, and competing in a variety of sports for many years. Marni believes in family, community, education, spirited play, and art-filled living. She recently moved from Ottawa to Vancouver where she plans to continue to coach, instruct, encourage and motivate enthusiasts of all ages to get and/or stay active and fit. 

2015 Jericho Sailing Centre Event Schedule

The 2015 JSCA event schedule is now up on our website Google Calendar at:

http://jsca.bc.ca/events2/google-events-calendar/

 

Service Hours @ Jericho

The Jericho Galley Patio and Grill is open 0900H-Sunset on weekends, weather permitting.

 

 

The JSCA Office will be open everyday 0930-2100H. 

 

Jericho Sailing Centre Etiquette 
 

Common sense and consideration of fellow members and other users help make the Jericho Sailing Centre a true community centre with a friendly salt water community atmosphere. Here are a few etiquette reminders to keep things sailing along smoothly:

 

  • No Alcohol is permitted within the Jericho Sailing Centre other than that served by the Jericho Galley Patio & Grill or by a duly authorized affiliated club with a Special Occasion Permit. At no time is alcohol permitted outside of a licensed area.                   
  • Do not leave your craft unattended on the shoreline for extended periods - share the shore.                          
  • RAMPS, and the areas adjacent to launching ramps, are for craft launch/retrieval only. Do not rig, repair or otherwise loiter in this area.
  • Do not leave or rig your craft in the rinsing areas adjacent to hosing stations. 
  • The Jericho Sailing Centre is a SMOKE FREE facility. There is No Smoking permitted in any Vancouver Park or beach area.
  • Give pathway users the right of way and bear in mind they may be distracted and not aware that you are crossing the pathway with your craft or launch rope.
  • launch dollys are for launching/retrieval only (not for storage) and must be returned to the fence immediately after use.
  • if you launch from your own dolly or trailer return it to your storage spot after launching-do not leave dollys on the beach.
  • do not use the winches unless you are familiar with their safe operation. Winch instruction is available from staff or Jericho Rescue Team members. Only members or registered guests may use winches & dollies.
  • only leashed, well behaved dogs are allowed in the compound, no dogs are allowed in the building or on the deck. Do not tie dogs to the base of stairwells or in other traffic areas. Do not leave your dog onshore while you are on the water. The City prohibits dogs on beaches. In consideration of other Jericho users please consider leaving your dog at home while visiting the Jericho Sailing Centre.
  • Please coil hoses immediately after use and conserve water.
  • Do not block aisle ways.
  • Rinse racks are for rinsing not drying.
  • Swimming is prohibited in front of the Jericho Sailing Centre.
  
SAFETY is Your Responsibility
On the ocean there are elements of risk that common sense and personal awareness can help reduce. Regardless of how you decide to use the ocean always show courtesy to others. Please adhere to the code listed below and share with others the responsibility for a safe ocean experience. 

 
It is every member's responsibility to know and observe the rules of the road when on or near the water. Here are some key rules which every Jericho member must know and practice.

0.5 IT IS EVERYONE'S RESPONSIBILITY TO AVOID A COLLISION 
1. Always wear your P.F.D. on the water.
2. Sail powered craft have the right of way over power craft, paddle and rowing powered craft.
3. All non-commercial vessels shall keep well clear of commercial vessels.
4. It is illegal and extremely dangerous to pass between a tug and it's tow.
5. A port tack sailing vessel shall keep clear of a starboard tack vessel.
6. A windward vessel shall keep clear of a leeward vessel.
7. A vessel clear astern shall keep clear of a vessel ahead.
8. Any vessel overtaking another shall keep clear.
9. A vessel tacking or gybing shall keep clear of a vessel on a tack.
10.The area south of the orange can buoys is for training or transiting only.
11.Swimming or wading on the beach in front of the Centre is prohibited and is particularly dangerous for small children.
12.It is unsafe to loiter or let children play near the bottom of launching ramps.
13. Stay well clear of the end of the Jericho Pier as fishers cast lines as far as possible
14. Be cautious of pathway traffic when launching/retrieving
15. Do not leave your craft on the shoreline for extended periods of time
Common sense goes a long way toward maintaining a safe environment. Membership in the Jericho Sailing Centre Association is contingent on members knowing and observing the Safe Ocean Sailing rules.
  
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