The UBC Sailing Club is inviting Vancouver's windsurfing community to join them for their annual event. Wear your crazy costumes, get silly, be weird, and show your wildest moves on the windsurfer board. Come down for the Smashing UBC Windsurfing Smack Down Event this Sunday May 30th. Event starts at 11:00, with Special Guest DJ Sarah t rock your world.

 

Interested members of JSCA's sail racing community met after Tuesday Night Racing on May 18 to discuss BC Sailing/CYA membership benefits and requirements Benefits of CYA affiliation considered relevant to the members present were:
·        The legitimate use of IYRU/CYA Racing Rules of Sailing;
·        Being able to host CYA sanctioned regattas;
·        Participation in other affiliated club regattas;
·        Race Management and Judging Programs;
·        Provincial Coach Clinics (3 with Kevin Black in June).
JSCA and BC Sailing have discussed a proposal that every sail racer, including crew on double handed boats, pay the $22 CYA/BC Sailing Membership fee. This arrangement would be satisfactory to CYA.
Members present at the Forum expressed strong concern that this arrangement would seriously impede the introduction of new participants into Jericho racing programs and have a damaging effect.
Suggestions included waiving the requirement for new racers.
A more popular idea was to treat Sunday/Tuesday programs as informal racing (there has never been a protest) and only requiring CYA Membership for participants in regattas such as Flights of Spring, Jericho Classic and Tasar BC's.
Given the choice, those present at the Racers Forum felt it was more important to facilitate bringing new participants into racing programs at the Jericho Sailing Centre. Jericho members who would like to race at other club's regattas could obtain a CYA membership through their class association.
Members at the Racers Forum requested that JSCA's General Manager propose to BC Sailing that Sunday/Tuesday racing at the Jericho Sailing Centre be treated as informal racing and that the participants be exempt from the requirement to have membership in the CYA.
We are still waiting for a response from BC Sailing.

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.
 
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.