Girl Scout Sailing 2011

During the summer of 2011 I was able to teach quite a few sailing lessons and the high light of my teaching during the summer was teaching Girl Scouts. The last day of the program we did a big race with Hobie Wave's, Catalina Zumas, and Lido 14's. The Wave's are easiest to teach kids to sail on due to their stability and easy to sail. The Zumas and Lido's were much more prone to capsize and harder for the girls to control. However on the last day all the girls did exceptionally well on whatever boat they sailed, except when the wind picked up and a few of the monohulls capsized. Teaching kids can sometimes be challenging but I have to say the girls shown in this video were easy to teach and I felt honored that I was able to teach them, and interact with them.

Miles Moore, funtosail.com

Riverstone RC Model Sailing

Hello fellow sailors I just wanted to let everyone know how the RC model sailing activity turned out on Nov. 12, 2011. We had only 3 boats show up and even though that was a little disappointing I attributed it to the fact that it snowed the night before. However, the wind was great and was not too cold. It was a great morning of sailing, and I had a real hard time having to stop sailing, to much fun.

We love the ponds launch rock as we call it. It’s a long rock that sticks out into the pond that makes it really easy to launch from as the water is nice and deep. The Riverstone Pond has very clean water because it’s filtered and well maintained. It’s my favorite pond to RC model sail on due to the clean water, great wind, and lack of the green algae and milfoil that you see in so many ponds. Also, if your boat malfunctions it will not sail off into the horizon but will just land on the opposite shore.

Next month (Dec.) this pond is most likely going to be froze so we will sail at Independence Point right next to and on the west side of the Coeur d’Alene Resort. See calendar to the right of this article on this website for venue info, etc. Also to learn about this and other sailing venues, lakes, etc. go to funtosail.com

By... Miles Moore commodore of Sailing the Inland NW and owner of funtosail.com

  

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