KOKOKAHI SAILING CLUB

KOKOKAHI SAILING CLUB
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Commodore: Chris Laletin, 808-639-0263, chrislaletin@mac.com
VC: Dan Williams, 808-864-6067, rollerskate-hi@clearwire.net
Treasurer: Chuck Bayne, 808-352-9263, cbayne_hrd@hotmail.com
Secretary: Trevor Jones, 808-542-3169, jonesta79@gmail.com
An y Wh i c h Wa y t h e W i n d Bl o ws
As usually occurs at the new year, a few boats
move out or change ownership. We have
been able to clear our storage wait list and we
currently are sitting at 100% occupancy.
Clean-up
Sunday
March 14th 8:30 am
Bring your mowers, weed whackers and
shovels (for the ramp). Please make sure
your boat is on a trailer or cat trax for clean
up days, empty your hulls of water, also
make sure your tie-downs are removed for
the clean-up so we don’t spend extra time
freeing your boat.
RTB Racing
Saturday
March 27th 11:00 am
Officer Corner
We are off and running in 2010. This is going
to be the best year yet for our Kokokahi
Sailing Club. Our primary goal is to continue
to provide a safe and cost effective location
that you can call your home and continue to
enjoy Oahu’s “Best Kept Secret” the Kokokahi
Sailing Club.
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Jon Ross Duggan, Lisa White, Michael Bacon,
and back again Mike Strada.
The February RTB event was a fantastic
event. The weather was warm and sunny with
light to moderate winds. Absolutely perfect
for the five skippers that participated in the
three race series. A special Mahalo goes to
our Race committee, Dan Williams and Marc
Bachman. They took some cool movies and
they are posted on my photo page. See the
GALLERY link in the signature of the
Commodore's emails.
We would like to welcome in some new
members to our Ohana. Please extend your
hospitality as you meet these folks.
It is
always a bit awkward for the new folks to get
to know us. How can that be?? We are the
nicest bunch of drinkers, liars, cheaters, and
all the usual stuff attributed to sailors.
The racing was tight with lead positions
changing through out the races. I kind of
think the RC had a few too many beverages
as they could not quite remember the race
results. Best I can remember is:
Please welcome to our membership: Adam
Jenkins, Gregory Suares, John-Tina Jordan,
See you next RTB.
1 Chris-Adam, 2-Trevor-Janet
3-Charlie, 4-Sam-Kate, 5-Ole
RTB stands for Round the
Buoys. It’s our acronym for
our bimonthly sailing events
where we compete against
one another in friendly races around the
bay. These will be led our Race Director
Bobby, (239-7071). We encourage all our
members to get involved with this
opportunity to learn how to participate in a
regatta and how to make your boat go just a
little faster. These are casual races and we
do not even allow protest flags. The RTB
series as all about learning and not about
who wins or who loses.
Family Sails Cruising
Saturday
Feb 27th 11:00 am
Lots of members just
want to get out on the
bay and have fun with
other sailors and not have to deal with the
racing stuff. If that is you, we have just what
you are looking for. The Family Sails will be
led by our newest officer Trevor (543.3169).
We know he loves to get out on the bay with
his lovely wife Janet so they are the perfect
couple to head up the FS events.
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Big wind or no
wind, this is the
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Send us your information and we will
include it in the next newsletter.
How about that Americas Cup?
Some fantastic starships for sure.
The two things that amazed me were
they went 4x the wind speed and
gong downwind, the apparent wind
was still on the nose. Did you see
the wing mast was over 20 stories
tall. That was an E ticket ride :-)
Commodore's Corner
Director Positions 2010
chrislaletin@mac.com
We have two unsung heroes in our
club. They are Capt. Howie, Cruise
Director, who organizes the Long
Distance events. And we have Bobby
Wythes who organizes the race
committees for our RTBs and annual
Regattas. A very big Mahalo goes to
these two guys that help to make KSC
the best it can be.
jonesta79@gmail.com
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Trevor Jones accepts Secretary
position at KSC
I’d like to think that this year, we will
offer so many different activities, that
even the “hard to find” members will
join us occasionally. I continue to get
calls from people interested in our club.
Some join, some fade away. The word
is out on the streets. KSC is one cool
place. Tell me what new events you
would like to see. How do you want to
get involved? Drop me a note with
your suggestions.
Photo of the Month
Clean Up Roster
Thank you to the members that
attended the Feb Clean up day.
Lets welcome aboard our newest
officer. Trevor is so passionate about
Hawaii and KSC that he quit his job in
order to remain on island. Luckily he
already has a new job which will cut
into his R&R while he tries to keep his
two catamarans (H17 & H20) sailing.
What an awesome job by these folks.
We made a significant dent carving into
the trees behind the bridge.
If we
missed your name please email me so
we can apply the proper attendance
credits.
• Chuck Bayne
• Graceson Ghen
• Erik Tinhan
• Chris Laletin
• Robert Davos
• Sam-Kate
• Dan Jenkins
Molokai 2009, we made it.
This is a fantastic event that
only the most capable boats
and sailors should participate
in. But it is also one of the
most fun and rewarding
adventures on our calendar.
• Loic LeMarchand
• Mark McKenney
Email your photos to Chris or
Trevor for publication in next
month’s In The Wind.
• Carl Neff
• Manfred Mueller
Chris Laletin
KSC Commodore
• Chris Morgan
• Wiltz Goutierrez
• Mike Herbert
• Trevor Jones
• Eric Olson
• Ellis Apram
• John-Tina Jordan
• Bobby Wythes