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Women Underway Brunch - CANCELLED
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1/13/2019 12:06 AM
In response to Kathy's post, all are great ideas!  We should move her posting to a new thread and continue the discussion under a Brunch topic thread.  I went to that link and I was pleased to see that Women Underway has run some of the same "workshops" in past years during both our winter brunches and summer meetings, such as sail trim, knot tying, cruising, racing, etc.

Thanks, Kathy!

Bev Wright, Captain/Skipper/Past Commodore
s/v Whoosh (Racing/Cruising)
1/12/2019 9:46 PM

Thanks Eunice. The forecast is not good for tomorrow, and it’s lightly snowing now in Alexandria. So the right call to cancel.

 

I could help with organizing a lunch discussion for March. I am not sure I can make Feb 10 as of now. A few ideas:

 

  1. Under this link, I found an interesting exercise:

Rules of the Road: Workshop #3

For 90 minutes, 12 women worked in pairs to explore various potential collision situations and determine resolutions to the dangers.  Workshop attendees paired with a crew mate to “sail” their 8” wooden model boats through various courses marked on the “sea,” a large table marked with wind arrows.  The model boats, complete with moveable tillers and booms, allowed attendees to visualize points of sail, tacks and right of way rules in action.  
The hugely successful NWSA Winter Sailing Workshop, held January 11, 2017, was led by Sue LaVoie with assistance from Pat Dieselman.  Both women are experienced sailors, past commodores of the Blue Water Sailing Club, and veteran workshop leaders at the annual NWSA Women’s Sailing Conference in June. 

I would certainly not be qualified to instruct such a session, but I could try reaching out to Sue LaVoie and Pat Dieselman to see if they have materials to share. Or some of us could put our heads together and figure out how to design an exercise.

 

  1. Getting ready to get back on the water. Share tips and processes for getting boats off the hard and ready for sailing.
  2. Favorite on-board recipe swap

 

Anyone have any interest in any of these?

 

Kathy

 

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As *Acting* Coordinator for January, I am cancelling tomorrow's Women Underway brunch.

Even though we have gotten only flurries down here, the weather forecasts have gotten worse, not better (as I had hoped). Let's err on the side of being safe and stay home, rather than deal with the crazies on 495.

The next brunch will be on Sunday, Feb. 10. Hope for better weather! We can plan on the MOB topic and whatever else the group wants to discuss UNLESS someone wants to step up and volunteer to organize the Feb meeting.

Beuhler?

Anyone?

Thanks for your patience and understanding. Cancelling isn't a decision made lightly, but I am not keen on anyone being on slick roads unless it's an emergency.

Stay warm. Did I mention we would love a coordinator for February (and March)?

Eunice
1/12/2019 7:46 PM
Eunice, thank you for leading us, even in an acting basis. Your acting skills are the best! I will be there in feb, but yoga teacher training starts on the weekend we are scheduled for in march. I really want to talk about crew overboard in feb. I would add to your list the best way to execute maneuvers on boats with self tending jibs, like yours and mine, and how the heck to retrieve someone who’s gone in, esp when you are short handed.

What about a women’s only cruise this summer before the jellies arrive. We can practice retrieval while at anchor and other skills in the morning.

I will volunteer to lead a travel debrief from my women only sailing adventure to the sea of Cortez in early April.
Margaret
1/12/2019 7:45 PM
Eunice, thank you for leading us, even in an acting basis. Your acting skills are the best! I will be there in feb, but yoga teacher training starts on the weekend we are scheduled for in march. I really want to talk about crew overboard in feb. I would add to your list the best way to execute maneuvers on boats with self tending jibs, like yours and mine, and how the heck to retrieve someone who’s gone in, esp when you are short handed.

What about a women’s only cruise this summer before the jellies arrive. We can practice retrieval while at anchor and other skills in the morning.

I will volunteer to lead a travel debrief from my women only sailing adventure to the sea of Cortez in early April.
Margaret
1/12/2019 5:52 PM
As *Acting* Coordinator for January, I am cancelling tomorrow's Women Underway brunch.

Even though we have gotten only flurries down here, the weather forecasts have gotten worse, not better (as I had hoped). Let's err on the side of being safe and stay home, rather than deal with the crazies on 495.

The next brunch will be on Sunday, Feb. 10. Hope for better weather! We can plan on the MOB topic and whatever else the group wants to discuss UNLESS someone wants to step up and volunteer to organize the Feb meeting.

Beuhler?

Anyone?

Thanks for your patience and understanding. Cancelling isn't a decision made lightly, but I am not keen on anyone being on slick roads unless it's an emergency.

Stay warm. Did I mention we would love a coordinator for February (and March)?

Eunice
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