Inflatable Auto/Manual Vest Sale for $69.99 Cabela's 4 Hour sale

Cabela's Essential 2500
Auto/Manual Vest

• Inflates to 25 LB Buoyance
• USCG approved Type V with Type III performance
• Comfort Collar

Was: $99.99

www.cabelas.com
20200 Rogers Drive
Rogers, MN 55374
(763) 493-8600

First Lake Calhoun Keelboat Race Next Saturday (22th) 11 am.

Hello Keelboat Sailors,

It is so far, before starting the 29th with the  first official race with 3 series for the 2010 season we will have the opportunity to to get in the groove with an unofficial Keelboat race  Saturday the 22th.

We count at the moment on 9 boats participating and still more to come.

Please be on the water by 10:45 am as the race starts at 11:00 am sharp.

We will race this season two races: 
Two short Olympic courses with the seccond race starting after the last boat finised its first race.

This season the races will start on time, as the judge has to set up the course on time for us to be able to race.

1) Judge blows horn 30 minutes before the start.

2) Judge gives first signal 6 minutes before the start.

3) Judge gives second signal 3 minutes before the start.

4) Judge gives starting signal.

• The minimum will be three boats in a race.

• There will be tender transport from and to your boats.

See you all at the start line.

henkberkheij@gmail.com

612-310-0113

Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2010….The Ultimate Sailors Dream

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover."

Mark Twain

Surrounded by water on three sides and nestled alongside the Coast Mountain Range, Vancouver is the largest city in the province of British Columbia with over half a million residents and one of the mildest climates in Canada. Home to spectacular natural scenery and a bustling metropolitan core.

Urban skiff

A concept for a folding sailboat...

Your North Star

They call it the North Star – the core purpose of someone`s existence. When they asked me what mine was, I went blank…blank… blank. As if the memory address supposed to be holding the data had never been touched. Was my knowledge about myself this miserable? How could I not know something as basic as this about myself? I thought I was a fool. But if I was, I certainly was not the only one around. They asked the same to everyone in the hall – at least a 50 people if not more. Nobody knew!
It proved that human beings indeed are the biggest fools, unless of course they wake up from the slumber and understand the meaning of their existence. To realise why we relentlessly scamper around from morning to night every day, requires a good bit of brain mass. When someone does not know why he is living, he sets up goals – short term, long term, extra long term – closes his senses and runs mad after them. Goals finally get fulfilled, and when they do you set new goals until one day you realise that you have consumed your whole life pursuing useless goals that have left you with no returns to talk about. You have lived a happy and peaceful and satisfactory life. Great. But that was certainly not everything you wanted from it, for all that is gone as your life is nearing a close. What you have earned from the rigorous routines of our life is next to nothing.

When the flamboyant Pakistani opener Saeed Anwar lost his daughter, with her he lost a reason to live. He did not want money and fame and riches, because he already had everything. He soon found a better reason to live, the one that can only get stronger with every inevitable human loss, a goal that never lets you down. Something that alone can be your true North Star – the one that leads you to your creator and opens the gates of heavens for you, for the whole of eternity. The heavens where you need no more goals, no more reasons; where you stare at a scene for years together and never get tired!

Wise words for the sailor

"Always approach a dock at the speed at which you would like to hit it."

Buoys at Lake Calhoun......Update from Brad Bourn 6th District Commissioner

Sailors and buoy holders:

Thank you for bringing your buoy installation concerns to my attention.
I too was disheartened to learn that the buoys on Calhoun and Harriet may not be available in a timely fashion, especially after such an early Spring. I have brought this issue to the attention of the Superintendent, the Lakes District Manager, and President Erwin.

Resources are being temporarily shifted to help install the buoys as quickly as possible. I have received a commitment from staff (weather permitting) that buoys will be ready on Harriet by Friday (April 30) and on Calhoun sometime on Wednesday (May 5th).

Moving forward, I will work on setting policy ensuring buoys are in the water no later than May 1st as long as ice is off the water in time.

My thanks to all of you, President Erwin, Superintendent Gurban, and staff for quickly addressing this issue.

Please forward this email to other buoy holders you may know.

Thanks for your patience and for choosing Lake Harriet and Lake Calhoun to moor your boats this summer. In addition to providing a mooring space for your boat, your buoy fee helps maintain our park system and programs. Thank you for your business.

Enjoy the sailing season!

Brad Bourn
6th District Commissioner
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
612-230-6443 Ext 6
2117 West River Road
Minneapolis MN 55411

Thank you Brad Bourn - 6th District Commissioner.
Lake Calhoun Keel Boat Sailors


From Paul Hokeness - Lakes District Manager


We are realigning our crew strength and will start our buoy installation in the next couple days. If the weather cooperates and everything goes smoothly it takes us about 7 full days to install the 180 buoys at Harriet and the 139 buoys at Calhoun. Four days on Harriet and three on Calhoun.

We have all of the buoys freshly painted, the chains and parts are all on hand and the crew is geared up and ready to go. We have already installed all of the fishing and sailing docks and today we’re helping the carpenters with the wooden boat ramps (the tender ramps).

Thanks,
Paul

To all,
We are doing the best that we can with the staff that we have. Five years ago the Lakes District had 35 full-time staff, we now have 29. Because of budget cuts we haven’t hired our seasonal staff as yet. We will be bringing some of them on next week and we will probably be pulling maintenance staff out of their buildings to work on the buoys this week.

We are currently installing ramps and docks and will begin with the buoys as soon as possible.

The $400 buoy fee does not correlate with the number of staff that I have to get the job done. Early spring is enjoyable for all but it is very difficult for us keep up with all of our lake, park and athletic field demands. What I can commit to is that we will work as hard and as fast as we can to get the buoys installed.

Thanks,
Paul Hokeness
Lakes District Manager

Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
3800 Bryant Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55409
(612) 313-7717