Welcome Aboard!
The Seven Lakes Sailing Club is a group of primarily Seven Lakes West residents who have an interest in sailing. We organize a program of events that includes sailboat races around defined courses on beautiful Lake Auman, learn-to-sail courses, informal sailing events for non-sailors and social activities. The racing events are run with all sizes of sailing boats from Sunfish to J-22 using the Portsmouth handicap system. Our social events include after-race BYOB’s, Boat Parades, Rafting Parties, Lobsterfest, Banquet, etc.
/>The club also includes many pontoon boat and powerboat members who have interests in sailing and in our social activities. You don’t need to have a boat to join and enjoy the sailing and social events of the club. For more information contact the Club Commodore, Bob Fewkes at commodore.slsc@gmail.com. Membership fee for a family is $25 per year.
Our own Yvonne and Steve Short just returned from Florida where they participated with their Hunter 22 in the 66th annual Mug Race at the Rudder Club of Jacksonville. The Mug Race is the world’s longest river race. They finished in about 7 hrs. Based on corrected time, they won the "Archie Markland Trophy First Monohull Cruiser To Finish" and also won the "First Cruiser-Spinnaker To Finish". They were participating with about 25 multihulls and 60 mono-hulls. A fantastic performance of our club members!
The weekend before the Mug Race they also sailed the Lake Norman Hospice Regatta. They took a 1st and a 3rd place and one no finish.
A big kudo to Yvonne and Steve!