Buoys K1, K7 and K9 Are Back In Position
Update 2025-05-27: The Coast Guard has put buoys K1, K7 and K9 back in position.
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New Member Mixer – May 28, 5:45 pm
Calling all new(er) members! Join us on 28 May from 5:45 pm for an information session and facilities tour. Come out to meet like-minded sailors and social members alike and learn more about the Club you’ve joined. For more information, please contact Scott Murphy, Membership Director.
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Race Mark Layer Training at NSC – May 24-25
Are you interested in learning how to expertly lay racing marks for Nepean Sailing Club’s races and regattas? If so, Ontario Sailing will be holding a combined Mark Layer and Assistant Mark Layer Training session at NSC on May 24 and 25. The registration deadline is May 14! NSC members with race mark laying skills…
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2025 Women in Wind Conference Is a Repeat Success
The Ottawa River Women’s Interclub Fleet Committee, with representatives from Nepean Sailing Club and Britannia Yacht Club, hosted another day of presentations and workshops on April 26, covering a range of topics from dinghy sailing and cruising to racing strategies for basic and advanced racers. Attendees included sailors from Borealis, Ottawa New Edinburgh Club, Stormont…
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Victory at Sail Canada Youth Championships
The Nepean Sailing Club was well represented at the CORK – Sail Canada Youth Championships this past week, where our youth race team made an impressive showing in the highly competitive C420 class. With 7 boats from NSC competing over four days of intense racing in a fleet of 78 boats, our sailors demonstrated exceptional…
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Spotlight on Members: John Mazurek, Able Sailor
Have you seen this painting in the NSC lobby beside the elevator? If so, please know that it was created by one of our Able Sailors, John Mazurek. The boat is an Able Sail Martin 16 (coincidentally #16). Many people at the club know John or have seen him wheeling his chair around since he…
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Winter Speaker Series Feedback
Thanks to everyone who attended in 2024! Popular as ever The Series proved as popular as ever with record in-house attendance. And we exceeded our goal of raising $2,000 for the Legacy Fund and will provide a final report shortly. Thanks to all who attended and all who gave! We’re already thinking about 2025 Please help us make…
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Announcing Social Day-Cruising dates for September
NSC is once again offering Social Day-Cruising. You don’t own a keelboat but would like to get on one? You have a keelboat but would like to show others the ropes or need help in stronger winds? We can match you up once a week! Visit our Social Day-Cruising update page.
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Social Day-cruising August 2022 update
Despite a very light-air month of August, the Social Day-Cruising fleet was on the water each week for an afternoon cruise with a healthy mixture of experienced and eager new sailors. In particularly light winds, spinnakers went up and swim ladders went down.
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Report on 2022 Purple Martin Banding
There was a great turnout on the NSC grounds July 9 and 16 with a total of some 100 members of the public watching, interacting and some holding purple martin chicks. 236 chicks were banded there.
