7th Annual Women’s Interclub Up-River Race, Sat. Sep 14, 2024
Open to All Types of Keelboats With Women Skippers and Crews All Participating Boats Must: Specific Sailing Instructions: NSC 2024 SIs Part H:
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FANFARE 2024 registration is OPEN!
Are you ready to race your dinghy/ catamaran? Registration for Nepean Sailing Club’s FANtasic FAll REgatta is now open. Two days of racing are planned: Sept 7 + 8, 2024. Bring your friends and come participate in a fun and relaxed regatta. Register through Eventbrite here. Fleet cut-off is 1800 on Friday Aug 30. This year…
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FANFARE 2024!
FANFARE (Fantastic Nepean Fall Regatta) is planned for 7-8 September. We intend to invite One Design dinghy classes + Open catamaran class, for 2 days of great sailing in good winds and warm water. See the FANFARE website for more information.
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2024 Eastern Canadian 505 Championship
Conditions Twenty teams, including 15 sailors under 25 years old, participated in the 2024 Eastern Canadian 505 Championships at Kingston Yacht Club on August 10-11. The event featured high wind sailing conditions. The race committee canceled racing after one race on Saturday due to 30-knot winds. On Sunday, sailors completed three races in 15 to…
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Report on Single-Handed Race – Sun, Aug 25
The Joint NSC/BYC Single-Handed Race was held on Sunday, August 25, under sunny skies and light northwesterly winds. Fifteen boats made it to the start line — more than in any other year in the past 10+ years! The RC, led by Luke Sheppard, started on time, and set the course as C to H,…
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Report on the Pinhey’s Point Sunset Time Trial – Fri, Aug 23
The fifth annual Pinhey’s Point Sunset Time Trial ran Friday, August 23. Seven boats made it out for the start window, from 1830 to 1835, and all boats finished before 2200. We started with a light wind out of the SW at ~5 knots; it was tight enough that only Cheekey Monkey could fly her…
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NSC Martin 16’s Heading to Mobility Cup
On a rainy Monday, August 19th, two Nepean Sailing Club Martin 16s were loaded onto a CN container for transport to the Mobility Cup in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The Mobility Cup is a “regatta of possibility” where personal, social, geographic, technological, and organizational barriers are challenged in the spirit of friendly competition. It is international…
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SoloSail 2024 Wrap-Up
Recruits and Fruits Most SoloSail participants can recall the moment when they were approached and recruited by the pied piper, Dave Morallee, otherwise known as “Super Dave”. For most, this occurred at NSC’s equivalent of the town square: the service dock. For some, it was word of mouth. Dave has honed the skills of charity…
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John Herbert Hanna, 1941-2024
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of long time NSC member John Herbert Hanna. John’s lifelong love of sailing provided him with a retirement happily spent socializing with friends and family at the Nepean Sailing Club and serving for many a spring through fall season on the Nepean Sailing Club’s Harbour…
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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…
