Education
EYC Sailing Hosts Various Educational Classes Throughout The Season
Ken Legler - Strategy is Good, Tactics are Evil - Friday, April 5, 2024
Join us in the Sailing Center for what will be a very entertaining and educational evening on how to have more fun while going faster. Ken Legler is a coach’s coach. We can all learn from his wisdom, his pictures and his videos - and he makes it fun.
Details
Price: $29 including Dinner. Sign up here.
Schedule: Bar opens 5:30pm / Speaker 6pm - 9pm / Break for dinner 7:15pm
Menu: Cauliflower Crust Margarita Pizza (GF), Wild Mushroom & Spinach Pasta with Sweet Italian Sausage, Baby Romaine Caesar Salad, Assorted Cookies
More About Ken
Ken is an award-winning race officer (PRO, judge, and umpire), as well as photographer and race commentator. Ken has volunteered as a sighted guide for blind sailors, and competed at Blind Sailing World Championships in Italy and Newport. While an undergraduate at URI, he was not only an All-American who won both dingy and team racing national championships, but he was also the team coach.
After a stint at Navy, Legler earned his first head coach job at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (Kings Point) and immediately guided the Mariners to the national championship in 1979. He did the same with Tufts the next year in 1980.
In 43 years as the head coach of the Tufts University sailing program, Legler's teams won:
Three co-ed titles
Eight women's
Five team racing
Two men's single-handed
One women's single-handed
One match racing national championship
Plus he mentored:
Three College Sailors of the Year
86 All-Americans, four of whom become Olympians
So it was no surprise when Legler himself was inducted into the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Hall of Fame in 2019.
Ken is an award-winning race officer (PRO, judge, and umpire), as well as photographer and race commentator. Ken has volunteered as a sighted guide for blind sailors, and competed at Blind Sailing World Championships in Italy and Newport.
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Safety at Sea Hands-on Training Seminar - Saturday, June 1, 2024
This practical hands-on seminar will cover life-rafts, flares, fire-fighting, repacking your inflatable PFD, safety and rescue tips. It is appropriate and recommended for everyone who ventures out on the water, be you a power or sail enthusiast, day tripper, coastal cruiser or ocean voyager. The seminar will make more sense if the student has taken the online course first, but it is not required.
To receive an official USSAILING Coastal or International Offshore certification, participants need to complete the Online portion from US Sailing within one year. For those needing a certificate for the 2024 Newport-Bermuda race, you must complete the international on-line course BEFORE May 30th.
Registration:
Sign Up Here. The arrival time is 7:30am - 7:45am. Be ready to take your seat immediately following morning colors at 08:00:30. Questions: email Fran Charles, Sailing Director, [email protected]
Participant Requirements:
The tuition for the Hands on Training is $185 and includes a certificate from US Sailing for those who complete the on-line training units 1-15.
Bring your PFD and a safety harness fitted to you in full clothing and foul weather gear. Wear full clothing (long pants, shirts, fleece, etc.) plus full foul weather gear, boots or boat shoes, plus your PFD when you are in the pool. No exceptions.
One current handheld flare. You may also bring expired “out-of-flares” which if “light-able” will pass for your certification and/or for disposal.
One powder or CO2 fire extinguisher of any date as long it indicates pressure on the gauge.
Highly Recommended:
Purchase in advance and bring to the seminar a copy of Safety at Sea: A Guide to Safety Under Sail and Personal Survival from Safety at Sea: A Guide to Safety Under Sail and Personal Survival - US Sailing Store for taking notes.
It is recommended that participants review the Safety at Sea videos from Storm Trysail Club. (1) Storm Trysail Club - YouTube
Meet in the Raquets Center adjacent to the drysailing area of the Eastern Yacht Club. Instruction will also occur in the pool and on the rocky beach. This is a rain or shine event, so dress appropriately and plan on being outdoors all day. The pool is heated, but sea water temps will be in the 50’s. Be prepared.
Locker rooms will be available for post pool activities. In a large duffle bag, bring dry clothes and multiple towels. If the temps are below 70F, a hat for warmth is suggested. Make sure you have enough room in your bags to take out your wet gear!
Priority for registrations goes to EYC Power and Sail Members and to those participating in the Bermuda ocean race.
Life rafts will be provided, but if you have an out of date life raft that cannot be repacked we will accept it and dispose of it after use in the practical.
No refunds will be granted after May 1st unless there's event cancellation.
Bring your own coffee and water in reuse-able mugs and bottles. This seminar operates as a “Clean Regatta” and as such no disposable plastic bottles or coffee cups will be allowed. Water refill stations are available.
A chili and hot dog lunch will be served.