Membership and training forms are now live!

We’ll be offering both Adult/youth and Junior training this season! The upmost care and precautions will be taken to make sure all of our students are able to learn in a safe environment. To make that easier for our instructors we have shifted the regular training season to only include summer and late season sessions, hopefully this will avoid rain days where we would normally do classes in the clubhouse.

We do plan on having regularly scheduled race nights this season, as well as our usual member training programs (cat clinic, etc.). Stay tuned for more info.

Likewise we will announce the date for the 2021 opening day and we do plan on having a public open house like we did in previous years.

As always, if you have any comments/concerns, do bring them up with our board of directors.

We look forward to seeing you out on the water this 2021 season!

We are pleased to share with you the list of our new executive board:

• Commodore – Corinne Civalleri [email protected]
• Vice-Commodore – TBD [email protected]
• Membership – Deb McPhedran [email protected]
• Training – Ken Skublics [email protected]
• Site – Nathan Quinsey [email protected]
• Social – TBD [email protected]
• Harbourmaster – Steve Harrington [email protected]
• Purser – Rob Zgraggen [email protected]
• Website/Comms – Devin Linnington [email protected]
• Sailing – Carla Millar [email protected]
• Corporate Secretary – Liz Prentice-Hudson [email protected]

As you noticed, we have 2 positions opened and if you have any interest or questions, please contact our Commodore Corinne.

Also, Kanata Sailing Club have been nominated to the 2021 Faces Magazine Ottawa Awards , and you can show your support to our club in voting for this great special place and people: 
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Note, you can vote EVERY day until the end of January!

Finally, we are wishing you all the best for 2021: health, happiness and lots of time on the water!

Corinne Civalleri
KSC Commodore

Due to some glitches with our sign-up provider it took me quite a while to get the sign-up forms updated for 2020, but they are ready and live now:

The duty day responsibilities this year will be limited due to the restrictions on our club, but we would still like members to sign up for at least one half-day timeslot this season. Only a subset of the duty day checklist is valid, so particular focus should be on:

• Landscaping
  • Trimming trees
  • Mowing
  • Weed-whacking
  • etc.
• Disinfecting common areas
  • Shed work table
  • Hand-wash station
  • Porta-potties
• Picking up litter
  • Bring a trash bag!
• Site maintenance
  • Minor building repairs
  • Check gas in fuel shed

And a huge shout-out to our members who are already helping out with site maintenance and keeping the yard & beach clean of litter. You’ve been a huge help this season and I just want to thank you all for doing what you can. You’re a large part of what makes the Kanata Sailing Club great 🙂

Thanks!
-Devin

Weather is nice, the wind is up, and our members are out on the water! After significant delays and many additional safety precautions, our club is open for members and their families to enjoy. Currently there are a number of restrictions from the normal sailing season:

1. Clubhouse is locked and off limits, contact a member of the board if you need access to the clubhouse.
2. Those who wish to sail will need to bring their own life jackets.
3. Gov’t mandated physical distancing and group size limitations must be followed at all times.
4. Boats and other frequently-contacted areas must be sanitized before use.
5. If you are sick and/or are close to someone who is sick, you must stay home.
6. Training will not take place this year, but sailing checkouts will. If you need to be checked out to get your tags, please contact the training director to setup an appointment.

The club has put forth a Covid-19 Code of Conduct which all members must follow. Please adhere to this, your health and the health of our members depends on it!

Otherwise things are moving along nicely. There are a few minor issues, like the clubhouse is closed so we need to figure out where to dry sails, but we’re working through them one-by-one. If you have any suggestions/comments, please do get in touch with us, we would love to hear from you!

Keep your sheets to the wind,
– KSC Board of Directors

Like the rest of our community we’ve had to delay our club opening this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Some club activities and training programs will either be cancelled or postponed for later in the season. If you have already signed up for one of the impacted training programs our training director will get in contact with you to either reschedule or refund the training fee.

While we’re excited to get out on the water and enjoy the nice weather, we all need to do our part in preventing the spread of this deadly illness. We’ll be taking direction from the City of Ottawa as to when the club can open and summer programs will begin. The City of Ottawa lists impacted services/parks on their website here:
https://ottawa.ca/en/health-and-public-safety/covid-19-ottawa/impacted-city-facilities-and-services#city-parks-trails-and-natural-areas
Please note that both our club property and the adjacent parking lot are city parks.

For more information from Ottawa Public Health on COVID-19 and steps you should (already) be taking to prevent its spread:
https://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/public-health-topics/novel-coronavirus.aspx?utm_source=OPH&utm_medium=Home_Page_Banner&utm_campaign=Coronavirus&utm_content=Home_Page_Banner_OPH

We will be continuing to monitor the situation and will be updating members when the use restrictions are lifted.

Keep well and stay safe!
– KSC Board of Directors