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| October 26: Cradle Unloading

| October 28: Mast Unstepping

| OCTOBER 13: oktoberfest

| OCTOBER 14: Sail A Radio Controlled Model Yacht

RACING OVER FOR THIS YEAR?
Not if you are a model yacht sailor. We will still be racing well into the Fall.

Come out to the breakwater on Saturday, October 14th at 2:00 pm and experience the exciting sport of radio controlled sailing.
We will have high performance International One Meter yachts for you to sail, and plenty of helpful advice.
Old and new members all welcome, juniors too.
Alternate date of Sunday, October 15th in case of bad weather.
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.

| NOVEMBER 4: Awards Banquet

Reminders: Please submit your nominations for any of the Special Awards to race@kingstonyachtclub.com or the Race Office by Friday Oct 13. Also, please send any photos you'd like to share via the evening slide show to the same email address or by media (USB drive or CD-ROM) to the Race Office.

| Wednesday night with Women in Wind

Women in Wind will continue to meet every Wednesday evening around 5:30pm. Join us for a sail and stay for social time for a swim, drinks, dinner etc..

http://www.kingstonyachtclub.com/women

Dining

| Weekend Features

Dinner:

Oktoberfest sausage on a bun with sauerkraut, fried onions and a beer horseradish mustard, served with German potato salad - $14
Veal schnitzel on a bun with Swiss cheese and a green olive mayo, served with German potato salad - $15
Potato pancakes with apple compote and chive sour cream - $12

Brunch:

Weekend Special: apple cinnamon pancakes - $11
Omlette: Ham, artichoke hearts and Swiss cheese - $13

| Beer of the Week

| Wine of the Month

This is a great wine with a fun label that looks like a poster that would be nailed to a tree in the Wild West, complete with the description "Carefully Matured in American Oak." Zinfandel may be America's heritage wine grape, but guess what? This red comes from Italy, specifically the southern region of Puglia, where zinfandel normally goes by a less popular synonym, "primitivo." This is smooth, full-bodied and accessible, with plump stewed fruit, blueberry and raisin flavours on a rounded, sweet core infused with baking spices and toasted coconut. Perfect with most past dishes, or flamed grilled meats or try it with this weeks meatball sub special!

Junior Sailing

| Queens Sailing on Force 10

Queens Rec Sailing Team out on Force 10 Sunday Oct 1st.

| CORK Fall Regatta

Outstanding record breaking July like weather for the CORK Fall Regatta this past weekend. 240 competitors, 4 countries, 2 days of racing, plenty of sun, record temperatures with the humidex well into the 30s, champagne conditions on Saturday, light shifty breeze on Sunday. This was definitely a fall regatta to remember!

A giant thank you to all of the volunteers, athletes, coaches and parents who helped make this regatta a huge success!

Congratulations to the big winners:
1st place in the 49er FX for Ali ten Hove & Mariah Millen KYC/RCYC
2nd place in the i420 for Patrick Wilson & Ari Moffat KYC/RNSYS
3rd place in the Laser Standard for Ross Murdoch KYC

For the other KYC sailors this was a great opportunity to sail against the top teams from Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia for these Ontario Championships. Many new teams, new boats and new skills learned this past weekend.

29er
Jake Adair, Nathan Colburn & Anna Beyak.

Optimists - Coach Sam Furmat
Gillian Dalton, James Fair, Henry Garrett & Stephan Samuleev

Radials - Coach Sean Magee-Saxton
Jayna Mandin & Owen Newbigging

c420 - Coach James Hickey
Anna Lafleur & Grace Augspurger, Daniel & Ella Panting, Lewis Crighton & Graydon Garrett

Sailing

| SEPTEMBER SERIES RESULTS

Sharks: 1st Cariad, 2nd Shanti, 3rd Inevitable
PHRF 1: 1st Force 10, 2nd Cara Mia V, 3rd Obsessed
PHRF 2: 1st Teyma, 2nd Jammin, 3rd Selene

NEW PHRF 1 FLEET CAPTAIN

After many years of contribution to KYC racing and the club, Rob Colwell is stepping down as PHRF 1 co-captain. Many thanks, Rob! Steve Harrison is picking up the torch as new fleet captain. If you have feedback/ideas related to our racing program, please let Steve or Peter Kraszewski (also fleet co-captain) know. They are your reps on the KYC Sailing Committee, which will be meeting during the off season, looking for ways to improve the program for 2018.

| CARRUTHERS SERIES RESULTS

PHRF 1: 1st Breakaway J, 2nd Happy Puppy, 3rd Farr 30
PHRF 2: 1st Selene
Sharks: 1st Cloaca, 2nd White Star

| CHASE RACE RESULTS & ABLE SAIL FUNDRAISER

Last Saturday, we had a most excellent Chase Race. It was warm & sunny in 15 kts from the North. With 11 competitors, the top 5 places were 1st Cariad, 2nd Breakaway J, 3rd Force 10, 4th Jammin, 5th Ramble On. Also finishing (in alphabetical order) were: Cara Mia V, Farr 30, Lucky Varmint, Supra, Valkyr 2, White Star.

The newly minted Able Sail Cup was presented to Melodie Gummer and the crew of Cariad, along with some cool t-shirts. Charitable donations to the "bribe bucket" and 80/20 draw raised almost $500 for Able Sail Kingston. Mary Wilson re-contributed her draw winnings. Many thanks to Heidi Colburn for being on deck to handle the fund raising and award presentation aspects of the event.

| NEW PHRF 1 FLEET CAPTAIN

After many years of contribution to KYC racing and the club, Rob Colwell is stepping down as PHRF 1 co-captain. Many thanks, Rob! Steve Harrison is picking up the torch as new fleet captain. If you have feedback/ideas related to our racing program, please let Steve or Peter Kraszewski (also fleet co-captain) know. They are your reps on the KYC Sailing Committee, which will be meeting during the off season, looking for ways to improve the program for 2018.

| CAN/AM Cup

Congratulations to Queens Sailing for placing 1st and 3rd of 17 teams racing in the Can/Am Cup this past weekend.
For full results and a summary of the race, please see http://scores.collegesailing.org/f17/can-am-cup/

| 505 Worlds

Congratulations to Jeff and Rachel Boyd for scoring 41st out of 87 at the 505 Worlds in Annapolis.
For the World Championship results, please see https://yachtscoring.com/event_results_cumulative.cfm?eID=4206

| Sail Canada Women's Keelboat Championships

Congratulations to Melodie Gummer and KYC crew who have won the Sail Canada Women's Keelboat Championship for the second year in a row!

For more information please see: http://www.lyc.ca/womens-keelboat-championship.html
and the results available at: http://lyc.ns.ca/racing/racing2017/2017womenskeel.htm

Knotmeter - October 6, 2017