greater Detroit 2023 Sunfish race schedule

the Greater Detroit Sunfish Club (GDSC) has released their 2023 Sunfish race schedule. you can check them out on their Facebook page.

• May 7th – Baseline Lake (with the Michigan Sailing Club)
• May 21st – Watkins Lake
• June 4th – Baseline Lake (with the Michigan Sailing Club)
• June 11th – Watkins Lake
• June 24th & 25th – Summer Regatta (Independence Day) camping weekend at Muskegon Lake State Park
• September 2nd & 3rd – Labor Day camping weekend at Higgins Lake State Park
• September 16th & 17th – Devils Lake Yacht Club
• October 8th – Baseline Lake (with the Michigan Sailing Club)

all Sunday races typically start at 12:30pm [uno], with the camping/racing weekends starting earlier in the day to get extra races in over the weekend.

I said this last year (and the year before… and the year before… and the year before), and didn’t get a chance to sail with this group, but I’m again going to do my best to meet up with them for some sailing races this year.

I want to go sailing meow

I could write a long blog post about cats on ships, but that’s already been covered in other places.

but truth be told, I really just am getting spring fever and want to go sailing right meow.

sailing log: 2022-08-02

Tuesday afternoon’s are never ending?

we vacationed for another family vacation week up at Camp Arcadia and the weather cooperated nicely on Tuesday afternoon – with smaller rolling waves and decent winds to take advantage of out on the waters of Lake Michigan.

after sailing solo for a bit, I swung back towards shore and picked up our youngest son Iggy, but my pics of him were taken through a dry bag for my iPhone and ended up super blurry.

it also was a big day for our 14-yr old son – he took sailing lessons in Opti’s ( more than a couple years ago), but time/circumstance/weather hadn’t ever given him a chance yet to solo sail our Minifish or Sunfish. but this afternoon, he got some last-minute tips from T2 (our oldest), and just jumped right in the Minifish and started sailing.

I tried to stay at least in his general area (me sailing on the Sunfish), but I shouldn’t have worried about it – he did great, didn’t tip over or sail into anything, and got some great solo sailing experience. after a while, I let T2 sail the Sunfish – here he is on the Sunfish w/ Luke on the Minifish.

I’m really pleased with using my Garmin watch to track the sailing activities – just a couple clicks on the watch and it’s ready to track the sailing, and after I upload the activity to Garmin Connect, then I can change the “activity” to “sailing” and it changes to nautical miles and knots.

and here’s a blow-up view of the tracking route

it was a great afternoon on the beautiful waters of Lake Michigan!

my2fish blog birthday: 13 years

thirteen years. the length of time I’ve been blogging about Sunfish sailing.

anyway, thanks again to all of you who follow along and pretend to read my posts, and extra special thanks to those of you brave enough to make a comment or two. [once upon a time, in a land far far away, Baydog used to comment a lot… ] 

I’ve had fun blogging, sailing, and blogging about sailing, and hope to keep doing it for the near future! 

cheers, my2fish

Lansing Sunfish regatta

this coming Saturday, Lansing Sailing Club is hosting their Sunfish regatta. this is the home lake for the Michigan State University sailing club.

wildflowers: you belong in a boat out at sea

a little sailing inspiration from Tom Petty’s song “Wildflowers“