The last week of August, we were lucky enough to welcome 30 middle and high school students from YMCA of the North for three afternoons of sailing fun! Sailors had the opportunity to sail Hartleys, 420s, and Sonar keelboats. Many sailors tried more than one boat before settling on their favorite boat. Because it was SO HOT, we did a lot of swimming and capsizing!
The LMSS-YMCA relationship is in its 30th year! In 1994, Marty Baskerville, a Minnetonka Yacht Club member and long-time friend of LMSS gave an enormously generous gift: the promise and the means to ensure that YMCA students would be able to learn to sail at LMSS each summer. Many thanks to the Baskerville Family and Chicka Merino — Youth Development Specialist at YMCA of the North — for their continued support over the past 30 years, and for many more to come.
To read more about Marty (and see a fantastic picture of one of the first years of YMCA at LMSS!!) see pictures 5, 6, and 7.
We already can’t wait for next year!⛵️
📸: Chicka Merino
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Over the weekend at Wayzata Sailing, three LMSS Minnetonka High School racers competed in the MISSA Cressy National Qualifier. Among the three fleets (Girl’s Radial, Boy’s Radial, Open Standard), 50 Laser racers from all across the Midwest competed for a berth at Cressy Nationals.
Joey, Jack, and Maggie all had moments of greatness over the weekend, and all three persevered through difficult races. They are, without a doubt, much better sailors at the end of this weekend than they were at the beginning. We are so proud of their hard work and competitive spirit.
Thank you for hosting, Wayzata Sailing! See you this weekend at LMSS⛵️
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LMSS Sailors from Minnetonka and Blake raced in all sorts of conditions (sprinkling rain, heavy rain, wind, clouds…) against other local Middle and High Schoolers from across the state. Sailors raced in two fleets: A (6 races) and B (5 races).
Middle school racers, Lucas (7th grade) and Cayla (8th grade) placed 3rd🥉 in A fleet — THAT’S CRAZY GOOD!!! What an impressive regatta day (and Lucas’ first middle school regatta!) for these young sailors (against high schoolers!).
The following LMSS racers also had a great regatta day:
A fleet: Maxwell/Kat (4th) Olly/Jack (5th) Linnea/Adra (8th)
B fleet: Jack Sn/Emily (5th) Eden/Adam (8th) Olivia/Ella (10th) Sam/Rand (12th)
For many of our Middle and High School Sailors, this was their first-ever regatta! Congrats to all of our racers.
Thank you, Minneapolis Sailing Center, for hosting a great event over the weekend! See you all on Saturday for the LMSS Conference Regatta #2.⛵️
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On Saturday, two of our Minnetonka High School racers, Maggie and Jack, competed in the Minnesota Singlehanded (Laser) Tournament. Maggie and Jack both finished the event in second place in their respective fleets: ILCA 6 (Radial rig) and ILCA 7 (Standard rig). Each fleet did 6 races over the course of the light wind September Saturday, but all racers had a blast.
Thank you: Wayzata Sailing, for hosting a great event; LMSS Senior Coach Gordy Bowers for coaching our racers; and Jillian McGary for the photos!
It’s impossible to highlight all of our incredible sailors, coaches, and volunteers in just one post comprised of 10 pictures, so here is just a small collection of smiles, laughs, and learning that took place on and around Lighthouse Island this summer. We welcomed over 1,200 individual sailors to LMSS this summer, making it our biggest and best year yet. Our sailors were on the water Monday-Friday, 8am-8pm, for 10 packed weeks (plus the high school pre-season clinic and YMCA — so 11 weeks!). WOW! We had sailors of all abilities ranging from ages 5 to 85 with varying experience levels, and unique personal backgrounds.
Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for making us part of your summer 2024. Summer happens here, with you💙🤍
While today is the first official day of our Fall Middle/High School Sailing season, some of our Minnetonka and Blake sailors got a jump start on the season last week. LMSS sailors, and racers from Wayzata Sailing and Minneapolis Sailing Center received 4 days of coaching by the best: Augie Dale of Stanford University.
By day 4, breeze and morale were high. As always, sailors learned a lot, improved exponentially, and had a blast. Some sailors even had the chance to sail on some speedy Melges 15 boats on the windiest day of the week!
Thank you Augie, Gordy, and Samuel for putting on a great clinic and training our sailors to be their best! Here’s to a successful fall sailing season⛵️🏆
📸: Samuel Bartel
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“Awarded to an active leader in youth sailing who promotes and expands the sport”
Ask anyone: Beth Bower is the “ultimate regatta mom.” Her enthusiastic support, positive encouragement, and problem-solving mentality makes Beth an incredible LMSS Board Member, STPO (Sailing Team Parent Organization) Volunteer Coordinator, Blake Sailing Team Liasion, and LMSS Race Team mom.
Beth consistently goes above and beyond for all LMSS sailors, coaches, and staff. One of our LMSS Race Team coaches says “Beth has volunteered at so many events and truly wants to help others succeed. She’s the definition of ‘others above thyself.’” One of our LMSS Racers said Beth always brings the best regatta snacks and is the most encouraging supporter at every regatta. No matter the problem, Beth has a solution.
Her efforts to grow the Blake School Sailing Team are paying off. From 2-3 consistent sailors over the past couple of years, we are going into this fall with at least double that. For the spring, Beth is optimistic that we can get 10 sailors for the Blake Sailing Team. From reaching out to families at school, organizing meetings, and supporting her sons, Teddy and Olly, as they spread they word at school, Beth is the best promoter of youth sailing/racing that I know.
When we have new Racers/Families at LMSS, Beth is the first person I reach out to in hopes of connecting the new families with such a knowledgeable and welcoming community member. She takes these new families in, answers their questions, and supports them as they enter the racing community.
We are proud to call Beth a friend, Board Member, and Regatta Mom at LMSS. Thank you so much, Beth, for all you do for LMSS, your boys, our sailors, the Blake Sailing Team, and LMSS staff.
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Martha has been part of our LMSS community for years on Race Teams, the Blake School Sailing Team, and most recently, a pram camp coach. Martha showed up to work early everyday and immediately came to the office to ask what she could help me with. Most of the time, Martha fixed problems before we even knew they were happening. Her proactivity, thoughtfulness, and contentiousness makes her an incredible employee and friend. If someone is in need, she will stop what she is doing to help them. She goes above and beyond for her sailors, fellow coaches, teammates, and directors. If there’s a kid not wanting to do the swim test, she’s in the water alongside them straight away to make them more comfortable. She hops in prams to sail with her kids frequently, and was a big champion of Team India when we did the Olympics weeks in July.
Here’s what other coaches had to say about Martha: “she is unfailingly positive,” “everyone enjoys her on the island,” and “she brings a great work ethic to the island.” I can safely say Martha is one of the hardest workers on the island, and everything she does is with kindness in her heart and a smile on her face.
As a racer on our Blake High School Sailing Team, Martha was a champion of introducing new teammates to the island, working her butt off everyday to get better, and helping out her coaches and teammates every day. Aside from high school racing, Martha races A Scows, E Scows, and M15s in Inland Lakes Yachting Association (ILYA) events. Fun fact: at age 16, Martha was the first ever female (and youngest ever!) skipper at A Scow Nationals. This month, Martha began her freshman year at Tulane University where she will be sailing.
We all remember our first and favorite coaches, and Martha will surely be one of them that our LMSS kids remember.
We are proud to call Martha a friend, employee, and racer at LMSS. Thank you, Martha, for all you do for LMSS, your sailors, teammates, and fellow coaches.
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This summer, Kat started out in our volunteer mentor program — an opportunity for high schoolers on the 420 Race Team to learn coaching skills as they continue to grow as sailors and compete to represent LMSS — during which she helped out with pram camp in the mornings (and with our Island Time sailors!) before afternoon Race Team practices. The past two weeks, she has been coaching pram camp full time. Saying the kids love Kat is an understatement. At all times, she had sailors holding her hands, jumping on her back for a piggyback ride, or simply chatting with her about their weekends. Kat has even been invited to several playdates!
Here’s what other coaches had to say about Kat: “she goes above and beyond to instill comfort on the water and make students feel welcome and safe at sailing school,” she “puts the team above herself,” and she is “driven to improve and is ALWAYS willing to help others.” What a gift for LMSS to have someone so thoughtful, enthusiastic, and positive to support our sailors and their families each day when they arrive at LMSS.
As a racer on our 420 Race Team and Minnetonka High School Sailing Teams, Kat is an incredibly hard worker who goes out of her way to make new friends, cheer for her teammates, and use every practice as another opportunity to improve as a sailor and competitor. Her engagement with coaches and desire to learn was proven successful by her second place finish with skipper Linnea Martin at the TCYS Brad Robinson Victory Regatta a few weeks ago.
We are proud to call Kat a friend, employee, and racer at LMSS. Thank you, Kat, for all you do for LMSS, your sailors, teammates, and fellow coaches.
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YMCA at LMSS — 8/26-8/28
/in Uncategorized /by adminThe last week of August, we were lucky enough to welcome 30 middle and high school students from YMCA of the North for three afternoons of sailing fun! Sailors had the opportunity to sail Hartleys, 420s, and Sonar keelboats. Many sailors tried more than one boat before settling on their favorite boat. Because it was SO HOT, we did a lot of swimming and capsizing!
The LMSS-YMCA relationship is in its 30th year! In 1994, Marty Baskerville, a Minnetonka Yacht Club member and long-time friend of LMSS gave an enormously generous gift: the promise and the means to ensure that YMCA students would be able to learn to sail at LMSS each summer. Many thanks to the Baskerville Family and Chicka Merino — Youth Development Specialist at YMCA of the North — for their continued support over the past 30 years, and for many more to come.
To read more about Marty (and see a fantastic picture of one of the first years of YMCA at LMSS!!) see pictures 5, 6, and 7.
We already can’t wait for next year!⛵️
📸: Chicka Merino
🏆REGATTA RECAP🏆 — MISSA Cressy National Qualifier, 9/14-15
/in Uncategorized /by adminOver the weekend at Wayzata Sailing, three LMSS Minnetonka High School racers competed in the MISSA Cressy National Qualifier. Among the three fleets (Girl’s Radial, Boy’s Radial, Open Standard), 50 Laser racers from all across the Midwest competed for a berth at Cressy Nationals.
Joey, Jack, and Maggie all had moments of greatness over the weekend, and all three persevered through difficult races. They are, without a doubt, much better sailors at the end of this weekend than they were at the beginning. We are so proud of their hard work and competitive spirit.
Thank you for hosting, Wayzata Sailing! See you this weekend at LMSS⛵️
🏆REGATTA RECAP —🏆 Fall 2024 Conference Regatta #1 at Minneapolis Sailing Center — 9/14
/in Uncategorized /by adminLMSS Sailors from Minnetonka and Blake raced in all sorts of conditions (sprinkling rain, heavy rain, wind, clouds…) against other local Middle and High Schoolers from across the state. Sailors raced in two fleets: A (6 races) and B (5 races).
Middle school racers, Lucas (7th grade) and Cayla (8th grade) placed 3rd🥉 in A fleet — THAT’S CRAZY GOOD!!! What an impressive regatta day (and Lucas’ first middle school regatta!) for these young sailors (against high schoolers!).
The following LMSS racers also had a great regatta day:
A fleet:
Maxwell/Kat (4th)
Olly/Jack (5th)
Linnea/Adra (8th)
B fleet:
Jack Sn/Emily (5th)
Eden/Adam (8th)
Olivia/Ella (10th)
Sam/Rand (12th)
For many of our Middle and High School Sailors, this was their first-ever regatta! Congrats to all of our racers.
Thank you, Minneapolis Sailing Center, for hosting a great event over the weekend! See you all on Saturday for the LMSS Conference Regatta #2.⛵️
September Mondays on Tonka – 9/10/24
/in Uncategorized /by adminLittle Skippers (ages 5-6)
420 Rec
Opti Race Team
Summer lasts longer here at LMSS⛵️
P.S. Check out the sick shirts by Lon Gundie — thank you!
📸: Samuel Bartel
🏆REGATTA RECAP🏆 MN Singlehanded Tournament — 9/7/2024 at Wayzata Sailing
/in Uncategorized /by adminOn Saturday, two of our Minnetonka High School racers, Maggie and Jack, competed in the Minnesota Singlehanded (Laser) Tournament. Maggie and Jack both finished the event in second place in their respective fleets: ILCA 6 (Radial rig) and ILCA 7 (Standard rig). Each fleet did 6 races over the course of the light wind September Saturday, but all racers had a blast.
Thank you: Wayzata Sailing, for hosting a great event; LMSS Senior Coach Gordy Bowers for coaching our racers; and Jillian McGary for the photos!
Check out the full regatta results here: https://theclubspot.com/regatta/kcIWd4pIzN/results?class_id=kpaSTDeyPq
Summer summed up! ⛵️☀️
/in Uncategorized /by adminIt’s impossible to highlight all of our incredible sailors, coaches, and volunteers in just one post comprised of 10 pictures, so here is just a small collection of smiles, laughs, and learning that took place on and around Lighthouse Island this summer. We welcomed over 1,200 individual sailors to LMSS this summer, making it our biggest and best year yet. Our sailors were on the water Monday-Friday, 8am-8pm, for 10 packed weeks (plus the high school pre-season clinic and YMCA — so 11 weeks!). WOW! We had sailors of all abilities ranging from ages 5 to 85 with varying experience levels, and unique personal backgrounds.
Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for making us part of your summer 2024. Summer happens here, with you💙🤍
Middle/High School Sailing Pre-Season Clinic with Augie Dale – 2024
/in Uncategorized /by adminWhile today is the first official day of our Fall Middle/High School Sailing season, some of our Minnetonka and Blake sailors got a jump start on the season last week. LMSS sailors, and racers from Wayzata Sailing and Minneapolis Sailing Center received 4 days of coaching by the best: Augie Dale of Stanford University.
By day 4, breeze and morale were high. As always, sailors learned a lot, improved exponentially, and had a blast. Some sailors even had the chance to sail on some speedy Melges 15 boats on the windiest day of the week!
Thank you Augie, Gordy, and Samuel for putting on a great clinic and training our sailors to be their best! Here’s to a successful fall sailing season⛵️🏆
📸: Samuel Bartel
2024 Dave Cochran Memorial Trophy Recipient: Beth Bower
/in Uncategorized /by admin“Awarded to an active leader in youth sailing who promotes and expands the sport”
Ask anyone: Beth Bower is the “ultimate regatta mom.” Her enthusiastic support, positive encouragement, and problem-solving mentality makes Beth an incredible LMSS Board Member, STPO (Sailing Team Parent Organization) Volunteer Coordinator, Blake Sailing Team Liasion, and LMSS Race Team mom.
Beth consistently goes above and beyond for all LMSS sailors, coaches, and staff. One of our LMSS Race Team coaches says “Beth has volunteered at so many events and truly wants to help others succeed. She’s the definition of ‘others above thyself.’” One of our LMSS Racers said Beth always brings the best regatta snacks and is the most encouraging supporter at every regatta. No matter the problem, Beth has a solution.
Her efforts to grow the Blake School Sailing Team are paying off. From 2-3 consistent sailors over the past couple of years, we are going into this fall with at least double that. For the spring, Beth is optimistic that we can get 10 sailors for the Blake Sailing Team. From reaching out to families at school, organizing meetings, and supporting her sons, Teddy and Olly, as they spread they word at school, Beth is the best promoter of youth sailing/racing that I know.
When we have new Racers/Families at LMSS, Beth is the first person I reach out to in hopes of connecting the new families with such a knowledgeable and welcoming community member. She takes these new families in, answers their questions, and supports them as they enter the racing community.
We are proud to call Beth a friend, Board Member, and Regatta Mom at LMSS. Thank you so much, Beth, for all you do for LMSS, your boys, our sailors, the Blake Sailing Team, and LMSS staff.
2024 LMSS Sportsmanship Award Recipient: Martha Hughes
/in Uncategorized /by adminMartha has been part of our LMSS community for years on Race Teams, the Blake School Sailing Team, and most recently, a pram camp coach. Martha showed up to work early everyday and immediately came to the office to ask what she could help me with. Most of the time, Martha fixed problems before we even knew they were happening. Her proactivity, thoughtfulness, and contentiousness makes her an incredible employee and friend. If someone is in need, she will stop what she is doing to help them. She goes above and beyond for her sailors, fellow coaches, teammates, and directors. If there’s a kid not wanting to do the swim test, she’s in the water alongside them straight away to make them more comfortable. She hops in prams to sail with her kids frequently, and was a big champion of Team India when we did the Olympics weeks in July.
Here’s what other coaches had to say about Martha: “she is unfailingly positive,” “everyone enjoys her on the island,” and “she brings a great work ethic to the island.” I can safely say Martha is one of the hardest workers on the island, and everything she does is with kindness in her heart and a smile on her face.
As a racer on our Blake High School Sailing Team, Martha was a champion of introducing new teammates to the island, working her butt off everyday to get better, and helping out her coaches and teammates every day. Aside from high school racing, Martha races A Scows, E Scows, and M15s in Inland Lakes Yachting Association (ILYA) events. Fun fact: at age 16, Martha was the first ever female (and youngest ever!) skipper at A Scow Nationals. This month, Martha began her freshman year at Tulane University where she will be sailing.
We all remember our first and favorite coaches, and Martha will surely be one of them that our LMSS kids remember.
We are proud to call Martha a friend, employee, and racer at LMSS. Thank you, Martha, for all you do for LMSS, your sailors, teammates, and fellow coaches.
2024 LMSS Sportsmanship Award Recipient: Kat Woodburn
/in Uncategorized /by adminThis summer, Kat started out in our volunteer mentor program — an opportunity for high schoolers on the 420 Race Team to learn coaching skills as they continue to grow as sailors and compete to represent LMSS — during which she helped out with pram camp in the mornings (and with our Island Time sailors!) before afternoon Race Team practices. The past two weeks, she has been coaching pram camp full time. Saying the kids love Kat is an understatement. At all times, she had sailors holding her hands, jumping on her back for a piggyback ride, or simply chatting with her about their weekends. Kat has even been invited to several playdates!
Here’s what other coaches had to say about Kat: “she goes above and beyond to instill comfort on the water and make students feel welcome and safe at sailing school,” she “puts the team above herself,” and she is “driven to improve and is ALWAYS willing to help others.” What a gift for LMSS to have someone so thoughtful, enthusiastic, and positive to support our sailors and their families each day when they arrive at LMSS.
As a racer on our 420 Race Team and Minnetonka High School Sailing Teams, Kat is an incredibly hard worker who goes out of her way to make new friends, cheer for her teammates, and use every practice as another opportunity to improve as a sailor and competitor. Her engagement with coaches and desire to learn was proven successful by her second place finish with skipper Linnea Martin at the TCYS Brad Robinson Victory Regatta a few weeks ago.
We are proud to call Kat a friend, employee, and racer at LMSS. Thank you, Kat, for all you do for LMSS, your sailors, teammates, and fellow coaches.