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Promoting the sport of sailing on Lake Travis since 1951
AYC is located on 35 acres of lakefront property on the shore of Lake Travis, in the heart of the Texas hill country yet only 30 minutes from downtown Austin.
Activities are organized year round, with racing of some kind almost every weekend and many weekday nights during the summer months.
The club supports local high school sailing teams and hosts the University of Texas sailing team.
The club also offers on-the-water and classroom-based training for members and non-members, including a kids' summer camp.
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Your rain dances have been working! Lake Travis is now at 670' msl and may go a little higher. This means that you will notice things getting back to "normal" at AYC with the docks coming back into the harbor. Hopefully we will get some more rain to give us enough reserves to get through the balance 2010. Let's go sailing!
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Last month I asked you to join one of AYC's numerous committees as a way to collectively strengthen our Club. This month I am going to ask you to find one new/newer member and help them get up to speed as a sailboat racer.
Sailboat racing is a complicated (and at times intimidating) sport with a steep learning curve. We have a fairly high level of racing competency at AYC which makes breaking into our fleets even harder. This makes learning to race at AYC a decent challenge. If you feel that your racing skills are adequate, please consider befriending another member that might need some help and volunteer to serve as their mentor. They will certainly benefit from your assistance and I have a sneaking suspicion that you might get something out of the effort as well besides more active racers in your fleet.
The Opening Day Regatta on March 14 is a perfect opportunity to jump on someone else's boat. The event will be a single long distance race and it will be scored separately from the Spring Series. Please plan on racing this event. Even better, plan on helping someone else become a better sailboat racer.
See you on the water!
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