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2023 Winter Sailing Seminars
Utah Lake State Park Conference Room
4400 W. Center St., Provo
7:00 PM
We are back in person and meeting at the Provo Marina conference room. We are so excited to be able to get together as sailors and count down the days until sailing season! Come join us no matter your sailing experience, where you slip your boat, or which lake you sail on.
February 2: “Central Utah Water Conservancy District”
One of the members of the water conservancy district will teach us all about the water levels for Utah Lake. As we watch all of the snow and rain falling, how much will the lake receive? This will be a great time for us to learn how our shallow lake levels will benefit.
February 9: “Sailing the San Juan Islands”
Derrick Thurman took his MacGregor 26 and family to Washington state for a sail. Derrick will talk us through how to do a sailing trip like this. He has great pictures and videos to entertain us with and answer questions about this route.
February 16: “Sailing Lime Key & the Everglades”
Mike Harmer found a great spot in the Florida keys where a sailboat comes with your room reservation! He will tell us about this experience and how we can all benefit from sailing practice in the everglades. This is a cheaper way for sailors to get hours leading up to a charter.
February 23: “Basic Boat & Trailer Electrical Systems Refresher”
DeWitt Smith has some great information on marine electronic systems, and also how to maintain and trouble shoot your boat trailer. He is a wealth of knowledge on many boat fixes and will share his knowledge with us!
This is a free to the public, community service lecture series
offered by the Bonneville School of Sailing and Seamanship,
with the hopes of promoting sailing here in the desert and beyond.
Thank you to Melanie Evans for getting the Winter Sailing Seminars up and running again.
We appreciate the Park's generosity in letting us use the conference room.
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Our last boats came out of Utah Lake, October 21, 2022
Our boat trailers were off the concrete (east ramp) and into the mud.
water level was -6.35'
Todays water level is -4.72'
Provo River Snowpack is 210%
We're Goin' in the Right Direction
I was asked a question I had never heard before:
"Does the U.S. Coast Guard have jurisdiction over inland lakes"?
An interesting read.
Banff Mountain Film Festival coming to UVU, Orem
Feb 14, 15, 16, 2023
This will sell out fast!
(watch full screen)
Catalina 27 trailer for sale
Needs work
Contact Keith Halls
801-540-0505
Give Marina Sailing a call and do some inquiries.
Sounds like a great way to get some "Sea Hours".
Marina Sailing: 562-432-4672
Sometimes when we're becalmed out on Utah Lake, I'll ask folks if they know any Sea Shantys (usually brings the wind). I've only ever had two salty dawgs pipe up with a sea ditty.
Why is that?
So I thought this might be a good time, whilst snow and ice have us isolated and waiting for spring thaw...why not learn a sea shanty?
Who Knew?
But wait...there's more!
Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival 2023
Come, all you no hopers, You jokers and rogues We're on the road to nowhere, Let's find out where it goes It might be a ladder to the stars, who knows Come, all you no hopers, You jokers and rogues. Leave all your furrows in the fields where they lie Your factories and offices; Kiss them all goodbye Have a little faith in the dream maker in the sky There's glory in believing Him And it's all in the beholder's eye. Turn off your engines and slow down your wheels Suddenly your master plan loses its appeal Everybody knows that this reality's not real So raise a glass to all things past and celebrate how good it feels. Awash on the sea of our own vanity We should rejoice in our individuality Though it's gale force, let's steer a course for sanity.
Is there such a thing as a River Shanty?
A shanty for Homeland
Sail on Mayan
Sail on David
Bonneville School of Sailing
www.bonnevillesailing.com
801.636.5204
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