Wednesday, June 29,1977
University Dally Kansan
Novices take helm in club regatta
By RICK ALM
stan writer
Thoughts of sailing usually evoke images of graceful boats with billowed skirts gliding over the sea.
But for several hours Saturday afternoon, the KU Sailing Club's Rookie Regatta was anything but that as seven of the club's boats floundered on a windless Lake Perry.
However, later in the afternoon the wind rose from the west and the races began. With new members at the helm, the boats headed to the starter and headed toward the first buoy.
The novice sailors made some mistakes as they rounded the markers, but five boats closed up at the finish line to provide an exciting climax.
The KU Sailing Club, in its sixth year, is dedicated to the joys of sailing. It offers students, staff and volunteers a chance for interaction with the sailing instruction and intercollegiate and club racing.
The veteran members of the club are enthusiastic about the sport.
"Sailing gives a feeling of exhilaration," Bill Lober, a former student and past sailing club commodore, said last week. "You're in tune with what happens on the water, mimicked by geometry with the wind, boat and water. In a motor boat, you just hear the staccato sound of the motor."
The club's commodore, Handy With; Madison, Wis., sophomore, and Saturday's regatta, which includes cookies with assemilated cookies designed by a acquaint members with the boats.
The club has 25 new members for the summer semester, and 10 of them entered the Rooke Regatta. Because students who play basketball depend heavily on the new members.
"The new people are the lifeblood of the club." Lober said.
Despite the calm air, the new members were eager to try their hands at working the machine.
Don Farmer, a Printing Service pressman, said "Although I've always wanted to sail, this is the first time I've ever been on a sailboat. Being able to move quickly onboard the waters you just different from power boating. You just skim along morelessly."
Farmer, a Navy veteran who won the second race of the regatta in a Spanish town near Valencia, died on Friday.
pointing, "but once the wind picked up, it was great," he added.
Another new member, Judy Jones, Hughesville, Md., special student, said she enjoyed the sun as much as the sailing.
"The race helped me learn how to sail and keep on a certain course, though," she said.
According to Jones, the club is a good place to meet people. "The people in the sail club are some of the friendly people in the city," she says. "Most new people don't feel like outliers."
with said teaching sailing was one of the club's most important activities. In addition to learning how to handle a boat, aspiring sailors are taught about wind, sail shape, basic seamanship, different kinds of boats and nautical terms.
"This summer we have a buddy system of instruction," With said. "One person teaches only five others—it's more personal that way."
On-the-water instruction is augmented by small group lectures at the club's weekly meetings, held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union.
The club owns 11 sailboats. Five of them are 13-foot Flying Juniors, two-sailoops that are the mainstay of collegiate racing, and eight-foot sailboats for fishfishing. The largest boat is a 22-foot Nomad.
While beginners find the simpler Sunfish easier to handle, sailing is best learned on a boat.
"If you learn to sail a Flying Junior," he said, "you can sail anything on the water."
For safety, each member must demonstrate his ability to handle a boat. After testing, each receives a rating of either skipper or crew. With a skipper rating, a member can check out club sailboats at any time.
"By attending the learn-to-sail classes and receiving on-the-boat instruction, everyone should be able to get their skipper rating early in the semester." With said.
The club uses the facilities of the Perry Yacht Club on the west shore of Lake Perry, about 45 minutes from Lawrence. The club's single membership allows all its members to participate in yacht club activities. With said.
The sailing club is a member of the Midwest College Sailing Association and races with other member schools about four times a year. Lobed said.
One of the club's most popular activities is ocean cruises during semester breaks. In May, the club chartered two 41-foot sloops to sail the Atlantic from Miami to the Bahamas and a 37-foot sloop to sail the Pacific from San Diego to Catalina Island.
The club has 38 members for the summer,
but With said he expected membership to rise to 70 when school resumed in the fall.
Membership dues for the semester are $15 for individuals and $22.50 for married couples.
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