CRUISING SAIL FLEET BY JERRY GURTHET
What a year, 2021 will go down in the record books as a challenging year for all. The Cruising Sail Fleet was no different. We started out the year planning the season with many restrictions for gatherings and no real timeline for when those restrictions would be lifted. As any good sailor will tell you the trip is always full of course corrections and that’s what happened with the CSF fleet in 2021. We started the year in April with a firepit event at Monroe and in May we had a fantastic outdoor BBQ at Belmont. Both events were a great success and had great turnouts. I think everybody who
not sure who enjoyed the cruise more the kids or the
attended was very happy to be in a big group for the
skippers who got to share their pride and joy boats for
first time in many months.
a fantastic afternoon. In September we did a weekend
Summer came quickly and the restrictions for gatherings began to ease. The entire fleet was happy to have their boats back in the water and we all enjoyed a beautiful summer on the water. Although the Lady Skipper race was canceled because of severe weather we enjoyed our day at the club eating, drinking, and
cruise to New Buffalo with a proper Saturday morning tailgater and some fine dinning at Timothy’s and Casey. The October event “Opera on the Lake” was a fabulous night of opera in the main dining room at Monroe. We will close out the year with our annual holiday party with gospel music, and then it’s onto 2022.
mingling. Most boats stayed the night and participated
The Cruising Sailing Fleet is looking forward to a great
in a fantastic fleet review on a beautiful June Sunday.
2022. We would love any new or old members who are
In August the fleet hosted disadvantage youths from
interested in joining the fleet to contact the vice chair
SOS organization for a fantastic sail on the lake. I am
Jerry Gurthet about becoming active in our fleet. ✶
Blinker ✶ Winter 2021
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