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Sailing Programs Delayed by Ice
Coverage By: Fox44 :: My Champlain Valley / Michael Page
Frozen over Lake Champlain is delaying some high school and college sports. Sailboats at Burlington’s Community Sailing Center are idle. By this time last year, the Northern Vermont High School and UVM Sailing Team had already been on the water for a month! For UVM, that means more workouts and indoor meetings.
“A lot of the teams that we compete against are starting even as early as February, end of February so we’re obviously at a disadvantage there,” UVM Sailing Head Coach David Thompson said.
“We make the best use of our time at meetings on Monday nights, talking strategy and technique and reviewing what we learned over the past weekends when we were traveling,” UVM sailor Lauren Jones added.
The UVM Sailing Team will hit the water as soon as ice clears from area boat launches.
Burlington’s waterfront vote could allow some construction to begin later this year
Coverage by: Burlington Free Press / April Burbank
The Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center is another beneficiary of the TIF dollars: The city committed an estimated $500,000 to help the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center prepare to move its offices out of a windowless Public Works garage and into a new building near the Moran Plant.
Executive Director Mark Naud said construction will probably begin next spring, depending on how the project coordinates with the Waterfront Access North project. The sailing center already has the permits it needs to start construction, Naud said.
Mayor Weinberger supports CSC as part of proposed TIF investment
“It is time for the 20-year-old Community Sailing Center to have a permanent home on the waterfront. The proposed TIF investment will leverage approximately $4.5 million of independent investment by the Sailing Center and allow the Sailing Center to expand its programs and services that allow hundreds of Vermonters from all backgrounds to enjoy the Lake every summer.”
Seven Days writer goes outside of comfort zone to sail
“As my grandmother loved to tell it, my first experience with sailing ended with 4-year-old me screaming in the cabin of my grandfather’s Bristol 27. “I hate boats!” I howled as theL’Allegra was tossed around in an angry Narragansett Bay. Though I’ve come to enjoy other forms of boating, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve boarded a sailboat since that treacherous afternoon excursion in Rhode Island some 30 years ago.”
CSC part of waterfront development plans
Good weather and progress on long-discussed development plans may bring more visitors to enjoy Lake Champlain. Our very own Mark Naud is featured in this video.
Sailing Center names new executive director
Naud was appointed interim executive director on Jan. 1, following the resignation of former executive director, Kate Neubauer. He was named permanent executive director on Monday, effective immediately. Naud had been involved with the Sailing Center for more than 15 years, most recently as president of the board of directors, ending a three-year term in 2011.
