Start Planning for LOWISA 45

Many of you will know that it has been LOWISA’s tradition to run the week-long regatta in the first week of August which coincides with the Canadian Monday Civic Holiday. We’ve begun with the Arctic Glacier Youth Regatta and the Main Regatta Registration and Sailors’ Social on the opening Saturday. The main regatta has always sailed Sunday through Saturday of the following week with Wednesday as a Layover day of optional standalone round the buoys racing and concluding on the Saturday with the Commodore’s Banquet and Awards Ceremony.

Enter Fred Finlayson and Rob Eby who, as Commodore and Vice-Commodore, taking the helm for 2010 and LOWISA 45. Fred and Rob bring with them not only their collective experience in many LOWISA’s but exciting, innovative and fresh new ideas as well as a newly designed and “blog” centric Website that’s under construction for 2010.

According to their unfolding plans, LOWISA 45 will be a 5-day event with consecutive racing and sailing Monday, August 2nd through Friday, August 6th. The Layover day will become optional and it will fall on the final Saturday, August 7th, 2010 year. This optional buoy race will be, in terms of the overall results, a standalone race. The Commodore’s Awards and closing ceremony will be held on the Friday evening. It is believed that this new format will provide more travel and rigging time for many of us who can’t take extended time away from work, family and our many obligations. This ground-breaking format is already creating new interest by PHRF, the growing one-design and Portsmouth fleets on both sides of the border. You will best be able to keep abreast of next year’s developments by visiting our Website often at www.lowisa.org .

LOWISA is definitely a “Ya'Gotta Regatta”; please join us in 2010. For more information on our sponsors, pictures or regatta information go to www.lowisa.org, search for us on Facebook “SAILLOWISA”or contact us at saillowisa@gmail.com.