Sailors' Off-season Conditioning  At the fall banquet outgoing commodore Don Duley shared a humorous list of exercises to stay in shape during the off-season.  If you missed it, read the entire list here on the Lake Kegonsa Sailing Club website.

DVDs for sale  Anyone wishing to purchase a copy of the sailing video produced by Mark Zekauskas and shown at the fall banquet may do so by sending check for $15 to VSC, PO Box 1362 Plattsburgh. Arrangement can also be made by contacting the club treasurer Brian White. Proceeds to benefit the sailing club.

New Executive Committee  At the fall banquet the membership approved the nominating committee's recommendation for the 2005 executive committee: Commodore, Phil Gorman; Vice Commodore, Brian Dowling; Rear Commodore, Dan Inhelder; Member at Large, Sarah Tucker, Secretary, Amber Gorman; Treasurer, Brian White; Past Commodore, Don Duley; Rater, Tom Morley.

Fall Soling Bowl  Two VSC Solings traveled to Annapolis, MD October 22-24, 2004 to compete in the Fall Soling Bowl hosted by the Severn Sailing Association. In a fleet of nine boats, CAN 197 skippered by Peter Hall placed third and Ed Trombley's USA 833 finished the regatta in fourth. See full results at SSA website. Read more at US Soling website.

Lake Champlain Soling Championship With four wins and a second Peter Hall and Mike Parsons on CAN 197 captured the Lake Champlain Soling Championship on Sunday October 3, 2004.  With a total of 9 points Ed Trombley finished the regatta in second place. John Trombley brought his boat USA 849 home in third place. See regatta results. The team of Hall and Parsons also clinched the Soling Sunday series. 

More Soling NA pictures Thanks to Craig Meyerson this site has lots more photos of the North American Championship. Don't miss these high quality pictures! Click here to view. To request a high resolution image of any of these photos or a copy of the entire CD of over 700 images please contact webmaster Brian White. 

PHRF Sunday Series  Three Sunday series races were completed during the weekend of September 24 and 25. Real Escape won both races on Saturday to capture the Eisinger Cup make up.  The vessel Adhara skippered by Luc and JP Varin won the Fall Classic on Sunday.  And Don Duley's Real Escape won the McDowell Cup make up Sunday.  Two thirds and a fourth place finish this weekend were enough to clinch the series win for Kjell Dahlen and the crew of the Obsession. Gene Grafals and the crew of Graceful Spirit finished the series in second place. Craig Meyerson and Rhapsody crew finished third in the series. See PHRF Sunday Series Standings.

Soling North American Championship The winds cooperated by blowing for four days in a row in Plattsburgh Bay September 16-19 so 22 boats could compete in the seven race Soling North American Championship.  Eleven boats from places such as Maine, Boston, Connecticut. Annapolis, Chicago, Wisconsin, and Toronto, joined eleven VSC boats to make up the 22 boat fleet. Bill Abbott on CAN 1 captured the championship by winning two races and not finishing lower than fifth. Peter Galloway and Stuart Walker, were tied for second place with the tiebreaker awarded to Galloway by virtue of his two wins. The first three finishers in the red fleet were Tom Mitchell, Steve Bobo, and John Trombley. Read more on ISA Website. See full results. See Pictures. Watch streaming videos of the race: Start (20 mb), Finish (4 mb). 

PHRF Wednesday B Series  The crew of Obsession skippered by Kjell Dahlen has secured first place in the PHRF Wednesday B series.  Scoring three firsts and three seconds Obsession finished three points ahead of the second place boat of Commodore, Don Duley. Gene Grafals in his new boat Graceful Spirit finished the series in third place. Chuck Surber on Elysian captured the class B series honors. See Wednesday B series standings

Soling Tuesday Series Ed Trombley, Phil Gorman, and Jordy Von Elbe aboard USA 833 won the Soling Tuesday series. In the 15 race series Ed's crew did not score a race worse than fourth place all year. They finished the series nine points ahead of second place finisher Chris Duley on USA 850. Ty Kretser in his new boat USA 811 finished the series in third place. See series standings.