Despite the absence of sailing due to the frozen condition
of Baseline Lake, over the past two months the sailing team has been very
active. Throughout January and February the team has found a multitude of
events to keep the team together and in my opinion, has created a sense of family
between members. The annual Strictly
Sail boat show kept the team busy for the first 3 weeks of the year, but since
then our team has continued to socialize and obtain new sailing knowledge even
though we are unable to sail. Over the last 4 weeks during our weekly Monday
meetings we have had 20 minute chalk talks presented three times by Will Cyr '14
and another chalk talk presented by Kirsten Corneliussen '13 and Chris Cyr '16. (You can view these chalk-talks and power-points on our youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/michigansailingteam). These presentations
have been geared towards our beginner sailors to help them develop new skills
which will help them perform better in the spring. In addition, since the start
of the new semester we had had many social gatherings on weekends, team cafeteria
dinners, and even a cleanup of Crisler Arena last weekend which raised $300 for
our team. Just by talking to team
members over the past week, I can tell that the team is very enthusiastic to start sailing and continue to build on the success of 2012.
