Welcome to Daysailer Fleet 98!
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Welcome to Daysailer Fleet 98! |
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Our Dates for Race Committee at Leatherlips are as follows:
June 17
July 15
September 23
Who says Casual Fridays are at work only? Come out to Leatherlips on Friday Nights at 6:00 P.M. for our casual sail and potluck dinner! We get out on the water with our Daysailers, and you can hop a ride in one of our boats as well! Come see what a fun group we are!
Ramp and Lake Conditions
Constantly updated water level information for Alum Creek and Delaware reserviors may be found at The Army Corps of Engineers web site.Other Helpful Information:
O' Shaughnessy and Hoover Reserviors-Launch Ramp Conditions Only-Columbus Parks and Recreation: (614) 645-3300 For lake levels, contact the Columbus Division of Water at (614) 645-7100.
Alum Creek Website includes phone numbers as well as park and campground maps.
Delaware Website includes phone numbers as well as park and campground maps.
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There are daysailers, then there are Daysailers! Daysailers are a one-design boat first created in 1956. There are three different designs. The fastest boats are Daysailer I boats, which are the oldest style of boats. Daysailer II and III boats are very similar in design with a cleaner look, but also more weight and therefore not as fast. Daysailer III boats are also not "Class Legal" for racing, but are fine boats nonetheless. Our Webmaster, Dan Mejak, shows off his and his wife Robin Lawson's Daysailer II. |
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| These photos show a typical mainsail (left image) and jib (right image) of a Daysailer. | ||
Zebra Mussels- R.Griffiths, USFWS
Zebra Mussels are evasive organisms that were brought to Lake Erie by lake freighters that dumped infested bilge water into the lake. We take our boats to Lake Erie and bring the mussels with us back to inland lakes to generally wreak havoc on unsuspecting visitors. We then participate in other regattas and share our Zebra Mussels with everyone's inland lakes in other states. We love to spread the joy!
Seriously, these things are a pain in the you-know-what. Click Here for an excerpt from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources web site. This will tell you what damage they do and how you can help to keep these things from spreading.
Our first feature is about Dan Mejak and Robin Lawson. Click here for their story!
We present some links to other Daysailing and sailing sites. Each link will open in a new window.
Leatherlips Yacht Club: www.leatherlips.com
Daysailer Association: www.daysailer.org.
D & R Marine-Parts for all O'Day Daysailers!-www.drmarine.com
Fleet 98 operates from the Leatherlips Yacht Club, located on O'Shaughnessy Reservior in Dublin, Ohio. There are presently seven Daysailers in our fleet.
Do you have questions about our Fleet? Email us at dsfleet98@earthlink.net.
Content on this site © 2001-2007, Daysailer Fleet 98, as well as individual photographers and contributors. Web site updated Saturday, September 1, 2007.