Women in Wind

Women in Wind is a KYC program, exclusively for women, run by women.
All women members of KYC, who have reasonable sailing skills, are welcome to participate in W in W. Our goal is to help women gain confidence, sailing experience and friendship through the variety of programs offered under the "Women in Wind" banner.

Brief History of the KYC Women in Wind

During the winter of 1982 a group of KYC sailors discussed the idea of having a seamanship course for female members. The ideas put forward to help more women become actively and competently involved in all aspects of sailing their own boats culminated in a program which was offered the following June. A total of 16 women registered and four volunteer instructors conducted 8 on-the- water sessions. They covered a wide variety of topics and the result was a keen group of ladies who had gained a huge amount of knowledge and confidence in their boat handling skills. In the summer of 1984 a similar program was offered for another 15 women.
Most of these women wanted to continue sailing as a group one night a week to keep up their skills, their confidence, and the social aspect. Thus began our Wednesday night sailing activity in July, 1984 which continues to this day. The number of women joining this group has increased to about 40 today.
In 2006 a steering committee got together to explore more activities for our female sailors and to set up a more formal committee structure with a name. And so K.Y.C. “Women in Wind” was born! We continue to offer several activities as outlined in this brochure and welcome new sailors to our group.

2010 Events

Programs:

• Wednesday Night Sailing
• Seamanship/Skills Building
• Racing
• Dinghy Sailing
• Women's Sailing Weekend

Wednesday Night Sailing

• Improve sailing skills
• Build confidence
• Gain experience on different boats
• Meet and socialize with fellow KYC members
• Starts June 2nd

Skills Building

• Skippers- fine tune your skills on your own boat
• Non skippers-fine tune your skills as crew on other boats
• Individual attention for participants
• Twice a week in June (3 weeks)

Racing

• Try your hand at yacht racing
• Same rules as off shore racing
• Our race dates are Wednesday July 21/10 and Wednesday Aug 11/10.
• Register two weeks ahead

Dinghy Sailing

• Looking for a new experience, try dinghy sailing
• Instruction by junior sailing staff
• Club 420 dinghies
• Small cost for expenses
• July 12 & 19 (July 26 rain date)

Women's Sailing Weekend

• Get away for women only
• The planned date is Sept 18, 2010

Contact: Joan Butler jbutler@sympatico.ca
and  Brenda Charette  b_charette@yahoo.ca

To join us contact the Membership Director. membership@kingstonyachtclub.com