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Yacht clubs on North Shore have winds at their back

It does not take long for Neesa Sweet to navigate her way to the North Shore Yacht Club.
The Highland Park resident lives only a hop,
skipping stone and jump away (two blocks) from
the club. I always feel like Im at summer camp,
said Sweet, a kayaker and member of the North
Shore Yacht
Club. I can
go down to
the water front, and I
always find
people there.
In addition
to providing

its members with sailing equipment, the North

Shore Yacht Club allows them to take part in everything from regattas to cardboard boat races.
People literally make boats out of cardboard,
Sweet said. People build everything from a Viking
ship to an alligator, and then theres a race to get
from here to there before your boat sinks thats
really, really fun.
Though currently closed off because of construction on the Highland Park Water Plant, the North
Shore Yacht Clubs clubhouse is a common gathering place for sailors and non-sailors alike.
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in a safe environment, Sweet said. So, its a way
to experience something that might be harder to
experience on your own.

Yacht clubs on the North Shore remain popular

spots, especially in the summer. Though the image
of yachting may bring to mind 150-foot enginepowered vessels cutting through Lake Michigan,
the yacht clubs focus on low-key sailboats that are
funs for adults and children both.
For the Lake Bluff Yacht Club, which has been
in existence for 51 years, family orientation has
always been central to the clubs operation.
It was founded by a number of families in Lake
Bluff that liked to sail, and there was a relativeO\QHZERDWWKDWZDVEHLQJVROGFDOOHGWKH6XQVK
said Doug Warren, co-chairman of the clubs
Racing Program and a long-time club member.
When the families of Lake Bluff started sailing
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Are yacht clubs,

Judge Smails in
the same boat?

hen thinking of the luxurious perception of yachts, one

must refer to the movie Caddyshack.
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primarily about golf. But one water scene (not
involving a Baby Ruth or Judge Elihu Smails
shower) still resonates.
A proud Judge Smails reads a dedicatory poem
before his wife christens The Flying WASP. Though
the sailboat is of average stature, the judge and the
scholarship-seeking caddy, Danny, are dressed like
classic yachtsmen blazers, white pants, ascots
and yachting caps.
On the horizon is Al Czervik, steering a massive engine-powered yacht. Yet Als craft is named
Sea Food, and his attire is more appropriate for a
Hawaiian luau than an expensive vessel.
Which brings me back to the North Shore. A
number of yacht clubs adorn our towns, but the
boats look nothing like Czerviks pride and joy. Nor
are the boaters dressed anything like Judge Smails.
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the term small vessels sailed for pleasure or racing rather than the popular perception, which
includes stewards and deckhands. The clubs themselves are thriving, and Abby Wickman offers the
full story on our cover.

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ovens to chairs. Read Sunday Breakfast in these
pages about his scintillating career.
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8 | NEWS

Gretchen Seymour gets her Sunfish ready for the Lake

Bluff Yacht Club's weekly races.

YACHTING >> FROM COVER

store their boats at the beach, so the newly formed

group worked out an agreement with Lake Bluffs park
district and sanitary district to build storage facilities.
Those storage facilities are still in existence
weve expanded them, and the club has grown and
prospered, Warren said. We now are up to about
120 families in the area.
An increased interest in sailing has allowed the
Kenilworth Sailing Club to expand its sailing lessons and summer camps.
I think that the timings just right, and people are
enjoying all that the lake has to offer. Kenilworth
Sailing Club Commodore Susan Tempest said. Its

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not just people with certain aged kids; you also have
the dads and mothers taking their 2-year-old out
for some kayaking, and then you have the teenagers going out, and youve got the kids that are back
home from college.
We have a lot of families that are just getting
very active, but its all ages, which is wonderful.
Some of the original members of the Lake Bluff
Yacht club still go sailing every now and then.
I know that theres one couple I think theyre
in their late 80s now and they still come down
and are active in the club, Warren said. In fact,
one woman still goes sailing from time to time on
her own. She goes out on a warm, sunny day, and
shell go out for an hour or two just to have fun.
We get the full range of the population in Lake Bluff.
While members of the North Shore Yacht Club sail
everything from paddleboats to Buccaneers (larger
sailboats), an interest in kayaking has recently been
sparked by members. Similarly, the Kenilworth
Sailing Club and the Lake Bluff Yacht Club have
seen an increased enthusiasm for kayaking.
We used to be a 100-percent sailing club, and now
we have more and more people who are interested in
kayaking and weve brought people onto the board
who are kayakers, as opposed to sailors only, Warren
said. Thats one of the things were trying to do
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7KRXJK7HPSHVWLVXQVXUHDVWRWKHVSHFLFUHDsons for the increase in the sailing clubs membership and activity, she has some theories.
I think its having the ability to get out on Lake
Michigan at any time. I grew up always on the
lake every summer of my life I was on the lake
that was how I knew summertime, Tempest
said. I was so excited when we moved to Chicago,
moved to Kenilworth, because my boys could have
that same experience they could grow up knowing what its like to be out on the water with friends,
doing water sports and activities, and having that
be part of their summertime memories."

Sailing for disabled program

launches on North Shore

The Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Foundation (JGASF)
which provides sailing opportunities for individuals with
physical disabilities opened a sailing program in Lake Forest
in June.
JGASF was founded 24 years ago in memory of Justin Judd
Goldman a long-time sailor with a disabling bone disease
by his wife, daughter, and son and current president of JGASF,
Peter Goldman. The organization has worked mainly in Chicago,
but it recently launched the suburban program as a partnership
with the City of Lake Forests Parks and Recreation Department
He and I had a discussion about starting a program with
things for people with disabilities a sailing program, Peter
Goldman recalled. I was going to look into it when he left and
went to Florida for the winter (in 1989) and he passed away
almost exactly a month later.
The new program will be headed up by Lake Forest Sailing
Program Supervisor Hunter Ratliff who became a volunteer
for JGASF at the Chicago location when he was 13.
The organization has 20 boats with three different classes, all
designed for people with physical disabilities. The Lake Forest
location will start out with one boat the Freedom Independence
Twenty, a 20-foot boat that includes specially designed chairs,
allowing a person to move freely while remaining seated.
Were creating a program thats more inclusive. Many people
are not able to sail without the special equipment we have,
Goldman said. Were allowing more people to partake in this
sport.
Goldman hopes the new location in Lake Forest continues to
communicate the foundations values.
Our whole premise of our foundation and our sailing program the whole idea is self-esteem and independence.

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