Toledo Area Boardsailing Association 2008-05-17T19:24:24Z http://blog.toledoaba.com/atom.aspx Quick Blog Dennis' first blog tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2008-05-17:227822b7-7a78-4ca3-83b8-0858fac5dbb7 Denny Brengartner 2008-05-17T11:51:29Z 2008-05-17T11:46:00Z ]]> Regatta committee meeting - Packos 5/21 - Wed at 6:00 tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2008-05-17:70cceb9d-25e6-4a5b-96c9-23ac1ba6053f Scott Haas 2008-05-17T09:48:34Z 2008-05-17T09:41:00Z Wed 5/21 6ish at Original Packo's

Denny reports the Perrysburg Boat Club will be doing the committee boat this year which helps greatly then
some.


btw ..  PBC has a  one day Sat.  sail regatta June 7th.  Hope some of you can make it.


Scott]]> 2008 Season Warming UP tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2008-05-09:3566d700-63d4-45f0-a301-4c3c0197f918 Scott Haas 2008-05-09T08:19:19Z 2008-05-09T07:39:00Z                                                                                  Hot Air and More

It won't be long now and Wednesday afternoon and evening windsurfing will be back!  

The Alum Creek regatta keeps on going with a good crowd of 17 entries.  It rained, got too windy and then Sunday just enough wind for a pump fest but we all had a good time and it was great to be out on the water again in Ohio.  The Saturday evening party was held at the Roadhouse Grill just a couple miles from the park and with 99 cent draft beer all night it got pretty loud at our tables.

The TABA Race Committee is hard at work and has met several times to get things organized for our May 31 - June 1st regatta.  If you are not racing and have some time .. even half a day ..  show up and help out please.  Extra hands for setting things up early Saturday morning are always needed as well as food preparers for lunches around 1:00 in the afternoon on both Saturday and Sunday.     

Sat June 7  is the Perrysburg boat club regatta http://www.perrysburgboatclub.org/        if I don't have any lessons scheduled,  I hope to go.  

June 10-15  is the US Windsurfing Nationals in Worthington Minnesota on Lake Okabena "the windiest lake in the mid-west".    This is a long event with registration Mon and Tue and racing Wed - Sunday.  Its a 750 mile drive from Toledo one way, shorter then going to Hatteras.  Lake Okabena is also the home of the MidWest SpeedQuest which runs all season long.  You put on a GPS and see how fast you can go. The winner last year took home $1000.    Everyone is hoping for a great mid-west turnout which will help the Nationals rotate back to the midwest more often.   The only previous Nationals close by I remember were the 94 Nats in Lorain and 2003 in Worthington.   It would be nice if the Nats could rotate back like every 3 or 4 years.

Saturday June 21 is the  Grosse Point Windsurfing Club Regatta up in Detroit.   

Scott

  

]]> Toledo Regatta May 31 - June 1 2008 - Notice of Race tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2008-05-02:3509c39e-e333-48d4-9151-673af2123364 Scott Haas 2008-05-02T16:12:22Z 2008-05-02T16:04:00Z Attention Windsurfers

The 2008 19th Annual Toledo Windsurfing regatta is  May 31/Saturday - June 1/Sunday.

Download the NOR below for complete details.     Save by sending in an advanced registration.

2008 Toledo Notice of Race  .doc  file.


Hope to see you there early Saturday morning May 31st!


]]> Spring Regatta Organizational Meeting - Tues April 29th tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2008-04-16:714efb94-7ee2-41a0-8e8d-de030b17bd60 Scott Haas 2008-04-16T19:44:22Z 2008-04-16T19:36:00Z Part of the TABA group is down in Hatteras the week of the April 20th!   Hope they are having fun.

The next regatta planning meeting to firm issues up is set for April 29th Tuesday 6:00ish at Original Packos.

In attendance at previous meeting were: Denny B., Rod C., Dick N., Scott H. and Jeff B.. 
We need to fill a few spots, help with registration Sat morning,  crews on mark setting / safety boats. 
Barb H. is doing lunches but always can use extra hands.

Please email Denny  ASAP  if you can help out .. 

Thanks much,
Scott]]> Spring Regatta Organizational Meeting - Tues April 15th tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2008-04-12:749810a0-efa6-4da4-b5b1-e6bc157061c9 Scott Haas 2008-04-13T09:54:41Z 2008-04-12T10:51:00Z
The regatta is May 31 - June 1 this year,  the first weekend as always after Memorial Day which falls on May 26th this year.   Being it's near a week earlier then some years there is a bit less time to get everything set up. 

Please if you can help out either of the days send an email Denny to note you'll be there. 


Also the Alum Creek Regatta in Columbus is coming up on May 3rd and 4th.   This regatta needs support from Ohio windsurfers so give yourself a treat and get out of town for a night.   The waters down there are a bit warmer then Lake Erie that time of year.    The fishing reports are already noting that on April 13 the water is 53 degrees!
  
]]> 2008 TABA Kickoff Dinner - Results tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2008-02-08:3a13bdb9-5527-4421-a8a6-e44b8db19c81 Scott Haas 2008-02-08T08:27:02Z 2008-02-08T07:52:00Z
TABA (Toledo Area Boardsailing Association) is a loose knit group of Toledo area windsurfers.  We meet a few times a season to organize our Spring regatta(June 1, May 31 in 2008) and usually have a small party in Feb to get the season started again.   Late Wednesday afternoons throughout the summer season members meet up at Maumee Bay State Park for fun sailing.   

Now is a good time to join TABA and get involved.  As I mentioned we only have one event a year (our Spring regatta the first weekend after Memorial Weekend) where we need volunteers.    You can find a membership form under the Join TABA category in this blog.  ]]> 2008 TABA Kickoff Dinner tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2008-01-18:c4029854-6a4f-4430-b76a-9e0282ed39e3 Scott Haas 2008-01-18T21:53:23Z 2008-01-18T21:47:00Z
Join us for dinner at Sebastiano's, 4448 Heatherdowns Blvd, across from the Masonic Auditorium(Stranahan).
 
The date is Thursday, Feb 7th. The time - 6:30 for libations, 7:00 for dinner. We will order off the menu and pay our own tabs. TABA will provide a cash refund for your 2008 paid membership - $15 for individual, $30 for family memberships.
 
RSVP to  dennis@brengartner.com for head count by 2/4/08.
 
Denny
 
 
]]> Florida Races start Feb 23rd tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2008-01-06:1cdeee99-3c6d-4d9d-89d7-fc85c3a2dfd7 Scott Haas 2008-01-06T18:52:26Z 2008-01-06T10:39:00Z It is hard to believe that the Spring racing season is just a few weeks aways!  Well that is for those of you that are going to Florida for some windsurfing, sun and 80 degree temps in late February.

Information and registration (with pay on arrival option) for the Sarasota Race be can  found at http://www.mswindsurfing.com/     The date is Feb 23-24, with registration and rigging day on Friday.   This has been an growing event attracting 37 entries last year.  The event is held at Ken Thompson park with sailing in the protected inter coastal bay.   Last year the longboard fleet race area was located mostly in chest deep waters just a few hundred yards from shore while the Formula course was separate and set a mile to the north out in the middle of the Sarasota bay.  This event is hosted by Sarasota Sailing Squadron which is right next door to Ken Thompson park.

Information on the Calema Mid-Winters can be found at  http://www.calema.com/   The date is Feb 28 - Mar 2.   Last year the attendance I'm guessing was around 100,  down some but that was good making it less crowded on shore.   A fleet races Friday, Sat and Sunday with a must do registration and skippers meeting Thursday.   Sport fleet races Sat and Sunday.    The location is Kelly Park on Merrit Island (Port Canaveral/Cocoa Beach) which from Sarasota is near a straight shot across the state on US 4.   Calema Windsurfing is located in Kelly Park.  The sailing is on the inter coastal Banana River in what I'd call protected conditions so no waves and just a few shallow spots to watch for.   Last year I tent camped at Jetty Park barely a ten minute drive from the event site.  Jetty Park is right on the ocean so plenty of beach walking can be done from there.

In 2007 several of the MI/OH Prodigy team made it down for the races.  Tinho says on the event Web page they will have a separate Prodigy awards division if enough show up.   I'm hoping a few of the Houston TX Prodigy sailors will make it this year also. 

Scott - #H

 



 

]]> 2008 Toledo Windsurfing Championships May 31 - June 1 tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2007-12-31:771cb49b-5226-409b-800a-f0d77a7854ae Scott Haas 2007-12-31T17:53:43Z 2007-12-31T17:35:00Z
As always TABA needs help putting on this event.  So think about it now and reserve that weekend to race or volunteer to help out.  There is always much beach support needed for: putting the canopies up, registration, lunches, scoring, putting canopies down, cleanup and night guard duty. 

Also new this year is a MOWIND.org Web site that will be helping out to advertise events in the Midwest.   The MOWIND Raffle is back so don't forget to buy a couple tickets to help MOWIND out.   Also there is a news section  on the MOWIND site to report news.   So if you are good at shooting and editing video we could use someone to make about a five minute long regatta report video for this blog as well as for MOWIND News.     

]]> Rerun of Dec 11 TABA meeting tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2007-12-31:73fcfa49-8a7f-4233-bc1d-765f84f4ce14 Scott Haas 2007-12-31T10:16:39Z 2007-12-31T09:10:00Z Denny, Dick, DJ and Scott attended TABA meeting on Dec 11th.  

Here is a quick rundown of discussions.

Denny and DJ looking at possible places for a January TABA dinner.

Denny says the (non-club sponsored)  Hatteras trip is on for April 19-26 this year. 

Scott brought up a couple new issues and ideas. 

   1.   Have the park hold a few camp spots in one area for the Spring regatta participants.  The local kite club does this and it works out well.  One person gets a big campfire going and everyone parties around that at night.   Several people RV it the whole week during the kite fest.

   2.   Do we want to try to organize a club race series in 2008 and if so do we need to contact Mowind for race insurance for it? 

   3.   For our Toledo regatta could we try this year a special "Commuter Registration Fee"?  This would be a no shirt, raffle, lunches or dinner registration though one can buy dinner tickets separately.   This would be for local Toledo area windsurfers only.    For a host of reasons we have alot of locals that could come out and compete but just don't do it.    We need to hear comments from people that normally don't make it to the regatta as to if like a half price registration fee will bring them out or not?     

]]> TABA meeting Dec 11 Tuesday at 5:30pm at Mutz' bar tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2007-12-07:83e9f347-6915-4abc-8b5f-07c6be27c611 Denny Brengartner 2007-12-07T13:35:55Z 2007-12-07T13:27:00Z Join us Dec 11th Tuesday at 5:30pm at Mutz' bar in the Oliver House downtown. 

We can catch up on everybody's activities, decide when to have the dinner(in Jan), plan Hatteras
trips, do some prelim talking about the Regatta in June, etc 

No RSVP, just refreshments and fun 

Denny
]]> Steve Bodner's report on oil spill in San Franciso Bay tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2007-11-17:e8cb55d3-23a0-42f7-b70c-091839632a3f Scott Haas 2007-11-17T20:33:54Z 2007-11-17T20:04:00Z Many of you around Toledo know Steve Bodner, USA-4, 2006 US Windsurfing National Champion.  Steve was a young pup living in Perrysburg when he started windsurfing sailing IMCO.   Steve now lives in San Franciso and practices Forumla sailing in the bay.   Steve has an excellent regatta report Blog   http://www.stevebodner.blogspot.com/ .     His most recent post is about the oil spill which has caused much environmental damage to the Bay. 
 
Water quality is a problem everywhere. We have our own local water problems with high E-coli counts in Maumee Bay. Don't forget to ask your state and federal representatives what they plan to do about it if you ever get a chance to.    ]]> Pictures from Feb 2007 Sarasota Race tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2007-11-15:393deec8-752c-4be6-8b3b-3410932e480b Scott Haas 2008-01-15T19:56:44Z 2007-11-15T23:45:00Z
I received an Email from Sarasota from a Corinne (941) 266-3972  Corinnennorth@aol.com
She has a 1000 pictures online from the 2007 Sarasota race.  There are many nice pictures of the TABA windsurfers.

Prices  Wallets (min. of 6) $2.00 each 4 X 6 $5.00 each 5 X 7 $12.00 each
8 X 10 $20.00 each 11 X 14 $28.00 each 20 X 30 $60.00 each
LINKS for website    First 500 photos       Last 500 photos

If you don't need or want prints and would like to just use some of her images Corinne says that's ok. If you do please her email the URL where used if possible and send a small donation to her Paypal email at IVEGOTUCAPTURED@aol.com_ .  



 Finally I can see Chris's
secret  position that enables
him to go really fast!






  


]]> Email Comments off tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2007-10-30:d3f9546f-0598-4f23-a60e-f5bbff37669c Scott Haas 2007-10-30T08:51:06Z 2007-10-30T08:42:00Z
I turned off the  "Email new Comments" option this morning after receiving about a dozen
comments generated by a spammer.     The "email comments option" obviously releases comments before approval.  Before deleting bad comments there is an option to "Ban IP address"  which may stop 
further comment spam from the spammer computer.  

The Blog has the "Comments are moderated" option on.   Thus comments need to be approved to show up in the blog.    If someone comments to a posting .. you will have to go in and approve the comment.   I believe though if you are logged in and comment it should post ..  I'll have to try that.


Scott

]]> Tribute to Summer 2007 tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2007-10-22:05b4f4de-2987-4aa7-9320-3422028ca6ad Scott Haas 2007-10-28T07:17:32Z 2007-10-22T16:58:00Z
2007 will go down as  the  year summer didn't want to end.   On Oct 21st and with water temps still in the 60's a few TABA windsurfers get in their last warm runs of the season. Denny, Rod and Dick get in a good session.
 


]]> Equipment Stole in Northwood tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2007-10-18:786907f5-1dd0-4e38-bbed-70204e45c4c7 Scott Haas 2007-10-18T07:23:02Z 2007-10-18T07:13:00Z I guess we need to guard our equipment closer in the Toledo area.

During the last part of Sept.  Joe Belhobeck from Cleveland was passing through Toledo.  Many of you know Joe
as he never misses our Toledo Spring windsurfing regatta.    He was staying at a hotel in Northwood when theives stole a couple bags filled with fins and mast extensions he collected over the years after breaking into the back of his pickup truck.  Joe figures it would take like $2K to replace it all.    The culprits were caught on video tape but not identified. (at least not yet)     


]]> Used Mistral Boards for sale tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2007-10-18:10637a0e-0f15-4b24-9331-0ada3832fe23 Ryan B 2007-10-18T09:31:16Z 2007-10-18T07:00:00Z I am selling a quiver of boards, all in great shape and relatively new.
  • Mistral Screamer 95L $350
  • Mistral Flow 115L $350
  • Mistral Explosion 125L $350




Can e-mail full specs and photos if interested.
 ]]> Higgins Lake September 2007 tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2007-10-17:fe9e62a3-9ecf-4787-a549-2940ca32d1f5 Scott Haas 2007-12-31T09:52:31Z 2007-10-17T19:33:00Z


 Higgins Lake 2007 had sunshine and warm waters for us.  The winds were light but the competition was tough and the Saturday evening dinner party the best ever.  Everyone camps together so there is always a lot of hot air blowing in camp.  Below skippers gather for instructions.

I arrived late Thursday with several others who were treated to gusty winds on Friday that  stretched out the muscles. 		 
It's great to see the camp ground covered with boards of all types and ages.  Besides the racers there were several campers there just for the fun plus area locals.  The regatta is held the first weekend after Labor Day and South Higgins Lake State Park is quiet then as the summer crowd is long gone.    
 The Sunday morning pancake and sauage campfire breakfast has become a tradition I hope never stops.  Here the cook prepares to feed a few dozen hungry campers.

 		  








]]> How to Join and About TABA tag:blog.toledoaba.com,2007-10-16:88e2fcbb-e7ad-4dac-927f-aea42e754470 Scott Haas 2007-10-16T20:42:11Z 2007-10-16T20:32:00Z

TABA is one of the oldest windsurfing clubs in the USA dating back to 1977. Initially the club was named Fleet 155, then the Black Swamp Boardsailers and finally the Toledo Area Boardsailing Association. The club membership selects candiates for Commodore, Vice-Commodore, Treasurer and Secretary each fall at a general meeting.

Most of the club's water activites take place at MBSP(Maumee Bay State Park) beach located just a few miles from downtown Toledo. The park beach gives easy access to the wide open waters and winds of Lake Erie. However just a few hundred yards away is also a large inland lake that is idea for learning or taking your first lesson on.

A Membership Form is available.

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