As Delta Sailing Association winds up 75 years of its existence the pace of the move is increasing. The goal is to turn everything back to our landlord, the US Army Corps of Engineers, by June 30, 2025. Both of Delta Sailing’s venerable Boston Whaler Committee Boats have been donated to other sailing clubs in the area, one to the Muscle Shoals Sailing Club, and the other to the Concord Yacht club in Knoxville. Both groups have the same focus on small boat sailing and one-design sailboat racing that had long been a guide for DSA.
In addition, all five of our dock section and the new lumber we bought in early 2023 to rebuild two of those sections have been purchased and moved off the lot. All members with boats currently on the lot have been sent legal notices that their boats must be off the lot by April 1 or they become the property of DSA and will be auctioned. These owners were given the option of donating their boats to DSA if they desired and several have chosen that route. Delta Sailing plans an auction of remaining boats on Saturday, April 19. More information will be available closer to that date.
A final version of the traditional DSA Annual Banquet will be held February 18 at the Butcher Block Restaurant. The usual door prizes will be available (although without the boat-focus we’ve had in the past since fewer attendees will still have boats) and some members have dug DSA history items out of storage and digital versions will shown. If you want to attend, reservations are required. (Contact Mark at markvanstolk@gmail.com.) Tentatively, a wind-up final picnic is planned for May with all members and friends welcome. We will be able to stand on our pavilion’s deck one last time and gaze out at the Coldwater River coursing through the vast lake bed somewhere off in the distance. More information in due time.
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