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Club sailing full of fun challenges in water ■ Dedication is required to be a part of the club sailing team, but you don’t need any prior experience to join By Dylan J. Darling for the Emerald While most think of sailing at Fern Ridge Reservoir as a relaxing way to spend a warm afternoon, for members of the Oregon club sailing team it is all preparation for the team’s tension-filled races. In all, there are fifteen members of the sailing team, with an even mix of male and female competitors, ac cording to coordinator Summer Bryan, a junior biology major. Bryan said the team’s main sea sons are the fall and spring, when they compete in regattas almost every week. The team members also have occa Ts PORTS p sional regat tas in the winter, but they don’t practice be cause the wa ter at their practice site at Fern Ridge is too low. The regattas, hosted by Northwest schools such as Washington, Port land Sate and San Francisco, re quire a large amount of travel by the team. Oregon also hosts two regattas of its own during the school year, one during Halloween weekend called the Outlaw and one in late March called the Rainier Cup. Both events are held at Fern Ridge and feature teams from throughout the West Coast. All this time spent at competi tions, combined with three three hour practices a week, makes partic ipating on the sailing team quite a commitment, according to Bryan. Just getting out to practice takes 30 minutes each way, but she said be ing able to sail is worth the time and effort, and she is flexible with peo ple who can participate on only a limited basis. Even Bryan admits that it’s diffi cult to balance her time in the class room with her time on the water. “It’s hard to be as dedicated to both as I want to be,” she said. Bryan said that as long as team members set their priorities and manage their time well, they are able to succeed at both school and sailing. The team draws a wide variety of people to it's ranks, but the members are all unified by the type of boat they race in. For the most part, they race in flying juniors or “FJs.” An FJ is a 15-foot long dinghy that has one sail and a crew of two. The team, has eight FJs, as well as a Santana 20, a 20-foot long boat with two sails that holds two sailors. The team usually races the boats on bays or lakes and stays away from the ocean. “We have a lot of inexperienced sailors, so out on the ocean is not where we want to be,” Bryan said. While the members don’t sail the seven seas, sailing does give the team an escape from school and everyday life. “I like the quietness,” Bryan said. “I love being able to cruise through space without disturbing it.” Team member Carey Clouse, a senior interior architecture major, said she loves being out on the lake because it is calm and beautiful, but she also likes sailing because it is something that requires a lot of thought. “You are figuring out how to move yourself by arranging your sails,” Clouse said. She said a sailor needs to know how the wind works and how to harness it with the sails of the boat. The amount of thinking required for sailing is increased even more when the sailors are racing against 20 or so other boats. The calmness of recreational sailing is a contrast to the intense competition at the regat tas, which Bryan described as “an adventure.” “It is intense, hectic; it gets your adrenaline pumping like crazy,” Bryan said. She said the races are usually tight, and the experienced racers know how crucial time and position are. “The best sailors will be next to each other,” Bryan said. Clouse said the most intense time is the beginning of the race. “Your position at the beginning of the race makes or breaks you final time,” she said. The courses are usually in the shape of a triangle, and the. racers have to complete one or more laps, depending on the rules set by the race committee. The sailors aren’t racing against the clock, but rather they are competing with the other boats because times are dependent on the amount of wind at the time of the race. Clouse said the races are pretty stressful because the sailor needs to be constantly checking how every thing is going. “When you are racing you are try ing to harness the maximum amount of wind you can,” Clouse said. She said the sailors need to be constantly thinking about boat speed, and they need to be focused on their boat and its efficiency. The sailors also need to be concerned with their direction and how their weight is balanced in their boat. If careful attention is not paid to these areas, one of the most dreaded things can happen to the sailing crew — capsizing. Though it would take experienced sailors only a few minutes to right their overturned ship, the overall loss of position would greatly affect a team’s finish. “You pretty much lose the race if you capsize,” Clouse said. Linda Chung, a junior biology major and another member of the sailing team, said the danger of cap sizing is something that is always in the back of sailors’ minds, especial ly if have always kept their boat right-side up. “If you have never capsized you are afraid of it,” she said. Capsizing is not the only thing sailors want to avoid, as bumping into other vessels can also lead to major setbacks in the race. During the race, sailors need to yield the right-of-way, in similar fashion to car drivers yielding to merging traffic. If a sailor fails to give the right-of-way, it ends up hitting another boat, and this time-consuming process can have drastic results on a boat’s finish. The highest risk of hitting an other boat is at the beginning of the race, according to Clouse. How often such incidents occur depends on the skill level of the sailors, which can vary greatly de pending on their individual back grounds. While Bryan said she has been sailing all her life, Clouse and Chung said they both just started in college. Chung said she went into the sport completely cold, but in her time on the team she has learned everything she, needs to know to be a competitive sailor. While many people come in with some knowledge of boats, others have never even been in a sailboat be fore. “You definitely don’t need any experience to learn to sail,” Chung said. “It really depends on what you want to get out of it.” Once the sailors are done com peting in college, there are oppor tunities for them to race through local yacht clubs and other organ izations. But Bryan, Clouse and Chung all said they would proba bly sail only for pleasure once their racing days are over at Ore gon. Call (541) 346 4343 or stop by Room 300 Erb Memorial Union to place your ad today. P.0. Box 3159 Eugene, OR 97403 E-mail: classads@oregon.uoregon.edu On-line edition: www.dailyemerald.com open mics every monday afriday nite music | poetry | performance art buzz coffeehouse | emu ground floor | www.emu.uoregon.edu/buzz HorOSCOpC by Linda C. Black TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 17). Your team is red-hot this year, and as cool as ice. The com bination is unbeatable! 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