Spring Meeting - March 25

The Fleet 5 Spring Meeting will be held Saturday March 25th at 10:00 am- 12:30 at Chicago Yacht Club's Monroe Station in the Boardroom. Be sure to mark your calendar, we will review the upcoming Racing Schedule, 2018 Nationals, & many other interesting subjects.

The J105's once again looking to be the largest One Design fleet for the Mac Race with 17 boats already registered.

Be sure to join Lake Michigan's best racing fleet, sign up on our crew page and hitch a ride. Boats are always looking for enthusiastic crew.

Spring Meeting Agenda     Membership Form     Draft 2017 Schedule 

Proxy  (In case you can not attend)

Chicago Boat & Strictly Sail Show - McCormick Place South Jan.11-15th, 2017

For those that can't be in Key West this weekend. The J105's will have a table set up at the boat show this weekend Saturday & Sunday to promote the Fleet. A great chance to meet new owners, potential owners, and crew members. Glad to answer any questions one might have.

We will be at the Sterns Boating display. Come out and join us. Great show with some interesting presentations, displays and always some good deals.

Beat the winter blues and come out to the boat show! 

Chicago Boat & Strictly Sail Show

CASRA Survey Results

Attached are the J105 Fleet 5 results from the CASRA survey (J105 CASRA Responses) .  These are yours to utilize in whatever manner Fleet 5 deems best, to improve & grow racing.

As a fleet you had a great turnout, with a total of 10 boats responding to the survey.  Lots of interesting content here, with some of the questions & responses being more significant than others.  If there are questions on any aspect of the survey drop a note to this CASRA email address & we'll get you responses.  

CASRA & the five founding clubs thank you for your participation in the survey. We look forward to an invitation to your spring meeting to further progress racing in Chicago. 

Michael Hettel

President

Chicago Area Sail Racing Association

chicago.sail.racing.@gmail.com

www.chicagosailracing.com

Crew MVP's

This year's Fall Party at Aquanaut Brewing Co. was another huge hit with all. Great beers and good times were had by all in attendance. A big thank you to our hosts at Aquanaut!

We could not get around the course without a great crew. New this year the Captains recognized our MVP Crew Members: (from left to right) Sean Wilson (the Asylum), Mike Brown (Vytis), Victor Gonzales (Caught in Traffic), Donald Hanson (Esprit d'Ecosse), the Mike Better    (Flying Pig), Brian Sandberg (Phantom), Russell Radke (John standing for Russ, Sealark), & Justin Olsen (Striking).  Also, Joe Saccone (Global Nomads) was unable to join the festivities that evening.

A big shout out to all the crew, thanks for a great summer. The sailing was spectacular & the parties were awesome. Can't wait until next summer.

Fall Party

Fleet 5 Owners 

Long Distance

1st the Asylum
2nd Sealark
3rd Esprit d'Ecosse

Championship Series 

1st Sealark
2nd Flying Pig
3rd the Asylum

Weekend Warrior 

1st the Asylum          2nd Rocking Horse    3rd Sealark

Fleet 5 Sponsers

We would like to recognize our sponsors and thank them for all the support!

Eric McNeil from Aquanaut Brewing Co.

Eric LeVine from Larsen Marine

Peter Schwarzbach from Vin Chicago (owner of Phantom)

2016 Season Scoring

Larsen Marine Weekend Warrior Series

Aquanaut Brewing Co. Championship Series

Vin Chicago Distance Series

J105 Best On Lake Michigan (BOLM)