April 29th, 2012 – 5 pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1710 East Superior Street, Duluth
Featured speaker: Nicholas Hayes, the nationally acclaimed author of Saving Sailing. Click here for more about the auction.

Past Events

(We had so much fun these will probably be repeated.)

Saturday, August 20, 2011 US Sailing prescribed format. Stay tuned
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Late August
Barker’s Island, Superior, WI

The Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival will be held on August 28 and we need many volunteers to set up the course, work the starting line and tear down the course after the Festival. If you are able to lend a hand, please contact Jim Sharrow at 724-6909 (home) or at 590-1062 (cell), or email at jdsharrow@msn.com.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a major one day fund raiser that has raised over $100,000 per year for the past seven years to support local non-profits and breast cancer research and also provides significant annual financial support for Duluth Boat Club programming. The Duluth Boat Club runs the races for this worthy event. This is a fun time helping a great cause.

Volunteers are needed for the following:
Stake dock holders

Starting line stake dock volunteers are needed for the races on Saturday, from about 8:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M. Shifts run 2 hours, so shift start times are 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 noon, and 2:00 (The last shift goes for 3 hours with a half hour break). Four volunteers are needed for each shift. We encourage you to sign up for more than one shift. Please let me know when you are available and we can slot you into the volunteer schedule.

Course set up and tear down volunteers

We will need two additional launches on August 28 with operators to serve as floating race marshall boats. These boats will be positioned along the course this year and do not have to chase the dragon boats down the course.

We also need volunteers to set up the course in advance and to tear down the course when the races are over.

Finish line
We need at least one volunteer to assist at the finish line

If you would like more information on the festival itself, visit the website at www.lakesuperiordragons.com. There will be entertainment and opening ceremonies on Friday, along with fireworks, a pancake breakfast on Saturday and racing all day.

August 7-8, 2010
LOTS of boats coming out of town and opportunities for local sailors to show their stuff, too!

Click here for the official Notice of Race
     or visit the D21 web site

No Child Left Inside ~ An Open House for Families and Children

Honoring our “No Child Left Inside” program. Visitors Welcome!

School's out, so no excuses. It's time to get outside. The Duluth-Superior Sailing Association and UMD-Minnesota Sea Grant invite anyone with children (or children at heart) to come down to the pier, ride on a sail boat, and learn a bit about the waters of Lake Superior. The event takes place at the DSSA pier on Park Point in Duluth (next to the public boat launch).

June marks the beginning of the sailing season, sailing classes for youth and adults, as well as cruising vessel clinics. This year marks the inaugural season of our youth sail coaching program with weekly small boat races on the bay. Weather permitting, we expect the Laser fleet to be out in force. Staff and volunteers will be on hand to explain our mission and programs. Many of the DSSA’s sailboats will also be on display, and refreshments will be served.

Representatives from UMD-Minnesota Sea Grant will be on hand to help educate the public about invasive species and the ecology of Lake Superior. Sea Grant’s mission is to facilitate interaction among the public and scientists to enhance communities, the environment and economies along Lake Superior and Minnesota's inland waters by identifying information needs, fostering research, and communicating results. The UMD-based program is taking part in a national campaign and protecting local waters from “aquatic hitchhikers”, non-native plant and animal species that find their way to inland waters and disrupt the local environment. This year, the DSSA and Minnesota Sea Grant are making a cooperative effort to include lessons in environmental stewardship as part of the youth sailing program.

DSSA started a new program last winter: Sunday night at the movies! A bit of fun watching some great sailing flicks. Not open to the public, but free to our members and friends. We’re all done for this season, but we had so much fun, we’ll probably do it again.