Creve Coeur Sailing Association

02/14/2020

We race sailboats in St.Louis and this is what a race days looks like.

A typical sailboat race experience with the Creve Coeur Sailing Association in St.Louis, Missouri. The club races on Creve Coeur Lake, the largest natural la...

02/22/2019

Before our club sailed on the lake there was sailing on the lake.

12/13/2018

For CSA not CCSA.

07/25/2018

Don't forget! Our annual naval battle is this Sunday, July 29th! Bring your boats, pirate spirit, water guns and fun.

01/30/2018

If weather conditions allow — and no government shutdowns reoccur — officials hope to begin removal of invasive fish next week.

12/27/2017

Ah...that’s why.

Wondering what to do with your real Christmas tree? We are collecting trees again this year to be recycled! They will be used to create fish habitats or mulch. Please remove all decorations from the tree and drop it off at Bee Tree Park, Spanish Lake Park, Queeny Park or Creve Coeur Park.

12/20/2017

Makes us feel old. 25 yrs? Really? Maybe it’s time to get WIND on Blu-ray.

There’s a sense of discovery in watching WIND; the sport is about as far from the workaday world as it gets

12/20/2017

Apparently, it’s a thing.

Competitive sailing enters the digital age with the launch of the eSailing World Championship.

12/12/2017

Sailing in the off season - (from Dan, one of the admin).

Game - VR Inshore - free on the iPhone App store)

I have been sailing quite a bit, maybe too much, these days. One evening I was looking for a sailboat racing fix and found it! One might think it is just a video game but I have evidence there are serious sailors out there playing this. Last night I "starboarded the fleet" moving from 5th place to 2nd on the way to the first mark. One skipper recently gave me a wind shadow all the way to the first mark. My best finish was one first place but I was racing "out of my mind" making no mistakes.

One sailor's name was "Snipe" followed by a sail number. I looked up the sail number and found the skipper was a gregarious former Snipe skipper on the nation scene. Many Snipe skippers mourned his passing a few years ago posting on his page "you are missed". I messaged his former crew to tell her about the Snipe sailor on the game and how it was a homage to him. She responded, thank you, he was a great skipper and a great friend.

Here's the Skipper I hope to beat someday, "MADINFRANCE". He sailing like a faster Bill Kline! He's always 100 meters in the lead!

There is no chat feature on the phone game but you do get to know who is who. I traded tacks with quite a few skippers who will tack toward your port tack and call starboard. Recently, there are more and more skippers who are trying a Port Start. Since the starboard start is very popular, with many getting pushed up and out for barging or called for lifting at near the line or just pushed over early, the less crowded "port start" is a legitimate alternative as long as you can "thread the fleet" and avoid a "starboard/port" foul.

The game will give out fouls and penalty 360's automatically according, I'm assuming, international sailing rules. This means fouls are fouls and penalties are penalties - there is no dispute. This means you race clean and race aggressive but know if you are aggressive, you might be pushed into a foul by the same skipper you fouled.

The game is a great way for novices to learn how to race and a great game for skippers to "sharpen the spear".

I'm "Boat 80330".