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Fundraising
Gala
Saturday, February 28, 2009 - The Boulevard
Club, Toronto
Cocktails 6pm - Dinner 7pm
Silent Auction - Live Auction - Fine Wine
Auction
Tribute to 2008 Olympic Sailors & Coaches
Special Guest Speaker - Doug Leigh
World
renowned coach of champion skaters such as
Brian Orser & Elvis Stojko
His
coaching success is driven by the motto,
"It can be done!"
Bring your dancing shoes and dance
the rest of the night away!
To
support the development of sailing in
Ontario
The evening will be a
fun filled time with great food, an exotic
wine tasting, live & silent auctions, a fine
wine auction and a great speaker ending with
music and dancing! Live and silent auction
items include everything a sailor needs from
toys and necessities for your boat, trips,
fine wine, electronics .... something for
everyone and every budget!
Some of the
exciting items we will have up for auction:
|
Brand
New Nova 240 Windsurfer
- valued at $1,200 |
Ellen
Cowie Painting -
valued at $4,500 |
Toronto
Maple Leafs Tickets
- valued at $174 |
|
Boat
Tour for 8 to Henry's Restraunt in
Georgian Bay
- valued at $550 |
Muskoka
Triathalon & Party Package-
valued at $1,600 |
Various
Lots of Fine Wine
- valued at over $5,000 |
|
iPod,
iNike System, Nike gift cert |
Pearl
Necklace |
and
much, much more!!! |
Yacht
Clubs & Sailing Clubs that put together a
full table can bring their club burgee and
be entered into a draw for $500 for their
club.
There will be a
special recognition of 2008 Olympic sailors
and coaches from Ontario during the
evening. Come show your support and let
them know how proud we are of them!
Tickets are $125 per
person, with a $50 tax receipt available,
and can be purchased by contacting Shauna
Cartlidge at 1-888-672-7245 ext. 221 or
faxing the
Ticket Order Form to 1-877-677-7275.
We hope to see you there!
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North 44o Marine
Sales Announces Sponsorship of Ontario
Sailing
North 44o
Marine Sales Inc. announced today
that it will continue a commitment made
to Ontario Sailing at the Toronto Boat
Show for the full year.
Any member (yacht
club or individual) of Ontario Sailing
who buys a BRIG Inflatable from Bill
Stevenson at North 44o Marine
Sales will see half of the profit from
the sale go to Ontario Sailing.
North 44s Bill
Stevenson explained that " In these
tougher economic times we felt that we
could help Ontario Sailing in an
effective way by giving its membership
an easy way to help their organization.
Anyone considering buying an inflatable
at this time can take advantage of the
fact that we sell at dealer pricing to
begin with and help Ontario Sailing at
the same time."
BRIG Inflatables
come in 66 different models including
Soft bottoms, RIBs, Sports and Consoles.
They range in price from $1,256 to
$33,038. All of the BRIG models can be
seen at:
http://www.brigboats.com/
North 44o
Marine Inc. is a power and sail brokerage
house with a head office in Hamilton and has
brokers in St. Catharines, Midland,
Hamilton, Toronto and Montreal . Pricing
for the popular boats in the BRIG line as
well as brokerage listings can be seen at:
http://north44marine.com/
Boating Club Tax Issues -
From Tobin
Young, Chair of Council of Commodores
Your club may have
received an updated Property Assessment
Notice from the Municipal Property
Assessment Corporation (MPAC) directly or
via your landlord. The updated notice shows
the assessed value of your club's property
based on a January 1, 2008 valuation date
and this assessment value will be the basis
of your municipal taxes for the next four
years (the new value is also phased in over
four years). If your club has not received
an Assessment Notice, you should contact
your municipality to get a copy of the
Assessment that covers your area so that you
can forecast its impact to your club prior
to the 31 March 2009 deadline for objecting
to the assessment. Otherwise your
municipality will issue you a tax invoice
based on this new Assessment that they
received, and you will be bound to pay these
taxes.
Property values have
increased by an average of approximately 20%
across Ontario since 2005, when the last
assessment update was done. However, with
the Property tax assessments that just went
out, many of our clubs have seen their
assessed values rise by 10 – 30 times (not
percent). MPAC has decided to increase the
Assessed value of waterfront properties a
much greater percentage than the provincial
average. As an example, in Toronto the
assessed value of an acre of open waterfront
parkland used by boating clubs has gone from
about $200,000 per acre in 2005 to $ 1.2
million per acre in 2008....
Ontario Sailing is
working with their Sport Consultant to
communicate these issues to the Minister of
Health Promotion. Ontario Sailing has also
reached out to all other organized sport
bodies in Ontario through Sport 4 Ontario to
get this message out to other sports that
may be impacted on this very item: rowing
and canoeing clubs and any other sports that
lease and rent property. Ontario Sailing's
focus is the impact on the sport and athlete
development. This could have a devastating
impact on the Pan Am Games (for sailing
anyways); training of Sailing Athletes,
Olympic and Paralympic teams ( Ontario made
up over 50% of the team this past year, and
has just had over 60% of the CYA youth
national team named from Ontario Athletes).
Without our clubs we will have no place to
train and less sailing in Ontario ......
Click here to see this full article and
continue reading.
New Ontario Sailing Member Benefits
Ontario Sailing is
continually working to find ways to bring
more benefits to its members. We are
excited to announce two new benefits
available to our members this spring!
The first is a discount
card good for 10% off of certain brands at
all Mark's Work Wearhouse stores. These
cards will be available to all members of
Ontario Sailing. They will be mailed to
each member organization, for distribution
to its members, upon payment of their 2009
dues. As well, all Ontario Sailing Training
Members will receive these discount cards in
2009 when they receive their seals and
Ontario Sailing Training Membership card.
The second new member
benefit has been in the works for quite
awhile with HUB International of Ontario.
Ontario Sailing members will now be able to
take advantage of a special individual
Group, Home & Auto insurance program as well
as a special individual marine insurance
program, the Latitude Program. Details on
both of these programs will be available on
the Ontario Sailing website soon under
Member Services/Benefits.
Ontario Sailing Maple Leaf Club -
"I Met My Life
While Sailing!"
The Maple Leaf
Club Individual Membership gives
past coaches, instructors, athletes and
friends of sailing the opportunity to be
involved with Ontario Sailing, stay
connected and continue to support this great
sport. Fees are $45 annually for which a
$25 tax receipt can be issued. If you are
interested in becoming a member of the Maple
Leaf Club please fill in the
Membership Application and return to the
Ontario Sailing office.
The Maple
Leaf Club Corporate Membership
gives companies the opportunity to be
involved with Ontario Sailing and to
support this great sport. As well, the
corporate member receives the following:
- Company name
listed on the page below with a link
to the company website
- Listing as a
Corporate Member in the Ontario
Sailing Member Directory and Annual
Report
- A link to the
page below is included at the end of
each Ontario Sailing E-Newsletter
asking our members to support our
corporate members
Fees are $250 annually
for which a $229 tax receipt can be issued.
The Principal/Owner/President of the member
company will be listed as an Individual
Member of the Maple Leaf Club.
All Maple Leaf Club
members can take advantage of any of the
Ontario Sailing and Canadian Yachting
Association membership benefits. For a list
of Ontario Sailing benefits please see our
Member Services/Benefits page. If you
have any questions please contact Shauna
Cartlidge at 1-888-672-7245 ext. 221 or
info@ontariosailing.ca.
Ontario Sailing Masters Team
The Ontario Master's
Racing Team is a group of individuals that
have met the following criteria in order to
participate:
- Resident of Ontario
- Over the age of 35
- Has Raced in Lasers or Radials for at
least two years
- Understands the fundamentals of racing and
the racing rules
- Is a proficient sailor
- Is committed to improving racing results
- Has a campaign plan for the year
- Is a member of the Laser Class Association
- Is a member of a sailing club in Ontario
- Pays $400 + GST annually (=$420.00)
Athletes selected for
the team must commit to their team camp,
training and competitive plan for the
remainder of their selection to the Ontario
Master's Racing Team or face removal from
the team subject to the discretion of the
Ontario Master's Team coach(s).
If you are interested
in finding out more about the team please
contact Eric
Cartlidge via email or
Rob Koci via email or check out the
Masters Team webpage.
Ontario Athletes Doing Well in
Florida
Several Ontario
athletes have been back and forth to Florida
this winter for various training camps and
regattas. Canada, and Ontario especially,
had some excellent results at the Rolex
Miami OCR Regatta in January. Most notably
were Dave Wright and Lee Parkhill finishing
5th and 7th in the Laser class overall,
respectfully; Chris Cook and Matt Johnston
finishing in the Finn class 2nd and 10th
overall; Gordan Cook/Ben Remocker and Billy
Gooderham/Ian Hogan finishing in the 49er
class 5th and 9th; Bruce Millar finishing
4th in the 2.4mR class;
Many athletes are now
down in Florida getting ready for Midwinters.
We wish all of them fair winds and great
sailing!
Be sure to support
our
Corporate Sponsors
and
Corporate Members!
Let them know you appreciate their
support of Ontario Sailing.
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