![]() Using ultralight spinning gear, live minnows on light wire hooks and small 1/32-ounce feather jigs, we produced fish almost immediately. We could give you the GPS coordinates, but then we’d have to… well you know the rest! The club members sink brushpiles around these docks, which makes for some great fishing without having to “find ’em” first. Ron graciously provided his boat for this trip, and after a short run we stopped to fish some of their favorite docks at first light. These guys love crappie and know all the best spots to catch these plentiful and tasty panfish. Today I’m joined by Bob and Brenda Rice, publishers of Atlanta/North Georgia edition of The Angler Magazine, North Georgia Crappie Angler’s Club President Woodie Malone and club member Ron Cobley. I’m at Clarks Bridge boat ramp on north Georgia’s Lake Lanier, getting set for some crappie fishing. Younger son is still in the Atlanta area, married and has rebuilt a couple of older Hobie cats.I’m up before sunrise enjoying a hot mug of coffee, bundled up for the cold. Older son worked briefly as a dock rat at LSA, then moved to Portland, Oregon where he joined the Portland State University sailing team and met his future wife. I have also recently chartered catamarans in the 42-45 ft. I have crewed for friends moving their boats long distances on a Catalina 350, a Bristol 41.1, and a Cheoy Lee 42 schooner offshore. Vincent and the Grenadines, and in 2003 we bought a 1999 Hunter 340 which we keep at Aqualand Marina. I have chartered various Beneteaus from 38 to 44 feet in the BVIs and in St. I took the ACC course in 2001 traveling the Windward Islands from Martinique to Grenada. We took a couple of family BVI vacations staying at the Bitter End Yacht Club on North Sound, Virgin Gorda, enjoying day sails on their Hobies, Sunfish, J24, Rhodes 19, and Freedom 30. I spent ten years in the Passport Club, sailing on every boat in the fleet. Where have you sailed and on what types of boats? The summer after that trip, I attended the ASA instructor clinic and became an instructor at LSA. MOVING DOCK LAKE LANIER HOW TOAfter all that crewing, I wanted to learn more about sailing and how to be the skipper, so I took the BKB class at LSA in 1992 and joined the Passport Club. In the late 1970s I raced on a friend’s Lightning, and a few years later, I made a couple of trips on another friend’s boat, a Morgan OI 38, off the west coast of Florida. Since 2014 she has been an instructor sharing her passion for sailing by teaching others the joy of mastering those skills. While based in Tanzania years later, she became a member of the Dar es Salaam Yacht Club enjoying racing on various boats.Īfter 20 years overseas in Africa, Asia and the Balkans, she moved to Atlanta, re-discovering lake sailing at Lanier Sailing Academy in 2012. Those included moonlight off-shore races from Manila to Subic Bay. She credits her racing skills to her Mom and Dad who were often the Snipe fleet’s 1st place season champions as well as winners of several inter-state regattas.Īfter leaving Nebraska and several years of absence from sailing, she moved to the Philippines with CARE, and joined the Manila Yacht Club’s off-shore races crewing on a range of yachts. When the winds were forecasted to be 1-8 mph, Dawn learned the fine art of sailing in drifters, winning races with her Dad. Her father often joked that his secret weapon was his “light-weight crew” Dawn and her sister. “I would rather be lost at sea than found at work”ĭawn grew up sailing on the lakes in Nebraska at an age of 7 where her parents raced 15 foot Snipes. Additionally, I have chartered in Portugal, San Diego and Florida’s west coast and panhandle and have participated in an Atlantic offshore race from Daytona to Charleston. Generally I charter monohulled boats ranging from 32 – 45 feet, depending on crew size. I have chartered boats throughout the Windward and Leeward Islands of the Caribbean, including the British Virgin Islands, St. Where have you sailed and on what type boats? I continued to sail from then on, joining LSA in 2006 and becoming an LSA instructor in 2015. The Navy apparently didn’t care that I had never sailed before and put me through a crash course that culminated in an offshore passage from Key West to New Orleans (and just happened to involve a heavy January gale). Among other responsibilities, I was assigned as the unit’s ‘Sailing Officer,’ in charge of teaching students in the program how to sail. After a 4-year tour at sea, I was assigned to the Navy’s ROTC unit at the University of South Carolina. ![]()
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