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1. LMSRF is growing the number of boats on starting lines through a number of initiatives.
2. LMSRF newsletter Lake Michigan SuRF brings you only the news pertinent to Lake Michigan to your email box.
3. LMSRF provides its "Crew Board" for all owners and crews to coordinate sailboat racing plans. Click on link at www.lmsrf.org.
4. LMSRF is the group that offers training for race committees and judges to provide you a fair competition.
5. LMSRF makes its Grants-In-Aid program available to individual members for clinic, major championship, and instructor training attendance.
6. LMSRF aids in the annual process of scheduling offshore races and regattas to facilitate attendance at premier events at the same time as balancing the need for Area and home club schedules.
7. LMSRF publishes race schedules by LMSRF Area annually.
8. LMSRF publishes an Inshore Small-Boat One-Design regatta schedule featuring all known regattas in the Lake Michigan region annually.
9. LMSRF plans and schedules Youth regattas and clinics for our kids and publishes a schedule of these events annually.
10. LMSRF hosts its LMSRF Youth Championship to develop our future sailors.
11. Individual members' boats are entered in the LMSRF "Best on Lake Michigan" events.
12. LMSRF conducts the Lake Michigan Match Racing Championship.
13. LMSRF selects and sends teams to represent Lake Michigan at the Richardson Trophy Match Racing Championship of the Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes based on their finish at the Lake Michigan Match Racing Championship.
14. LMSRF guides the Area K representation to the biennial U.S. Offshore Championship Regatta for the Lloyd Phoenix Trophy.
15. Membership supports the maintenance of this comprehensive website and the cost of running this organization.
16. Individual members who file an appeal of a protest decision of any Lake Michigan region race or regatta pay no Appeal fee for its reconsideration by the LMSRF Appeals Committee.
17. LMSRF is the Regional Sailing Association assigned by US Sailing to represent the interests of all Lake Michigan sailors, LMSRF is the organizing authority that fastens it all together for our lake.
18. Because LMSRF is a charitable 501(c)(3) organization, all memberships, donations of sails, equipment, boats, assets, etc., are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
19. LMSRF is the group that most likely has the resources to answer your questions, solve sailing and racing oriented problems, and support the programs and activities that you may have. If you have questions, suggestions, or want to get involved in the activities of LMSRF please contact our office (see "Contact Us" above).
20. LMSRF notifies members of LMSRF sponsored sailing skill and strategy seminars, racing rules seminars, and race management seminars for recreational and racing sailors at boat shows, yacht clubs, and other events.
21. Through the Lake Michigan Sailing Hall of Fame, LMSRF recognizes outstanding support and achievement of its Lake Michigan sailors.
22. LMSRF coordinates development and administration of Offshore handicap sailboat rating rules and systems on Lake Michigan.
23. Provides personnel to promote and run the US Sailing Adult Championships to which its individual members may compete or serve:
U.S. Adult Sailing Championship
U.S. Championship of Champions
U.S. Disabled Sailing Championship
U.S. Match Racing Championship
U.S. Multihull Championship
U.S. Singlehanded Sailing Championship
U.S. Team Racing Championship
U.S. Offshore Championship
U.S. Women’s Match Racing Championship
International Women’s Keelboat Championship
24. Provides personnel to promote and run the US Sailing Youth Sailing Championships and Junior Olympic Sailing Festivals to which its individual members may compete or serve:
U.S. Junior Women’s Doublehanded Championship
U.S. Junior Women’s Singlehanded Championship
U.S. Junior Triplehanded Championship for the Sears Cup
U.S. Youth Sailing Championship
U.S. Youth Match Racing Championship
25. LMSRF provides racing rules and race management education to clubs and individuals.
26. LMSRF works to help small boat One-Design Class fleets to form and thrive in the Lake Michigan area.
27. LMSRF improves opportunities for sailors with special needs through its Adaptive Sailing Committee and events.
28. LMSRF sailors may make announcements through our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LMSRF.
29. LMSRF members gain access to the annual listings on our web site featuring all LMSRF individual members and yacht clubs.
30. LMSRF members gain access to leader contacts.
31. LMSRF members have the opportunity to help develop race, regatta and championship schedules.
32. LMSRF members may join leadership to guide sailing development on Lake Michigan.
33. LMSRF is working on initiatives to make sailboat racing safer.
34. LMSRF members gain a vote in the organization.
35. LMSRF members receive a printable membership card.
36. LMSRF works to unite yacht clubs.
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1. LMSRF works to unite yacht clubs.
2. LMSRF is growing the number of boats on starting lines through a number of initiatives.
3. LMSRF is working to bring more fun into the sport.
4. LMSRF newsletter Lake Michigan SuRF brings you only the news pertinent to Lake Michigan to your email box.
5. LMSRF member clubs may submit a one-page flyer for each of their events to be published in Lake Michigan SuRF to help grow awareness and participation. Flyers are due by the 20th of the month two months before the event.
6. LMSRF is the group that offers training for race committees and judges to aid your club in providing a fair competition.
7. Through LMSRF's five geographical areas, including about 150 yacht clubs, races are coordinated between clubs to minimize overlapping of dates and courses on the Lake.
8. LMSRF provides Grants-In-Aid to local yacht clubs and sailing organizations to provide training and support for adult and youth sail training and other activities that promote sailing.
9. LMSRF member clubs may host its annual Youth Championship.
10. LMSRF member clubs may host the Lake Michigan Match Racing Championship.
11. Your club's LMSRF membership supports the maintenance of this comprehensive website and the cost of running this organization.
12. LMSRF is the Regional Sailing Association assigned by US Sailing to represent the interests of all Lake Michigan yacht clubs and sailing organizations. LMSRF is the organizing authority that fastens it all together for our lake.
13. LMSRF is home to the Lake Michigan Sailing Hall of Fame. Your Club’s Board may nominate individuals who have contributed to the sport in a great way.
14. LMSRF is the group that most likely has the resources to answer your questions, solve sailing and racing oriented problems, and support the programs and activities that you may have. If you have questions, suggestions, or want to get involved in the activities of LMSRF please contact our office.
15. LMSRF provides racing rules and race management education to clubs and individuals.
16. LMSRF works to help small boat One-Design Class Fleets to form and thrive in the Lake Michigan region.
17. LMSRF works to cause clubs to improve opportunities for sailors with special needs through its Adaptive Sailing Committee and events.
18. LMSRF is educating leaders on methods to tear down the silos between youth, high school, collegiate and adult sailing to keep age 21 and younger sailors in the sport into adulthood.
19. LMSRF is working on initiatives to make sailboat racing safer.
20. LMSRF offers our no cost Speaker Series, available to member clubs, on Race Management; Judging; Racing Rules Seminars, Handicap or Rating Rules, Growing the Number of Boats on Starting Lines, or New Boats to Racing - just ask us for it.
21. Your voice is carried from your club to the Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes and US Sailing through the LMSRF representatives who attend those meetings.
22. LMSRF member clubs and sailing organizations may request a printable membership certificate to display at their club and/or a member icon for their web site annually.
23. LMSRF member clubs are included in the annual member listing on our web site, featuring all LMSRF individual members and yacht clubs.
24. LMSRF member clubs gain access to leader contacts.
25. LMSRF member clubs can help develop race, regatta and Championship schedules.
26. LMSRF member clubs receive advance notice for LMSRF sponsored sailing skill and strategy seminars, racing rules seminars, and race management seminars to the provided leader's email address(es).
27. LMSRF member clubs gain a vote in the organization.
28. While the five geographic LMSRF Areas run their own meetings very well, the LMSRF parent Board of Directors handles the annual fiscal reports to the various government offices allowing the local areas to focus on sailing and sail racing.
29. LMSRF provides its "Crew Board" for all clubs to share with their members for skippers looking for crew or crew looking for skippers. Click on link at www.lmsrf.org.
30. LMSRF clubs may announce an event or race through our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LMSRF.
31. LMSRF offers a program to teach publicity to our member clubs to promote themselves better in their communities, regionally and world wide.
32. LMSRF offers a comprehensive listing of educational and training programs in Lake Michigan SuRF for its members, they merely need to be submitted as soon as possible and no later than the 20th of the month before they shall be conducted.
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For our members our charitable arm provides sailing education; organization and coordination of safe and fair sailboat racing; financial support to competitors to distant major championships; championships for adult & youth; communications; and recognizes greatness in the sport of sailboat racing on Lake Michigan.
