A woman asked me last summer whether she should do ASA 101 or just keep taking lessons with me, and she was slightly annoyed when I said it depends on what she wanted to do in three years. It is the honest answer though. Certification solves one specific problem, and if you do not have
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Ice usually leaves Mendota somewhere in the second half of March, though I have seen it hang on into the second week of April and I have seen it go in February. The lake keeps its own calendar. Still, if you are trying to pick a weekend, some parts of the season are reliably better
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Almost everyone who books a first lesson asks me the same question in the parking lot, and it is never about sailing. It is some version of “how wet am I going to get.” The answer is barely, unless you want to be. What follows is the rest of what happens, in order, so the
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