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• Windsurf & Wing Orientation & Checkout

  • When
    30 Jul 2025
  •  
    18:00 - 19:30
  • Location
    Locarno Windsurf Container
  • Spaces left
    95
  • Registered
    5 registrants

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  Windsurfing & Winging Orientation & Checkout

  If you are existing fleet member and want to move up a level, such as smaller boards and foils, please contact a fleet captain or director or separately.

  This checkout is mandatory for ALL members wishing to use our windsurfing fleet. This is not a windsurfing lesson. To attend this checkout you are expected to have at least 15 hours of windsurfing experience or completed our Beginner Windsurfing Lessons. Successful completion of the checkout will qualify you to use our Level 1 windsurfing gear.

  We will show you where our windsurfing equipment is stored and go over the windsurfing craft sign out procedure as well as how to properly transport the gear to and from the beach and how to report damage. If you have not already completed our Beginner Windsurfing Lessons then you will also be asked to demonstrate your ability to launch, sail out, tack and sail your windsurfing board safely back to the beach. You will also be asked to demonstrate a self rescue technique.

  Meet at the Windsurfing Container. If you haven't taken our Beginner Windsurfing Lessons please wear your wetsuit (mandatory for windsurfing) to be ready to demonstrate your on water skills. At the discretion of the checkout leader the on-water test may be waived.
  

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• Nitinaht trip - Gear allocation and loading

  • When
    31 Jul 2025
  •  
    17:00 - 18:30
  • Location
    Container

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  Please register if you are all registered on the Nitinaht club trip.

  The purpose of this event is to do a final allocation of equipment (sails, booms, harnesses, helmets, masts, sails, UJs, mast extensions, boards, fins) and load in vehicles.

  
  

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• FULL ***Windsurf Trip - Nitinaht Aug'25 (THE BIG TRIP)***

  • Start
    01 Aug 2025
  •  
    00:00
  • End
    04 Aug 2025
  •  
    22:00
  • Location
    Lake Nitinaht, Vancouver Island
  • Spaces left
    7

  14 July 2025: The trip is full again. Email windsurfing@clublocarno.com to join the waitlist.

  
  

  Open to L2 & L3 - Windsurfers and Wingers. Limited number of foils will be taken this year.

  Destination: Nitinaht Lake, BC

  This trip is awesome for intermediate and advanced sailors. Beautiful Nitinaht Lake typically has no wind in the morning and high wind at the end of the day. A great opportunity to progress.

  Level 2 sailors can enjoy consistent strong winds to nail water starts, get into harness lines and foot straps and get planing, and get foiling. Level 3 will enjoy blasting, bump & jump and lots of runs to perfect their carve gybe.

  The trip details:

  • Dates are: Friday, August 1st to Monday, August 4th (August long weekend).
  • Open to Level 2 and 3 windsurf members.
  • You will organize your own transport, tents & food etc. (Often members share transport)
  • The club will rent a van to transport most club gear. Ideally some members will also take gear on roof racks.

  Prices & charges:

  • Club arranged camping is $55 per adult (3 nights)
  • Kids under 17 are free (limits apply)
  • Club Locarno gear is an additional trip fee of $35 (members only)

  Guests & kids:

  • Partners, kids and other guests are welcome.
  • Maximum 1 adult guest
  • Maximum 4 kids under 17 years old
  • Members with a guest should try to share a tent so as to keep space available for other members   
  • In the reservation form, DO NOT include kids in the number of guests, instead indicate the number of kids in specific drop-down box.

  Important Notes:

  • Do not register another Locarno windsurf member as a guest - have them register separately.
  • Windsurf members with their own camping arranged are welcome to join and use the club equipment for the $35 fee.
  • The road to Nitinaht includes 45 km of (mostly good) gravel logging road.
    
  • We will sort out details for tents, sites and transport at the planning meetings.
  • Due to summer demand, book ferries for vehicles ASAP

   Key Dates:

  • Monday, July 14th (7:30 pm): Online planning meeting (early transport, etc.)
  • Monday, July 28th: Final online planning meeting (transport, camping, etc.)
  • Thursday, July 31st at 5 PM to load the van!
  • Friday, August 1st: Leave
  • Monday, August 4th: Return
  • Tuesday, August 5th: Post-Trip Cleanup & BBQ (TBC)

  Participation and volunteering

  The trip is member run. To share the load, members are expected to

  • Help with loading the van & post-trip clean up
  • Rigging and carrying gear

  A rigging and transportation clinic will be organized in July.
  

  Registration survey:

  Please complete the survey as best as possible to aid trip planning. Planning considerations include windsurf gear, transport and Nitinaht campsite occupancy limits for adults, kids and number of tents. Survey results will be reviewed and reconfirmed at the planning meeting, in case there are changes.

  Addition information:

  • Members can organize their own camping at the Nitinaht Campsite. If there is no availability, check again closer to the time as there are often last minute cancellations.
  • For members taking a vehicle, book a BC Ferry ASAP
  • A U-Haul van is booked for gear transport and will be on the 8:35 AM ferry on Friday and back on the 8:30 PM ferry on Monday.

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• Windsurf Trip - Nitinaht Other fees

  • Start
    01 Aug 2025
  •  
    00:00
  • End
    04 Aug 2025
  •  
    22:00
  • Location
    Lake Nitinaht, Vancouver Island
  • Spaces left
    24

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  This form is for settling extra fees that may need paying to the club, such as adding a guest later.

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• Nitinaht trip - pack away gear

  • When
    05 Aug 2025
  •  
    17:00 - 18:30
  • Location
    Container

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  Please register if you are going on the Nitinaht trip

  The purpose of this event is put gear away from the trip, including:
  

  • Reattach fins and vent screws, then wash down boards and stow in the container
  • Return board bags to the locker
  • Re-rig any sails previously taken from the hangar
  • Wash booms, PFDs, harnesses, masts and UJs and stow in container
  • Stow other sails and washed mast extensions in the sail locker.
  • Sign-in equipment

  
  

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• New Windsurfing Club Trip Request Form

  • When
    31 Dec 2025

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  Click Register to submit a Club Trip plan

  Club trips can be arranged by members so as long as they are offered to all eligible members. 

  Refer to other Club Trip posting for appropriate descriptions in the plan.

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