Boats For Sale:
Do you have a boat for sale? Would you like to list it on the La Crosse Sailing Club Web site? It's easy – just prepare a single page PDF or .DOC and submit it to webmaster@lax-sailing.org. Each season the listings will be removed, so please update your information and submit again. Click Here.
Resources for Beginners & Articles of Interest
WKBT Video
Jon Feist and Geoff Chatterton were featured in 2009. Click HERE for the embedded video.
Books:
The Complete Sailor/David Seidman
This Is Sailing/Creagh-Osbourne (out of print, but available on Ebay)
Videos:
Historic Sailing Documentary: Around Cape Horn - Capt. Irving Johnson Sailing DVD
YouTube:
Nice tutorials on sailing concepts from ppconsultant, click here for one example.
Iceboating on Lake Onalaska, Jan 31st, 2010
Facebook:
Interactive:
Learn sail and rigging terms from Chris Bucheit's Flash Tutorial. Click Here
How To:
Removing Sail Numbers and Letters (PDF)
Articles:
Here's an excellent article from Northern Breezes entitled "Trailor Sailor Locations in the Midwest" (PDF) by our own Ted Sojka.
"Daysailing Essentials" by Bruce Caldwell on Sailnet.com. This is a great article on basic equipment to have for daysailing adventures. Submitted by Paul Krause.
"Tri-Superior Race". Story and pictures by Jim Melby from August, 2000.
General Resources
Yacht Clubs & Associations:
UW Madison Hoofer Sailing Club
Lake DuBay Sailing Association
Catamaran Racing Association of Wisconsin
Online Marine Sales:
West Marine
Layline
Bosun Supplies
Rigging Manufactures:
Harken
Garhauer
Schaefer
Ronstan
Magazines:
Practical Sailer
Sailing Breezes
Sailing World
Ideas & Proposals:
Here is a Day Sailor Lift Proposal (PDF) for our club drawn by Ted Sojka.
Merchants & Services
Power House Marine
518 Logan St.
La Crosse, WI 54603
608-784-9580
Holiday Marine
108 Clinton St
La Crosse, WI 54603
608-784-2877
Northern Lake Sailboats LLC
Joseph M. Terry
1180 Port Road
Port Edwards, WI 54469
715-887-3020
jlterry@wctc.net
Seven Seas
600 West Lake St.
Minneapolis MN 55331
(At Shorewood Yacht Club)
952-470-0099
"If its for sail, we sell it"
LINE HONORS
Performance Sailing Supply
P.O. Box 101
Lake Geneva, WI 53147
866.661.5454
Huck Finn's Restaurant
127 Marina Dr
La Crosse, WI 54603
608-791-3595
Seven Bridges Restaurant
910 2nd Ave N
Onalaska, WI 54650
608-783-6103
Damselfly Sails
Sail repair, reef point installations, larger sails remodeled to fit your boat's unique needs.
Daun Allen
1110 S. 19th Street
La Crosse, WI 54601
608-784-5284