Good News For Our Local Club

Our local club leases (from a State agency) about an acre with mast-up storage on Barnett Reservoir near Jackson MS .  The property is really not much good for other acivities...part is a drainage easement and most is below the 100 yead flood elevation.  However, it's on a cove that offers some wind/wave protection and has enough sand/grass beach to launch a few boats at once, so it's a great location for us.  {Most of The Rez (as we call it) is lined with rip-rap and retaining walls.}

I've been Commodore of the club for about 25 years, and, not long after becoming so, we went through a lease renewal that was very contentious.  Unbeknownst to us, they had adopted a plan to incorporate our little spot into the large park next to us.  We had to put up a huge fight to survive by the skin of our teeth, and we have been subject to being kicked out at any time ever since then.  Well, the last lease period expired December 31, and I've been working on another renewal since last July.  I'm happy to report that things have changed, the park expansion plan is finally off the table, and we just receved an executed lease renewal through 2085...60 friggin' years with no kick-out clause!

Beach/water access for our kind of sailing is getting harder and harder to come by nationwide.  I am absolutely thrilled to be passing things along to our yonger folks with the opportunity to continue our operations for the long term.  Who knows, maybe one day I'll have a great-great grandchild (son of a son of a son of a son of a sailor) out there harnessing some of the same wind that I have.

Anyway, I just wanted to share this news with a community that might appreciate it.  Sail on, friends...