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The essential mission of the Downtown SailingCenter is to provide accessible and affordablesailing opportunities and education programs toall. We should really be called the “DowntownSailing Community.” We are a community ofindividuals, from as far as Pennsylvania andWashington, D.C., ranging from retirees to collegestudents, professionals and blue collar workers,from all walks of life, economic, race and religiousstrata. Most came to the DSC to learn how to sailor to volunteer in the many outreach programs weprovide for at-risk children and persons withdisabilities.

Our strength is in the incredible dedication andvolunteerism of our many hundred adult members,a dedicated and extremely hard-working core staffand a volunteer Board of Directors. Coordinatedwith the Staff, our members teach classes, workwith kids, secure donations of boats and sails, andlog thousands of hours in service work in areas asdiverse as engine and fiberglass repair, boatmaintenance and repair, marketing, printing,graphic design, not to mention working onfundraising events and meals and refreshments forvolunteers.

The last year saw a development and installationof a new marina, an expansion of our manyoutreach programs, and a successful capitalcampaign. And, as soon as the marinaconstruction was complete, school buses and vans

arrived every day delivering, over the course of thesailing season, over a thousand kids and disabledpersons led by a seasonal staff of 50. When thebuses and vans left, our adult membersparticipated in sailing education programs,informal and formal race programs, and cruises (asa reward for upgrading and maintaining the manydonated cruising boats that will eventually be soldto raise capital).

Of course, this constant use of our fleet of 50sailboats, including 11 designed specially foraccessible sailing, results in wear, tear and(sometimes) more serious damage to boats andsails. Our primary focus this coming year,therefore, is to repair and restore our fleet of daysailboats and accessible dinghies. Safety is, and hasalways been, our number one priority, and properrepair and maintenance of our fleet helps toensure this.

The following report summarizes this past year,reports on our sound financial footing, and, mostimportantly, recognizes the many DSC membersand friends, businesses and foundations that haveallowed our community to share the joy of sailing,and the life lessons sailing teaches us –commitment, focus, teamwork, patience – withothers.

Doug SilberPresident, Board of Directors

M E S S A G E F R O M T H E P R E S I D E N T

The mission of the Downtown Sailing Center is to provide accessible and affordableeducational sailing programs to all. We should really be called the “Downtown SailingCommunity.” We are a community of individuals, from as far as Pennsylvania andWashington, D.C., ranging from retiree's to college students, professionals and blue

collar workers, from all walks of life, economic, race and religious affiliation. Most came to the DSC to learn howto sail or to volunteer in the many outreach programs we provide for at-risk children and persons with disabilities.

Our fiscal year started with a major grantfrom the Maryland Department of NaturalResources, with sponsorship support andcoordination by the City of Baltimore. TheCity then agreed to donate a large floatingconcrete marina that was being re-designedto handle larger boats. With contractservices provided by Whitney, Bailey, Cox andMagnani and Corman-Imbach Marine, thewinter of 2007 saw construction barges andtugs removing over 300 abandoned androtted pilings and a sunken barge at ourleased site. Although somewhat delayedpast the original schedule, the new fullyaccessible and secured marina, secured withseventeen 70-foot long coated steel pilings,was in place and open just as the July 4thFireworks rained down in front of us.

The accelerated design, permitting andconstruction was made possible as a result ofconfluence of key factors, firms and individuals:

While there is still more work to be done, such as sorting out the water supply and electricsystems, we overcame the obstacles, and we now have a marina capable of handling over30 boats, as it did this summer. Eventually we will be able to accommodate close to 60boats, including the access dinghies. Meanwhile, our wood floating docks located in theadjacent City owned water remain available to us, under the terms of a new agreement alsoapproved by the City at the end of 2006.

This opportunity to have obtained the donated docks, the major grants, the engineering,permitting, construction and construction management could not have been realizedwithout the engineering and project management expertise of our Executive Director, JerryHauprich, who was assisted by Assistant Director of Operations, Andreas Steinhoff.

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• Substantial support for a capital campaignfrom DSC members and Board ofDirectors

• A line of credit from the Carrollton Bank• Five grants and incredible coordination

assistance from Maryland Departmentof Natural Resources WaterwayImprovement Fund

• A major grant from the France-Merrick Foundation

• Incredible support, assistance andcoordination from Mayor Shiela Dixon,the Department of Planning, andBaltimore Development Corporation

• Donations of architectural, engineeringand legal services from DSC members and friends

Deputy Director of Outreach,Peter Hegel, helped to expandDSC’s Youth Outreach Programs in2007. More than 1300 peoplewent sailing in these programs,with a marked increase incommunity outreach andaccessible sailing. The DSC alsosaw the birth of the new FreedomAccessible Day Camp and thecontinuation of establishedAccess-Ability Sail program, Kidsailprograms, and Sailing InstructorTrainee program, and our Juniorsand Junior Seamanship summercamps.

The Freedom Accessibleprogram is a new tuition-basedprototype day camp for youthwith disabilities. This pastsummer session included three,week-long, sessions with learning,training, and programdevelopment for several weeksbefore the beginning of theprogram. Our friends at KennedyKrieger Institute provided intensivetraining to a core staff on how towork with children withdisabilities. With a successful firstyear, the DSC will be looking to expandenrollment for 2008.

The Acces-Ability Sail program saw anenormous expansion in the number of individualsserved, roughly tripling the number of clientsserved over the prior year. This program is oftencompletely free because of the overwhelmingsupport from volunteers, who helped enablemore than 180 different individuals withdisabilities to sail. The electrically equippedaccess dinghy saw more use than ever before,allowing many individuals to experience thefreedom of solo sailing even if they use anelectric wheelchair to move in almost every othersituation. In total, the DSC provided about 415

participant days* of sailing forpeople with disabilities.

The Kidsail program is anumbrella of many programs forboth youth and adults who arebeing served as part of the DSC'scommunity outreach mission of“providing affordable andaccessible sailing to all.” Schoolgroups, groups from houses ofworship, international refugees,scouts, teacher retreats, summercamps, residential housinggroups, community centers, andjob training programs all wentsailing with the DSC this summer.In total, over 1000 individualssailed with the DSC in 2007 forthis program, comprising justunder 3,000 participant days.

While a majority of the over 80volunteers for the Accessible andKidsail programs came from theDSC membership, the balance ofvolunteers came from thebusiness community, servicegroups, college and high schoolcommunity service programs.Many of these volunteers

become caught up in DSC’s mission of makingsailing affordable and accessible to all, andbecame DSC members themselves. In this way,DSC’s outreach programs not only benefit thosebeing served, but also provide an opportunityand an incentive for adults to get involved,volunteer and help others.

The Sailing Instructor Trainee Program (S.I.T.)completed its fourth successful program, workingwith a total of 10 aspiring instructors this pastsummer, the traditional class size. As in prioryears, trainees learned life skills, team building,and teaching skills in a summer-long program.Graduates are guaranteed a job the followingsummer at the DSC if they are able to pass their

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final examination and presentation evaluations.This year’s trainees received additional inspirationfrom S.I.T. alumnus Steve Manson who, afterspending the summer in California and Hawaiiwith Roy Disney’s Morning Light film project(soon to be a film documentary), was acceptedinto the Maritime Academy at the StateUniversity of New York to study navalarchitecture.

Finally, our 15th annual Juniors Day Campcontinued its strong tradition of teaching 140junior campers in the fields of teamwork andleadership. Like our S.I.T. graduates, many of ourinstructors began as Junior campers. TheJuniors Seamanship Camp is an expansion ofthe day camp, adding an overnight componentas the 43 foot sloop Pintita, led by Capt. PhilSchnering, takes the campers for a week-longvoyage to explore the Chesapeake Bay.

In addition to serving dozens of unaffiliatedindividuals, DSC partnered with many area non-profit organizations in the programs listed above:

Access-Ability Sail and Freedom AccessibleDay Camp

• League for People with Disabilities• William S. Baer School• Special Olympics of Maryland• Baltimore Adapted Recreation

and Sports Services

• Camp Greentop• Kennedy Krieger Institute• ARC of Baltimore• Goucher College• Athelas Institute• Baltimore City Therapeutic Recreation• Kernan Hospital Stroke Recovery Group

Kidsail

• Parks and People Foundation SuperKids Camp• East Baltimore Development Initiative• International Rescue Committee• The Bridges Program at the St. Paul School• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Maryland• Chesapeake Courage Camp• Box of Rain• Mastering a Successful Transition• Digital Harbor High School• Casey Cares Foundation• BSA Scoutreach Division• Midtown Academy• Boy Scouts of America – Central MD• Macedonia Baptist Church• My Sister’s Circle• Sarah’s House• Society For Values in Higher Education• Camp Nafesh• The Children’s Home• John’s Hopkins Residents for Adaptive Medicine

*A participant day is one person on a boat for that day’s program. A five day program would equal five participant days.

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We were extremely fortunate to have received generous support from the DSC membership,friends, foundations and area businesses. In addition, the Marina Project could not have beenpossible without major grants from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources/ WaterwayImprovement Program, the France-Merrick Foundation and the donation of the dock systemsfor the City of Baltimore.

Additionally, we received donations of nine large sail boats that will be used for our cruisingeducation program, power boats and outboard engines for safety boats, along with new sailsfor many of the day sail boats and life jackets for our Outreach programs. These and otherbusinesses lending support are listed below.

Boats Robert Childers Charles KylerCindi and Ted Kaiser DeCapiteau Dwight McCurdyJames Hainer Tom and Chris ReinhartRobert Knowles Julia and Doug SilberDoug Kornreich Raimund Taukulis

Other Brewer’s Art • Bruce Kirby • Ellicott Dredges LLC • Jamie Boekel FoundationHogan & Hartson LLP • Little Havana • City of Baltimore • Max RobinsonMerchant Marine Academy • Noroton Yacht Club • Print Graphics • RCM&D

Gifts over $50,000

France-Merrick FoundationMaryland Department ofNatural Resources

Gifts over $10,000

Baltimore Board of Child Care/UMC

Beechmont FoundationClayton-Baker TrustDSC Board of DirectorsMary Anna Kinder Jean and Sidney Silber

Foundation

Gifts over $1,000

AYC FoundationBaker-King FundCorckran Family Charitable

FoundationKiwanis Club of

Baltimore CityDr. Frank C. Marino

FoundationCarolyn MollenkopfRobert Smith School -

University of Maryland

Max RobinsonRosemore Inc.St. Agnes FoundationJohn Ben Snow

Memorial TrustTRF INCT. Rowe Price FoundationGenslerYouthWorks

Gifts over $500

Black and DeckerEnterprise Community

Investment, Inc.Dennis and Janice FlaniganBarbara KeaneJames KoehnleinT A P Pharmaceutical

Products, IncWhitney, Bailey, Cox &

Magnani

Gifts over $100

180 Medical IncPaul & Jane AndersonRobert BaginskiJason BergmanJonathan Bigden

Linsley CraigMarty FetschGordon FronkThe Gorfine FoundationBruce GreenwaldEdward G HauprichWilliam J. KautterScott KirwinBarbara and David

KornblattGordon LivingstonCharles LockeJohn Mahon Peter McCullough &

Margaret MeixnerMarilyn McDonaldReuben MezrichJennifer L. MillarChris MurrayGary PageJudith PfeifferPaul and Jan QuinnAnthony RaneriJohn J. SabolSailing 360Isaac ShafranJeffrey SternCarolyn TheissBruce ThorntonGary Tilford

Holly TilfordEdward UnderhillKristin ValentinoTark Yetiser Janine Yieh

Gifts to $100

Jason AboschStacey AndersonAnonymousSteve AwaltHeather BakalyarCheryl BarlowJustin BellBedford Bentley, Jr.David BermanCharles BittnerStacey BlerschTom BowmanAmanda BuchananWilliam BuckleyJeffrey CanavanJack ChaffinGregory ColleyNatalie CulbertsonShannon DarlingtonRafael DecaboJan DempewolfChristine Desmond

(Gifts to $100 continued)

Margaret DeYoungColleen Bell DonlinDrew DowlingToni DugganChester EvansMarisa FeltzConstantine FrangosJennifer GaskillWilliam GloverPancho GonzalesBryant GorrellJason Goscha Leslie GreenwaldDawnyel GrenkeJoyce HammockHillary HardtEbbe HasslMark HeckmanMike HoggBryan Holden

Theodora HowellEvan KatzMary KeaneDavid KeelyChristopher KelleyVivek KhoslaKasey M. KinneyVivian KongJustin KowalCliff LattaBenton LeeKaren LenkeyBruce LevyRosemary LiffGustavo LopezJames LowellLindsey LucasSarah MallongaDonald ManekinTheresa MarshallDaniel MauriceJames McCutchan

Robert MelanGlenn MetzlerJacqueline MeydLaura MeydZach MitchellDana MonroigTimothy MooreMark MrazMichael MurphyCharles F. NobleNiall and Maria O'MalleyElaine PappChristopher PateWilliam PelusoEd PhillipsJeff PilandAdam PodbielskiJonathan PrestonJohn R QuinnAdam RainesWilfrid RobergeRafael Rodriguez

Robert RussellDawn SagerHartmut SchneiderPaul SchneiderJoy SchnetzkaNikolaos SelimisMeena ShahRobert SinerEric SingsonTrevor SmithWilliam D. StarkDavid SullivanRichard S. SwinglePeter ThomasMatthew TargaronaAlice TranKandyce TrippNina VaughnKari WarrenHal Wickersham

S U M M A R Y O F R E V E N U EA N D E X P E N S E S

12/01/2006 –11/30/2007

Revenue Adult and Youth Education 157,764Community Outreach 79,955Charters 10,102Direct Public Support (Cash and Non-Cash) 324,996Government Grants (Marina Project) 256,573Annual Fee Memberships 106,763Other Income 5,966

Total Revenue 924,119

Expenses Adult and Youth Education 202,852Community Outreach 289,868Fundraising 42,347Management and General 101,276

Total Expenses 636,400

Net Increase (Loss) in Assets 305,776

Net Asset Value as of December 1, 2006 241,318 Other Changes to Net Assets or Fund Balances (17,647)Net Asset Value as of November 30, 2007 529,447

Peter Bowe

Hugh Elliot

Alex Gardner

David Goldstein

Andy Herbick

William Intner

Mark Keane

Merritt Palm Keffer

Nolan North

Marc Ottinger

Mark Shapiro

Doug Silber

Steve Smith

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Jerry HauprichExecutive Director

Peter HegelAssistant Director – Outreach

Andreas SteinhoffAssistant Director – Operations

Shannon DarlingtonOffice Manager

Physical Address: 1425 Key Highway, Suite 110 • Baltimore, MD 21230Mailing Address: P. O. Box 29917 • Baltimore, MD 21230

Office (410) 727-0722 • www.downtownsailing.org

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