Youth Sailing in Lake County, Central Florida By Jabbo Gordon
The boat house. Uptain-Smith convinced everyone who would listen that sailing not only was a family-oriented activity but that it fit right in with Clermont’s efforts to develop its lakeside property, especially on 1,888-acre Lake Minneola.
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Clermont mother took an old saying and put it into action, giving Lake County another youth sailing program—one that is relatively new but growing rapidly. They say that necessity is the mother of invention and Stacey Uptain-Smith took it to heart when she became tired of hauling her sons, Cameron and Matthew Smith, and some of their friends up to the Lake Eustis Sailing Center
(LESC). Uptain-Smith is quick to say that LESC has a fine program, but she was becoming road weary from the hourlong drives. Furthermore, she was very cognizant of the beautiful lakes in Clermont and wondered why she couldn’t start a new program in her adopted home. Even LESC, like so many Florida youth sailing groups, was most cooperative,
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