2012 Sailing Calendar Released
Next year's sailing calendar was released from the Port Townsend Sailing Association's central home office. To download your copy of next year's scheduled fun on the Bay and surrounding waters, click the link below. 2012 PTSA and Regional Sailing Schedule-1.pdf.
|
 Photo by Joel Goldstein from the NW Maritime Center's blog Stem to Stern 70 high school sailors gathered at the Northwest Maritime Center to wrap up the season under surprisingly sunny skies Saturday and Sunday. The wind cooperated as well – at least on Saturday, allowing the Race Committee to bang off 18 races on Saturday over the course of about 7 hours. Sunday was to be less windy so the R/C, made up of three generations of the Daubenberger family made the best of Saturday. As it turned out, this was a good thing to do as only 2 races would be completed on Sunday.
Out of 17 teams, Port Townsend High School fielded three of them, posting finishes of 2nd, 4th and 15th. Orcas Island won the event, and Bainbridge Island rounded out the top three. The locals have been practicing at the regatta location for two weeks and it seemed to show, as they had a knack for the shifty conditions and cross-course current.
continue reading » Sailing Team Ends Season at PT Regatta
Another report from Coach Erik Coburn. The final district qualifier will be May 28th and 29th in Port Townsend.
The High School Sailing Team put forth another good effort at Team Race District Qualifiers finishing 4th out of 7 varsity teams. We did not field a JV team. The event, sailed on Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island, was conducted under sunny skies and light 5 – 8 knots of breeze this past Saturday and Sunday. As the first day’s round robin concluded the team went 3-3 which included an upset of Orcas Island. The next day the team went 4-2 in the round robin with an upset of Sehome (Bellingham) and North Kitsap (Pouslbo) but fell to Orcas and Bainbridge. The overall 7-5 record put the team into the final 4 winners bracket, but dropped the 3 races to Sehome, Orcas and Bainbridge.
continue reading » Sailing Team Scores at Team Race District Regatta
A quick update on our sailing team from coach Erik Coburn. As always, your financial support helps make it possible.
We went up to Doublehand District Champs with the high school team and had a good showing.
Varsity got a 4th out of 12 and we displaced one of the perennial powerhouses by 27 points over 24 races. We were 10 points out of 3rd. The 1st place team was head and shoulders above everyone but we had the youngest team by far, with two sophs vs all seniors in the top 5 teams besides us. We had a weird protest that had we won we might have tied for 3rd on points but I hadn’t figured out if we would have won the tie breaker. Dick Rose was the committee so no arguing with him!!! No worries anyway because only the winner goes to Nationals.
continue reading » PT High School Sailing Team Update
 By Leslie McNish
Despite having to cancel two of three practices last week due to high winds, the Port Townsend dinghy sailors made a strong showing on Bellingham’s Lake Whatcom, under partly cloudy skies and a reasonable steady 6 to 10 knot breeze. It was nice for the team to compete in some better breeze than they had experienced at two of the previous regattas. Since it resembled what the team often practices in, they were more comfortable sailing in it. The regatta was sailed in 13′ Flying Juniors (FJs) and 14′ Alphas.
continue reading » Port Townsend Sailors Perform Well in Bellingham
 PT sailing team members Shawn Huston and Mackenzie Ginther going for a mark rounding in boat #1 The hardy young sailors have begun their season despite cold temperatures, high winds and downpours of rain. While coaches have had to wisely call off a few practices due to gales, the team has managed to compete in two regattas which took place in Seattle. Both events ironically turned out to be light air affairs.
The team’s first event was held under sunny skies at the Seattle Yacht Club on Portage Bay. Despite fickle winds, Port Townsend sailors managed to finish in 10th and 11th place out of 15 in the more competitive “Captain’s Fleet.” The following weekend, held at Sail Sandpoint on Lake Washington was sailed in a light, shifty southerly with steady rain. Port Townsend’s sailors finished 3rd, 7th and 13th out of 23 competing teams.
“This bunch of kids is starting to see the results of all their hard work at practices with some good results on the race course. Their success comes from maintaining a positive attitude no matter what the conditions are,” said Coach Erik Coburn.
continue reading » PT High School Sailing Team Season Gets Underway
|
|
