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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.

Shipwrights’ Race Is In Less Than a Month!

The 21st annual Shipwrights’ Race is coming right up on Saturday, February 25th. Round up your hibernating crew or pick up some fresh crew here on this site or at the skippers’ meeting and get ready for a fun race with wacky trophies and valuables prizes.

You’ll have the choice of three fleets [...]

Greg Fisher Goes Over the Basics

The first event of the year, the Shipwrights Regatta on February 25, 2012, is coming up at a good clip. Time to start thinking about what you need to do on the boat and to get your head back into the very basics of sailing a race on the Bay.

In the video below, [...]

Night Cap 2011 final results

Results at last! Assuming nothing ELSE goes wrong.

A boat to watch next season is Silent Way. If they hadn’t gone through the S-F line when not starting or finishing (as per sailing instructions) they would have won the last race and placed second behind Dorado DESPITE having missed 2 races.

Results follow. Okay so they are a mess, but the info is there starting with final results.

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Night Cap Race 6

11 Boats came out for the final race of the Night Cap Series. Conditions were “variable” to put it lightly. Two boats, Silent Way & Pacemaker, crossed the S-F line between the first and second marks. The Sailing Instructions specify that the S-F line is only to be crossed when starting and finishing. This [...]

Night Cap 5

Nine boats participated in the 5th race of the Night Cap Series. The course was problematic from the dock, with the wind from the NNE while it was reported that there was no wind at the buoy (NNE of the dock). The only, somewhat consistent, wind seemed to be along the PT shore, so a downwind start to the trestle and back (hopefully twice) was chosen. With the wind slackening before the first boat crossed on the first lap, it was clear that fewer than half of the fleet could finish within an hour so, the shorten course flag was posted and times were taken.

Boats that have not participated in this series have been removed from the results, so some numbers have changed although this has no effect on the overall standings.

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