America’s Cup Live Broadcasts This Weekend
If you have the time and interest you can tune in to the live broadcasts of the America's Cup series races from Venice this weekend. Quite a treat to hear the familiar "Guys, we got a cluster f**k here" spoken by a highly paid athlete in an Australian accent.

It's an amazing sight with the Cup catamarans racing in the narrow confines of the bay in front of lovely and historic Venice.

You can find the races at http://www.youtube.com/AmericasCup.

West Marine Donates New PTSA Race Mark

Dan from West Marine showing off the new PTSA race mark that West Marine donated.

PTSA is proud to announce that West Marine of Port Townsend recently become a sponsor to our events, by donating all the ground tackle and buoy for the replacement of the missing mark “Y,”( which should be in by the [...]

Race Committee Introductory Meeting, February 11th

Racing On PT Bay Can’t Start

Without You!

Come meet the Port Townsend Sailing Association Race Committee at the NW Maritime Center classroom at 6:30 pm on February 11th for a Race Committee Introductory Meeting.  You’ll learn what the Race Committee does, how it does it’s work, why it is so key to racing on our Bay, and how you can get in on the fun. Refreshments will be provided.

Members of the PTSA Race Committee spend regular time on one of America’s most spectacular Bays surrounded by of some of the most beautiful sailboats in the country. Now you can be part of the crew.

For more information call Kathy Grace at 301-4938


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New Forum Is Waiting For You

The new PTSA Forum is online and waiting for you to give it a try. We’re going to open it up to PTSA members and folks from the Port Townsend boating community. That may have to change in the future if the spam avalanche hits, but until then we hope all Port Townsend [...]

Dallas Johnson – No Saving Needed

An interesting article on building club participation from Scuttlebutt News here lifted from Sailing Wold. Does any of this relate to PTSA? Comments are open, let us hear your thoughts.

(October 19, 2010) Dallas Johnson submitted a letter in the September issue of Sailing World magazine, where he commented that while everyone is talking these days about “Saving Sailing”, there are still sailing areas – such as his home waters of Lake Minnetonka – that are doing just fine.

As current Commodore of Wayzata Yacht Club, Dallas provides some insight into what’s going right at his “inland lake fly-over world” in the U.S. state of Minnesota.


There’s no magic bullet or super genius running our programs, but there are some basics:

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Put Variety in Your Courses

Perhaps to start a conversation, here’s a column from the June, 2010, issue of Sailing World on varying the racecourses beyond windward – leeward. What do you think? There’s a poll at the bottom you can enter your opinion. Jon

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Are the sailors in your fleet tired of sailing around the [...]