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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.

How About A Couple of Cruises This Year?

Vince Townrow, Commodore of Port Hadlock Yacht Club is planning a couple of cruises this year and has invited all our members to join in the fun. Here is a lettter I recieved from Vince with the details:

Proposed Weekend Cruises for the 2012 season.

They should be informal and a way to have fun on the [...]

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, [...]

Dialing in Step’nAnnie for Heavy Weather

So with last Sunday’s race canceled, we took a vote and decided to get a practice session in with some real wind, we stayed out for a couple of hours, and got the boat and crew pretty comfortable. Boat speeds up into the 8 kt range a few times, lots of 7 kt speeds. [...]

More Race Photos

Do you like to see pictures of your boat in action? Thanks to some of our PTSA members, you can do just that.

Kate Clayton took pictures of the recent Midsummer Regatta with Satch’s “boat camera” aboard Step ‘n’ Annie. You can view those pictures at:

https://picasaweb.google.com/112649943788495072698/2011MidsummerRegatta?authkey=Gv1sRgCJu4mdy3hfSmogE

If you would like a high resolution copy (free) of any of the photos, send a note to Satch with the photo number and your e-mail. Satch’s e-mail is: beercanracer@hotmail.com.

Elizabeth Becker also has pictures from the Classic Mariners Regatta that she took from her classic Lake Union Dreamboat Emmeline. You can see these, as well as many other of her photos at: www.seaportphoto.com

Here is a sampling:

…. more photos after the break

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2011 Shipwrights Photos from Craig Wester

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