T-37 Model Yacht Racing Going Strong
T-37 racing at the SYC. Photo by Neil Rabinowitz from Northwest Yachting. Heads up, there's a race Sunday, December 1st, and you're invited! T-37 model yacht racing at the public dock across from the Ajax Cafe by the Boat School with the first race starting at noon. There's a good chance you'll get handed one of the controllers and get a chance to sail one of these powered up model yachts. With just two channels, one winch trims the sails and the other runs the rudder, sailing the boats isn't hard. But like any kind of sailboat racing, [...]
Working Sail
via Old Salt Blog
Heresy! Modify a T-Bird?
Does This Make Sense? Down in Australia some kids who didn't know any better cut the cabin off their T-Bird in an effort to make it more race friendly. Looks pretty good from that aspect but not as comfortable to cruise. Wait a minute, they're already too fast.
Riding The Storm Out In The Southern Ocean
From pressure-drop.us, the Clipper Round the World race meets a powerfull storm in the Southern Ocean. Dear Readers, I feel I owe you a full explanation of the previous day’s storm activities, so here goes, let’s go back to 16 November. All signs (fleet reports, Clipper Race weatherman Simon Rowell’s weather predictions and my pigtails) were that the front would hit us sometime mid to late afternoon, local time. Mid-morning we had dropped our other headsail which meant a loss in speed as it was great surfing but prudent given the incoming weather forecast. We were now running with just [...]
Round The County Race, 2013
Dan Newland Reports on PEGASUS’s Race in the 2013 Round The County. Photo’s by Sean Trew. PEGASUS at Round The County, 2013. Photo by Sean Trew This years’ RTC was an interesting contrast between what should have been and what was. It should have had decent wind Saturday with light winds Sunday but reality has its own agenda. The County Race (RTC), it is an annual race that races around San Juan County which comprises all the major San Juan Islands like Orcas, San Juan and Lopez Islands plus the nearly countless smaller islands, rocks and reefs of [...]
PTSA Awards Party Thursday, Nov. 14th
Video of belly dance troupe following the break […]
Racing is A Roller Coaster
Sailing is a succession of high and low moments. Learning from each one—and laughing about many—is the secret to a successful lifetime in the sport.by Gary Jobson in Sailing World Photo by John Payne During a celebration for an elderly sailor who was retiring from racing, I noticed a silver brick on his fireplace mantel. On it was an inscription that read, “Yacht Racing 1946-2009.” He’d taken every silver trophy he’d won during his racing career and melted them down to form the brick. It made me laugh, as I thought about all the emotions of a lifetime [...]