PTSA Winter Sail Racing Seminar Starts This Coming Monday, Dec. 15th
One of Brad Dellenbaugh's illustrations from Speed And Smarts. The quality of the racing on Port Townsend Bay continues to improve. To keep that trend going, the Port Townsend Sailing Association is sponsoring a Winter Sail Racing Seminar led by some of PT's top racing sailors starting Monday, December 15th. The seminar will convene twice a month until we run out of topics. Dates are initially scheduled for December 15, 29, January 12, 26, February 9, 23 and March 9, 23. The seminar will be held in one of the NW Maritime Center upstairs classrooms. There will be [...]
Volvo Race Team SCA Battling the Agulhas Current
Thanks to Linda Newland for the recommendation on Facebook. "Day 2 out of Cape Town in the Volvo Around the World Race. Great video from the women's team. Not for the faint hearted. Wish I was there."
T-Bird Practice on Sunday 11/23 at Noon
Let's do some rabbit starts, short upwind legs, and some multiple boat tuning on Sunday at noon. We will congregate near Indian Point Buoy. Bring your VHF radio so we can chat on Channel 68.
Racing the Atlantic Doublehanded
From the New York Times, a great video on racing across the Atlantic doublehanded by Chris Museler.
The ANDREW FOSS and the Coast Artillery
The Coast Artillery target towing tug ANDREW FOSS
Why Men Don’t Ask For Directions. It’s About Sex
Presented without comment and in the spirit that it is loosely about navigation. From SportGeezer. Ever wonder why men don’t ask for directions? According to researchers at the University of Utah, it’s about sex, maybe. A U of Utah news release reports that researchers at the school who studied two African tribes found that men evolved better navigation ability than women because men with better spatial skills can roam farther and have children with more mates. The researchers believe that the two tribes they chose to study, the Twe and Tjimba, were good subjects because they travel over distances of [...]
Jefferson County Annual Moorage Tenants Union Meeting
A recent post on the Jefferson County Moorage Tenants Union website made the assertion that under the current Port of Port Townsend plan for 2015 the monthly moorage fee for a 25' slip would increase from $182.67 to $203.26, an increase of 11.3%. Are you Interested to know if this computation and the possible reordering of priorities to move the construction of a new boat ramp over a rebuild of C & D docks are in next year's plan? Ask Bertram Monday night, November 7th. Annual Moorage Tenants Union Meeting Monday Nov. 17 7:00 PM Marina Room, Point Hudson With [...]
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding Holds Auction Nov. 8th
Some of the variety of hardware to be auctioned off by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock on November 8 – Photo by Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding via Flickr By Scott Wilson on November 6, 2014 in Events, News for Three Sheets Northwest If you’re a little bored this weekend and happen to be kicking it around the Quimper Peninsula, or if you’re on the hunt for surplus boats and boatbuilding materials of the most serious kind, the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock will be holding a public auction in Port [...]