Frostbite Series Udate 2/21/2020
After three weeks of foul weather and no racing we finally got a pretty nice day. The wind was fairly light from the northeast, but there was enough to […]
Sir Issac Wins Shaw Island Winter Classic Race 2021
On February 6th, twenty-three boats took off in big wind to go clockwise around Shaw Island for the Orcas Island Yacht Club’s 2021 Shaw Island Winter Classic. There were two […]
Frostbite Series, January 23, 2021: Chasing a Phantom Weather Mark and Fickle Wind
Frostbiting is about improvising…. The weather forecast was for a solid 6 – 9 knots from the SE all afternoon, and things looked promising as Owl set a nearly […]
Frostbite Race 1/16/2021
The wind was calm but wind vanes slowly aligned in a SE direction, responding to a breeze just sufficient to sail out of the harbor. Five boats made […]
First Frostbite Race 1/9/2021
Clear weather in the low 40’s and a solid breeze of 12-19 knots prevailed across Port Townsend Bay for the first Frostbite sail on January 9, 2021. Three Thunderbirds came […]
New Years Race Cancelled Due to Weather
In light of the forecast for Saturday afternoon of 21 to 37 knots of wind, the first Frostbite series be held Saturday 1/9/21. HAPPY NEW YEAR to one and all. […]
Membership Drive Still Underway
In case you haven’t heard, Blackbird Associates is matching all memberships, either new, or renewals, thru the end of December. Sign up now and help refill the PTSA coffers for […]
Sir Issac and Martha Rock in “Rogue the County”
PTSA big boats Martha and Sir Issac participated in the two day “cruise” around the San Juan Islands that substituted for the Round the County race, […]
End of Year Statistics for 2020
Dave Burrows, race committee boss, poured through the results of all the PTSA races in 2020 and came up with some interesting statistics. Did you know we ran […]