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You be needin' some Crew ? or maybe you wantin' to be Crew ? Get Signed Up HERE See the Spring Series Crew List HERE  Dec 26 Ahoy PGSC Spring Series Skippers - Skippers Meeting on Jan 28th - 1830 hrs at the PGICA Spring Race Series Important facts: . Races 1/29 and 2/12 first warning sound at 1055 hrs due to tides  Jan 24 After Race Picnic - Sunday, January 29th 6 PM at PGICA Picnic Shelter Celebrate the beginning of a new season of sailing and make plans with cruisers and racers. BYOB and a plate to pass. Burgers and Brats cooked by the racers. All members invited. Jan 27  Read all about the 2012 Conquistador Cup Regatta HERE The Official NOR is HERE  The Entry Form is HERE Jan 26  Nine Somali pirates killed & five captured by US Navy SEALs in a dramatic rescue Dramatic details today emerged of how an elite U.S. special forces team parachuted into Somalia last night to rescue an American woman and a Danish man in a fierce gunfight with their pirate captors. Aid workers Jessica Buchanan, 32, of Rosslyn, Virginia, and Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, of Denmark - kidnapped last October but rescued early this morning - are unharmed and now at a safe location. Nine Somali pirates were killed and five captured by the SEALs unit responsible for killing Osama Bin Laden, which launched its raid on the pirate base in the middle of the night near Adado, Somalia. Read more HERE Jan 26 If it quacks like a Puddle Duck it must be a fun boat to sail There is a lot of chest-beating going on about the current state of the sailing world. Participation is down 40% since 1997, sailboat builders are folding, regattas are getting smaller and the sailing community seems to be in the doldrums. There have been a lot of theories advanced on the whys of all this, ranging from the high cost of boating to the growing demands on family time. Nick Hayes, in his book Saving Sailing, argues many have turned to highly structured activities and away from family-based multi-generational recreation. Could it be something as simple as - sailing just stopped being fun? Read more HERE Jan 27 Extreme Sailing Show Will Begin Filming in Newport This Spring IThe "loosely scripted" show about a production crew chasing down shots of extreme sailing races will start filming "OnTheLine" around late April, the project director said. OnTheLine is a “loosely scripted” series based on a fictional production crew documenting extreme sailing across the globe. “It’s like 30 Rock meets The Deadliest Catch,” Project Director Janet Johnson Smith said. Read more HERE You can checkout "OnTheLine" HERE Jan 27Editor's note- Rhode Island is small in size but long in coastline. Rhode Island has 21 lighthouses, and 13 of them are active. The light in the photo above is Newport Harbor Light.  2012 Rolex Miami OCR - An Experience of Olympic Proportions 529 sailors from 41 countries
now have two days behind them in this important ISAF Sailing World Cup
event. Three Paralympic classes also are competing here, adding to a
total of 354 boats scattered across four racing circles plus a separate
arena for women’s match racing.
Read more HERE Jan 26 America’s Cup officials clear major hurdle Plans for the America's Cup sailing race and a new cruise terminal have cleared a significant hurdle as San Francisco's Board of Supervisors unanimously certified the final environmental impact report for the project. Read more HERE Jan 26California to pay $5.6 million in lawsuit over drunk boating convictions The California Department of Motor Vehicles will pay $5.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its practice of suspending the driving privileges of people who have been convicted of boating under the influence. The case stems from the 2005 arrest and conviction of a man for boating under the influence on the Colorado River. Read more HERE Jan 27Windfinder wind forecast - Try clicking the "Superforecast" Link.  |
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