Welcome
to the
PUNTA
GORDA SAILING CLUB
Our
Club meets at 7:00 PM, the second
Wednesday of every month ( except Dec. )
at the Punta Gorda Isles Civic Association
at 2001
Shreve St. Punta Gorda.
-Visitors
are always welcome, so please drop in and see what we're all
about!

Click
HERE
to view the January 2012 Jib Sheet
Jan
1
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
. Scratch Sheets to the webmaster after the skippers meeting
( due to late registrations)
. The Spring Series SIs are revised from previous years;
some permanent marker GPS coordinates are updated
. Races will start and finish near marker "2", but,
that does NOT exclude courses to 1, 7, or 4
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
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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 27
Editor'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
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 26
California 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 27
Windfinder
wind
forecast -
Try
clicking the
"Superforecast" Link.

Coming
Soon ...
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Jan 29
Spring Series #1
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Feb 2 - 5
Charlotte Harbor Regatta
NOR
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Feb 5
Super
Bowl XLVI 6:30PM EST
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Feb 8
Monthly Meeting
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Feb 12
Spring
Series #2
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Feb 16 - 20
Strictly Sail Miami Boat Show
INFO
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Feb 19
Spring
Series #3
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Feb 26
Spring
Series #4
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Mar 3 - 4
19th Annual Conquistador Regatta
INFO
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Mar 11
Spring
Series #5
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Mar 14
Monthly Meeting
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Mar 17
IYC - One Design Leukemia
Cup
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Mar 18
Spring
Series #6
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Mar 24 - 25
IYC - Leukemia Cup
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Apr 11
Monthly Meeting
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Apr 15
Summer Series #1
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Apr 21
Punta Gorda Block Party
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May 17 - 21
Bone Island Regatta to Key West
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HERE
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Jan 1
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Holiday Regatta Results Dec 18
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Small boat Sailing every Wednesday - Ready at Noon, Frst gun at 1pm. Also, every 2nd and 3rd Saturday - 10am to ?
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Dec 9
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2011-2012 BOTY- YTD Results
Jan 25
The Punta Gorda Sailing Club promotes all forms of Sailing on Charlotte
Harbor in SW Florida. Racing, Cruising, Small Boat Sailing - We do it ALL!
Our next Club Meeting is on February 8th at 7:00 PM
at the Punta Gorda Isles Civic Association
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Sailing is not cheap. The wind is free … but everything else costs real money.
Day is done - gone the sun.
Jan 26
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Punta Gorda, Charlotte Harbor Tides
If you don't see the tide chart below, it's not available from the server. Check back later.
Click H E R E for a January 2011 Tide Prediction Chart
Click H E R E for a February 2012 Tide Prediction Chart
If you don't see Tide Charts above - Click HERE for a Tide Prediction
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This Page last updated on Jan 27, 2012 Rev 1
The Punta Gorda Sailing Club Inc.
P.O. Box 510028, Punta Gorda, FL 33951-0028