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The GBCA Performance Cup Regatta is 2 1/2 weeks away!!!

This year, the event is sponsored by Watergate Yachting Center and will be held October 5 and 6.



Dinner Tickets for Saturday night are on sale now.  Tickets are $10 and will be all the barbecue you can eat by Sloepoke Barbecue Company.  They will be making ribs, chicken, brisket and sausage plus all the fixins AND their award-winning sauce.

Get your tickets today!

http://www.gbca.org/EventsDisabled?eventId=756344&EventViewMode=EventDetails


NOR and SI's -- links posted below!

Looks like the J Boats will be battling it out on the PHRF Spinnaker line!!  C'mon girls -- this is traditionally a very fun day of racing!!  Sign up!!

It's the Panorama Technologies month and a big SHOUT OUT to the owner of STINGER!

Thanks to one of our biggest supporters (and I mean that in terms of promotion and participation in regattas!) BEE BEDNAR!

Thanks Bee from all of us at GBCA for your continued racing and support!

The post-racing party information has changed!

Check out the updates here!

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Are there results posted anywhere?

Ladies, I know HYC has struggled with this regatta in the past.  It has taken a while for them to let us sail boats bigger than 35' and even fly a spinnaker.  They worry about the weather a little too much and if we'll hurt ourselves or sink the boats but nothing bad ever happens.  In fact, what does happen, is some pretty fun, competitive racing. 

Right now, Stinger is the only PHRF Spinnaker signed up.  Can we get a few more PHRF boats on the line so we can fly spinnakers?  It's too hot to run downwind without a chute on a 105.   

Happy UK Month!!!!  Great photo of Airborne and Pedro's UK sails in the calendar this month!

Check out the deals from UK in our Senior Member Rewards page!!!

and Thanks for all of your continued support Pedro!!!

Just a reminder:  Deadline registration date for a free skipper T-Shirt is coming up ? Monday, July 1.   

Register at http://houstonyachtclub.com/Racing/WSAWomensSailingWeekend.aspx.

I'm signing up tomorrow.  I'll be taking STINGER.  C'mon Ladies!!!

I love all of these photos!  Thank you Scott Tuma and the race committee and all of our Junior skipper's for helping to bring back this regatta to GBCA!!!

Does 3 boats make a regatta?  I hope so! 

HAPPY KO SAILING MONTH!

Thanks KO for sponsoring our calendar for the month of June and thanks for offerring your discounts to all GBCA Senior members!

Check out the deals available to you under Senior Member Rewards!

HYC is pleased to present the WSA Women?s Sailing Weekend July 13-14.  Please note that skippers who register before JULY 1 receive a free T-shirt.  Additional T-shirts will be available to purchase in advance.  For complete details on the regatta as well as online registration, please visit us online at http://houstonyachtclub.com/Racing/WSAWomensSailingWeekend.aspx

I'm glad they caught the guy.  Please keep the couple in your thoughts.  The man is still in the hospital with broken ribs and a punctured liver. 

I'm reposting this from the General Discussion thread but I think everyone needs to see it and watch for this boat to report them.

From USCG Galveston:

Last evening (5/26/2013), the crew of 25809 responded to a boat collision off Seawolf Park, they transferred a man who had been thrown into the water when a Catamaran power driven vessel collided with a S/V. The man and woman were transported to UTMB with injuries, and the Catamaran Hull left the scene without stopping to aid the occupants of the S/V. If you are in the local area and see a white catamaran (power driven) vessel with heavy bow damage, please call             409-766-5633      . Very sad that this boater failed to follow the navigation rules of the road and worse yet, fled the scene.

Every year for the Bank Regatta, Ed would generously donate a prize of some kind or race sleeves or whatever he could.  I would swing by the loft (so convenient because it's up in town) and there he would be, sitting at his computer, under years and years of old Galveston Bay regatta posters and he would just be smiling.  I will really miss Ed and his support of GBCA over the years.

Thank you sir for your generosity and for your love of sailing.  You will be missed.