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A good excuse to take the boat out.
Fireworks every Friday in June and July, starting at 9:30.

You have to be slighly crazy to do this race. S. Padre to Galveston, on a cat.
Starts today!

http://www.gt300.com/

I've had a few non-sailing friends ask, some helpful links:

Houston YC
http://www.houstonyachtclub.com/YouthActivities/ProgramRegistration.aspx

Lakewood YC
http://www.lakewoodyachtclub.com/Youth-Sailing-Program/Summer-Camps-295.html

Seabrook Sailing Club
http://www.seabrooksailingclub.org/junior-sailing.html

Any other local programs (like Girl Scouts and Sea Scouts), please post...

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.

Web page
http://www.houstonyachtclub.com/Racing/LeukemiaCup.aspx

NOR
http://www.houstonyachtclub.com/Portals/0/News/2013_Leukemia_Cup_NOR.pdf

Register early to get your boat name on the T-shirt

Sad news. Ed was a great guy, long time sailor, and supporter of GBCA

http://obit.wilkirsonhatchbailey.com/obitdisplay.html?task=Print&id=1209266&listing=Current

Maybe GB finally getting the attention it deserves...

http://backthebay.org/

3/15 Kickoff party 7pm at HYC, Gary Jobson meet & greet RSVP roxana.gomez@lls.org
5/13 "Tee Off for a Cure" Country Place Golf Course, 11am (no contact info given)
6/22-23 Race for a Cure Regatta at HYC

Road trip to Miami!
Good luck to Casey Lambert, Evan Smith and Jesse Fulmer at the J-22 Midwinters! Terry Flynn in the lineup and (I think) Andrew Lee.
Good luck guys!
http://www.j22mw.com/

February 15-24, all crab traps are fair game!
Drop off point under the Kemah bridge.

http://galvbay.org/events_trap.html

This is interesting. I asked for a map from the City of Seabrook to see how far out they'll remove pilings and (hopefully) be encouraged to remove other obstructions...
The only details I could find are here:

http://www.icontact-archive.com/E14a4b-ENs6x3OCpdEQBupnfGa5ver3U?w=2

From the CLRA FB page:
"James H Tichenor and Tony Nunes will be presenting the rules seminar this Wednesday night.
Do you know the changes regarding Rule 18? Come find out.
Villa Capri at 6:30pm on 2/13/13."

A few locals (and GBCA members) headed that way...

http://www.yachtscoring.com/current_event_entries.cfm?order=origin

Revolution (1d35), Al Poindexter (J70), Black River Racing (J70), Rebecca (J120)

Our Dallas friends on Vitesse and Hoss (Swan 42), Bruno Pasquenelli (J70)
Austin friends too...

127 boats total, with 26 boats internationally registered...
I would call Key West one on North Americas premier regattas.
(Funny how a certain sailing website won't even recognize its existence)

Good luck GBCA, Houston (and Texas) teams!

Got our 2013 GBCA wall calendars today.
They look great!
I like the fact that each picture is local sailors/boat in action
Thanks to the sponsors, photographers, Andrew Lee and Scott Lacy for putting it together.
I know from experience it takes some work to get it completed!

yea on neh? Worth checking out? Coupon link:
http://houstonboatshows.com/show-information/
$10 entry, $10 park, $8 beer...

Visit our friends over at KO Sailing, Telltales...

Great link/pdf showing the changes in verbiage of the latest RRS. Thanks Alan (B Sailing) for the link!

http://www.sailing.org/documents/racingrules/rrs2013-2016-study-version.php

I've seen a few of these "Drains to Galveston Bay" around town.
Great idea. A nice school or volunter project...more info here

http://www.cleanwaterways.org/swim/

Start the New Year right

I'm assuming it's the same deal as prior years, show up at the HYC bar at noon for the skippers meeting...race at 1:00ish?

T-1 month for the 2013 GBCA Icicle Series (January 5)....!

51st Annual. Fun for young and old! December 8th

http://www.clearlakearea.com/events/dc/BLP2012Entry3.pdf