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This may be a long shot but we are looking for the owner of Gust, an Irwin 38 CC from Galveston, TX.
She is anchored of Punta Gorda, FL and has been damaged by another vessel dragging into her.
The other vessel is unoccupied but I don

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You'd be hard pressed to find a more secure or better insured payment system than Pay Pal....in technology a few months are eons and a few years means alot....you go ahead and type your credit card number on your phone....I'll take the high road...

Well phrased Sir....

i dunno Bee... http://marine.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-96.53875&lat=28.00421#.ViwFsPmrSUk

Go to crew...post you are a newbie.....say you want to be rail meat and you love to fold sails....go sailing...

Just being able to claim membership to GBCA is worth the price of admission.....the parties are a bonus and the racing is the BEST...

BASIC SAILBOAT RACING SEMINAR
When20 Jun 2015
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
LocationGBCA Clubhouse
The 2015 version of GBCA's Basic Sailboat Racing Seminar is has been rescheduled to June 20th. Registration is available.

Registration: Click here

Participant List: Click here

This annual event is designed to introduce the novice skipper or crew to the Racing Rules of Sailing, explain enough about how a race is managed to allow the skipper to know when to start and where to go, and touch on the basics of preparation of a boat and crew to race. Attendees spend about 3 hours in a class at the GBCA clubhouse and then go out on an assigned boat with a veteran crew and skipper to race in the Rum Race that afternoon, or have a veteran racer assigned to your boat and crew to help you for the race. Rum Races are pursuit races (the slower boats get a head start and the faster boats try to catch them) that start at the entrance to the Clear Lake Channel, race in a 13 mile triangle around designated platforms in Galveston Bay, and finish at the entrance to the Clear Lake Channel.

The finish is between Markers #1 and 2, but all Rum Races end the same way- at the post race party where the trophies (bottles of rum) are awarded to winners and the winners share their awards wit

They're Volvo Ocean Racers...racing in port....close enough to nearly touch, (with binoculars)...it's Newport....even if it rains...the weather will be fine....

http://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_regatta_results.php?regatta_id=9098&show_divisions=1

I'm just a novice but it looked like the way over kinda sucked....and the way back is still anybody's guess....

don't know specifics but race website says Nauti Girl had an electrical malfunction... and i agree...it appears that liberties are being taken with the marks...

oughta be a sweeter ride once they clear the delta...

Fair winds and tolerable seas to all the Emerald Coast Regatta sailors...if you're close enough inshore to find this post.....ye might need to get outside more.....

she rounds up does she?

yep....my favorite forecast agrees....but new ride for me tomorrow so light is just fine...
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/gbofs/fore_cg_wind.shtml