Corinthian Yacht Club (of which I am an Associate Member) is having there annual open house next month. If you're at all interested in racing your own boat or crewing on someone's boat I highly recommend you attend! Annual CYC Open House (Open to Public) • Date: Sunday, February 10th 2008 • Time...

Tomorrow is the start of the America's Cup!! Set your Tivos to record; showtimes on Verses are basically 0830 Pacific ( http://ww2.versus.com/tvlistings/test-DB.asp?so=32nd%20AMERICAS ).

I'm not big into racing but I dig the America's Cup and we're a month away from the beginning of the long drawn out process. :-) Here's a great over view of the races leading up to the actual America's Cup racing: http://www.americascup.com/en/americascup/program/index.php

I have not attended any of these, but I am a CYC Member and thought I should post this for all those would-be racers out there. This is a great class for skippers and potential crew as well. CYC Announces Another Educational Talk Topic: "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Racing -(But Were Afraid...

CYC Seattle is hosting a free racing series which will include a cruisers class as well as a racing class. I’ve been going out a THU night series a couple of times on different boats from Windworks and it has been a blast, this should be just as good! Here is the full information from Kurt @ CYC...

There is a very interesting series starting in a couple of weeks, the Elliot Bay Marina Downtown Sailing Series . There are a lot of races this time of year, but this one if sort of different in that there doesn’t seem to be much point to the “race”. Note some of the more interesting rules like you don...

OK, well I really believe Puff is a Magic Dragon, but that’s not the point of this post. I don’t post a lot of racing content, but this article from Sailing World about how to recognize and call puffs on the water is a great ready. check it out .

As promised here are the photos from CYC: http://www.shipsrecord.com/photos/patrick/category1033.aspx

Last night I volunteered on the committee boat for Corinthian Yacht Clubs Wed night racing. I had been thinking about volunteering at the club in some way. I’m an associate member there and I’m always looking for ways to get closer to sailing. Charley the Wed night race director sent out a mail looking...

I was out racing tonight on Diversion . It was a good race we were a bit shorthanded. One of the guys is still learning a position and the skip put him on something new, but that worked out ok. The course was a Windward-Leeward-Windward-Leeward-Windward to finish and all the trim was good and the sail...