Sailing Education Adventures

Let's keep the sun up as long as possible on June 21!!

Wednesday's Dinghy Twilight sail IS the summer solstice.

Join SEA members who have completed Intro to Sailing at 1800 at the Sausalito Clipper Harbor docks.

This s a drop-in sail for members, no need to sign up, just show up.

SEA members Sam Crabtree and Susie Wilson, will be cruising on their sailboat Catch The Wind, throughout 2007.  John Paul Watts will be joining them for the first leg of their trip.  If you would like to keep up with their adventures and meanderings, please go to:

www.sailsamandsusie.com

 Thanks to designer & illustrator Marcio Gutheil, SEA has a new logo design. We will be incorporating it into our website, Masthead and other materials over the next few months.

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Beware of the potato patch when there is a winter swell!

Potato Patch Shoal
Northernmost area of San Francisco Bar alluvial silt deposits, which bar entry to the Golden Gate and require dredging. Waves breaking over the shoal are visible at low tides from the coastal hills between Fort Cronkhite and Tennessee Valley. Named for the 1800s potato farms near Bolinas Lagoon which shipped to markets in San Francisco: "Occasionally a potato boat would capsize on the sand bar, spilling its load..." (Doris Sloan, Geology of the SF Bay Region, UCPress 2006, p.121.) Marked by buoys also visible from shore. Prime "deepsea" fishing ground for SF sport boats.

Sailmaker Kame Richards of Pineapple Sails will be presenting his talk on the tidal currents of San Francisco Bay at the Bay Model on April 11th from 7 to 8:30pm. The talk will be of great interest to those who sail, kayak and swim the Bay. The talk is illustrated with slides from NASA's U-2 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft. The photos show how to locate tide lines, and how to determine which way the water is moving on each side of the tide line.

The 2009 Seattle Boat Show, Indoors + Afloat, launches Friday, January 23 - Sunday, February 1. The 10-day event, presented by U.S. Bank and GMC, features more than 1,000 recreational watercraft, seminars and the latest accessories indoors at Qwest Field Event Center, plus afloat on South Lake Union. The West Coast's Largest Boat Show offers a convenient free shuttle service running continuously between the two venues. ACE Recreational Marine Insurance is an official sponsor of the show.

See schedule info below

This Saturday night, Jan. 10th, another perigee Moon is coming. It's the biggest full Moon of 2009, almost identical to the one that impressed onlookers in Dec. 2008.

Above: The perigee full Moon of Dec. 2008. "The moon was very bright and BIG! Just watching it with my telescope was exciting enough, but I had to take this picture for the records," says photographer Ron Hodges of Midland, Texas.

United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 17 is offering a series of boating courses, including navigation, which may be of interest to our members.

• About Boating Safely
• Boating Skills & Seamanship/Sailing Skills & Seamanship course
• GPS for Mariners course
• Weekend Navigator course