To promote the appreciation of sailing and foster a community and culture committed to advancing both sailing and sailing education in the Juneau area.
Another great sailing season is winding down, so SEAS is sponsoring another great gathering of sailors at Sandy Beach this Friday.
Bring something for the grill and something to share. The Party will get going around 5:00pm with set-up and will end typically around 9 pm. The clean-up crew gets to finish off the keg.
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The most recent day race was great fun. The race began with a light air drift up the back side of Douglas to Pt. Hilda. At the half way point the wind filled but remained fickle. Lorax a trimaran, was first to turn followed by Shoeless with Haiku close behind. Loa’a Nalu found a few lucky tacks and was able to catch the leaders on the quick return to Marmion.But as most would predict, getting around Marmion to the finish line proved daunting and Shoreless, Loa’a Nalu and Lorax all scratched late in the evening. “10 hours of great sailing yet 300 yards short” Haiku, with a masterful display of light air sailing, drifted across the finish line minutes before the 9:00 PM curfew.
If Sunday is a harbinger of things to come, 2011 may be the best SEAS year ever.
While the boats motored to Marmion Island for the start of the 2011 racing season, the sun was shining, the wind was blowing northerly, and the crews were getting warmed up. As they approached Marmion the wind lightened and shifted to southerly, as per usual, but the fleet could see the white caps in Stephen's Passage, just waiting to be sailed.
Three SEAS boats came down to the Hangar dock for the Second Annual Juneau Maritime Festival to give sailboat rides to anyone that wanted to come down to the dock to get on the boat.
S/V Tango, S/V Lyric, and S/V Loaa Nalu sailed all day with crews of 5-10 people around the turning basin, and what a day of sailing it was. With sun and 15 knot breezes the sailing was magnificent.