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Charleston Race Week 2011 Favorites Photo Gallery
Charleston Race Week 2011 officially started today with great conditions and lots of racing. I made it out to cover all of the inshore courses and had a great ride with Andrew on Protector’s new 25 foot boat. It’s always wonderful to shoot from a Protector! Thanks again to Moose McClintock from Dimension Polyant for helping out with the blogging for Sailing Updates as well. He’ll be joining me on the water all weekend! Check out the Favorites Gallery I’ve started and will be adding to until the individual class and team galleries are ready for viewing.
Melges 20’s to Join Melges 24’s for Sail22 Winter Tuning Event
Sail22 will be hosting our first tuning event of 2011 in Coconut Grove, FL in conjunction with Shake-A-Leg Miami and Melges February 10-11, 2011. This event will give the Melges 20’s and 24’s doing the Miami Winter Regatta LOTS of practice prior to the start of it! This will also be a great session for teams training for the Melges 24 Worlds in Corpus Christi who may not be able to make the entire winter series, but want to have additional training time. The format will be a half-day on February 10th with lots and lots of starts and short course racing. Day 2 will be a two start format with longer course racing. Debriefs will be held each day. The Notice of Race is here and registration is here. The entry fee is $150. Make sure to register before February 1st to avoid the $50 late entry fee.
Top Reasons Why Your Team Should Do Key West Race Week
Sail22 really looks forward to coming to Key West every year and we’ve been thinking about reasons why you should bring your team here to join us. Here are a few we came up with:
1) Tropical…warm…sun…blue water. Need we say more?
2) It’s like a family reunion. We both agree that this is the regatta where we are able to catch up with the most people who we don’t normally see.
3) It’s hard not to have a good time here.
4) Any day sailing is a better day than being stuck behind a desk! We’ve both learned that.
5) Cool Boats. It’s a Grand Prix event. It’s always been one of THE regattas for a class to do. This year the RC 44’s caught on and joined in the fun.
6) Where we are from…it’s downright cold currently…and snowy. We’ll take tropical any day.
7) Great restaurants, bars and entertainment of all varieties.
8 ) Premiere Racing use top Principal Race Officers and Race Committees. They are really professional in what they do.
9) Only two races a day! Plenty of time to have fun off the water.
10) Five days of racing and a parties. What other events are there in the US that give you that?
11) Excellent competition. People are excited to come from all over the world to race here…and it’s not a Worlds, North Americans or any other single class event where that would happen. Where else do you see that in the US sailing scene?
I’m sure there are more…comment and add on. We’re personally tired of seeing any sailing event in the US ripped and torn apart. It’s not good for sailing in our country or in general. What do you think?
-Becky & Ed
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Sailing Updates is THE Place to Follow Melges Racing at Key West!
Sail22 is in Key West gearing up for Key West Race Week 2011 and it’s breeze on today. A bit chilly today, but the forecast is looking great for next week! Ed and I will be out on the Melges 24 and Melges 32 race course with LIVE racing updates on Sailing Updates. Have you had a chance to check it out yet? We’ve had visitors from 52 countries stop by!
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-I have been really enjoying the updates throughout the day. You have done a great job describing the action as it happens. Wish I were out there and other than live video coverage, this is the next best thing! Keep up the great work.
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Sail22 in Sailing World
Check out the April 2010 issue of Sailing World which is out now (or could be on your coffee table) for a short article about Sail22 on page 16. We are very honored to have this recognition and thankful all of our hard work is paying off! We’re currently working on an article for an upcoming issue of Sailing World.
