It’s never like this in summer in Washington!   Yeah, I mean pleasant temperatures, low humidity, and breeze!   The Albacores, Lasers, and Lightnings are out there every Wednesday.   The Albacores start and end races off the end of the docks and welcome new sailors aboard.  Afterwards they meet at a Mexican restaurant on 23rd Street in Arlington where they get a 15% discount.  

The Lightnings are more likely to load up on beer and go for a pleasure sail out on the river.   Last Wednesday I was on one of 5 Lightnings that sailed out on the river.   It was so nice that two were still out there after sunset.  I hope they had flashlights!  There were a similar number of Lasers and Albacores too.   The days are still long so don’t miss these beautiful evenings.   5:30 to 6:00 is the usual starting time.

OFF TO A GREAT START! 
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Kick Off Luau on Saturday, May 30th! What a party! We hope everyone enjoyed the afternoon and left inspired to make this the best sailing season possible! Thank you again to the Capital Yacht Club for being our wonderful hosts, to Phillips Seafood for providing delicious food and to the Seacocks for entertaining us for hours with great music! 

REGISTER TODAY FOR 2009 LEUKEMIA CUP EVENTS!
An Exciting Group of Events For 2009
Saturday August 15th – The 2nd Annual Jr. Leukemia Cup Regatta in partnership with the Summer Sailing School at the Washington Sailing Marina.Sunday August 30th – The 3rd Annual Power Boat Poker Run. Visit 5 card stops along the Potomac and finish at the Old Dominion Boat Club for a celebration BBQ and awards!
Friday September 11th & Saturday September 12th – The 16th Annual Leukemia Cup Regatta. Races for all classes & opportunities to watch from Spectator Boats! Join us at the Washington Sailing Marina! More information on all events on website: www.leukemiacup.org/nca
Participate in any of these events by registering online today! Participants have all summer to raise funds to support the mission of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and win some great prizes too! Once your registration has been received you will get a personal online fundraising website as well as other tools and resources to help you with your fundraising goal. To participate in the Leukemia Cup there is a fundraising minimum of $100. Raise this (easy!) minimum by August 17, 2009 and your boat’s name will be featured on the front of this year’s Leukemia Cup t-shirt!

Its been a long time coming, but we have finally given a face lift to our web site. In fact, we are now a BLOG! Why is this great? Well, for one it makes it very easy for our Web Content manager, David, to update, add posts etc. It also makes it easy for everyone to comment on a post, or send in a post themselves. Navigating around is easy. Look on the left for all of our old site links and archives. Those pages will look the same as they used to, but we are keeping them handy for all the useful data in them. Look at the top left for the catagories. All articles and post will be catagorized to make them easy to find. There are two ways for you to post articles/videos/Pictures of your own. If you are making a one time post, just send it to David or myself and we will put it up for you. If you are going to be a regular contributor, we will set you up a user name and password so you can do it yourself. Below the log in links you will see our “Tag Cloud”. These are our Key word terms that make it easier to find us on Google. This list will grow and change as we grow the site.

So poke around, try the links and leave some comments, its easy!

Also, if you find any broken links, please let me know so we can update them

Cheers,

Jeff

Choice footage from this years event. Ich Weiss Warum

A tongue in cheek look at the Lightning Fleet as they try their level best to sail in some pretty trying conditions…

We continue to have issues with the ethanol in the gasoline causing the carburetor to gum up, making the engine difficult to start and to keep running at idle.  We have developed new refueling and operating procedures that we hope will keep this from happening,  Please follow them.