The CarolMarie is now registered for SIYC Race Drift and Sailstice 2014.

Last night the call went out for crew because we'd register the CarolMarie for Sailstice 2014 and for SIYC Race Drift.

The SIYC race drift has three other boats in the same class of the CarolMarie, so it should be fun.  Answering the call for crew One Boot Tommy, Fingers Rhodes, Charing, and Michelle.  That was a winning crew for the SYSCO races, so with luck it will be on the CarolMarie. The Sauvie Island Yacht Club’s Race 2014 will be on the 17th of May and is an all day event.  The race starts about half way down Sauvie Island and ends on the other side of St Helen’s.  The start begins at 12:00pm so we need to be there early to get the boat to the start line in time.

The 21st of June is Sailstice 2014! Save the date! (http://www.summersailstice.com). This is an all day – all out sailing tradition.   Everyone who went last year and a blast! - Summer Sailstice was founded in February 2001 by John Arndt, as the global, annual celebration of sailing held on the summer solstice. The annual Summer Sailstice sailing event is free to all participants and has grown from 200 boats signed up in 2001 to almost 5,000 boats today. Since many sailors join in the fun on many different boats, the actual number of Summer Sailstice sailors participating is estimated at almost 19,000 annually. Summer Sailstice strives to inform and mobilize sailors, their families and communities to enjoy and conserve the beauty of the oceans and while raising awareness of human impacts on the fragile marine environment and wildlife. One of my earlier boat S/V Merlita was the 25th boat to join Sailstice in 2001. My tradition has been to take the day and circumnavigate Sauvie Island going from the Willamette River to the Multnomah Channel to the Columbia River to complete the circumnavigation. Sauvies Island is larger than Manhattan Island, and much nicer to look at.