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Top 10 reasons to attend the J24 Easter Regatta in Columbia South Carolina

Carter — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:57:02 +0000

Top Ten Reasons to attend the J24 Easter Regatta hosted by Fleet 67 & Columbia Sailing Club:

IT’S SOUTHERN FUN – Three days of racing, whiskey sour reception, shrimp boil, southern hospitality, BBQ and beer – plus warm air and water temps!
VALUE – All the above for you and your whole crew plus launch and haul and much more; for the low all-inclusive entry fee of $305.00 or $275.00 for US Sailing Members. Register online now! and avoid the late fee…
FREE STORAGE – Leave your boat here after Mid-winters and/or after the event.
GREAT RACING – One Design J24s only! And new for 2012, PRO Richard “The Admiral” Dommel will provide excellent courses to test your J24 skills. Richard is a championship sailboat racer and certified PRO. Read more about his experience here. The regatta has averaged over 6 races over the last 12 years.
TRAINING – With the first “open” J24 Worlds ever coming up this fall, we will have experts on-hand to provide J24 insight and knowledge before and during the event. Also we will have Kattack recording and replaying the day’s activities online and onsite so that you can have your tactical prowess critiqued and polished.
INEXPENSIVE & CONVENIENT LODGING – There are multiple hotels all within 5 miles of the club with rates as low as $89 per night. There is a book of rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn which very close to the club for $119 per night. Check out our lodging page on the website for more details and other on-lake housing options.
AWESOME COMPETITION – Something for everyone, J24 crews of all skills attend this annual event. Average attendance over the last twelve years has been 36 boats, making this one of the best attended events in North America. Already 11 boats registered; see who online now!
TRADITION – The Easter Regatta is nearly 50 years old! 2012 is the 45th annual event produced by Columbia Sailing Club. J24 Fleet 67 has been participating in this event for over 25 years. Both are committed to putting on a first class event. If you have or haven’t been here before you will experience this passion first hand in April.
LOCATION – Central location to Florida, Mid Atlantic and New England. Each year this event attracts boats from all over the United States. The event is also attractive for the northern boats as its much warmer here than there and for the southern boats its a great opportunity to show off their part of the world.

10. DID WE MENTION IT WILL BE FUN!

www.j24easterregatta.org

39 Entries from 11 states or provinces and two countries

Carter — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:29:12 +0000

As of April 4th there are 39 boats registered for the J105 North American Championship in Marblehead, MA. Out of the 39 boats 10 are from different states including; MA, MD, NH, RI, TX, NY, NJ, FL, CA and CT and one other is from the province of Ontario in Canada. Early entry estimates were hit out of the park and there is momentum to see over 50 boats attend this event.

Click the link below to see the current entry list:

www.j105northamericans.com

Free Sail Maine Open House

Carter — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:20:40 +0000

Free Sailing & Open House at SailMaine: Sunday, June 12, from 10-3pm, rain or shine. Free sailboat rides in Portland Harbor, shore-side boat rigging, and knot-tying demonstrations are among the fun activities. Experience and learn what this nonprofit community sailing center is all about. Adults, teens and kids (age 8 & up) are welcome. SailMaine will provide life jackets but if you have one, feel free to bring it along.

Located on the Portland waterfront, past the Ocean Gateway Terminal at the end of the extension of Commercial Street (Thames Street), turn right and then left to enter long parking lot on the water. SailMaine is at the end of that parking lot.

For more information visit www.sailmaine.org or contact Sarah Helming, SailMaine Director of Programs and Events (207) 650-2085, sarah@sailmaine.org

Points East Magazine to be media sponsor of 2011 J/105 NAs

Carter — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:58:49 +0000

Points East Magazine has committed to being the media sponsor for the 2011 J/105 North Americans which will be held in Marblehead, MA August 10th through the 14th. Points East Magazine will print 5 1/2 page full color advertisements with event information that will produce over 100,000 impressions for the event and its sponsors. Points East magazine is a free publication that is distributed through marine locations throughout New England reaching from Downeast Maine to Southern Connecticut. There are over 125 J/105s and 1000 sailors sailing these boats in the readership area alone. For more information on Point East Magazine visit: http://www.pointseast.com/

For more information on the J/105 North Americans visit: www.j105northamericans.com

Boatyard Package for 2011 J/105 NAs

Carter — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:44:26 +0000

Marblehead Trading Company is pleased to offer a regatta package specifically
designed to make competing in the J 105 North American Championship regattaaffordable and hassle free.
Marblehead Trading Company J/105 NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP PACKAGE INCLUDES:
Offload boat from truck, Owner prepped mast step, Launch
Haul, Mast unstepping, Load out to truck, Storage at yard for 1 week prior to regatta and 1 week after regatta.
COST: $800 per boat
Additional services are offered as well.
Click Here for more information.

2011 J/105 North Americans registration fees set

Carter — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:40:03 +0000

J/105 2011 North American Championship Regatta Committee has set the entry fees for the event this August in Marblehead, Massachusetts. A three tiered entry fee system will be used.
An early registration between December 2010 and April 1st 2011 will cost $625.00. This early fee is less than the three previous North American Championships with the aim of producing 15+ entries before April fool’s day, which is no joke!
Regular registration between the first of April and July 1st will be $700.00.
Late entries after July 1st will incur a late fee of $75.00 for a total of $775.00 per late registration.
Online registration will be open soon at www.j105northamericans.com

Portsmouth District One Success

Carter — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:51:35 +0000

Thank you everyone for attending this years J24 District One Championship. Twenty four enthusiastic J24s braved cold water, fog and wind this past weekend. Strong east winds on Saturday provided for one race in with great visibility until the first downwind leg when the fog came. An interesting swapping of places and scrambling of crews took place for the first leeward gate of the regatta. Jeff Dinse from Rockland, Maine with plenty of fog experience was able to find the gates just fine and win the first race by a leg. A second race was attempted but the fog was just too thick.

Sunday proved to be the better day with a west north west wind ranging from 10 to 18 knots. Four races were held in perfect J24 racing conditions. Bad Apple skippered by Bruce Morse from Fleet 43 in Falmouth, Maine came out strong posting two bullets. However, with very tight competition and spread out racing, consistency was the name of the game.

The team sailing Evil Donut skippered by John Mollicone proved to be the most consistent posting no finish worse than a fifth which was their drop race. Evil Donut won the regatta 5 points ahead of second place.

Evil Donut is from Rhode Island just over the J24 District One line so although they won the event they were not eligible for the D-1 trophy. The next three boats were all eligible and included High Five skippered by Matt Herbster from Massachusetts, AL skippered by Carter White and Mark Klein from Maine and the aforementioned Bad Apple. After the throw outs were calculated High Five came out on top with 15 points, Bad Apple posted 16 and AL came in fourth overall with 17 points.

This regatta wasn’t all about winning prizes for racing, as there were many raffle prizes provided by our sponsors. The following boats won items in the raffle; Spontaneous won cigars, Pit Party won a set of halyards from Yale Cordage, High Five won a set of sheets from Yale Cordage, AL won a two night stay to the Hilton Garden Inn in Portsmouth, NH and $100.00 gift certificate to the Fox Run Mall and finally Mr. Hankey won 50% off a Quantum Sail.

Thank you to all the sponsors who made this event possible. Please purchase their goods and services as they have supported our sport and event. Use the links on our website or this email to get more information anytime.

We hope to make this an annual event so please provide your feedback by following the survey link in the upper right of this email. Thank you all again and I look forward to seeing you out on the water again soon.

Sincerely,

Rob Pruyn
rpruyn@rubber-group.com

Sail Maine Regatta – New event for GMORA Schedule

Carter — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:52:51 +0000

PORTLAND, Maine, April 2, 2009 — Maine’s sailing regatta season will get off to an early start on Saturday, June 6, when sailboats will race on courses outside Portland Harbor to raise funds for SailMaine, a local community sailing program. The Gulf of Maine Ocean Racing Association is teaming up with SailMaine to host the event, which will provide a wide range of benefits for SailMaine, its students, and the skippers and crews of the racing boats that participate.

The regatta will be an opportunity for current Gulf of Maine racers to make connections with new sailors and potential crew members, and will give SailMaine students the chance to experience the thrill of racing on larger boats.

“Our students learned on smaller boats and sailing dinghies, and some have been looking for an opportunity to move into bigger boats,” says Sarah Helming, director of SailMaine’s High School and Junior Program. “At the same time, Gulf of Maine skippers and crews are anxious to clean out the cobwebs that developed during their long off-season, and some may be looking to add people to their crew list. This regatta will bring everyone together.”

Each racing boat will be assigned a certain number of SailMaine students who are new to Gulf of Maine racing. Sail Maine coaches will evaluate the experience, skill level, and aspirations of students and match them with the appropriate racing yachts. Some of the students are from SailMaine’s junior and high school programs; others may be participants in the organization’s Adult Sailing program.

Funds for SailMaine will be raised through entry fees, sales of sailing apparel and other items, and a benefit dinner and party following the race.

The post-race festivities will be open to the public, but advance reservations are recommended. People interested in dinner tickets should contact event chairman Sarah Helming at SailMaine: sarah@sailmaine.org or 650-2085.

Sail Maine is a non-for-profit, community program that offers sailing instruction to youth and adults, promoting the values of leadership, self-reliance, sportsmanship, and respect for the environment. SailMaine’s web site is www.sailmaine.org.
The Gulf of Maine Ocean Racing Association is a not-for-profit, charitable corporation formed to act as an amateur athletic organization to promote yacht racing, including international yacht racing in the ocean waters of the Gulf of Maine. GMORA maintains a web site at www.gmora.org.

Maine Boatbuilders Show Exhibit

Carter — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:34:16 +0000

This weekend March 20, 21, 22 2009 is the Maine Boatbuilders Show in Portland, Maine at the Portland Company on Fore Street in the Old Port.

Regatta Promotions had organized a booth with Gulf of Maine Ocean Racing Association (GMORA), Portland Yacht Club, Southport Yacht Club and Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club.

We have great information about these events and cool free stuff to people that show up and say they saw this blog entry.

I also have a limited amount of VIP tickets. Want one? Call Carter White at 207-671-7750 cell phone to get one or bring a friend and get two. But call soon since I only have a few.

Hope to see you all this weekend.

The show is Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-6 and Sunday 10-4

Maine Sailing Legend Passes

Carter — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:23:26 +0000

A long time Casco Bay racing scene fixture passed away last week. See the Obituary below. George sailed a memerable J24 named Trick or Treat. Often with a black cat or other holloween type image on the spinnaker, you could see george leading the very competitive and large local J24 Fleet 43. The season trophy for best performance of a Fleet 43 boat is named for George as his legend of competing lives on.

Recently I was going through some race results from Portland Yacht Club in Falmouth, Maine and noticed that George at the young age of 80 won the PYC Lightship race. The race is a twenty plus mile all day race from Clapboard Island to the location of the lightship buoy and back. Often the race produces a wonderful long windward beat and a long and fun downwind sled ride.

George Tonini PORTLAND — George Tonini born in Trieste, Italy, Dec. 20, 1922, passed away Feb. 19, 2009. George was a Merchant Marine and trained on the Italian navy ship Amerigo Vespucci. During WWII he was an Ensign and while cooperating with the U.S., he served in The Royal Italian Navy as navigator on the Italian submarine Goffredo Mameli.

He was stationed in many different places, but the most interesting was Great Diamond Island in Casco Bay. He also worked as a dispatcher and translator at the American Motor Pool for the Allied Military Government in Trieste, Italy.

He settled in Maine, married and worked the rest of his life as a Chef and Caterer in several different capacities. (If you were one of the lucky ones you would have tasted his food). He was a member of the Portland yacht Club since 1964, he taught many people how to sail, and was an avid J/24 racer until the ripe age of eighty.

There was so much more to his life then we can put into words. He loved life, the ocean, sailing, dancing, cooking, playing poker, fishing, the Caribbean, and most of all, his wife Dorothy of 50 years. He was loving, vibrant, flirty, energetic and cute. We will miss him dearly.

He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Tonini of Cumberland; daughter Juliana Tonini of Windham, son Daniel Tonini of Portland; along with his granddaughter, Aria Tonini of Alfred; daughters Adele Harnois of Portland and Linda Beck of Gorham, sons Eric Tonini of Ft. Myers, Fla., and Giorgio Tonini of Trieste, Italy. He has five grand children.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 27, 2009, at the memorial Chapel of Independent Death Care, 471 Deering Ave., Portland.

Memories may be shared, condolences expressed and a guest book signed at the obituary page at www.independentdeathcare.com

Donations may be made to: American Stroke Association 51 U.S. Route 1 Scarborough, Maine 04074 or Animal Refuge League 449 Stroudwater St. Westbrook, Maine 04092 George Tonini