CR4S charity event

It was a great evening and we had a great time.  Here's the writeup from SailingAnarchy.com:

Reaching out

One of the things we wanted to do while planning for this year's Sailing Anarchy ISAF Regatta was to reach outside to the non-sailing community in a fun and meaningful way. It couldn't have been more perfect that Maggie Hannegan Director, Distinguished Giving American Cancer Society, happened to be helping with the regatta planning. We got together and with the goal of getting kids and their families from their Camp Reach The Sky out sailing in a fun environment, with food, festivities and a good time in mind, we had our the first annual SA/CYC Charity Regatta last night

Now mind you, we didn't raise any money or do any fundraising, but we did see a whole lot of smiles on a whole lotta faces! The race was casual and It was just a fantastic event and we honestly cannot wait to start planning for nest year!We could not have made this happen without the support of the Viper 640 guys lead by Drew Harper of Spinnaker Sailing and Tom Hirsh of Flying Tiger Boats, who along with his sons, quickly assembled two brand new Flying Tiger 7.5's.

And of course our title sponsor, West Marine, who not only printed up t-shirts for all, provided race prizes, but also contributed 40 PFD's for the event and then donated them to the CYC Junior Program.

Local sailors Herb Zoeher, Ken Blackington and a whole host of others contributed to a beautiful day on the water with some amazing kids. Thanks to everyone! Pics by the Ed and Eva Rummel.

Here's a great shot of USA 103 with our team for the evening (they are also pictured at the top of the article):

Camp Reach 4 the Sky regatta

This is an awesome warm up to the beginning of the ISAF sportboat world championship of the world.  We will be taking the Flying Tiger 7.5 sailing with the kids from Camp Reach 4 the Sky.  These kids all have cancer and this program gets them out to try things that they would never have dreamed about.  As well as the Flying Tigers, there will be some other great boats around to take over 100 kids sailing.  I'll post pics tomorrow after the event.

Good Times.

USA 103

Flying Tiger 7.5Meter, USA 103 will be the ride for the Sailing Anarchy ISAF regatta.  Pretty psyched about putting the brand new, never raced boat, on the line with Tom Hirsh (Flying Tiger Boats, USA Pres) and team.  This regatta will be SUPER competitive, racing against Vipers, and probably Mini 6.5's.  There will be AT LEAST 2 other 7.5's on the line and we fully intend to show the speed of these boats as well as their upwind performance against similarly sized sport boats. More updates next week as we get the boat ready and hopefully find time for practice on Thursday afternoon.  No pics of 103 yet, but here's one of us in USA 1 racing against USA 101.

Sailing Anarchy ISAF- Coming soon

JKSailing is working to secure funding to charter a Flying Tiger 7.5m for the ISAF regatta in September.  The plan is to put s team of collegiate sailors together to represent our technical partner as well as compete to win the regatta with a boat full of amateurs with years of sailing success under their belt. 

This is an exciting time, not only for JKSailing, but for boat racing in San Diego.  If local businesses begin to see the value of marketing through sailing and the return on investment it generates, Sailing could become more accessible for a wider group of individuals.  Accessibility will no doubt grow participation and more regattas in venues like San Diego Bay, where tourists, locals, fans of sailing, and even those who know nothing about the sport, can come together and watch the wind powering competition.

Fingers Crossed.
Cheers,
JK

Flying Tiger 7.5 Meter- First OD Regatta

Overall, This boat is Awesome fun.  9.8kn of boatspeed in 11-15knots windspeed True...not to shabby for a 24'er.  Debrief to follow, here's the first set of Pics:

Awesome article about my boy Ryan on SailingAnarchy.com

Article Here
More at his website

Support his efforts in the Barcelona World Race.  Follow him on Facebook and check his site for updates.

Looking forward for the release of the new TellTale

The new version of Telltale will be coming out of the depths of Blue Water Media's Arsenal very soon.  There will be more functionality and versatility.  And best of all..no domain name fees or anything.  I will post more as it gets released and I'm sure all the local Dago fleets will be hearing from me soon