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.