2010 Shipwright’s Regatta Results

Class Results
1st A class to finish:
Pegasus

1st B class to finish:
Keith Holen on Lasinda

1st C class to finish:
Exploration 18, Dwight Nicholson

1st Gaffer to finish:
Ronald Schmidt on Truant

1st female skipper to finish:
Lisa Vizzini on The Wizard

1st wooden boat to finish:
James Daubenberger on Swift

1st 505 to finish:
Piper Dunlap and Dan Ginther on Dew Flicker

1st dog to finish:
Ruby on Singawing

The traditional and perpetual awards for this years Shipwrights Regatta went to the following:
Van Hope Award for the most youth on board: split between Matt Mortesen on Singawing and Keith Holen on Lasinda

The Hook for the last boat to finish: Matt McCleary on Ceridwen

Pegleg-first boat to finish: Dan Newland on Pegasus

Wack-o-Matic for mis-spent energy: Chris Grace on Lotus (who sat becalmed 3 feet from the finish line long enough for Sumatra, the OTHER Concordia yawl, to make up a mile and scoot past to finish ahead.)

Golden Trident for the saltiest: John Stone on Cutty Sark

Annual PTSA Dues: What are they for?

After the race get together on D dock

…our annual dues allow us to organize, advertise,  and operate races as a cohesive group of enthusiastic Port Townsend sailors. They pay for liability insurance, membership in professional associations, our business license, website, and bouy/marker rent with Washington Department of Natural Resources. Dues also pay for [...]

Racing Seminar - the Friday after Shipwrights'!

Don’t miss the upcoming racing seminar to be presented on February 26th at 6pm at the Northwest Maritime Center. Stig Osterberg, Daubie Daubenberger, Joe Daubenberger, and Piper Dunlap will talk about the many aspects of racing and winning on the Bay. There will be Q & A and some fun and interesting multimedia enhancement … [...]

Meeting of the Board - Jan 5th - Minutes

The meeting was called to order by Steve Scharf, Secretary, after much partaking of tasty snacks.

First order of business, a new assignment of duties was done for the officers.  The current roles/responsibilities are as follows:

President- Stig Osterberg
Vice President- Piper Dunlap
Secretary- Steve Scharf
Treasurer- Aleta Erickson
Public & Yacht Clubs Liason- Symbolyn Sebastian
Legal Coordinator- Satch Yarbrough

Minutes from the end of year meeting - Sirens 12/09

Socializing at the 2009 Membership Meeting

The meeting was called to order by President Adam Henley

Kathy Grace gave a synopsis of upcoming events sponsored by the Wooden Boat Foundation.  They sponsor the Shipwright’s Regatta on Feb. 20th and the Classic Mariners’ Regatta which will be held June 4 – 6.  Kathy Grace , Guy Hupy [...]

Meeting Date Changed to December 17th

As it turns out there is a last minute scheduling conflict for Sirens and we need to move the end of season/end of year meeting to the following week.

The new date is Thursday December 17th.   6pm social ½ hour with the meeting starting promptly at 6:30. Sirens is still the place

See you there!

Steve Scharf

Spring 2009 Newsletter

Our first Board Meeting of the year is now behind us. I am humbled by the amount of work that has been done to nurture the PTSA so far. Our past boards have left us with BIG shoes to fill. Some of the work was endemic to any organization and some was required by the [...]