Participate in Online Sailing Events From Your Couch or Desk
It’s a different beginning to sailing season than we had anticipated, but let’s roll with it. Here are some virtual events to keep sailors’ heads in the game as we ride out this odd moment in our history and keep our families and communities healthy. We’re trying our best to plug these into the SpinSheet calendar as we receive them, yet admit that they are cropping up faster than we can keep up, so please send us updates anytime:
Friday Happy Hour With SpinSheet and North Sails
Molly Winans, SpinSheet editor, will share a cocktail with Jonathan Bartlett and Austin Powers of North Sails Chesapeake as we get to know the latest in sail material, manufacturing technology, and key characteristics for a long lasting, high performance cruising sails. We will take your questions as we take a break from the news cycle. Go to SpinSheet's Facebook page this Friday, April 3, at 5 p.m. to watch, listen, and participate.
Quantum’s Facebook Live Series
Quantum hosts Facebook Live seminars. Next up: How To Build an Onboard Sail Repair Kit, with Andrew LaPlant, on Thursday, April 2 at 3 p.m. Clck to Quantum's series here.
Live Webinar: Off the Wind: Modern Advancements in Downwind Sailing
Broad Bay Sailing Association and North Sails will provide a webinar April 2 from 7-8 p.m. to look at how downwind sails have evolved. They will discuss the new advancements of downwind sails and how they relate back to the club racer and cruiser. At the end of the seminar they will have a Q&A session pertaining to the topics discussed.
Speaker: Austin Powers, from North Sails
Each person that registers for this webinar will receive email instructions on how to log in to the presentation. Webinar is open to BBSA members and non-members. Register here.
US Sailing’s Starboard Portal for Videos
Check out US Sailing’s new Starboard Portal video channel containing free videos on many topics pertinent to sailors as well as archived videos you can check out for free.
Hampton Yacht Club Corona Series Virtual Regatta
From Lin McCarthy’s Southern Bay Racing News You Can Use:
Four Southern Bay sailing organizations, Hampton YC, Norfolk YCC, Christopher Newport University Sailing, and Youth Sailing Virginia, have teamed up to run a Virtual Regatta Series throughout the month of April. The "Corona Series" will offer six nights of Virtual One-Design Racing in the 49er, Dayboat Racer, or Offshore Racer Class each Wednesday in April on http://virtualregatta.com starting at 6 p.m.
To be eligible, Players must submit their Virtual Regatta username and email to Max Plarr, HYC Sailing Director at [email protected]. Each circle will have up to 20 participants and run six races each Wednesday night.
Thanks to Max Plarr for getting this going, and to Vir Menon of CNU Sailing, Scott Norman of NYCC, and Sam Sipe of Youth Sailing Virginia, for making it possible to run this event with up to 80 sailors. The first Wednesday is THIS COMING Wednesday, APRIL 1.
Missed the Last SpinSheet Virtual Happy Hour?
That’s okay. You can still watch our talk with pros Geoff Ewenson and David Flynn of Quantum about how to improve your crew skills. Note that we had some technical difficulty at the beginning. We figured it out at about 6 minutes. Click here for the vid. Enjoy!
