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CAMANO SAIL AND POWER, LLC, COMING ACTIVITIES

Saturdays High winds cancellations	Saturdays, beginning January 9 will be "Open Sailing" at our Camano Island State Park waterfront facility.  BOAT CHECK OUT AND RIGGING CAN BE AS EARLY AS 9:30 AM BUT IN NO CASE LATER THAN 10:30  AM.  Launching will be at 11 am, at the same time that the safety/coach boat begins operation. Open sailing will be between the hours of 11 am and 3 pm.    Open sailing will generally take place around or in the vicinity of course markers.  However, the exact format is subject to change depending on what the participants would like to do, and the wind and water conditions expected that day.  All participants in CSP boats are expected to remain in the general "ready response area" of the safety/coach boat in case any participant should need the help of the on-duty sailing coach.    Participants who are US SAILING-certified small boat sailors and CSP certified may check out any of the boats that they are qualified to sail under the wind and water conditions prevailing that day.      We  will use the following real-time weather site to make a decision on whether to sail or not.  You can log on to the following site located at Indian Beach, just north of Cama State Park to see the conditions on Saratoga Passage http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KWACAMAN3   If the steady windspeed is 10kn or above, with gusts in the 15kn range, we will not sail the small boats that day. Contact us at camanosail@camano.net  or 425-314-9824 for further information.
Sundays	Sundays, beginning January 10 will be instructional and special clinic days.  CSP will offer the 18-hour US SAILING small boat certification classes on three consecutive** Sundays from 9 AM until 3 PM throughout the Winter and Spring.  **These classes are very weather dependent and may have to be re-scheduled if the wind and sea state on a scheduled class day is inappropriate for a beginning sailing class.  (see above weather link and contact info re: high wind cancellations)     Please visit our website  http://www.camanosail.com/smallboatintrophilosophy.html and http://www.camanosail.com/smallboats,goals,cost,etc.html for more information on the CSP small boat programs, or contact us at  425-314-9824 or camanosail@camano.net
Keelboats       Milltown Sailing Assoc        (Everett)	Our two keelboats, the Hobie 33 Samurai, and the J-24 Lil' Samurai, are out of the water until next May, 2010.  Look for them at the Mother's Day weekend Sail-in held on Sat., May 9, 2010, sponsored by and held at the Center for Wooden Boats at Cama Beach State Park.  Free sailboat rides from 10 AM until 4PM on all manner of wonderful old wooden boats like Adventuress, and not-so-old, not-wood boats like Samurai and Lil' Samurai      Camano Sail and Power is a member of the Milltown Sailing Association.  We use this association primarily as a venue to provide our  sailors an opportunity to hone their sailing skills racing against other boats.  Racing forces sailors to concentrate on their abilities and knowledge in order to make the boat sail as efficiently as possible.  Nothing whets a sailor's desire to make their boat as fast as possible,  nor helps them to become better sailors faster, than seeing a competitor coming up slowly from behind, or seeing that it may just be possible to "pull in " a competitor who is slightly ahead.   However, that said, the goal is to have fun as well as sharpen skills.   If we do well, we will consider it a bonus.  "One for all and all for fun" is our motto.  After all, no one pulls a paycheck for these events and no one is promoted to a higher office because of them.      Here is the 2010 schedule of events.  All of our current or past sailing students, small boats or big boats,  are welcome, indeed encouraged, to sail the events that are shown as events that CSP will attend (shown circled in red) either with Samurai, our Hobie 33, and/or with Lil' Samurai,  our J-24.      Interested sailors must contact Camano Sail and Power no later than the Thursday of that week by 7:00 PM by e-mail or phone (425-314-9824) to ensure sufficient time to let everyone know if the boats are full or not.  Spaces are filled in the order of receipt of e-mails or phone calls.  We will post an e-mail by 9 PM the same evening listing who is crew for the next day's race.     THERE  IS A LIMIT OF  FIVE AVAILABLE SPACES PER BOAT.     Camano Sail sailors will board one or both boats at the public docks at the Port of Everett moorage facility NO LATER THAN 5:30 ON THE DAY OF THE LOG DODGE RACES.**  Map of location of Port of Everett public tieups where our keelboats will pick up crew. Both boats and their skippers will overnight at the public dock and return to Camano Sat AM.  Therefore, the most of the rest of the crew will arrive and leave Milltown S.A./Everett  by car.      Food and drink are served by Milltown at the conclusion of the races.   If you get there early enough, you could dine at Anthony's Homeport or several other waterfront eateries all within walking distance.  These particular public docks are where the fueling dock is located, on the Snohomish River side.  The Everett YC is immediately on the north side of the public docks and the Milltown Sailing Assoc is just north of the EYC.     Watch this space and your e-mails for specifics on the Life Sling clinic and the Oak Harbor Challenge.     **  The Log Dodge Races are friendly, for-fun events that start and finish in front of the Milltown S.A. (a few hundred feet upstream from the dock at Anthony's).  The start is 6:30 and the finish is usually 9ish, one way or 'tother, usually 'tother, i.e.  a skosh later.      For additional info, go to this page.
CHILI-CHOWDER COOKOFF	Sat, Nov 14, 2009 Camano Senior and Community Center, 3-7 PM. Camano Sail and Power took a tie for third in the chowder category.