Today i made a webpage for next years paper tiger oz nationals, its 12 months away but its nice to be prepared!

http://papertiger2011.catsailor.org/index.html

Saturday I helped assemble 2 brand new spin rigged 420's for our kids sailing program. Sweet little boats, nicley rigged, and "some assembly required". Manuals are for pusses!

I went sailing and took my daughter with me. Encouraged at least three people to try to sail on a beach cat.

Started a web site for Canadian A Class sailors


http://home.mountaincable.net/~cececan51/

Very nice, everyone!

look what Harry Murphey did! Way to go Harry.
Caleb
http://www.catsailor.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=202090#Post202090

My students and I watched the first race of the 33rd Americas Cup on a 72 in. SmartBoard. They were so into it they opted out of recess and asked if they could eat lunch in the classroom to see the finish. The cheers when USA-17 crossed the line were priceless.
We had been talking about force and motion, so this was a great way for them to see it in action. We talked about how lifting a hull reduces friction in the water and related it partly to BMW's win today. Maybe it inspired some future sailors. Who knows?
In a couple of weeks comes my "how pulleys work on a sailboat lesson", where they get to see my H16 up close, unfortunately on dry land.

Awesome James.
Just make sure they know the difference between fast multis and monohulls.
Keep up the good work.
Todd

Great way to incorporate sailing with lessons about physics. Good job!!

As most of you know, West Virginia has one Free sailing school set up for the new sailor. Sewell Mountain Sailing was able to help 65 people start on their road to being sailors in 2009. In 2010 our group has become better known, thanks in large part to the efforts of "Catamaran Sailor" We are now arranging even more FREE sailing classes for both Church Groups and from WV. schools like Marshall Univ. ! So to ask, What have I done today,is really to say, what have WE done today..Thanks Rick and Mary..

We set up a facebook site for the Shark Catamaran. This goes along with the forum spot that Rick set up for us here.
http://www.catsailor.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=32&page=1
Please feel free to stop by, chat,upload Shark photos, get building advice or look for replacement parts. We love keeping this class going- 50 years of consecutive nationals is coming up in a couple of years. The time to get your boat ready for it is now- or talk to us about getting a new one!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=460564555388

Rob Turbett

Go 4 it Abbman, i still remember when my primary school teacher let us help setting up his land yacht!

Thought we all should know America’s national flagship, the SS United States, is in imminent danger of being bought by scrappers

Web site for more info: http://ssunitedstatesconservancy.or...tates+Conservancy&form_charset=UTF-8

I took up ICE SAILING this year. Alotta fun & very fast. I built my own~ a DN class~ here it is on 'YouTube'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9AI5ICw3g Enjoy the ride.........

Appeared to be too much snow, but you were still moving well.
Very cool,
Rick

Well done. It is heartening to see multihulls included.

I spend 3 hours Sunday morning rigging a Dart 16 given to the club by the RYA. It's been sitting near salt water with limited maintenance for a while and required quite a lot of tinkering to get in shape for the coming season.

There are two more in the parking lot needing some TLC...

BTW, our club now owns a fleet of cats for kid training:

* 6 Hobie Twixxy
* 4 Hobie Catsy (Those are so cute, 3.1m, 10 feet)
* 3 Dart 16

very cool.
i never heard of those two hobies.. i looked em up.. very "cute" indeed

A couple of my very good cat sailing friends are teachers. Yesterday, we set up our cats and took three foreign exchange students from Jordan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, out sailing. They had a blast. Winds were perfect for first timers, about 8 to 12 mph. Lots of hull flying, spinnaker flying, trapeze flying, and laughs. They were very interested in finding ways to continue sailing when they get back home. All said that it was the highlight of their stay in the US.
Sail on guys!
My youngest son and his friend also came out and had a blast trapeze wrestling. I will make him a cat sailor yet!
After taking them all out, I went for the last run of the day solo. Threw up the spin, and flew a hull, trapped out, all the way across Lake Pleasant. There are very few things in this world that are better than that.
And it looks cool too. A couple of power boaters were noticing how much more fun I was having than them … as they ran circles around me.
You never know.

I love that story, azcat.