Season Five: Big Winds, Big Wins It’s a wrap. The Social Day Cruising program rounded off its fifth season with a party on September 25th. After an (admittedly relaxing) sail, we had quizzes, games, prizes, and CAKE. The event marked the end of another glorious summer of sailing, skills development and connecting on our precious…
Sign up for Social Day Cruising – Registration is now open. Social Day Cruising matches people with all levels of experience who want to go for a cruise with skippers who would like to share their love of sailing with them. Its a wonderful way of introducing people to sailing and growing our community.
NSC Members Richard Pessah (R) and Ian Torrie (L) recently completed the transatlantic “Atlantic Rally for Cruisers” (ARC) aboard “Mira”, an Amel 54. This photo was taken as they landed in Rodney Bay St Lucia. Ian joined the crew in Magala Spain and Richard rounded out the crew for the 3000nm southern crossing route (“……
NSC’s Social Day-Cruising end-of-season event was a blast as sailors competed in games, including balloon sailboat creation. Our own Commodore Corey Glynn was the adjudicator, remarking how impressed he was with the group’s electric vibe. A Season of Avid Activity This capped a season in which 78 sailors without boats were provided 300 crew spots…
Our sailing season has begun on time. Woo-hoo!! First keelboat race May 7. First dinghy/catamaran race May 15. First Social Day-Cruising June 7. Our highly-skilled race bosun staff are all aboard and gearing up. Our operations volunteers and race officials are extremely well organized. The harbour team has delivered great facilities as our base. Everything is now…
NSC’s Social Day-cruising program underwent a post-pandemic reboot this season. Cruising sailors were finally able to gather again to enjoy time on the water, good company and the wonder of wind propulsion.
Despite a very light-air month of August, the Social Day-Cruising fleet was on the water each week for an afternoon cruise with a healthy mixture of experienced and eager new sailors. In particularly light winds, spinnakers went up and swim ladders went down.
NSC’s Crew Bank is a wonderful resource for skippers looking for crew, whether you’re short for weeknight or weekend racing, or looking for someone to join you for a leisurely afternoon or evening sail.
Handy links for learning about anchoring techniques, and etiquette.
In this talk, Cathy Duchesne and Rick Anderton team up to talk anchorages and anchoring.