The Nationals are coming !!

That’s right, the Albacore Nationals are coming to Ware River. July 9, 10 & 11. WRYC will be hosting the 2021 Albacore Class Nationals Regatta and we are excited to announce we have 20 boats registered. This is a tremendous honor for Ware River and an opportunity to show off our club facilities, beautiful surroundings and of course our great sailing grounds. I encourage all club members to consider coming out to watch some top notch sailing…….make a picnic of it!

As you know Jr. Sailing kicked off on June 21st and is now in full swing so the club has plenty going on during each week thru July. In addition, we’ve been offering Adult sailing classes on Saturday and have had a very good turnout thru June. Joe Morgan is leading the effort on that so if you have interest in learning the basics please reach out directly to Joe, me, or send an email to the club and Layne will forward it on. We’re using the Albacore’s as the main training sloop but if you’d like to explore learning how to sail a laser, we can help with that too. Bring a life jacket, water shoes, something cold to drink and a snack

As for our Sunday sailing series, we had a slow start but interest is growing and we have had 4 boats out the last few Sundays. We were also fortunate to have Barney Harris, one of the top Albacore Sailors in the country, come down from DC to put on a rigging and tuning clinic for us. We will continue the series thru October and are still looking for folks to sail with us every Sunday so if your interested, come join us starting around noon. Again, bring a life jacket, some good water shoes, clothes you don’t mind getting wet, some cold beverages and lunch !

Finally, our Keel boat WAGS is back at the club and on the hook with new bottom paint, all nav lights working, a new VHF radio and a serviced auxiliary outboard. We will start to offer adult sailing on this vessel again and of course its available for member use, once you are checked out on her. Please let me know if you have interest in using WAGS or getting checked out.

That should be it for now. Until next month…………

Happy Sailing

Jim Garrett - Fleet