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June 2012 Blog Posts (2)

Midwest Skiff Sailing - Madison Skiff Weekend June 1-3 Report

For those of you in the Midwest that didn’t make the Madison Skiff event this past weekend, you missed a great one! Here’s the quick summary but more importantly make sure you make the 9^th Annual Madison Skiff Challenge Jul 13-15^th and you’ll experience it first hand.

We lucked out and had great sun and breeze (10-20) all weekend blowing onto Robert Krebs’ Madison Sailing Center. Robert has built the facility up from nothing and we owe him thanks for…

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Added by Jake Skala on June 4, 2012 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

San Diego One Design Weekend (sort of) - June 2 & 3

Only 3 boats showed up for this; Brad and Trick on the B5 1161, Steve and Gerrit on the Shu2 1183 and Terry and Brian on the B6 1187. Forecast was for 5-7 kts out of the ssw, veering more west in the afternoon. As is often the case in San Diego, the summer winds were more than forecast. Most of the day was sailed in 8 to 12 kts, with some lighter stuff thrown in occasionally. With the ssw wind direction, we sailed in the main channel near the harbor entrance off of the Navy's submarine…

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Added by Stephen Shumaker on June 4, 2012 at 5:00pm — No Comments