Home Crewing Course Foreign Cruises Skippers Roster Sailing Newsletter		Mountaineers Sailing Newsletter June 2006 Hello Mountaineers Sailing Crew Members: Welcome to the first issue of the Mountaineers Sailing Newsletter. The Sailing Committee wants to update you about sailing opportunities and news of the Mountaineers Sailing group. We’d also like to get your feedback on what we can do to make the sailing program more fun and build member participation. The Mountaineers Seattle Sailing Branch has just completed the Spring Crew Class and had over 70 students. With our new crew class graduates now added to the Mountaineers crew roster; we look forward to a busy and exciting year ahead with plenty of sail trips. And speaking of sailing... Mountaineers Sailing has organized three foreign sailing cruises; one to Greece and two to Croatia. Jim Doub has chartered a Beneteau 50’ sailboat for a one-week cruise out of Western Greece, leaving there on September 19. Jim currently has a full crew compliment, but will accept wait list crew signups. Hal Tobie and Paul Liebertz have each chartered 43 foot Beneteau sailboats for one week cruises along the coast of Croatia, in the Northeastern Adriatic (southeast of Venice), both leaving Split, Croatia on September 9. Paul and Hal expect to travel together and generally dock in port at night. Croatia has received rave reviews for cruising in several publications recently. Good weather, warm water, many islands and historic and interesting towns and cities. Paul’s boat is currently full, but there is an open spot on Hal’s, and Paul is accepting wait list reservations. Details are on the web under foreign trips. In the past all sails have been listed in the Go-Guide. Unfortunately, the current Go-Guide requires looking ahead up to 60 days in advance. Some skippers have tried adding their last minute sailing trips directly onto the web site but members have not known to go there for this information. So this year we are encouraging our skippers to add new trips as their schedule allows and Crew Members to check the web site often to sign up for these late breaking sailing trips. Adding trips directly onto the web will allow skippers to add trips and only plan 10 to 14 days in advance and allow more flexibility for all. As I write this, some of our offered trips are only partially filled. Folks, these are great boats with space to fill! Go to www.--- for new activity information and to sign up. We would also like to get feedback on how we can make the Sailing program better and more interesting. As skippers, we all like sailing and just getting out on the water is great, but we sometimes forget to look at things from the crew point-of-view. So our question is, what would help you as crew? More information about the skippers and boats, magic shortcuts to the marinas (Shilshole for example is a straight road west on North 85th from I-5 with a little down hill at the end to Golden Gardens Park and the north end of the marina.) You tell us! Email us at webmaster
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