Power Squadron offers Sailing Courses at The CYC

The Cambridge Sail and Power Squadron will be teaching a 6-week Sailing course from April 8th to May 13th. The classes will be from 1-4pm at the Cambridge Yacht Club.  The course will cover everything from basic parts of the boat to heavy weather sailing.  The class will mostly be classroom instruction, but there will be an on the water session at the end of the course. The cost of the course is $60 for Power Squadron members and $120 for non-members.  

If you are interested in this class, please contact Wayne Rigby at 302-629-4658 or email werigby@yahoo.com

The textbook is over 200 pages, covering the following chapters:

1. Sailboat Rigs
2. Sail Plans
3. Boat Design and Hull Types
4. Standing Rigging
5. Sails
6. Running Rigging
7. Stability
8. Balance
9. Wind
10. Sail Shape
11. Preparing to Sail
12. Tuning the Rig
13. Steering and Helmsmanship
14. Sailing Upwind
15. Sailing Downwind
16. Spinnaker Handling
17. Heavy Weather Sailing
18. Storm Conditions
19. Docking and Anchoring
20. Marlinespike Seamanship
21. Sailing Safety
22. Navigation rules

Appendix A - Sailboat racing
Appendix B - Race Management
Appendix C -Glossary
Appendix D - Canadian Rules and Regulations
Appendix E - U.S. Rules and Regulations

Save the date! CYC Regatta, July 20- 22, 2018

Good afternoon ESSA Members,

We wanted to let the members of the Eastern Shore Sailing Association 

know about the

Cambridge Yacht Club's 2018 Admiral Byrd Regatta.  

This will be CYC's 103rd annual regatta and we would very much like to have members of your club who enjoy racing come join us.  

Please find the 'Save the Date' for you and your club members.

Save the date -Click Here - printable

Please keep your eye on the regatta page on the CYC website for additional information and feel free to contact us by our email addresses.

http://www.cambridgeyachtclub.org/Regatta.cfm

Thank you,

Tom and John

--

Tom K & John D

2018 Regatta Co-Chairs

John: 443-783-0723

        jjdonegan3@mac.com

Tom: 804-402-6529

        tom.trkranz@gmail.com

Cambridge Yacht Club

PO Box 287

1 Mill St.

Cambridge, Maryland 21613

410-228-2141

http://www.cambridgeyachtclub.org/

Membership and Racing Applications.

Save ten dollars on your membership and racing applications.

 

Submit your forms before March 22, 2018

Deadline extended to APRIL 4, 2018

 

Click here for printable ESSA forms

Encourage your crew to become members.

Membership dues pays for our events.

 

Tangier Fleet Meeting is Saturday, March 24
Choptank Fleet Meeting is Wednesday April 4

A message from your ESSA Bridge.

 essasailing38@gmail.com
 

Cambridge Creek Bridge Is Open to Traffic

A message from the City:

Cambridge Creek Bridge Open

This from the Maryland State Highway Administration: The Cambridge Creek Bridge is open to traffic today. Work is has been completed.

We'd like to thank MDOT-SHA for taking care of the Cambridge Creek Drawbridge, but also for handling the repair in a timely and efficient manner. MDOT-SHA fully appreciated the impact this had on everyone's commute, and the City of Cambridge is very appreciative for the completion of this project almost four days ahead of schedule.

ESSA Upcoming Events

• General Meeting- March 17, 12:00 PM, Jimmie & Sooks
• Jay Tyson, CRCA
• Come find out why the Racer - Cruiser Class is the fastest growing fleet on the bay, and how CRCA is getting new racers out to compete, along with experienced racers who had grown frustrated with the sport. Great destinations, ratings that are fair and events designed to maximize the "Fun Quotient" are bringing a much-needed new perspective to sailing.  

• Tangier Fleet Meeting - March 24, noon

• Choptank Fleet Meeting - April 4, 6 PM -Cambridge Yacht Club

Early Membership: Beat the fee! The clock is ticking!

Save ten dollars on your membership and racing applications.

Submit your forms before March 22, 2018

Click here for printable ESSA forms

A message from your ESSA Bridge.

essasailing38@gmail.com

ESSA MEETING REMINDER: SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2018

Lunch Meeting March 17, 2018

Join ESSA for lunch at noon on Saturday, March 17, 2018, upstairs at Jimmie and Sook’s Restaurant, 

527 Poplar Street, Cambridge, MD.  

Please RSVP to help us get a reasonable head count.

CLICK HERE to RSVP

 

After lunch,
Jay Tyson from the Chesapeake Racer Cruiser Association will give a presentation on 

"Making Cruiser Racing Fun."  
 

Join us to celebrate St. Patrick and 

put some Irish luck in your summer racing.  

This will be the last opportunity for discounted dues.

CLICK HERE to RSVP

essasailing38@gmail.com

High, Higher, Highest Tide!

Photos at High tide at 8:06 AM.  The marina finger piers are submerged.

Tide charts are available at NOAA - CAMM2

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stationhome.html?id=8571892

looking North on Cambridge Creek

over the bulkhead at Bluewater Marina

No need for a ladder today

So far it is a 6 foot 5 inch rise since last Saturday's low tide.

This may be the second highest tide since Isabel.

2 foot, 6 inches about MHHW.  4 foot 6 inches above MLLW.

 

 essasailing38@gmail.com

Wind Graph for March 2, 2018 30 knots, gusts to 60

Historic Vessel visits Cambridge,.Saturday, August 4 - Sunday, August 12, 2018

S.S. John W. Brown to Visit Cambridge

The S.S. John W. Brown, one of only two remaining and operational World War II liberty ships, will dock at the port of Cambridge near Governor’s Hall from August 4-12. The ship will arrive with a few hundred visitors from its day cruise, originating in Baltimore, and will remain open to the public the rest of the week from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

During the evening, the Calhoon Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (MEBA) Training School, will host re-certification classes for marine engineers from across the East Coast. Its visit will coincide with the 39^th Annual Seafood Feast-I-Val, which will be held at Governor’s Hall on August 11 from 1-6 p.m.

“This is such an exciting opportunity to host a piece of living history here in Cambridge, work with one of the city’s showcase events to create a significant attraction for visitors, and to play a role in the continued development of marine engineers from around the country,” said Brandon Hesson, the Associate Director of Economic Development for the City of Cambridge.

The S.S. John W. Brown is maintained and operated in Baltimore by a corps of volunteers through Project Liberty Ship, which preserves the ship as an educational asset. The ship was originally one of 2,700 liberty ships manufactured as part of an emergency WWII shipbuilding program. After its tenure as an active cargo ship, the S.S. John W. Brown served as a maritime high school from 1946-1983. Now, it also acts as a venue for special events and weddings when it isn’t providing a regular slate of educational day cruises and docent-led tours.

 For more information about the S.S. John W. Brown or its day cruises, visit www.ssjohnwbrown.org.