ISSUE 6.12 AUGUST 6, 2018

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NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING NEWSLETTER MARCH 2, 2015

Nantucket Race Week - August 11-19 Nantucket Race Week is nearly here! NRW is Nantucket Community Sailing’s biggest fundraiser of the year - helping us to raise roughly a quarter of our annual operating budget. View the schedule of events here and register now!

How Can YOU Get Involved? Join us in one of our sailing events (registration link above)! NRW social events are also open to the public - we’d love to have you! Volunteers are needed across the entire ten days - We can use your help to sell merchandise, check in people at social events or sell drink or raffle tickets. Please click on one of the links below to sign up to volunteer:

2018 NRW Volunteers NYC Merchandise Sign Up GHYC Merchandise Sign Up Shop NCS and 2018 NRW Merchandise at our Main Office and on the NCS website here! Classic Yacht Exhibition and Rainbow Parade There are two events that we recommend for those interested in seeing some of the beautiful boats that will be in Nantucket Harbor later this week:

The Classic Yacht Exhibition - Straight Wharf - Saturday, August 18th from 5:30 - 8pm - Come tour some of the most special classic wooden yachts in the world. Find more information and purchase tickets ($35pp) here. Featured boats include Brilliant, Mermaid, Marilee, Ticonderoga, Piera, Tree of Life, Eros, and Sonny. This event is for ages 13+ only.

The Rainbow Parade - Brant Point - Sunday, August 19th - 9:40am - Watch the beautiful Rainbow sailboats lead the Classic wooden yachts out to the start of the Opera House Cup regatta. The Rainbows will pass by Brant Point at 9:40am. Wonderful viewing from Brant Point! This is a great activity for children of all ages. This is a free event. Learn more here.

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NRW Harbor Rendezvous - Join Us! On Sunday, August 12th, all sailboats <27’ are welcome to join us for a Harbor Rendezvous. It is a very casual race, with multiple starts. Open to the public. The event will take place in the Harbor, with starts off Second Point. There is no registration fee, but competitors are asked to register on the NRW website. There will be a post-rendezvous gathering at the Sandbar Restaurant at Jetties Beach at 5pm with lite bites and a cash bar. We hope you can make it!

Foiling Waszp Lessons - Pricing Reduced The NCS Foiling Program - one of the first in the country - is up and running. Check out this photo from instructor Kai Friesecke of a student foiling just off Brant Point last week! Mid-summer pricing:

$400 for private 3-hour lesson $150pp for up to 3 ppl (min 2ppl) for 3-hr semi-private lesson

For advanced, active, fit dinghy sailors looking to take the next step, foiling is where it’s at. You’ll fly through Nantucket’s Harbor at speeds as quick as 20+ knots. WHOA! To learn more, check us out online. For booking inquiries or questions, email: [email protected]

Sailors Scuttlebutt Speaker Series - Mark Your Calendar New for Summer 2018! NCS has partnered with the NHA to bring you the following speakers this summer. You won’t want to miss these educational and exciting conversations at the NHA’s Whaling Museum. The talks will be held from 6-7pm, followed by a rooftop reception with refreshments and the guest speaker. Tickets available here - $20 each or book all five for $80.

August 7th - John Burnham August 22nd - Craig Venter August 28th - Nat Philbrick

Public Safety Awareness Day Tuesday, August 7th Nantucket Community Sailing is a sponsor of Nantucket’s Public Awareness Day on Tuesday, August 7th from 10am - 12pm at the Nantucket Elementary School (Surfside Road) Parking Lot. Join us for displays of safety equipment, handouts and demonstrations. Meet Nantucket’s First Responders! Follow us! Facebook and Instagram

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Off-Island 420 & Opti Race Teams - Regatta Update Two of our sailors from the NCS 420 Team team traveled with the Nantucket Yacht Club 420 team to the 2018 c420 North Americans, August 1-5. A huge congrats to the team for making it into the Gold Fleet. Results can be found here. Nantucket’s All-Island Opti Race Team traveled to the two-day Wianno Opti Regatta on July 24-26.. The event consisted of both Green and Championship Fleets. Results can be found here. The Opti Team will head to the Hyannis Yacht Club Youth Invitational on August 8th, Great job and good luck to all of our sailors in their final off-island events of the season! Homeport Dormitory Project Underway If y ou’ve driven by 12 West Creek R oad, y ou’ve likely noticed that NCS has broken ground and commenced work on its Homeport Dormitory ! The facility will offer housing for 17 seasonal sailing instructors each y ear, and a dorm manager. NCS has made tremendous progress on our capital campaign, Homeport. The project has cleared HDC and Planning Board approval, and thanks to the generous support of our friends, Board, and advisors we’ve raised just over $1 million. NCS would like to say a huge thank y ou to the Schmidt Family for their generous matching grant that accelerated progress towards our goal! Their match inspired others to support and donate by giving $2, up to $250,000, for every new $1 in gifts and pledges. Thank y ou! We now ask friends and families in our sailing classes for their support to help us finish strong. Our goal is to raise $1.4 million to complete the construction and minimize the mortgage that we will carry . We plan to have the building ready for occupancy for Summer 2019. We hope for our dormitory to honor all our NCS families, and we hope that y our family will join us in this strategic initiative. To learn more, please visit our Homeport Campaign webpage. To make a donation, please click here. Thank y ou.

Get Them While You Can! New NCS GEAR! NCS is currently selling 2018 NCS and NRW Gear out of the Main Office (4 Winter Street). This sweatshirt ($65) and t-shirt ($35) are hot off the press. Stop by anytime Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm to purchase one (or several!) or shop online!

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Sail to Martha’s Vineyard - for Ice Cream! Launched in 2016, this special one-week program is for our more serious J/105 teen racers. Interested students must have completed at least one session of Teen Big Boat Sailing in the summer of 2018 to be eligible for the class.

Keelboat R ace will be held the week of Nantucket R ace Week and will include the Sail Nantucket R egatta on Friday and Saturday , August 17th and 18th, and a long-sail day to Martha's Viney ard (for ice cream, we hope!) on Wednesday , August 15th. Sailors will build on skills learned in Keelboat Blue to prepare for racing in the second half of the week. At the beginning of the week, an emphasis will be placed on teamwork and on ironing out positions, sail changes and maneuvers. R ead more and resgiter here! E nrollment limited!

Don’t miss out on this fun opportunity to try tennis and paddling in the same morning!

NCS Summer Events Calendar •Tuesday, August 7th Parent Launch Rides at Polpis Harbor •Tuesday, August 7th College Sailing Panel at Nantucket Yacht Club •Wednesday, August 8th Learn-to-Kite Lesson with Next Level Watersports •Friday, August 10th Cookie Day at NCS! •Friday, August 10th (12pm) - Sunday, August 12th (9am) Jetties Sailing Center CLOSED for Boston Pops Concert •Saturday, August 11th - Sunday, August 19th Nantucket Race Week

We love to see sailors in their NCS and NRW Gear. Thanks to NCS President, Bill Druckemiller for sharing this shot of his grandchildren!

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