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This time of year is always a bit bittersweet. While the daylight takes on a keen intensity, you can't help but notice how effortlessly it gives way to night. But shorter days don't need to darken your enthusiasm. In fact, October brings some of the best sailing - and our favorite events - of the year.
Fleet Week is jetting our way. The Blue Angels roar through our skies Friday, October 9th through Sunday the 11th. We are booked solid on Saturday and there are just a few boats available on Sunday. Members, take advantage of our weekday Member discount, and book a boat for that Friday to enjoy the show! Click here to visit the Fleet Week website.
The Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival brings our yearly rendezvous. Along with Cruising Yachts, we usually end up with over 20 boats heading down the coast together for some "gourd"geous coastal cruising! Click here to learn more.
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Today's Tip
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When using your camera on or around boats, be sure to secure the strap around your neck or wrist. You don't want to donate your favorite photo snapper to Davy Jones's locker.
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Nautical Noggin-Boggler WINNER!
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We selected our winner randomly from the correct answers submitted. Don't miss your chance to dazzle us with your knowledge and win a prize!
Congratulations to last week's winner:
John Verello
We'll drop your Cap Retainer in the mail today!
 
Your bow has entered the slip on your final approach but you have misjudged your drift and are about to hit the corner of the leeward finger, as shown in the picture below. What should you do now?
ANSWER:
Quickly turn to full right rudder and apply a short burst of forward throttle. This will surge the boat forward, while inducing a quick pivot, turning the back of the boat away from danger. The key to using this remedy is to be sure not to do it until the boat's pivot point (usually very close to the mast) is at, or ahead, of the danger point (the corner of the finger).
While it may be tempting to use reverse, the wind is already taking your bow to leeward. No amount of reverse is likely to save you, especially if you have a right hand propeller and the stern is walking to port.
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West Marine Seminar Series
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 SEMINAR SERIES
Join us at the Oakland West Marine; you'll be glad that you did! There will be lots of good information on a variety of sailing topics, plus special offers to save you money.
Thursday, September 24th -
Cruising the South Pacific
6 pm - 7 pm
At the West Marine in Oakland
Cruising the South Pacific - a one hour video slide show presented by Jim Hancock, Club Nautique School Director and General Manager. The video covers the Pacific Crossing that Jim and his wife, Eleanor, made aboard a thirty-nine foot sailboat from Mexico to New Zealand. Jim and Eleanor passed through six different countries on the way and covered a distance of nearly seven thousand miles.
FREE! Everyone welcome!
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Bareboat Prep Charter Share
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 Have you finished Basic Cruising? Get ready for your Bareboat class and build your skills. Join other Basic Cruising certified students and follow the guidelines that we set for you to practice specific maneuvers to prepare you for your Bareboat certification.
Session topics: Sailing, Motoring, Crew Overboard & Anchoring. Attend all four sessions and skipper one of the sessions and you'll receive four credits towards your experience requirement for Bareboat class.
Upcoming Sessions:
Saturday, September 26th
9am - 1pm - Motoring - Sausalito
Saturday, September 26th
2pm - 6pm - Sail - Sausalito
Saturday, October 3rd
9am - 1pm - Anchoring - Alameda
Saturday, October 3rd
2pm - 6pm - Crew Overboard - Alameda
Members: $75*/Non-Members: $115*
*Take both morning and afternoon sessions and get an additional $10 off!
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Charter Sharing is BACK!
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We set the boat aside. You sign up to go sailing!
Enjoy an economical way to go sailing. Meet new crew mates, go new places and have fun!
Sunday, September 27
9am - Dusk - Alameda
Sunday, October 4
9am - Dusk - Sausalito
Sunday, October 11 - FLEET WEEK!
9am - Dusk - Alameda
Members $80/Non-Members $125
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Beer Can Races
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 Every Other Friday
April 3rd - October 30th
5pm - 9pm
Alameda
Ballena Bay YC Spring Sunset Series
(aka Beer Can Races)
Now open to non-members!
Next Race: Friday, October 2nd
Join us every other Friday evening for fun, competitive sailing aboard a Colgate 26 as we take part in the Ballena Bay YC beer can races. Afterwards slide up to the yacht club bar to relive each exciting minute and critique yourselves (and the other racers!) in a tack-by-tack race analysis from our onboard Club Nautique Tactician-du-jour.
Meet at CN Alameda at 5 pm to prep the boat, review sailing instructions and conditions, then get out to the starting line for the race.
No prior race experience required.
Must be Basic Cruising certified.
Reservations required. Call to confirm dates.
Members: $35/Non-Members: $47
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Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival!
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Friday, October 16 - Sunday, October 18
Harvest some fun by joining us for our annual weekend rendezvous to the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival. Experience coastal cruising along with a gaggle of other boats from Club Nautique and Cruising Yachts.
Throughout the weekend we enjoy the hospitality of the easy going folks at the Half Moon Bay Yacht Club. On Saturday, we take in the festival or enjoy local activities like hiking or kayaking. In the evening everyone whips up their best "Witches Brew" and cunningly carves a pumpkin to compete to win prizes and bragging rights.
This is one of our favorite events of the year and it's sure to be one of yours!
We are putting together crews and skippers. Cost will depend on the boat and number of people on the charter.
Some coastal experience is preferred.
Click here to learn more!
Please contact Marianne if you are interested.
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Coast Guard Licensing Course
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December 7th -18th
Alameda
Club Nautique will be hosting a Coast Guard License Course, presented by Maritime Institute at our Alameda facility. Maritime Institute is one of the top licensing schools in the country.
The course will be taught by Club Nautique instructor, Arnstein Mustad. Arnstein holds a 100-ton Near Coastal USCG Masters license, Yachtmaster
Ocean certificate, STCW-95 endorsement and is a US SAILING certified
instructor through Coastal Passage Making.
Club Nautique Members who enroll in this course will receive $100 in Club Nautique "Boating Bucks" usable towards a future charter.
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Coastal Passage Making Corner
Congratulations Ken Kilborn!
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Club Nautique has the most extensive and comprehensive Coastal Passage Making training program in the country. Graduating from our program is no easy feat. We are so proud of all of the hard work and dedication that goes in to your journey. Congratulations to our latest graduate, Ken Kilborn.
Ken(center) with School Director, Jim Hancock(left) and his passing instructor, Arnstein Mustad(right).
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Leukemia Cup Regatta
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Club Nautique was proud to be a part of the Leukemia Cup Regatta for the fourth consecutive year. Participants raised over $20,000 in funds to donate to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Click here for more pictures and information.
Photo by: Michael Johnson
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Nautical Noggin-Boggler
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Reply to this email with your answer to the following nautical Noggin-Boggler. There is no need to change the subject. Club Nautique will randomly select a winner from all correct responses received by end of business on Monday, September 21st.
QUESTION:
Find the six differences between the two photos below.
 This week's prize: A SanDisk 2.0 GB Memory Card  |
Caught on Camera
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VACATIONING ON THE EAST COASTGeorge Sparr is vacationing back on the East Coast and sent us a glimpse of his very difficult lifestyle. We miss you George, but we can see why you haven't come back yet!
PET & OWNER LOOK ALIKE WINNERS:
Instructor, Bryan Chavez and his little buddy, Rudder.
GREECE FLOTILLAThe Greece bunch, or as they have taken to call themselves, The Idriots. An idriot is a person from the Island of Idra. Η λέσχη Nautique πηγαίνει ελληνικά (Club Nautique goes Greek!)
Nick and his son, George .
Susi & Neil celebrated their anniversary on the trip. Happy Anniversary you two!
Hump Night AlamedaBill enjoys the brisk evening sail. Rod, in a rare moment in front of the lens instead of behind it.
Smiling skipper, Elizabeth .
We're not sure what's brighter during a sail, Matt's smile or the sun.
Look Ma! No hands!
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