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Monthly Membership social meetings are held the 2nd Monday of every month (2nd Tuesday, when Monday is a holiday), except in December when the annual Installation & Awards Banquet takes the place of the regular social meeting. We normally have dinner together, conduct a business meeting, and then hear from a guest speaker. All year long! It's a good time!

Happy Hour and networking starts at 6:00 pm and meeting starts at 7:00 pm. Dinner is a catered affair, and reservations are a must! Come early to have some food and drink and hang around with other sailors. Members may bring a guest!

How To sign up for a meeting:

Visit the Events Calendar on the website to see register for upcoming events and meetings. Through the calendar, you can register for the meeting with or without joining the catered meal.

You can also register for a meeting directly by selecting it from the upcoming meetings window below.

October 13-

S/C Captain Karyn Jones

How to Adapt in the Middle of a Disaster

Please RSVP for Dinner by/before Thursday, October 9th.

Menu: BBQ Soul Food with Jerk Chicken, BBQ Chicken, Mac & cheese, Collard Greens, Italian salad, cornbread. Vegan Option: Curry Pasta

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER/ PRESENTATION:

I’ve been in and on the water for most of my life. Sailing has always been a journey for me. It officially started when I took a couple of semesters in seamanship in college from a local captain.

At that point, I knew that I’ll never learn it all and that’s why I keep doing it. It led me to crew in some of the world’s top-notch fleet and women’s match racing with some of the most competitive sailing professionals in the sport.

And then, it led me to skipper for WSA in the Linda Elias Memorial Women’s One Design challenge among other local races and eventually even get my captain’s license. Still, I can’t learn it all. As if boat handling wasn’t enough, I opted to buy my own boat, Outrageous, a San Juan 33 in 2005. Like most things I dive into, it wasn’t really thought through until after I wrote the check.

Somewhere along the line a previous owner had set her up to be a liveaboard. But when I found her, her electrical system was shotty, so I dove into restoring her. Luckily, I had several mentors along the way to help me get her into a spot where she began to look and feel like a race boat again.

Little did I know that on January 7, 2025, I would need to quickly restore Outrageous to a somewhat “liveaboard” status again- including accommodation for two cats. This was the talk that’s been on my mind all year, and I’d like to share with the membership on how to prepare for, how to adapt, and how to accept your situation in the middle of a disaster in hopes that things will eventually work themselves out – and how a little race boat like Outrageous got me through it.