11/2-11/9 - Novice to Captain Graduation Flotilla in the British Virgin Islands - Captains Chris Means, Ron Williams, and BJ head to the Caribbean with rock star crews for a week of sailing in the tropics ! Make plans now for June 2008 as reservations for that trip will open up in the middle of this month.

12/2 - Annual Holiday Gathering! Its time to RSVP for the party to - so we can plan food and grog requirements. Once again, we will be catered by Bobby Weisman Catering with a full holiday spread. Bring a holiday desert or appetizer and a cheap, fun, silly or nautical gift to exchange at our now famous cut throat anonymous gift exchange. ALSO - email me any pics you would like included in our annual slide show review. Besides a supper, there will be awards and recognition as well as a good dose of merriment from 3-7pm at the Anacapa Yacht Club

12/9 - Ventura Lunch Run Clinic - If you've never navigated into the Ventura Harbor, this is your chance to lear how to approach, find a slip, eat a great lunch and make it back to port all in one afternoon. One of our more popular clinics, this trip is already filling up but still has a few spaces on Imagine. Imagine members get first dibs but everyone is welcome. 3 seats remain. Contact Chris for a spot. $50 p/p. Meet at Imagine at 10am.

12/07 - Our next boat, a new 2008 Hunter 36, called 1421, owned by new Owner Member, SK Leong, will arrive in town the beginning of December and be ready for member sailing beginning in January. Look for a christening party announcement next month - another excuse to party !

1/12/08 - ASA 105 class begins and runs for 5 Saturdays from 9am-noon. It's time to commit with a $100 deposit to Capt Dan so he can start putting it all together.

Sailing Seminars in Ventura - A four-part "Sailing Adventure Lecture Series" will be launched in January. The series will be co-sponsored by the City of Ventura Community Services Department and the Ventura Maritime Foundation. The first lecture, Jan. 10, will be entitled "John Neal's latest adventure in the northern latitudes aboard Mahina Tiarre III, his Hallberg-Rassy 46. Each lecture will start at 7:30 PM and be held in the Community Meeting Room at the Ventura City Hall. Admission is $15 per lecture or $50 for all four. For more information, call 805/794-1747

Sailing Quiz - UK-Halsey has found a fabulous way for us to waste time but learn something about sailboat racing at the same time ! Check it out at http://www.ukhalsey.com/RulesQuiz/index.asp

Rules & Reminders - We have been noting an increasing amount of cuts in the counter tops. Please use the provided cutting board to help keep damage to the counters to a minimum - Don't forget to throw a sweater in your gear bag now. Given how warm it was all Summer you could get caught off guard by the Fall chill.

2008 Sailing Calendar

To make it easier for you to plan ahead, we are now displaying all clinics and events as far out as we possibly can. This will give you plenty of time to arrange your calendar to include more sailing fun at SailTime. You will find the long term planning calendar on your log in page at my.sailtime.com. Scroll down to see them all and feel free to contact Chris to reserve spaces for future clinics, trips and events.

Member Sailing Gallery is Open for Viewing At http://sailtimechannelislands.com/photos/ you can now register and share photos of your sailing experiences. We have loaded the recent Mallorca Captains Cruise photos and can get you set up with your own upload account so you can either add to existing folders or have a new one of your own local sailing adventures.

Captains Cruise 2008 to Bora Bora We have four boats signed up for the Bora Bora trip planned now for May 22-June 1, 2008. We are looking for people who would like to crew - singles, couples and families on a catamaran. This is by far a once in a lifetime experience. everyone I have talked to who has been there says everything is amazing, including, the sailing, the snorkeling, the weather and the french food in the middle of nowhere. Don't miss out.

SailTime Videos on YouTube You can see all the SailTime YouTube videos including a couple recent releases at http://youtube.com/SailTimeCa

Maintenance Notes Sail cleaning continues in November as our major project. Both Varekai and Bodacious got oil changes in October. We are making plans to pull Rainbow out of the water at the first of the year for hull painting at her midway point of service in the fleet.

Current Membership Space Availability - Tell your Friends !
Imagine - 1 space
Rainbow - 1 space
Varekai - 2 spaces
Bodacious - Full
1421 - 3 spaces

Avast!
OK so this October just past wasn't the best of months for sailing. Maybe it just felt it couldnt live up to all the hype I've made about Fall sailing. Or maybe it is global warming or the effect of our Government's misdoing. But either way, there still was some darn great days out there on the water. You can always contact me before you head down to see what the weather is doing here.

It's time to make plans for ASA 105 - Coastal Navigation. This is a classroom segment that we do every January over at the Anacapa Yacht Club on Victoria just before the coast guard station. We will run for five Saturdays beginning January 12th at 9am. I guarantee you will pass ! But I need you to send me a $100 deposit to commit so that I can go buy all the tools and charts etc, you will be needing. To overnight at the islands and to participate in the Novice to Captain flotilla in the BVI, you must have completed ASA105. So if your plan is to go on the flotilla in 2008, I'll be seeing you in January. For those of you who have already taken 105 but would like a refresher, you are certainly welcome to stop by during the classes as well. Contact me for more information and mark your calendars for January 12th.