http://www.alaskafast.com Sailboat Racing on the Last Frontier Thu, 15 May 2008 05:52:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As we get more serious about racing at the club we need to make sure that those of us who are sailing two-person boats (Buccs, Skips, Lidos, FJs, etc.) are actually sailing with two people.  This is important for several reasons: Sailing with just one person in light air provides a ... http://www.alaskafast.com/2008/05/14/working-on-an-available-crew-list/ Greetings Buccaneer 18 owners.  Just a quick note on the Buccaneer Class Association.  We have enough boats now in the state to register as our own fleet.  I will complete the process to get our fleet registered but there is no need to wait if you want to get registered.  ... http://www.alaskafast.com/2008/04/22/buccaneer-18-class-association/ Heya fellow racers.  I've done a little more work on this site, and just finished adding the all-important "email subscription" feature.  This means that you're be getting notifications of any articles posted to this blog.  I've taken the liberty of subscribing everybody who left me their email address from the ... http://www.alaskafast.com/2008/04/20/check-one-check-two-is-this-thing-on/ I've just finished an agenda for our first class meeting.  You can download it here.  I'll bring plenty of paper copies to the Thursday meeting. Also, just saw this gem on the Bucc 18 Yahoo! Group.  It's a online racing primer, it's free and it's pretty good.  It's targeted specifically at ... http://www.alaskafast.com/2008/04/09/meeting-agenda-racing-primer/ It's time the first first annual (and first ever) Alaska Buccaneer 18 Class Association Meeting! We're going to have eight Buccs on the Lake this summer. This should make for some fantastic one-design racing and hopefully we can get organized as a class up here.  We're planning to meet 5:30 PM on Thursday, ... http://www.alaskafast.com/2008/03/30/buccaneer-18-class-association-meeting-on-april-10th/ A one-design dingy dealership in Alaska? Really? It's true. Alaska Fast Boats is open for business. We are the official Alaskan dealership of the fast and fabulous Nickels Buccaneer 18. We've already managed to pull three boats up to Alaska from Fenton, MI -- and we have ... http://www.alaskafast.com/2008/01/19/from-the-department-of-crazy-idea/