Sebago 2011 Dates Confirmed

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I have received our confirmation receipt for this years group camping reservations at Sebago State Park. This year we will be completely on the river side at sites R1 & R2 starting Friday, July 8 through Monday, July 18. Again it took me a while to get through this year. When I did, our first choices of weeks and sites were already taken. According to Donna, she had indicated that there were many first time groups making reservations this year. It appears that our favorite spot has become more popular. As I sit here writing this, we are getting another April Fools snow storm. It seems like such a long way before the boats are in the water. Don't be fooled, sailing season will be here before you know it!
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Happy New Year Sailors .... 2011

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Greetings from the Commodore

Happy New Year, 2011. WoW. That went by Fast!

The Fall Party/Meeting has been move to the Winter/Spring of 2011. Trophies are order and should be picked up soon. We have some new teams at the top of the season points for 2010 so we need to show up and congratulate the winning teams when we get together.

I apologizing for the Commodore hiatus, we recently undertook a major renovation on the home kitchen, if anyone needs some advise I would recommend a local Realtor.

Move, Buy a new house,live at the local park in a box,, do not renovate the kitchen,,, it has been brutal but finally over in time for the holidays.

The 2010 season was good. Good sailing, good friends, good fun. The Fleet had a successful year.

We need to first plan out Sebago 2011. The reservations for Sebago Lake are due February first.


I will get together with Mr. Malcolm and Mr. Decker this weekend and we will come up with some possible dates that will fit into the sailing schedule, then we can perform a conference call or email vote on the dates for Sebago or a meeting to determine the dates for Sebago lake 2011.


More to come.


Happy New Year Fleet.


P.S. I am putting together a second Ice Boat, if any one has some interest in sailing on Hardwater contact me to take it for a ride!













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Hey Fleet, Commodore checking in... It has been a busy spring chasing around two girls.

New for 2010, Sebago Week!, 2 regattas and a week of fun sailing and events for the whole Family! Thanks John and Dee for putting the effort into this event.

No Pine Point regatta this year but if enough teams interested, we will gather and hold a distance race off of Pint Point.

Volunteers, Hampton Beach is our big event, and if you can spare the time we got the beer. We need volunteers for the event or for the morning, afternoon, etc. If you can help out please contact Scott or my self. craighackett@comcast.net.

Posting the schedule for the 2010 CRANNE season.

June 12-13 Sakonnent,
June 19-20 Hampton Beach NH
June 26-27 Pine Point Long Distance
(to be held if enough interested teams)



July 10-11 Lipton Cup Quincy MA (CRANNE Championship regatta - 2X Season Pts.)

Sebago Week 2010! Week of fun events July 16 through July 25
July 17-18 Sebago Regatta I
July 24-25 Sebago Regatta II

July 30-Aug 1 Hyannis Regatta (F18 only)
Aug 7-8 ** Homeport Belgrade Maine **

Aug 21 New England 100 Newport RI
Aug 28 Newport Unlimitted Regatta

Sep 18 Roton Point Regatta
Oct 9-10 High Performance Dingy Open
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Pine Point 2 2009

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From Commodore Craig:

The Pine Point II event was a success. Several boats enjoyed the event that consisted of distance races around the islands and a fun sail in big air and torrential rain on Saturday. Saturday night a former CRANNE racer invited the sailors to his house party with a live band. The sailors were pleasantly surprised by the abundant amount of cougars present!

The fleet awoke Sunday to gorgeous blue skies, warm temps and a gentle sea breeze filling in by 9am. The fleet had a beautiful fall distance race / tuning clinic down the coast on Sunday. Team Bad Dad finally christened their F18 with it's first capsize.

After reaching the lighthouse the boats regrouped in the remote Biddeford Pool area for lunch on the remote sand bar. After lunch, in honor of CRANNE's Dave Fortier. the fleet foolishly sailed out a very narrow and rocky channel out to the sea past some enormous rollers crashing on the rocks. It was spectacular and everyone made it out. The cats once again regrouped and then had a sensational Spinnaker run home. When the Spinnakers were set the fleet averaged close to 16 knots for the entire downwind leg of 18 miles, "Champaign Sailing".

One Sailor was quoted as saying: "I can not remember the last time I kept it up that long!" Ya know it is a good weekend when you are saying that...

After reaching Pine Point the fleet performed a few High Speed passes by the beach and upon pulling the cats up on shore a large gathering of spectators greeted the sailors with questions about the speedy cats.

One more regatta on the schedule and hopefully we can organize a "Final Rinse Sail" out of Ellacoya State Park on Winnipesaukee with a barbecue and sailing by the end of the month or at some point in October.

Thanks to all the CRANNE members who made 2009 a great season, it is not over yet but it would have never happened with out all the good friends, members and volunteers.

Commodore Craig
"Team Bad Dad"

Results of the Racing Class:
1) Team Bad Dad: 1,2,2,1
2) Toni the Tiger: 2,1,1,2
3) Malcolm/Clegg: 3,3,3,3
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Pine Point 1 2009

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From Commodore Craig:

Three cats from the CRANNE fleet showed up to compete against the five other catamarans from the NENSA Fleet and the Maine Hobie Fleet. The quote of the weekend was:
I asked the Chase boat captain: "Captain Dave, What do you think the wind speed is, 12 knots, 14 knots, or 16 knots?"
Dave thought a moment and then answered, "The Wind Speed is Perfect!”

You can not sum it up any better than that. Saturday's racing started promptly at 11:20 AM in absolutely beautiful conditions, Sunny Skies, Warm Temps and a solid 14 knot breeze. A bit of chop left over from the previous days Nor-Easter made for fun wet sailing for the cats. The chop made the committee boat and the chase boat work a bit challenging. Commodore Craig likes a long beat to weather so the downwind sleigh ride will provide plenty of opportunities for boat speed to allow for passes to be made but a mistake was made when the windward mark was set a bit too far out to sea. The chase boat, committee boat and the competitors all seemed to be unable to see the mark. It made for an interesting first few races where the cats would all beat up the middle of the course, at one point, tacking 5 times before making it to the Windward Mark! They all found it, and probably had a few curses for the chase boat but when the spinnakers were set the smiles could not be missed as the cats rocketed downwind. A four cylinder engine on the chase boat was not enough as we were unable to match the speed of the cats downwind! 5 great races were had with all the F18s leading races at one point in time. Mike Easton and Chris Burd proved top shelf again. They did show a kink in the armor when Chris and Sam performed an excellent roll over them at the windward mark with a perfect hoist to steal their wind for the pass and never looked back to steal race #3.

The Hobie 16 battle had Doug and Hanna taking on the Phil and Son and they too were all smiles fully trapped out going to weather. Former Commodore Scott Malcolm was enjoying the conditions with the his monstrous Nacra 6.0 eating up the choppy seas with ease!

Saturday night the fleet enjoyed the fabulous cuisine at the Clam Bake restaurant. When the keg arrived at former Commodore's Dave Fortier's house the teams were all too tired to tap the Keg! It was debated now that the F18 fleet is getting older, rather than a beer sponsor next year the F18 fleet will see if Ben-Gay is willing to make a Muscle Rub Cream sponsor/donation to the fleet! Metamucil? Ovaltine?

Sunday brought the good old Maine Fog to the regatta site, the sailors all gathered and shared stories from the previous day. The start was delayed but then the committee and chase boats tried to make an effort to start a race but the fog rolled back in. Sunday's racing was canceled and the fleet had the trophy ceremony and then gathered at a local diner for lunch. With the crazy weather this summer a comment was stated that so far, three major regattas this summer have lost a day of racing each due to bad weather.
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Sakonnet Regatta 2009

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The 2009 Nargansett Beer F18 Summer Sailing Series is a schedule of 12 regattas to be held around the Northeast between May and October. Events focus on competitive catamaran racing combined with fun and social parties. Regatta #2 of the series was held on the Sakonnet River in Portsmouth, RI this past weekend, June 13th &14th. 22 racers, friends, family, and race organizers descended upon the RI beach for a weekend of catamaran racing.
Saturday brought light winds in the morning until the seabreeze filled around noon to make for some fast pace, exciting racing. After 5 races, weary sailors returned to the beach to be greeted by a nice cold keg of Gansett which quickly lifted their spirits! After de-rigging their boats everyone gathered up the street at a local sailor’s house for a fantastic dinner party with one of the best live bands in the area called ‘Sidewinder’. Delicious food, good tunes, and exchanging stories from on the water that day as well as catching up from a long winter made for an awesome evening.
Sunday morning brought cold rain and the threat of thunderstorms. However, before too long the skies cleared and it warmed up to encourage sailors to sail 2 more great races! After 7 races the winners were decided:
First: Michael Easton & Tripp Burd-Team MicroWind
Second: Jim Zelmer & Joe Valente
Third: Michael Ferrara & Todd Riccardi-Team Jaypro
CRANNE had three teams competing. Scott Malcolm and Hugh on Hugh's new F18! Craig and Ricardo and Nick and Paula.
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Hampton NOR Posted

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The Hampton Beach Regatta Notice of Race has been posted on the website. Dates are June 20-21, 2009. Click the Hampton Beach NOR link on our home page at: http://www.geocities.com/crannesailing/ to view the pdf.
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