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Northern California Women's Sailing Seminar ©

2010 will be our EIGHTEENTH year! Live the experience and excitement of women teaching women about sailing!

October 9 and 10, 2010

Check out the 2009 (last year's) Seminar and Course Information

Northern California Women's Sailing Seminar
Island Yacht Club
Alameda Marina
1853 Clement Avenue
Building 14
Alameda, CA  94501

Women's Sailing News

Linda Newland wins Carolyn Starr Trophy!
From the SCYA Women's Sailing Committee Newsletter "Whitecaps and Waves". Linda Newland (Island Yacht Club, Alameda, Ca.) and her Southern California crew of Val Navarro, Melinda McCoy, Sue Senescu, Celeste Collins, and Gail Hine on PEGASIS XIV won the Carolyn Starr Trophy for the best PHRF finish on corrected time by an all-female crew. It was a tough upwind effort for this downwind speedster. There were nearly a record number of entrants this year- nearly 500. But the adverse conditions of strong winds coming down the course, plus big rough seas, caused nearly half of the fleet to drop out before reaching the finish line.

Linda Newland wins PICYA Award!
The award which I won for 1998 was the Douglas Boswell Perpetual Trophy which is presented to the person who has rendered outstanding and distinguished service to yachting in California. The person receiving it is known as the Yachtsman of the Year. The trophy recipient is selected by PICYA (Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Assn.). PICYA is an association that represents all 94 Northern California Yacht Clubs. A picture of the trophy and the declaration of trust are both in the Yachting Yearbook. -Linda

IYC Member Marilyn Bruner in Cruising World
Read about her experience in the story "Hell Nino". See the Febuary 1999 Issue. Read more about this adventure in our MainSheet July 1998 issue page 5.

Karen Thorndike completes her solo circumnavigation
Karen Thorndike, on her 36 foot yacht "Amelia," completed her solo circumnavigation of the world south of the five Great Capes. She arrived in San Diego Tuesday, August 18, after two years and two weeks of an amazing journey that began in San Diego August 4, 1996. She encountered fierce winds, high seas, and incredible hardships in the Southern Ocean, all of which are documented here. Karen's extraordinary accomplishment marks the first time that a woman from the United States has successfully solo circumnavigated the world in open ocean and around the five Great Capes: Cape Horn (tip of South America), Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), Cape Leeuwin (south of Perth, Australia), South East Cape Tasmania), and Southwest Cape off New Zealand. She has sailed over 33,000 nautical miles.

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