March 2016 Newsletter
The March 2016 Newsletter is available! Click here to download the PDF version. Contents include:
- Greetings From The Prez
- Short Tacks
- Fleet Profile
- “Letting it Go”
- Scuttlebutt
The March 2016 Newsletter is available! Click here to download the PDF version. Contents include:
This was first published in the September 2010 Newsletter. by Christina Pandapas How long have you been sailing and how did you start? I started sailing competitively in high school. I was fortunate to go to a school with a very competitive program (Hotchkiss School in CT) and crewed in dinghies on a team that…
This was first published in the May 2014 Newsletter. By Christina Pandapas Fleet 5’s talent meter went up quite a few notches when Dru Slattery bought #1090 a couple of years ago. In addition to representing the U.S. on the international match-racing circuit, at one point ranking 4th in the world and 1st in the…
This was first published in the March 2010 Newsletter. Who Dat? Rumors that the Marblehead police had to be called in to contain the enthusiasm of a New Orleans woman after her Saints beat the Colts in the Super Bowl were greatly exaggerated. Neighbors of the West Shore Drive couple seemed to take it all…
This was first published in the May 2010 Newsletter. by Charlie Pendleton Getting out to the racecourse and prepared for the start gun is a lot like building a puzzle. In order to see the big picture, you have to put the pieces together. Instead of sailing out to the starting line and drifting around…
Greetings From the Prez Eight more weeks! Can you believe it? We have just eight short weeks before the first gun of the 2023 season. The cherry blossoms are blooming, they’re playing baseball at Fenway and the Boston Marathon is just two weeks away. Spring is here, and Memorial Day weekend is barreling down like…
This was first published in the Fall 2005 Newsletter. Fall Party First, and most importantly, Bruce Bolen is hosting our fall party and awards ceremony; this event will be Nov 19th – a flyer is enclosed. Tape it to your refrigerator and be sure to be there! We’ll recognize numerous Fleet 5 sailors at the…