May 2016 Newsletter

The May 2016 Newsletter is out, featuring: Greetings from the Prez Short Tacks Fleet Profile (Larry Einhart) Ask Anything Grab a PDF copy here.

April 2016 Newsletter

The April 2016 Newsletter is out, featuring: Greetings from the Prez Short Tacks Fleet Profile (Beanie Eissner) IT’S ALL ABOUT THE START A Labor of Love Ask Anything Grab a PDF copy here.

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

Speed Tips from Jud Smith

This was first published in the October 2010 Newsletter. In spite of races being cancelled due to a lack of wind, Jud Smith treated the fleet to a comprehensive de-brief. Thank you to Jud and to JP Zonnenberg for lending out his inflatable as an observation platform. Some of Jud’s observations included: In General Establish … Read more

New Fleet 5 Web Site

This was first published in the October 2010 Newsletter. Did you know we launched a new version of the fleet’s web site in April? Since then we’ve had at least 1,035 visitors for a total of almost 1,364 sessions and 4,276 page views, including about 250 folks using smartphones and tablets. That’s a huge improvement … Read more

Greeting from the Prez – May 2014

This was first published in the May 2014 Newsletter. We have the first weekend of racing in the books! With 10 boats on the line, the Rhodes fleet had a strong showing. We are ready for Season 2014! Fleet Website Nat Taylor has been hard at work renovating our fleet web site. The new site … Read more

Meet Dru Slattery

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 … Read more