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Welcome to the Islander 36 Association Celebrating our 39th year in 2013! Picture of the Month  MAKANI New Member Dan Hendrickson Click pic to enlarge. |
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Benicia Cruise, June 28-30
Benicia is a wonderful cruise destination for three reasons: 1) It's a great sail with the wind up San Pablo Bay; 2) Benicia is a fun town with a good marina and events like glass blowing; and 3) Cruise Chair Ruby & Rob Blenderman are inviting us to their house on Saturday evening. Here's a weekend adventure where you can add in a Delta trip if you like. Lots of good choices here, so follow the link and make your reservation! Benicia Cruise.
 Giant's Game |
Giants Baseball Cruise May 25, 2013 25 folks representing 9 Islanders gobbled up Dan Knox's 25 tickets to our traditional Giants game cruise. With a fun Friday dinner, and a victorious game, here's a link to the Giants Game web page. |
 Encinal / Svendsen's |
Encinal Cruise & Svendsen's Night, April 26-28, 2013 41 folks representing 22 Islanders enjoyed a great weekend at the Encinal Cruise and Svendsen's Discount Night. The weather was good -- but the company was great! Here's a link to the Encinal Cruise & Svendsen's Night web page. |
 Race Clinic |
Sail Trim/Race Clinic 4/6/13 at IYC Race Chair Kit Wiegman organized a great Sail Trim/Race clinic on Saturday, April 6th at Island Yacht Club. We had 26 folks representing 12 different Islanders who learned a lot and shared their knowledge. We've started a web page with more text and results to come, but here's a start: Race Clinic 13. |
June Picture of the Month:
A glistening example for an I-36 is new member Dan Hendrickson's MAKANI. He's completing a major refit, and it's always great to hear of Islanders getting TLC.
We always need more pictures, and you don't have to cross an ocean to get recognized, so limber up your digital camera for some great Islander pictures, here's how.
 The Fleet |
Spring Meeting, March 23, 2013, Golden Gate Yacht Club It was a beautiful spring day to kick off the formal season. 45 folks representing 27 Islanders gathers at Golden Gate YC for friendship, a great lunch and a terrific America's Cup presentation by GGYC Commodore Norbert Bajurin. Enjoy the fun at Spring Meeting. |
Windwalker wins I-36 Section in Three Bridge Fiasco.
Thanks to great work by Fleet Captain Kit Wiegman, seven Islanders reaced in the Three Bridge Fiasco. This unique race starts at the Golden Gate YC and the course includes the Blackaller buoy at the Golden Gate Bridge, Yerba Buena Island in the middle of the Bay Bridge, and Red Rock at the San Rafael Bridge. Take your choice,you can round them in any order in any direction. You can start any way across the starting line, and it's a pursuit race. The wind and tide gods served up a bit more than was expected, and those that chose to go counter clockwise (starting headed east, to the Bay Bridge, then Red Rock and finally Blackaller before the finish)ran into an unexpected northwesterly breeze in the upper 20 knot range which resulted in them beatin for much of the race. Those that went the other way had lots of downwind sleigh rides. So it was Windwalker, Cassiopeia, Pilot, Zingara, Califia, Renaissance, and Luna Sea. Congratulations on a great way to start the season! Here's a link to a description of the race and some pictures: http://www.norcalsailing.com/entries/2013/01/27/fiasco.html#.UQif3WdsJNU
New Additions To Maintenance
Recent Fleet emails have shared boom fitting repair and strengthening. We've added the text and pictures to the Booms Page.
This also led to identifying a new page with Steve Hodges' Frolic's Storm Sails.
And, thanks again to Kit and Steve, we've added a Weather Fax page to the Cumputers section.
 Renaissance of Tahoe Vista |
'Round Alameda, 1/1/2013 It was a great way to start 2013. About 20 folks, representing 8 Islanders participated in the traditional parade around Alameda Island to kick off the new year. the weather was close to perfect, the tide cooperated and everyone had a good time. Check out over 100 pictures and the rest of the story at 'Round Alameda Parade. And here's a link to a separate page of all the pics we got of Renaissance of Tahoe Vista. |
Remember Our Maintenance Section:
Though it's right there in the middle of our Menu, don't overlook our Maintenance section with over 70 links to ideas and fixes. Maintenance Section.
Changing email address? Moving? Other member information changing? Use the Member Info Update form to speed the changes directly to our Treasurer, Membership Chairman, Newsletter Editor and List Administrator. Thanks! When you see another Islander around your marina or cruising waters, point them to our home page, and the convenient New Member Application form.
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Here's How to send your boat's picture:
We would like pictures under full sail, that are clear and crisp, and most often show the whole boat, but, hey, if you like the picture, the rest of our members probably will too. They don't have to be any special size or type.
They can be attached to an e-mail. Just highlight and copy the block of text below, click "Send Email to I-36 Webmaster", paste the text into the message area, fill in your data, then attach your picture file and send it!
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Send Email to I-36 Webmaster
You can also snail mail them to:
Rick Van Mell, I-36 Webmaster
1629 Begen Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94040