Northern Lights Regatta This Saturday
The Northern Lights Regatta is this coming Saturday. It’s our final regatta of 2025, and we have everybody can make it for one last weekend of sailing, campfires, and camaraderie. The Northern Lights is traditionally a low-key race with an old-school “around the islands” format, and it’s as much an all-fleet group sail as it is a race. It’s a single day format, and we aim for an early afternoon start so we can have sailing done and boats put away before nightfall.
We’ll send out official race instructions later this week, so stay tuned for more information. As always, new sailors and first-time racers are extra welcome.
Work Party on Sunday
Our end-of-season work party is this coming Sunday starting at 10:00 AM. As a reminder, we ask all members to come out for at least one work party (spring or fall), so that we have enough hands to get through all of our tasks. We usually have everything wrapped up by 4:00 PM, and you don’t need to be there for the entire work party. Even an hour or two of help is appreciated!
The site committee is meeting this Wednesday at 6:30 PM to plan out the work party task list, and they’ll send an update with the detailed plan after that meeting.
BNAC 2025 in Alaska
The Buccaneer 18 Class Association has selected Alaska as the site of the 2025 Buccaneer 18 North American Championship (BNAC). This is a considerable honor for the ASC, and as far as we can tell, this will be the first-ever national level sailing event in the history of our state. Thanks to Bruce Lee, Brie Busy, Steve Ryan, and Nancy Black for leading the charge on this effort.
The BNAC will bring a group of national-level sailors from around the country to our club for a week of racing, learning, and socializing. The BNAC has been described as a traveling “sailing camp for adults,” so it’s a natural fit for the ASC. We’ll have more details forthcoming, and we’re looking for folks interesting in volunteering for a BNAC planning committee.
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