The Pacific Single Handed Sailing Association will hold their March
meeting this coming Monday at Marina del Rey. Go to pssala.org for
details and directions. Non-members are welcome!

If you're not familiar with PSSA, our club's goal is: "To advance the
interests, skills and fitness of the singlehanded sailor by (a)
education; (b) exchange of ideas and experience; (c) evaluation of
techniques and equipment, and (d) conducting singlehanded sailing
events and appropriate social activities."

Nick Barran will be our March speaker where he'll recount his sailing
the Adriatic Cup in Venice, Cowes Week in England, & the ARC from the
Canary Islands to St. Lucia in the West Indies last year.

Also the PSSA Guadalupe Island 600 mile multi-day race [next weekend]
will be discussed, as well as the usual "war stories & lies".

"A good time is guaranteed for all".

Boats under motion are required by Admiralty Law to maintain a
continuous watch... This does not include sleeping with the radar alarm
set... It would seem that the day of blasting off across the Pacific
by yourself could end badly in an international court...
Now, before someone gets all huffy I don't personally care if folks
want to single hand... But liability is an increasing concern in todays
world... The most recent report by the court where running in fog in
the English Channel a 900 foot freighter chopped the bow off a boat and
sank it ended up with the court placing more fault on the skipper of
the small boat for not keeping an adequate radar plot to avoid the
freighter than it did on the freighter captain for not seeing the
yacht... The law of the sea is hundreds of years old and it doesn't
care what us yachties think the way things should be...

denny