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Yesterday, we had a surprise visit from Rick Peters who won the 2009 Star World Championship. Rick is a great guy, always a smile on his face and plenty of things to talk about. This year, Rick is getting more involved with the Star fleet and wants to bring some excitements during the Star events. California Yacht Club is running the Star North American Championship in August and with 30-40 boats, we can expect some good action on the water. Rick inquired about Kattack, and as the rep for this racing tracking device, we talked about the possibility to run Kattack during the Star North American this Summer.

Kattack now offers live tracking so everyone will be able to follow the race, LIVE from their home computer!Races can also be replayed later at anytime after the races.

We will keep you in the loop and see what the Star Class decides for this event.

Thanks Rick for stopping by and congratulations again on your World Champion title…hope you will defend it in 2010!

This weekend was the Grand Opening of our new location at 4695 Admiralty Way in Marina del Rey. It was a busy weekend and we had a lot of people stopping by to check out the boats, the retail store and the new sailing school. Check out the virtual tour and more pictures after the jump.

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USA 288 came out of the factory today… and it looks good evil!

The hull is black gelcoat with black bottom paint and the foils are orange – it also has the new carbon look cabin roof. It’s currently  for sale and is located at our new office (4695 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey) so come by and check it out. The boat is rigged and ready to go and we’ll even give you a deal on storage and our launching service. If you don’t hesitate then you’ll still have time to practice before the next one-design race – Les Storrs on March 27th!

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With no wind during the first race of the Berger series, we were looking forward for a second chance to shine aboard Chupacabra, our Open 6.50. The forecast that morning was wind from SSE, 7-9 knots, not ideal conditions for this race but good enough to splash the boat and go play. (more…)

Open Sailing will be having a Grand Opening for it’s new location at 4695 Admiralty Way in Marina del Rey on Saturday March 13th & Sunday March 14th. Stop by and check out the Open 5.70 and other boats as well as our new retail store which includes TackTick, Karver, Gill and more. Check out the Grand Opening Flyer for coupons and more information.

Check out the report on the Open 5.70 Class Association website about the recent SCYA Midwinters where 10 Open 5.70s battled it out on a breezy race course in Marina del Rey.

Open Sailing ran it’s first Open 5.70 Boot Camp – 4 days of intensive coaching on the water targeted towards Open 5.70 owners. The course covers everything from rigging the boat, boat handling skills and racing strategy, tactics and rules. The goal is to make the owners more confident on the boat and improve their results on the race course.

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Open Sailing has moved into a new location! It’s right down the street from our old building. We have plenty of office space and lots of boat storage. There are a lot of exciting changes coming… keep it hear to find out more soon… More pictures here…