Fall 2023
© Sharon Green/Ultimate Saling
Issue 41
Gesture, owned by Alex Mehran, Jr. (SAF), S&S design built in 1941, races in this year’s 59th Rolex Big Boat Series in San Francisco Bay.
LETTER FROM THE COMMODORE Dear CCA Members are being put away for the winter, but it is fun to reflect back on this summer and fall. We had a great Fall Meeting in Lunenburg, hosted by the Bras d’Or Station and expertly organized by Gretchen McCurdy and her team. The 2024 Fall Meeting will be in Annapolis hosted by the CHE station. In 2025 the PNW will host the Fall Meeting in Bellingham, Washington. Your Governing Board has been meeting by Zoom every 3 months. The Charts and Guides Committee has published a Passage Guide to the Viking Route and launched a very successful online Maine Cruising Guide, thanks to Doug Bruce, Wilson Fitt, and the 100+ committee members and contributors to all of our guides. Awards announcements will be made soon by chair Steve James.
I want to start out by welcoming the new members recently approved by the Governing Board and profiled in these pages by Dorothy Wadlow and Dianne Embree. You have joined a very special club, and we look forward to your involvement in the CCA over the coming years. There has been a lot of water flowing under the keel since the Spring GAM issue some 6 months ago. Many stations have staged cruises this summer around the U.S. including PNW, BOS/GMP, and CHE. The Mallorca Cruise in September featured 22 boats with 120 members, family, and guests, thanks to organizers Les Crane, Howie Hodgson (and Jock Macrae). There have been station and post lunches, dinners, and on-the-water gams. We are now in the season of meetings for all stations and posts. Boats
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