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Getting ready for the 2012 sailing season? Perhaps you have been thinking of upgrading your sailboat. If so, you might consider this:

Water Colors is for sale.

Yep, you heard me right. I am in the process of getting her ready for launch, and then the For Sale sign goes up. I will be asking a fair market price for this 1990 Hunter 33.5 (the same boat you see on this banner with the CN Tower in the background).

I will be posting more details and photos on this website soon. If you want to get an offer in early, just visit my blog at Lake Ontario Sailing Blog for contact information.

Dear Offshore Racers-

On Monday June 18th, the day after Fathers Day, when you go back to work, if asked what you did for Sunday, you can say you went to a picnic and awards for the long distance yacht race you sailed in Friday night and Saturday. You can say how you sailed across Lake Ontario, twice, once at night. You may point out that it is an 82 nm race and a 40 year old Rite of Passage for south shore sailors. You might tell them about the weather you had, or perhaps point out that the weather really doesn't matter. You were prepared for offshore sailing. Real Sailing, not the around the buoy inshore practice stuff. Real Sailing.

On the other hand, if you don't participate in the Scotch Bonnet, then maybe you can at least say you went to a nice picnic.

The Genesee Yacht Club is once again proud to sponsor one of the most engaging sailboat racing traditions on Lake Ontario. The race starts Friday evening, June 15th off The Port of Rochester, New York.

All offshore-capable monohull and multihull sailboats are invited to enter. If you do not have a valid PHRF-LO certificate, please contact us. PHRF divisions will be formed for both spinnaker and Genoa Only. The spinnaker divisions will first sail west to the Wautoma Shoals buoy, north to Scotch Bonnet Island, and south back to Rochester - a total distance of 82 nm for the race. Genoa Only divisions will sail from Rochester across to Scotch Bonnet Island and back, a total distance of 74 nm. One design fleets are welcome, this year we are expecting a fleet of C&C-29s.

The Notice of Race for the 41st annual Scotch Bonnet Light Race is now available.

You will be required to have a completed Crew List form at Check-in.

Please read the Customs Notification document.

We hope you can join us!

Please visit our web site: http://www.geneseeyc.org/sblr/
The Notice of Race for the 41st annual Scotch Bonnet Light Race is now available.

Tony Gambacurta - 2012 SBLR Chair - SBLR@geneseeyc.org

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Ship has sailed for Rochester's Harbor festival

Organizers of the Rochester Harbor and Carousel Festival called it quits Thursday, bringing one of the city's longest-running summer events to an end after a quarter-century. more...

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Lake Bluffs
This is an assortment of bluffs between Fair Haven and Little Sodus, an area of the lake shore made scenic by the erosion of the north edge of a large drumlin field that spreads across Wayne, Monro and Cayuga Counties.
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Opinion: a boating safety paradigm for our times.
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New Sperry Top-Sider Trophy to be added to 2012 Lake Ontario 300
The Lake Ontario Offshore Racing Group, organizer of the Lake Ontario 300 Challenge, is proud to announce the introduction a new Lake Ontario 300 Challenge major trophy to be awarded to the overall IRC Class Champion.
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Losing land to Lake Ontario
Wilson — Land owners along Lake Ontario are concerned about a potential International Joint Commission plan which may allow water levels to reach higher highs and lower lows.
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Hydro wind measuring devices still all at sea.
Councillors on the executive committee voted Tuesday to let hydro leave its more than $1 million anemometer - a fridge-size device that measures wind speed and direction - in Lake Ontario until the fall of 2012.
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Fracking water threat for Lake Ontario feared
Environmentalists worry that Toronto's drinking water could be threatened by the nearby treatment of toxic wastewater in New York State.
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Pleasure Boat Reporting Requirements
The following are Exceptions to Face-to-Face reporting to CBP:
NEXUS; I-68; OARS
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"A Night on the Bay", a short story written by Burton Blais
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WAVEWATCH III Product Viewer
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Department of Homeland Security issues press release for documents required to enter the U.S.
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