{"id":4627,"date":"2016-03-24T21:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T21:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2016-03-26T04:01:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T04:01:15","slug":"gather-small-boaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=4627","title":{"rendered":"Small-Boat Gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"

With smells of spring sailing in on the floral breeze, it’s time to brush off the sawdust and start thinking about which of the many wonderful small-boat events you’ll want to attend this year. It hardly matters where you call home\u2014there are great little-boat gatherings all over the planet. The Everglades Challenge<\/a> just ended, but here are few other especially fun events on the horizon:<\/p>\n

Cedar Key Florida’s small boat meet is May 6-8. Contact Hugh at huhorton@gmail.com.<\/p>\n

Want to sail Scotland? Sail Caledonia<\/a> is May 28 to June 4. <\/p>\n

The Texas 200<\/a> sets off from the windy shallows along the Texas coast June 13-18. <\/p>\n

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\nJohn Goodman’s custom Puddle Duck at the Texas 200<\/em><\/p>\n

Festivities including the Pocket Yacht Palooza<\/a> and the associated cruise Palooza Crooza begin in Port Townsend, Washington on June 11th. <\/p>\n

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\nBoat gathered at the start of the Pocket Yacht Palooza<\/em><\/p>\n

And the thrilling and challenging Race to Alaska<\/a> leaves Port Townsend for Ketchikan Alaska on June 22nd. <\/p>\n

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\nTired but jubilant R2AK racers arrive in Ketchikan.<\/em><\/p>\n

For a more complete list of small-boat events, see the next issue of Small Craft Advisor.<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

If you’re looking to build a boat so that you can join-in all the fun, consider the upcoming RowCruiser Workshop<\/a> in Port Townsend in October, or the SCAMP Camp<\/a> events around the country. <\/p>\n

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\nThe Colin-Angus-designed RowCruiser\u2014a sleep-aboard rowing boat that can also be converted to a sailing boat. <\/em><\/p>\n

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\nA gathering of SCAMPs at the annual Red Lantern Rally<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With smells of spring sailing in on the floral breeze, it’s time to brush off the sawdust and start thinking about which of the many wonderful small-boat events you’ll want to attend this year. It hardly matters where you call home\u2014there are great little-boat gatherings all over the planet. The Everglades Challenge just ended, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/4646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}