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Septembers Free Sailing Seminar day 1/3 Ground school food / drinks after @CDI

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Septembers Free Sailing Seminar day 1/3 Ground school food / drinks after @CDI

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Update 9/25/24
NEW LOCATION we’re back to CDI. Its a spacious basement appartment clubhouse. The entrance is 15 feet west of the main entrance on the street/sidewalk. Look for a short black rod iron gate and 6 steps going down from the sidewalk to the glass door entrance. Colorful sign on the door reads CDI-NYC. Ring thebuzzer.

This months keynote lecture will be “How to sail in the Bahamas for 25$/day”

Also if anyone else has a topic they want to discuss related to FSS or low budget sailing please let me know via text or phone and i will try to make thar happen somehow.

NEW PHONE NUMBER! 772-300-499seven

Ground school is 5pm to 6pm,, reeportbacks will be 6pm to 7pm and our keynote lecture will be determined later if you have a request or you want to give a lecture or know someone that might do a good job let us know the keynote lecture is is from 7pm to 8pm. The reportbacks are “Manhattan Circumnavigation” reportback the “Bring Your Own Captain free sailing every weekend” reportback and “volunteer work day” projects report backs including hobie bravo reverse engineering and fire pit BBQ’s, boat ramp, gates, storage Vans, and new boats etc…

SAILING GROUND SCHOOL:

We will teach you the theory of how to sail small sailboats and Catamarans in New York City in the winter safely. We also prepare you for hands on apring sailing instruction the following day. We will also explain how our collective works and how other free sailing schools can be created. This event is in doors with. Bring drinking water and bring food for a pot Luck dinner party if you wish to stay afterwords and bring wine if you like wine (house rules trump FSS no alcohol rules lol.) There are bathrooms and a full working Kitchen available and changing rooms if anyone wants to dress up for the ocasion the theme of the space we use is inclusivity. LGBT-QA the A stands for Allies (thats everyone else that isn’t LGBTQ)

please study our Handbook:

GROUND SCHOOL

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xAPL_jhTYVpUXiF8ZAyzQDLwO_5xJ6WSaHAsNdljUhs/edit#slide=id.g15e1c15de89_0_214

Please call, text or email me if you need more info. No need to call or text just to rsvp or cancel an rsvp. We usually get about 20 people so it’s hard to keep track of everyone anyways.

Please study the materials on our ground school handbook if you get a chance.

GROUND SCHOOL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xAPL_jhTYVpUXiF8ZAyzQDLwO_5xJ6WSaHAsNdljUhs/edit#slide=id.g15e1c15de89_0_214

The next day, Saturday 11am-3pm in our secret Laguardia Airport location (you must come to ground school to find our where) will be boat maintenance and boat repair 11am - 3pm followed by all weekend sailing and camping until Sunday night at 7pm. Once you finish your volunteer time from 11-3 you can come and go all you want and/or camp out with us on our beach or in our safron tree forest and enjoy until Sunday night!

Sunday 11am to 5pm will be hands on spring sailing SKILLSHARE.

I repeat, you will have to attend ground school and boat maintenance Saturday to sail for free the rest of the weekend. But if you miss either or both you can just donate 50$ to our club and we will give you the secret location as soon as we get the donation electronically still sail anytime saturday 11am until Sunday 5pm

We’re run entirely by volunteers that want to make the world a better place so join us and help the cause! Please call me if you can’t find us or if you have any questions anytime NEW PHONE NUMBER! 347 806-for-fiv-I-eit

COVID-19 safety measures

Event will be indoors
The event host is instituting the above safety measures for this event. Meetup is not responsible for ensuring, and will not independently verify, that these precautions are followed.
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