In March, we have been lucky for two straight years to be invited to the UK Sails loft in Eastport for a Rules Seminar. This year the seminar takes place on March 13th.
(The April membership meeting is a last chance for skippers to take the Rules Quiz [mandatory] before the first racing series begins in April)

NPSA hosts a terrific event in June called “A Day at the Yard,” held traditionally at Young’s Boatyard, it’s a chance to drop your sailing dinghy in the creek and let the kids (and adults) engage in marginally competitive, usually hilarious, dinghy races. There is no shortage of food and beverages at the event and it has been known for a porcine creature to sacrifice itself and go lie on a spit above burning charcoal embers until NPSA members & guests can no longer endure the aroma.

The Harry Young Cup is sailed in August and it’s not unusual for members to congregate afterward for steamed crabs and more over-inflated estimations of their own sailing abilities.

The season is capped off in November by The Awards Dinner, in which solemn respect is paid to those overachievers who felt sufficiently motivated to race their brains out and earn an award. A sufficient number of “other” awards usually find their way to skippers who’ve demonstrated talents in different, sometimes less predictable, manners.

Once a month, during the racing season, we also get together for a post-race cookout, (almost always just in time to beat the brewing “whopper T-storm”) and it’s another opportunity to confront the idiot that fouled you or hassle the Race Committee by telling them they set too long a course or too short a start line or that your PHRF rating is waaaaaay too low. A good time is absolutely guaranteed at all post-race cookouts.