The Second Season for the Spirit is underway and booked solid. After completing the March Ed sails in Charleston Harbor, she has voyaged down to Dataw Island to host the Beaufort area schools for the next two weeks. Before leaving on Monday, Spirit entered the CORA race on Saturday, March 29th and what a grand sail it was. After sitting in the doldrums with near zero wind for a couple of hours, the weather front decided to move through and provide some really great wind that catapulted the Spirit from almost dead last to second place heeled over to the gunwales and passing race boat after race boat. After getting becalmed in the lee of a huge container ship inbound, we again heeled over and was closing on the lead boat when a belaying pin for the main sail halyard broke in half under the tension of the sails (unreefed in a 30-40 knot breeze). Discretion being the better part of valor, CORA shortened the race, we pulled in the jib and staysail and called it a day as the weather continued to worsen. After arriving at City Marina for the post race get-together, we all had stories to tell. See the video clips of our adventure below and some pics taken during the race.
Current volunteer needs -- if you can help out on any of the below, please call or email me or Jennifer Holtsclaw. Here's what we need for now:
We have the following urgent volunteer needs:
1. Starting this Friday (April 4th), through Sunday (April 6th), the ship is operating out of Dataw Island doing educational sails for schools in the Beaufort area. We would like to give the crew a break from the long days by standing watch the entire weekend – if you can stand any watch between Friday night and Sunday afternoon, email me back or call 843-819-8734 and let me know what you can handle. Stay on board and have some fun.
2. Sunday at Dataw Island we are hosting a reception for the Dataw Island people who are helping us out (and who also are potential donors!). We need about 10 volunteers to assist during the open ship from 12-4 pm, followed by a VIP reception from 5-7 pm. Email Jennifer Holtsclaw or me or call 843-819-8734 if you can help out on this event.
3. HarborFest is just around the corner –the HarborFest Volunteer Director, Georgia Nettles, needs you, so please respond. If you can’t help, please find someone who can!! If you can help call the main office at 722-1030 and leave a message for Georgia Nettles, or go to the website and fill out and submit the volunteer form at: http://www.charlestonharborfest.org/involve-volunteer.html
Thanks again for all your help.
Yours in Spirit,
Dewey Teske
jeteske@sbcglobal.net
