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Active Fall College Sailing Season UnderwayMany of our NCS Staff members from our 2014 summer season, as well as many from our prior seasons, are competing at the intercollegiate level on sailing teams across the United States - and Ireland! Check out http://scores.collegesailing.org/ to see weekly events, with scores posted in real time, and to track your favorite instructors each weekend.  We wish them all luck! Keep an eye out for the following summer 2014 instructors:

Sophie Kerr - Dartmouth College (Polpis)

Diana Weston - Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Jetties)

Krissy Weston - Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Jetties)

Ben Meyers - Connecticut College (Jetties)

Richard Oates - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Jetties)

David Mazotas - University of New Hampshire (Jetties)

Chris Raymond, Andy Fitzgerald, Emma Cooney, Fiona Daly, Paddy Daly, -

University College Dublin Sailing Club, Ireland (Keelboat, Polpis, Jetties)  

Quentin Chafee - Coach, University of Vermont (Jetties)

Summer Re-Cap! View Our FlipagramMany thanks to our own Rebecca Gray for putting together this fun Flipagram. A great review of our summer season - including Fun Days and special events. We already miss these days! Follow the link above for viewing - make sure you have your volume turned up!

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Nantucket Race Week Merchandise For Sale Start your holiday shopping now! Nantucket Race Week gear is on sale at

the NCS Office and online in the NCS Store. Check out the merchandise

here! (If your student was an Opti or 420 Race Team sailor, you might recognize two of our

models!)

Save the Date: NCS Annual MeetingThe NCS Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2014 at the Westmoor Club

from 9am - 10am. All NCS members are welcome. Please join us!

Nantucket High School Fall Sailing Season Wraps Up

The Nantucket High School Sailing Team

finished their month-long “club” season last

week. We look forward to the spring season

and thank Coach Kim Calnan for working with

the team, and all of the sailors who came out

to join us!

At right, Juniors James Hinson and Morgan Ravenscroft practice rudderless sailing in mid-September.

FOR SALE: Bugs and RS VisionsNCS is selling two fleets of boats this fall: our

Laser Performance Bugs (formerly used in Opti

Green in Polpis) and our RS Visions (formerly used

in Teen Green in 2012 and 2013 and for Polpis

Private Lessons in 2013 and 2014). Both fleets are

training fleets - with plastic hulls and training sails.

Available for sale as a fleet (6 Bugs; 5 RS Visions)

or as single boats. For more information, please

call the NCS Office at 508-228-6600. Great boats

to keep on your beach for your sailor to have fun in

outside of class.Above, NCS Bugs sailing in Polpis Harbor. Bugs can be sailed with one or two sailors.