By Eric Jorgensen, SJSC Safety Officer The entire experience of modern sailing differs from “traditional” sailing in many ways. Modern boat designs, entirely new classes of equipment, overcrowded cruising grounds and limited access to ones’ boat have driven the need for new techniques and in some cases rendered certain well established aspects of seamanship completely   [read more]

By Nicole Jorgensen Food safety is important every day, and becomes more relevant as the weather warms up. No one wants to become ill after a wonderful day of sailing and feasting. Our social events often have food as a focus and all of you make and bring some of the most delicious foods! A little known fact is that   [read more]

By Eric Jorgensen As a follow up to Dave Norris’s article last month, this month’s safety corner will expand on that information and offer a few suggestions to keep you from discovering recent changes to navigational hazards the hard way. The first step to ensuring that you are navigating with safe charts is to know what charts you are   [read more]