Fleet sail buy!! and more

Hello Laser Sailors!

see below for info on ordering discounted Laser sails- The more people interested the better the savings- so spread the word.

Also, Sean Smith did a little research into why the water in Spa creek was so murky brown last week. See below for info and links.

Remember- no Frostbiting this Sunday. See you on Dec. 31.

Contact me if you have any questions.

Happy Holidays!

-Dorian

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Attention Annapolis area laser sailors…

Annapolis Performance Sailing would like to extend a discount to the Annapolis Laser fleet for the purchase of new laser sails. These sails retail for $507.40 and the discount would be as follows….

There will be a discount of 10% if there are at least 5 people interested.

Once we get 10 sails, the discount goes up to 15%.

After 20+ sails, there is a 20% discount off each sail. That means brand new laser sails are $405.92 (a saving of $100+).

These sails come with sail numbers and we can have this order together in time for Laser Midwinters.

If you would like to be involved in this purchase, let Dorian know. Once we get a firm number, we can give everyone a price and start collecting.

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Colin Robertson
Customer Service X 126
APS - Annapolis Performance Sailing Ltd.
"The Raceware Specialists"

104 Severn Ave.; Annapolis, MD 21403 USA
USA Phone: 800.729.9767
International: +1 410.268.3676
Fax Number: +1 410.268.0527
http://www.apsltd.com/

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Several fleet members were asking about the funky colored water in the river yesterday. I haven't seen any reports of local "spills", so a likely culprit is that an algae bloom is occurring in the Severn River, resulting in what is often termed a "mahagony tide" (usually noticed in summer). If so, the discoloration was probably due to a super-elevated density of single-celled organisms called dinoflagellates. There are several species of these organisms that are observed every year in the Bay, none of which have been reported to be acutely toxic to humans via water contact. However, the blooms have been found to coincide with low oxygen in the water column, fish kills, and shellfish mortality. Since they have characteristics of both plants and animals, their population "booms" may be influenced by elevated concentrations of nutrients. So, things like problems with the Back Creek wastewater plant, malfunctioning septic systems, and lawn fertilizers can be problematic sources of nutrients, which may have a role in generating the blooms. The same sort of thing applies for the rest of the Bay as well.

Here's are related web links.

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/Bay/hab/prorocentrum.html
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/cblife/algae/dino/index.html

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