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Congrats and good luck.

You should seriously think about joining your Local C36 Fleet (Fleet 5) http://www.catalina36.org/Fleet5/ . They are very active and set up all sorts of rendevous, get togethers - dinners'', seminars, etc etc. They are probably the most active C36 fleet in the country. They are great bunch of guys/gals and the support system is wonderful. It costs almost nothing and gets you automatic membership into the Internatinal C36 organization http://www.catalina36.org/ and a subscription to Mainsheet, which is Catalina''s quarterly magazine which has stories, events and tech notes that are very valuable.

Also you might think about their Sister organization LISCA (Long Island Sound Catalina Assoc). That co-sponser events etc, etc. http://www.saillisca.com/home.html