US SAILING and Mount Gay Rum, the Official Rum of US SAILING, are now accepting applications from clubs or organizations interested in hosting a Mount Gay Rum Speaker Series Event. Events will start up in the fall of 2008 and continue through the new year leading into the Spring of 2009.

US SAILING's Mount Gay Rum Speaker Series was first created in 2005 as a grassroots, educational series delivering high quality seminars to cruising and racing sailors nationwide. The Series has proven to be very successful in its first three years with more than 6,000 sailors attending 46 events. Details are currently being finalized to bring the Series to 15 different sailing organizations around country, which will be held in locations nationwide such as Columbus, OH.; Tampa, Florida.; and Annapolis, Md.

Kiriacoulis Yacht Charters will be raffling off a free Yacht Charter as a grand prize in an enter to win contest. Every participant of a Mount Gay Rum Speaker Series will be entered into this contest, with a winner announced this Spring. Additional prizes will be raffled off at each event.

If you or your sailing organization is interested in hosting a US SAILING Mount Gay Rum Speaker Series or if you'd like more information on the Speaker Series, please contact US SAILING's Marketing Manager Brian Welsh.

Upcoming US SAILING Mount Gay Rum Speaker Series events: