2026 CSC Oktoberfest Regatta

We do not use single use water bottles at all and encourage all boats to have their crews use refillable bottles. We do provide water at our event on land. The small blue jug at the end of the drink table is for water (we did put a sign on it after I took this picture.)

We never use plastic straws.

We use real silverware and reusable plates, bowls and cups. We take them home to wash (no running water at our clubhouse).

We use cloth bags when necessary, and encourage all participants to not use plastic bags. Bags usually aren't needed.

We started the trend years ago using practical awards, influencing all the other clubs in our region! For this particular regatta there is no perpetual award. This year we have glass mugs and steins.

We publicize via 3 FB pages linked to our club and sailing, GroupMe and email.

We partner with Clean Coast on monthly cleanups. Many of our members are also members of Clean Coast so this is ongoing year round. While we don't sponsor the events we do participate in many local cleanup groups.

All our signs are laminated to be used for years to come.

I didn't photograph the food this year, but meat was sourced from Ogeechee Meat Market, a locally owned business, seafood from Russo's and Nelson's, all locally owned and locally sourced from our own shrimpers and fishermen. Even our beer is locally brewed. All other dishes either were homemade by club members or purchased from the businesses listed here.

We keep working on this! So far there are 3 confirmed Green Team members. Keely Cranz (social chair & organizer of all the food, signs, etc), Rae Ann Upton (club member and race participant) and myself (Past Commodore and Social Media chair).

Right where everyone can see them, inside and outside.

What was leftover from Saturday night was finished off on Sunday. We attribute that to the fact that we now have real plates which are much larger and people filled them up! Absolutely no food went into the landfill!

We use Regatta Network. No paper needed.

Again, we work in tandem with Clean Coast for monthly cleanups.

At least 3 participating boats have electric motors. Otherwise we don't know anyone who discharges waste illegally. We have a member who cleans boat bottoms for many of the sailors around here and he uses a lot of elbow grease but no chemicals.

This is an ongoing effort via social media. Many of us attend lectures and films held around town. We are all very aware of loggerhead turtles, diamondback terrapins (just did a release of hatchlings) and especially the Atlantic Right Whales who calve here.

We always provide vegetarian (and sometimes vegan) in salads, vegetables and gluten-free food and dessert options at all our events. No photos except one of the container.

Boats all leave from their club docks/marinas. All but one of our clubs is within about a mile of our clubhouse and we offer rides. Those coming from further away carpool. We do not have any reliable public transportation in Savannah.

I'm not sure how this applies to us. On the boats we have to motor out to the start line (9' tide with a 3.5 kt current), but only use motors until we can raise the sails. As mentioned above, cars are necessary but most do not travel more than 1-2 miles or carpool.

We have something called Wisdom Wednesday which is often used to educate on many subjects. Otherwise we have a naturalist in our club and we go hear her speak, or we have other clubs invite us to hear speakers from locals promoting (and harvesting) local seafood, we attend films-all of this info is brought back to club members either on site or via our FB page, website or GroupMe. I met the new Oceana rep at the film The Right Whale and asked if she would like to come speak on a Wisdom Wednesday. I just learned of a fellow sailor who is helping to create a green team at a local museum (another fellow sailor works there) and I'm going to see if he would join that talk.