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Every year we replace two of our JY15 fleet. This year we have for sale: 2- JY15s, 1 for $1500, 1 for $1200. 2- Club 420s with spinnaker gear. $1500 each, and 1-JY14 for $1500 For more information see club steward Steve Novak, or call 725-4606Future Events!
Awards Ceremony, October 29, Annual Membership Meeting, November 4.
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If there are any boats or individuals or groups out there that wish to sponsor a Wednesday post race gathering, please contact Derrick Galen at 725-7253, or Derrick@galenmarine.com.Dear John,
Wednesday Night Races to start at 5:30 PM!
Wednesday Night Races
Due to the days getting shorter, starting tomorrow, September 28, the Wednesday night races will start at 5:30 PM. Spread the word and don't be late!
Sincerely,
2005 Officers and Directors
Breakwater Yacht Club
posted by Breakwater 9/27/2005 08:32:00 PM
Jobson Sailing, Inc. has made a documentary of the Rolex Transatlantic
Challenge, which will be aired on the Outdoor Life Network on Wednesday,
September 28 at 9:00 pm EDT (6:00 pm PDT) and again at midnight (9:00 pm
PDT on September 28). The documentary is entitled "Chasing Charlie Barr's
Record: the 2005 Transatlantic Challenge," and is sponsored by Rolex. Times
and links to OLN at http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/calendar/shows/
posted by Breakwater 9/22/2005 11:14:00 AM
* The head of the Mini Transat fleet has passed the longitude of Lisbon and
is preparing to pass Cape Saint Vincent, the final headland off SW
Portugal. Conditions are ideal for the Mini 6.50s, though the rich seem to
be getting ever richer.To make good progress downwind in a Mini in 10/15
knots means numerous manoeuvres and long sessions on the helm, none of
which are synonymous with sleep. Corentin Douguet (E. Leclerc-Bouygues
Telecom) is still firmly in the driving seat of this Transat 6.50
Charente-Maritime/Bahia 2005, ahead of Sébastien Gladu (Armor Lux) and Phil
Sharp (Le Gallais). -- Yachting Universe, full story: http://tinyurl.com/dyqa4
posted by Breakwater 9/22/2005 11:14:00 AM
BOAT NAMES AT ROLEX INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S KEELBOAT CHAMPIONSHIP
Do you ever look at a boat name and wonder what the background is behind the naming of that boat? At US SAILING's Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship, if an award were given for the funniest boat names, it would probably be a toss-up between "Hot Flash" and "Who's Your Daddy?" The names may not sound as funny but the background stories behind each boat make the names stand out: Hot Flash boasts a crew of middle-aged women while Who's Your Daddy is made up of a team of three pregnant women (the team was forced to pare down from four to three members in order to make the 600-pound crew weight limit).
posted by Breakwater 9/22/2005 10:16:00 AM
TCF is Time Correction Factor, which is multiplied times a boat's Elapsed Time
to give its Corrected Time.
To estimate relative progress, first calculate (conveniently, prior to the
race) a Speed Quotient (SQ) for each yacht you want to compare. SQx is equal
to the difference between your own TCFo and the TCFx of the other yacht (yacht
x), divided by the TCFx of yacht x. To estimate the time (in minutes) you get
from (or give to) yacht x at any point in the race, say at a mark, multiply the
SQx you calculated for yacht x times the number of minutes you have taken so
far in the race to get to that mark.
SQx = TCFo - TCFx = minutes of difference per minute
elapsed so far in the race
TCFx
*Rating (RAT) before adjustment for penalty (PE)
posted by Breakwater 9/19/2005 09:02:00 AM
SO SPECIAL
(With the start of the Mini Transat a week away The Daily Sail subscription
website looks at why this event is so special and what the form is this
time. Here's a brief excerpt.)
Seventy two 21ft Minis set off in just over a week singlehanded across the
Atlantic. One of our favourite events in the yachting calendar gets under
way on Saturday week (18 September): the biennial Transat 6.50
Charente-Maritime/Bahia, otherwise known as the Mini Transat. Alongside the
Figaro class, the Mini is where many great names in singlehanded offshore
sailing have cut their teeth, from Ellen and Mark Turner (1997) to Bruno
Peyron (competed in the first Mini Transat in 1977 and who plans to enter
again in the 30th anniversary race in two years) to Michel Desjoyeaux, Yves
Parlier (winner in 1985), Laurent Bourgnon (second 1987), Isabelle
Autissier (third 1987), Thierry Dubois (winner 1993), Yvan Bourgnon (winner
1995), Bernard Stamm (third 1995), Thomas Coville (second 1997)...the list
goes on and on.
The attraction of the event is not hard to grasp: 21 footers are a lot
cheaper than Open 60s - although a full-on Mini program with a newly-built
boat is in fact not much cheaper than a Figaro campaign. Yet it places the
same demands on sailors who must master the unique skill-set required for
solo offshore racing: the racing side (helming, trimming, navigation,
tactics, strategy, weather forecasting, etc), seamanship (you have to keep
the boat in one piece for the duration of a trans-oceanic race and be able
to fix things and improvise if they go wrong or break) as well as managing
personal issues like finding time to sleep, eat and drink while continuing
to race. -- http://www.thedailysail.com/
posted by Breakwater 9/12/2005 10:18:00 AM
From Ken Lane: Starting out as a foredeck guy (they weren't called bowmen
back then) many years ago, I was talking to a more experienced friend of
mine one day. I wanted to learn about being a trimmer as it looked like a
much nicer place to be going to Bermuda. My friend cautioned me. "Don't
forget, the closer you are to the back of the boat, the closer you are to
being off the boat" Words to live by!
posted by Breakwater 9/08/2005 09:06:00 AM
