Health orders don’t allow any multi-household activities, even outdoors, so the opening has to be postponed again. If health rules change in time, we will try to schedule club opening for June 12th.
We also have to postpone the start of the racing season until health rules change.
Meanwhile, individual member households can use the club grounds to get their boats ready, go sailing, and it would be a great help if you could do some chores while they are there. Penny has sent out a list of chores that need doing.
Our schedule for racing this summer, subject to weather & public health regulations, is:
Club Championship series; dinghy racing every weekend day and statutory holiday from May 29th to September 19th, except on days when we have a keelboat race scheduled
Keel boat racing days; June 19, July 31, September 11th, and September 18th.
Commodore’s Cup on August 14th (it is included in the Club Championship series)
The Racing Instructions for the Club Championship are posted here.
Here are some important points from the racing instructions:
The scheduled time of the warning signal for the first race each day is 1300.
The race officer on duty may run up to five races in a day.
At least three boats must start in a race for that race to be counted towards the Championship.
15 races will be required to be completed to constitute a series. A boat’s series score will be the total of her race scores, excluding her 16th best score and all those below it. [So, you really want to complete 15 races during the summer]
We are intending to start a women’s sailing league this summer. I will post the schedule and the racing instructions for the women’s league race series when the plans for those races are developed.
Saturday turned out to be a combined club close-up and racing day. We put away the boats, did lots of cleaning, lifted the docks in the morning, and as the weather turned nice in the afternoon, we set a race course to the South-East, based on the winds of the moment. It was an official keel boat day, with three boats on the line, and dinghy sailors went sailing around the buoys too. The wind was capricious; it pretty much blew from every direction, and everything from a zephyr to a hard blow.
Lovely warm and sunny day, great turnout, everything good except…. a shortage of decent wind. We ran two races in little zephyrs of wind, sometimes just enough to keep moving, sometimes not quite enough…
Skipper
Time
Corr. Time
Points
RACE 1
Al
68.03
40.23
1
Dave H
64.00
41.97
2
Marcello
75.55
45.55
3
Feavers
75.56
46.49
4
Ian
75.57
49.00
5
RACE 2
Dave H
22.11
14.55
1
Marcello
25.45
15.45
2
Ian
26.15
16.94
3
Al
29.39
17.53
4
Feavers
28.42
17.57
5
Thanks to Rosemary and Al for contributing pictures
After a cool morning, the sun warmed things up and a gentle breeze appeared to be blowing from the West when we set the course, but winds are never so simple on Falcon… A north wind came in gusts to mix it up with the west gusts, and unfortunately the course was set a little close to the north shore, so the favoured side of the course had dead spots. We ran five short races, each one a unique combination of gusts and quiet moments…
Variable winds, mostly from the west and a lovely fall temperature set the stage for races where picking the right side of the course made the difference. Fearing this might be one of the last days suitable for dinghy sailing, we had 5 races:
Racers struggled with light and spotty wind, leaving some boats sitting motionless while others caught light gusts, producing some interesting results:
RACE 1
Roger
29.13
1535
1
B Kelly
26.42
1578
2
Phil
26.55
1590
3
B Woods
33.05
1738
4
Wendy
37.43
1982
5
Craig C
38.12
2005
6
Cindy
41.38
2070
7
Ian
41.13
2436
8
Thanks to Kellys for scoring, and to Al for taking pictures
We had interesting west winds, variable both in intensity and direction on a beautiful sunny afternoon. 15 boats out to race.
Thanks to Sauers and Langdons for race committee work, and to Rosemary for taking pictures.
The results:
Skipper
Time
UK Corr time
UK position
RACE 1
Dave B
16.29
901
1
Feavers
15.51
937
2
Matthew
17.19
946
3
Craig B
17.21
948
4
Roger
19.07
1004
5
Sharlene
18.07
1011
6
Patti
19.28
1023
7
Penny
20.44
1031
8
Cindy
20.51
1036
9
Craig C
20.08
1057
10
Wendy
20.43
1088
11
Phil
18.27
1091
12
guest
21.03
1106
13
Ian
20.05
1187
14
Sarah
19.37
1298
15
RACE 2
Dave B
16.21
893
1
Feavers
15.10
897
2
Matthew
16.29
901
3
Roger
17.18
909
4
Patti
17.23
913
5
Sharlene
16.29
920
6
Wendy
18.17
961
7
Craig C
18.32
973
8
guest
18.39
980
9
Penny
20.54
1039
10
Cindy
21.40
1077
11
Phil
18.23
1087
12
Ian
22.13
1313
13
Sarah
20.11
1335
14
Craig B
-3.00
20000
15
RACE 3
Craig B
14.40
801
1
Dave B
14.42
803
2
Feavers
13.45
813
3
Sharlene
14.39
818
4
Matthew
15.25
842
5
Roger
16.18
856
6
Penny
17.44
882
7
Patti
16.48
883
8
Craig C
17.26
915
9
Wendy
18.25
968
10
Phil
17.54
1058
11
Sarah
17.00
1125
12
Ian
23.14
1373
13
RACE 4
Dave B
14.23
786
1
Craig B
14.27
790
2
Roger
15.35
819
3
Sharlene
14.59
836
4
Matthew
15.52
867
5
Feavers
14.41
868
6
Penny
17.52
888
7
Sarah
13.53
918
8
Phil
16.52
997
9
Wendy
19.02
1000
10
Craig C
19.04
1001
11
Ian
19.32
1155
12
These results are slightly different than those sent around in Sharlene’s email; on review with a proper computer screen, one time was corrected to match the race committee notes, and the 29er Portsmith handicap was applied.
Here’s Commodore Sharlene’s summation of the results:
While Dave Baker finished first, he recognizes that as a non club member he is not eligible to win the cup. So, Charles and Maureen are the winners! Followed by Matt, then Roger. Craig‘s OCS start cost him his chance to defend his title from last year.
