A collaboration with the West Hawk Sailing Club. A one-week, half-day course for women to improve their sailing skills and learn to race. Taught on single and double-handed sailboats (Laser, Zest). For all girls / women aged 12+. Minimum CANSail 1 or demonstrated equivalent level of sailing skills required. Please see the South Whiteshell Women's Sailing League website at southwhiteshellwomenssailingleague.ca for registration information.
Tag: Racing
Al Sweeps KB July Races
We had gentle, shifting breezes mostly from the West on Saturday, July 25 for the keel boat and dinghy races. Everyone started at the same time, thanks to David L for timing the dinghies.
The following Sunday, there was too much wind, so sailors practiced screaming reaches, but there were no races.
| Skipper | Time | KB & Cat Corr Time | KB & Cat Position |
| RACE 1 | |||
| Al | 43.39 | 25.80 | 1.00 |
| Ian | 40.42 | 26.26 | 2.00 |
| Marcello | 49.17 | 29.57 | 3.00 |
| RACE 2 | |||
| Al | 35.30 | 20.99 | 1.00 |
| Ian | 36.00 | 23.23 | 2.00 |
| Marcello | 39.19 | 23.59 | 3.00 |
| RACE 3 | |||
| Al | 33.35 | 19.85 | 1.00 |
| Ian | 32.00 | 20.65 | 2.00 |
| Marcello | 40.10 | 24.10 | 3.00 |
| RACE 1 | |||
| Matthew | 26.07 | 1427 | 1 |
| Dave L | 26.55 | 1471 | 2 |
| Evan | 26.38 | 1487 | 3 |
| Guillermo | 27.31 | 1504 | 4 |
| Roger | 31.42 | 1665 | 5 |
| Gonzalo | 30.24 | 1797 | 6 |
| Penny | 37.31 | 1865 | 7 |
| Wendy | 36.27 | 1915 | 8 |
| Craig C | 38.31 | 2022 | 9 |
| RACE 2 | |||
| Guillermo | 23.48 | 1301 | 1 |
| Dave L | 24.06 | 1317 | 2 |
| Matthew | 24.10 | 1321 | 3 |
| Roger | 26.49 | 1409 | 4 |
| Wendy | 27.52 | 1464 | 5 |
| Penny | 31.31 | 1567 | 6 |
| Gonzalo | 27.50 | 1645 | 7 |
| Evan | 35.33 | 1984 | 8 |
| RACE 3 | |||
| Matthew | 23.10 | 1266 | 1 |
| Guillermo | 23.20 | 1275 | 2 |
| Dave L | 24.04 | 1315 | 3 |
| Roger | 28.18 | 1487 | 4 |
| Wendy | 29.15 | 1537 | 5 |
| Evan | 29.03 | 1621 | 6 |
July 18 races
A lovely day with moderate shifting winds, mostly from the West.
| Skipper | Time | UK Corr time | UK position |
| Feavers | 17.13 | 1018 | 1 |
| Dave L | 21.00 | 1148 | 3 |
| Patti | 21.14 | 1116 | 2 |
| Sharlene | 22.17 | 1171 | 5 |
| Penny | 23.07 | 1149 | 4 |
| Craig | 23.50 | 1251 | 6 |
| Cindy | 26.26 | 1314 | 7 |
| RACE 2 | |||
| Feavers | 16.51 | 996 | 1 |
| Dave L | 18.37 | 1017 | 2 |
| Sharlene | 19.46 | 1039 | 3 |
| Patti | 21.18 | 1119 | 4 |
| Penny | 25.28 | 1266 | 5 |
| Craig | 25.56 | 1361 | 6 |
| Cindy | 29.52 | 1485 | 7 |
| RACE 3 | |||
| Feavers | 17.30 | 1034 | 2 |
| Dave L | 18.23 | 1005 | 1 |
| Sharlene | 20.38 | 1084 | 3 |
| Craig | 20.40 | 1085 | 4 |
| Patti | 20.58 | 1102 | 6 |
| Penny | 21.57 | 1091 | 5 |
| Cindy | 26.14 | 1304 | 7 |
| RACE 4 | |||
| Feavers | 15.21 | 907 | 2 |
| Sharlene | 17.14 | 905 | 1 |
| Dave L | 17.45 | 970 | 3 |
| Patti | 18.55 | 994 | 4 |
Unfortunately, on Sunday the weather did not clear up in time for the races.
Wendy and Roger get firsts
Sunday July 12, a mix of winds from the south made for interesting racing. There wasn’t enough wind to set a reach mark, but occasionally we got a good puff, and then again occasionally there wasn’t much wind at all. And of course, the wind shifted unpredictably from side to side. So, results varied among the four races:
| Skipper | Time | UK Corr time | UK position |
| Race 1 | |||
| Feavers | 15.35 | 921 | 1 |
| Phil | 16.20 | 965 | 2 |
| Roger | 20.07 | 1057 | 3 |
| B Woods | 21.12 | 1114 | 5 |
| Patti | 21.42 | 1140 | 6 |
| Penny | 21.54 | 1089 | 4 |
| Wendy | 21.57 | 1153 | 7 |
| RACE 2 | |||
| Feavers | 13.43 | 811 | 1 |
| Phil | 15.11 | 897 | 4 |
| Roger | 15.28 | 813 | 2 |
| Penny | 17.26 | 867 | 3 |
| Patti | 18.00 | 946 | 5 |
| Wendy | 18.08 | 953 | 6 |
| B Woods | 19.02 | 1000 | 8 |
| Cindy | 19.13 | 955 | 7 |
| RACE 3 | |||
| Feavers | 16.03 | 949 | 2 |
| Wendy | 17.04 | 897 | 1 |
| Patti | 18.50 | 989 | 3 |
| Roger | 19.40 | 1033 | 5 |
| Phil | 19.55 | 1176 | 7 |
| Penny | 20.25 | 1015 | 4 |
| Cindy | 21.27 | 1066 | 6 |
| RACE 4 | |||
| Feavers | 18.24 | 1088 | 2 |
| Roger | 20.24 | 1072 | 1 |
| Patti | 21.00 | 1103 | 3 |
| Phil | 23.07 | 1365 | 6 |
| Wendy | 24.10 | 1270 | 5 |
| Penny | 25.11 | 1252 | 4 |
| Cindy | 28.24 | 1412 | 7 |
July 11 races
Typical Falcon Lake summer weather; nice breeze, allegedly coming from the North, but with lots of shifts to make sailing interesting.
| Skipper | Time | UK position |
| Race 1 | ||
| Feavers | 15.15 | 3 |
| Dave L | 15.30 | 1 |
| Sharlene | 17.00 | 2 |
| B Woods | 19.12 | 4 |
| Roger | 20.42 | 6 |
| Penny | 21.31 | 5 |
| Wendy | 21.34 | 7 |
| RACE 2 | ||
| Feavers | 15.08 | 1 |
| Dave L | 16.32 | 3 |
| Phil | 17.03 | 7 |
| Sharlene | 17.04 | 2 |
| Penny | 18.50 | 4 |
| Roger | 18.55 | 5 |
| B Woods | 19.09 | 6 |
| Wendy | 20.05 | 8 |
| RACE 3 | ||
| Feavers | 16.18 | 3 |
| Dave L | 16.32 | 1 |
| Roger | 18.40 | 4 |
| Penny | 18.50 | 2 |
| Phil | 18.56 | 7 |
| Wendy | 20.14 | 5 |
| B Woods | 21.07 | 6 |
| RACE 4 | ||
| Feavers | 14.35 | 1 |
| Phil | 14.42 | 2 |
| Dave L | 16.10 | 3 |
| Penny | 19.14 | 4 |
| Roger | 19.14 | 5 |
| B Woods | 19.41 | 6 |
| Wendy | 19.58 | 7 |
First Dinghy Races of 2020
Nice variable breeze from the South with S-East and S-West variations. Hot. Two boats racing for the first time; Phil in his MC Scow, and Craig C sailing the Bombardier.
| RACE 1 | |||
| Feavers | 16.42 | 987 | 1 |
| Roger | 20.17 | 1066 | 2 |
| Phil | 20.59 | 1239 | 5 |
| Patti | 22.01 | 1157 | 4 |
| Penny | 22.16 | 1107 | 3 |
| Craig C | 25.20 | 1330 | 6 |
| RACE 2 | |||
| Feavers | 22.07 | 1307 | 1 |
| Phil | 22.48 | 1346 | 3 |
| Patti | 25.11 | 1323 | 2 |
| Penny | 28.57 | 1439 | 4 |
| Roger | 29.08 | 1531 | 5 |
| Craig C | 33.24 | 1753 | 7 |
| Cindy | 33.20 | 1657 | 6 |
| RACE 3 | |||
| Feavers | 12.19 | 728 | 2 |
| Phil | 13.06 | 774 | 6 |
| Roger | 14.03 | 738 | 3 |
| Patti | 14.07 | 742 | 4 |
| Penny | 14.30 | 721 | 1 |
| Craig C | 14.40 | 770 | 5 |
| Cindy | 17.01 | 846 | 7 |
June 27 & 28 Weekend
It looks like the weather this weekend will be great for starting club racing; Warm with winds from the West on Saturday, and from the South on Sunday.
We will hold our first keelboat races of the year on Saturday, starting at one pm, hopefully running 3 short races. We can’t follow the “participation” approach of previous years, where we invited lots of people onto the boats. This time the people on each boat must be from the same household, or people who are regularly in contact, or a minimum number of people who are willing to be in contact for this event. It looks like we will have five boats on the starting line. Anyone who wants to sail a dinghy in the same race is welcome, but it will just be practice race for them, and they should stay out of the way of the keel boats when they are racing. That means a dinghy can still start at the same time, but it has to avoid getting in the way of the starting keel boats.
On Sunday, it should be a couple of degrees warmer, so a great occasion to race dinghies. We will try to run up to 5 races after 1 pm, as usual.
The following weekends, we will have dinghy races in the afternoons, weather permitting, except on the three days reserved for keel boat racing.
Rules Book
FYI, you can download a copy of the Rules Book from the World Sailing website at https://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/WorldSailingRRS20172020new-[24067].pdf or download the app to your Smartphone or iPad/Phone.
Always a good idea to look over the most important rules from time to time to refresh your memory…
FYC Racing Report 2019
We had a good year of racing, sailing a total of 39 races in the club dinghy series, plus the Sumer of Sailing Regatta, two sailing clinics, and three days of keelboat racing.
17 skippers participated in the dinghy race series. Nine skippers completed fifteen races, the number required to be competitive in the final results.
The keelboat races on June 23, August 4 and September 1 were well attended; three boats on the line in June, five in August and September.
Al Cade was named the most improved sailor at the AGM, for becoming a successful keel boat racer in 2019.
Dinghy club championship results:
