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 A reminder to make your plans for Ski Wkd ! Please canvass your crews and advise approximate numbers attending to help with the planning for lunch and dinner. Also advance discount ticket information will be out next week and we will need your crew names for the list to order.
Look forward to hearing from you, regards, Ced 416-868-5993
This is an open invitation to all crew and friends of the 8 Metre Fleet for The 8 Metre Annual Ski Wkd date in 2010 is Feb 13th. Please distribute to your crew.
BLUE MOUNTAIN RESORTS LIMITED | R.R. #3 | COLLINGWOOD, ON | L9Y 3Z2
8 Metre Ski Weekend:
Saturday – free ski in the morning, lunch at the Gyles chalet, the big race in the afternoon, followed by the apres awards dinner party at Joe’s chalet.
Sunday – sleep in or ski or head home.
Monday – the Family Day Ontario holiday!
Saturday Events:
Lunch – sausage on a bun with salads and refreshments from 11:30 am
The Big Race - two timed runs – first run starting at 1:30 pm
Awards & famous goulash dinner & strudle dessert at 7:30 pm
Discount Lift ticket information:
There will be group advance day lift tickets available with savings off the regular price and an under 17 years of age student price as well. Price details to follow. Crew Captains: you will be asked to organize your crew and advise the names to put down for your boat advance ticket order and whether adult or student.
Payment will be due upon pickup of the tickets either Friday night or Saturday morning from 8:30 am including over the lunch period prior to the race at the Gyles Chalet at 120 Carmichael Cres. The advance ordered 8 Metre group lift ticket price has been confirmed at $50 this year (vs the full price of $59.85).
If you haven’t already confirmed, please advise the names of your crew and friends requiring tickets. No refunds.
Look forward to seeing you at Blue in 2010!
Ced
RCYC Open Regatta
What a great weekend! Over 260 boats registered for the Regatta, and check out the Saxe pictures waiting for the launch. We also had our first experience with the trapezoid course. And though winds were on the light side and shifty at times, we had some good racing on the water and together with a few sociables afterwards we had a few laughs on the shore!
On Saturday the winds were very light to start and inconsistent in direction. After a few false starts, we finally got going around 1 pm for the one and only race that day. We nearly got the pin end at the start believing it was favoured on a wind suggesting left side. Well it turned out that the boats that went right seem to do better than first thought. We none-the-less were in the hunt near enough behind the leaders, Venture, Raven, and Thisbe. Though at one time during the race the winds of fortune had us nearly last and then we got it back overtaking Norseman and Quest after finding a wind shift on the second beat. Off the wind in the final run for the finish we overtook Thisbe, but unfortunately at the gate mark she just got buoy room with the help of another boat, and went in to finish ahead leaving us in fourth at the finish.
On Sunday, we had two races and a little more wind with some more stability in the direction. We had good near the pin end starts in each race with the last one being the best. In the first race of the day, went to the left and capitalized on the favoured side of the course, this time. We were on the heels of the leaders at the first mark, Venture and Raven with the rest not too far behind us. On the next several legs Venture continued to pull ahead and though we had some close moments with Raven downwind she covered us to finish as we did with Norseman behind us to give us a third for this race. In the second race, we led the Fleet at the start, and covered Raven, Venture, and entire fleet all the way up the first beat to get to the windward mark first. We had established a comfortable lead and held it on the reach and downwind, though the Fleet caught up with some following wind. Held our own upwind again on the next beat and still had the lead going for home. Nearer the end of the leg, the gybing started between ourselves, Venture and Raven each covering the other boats. We did some 6 – 8 gybes as we neared the finish. Each time Venture was gaining and finally overtook Raven and closed in on us but we held on to take the race and third overall for the regatta!
Look forward to trying it again on Saturday at the Hospice and we’ll see you then. In the meantime check out the rest of the Saxe pictures of the Fleet which follow.
Ced.
Fleet Captains’ Race Report
What a day! With the verified reports of hail, rain, and wind in different parts of the city in the morning and rain continuing off and on until lunch time it wasn’t looking very promising. We had lunch on shore in between rains and then the sun came out as we prepared to leave the dock. The Fleet Captains’ race got started in light westerly winds and we maneuvered ourselves to take the favoured end of the line at the pin which gave us a four boat length lead at the start. Heading towards the western gap, we covered Norseman’s tack towards the city across the airport makers.
Then it hit, the next storm cell that wasn’t supposed to be there according to the radar reports. Gusts of winds up to 30 knots in the space of minutes coupled with blinding rain made it difficult to see other boats, not to mentioned the 10,000 dollar markers! By the time we got the jib down, it had a few rips, and the main under control after a tear and lost upper batten, it was all over. We hoisted the number 3 jib more out of caution than wind velocity. In the meantime, Norsemen had retired from race after the squall. Though it seemed chaotic in the brief time when the squall hit, we got everything squared away and Severn carried on with the race.
After tacking thru the Western Gap, the sun came out again, and with the moderating winds we hoisted our spinnaker. After one gybe across the top of the Island, and then thru the Eastern gap with winds picking up as we beat to the finish, we took third place line honours in the overall RCYC Fleet. All in all it was a physical day for our first race, and made for some tired guys over the après race beers.
By the way, for those who were not there, Raven has officially arrived at the RCYC, though at the last moment decided not to go into the race ….. did they know something that no one else did? But she will be there and apparently taking part in Sailpast next Saturday. She looks great! Hoping for full tours next weekend.
Ced Gyles of Severn
Just a couple of months until the LORC season starts for 2009. LORC will be using the same online registration program as last year. It was easy to use and worked extremely well. All LORC races except for the RCYC Open Regatta will use the online registration. RCYC will be handling their own registration, which will be accessed from the RCYC web site.
The 2009 LORC Schedule has been posted for some time now, look under Racing on the LORC web site.
Your comments, suggestions and additions to our e-mail list are welcome.
LORC Website link: http://www.lorc.org/
Nine 8 Metres sailed in this year’s regatta. Great series under a variety of winds starting from 5 knots in the first day at first and up to 25+ knots by the end of the last race. It was a regatta that saw a boat, and not Iskareen this time, sail a near perfect series. Congratulations to Thisbe! It saw two collisions, the first one between Bangalore and Norseman. And the second one between Venture and Severn. It was a series where Iskareen and Venture each only got one bullet. It was a series where Severn & others beat Iskareen twice and Venture three times. It was series where Bart and not Terry McLaughlin steering got a bullet after leading the entire race. Close racing throughout the series including the starts, laylines, mark roundings, and finishes. Just a great series. (And the evening parties were good fun too. Thanks Derek for the Clamato and Andrea for the vodka which complimented the rum blender drinks nicely).
We had our moments throughout the series with some great sail handling and trim between the starts and the finishes. The crew work was good throughout, with some superb maneuvers around the marks, though Norseman didn’t seem to think so at one of the leeward mark roundings the first day which was also accompanied by a protest which was later mediated by Terry Mclaughin so the protest was avoided. In every race where we found ourselves in deficient position due to windshifts or dirty air we battled back to improve our position. And when the collision with Venture occurred, we were heading for one our best starts of the season. Venture in deciding to try to barge between the committee boat and Severn, they hit us several times down our starboard side, with her last nudge pushing us over the line early and we had to return and restart. We never did recover though from last spot we finished 6th in that race. On the last race of the final day, we were again sitting fourth behind Bangalore, Venture and Iskareen, but then the front moved in changing the direction by 30 degrees. Our crew spotted it but not before Bangalore recovered, and Ranja and Thisbe who were behind us saw it sooner. We again settled with another fourth in the series. Thisbe wins the Sodus Bay Cup and the Globe & Mail Trophy.
A now for a weekend off, with a few corporate cruises between now and the next series, which is the EYC weekend. Details to follow of course. See you then.
Regards,
Ced
Hot weather all weekend under mostly sunny skies with some good winds. We also had the opportunity back at the dock after racing each day to try our new tarp supported by battens; great sun cover! Also great to sail again with Joan Smart, a Severn alumni, who re-joined the crew for this regatta.
I won’t go into each race in detail, but it was a regatta where we had trouble for the most part of getting on the right side of the shifts whether it was directional or for the velocities. And though the end results didn’t show it we had good crew work and communication all weekend. The regatta started with a “may day”,”may day” call over the radio from Iskareen. Apparently she was taking in water so fast that there was a threat of sinking before we even started the first race. She was rescued and towed in by one of the committee support boats and discovered that her bilge pump was taking water back into the boat. With Norseman’s extra buckets she managed to keep ahead of the water and solve the problem back at the dock, but had to miss the first race.
After that bit of drama, Ranja seemed to be the boat to beat after winning the first race easily with coach Doyle returning for another engagement at this year’s regatta. (You may recall he helped Ranja get to the top of the podium at last year’s LYRA in Sodus assisted a little by the infamous protest that Bart dragged Severn into as a “witness”). We took a third spot behind Thisbe in this race. (Norseman trailed, Ced Sr unable to sail the regatta and brother Ed doing it with a short handed crew). In the second race Iskareen was once again back on the course and won this race. We took third again behind Ranja. The second day we found more difficult trying to find the right side of the shifts and had to settle for two fourths for the day. On the last day of the regatta, we had what looked to be a good start but was called over early. Took most of the race to catch up but never enough to finish more than fifth. The last race of the series was our best. The winds were up to the max of the no. 1 genoa and with a good start we appeared to be in third spot going up to windward, but then decided much as we did at Levels, to tack away from the leaders and go for the windward mark feeling the wind was fairing enough for us to do so leaving the others to overstand. We reached the windward mark first with Iskareen on our tail. At first Iskareen seemed to take us but we found our air and almost closed her out at the gate marks, but had to give her room (by inches), which then allowed her to round first. We rounded behind and went to windward on the same tack for awhile. The next thing we found out that Thisbe in taking the other mark actually gained on us and we ended up rounding behind her at the second windward. By this time Iskareen was well ahead, but we battled Thisbe all the way to the finish drawing even with her finally and getting the last wave surge to nip her by a nose to take second spot. It capped off a great race and a fun race series. Iskareen wins the Gooderham Trophy.
The one that got away!
Though light winds and some wet forecasts, the delivery Friday across turned out to a very pleasant motor-sail with sun and a light breeze. On the way back almost no wind but flat water allowing us cross with a speed of 6.5 + knots. Now for a brief description of what turned out to be a three race series with Severn, Bangalore, and Ranja vying for the Severn’s Bell Trophy.
In the first race on Saturday, Severn took what appeared to be the favoured start pin end of the line and well ahead of the other two who preferred to start nearer the boat end. Our patience finally paid off as we took the other competitors to windward to reach the weather mark first. Covered our way downwind to the leeward gate and maintained a comfortable lead. But as we approached the mark, we had problems getting the jib up and the spinnaker down due to some halyard problems which allowed the Bangalore & Ranja to get to windward of us and ahead until we got control of our sails. We clawed our way back on the second downwind, overtaking Ranja and for a while Bangalore, but Bangalore had the angle and beat us over the finish. Though the comeback was reassuring, we felt we should have had won this one, but it wasn’t in the cards. The second & third races didn’t happen when the wind dropped to nothing, so the fleet was sent back early and all that that means on a hot day with the beer tent open and ready for our business.
The next day the winds were up. Severn started with a no 2 genoa and gained a controlling start on the other two and even forcing Ranja off at the start boat. We got Bangalore, but Ranja proved to be a tougher nut, even after having to start nearer the committee boat. So when she didn’t tack over, we did so, taking her stern, knowing that we had all overstood the windward mark, which by the time Ranja tacked we were clear ahead and now leading. We continued to lead on the downwind leg, and with the winds diminishing slightly we went for the no 1 heavy, but after making the change on deck, it appeared that there was something still wrong with our halyards. The jib was a bitch to get up, taking three to deal with the problems causing a delay in getting the spinnaker down. By the time we got things under control, the other two had caught us again and got ahead. We got back into the race, overtaking Ranja who had to do a 360, but still finishing behind Bangalore even though we closed the gap downwind. So close in fact Bangalore touched our spinnaker with her boom causing us to issue a protest.
I guess we were still reeling from the disappointment of the last race, as our start in the third and final race, was less then aggressive allowing Ranja to squirt ahead of both Bangalore and ourselves. We battled Bangalore up wind, but we couldn’t quite get her, beating us to the windward mark. We closed the gap downwind, but couldn’t get ahead. We engaged in some tacks upwind, but couldn’t achieve the lever, and in the end we had to settle for third and dependent on the outcome of our protest from the other race. However, our protest was disallowed, as the ruling was that Bangalore in trying to avoid the obstacle of some port boats, she couldn’t avoid her contact with Severn. Bangalore won the regatta, Severn was second and Ranja third.
Despite all of this we had a good time at the Regatta, taking in all the social activities over the three days. We anticipate we’ll have a better time of it on the race course at LYRA and the NAs over the next two weeks.
Great sunshine, all types of wind velocities in excess of + 25 knots and all the way down to under five. And did I mention wind direction ….. starting from the north on Friday and finishing from the south on Sunday and everything in between during the races. Nine Eights were on the startline this weekend! (Where are all of the crew coming from when this increases to 15 by 2010???, right Will).
What did this mean to the mighty Sev? Starting with Friday, Severn experienced our own annus horribilis on Friday. We started the race with our number three genoa and after having a very near run in with Venture on the line, we got underway in not too bad a position. The shifts played a part as they did all weekend, but our position at the windward mark was within striking distance of the leaders. We overtook Venture down wind taking her air and passing ahead at the leeward gate. The maneuver was a busy one, but we managed to get the spinnaker down and jibe up in the nick of time to round the port mark. And then things started to happen ….. we lost an entire set of sheets & guys over the side without anyone noticing from bow to stern during the maneuver with Venture. Undeterred, we re-fed our spare set. However, we couldn’t get back to the left side where the competition was to cover, and the boats nearer to the port lay line did better than those who did not, including us. Despite this Severn was still in the hunt, and then the mainsheet block exploded at the traveller like a shot gun. The main ragged uncontrollably while we tried to get the jib in to maintain way; (despite being over-canvassed with our number one at this point by the way). In the end we jury rigged a snatch block on the traveller to get things under control before the mast whipped itself out of the boat. As someone said it was bending like a live noodle! All of this caused us to loose most of the competition by this time, but we decided to stay in the race and finish.
In the next race, we went to a number four jib. Though under-canvassed at times, we lost some ground having to take a tack to the unfavoured side after tacking away for clear air. None-the-less, we were still enough in the game to strike back with those who had stayed in the race; (four withdrew). But then an altercation with Passion III took place at the windward mark. After getting our buoy room, she hit Severn when coming down too soon to go to the dog leg. Passion protested us and we protested them. Down the leg we went with the wind increasing and using the 1.5 oz spinnaker we had broad gybe from hell with winds up to the near high for the day. I don’t how we did it but we appeared to have wrapped the main in several different ways around spreaders and mast. We finally go it out but in doing so broke the backstay preventers, with part of the bungee elastic getting into the backstay block when we went to windward, which prevented us from tacking for too long on the wrong side of the course. Also this did cause a problem with the final gybe for the day which we decided to deal with by hardening up before the gybe to get the backstay out from behind the spreaders. Well we did that and but then rounded up uncontrollably before getting the boat back under control but not before jamming Dave’s leg into the clam cleat for a nasty limping bruise. All of us were a black and blue and exhausted when we finally got back to the Club and in need of a drink or two while we did the repairs and dried the sails. Almost forgot, the Protest. The long and short of it was that Passion got tossed for not giving us buoy room and Severn was disqualified because we did not avoid a collision! Apparently avoiding a collision is paramount which even would allow hitting or going around the mark on the other side to avoid the collision. Still don’t think it was right when it appeared he came down and hit us!
The next two days were in some ways almost anti-climatic but more frustrating with not being able to figure out the headers and lifters in the light winds. For instance on the final day, in the first race we lost to three boats going for the finish in succession courtesy of a velocity shift on the final beat in a shorten course. In the final race of the series, we regained a little something with a well sailed race both tactically and some good sail handling; this despite ripping our .06 oz spinnaker on the first downwind in this race. Even gave Iskareen a scare near the end of the final leg (we were faster & deeper with our .05 oz runner all the way down the leg), but not enough course left to overtake her. We settled for a third.
And I should mention that the RCYC Saturday night fare, both the free pour and the steak dinner were the best of the season!
We now have a little time off to re-group and make repairs, until the next series and the start of the Mackenzie Series this Wednesday.
See you then, Ced
From: the NOOD Staff
| Sperry Top-Sider Toronto NOOD Final Results |
| Final results for the 2007 Sperry-Top Sider NOOD Regatta in Toronto. |
| Jun 24, 2007 |
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Course A
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Boat Name |
Owner |
R 1 |
R 2 |
R 3 |
R 4 |
R 5 |
R 6 |
R 7 |
R 8 |
R 9 |
R 10 |
Total |
| 2 |
29 |
Venture II |
Diane V. Palm |
2 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
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10 |
| 4 |
S7 |
Ranja |
Guy Jones |
4 |
4 |
7 |
3 |
3 |
8 |
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29 |
| 6 |
9 |
Thisbe |
John Mitchele |
5 |
10 dnc |
4 |
7 |
5 |
6 |
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37 |
| 8 |
1 |
QUEST |
Robert Graham |
7 |
10 dnc |
8 |
6 |
9 |
4 |
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44 |
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ABYC Open Regatta
Six of the RCYC fleet were out for the races on Saturday & Sunday last weekend. Light winds of up to 8 knots or so under sunny skies with smooth water on Saturday and a little more easterly wind on Sunday with overcast skies & cool temperatures with some wave action.
The first race started with a postponement while we waited for the wind to settle in and the race committee to get their string sorted out for the marks. Our plan was to start mid-line and tack away to right side of the course to where we felt the wind was fresher. We were able to carry things out as planned and found ourselves in first spot at the windward mark ahead of Venture and the rest of the fleet followed by Norseman who had to go back to the start for an over-early call. On the downwind Severn reached over to the right side, but Venture got our inside preventing us from gybing away for clear air and maintaining our lead. We kept close down the leg, but Venture pulled ahead for good at the leeward mark covering us up-wind and all the way on the final leg to the finish . We settled for second with Ranja taking a closing third followed by Thisbe, Norseman and Quest. Continue reading ABYC Open Race Report, from the helm of Servern
Fleet Captain’s Race – first race of the season line honours goes to Severn!
Though we had the cooler temperatures and sunny skies, Harold was off in his forecast, yet again, with light southerly winds on Saturday. With the other boats still getting their masts put in or yet to be launched, Severn and Norseman were ready and matched raced for this year’s bragging rights.
The race started under the “catch the leader” format, and despite a little discussion on the synchronizing of our watches, we had a near perfect start leading Norseman across the start line. We reached for the Eastern Gap and made it out with only one tack. We reached across the top of the Island and hoisted a spinnaker for the run down to the Western Gap. Norseman closed the gap with a following breeze, but we managed to just stay ahead when we turned the corner around the airport buoys. (Though for a awhile, it looked as though Norseman might pay the $10,000 fine and cut the corner, but clearer heads prevailed). We tacked our way to the finish, covering Norseman all the way, but not without a near mishap with the harbour ferry. Concentrating on covering Norseman, we didn’t anticipate the ferry, and when the near altercation came, we were too late to dip, and a tack might have cost us the race, so we kept going. Thank god the ferry reversed engines and allowed us to pass to finish comfortably ahead. (I understand there may be a ride the ferry for the day penalty levied, but we’ll wait for the call from Mike).
With yesterday’s race behind us, our first full test against the fleet will be Saturday, May 26 & 27 – ABYC Open Regatta after a weekend in between for the RCYC Sailpast.
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A reminder to make your plans for Ski Wkd ! Please canvass your crews and advise approximate numbers attending to help with the planning for lunch and dinner. Also advance discount ticket information will be out next week and we will need your crew names for the list to order.
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