Ship to slip 2014

Very few people camp any more. There is some room but limited. No hookups. Sprinkler system in grassy area. Hopefully Rob will reply to this.

Camping there would be very nice although space is extremely limited. There's good hot showers outside downstairs and great food and drink upstairs. I've been looking into hotel rates for that weekend too. Since it's a Holliday weekend nearby hotels charge full retail ( $150 a night + for a two star nearby- travel lodge ) and some are completely booked up already. I'm thinking about renting a 3br, 3ba house close to the club and splitting the cost with a couple other sailors. Works out to about $80 a night for very, very nice accommodations.
Tim

Edited by fxloop on Apr 19, 2014 - 11:04 PM.

We can support 5 RVs and lots of tents. If you contact me, I'll register your camper as one of the five. We charge $50 for the weekend. There is "no power" (limited 110), talk to me when you get there. Tents are free by the way.
There are bathrooms and showers available. 24/7
Hot Breakfast included for all the sailors! The best breakfast of ANY regatta.
Beverages and fried chicken at the island - you know the drill! Good times.

See you in May!
Joe Pocreva
Fleet captain
OSYC
fleetcaptain@osyc.com

Oh yeah - this is the race not to miss!

A hot fast drag race to the island.... it's not very technical with tacks and marks and all that fuss..... just point to the island, and go as fast as you can.

Sailing down the channel between Deer Island and the Hard Rock Cafe... Watch how the water gets clearer and clearer... soon you're at the island like a dream... there's cold beer, hot chicken, lot of folks to mingle with, enjoy the water, swim... take a nap.

When the cats get restless chillin on the island we gaggle up on the water and race back to the club. Dry land, hot shower, cold drink all adds up to a very fun day. Sunday is a sail around Deer Island.

I always like to pimp this video for folks... Thanks Overstreet Bros! Don't miss the first FEW SECONDS to see the boat and trailer access space!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEuir_W8y2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdqHu7t4cK4

Registration link up soon!

This sounds like a great event!

NOR?

I'm doing an experiment to see if Facebook Events can help regatta attendance.

If you "do facebook" please go to
http://osyc.com/index.php?module=Content&func=view&pid=22

and use the "Going" tab to state whether you will be going or not, say "not going" even if there was never a chance you might go because of too far away etc. Then use the "Invite" tab to invite all your sailing friends so we can get a little viral action going.

Thanks,

Damon, you forget. Most of the sailors have no idea what Facebook is other than it's what their grand kids talk about all the time 😆

I keeeeeed I keeeeeed

All kidding aside, i think that is a great idea. We should all take video footage and make a bunch of 3-8 min video clips of these regattas showing how fun they are and post them to OSYC ( or wherever the fun regattas are ) to entice people to get into beachcat sailing 😀

Edited by fxloop on Apr 21, 2014 - 06:30 PM.

I would love to do this regatta.
It sounds like my kind of event.
I just mapped it out:
1700 miles one way, 24 hours of driving.
264.00 in fuel.
This trip will take some advance planning.
Might have to combine it with another road trip, like a visit to Schlitterbahn.

just a touch of vids from recent years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEuir_W8y2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdqHu7t4cK4

NOR coming soon... next Sailing Squad meeting is TOMORROW! NOR SOON!

in addition to camping onsite...there is a HUGE empty lot across the street...

Well WELL shaded...out of the sun and wind... and if you're here for the regatta I bet you could hide there and camp for a bit....

when small storms come we evac the boats to that lot....

when big storms come we get them much further inland...

but you didn't hear it from me... and it's NOT on OSYC grounds, so at your own risk.

Edited by robpatt on Apr 22, 2014 - 02:36 PM.

I spoke to Damon about this race while picking his brain about righting my H18 solo. He mentioned an upwind leg and a downwind leg. So... Do you NEED a spinnaker to be a contender? Sounds like it to me. I don't have one and even worse, wouldn't know how to use it if I did! :-O

timscottyoung wrote: Do you NEED a spinnaker to be a contender? Sounds like it to me. I don't have one and even worse, wouldn't know how to use it if I did! :-O

No spin needed. The fleet (all boats registered to race) will be divided into classes. The classes are normally H16, F18, N20 or Open 20, open spin, open high and open low. Could also be a 18HT fleet. Five like boats make a class. Get your H18 buddies to come and get your own class if you have 5 or more or sail in one of the non spin open classes.

, open high and open low. Could also be a 18HT fleet. Five like boats make a class. Get your H18 buddies to come and get your own class if you have 5 or more or sail in one of the non spin open classes.

what does open high and open low mean , i have have a main and a jib i am sailing regardless

southronspirit wrote: what does open high and open low mean , i have have a main and a jib i am sailing regardless

Open Low or A would be non spin low Portsmouth numbers like N60, N58, H20, P19, N55

Open High or B would be non spin high Portsmouth numbers like P16, N50, N5.2, H18 N570

Open Spin would be Spin boats that don't have their own class

Here's a link to the Portsmouth numbers http://offshore.ussailing.org/Portsmouth_Yardstick/Current_Tables/Multihull_Classes.htm

for this race, upwind leg means going to the island....
downwind leg means coming back...

robpatt wrote: for this race, upwind leg means going to the island....
downwind leg means coming back...

Unless one is discussing the chicken legs being devoured on the island in which case the upwind leg is above the sand and the downwind leg is above the water. No spin required to eat chicken legs either place.

Sounds like lots of new sailors coming to this regatta.

Here's some reading material. Rights of way and starting sequence are important.

http://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/ISAFRRS20132016Final- [13376].pdf

Awesome link!
But newbees needn't stress too much... we will do what needs to be done... IF there's enough folks for a "B" (as in beginners) fleet, we'll gladly do so, and those folks could have their own start...

I'll be a "B" fleet racer this year maybe as I figure out the new boat... first time rigging the spin will be this Friday... first sail w/it this weekend! YEAH

+1 on the "B" fleet. Only been on my 20 twice. Is there a box to check when the NOR is released? Looks like there's gonna be a lot of boats and getting everyone in close proximity for a mass starting line sounds a little scary.

I'll race B fleet as well, I've only used my new spin sheet once.

timscottyoung wrote: I spoke to Damon about this race while picking his brain about righting my H18 solo. He mentioned an upwind leg and a downwind leg. So... Do you NEED a spinnaker to be a contender? Sounds like it to me. I don't have one and even worse, wouldn't know how to use it if I did! :-O

I'm thinking that a well driven spin boat could reach the island, 3 maybe 4 beers ahead of you which should level the playing field for the trip home.

bacho wrote: I'll race B fleet as well, I've only used my new spin sheet once.

Me too, I've got new sails I haven't learned how to operate. 😎

Damn, I knew this was coming. There's gonna be 30 guys in "B" class that have barely sailed a boat and 5 or 6 guys in "A" class on $15k boats that have only sailed "a few" times 😆

Edited by fxloop on Apr 24, 2014 - 06:35 AM.

DamonLinkous wrote: [quote=bacho]I'll race B fleet as well, I've only used my new spin sheet once.

Me too, I've got new sails I haven't learned how to operate. 😎

Now that you say that my mainsail is nearly 3 years old, i'm really thinking I might move down to the C fleet.

OK, just so all newbies young and old (and I hope there are a lot of them) understand. All this joking around about A, B, and C fleets based on abilities is just an "inside" joke about the old days of Hobie Fleet Regattas. When everyone raced one-design.

Back in the day when new sailors joined the fleet it wouldn't be that fun for the newbies or the top guys for the newbies to start in a fleet of 60 or more identical Hobie 16's where the only difference in the boats was the ability of the crew.

So to encourage new boats to race the boats were divided into three starts A, B, and occasionally C (total beginners) fleet, each fleet receiving it's own start and trophies. You were only supposed to stay in the lower fleets until you did well enough to trophy and then got "promoted".

Since being "promoted" from winning in B fleet to sucking ass in A fleet didn't sit well with some folks there was some sandbagging to continue sailing in B fleet.

Handicap racing like there will be at Slip To Ship and most regattas today is totally different in that boats are grouped into fleet by (historic) ability of the BOAT and not the crew. These fleets (groups of similar boats) can be called anything.

At the popular Juana Good Time Regatta in Navarre Beach they refer to the three main fleets as X, Y, and Z.

At Slip to Ship they usually list the fleets by straight forward descriptions like

OPEN CLASS FLEETS (any brand and model)
Spinnaker (high tech boats) note: could be two open class spin fleets if enough boats
non-spin low Portsmouth (no spinnaker and handicap number lower than 70)
non-spin high Porstmouth (no spinnaker and handicap number 70 and over)
Portsmouth Handicap Numbers

ONE DESIGN FLEETS (specific brand and model)

Then if enough boats show up to "form a fleet" of five or more one-design boats they will allow them to race as a fleet. These days that is usually only the Hobie 16's but it could be any design that has five boats and the sailors agree that the boats are "one-design".

Hope this helps clear some things up, I know we have a LOT of new catamaran sailors (THAT'S AWESOME!) and also a lot of beachcat sailors who last sailed a regatta back in the Hobie Fleet days and don't know how it's done now.

It's time to register. Here's the NOR and sordid details.
http://www.regattanetwork.com/event/8415#_home

see you on the coast!!

so will A and B fleets start at different times?
i would like to get a look at the fast boats as they pass me .

Yes, normally the slowest class starts first and fastest class starts last.

Edited by nacra55 on Apr 30, 2014 - 08:44 PM.