Sonar Fleet 1 News

MEMORIAL DAY SERIES - REDUX:

Sunday, June 3: Fleet 1 kicked off its 1^st race which challenged all, particularly in wind direction and velocity. Going out to the course, the wind was roughly SW and pre start, it picked up to 12+ knots, shifted right, and had many teams moving mast blocks. We sailed into a strong tide, making the unwind part of the D2 a long course with many guesses made as to wind direction and pressure. The right side paid off both times and coming out on top was Fast Forward, followed by Spit Fire and Jack. Bruce Kirby had a tremendous second beat, staying right and picking up 5 boats. Clouds, thunder and unsettled air force the group in early.

Scott Harrison

In the end Kirby withdrew so the results, and trophy winners, of our Memorial Day Series are:

1. Galloway/Linville/Steinborn

2. Hoyt/Zeigler

3. Sheehan/Howe/Sparkman

Sunday, June 10: Looked like it was gong to be another wash with a light easterly and adverse current. 11 boats made their way to the race course where PRO Bob Monro decided to go for it with a W1. Getting to the starting line in the first race was tough but, thankfully the breeze picked up enough to sail.

In the end we got in four W1's and only 1 point separated the top three finishers! Here they are:

1. Sweeney 1, 1, 6, 4 total: 12

2. Morrison 4, 4, 3, 1 total: 12

3. Kirby 2, 7, 1, 3 total: 13

Team 454

As always, full results can be found here: http://www.fleet1.org/

SONAR CREW TRAINING:

Fleet 1 held our first Crew training seminar on Saturday, June 9. We ended out having 18 participants with all levels of experience from never sailed to years of racing.

Scott Harrison began the seminar with a two hour classroom covering the race course, crew positions, rules and sail trim.

We followed that up by rigging five boats and sending the students out for 3 hours of on-the-water training. Special thanks to Peter Gallowy, Ed Infurna, Rick Doerr, Lee Morrison and Bruce McArthur for volunteering their time and boats to the cause. Also thanks to Britt Hall who helped yours truly, and to Don Vasta and Scott Harrison for setting up and running our practice races.

Given the amount of positive feedback we received, we will be making this an annual event. Look for it next spring.

AVOID THE PATIO (AFTER RACE) PROTEST:

The following is an excellent article by Peter Wilson. Everyone should read this as it deals with changes to our sailing instructions and, more importantly, changes to US Sailing Appendix T in the RRS for 2013*.

Click HERE to download the entire article

*APPENDIX T – ALTERNATIVE PROCEDURES FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION

This appendix is a US Sailing prescription. One or more sections of this appendix apply only if the sailing instructions so state.
The rules in this appendix are intended to improve compliance with the Basic Principle, Sportsmanship and the Rules, and may be used for fleets of boats in major or minor events.
Sections A and B provide alternative penalties that encourage competitors to take a penalty when they may have broken a rule of Part 2 or rule 31. They can be used together or individually.
Sections C and D each provide a modified hearing procedure that is less formal and less time-consuming than the usual hearing procedure. They are designed to encourage boats to enforce the rules by protesting. Sections C and D are not designed to be used at the same event, but either Section C or Section D may be used with Section A or B, or with both. Note however that, if Section D is used, Section B automatically applies.
Please report your experiences with and evaluations of these rules to US Sailing by sending an e-mail to rules@ussailing.org.

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