Racing Rules of Sailing Seminar
Sunday, March 20, 2011 8:45 – 5:00
How well do you know the rules? Take the Rules Quiz.
Registration will be open soon.
Sunday, March 20, 2011 8:45 – 5:00
How well do you know the rules? Take the Rules Quiz.
Registration will be open soon.
Congratulations to Bill Menninger and Emile Pilafidis for winning the Harbor 20 A and B Fleet SCYA Midwinters held on February 19th and 20th.
Bill Menninger was awarded the Phillip S. Ramser Perpetual Trophy while Emile Pilafidis was promoted to the A Fleet for winning a two-day High Point event.
The full results of the race can be viewed on the Harbor 20 website on the Results page or downloaded from the BCYC Results Page
Thank you to the Bahia-Corinthian Yacht Club for hosting the Midwinters for the Harbor 20’s and a special thanks to the BCYC Race Committee.
Editors Note: This article was written by Karl Pomeroy several months ago.
What a summer it was! The opportunity to get back into racing after a 10+ year absence, a chance to teach my 10 year old son about the sport I love and the culmination of winning the Harbor 20 B fleet made for a near perfect summer.
I am first off grateful to all of the wonderful H20 sailors who welcomed my son Cole and I into the fleet. It all started with a call to Peter Haynes who is simply the best advocate a fleet could ask for. 2 weeks later we owned a H20 and by May we sailed in our first race.
My first reaction was “I forgot how to sail after all these years”. Well, some great advice and fantastic seminars and then we started to improve. Cole truly was having fun getting on the boat every night and sailing with Dad! I think my favorite part of the H20 fleet is from Memorial Day to Labor Day you can race 5 nights a week. Couple that with the great friends, and wonderful dinners and you have a near perfect summer.
A pleasant additional thing happened we got faster! I was amazed that every time out we learned something that we were able to build on. In June I went to the Dave Perry seminar and got some of the best advice I have received in my sailing career and we turned that into our first big win a week later in the Stars and Stripes Regatta.
A bunch more sailing and we reached the important Fall Tune Up, Schock Memorial and Championship Regatta. In the Fall Tune-Up and Schock Regatta we simply were inconsistent and frankly that had to do with bad starts. We have all been there but in the H20 I have finally learned my lesson. Good starts equal good finishes and unfortunately bad starts tend to equal bad finishes.
After a frustrating weekend before the championship we committed ourselves to quality starts and I can tell you in the Championships I felt we had 5 good starts and one bad one. The bad one was by far our worst race. If I were to give some advice to a new H20 sailor it would be as follows:
Thanks Harbor 20 fleet #1 for making 2010 one of my best sailing memories ever!
Karl Pomeroy
The NOR’s and Entry Form for the 2011 SCYA Midwinters is now available on the Harbor 20 Website.
The regatta is scheduled for February 19 and 20, 2011 and is a Fleet 1 2-day High Point Event. The B Fleet winner will be promoted to the A Fleet.
The deadline for entry has not been defined by the BCYC, however, please note that the entry form is not online, so you must print out, fill out and bring (or mail) your entry to the BCYC.
Visit the Harbor 20 Website for all the links to the yacht club and the regatta forms.
The NHYC Winter Series #4 was held on Sunday, February 6th – the last of a 4-day series of races. My last “event” was the Strategy & Tatics Seminar by Peter Haynes the previous Sunday, and I was fresh with ideas, enthusiasm and eager to “try out” all the new info I learned at that Seminar. I’d like to share my perceptions of part of the first race since I learned so much in that 20 minutes of sailing with the A fleet!
On Sunday, February 7th, the new Ted Munroe Perpetual Trophy was awarded to the A and B Fleet winners of the 2011 NHYC Winter Series.
In attendance for the inaugural presentation of perpetual Trophy was Dottie Munroe, wife of the late Ted Munroe. Presenting the awards was NHYC Staff Commodore Phil Ramser.
The winner of the A Fleet was Jim Kerrigan, who squeezed out second and third place winners Tom Schock and Karl Pomeroy.
The winner of the B Fleet was Gale Pinckney who, ironically, is the new owner of Ted’s Harbor 20. Hellen Duncan and Win Fuller took second and third place in the series.
The new trophy was designed and created by Peter Haynes and will be owned by the Harbor 20 Class Association and will be awarded each year to the winners of the NHYC Winter Series for both A and B classes.
The NOR’s and Event Entry forms are now available for the W.D. Schock Memorial Regatta. Forms are available from the NHYC Website.
According to the NOR’s, the “First warning for S35, S20, H20 [is] 1200 ” . This changes the original time as posted originally on the H20 website schedule.
You can register online here.
The NHYC Winter Series #4 has been changed to a High Point Event to make up for the cancelled Winter Series #2.
If you haven’t already, sign up here.
Editors Note: Jim Kerrigan was asked to share his attitude and approach for the 2-race Winter Series #3 Regatta today. Winds were 0-4 knots with occasional gusts to 6 knots. Jim won the day with a 1st and 2nd place finish. Following is straight from Jim’s mind…
Positive Thinking About Zero to Four Knots of Wind
I love light air, always have. Whether in my Olson 30 off the east end of Catalina becalmed, drifting for the finish in Ensenada, or sailing against an outgoing tide in the bay… I’ve done well in light air; the more races I get in, the more I study it, and the more I just psyche myself into thinking I can sail well. I guess that’s what the power of positive thinking is all about, but it works.
I had an advantage today because the light air was forecast for several days. I thought about that a bunch ahead of time. In my quiet moments, I visualized that darn flat water, the wisps of wind on the water, “How do I sail this stuff fastly?”
Easy, remember what works (in no particular order):
Those are the things I think in prep. I get out earlier on a super light day, than a regular day. I try to sail around just going killer fast. Faster than anyone else just out there going to the race. Go fast, practice the thoughts… Do a slow tack, a slow jibe…
Thinking about light air is a pleasure; thinking about 18 knots is a pain. Anyone can sail in light air; no one can sail in 18 knots, they just survive. You love light air!!!
That’s my prep. By the time the race is on, I’m totally slowed down. I just try to stay away from everyone, stay still, go fast and enjoy the day.
If your reading this article, you have noticed the new Harbor 20 Class Association website. We hope you like it!
The new site has been completely redesigned from the ground up, with new navigation and new pages. The purpose of the site is to:
About the Class menu item
This section contains pages about the Class, including the History of the Harbor 20, the Class Organization (including the current ByLaws and Officiers), the current Champions and a link to a form to Join.
Fleet 1 – Newport Beach menu item
This section contains pages related to the largest Fleet in the Class: Fleet 1 (Newport Beach). Within the menu is information about the Organization (the Fleet Bylaws and Officers), the current and past Fleet 1 Champions, the current “A” Fleet qualifiers, the Racing and Events calendar, the Awards, a list and summary of all the regularly scheduled Regattas and the race results. Fleet 1 is a very active fleet and these pages are updated often and after every race.
The Results page displays up-to-date race stats of every race, including the season-long High Point and Rain or Shine series leaders.
Fleet 2 – San Diego, Fleet 3 – Hilton Head, Fleet 4 – Santa Barbara menu items
These sections of the website have been reserved for the each of these (and future) fleets. The new site is built on the WordPress Content Management System, which allows any authorized users to quickly and easily update pages and post content to the website. Officers and leaders of these fleets are encouraged to use this new website to post information about their fleet.
The News section of the website consists of post by Class members, typically consisting of articles, reports of races, articles about awards, or anything newsworthy, entertaining or related to the Harbor20 Class. All Class members are invited to contribute. If you would like to contribute, please contact the webmaster for your own user contribution account.
Seminars & Educations, Tuning Tips & Maintenance, Classified Ads
Each of these sections contain posts by Class Members about upcoming events or their own contributions.
Our goal with this new website is to have Class Members start to contribute their own thoughts, knowledge, stories and experiences for the benefit of all the other Class Members. We also hope to have all Harbor20 Fleets begin to use the Website to for their own Fleet. Please contact the Webmaster, Nik Froehlich, if you would like access to contribute.