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Vallejo 1-2 19th-20th

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When will the racing rules be posted? I have a friend who wants to double hand on Sunday but is asking me for the details so as to plan transportation. Perhaps someone can tell me where the race ends on Sunday. Sorry if I missed this but don't see it on Jibeset or our website. I realize the skippers meeting is the 16th. Thanks, John
 
Because of two other regattas starting Saturday morning on the Circle, we'll have to stay with our first start at 1000 or 1005.

Similar times on Sunday. The "Vallejo 2" finishes off the Richmond Yacht Club (between their RC platform and the green buoy).

Hopefully I can get to the SI's late tonight or tomorrow. I'm completely slammed with the 10/15 extension deadline and the IRS closed up.
 
Vallejo "2" Skippers/Crew, Because I can't sail the Vallejo "1" on Saturday due to a scheduling conflict, Jim Q. kindly asked me to sail back with him on Sunday. That leaves my car in Vallejo and my body in Richmond at the end of the race. Is anyone driving back from Richmond to Vallejo following the race? I'll be at the skippers meeting Wednesday evening. That will be me with the sandwich board parading around begging for a ride.

ps, I'm good company, at least for the hour's ride back to the VYC.

Thanks, Pat Broderick
 
Bob,

Are you anticipating any MAJOR course or time changes from years past?

G BUOY is back on station (thank you, Nick Salvador), and weather will be what it is.

Perhaps a Ride Board will magically appear on this site!
 
Return Ride on Sunday

Did I mention that the sandwich board is the only thing I'll be wearing Wednesday at the Skippers Meeting? I don't think anyone wants so see that, so I'm hoping someone will save the day and offer me a ride! -- Pat ;-{)

Mewes said:
Bob,

Are you anticipating any MAJOR course or time changes from years past?

G BUOY is back on station (thank you, Nick Salvador), and weather will be what it is.

Perhaps a Ride Board will magically appear on this site!
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P. Broderick - Elaine said:
Did I mention that the sandwich board is the only thing I'll be wearing Wednesday at the Skippers Meeting? I don't think anyone wants so see that, so I'm hoping someone will save the day and offer me a ride! -- Pat ;-{)
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Pat, between that image and your S & M inclinations, I'm sure you'll have a whole new group of friends offering you rides.
 
Gee, and I was about to offer Pat a ride.

I will anyway. Whether I'm sailing or on the race deck, I'll be at RYC at the end of the day. Since I live in Benicia I can easily drop you off at VYC on my way home. We'll have room for two more if anyone else needs to make the same trip Sunday (late afternoon).

You should remind me on Wednesday night though - lots going on.
 
Okay, down to one seat left for RYC ---> VYC on Sunday (late) afternoon.

There's no room for the sandwich board Pat, so as they say, it's "all or nothing."
 
Thanks for saving my a## Bob. I was afraid I'd end up with splinters in the you-know-what, especially if I tried to sit down. I had thought about revising my idea and use my emergency rudder as a sign board instead. Since Jackie's so much interested in ERs I thought I'd demonstrate how to use one in a real emergency. ;-)
 
Pat, my friend Jocelyn will be getting a ride back to Vallejo with you and Bob. She's a nurse in the Tenderloin, so probably knows something about how to treat splinters. Hydrogen peroxide, I expect. Which will sting.
 
Convergence of Fate, or just plain dumb luck?

Jackie, splinters in my bum, nurse from the "Tenderloin?" You're joking of course? Too much coincidence for me!

Philpott said:
Pat, my friend Jocelyn will be getting a ride back to Vallejo with you and Bob. She's a nurse in the Tenderloin, so probably knows something about how to treat splinters. Hydrogen peroxide, I expect. Which will sting.
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I have an inquiry about using the motor before the start. I believe the use of the motor before the start is not specifically addressed in the SI's or the Add'l Instructions or the RRS. I have seen some SI's (other races) include specific language limiting the use of the motor after five minutes before the start. It does seem like if a boat is 20 minutes late to the start, coming from Alameda to the Berkeley Circle, for example, the engine would be used to arrive at the starting line, at which point it would be turned off, and the boat could start immediately.

Today, however, I saw something that seems to be against the spirit of the rules if not the letter. A couple boats in the light wind, adverse current conditions used their motors during the 1 minute before the start to motor to the start line, switching the motor off just as they arrived at the start line.

Is that legal?

Thanks,
Todd
 
The RRS, page 9, "Definitions" describe a boat as "Racing" from the time of its Preparatory signal. That would mean, and has meant in the past, that engines need to be out of gear, or turned off, at the four minute signal.
 
Quite right! If your Prep signal has been made, it's illegal to motor even if you overslept and you're miles away from the start line.

That is, unless the SIs say something different. RRS 42.3(i) does allow the SIs to call out special circumstances where motoring is permitted.

Sounds like there are some miscreants who could use a little conscience raising!
 
Yes-siree! Motoring at high speed until the Prep can really help a lead mine like me in Three Bridge. But it's the 4 minute signal, not the One.
 
Especially in light air with an adverse current, and a bridge down current, one must consider all options. That's why Dianne started Sunday's race with an outboard ready to go on the stern and an anchor ready to go on deck. Dianne stopped her motor before her warning signal, held position with white sails, set a spinnaker after starting, then set anchor. We repeated spinnaker sailing and anchoring many times before gaining the San Pablo Bay.
 
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