John, I am planning to have a cruising committee meeting at my house on Thursday. I am having problems getting anyone to serve on committee...so far, I have Dennis Schuette and Ed Feliciano. I am the only sailor, but I am still recruiting. Please plan to attend if you can make it....Paul Paul W. Hains III, P.E. Vice President Federal Programs URS Corporation 11832 Rock Landing Drive Suite 306 Newport News, VA 23606 757 321-1285 Direct 757 873-0559 Office 757 873-0634 Fax 757 897-5561 Cell This e-mail and any attachments are confidential. If you receive this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should not retain, distribute, disclose or use any of this information and you should destroy the e-mail and any attachments or copies. "John" <j.wandling@chart er.net> To Sent by: "'Gpsbug@Freelists. Org '" gpsbug-bounce@fre <gpsbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> elists.org cc "Sean Gibbons" <sgibbons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Mary 01/28/2007 08:22 Lancaster" <maryl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AM Subject [gpsbug] Skipper's Meeting Please respond to j.wandling@charte r.net Hi, I know this is short notice, but I have been waiting to get some input from GP on cruising schedule. Anyway, we need to get started on our racing schedule for next year, so I would like to have as many of you (skippers, mostly, but crew definitely welcome) to a meeting at my place on Wednesday evening...at 7. Will probably go until nine. I'll have prepared a tentative schedule to discuss, and we can finalize as best we can. Points to ponder: 1. Lets go to a Sunday afternoon series. Seems to interfere least with other weekend plans, and some of you guys already told me that wind is better on Sundays than Saturdays. 2. I'd like to schedule the Pagan River Challenge (GPYC) to coincide with the last day of cruise week (tentatively set for the week of the 4th of July). I propose that those sailboats not taking part in cruise week can meet those that are somewhere near the mouth of the James (Ft Monroe, Willoughby, etc), and have a point-to-point race between there and the GPYC. We'll make this a staggared start race so that all boats should be finishing around the same time. 3. All boats should have PHRF ratings. If they don't, I will assign one, but it will be based on the ratings of similar boats I can find on the intranet. I will quit trying to account for cruising gear and/or crew experience. PHRF is somewhat arbitrary, but at least you can argue with them instead of with me, and it is based on the scientific notion that people of similar skills should be able to produce similar results on similar boats (that may be a social science!). 4. We will splilt the fleet into spinnaker and non-spinnaker divisions. Will award trophies in each division in accordance with the following: 1st place - more than one but fewer than three boats in starting area 2nd place - more than two but fewer than four boats in starting area 3rd place - more than three boats in starting area (In other words, you have to beat someone!). 5. For the Spring Series, I'd like to go to a normal starting sequence. (i.e. we all start together and I'll compute corrected times based on handicap). If we have enough boats to take turns being committee, we will also do signals, etc. as per the rulebook). Otherwise we will continue honor system. (I think honor system is OK, but gets you less "real" practice for starting in real races. ) I got in about four real races last year and thouroughly screwed up the start in at least two of them (probalby more if you ask my crew!). 6. I think having longer series with two throwouts worked well, so we might just go for a longer Spring/Early Summer along with a Late Summer/Fall Series of seven or eight races each. Anyway, we can discuss all this at our meeting and attempt to deconflict as much as we can with cruising schedule(s). Hope most of you can make this. Thanks. John (See attached file: winmail.dat)