[gpsbug] Re: Skipper's Meeting
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- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:53:03 -0500
Sounds good, thanks Tom...
Paul W. Hains III, P.E.
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Paul,
John asked me to go along. So if it is okay with you, I'll show up with him
at your house on Thursday.
Tom
---- Paul_Hains@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> 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
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> 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)
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