Turkey Bowl Regatta Nov 22/23

Hi Everyone, 

One final regatta opportunity for any sailors looking to compete outside of high school sailing. CYC Seattle is hosting Turkey Bowl on November 22nd and 23rd. This regatta is outside of the High School Sailing season and is a community event. Anyone can attend, and the format is much more similar to a summer series event (see below). 

This is a non-rotational regatta, so sailors will be spending the entire day on the water. They will be supported by me in a powerboat. Races should be 20 to 40 minutes long, with short on-the-water breaks in between while other fleets start and finish. This regatta will have many different adult and youth fleets attending, but FJs and Lasers would be the most applicable for sailors on the team.

Costs are dependent on how many sailors can attend. Because this is outside of HS sailing, there are additional costs: sailboat charters, trailer use, coach boat charter, coaching, and a higher entry fee. For now I would estimate a cost of $80/sailor, that includes the $45/sailor entry fee. Overall, very similar costs to attend a summer series regatta. Depending on how many sailors are planning on attending and splitting costs like charters and coaching, the costs per sailor might go up or down. 

This will be a sailor/family led regatta. The expectation is that the sailor/family are organizing housing (if they choose), trailer transportation, sailors transportation, and trailer loading/unloading. I will help with as much as I can.

We can talk more about this regatta at our end of season party on Thursday. There are also some sailors who have sailed at this regatta and can give their perspective. This event is not required or expected of all sailors, simply another opportunity to get on the water. 

Link to Regatta notice board.

Please reach out if you are interested. Let me know if you have any questions.

Best,

Cooper 

End-of-Season Potluck Thursday

Good morning all,

Thank you again for an awesome season! We are excited to see you and celebrate the fall with our end-of-season potluck this Thursday, 6:00-8:00pm in the basement of Bellingham Yacht Club. The address is 2625 S Harbor Loop Dr, Bellingham, WA.

We will not only be eating dinner together but will also be sharing photos from the season and taking time to recognize  this season's accomplishments.

If any parents or family members want a team t-shirt but haven't gotten one, you can purchase one from Jayna (cc'd) this Thursday! Images attached. We mostly have size L long sleeve tees left.

Please sign up with any food you are bringing here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W0ZXKvJFnO1chY3ARauGfQC0eK1Kzd7bHSC121JjouU/edit?usp=sharing 

Please let me know if you have any questions! We look forward to seeing you on Thursday. 

Best,

Anna and Cooper

End of Season Info

Good evening,

Thank you to all of the sailors and families who were at our "trick-or-treat" team race scrimmage this past weekend! It was great to see the group having fun with a different style of racing, and nice to have another home event that parents could watch.

Last Practices This Week

This week will be our last two days of practice. We will be meeting at the youth sailing dock from 3:45pm-5:00pm both days to clean up and winterize the boats and equipment. Even though we aren't sailing, sailors should dress for the weather and bring a jacket!

End of Season Potluck Thurs. Nov. 13th

Our end of season potluck will tentatively be Thursday, Nov. 13th, at the Bellingham Yacht Club from 6:00-8:00pm. I want to note that this is a change from our originally planned end-of-season date of Tuesday, Nov. 18th. After getting feedback from the sailors this week, it sounds like Thursday the 13th would work better for most. More details to follow!

Photo Album

We have been collecting photos from this season in this photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Srqpbf2w5FfPUwXi8 Please feel free to look through it and add any photos you've taken at regattas!

Please let us know if you have any questions. 

Best,

Anna and Cooper

Fall Champs Recap and Trick-or-Treat this Weekend!

Hi team,

Fall Champs

Thank you to all parents and sailors for your efforts this weekend! With cold conditions and high winds, this was a classic Fall Champs in Oak Harbor. 

Thank you to Lorena and Jayna for organizing food, tents, and propane fire pit, the Neuman's for towing the 3-boat trailer, and the Vondrells for bringing the second (much-appreciated) fire pit!! Thank you also to all of the families who volunteered to drive carpools: Neuman, Norwood, Meyers, Mora, Meyer, Vondrell, Wilcox, Baldwin, and Morse families! 

Finally, thank you of course to all of the sailors, who pushed through postponements and capsizes to achieve some great finishes this weekend! We have seen huge growth from the beginning of the season, and had some great competitive moments.

Congrats to the Bellingham varsity team, who qualified for NWISA fleet race districts (basically sailing version of "state"; it's the nationals qualifier) in May by getting 8th place in Gold fleet. There will be at least one more chance for Sehom and Squalicum to qualify before the end of the spring season.

Trick-or-Treat Team Race This Weekend, Nov. 1-2

As we mentioned at practice and the regatta, next weekend's "Trick-or-Treat" regatta will not be a district-wide event but instead will be a scrimmage held at home. 

Schedule is Saturday 12pm-5pm and Sunday 10am-3pm, and will have both time on shore and on the water. The exact schedule will be dependent on the weather day-of. 

Goals will be to talk through, learn, and practice team racing, a tactical style of racing that is new to a lot of our team. We understand this is a bit of late notice/ change from the original plan of an away event. If any sailors have changes to their availability for this weekend, please update the regatta signup spreadsheet before the start of practice on Thursday.

Photo Op: Bring your Pinnies this weekend!

We also want to take advantage of a home event and get team photos with everyone in their pinnies before the season ends!! Please make sure to bring any pinnies you may have to this upcoming weekend. Cooper and I have most of them and will be re-handing them out for photos.

Let us know if you have any questions. Thank you all again for a successful Fall Champs regatta!

Best,

Anna and Cooper

RR#1 Logistics Updates

Hi Everyone,

A couple of updates about this weekend:

Not loading boats tomorrow (Friday)! Thanks to all the hard work at practice today, we do not need to meet tomorrow to load boats. 

Sailors - Adrianna, Ajax, Avery, Bella, Dawson, Dmitry, Dylan, Dora, Emmett, Errol, Hans, Hazel, Linnea, Marin, Max D, Max W, Nathan, Patrick, Sawyer, Sotiri, & Tristan. (21 Sailors)

Drivers - Neuman (3 & Towing), Anna (3 & Towing), Baldwin (2), Norwood (2), Meyers (2), Meyer (2), Wilcox (4), Vondrell (4 SAT only), Haines (1 SAT only), Morse (3 SUN only).  (Seats  SAT 25 & SUN 21)

Food - Lorena and Jayna have organized group lunches and snacks for the sailors for this weekend. Sailors should bring $10 to cover group food for the weekend.

Cost- $15 for regatta registration + $10 for group food + $5-10 for carpool gas money = $30

Waiver- Fall Champs/ RR1 Waiver Must be filled out before regatta

Gear - Everyone is required to bring a wetsuit. Sailors should bring quick dry layers and waterproof gear, with a change of dry layers AND dry street clothes to change into at the end. If you did not feel set up for success at practice today, be smart for this weekend!

Schedule -

Saturday, 25 Oct

0730 Sehome Haggen (210 36th St, Bellingham, WA 98225)

0900 Report time. Registration. ( 1401 SE Catalina Drive Oak Harbor, WA  98277)

1030 Registration ends.

1030 Mandatory Competitors' Meeting.

      1100 First warning; sailing will continue throughout the day.

*We will be driving home to Bellingham Saturday night

Sunday, 26 Oct

0730 Sehome Haggen (210 36th St, Bellingham, WA 98225)

0900 Report time. ( 1401 SE Catalina Drive Oak Harbor, WA  98277)

1000 First warning; sailing will continue throughout the day.

1500 No starting sequence shall be made after this time

1530 Results and Awards Presentation.

Saturday Morning Game Plan (Map Below) - 

Oak Harbor is a great venue, but has a lot of walking back and forth. To be efficient and save our energy for sailing, we will stick with this plan:

9:00AM Meet and start unloading the trailers. 

Once boats are unloaded from the trailer and masts are stepped, A fleet sailors get changed, while B fleet sailors are rigging the boats

A fleet sailors need to be changed and ready to go before the team meeting. 

10:10AM Team meeting near the boat ramp

10:30AM Competitors meeting boat ramp  

Once the competitors meeting is over and A fleet is launching, B fleet sailors can change (at least into base layers), then walk down to the spectator dock. They should help move all the gear bags for A fleet as well.

We have a lot to do between 9:00AM and 10:10AM- sailors will not have time to walk down to the spectator dock and back before our team meeting. 

Wind Policy - 

 The maximum wind for high school sailing events is 25knts. Each fleet (Gold, Silver, and Gallium/Bronze) can be called off  in less wind depending on the skill set of the group. 

The expectation is that all teams show up and unload/prep boats no matter what, and then safety decisions are made day-of with the wind speed at the time. Occasionally, they will send teams home early if the weather is unsailable and remains so for multiple hours.

We are looking forward to a great event to end our competitive season!

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Best,

Cooper and Anna

Ranking Regatta #1 Logistics

Hi Everyone,

Ranking Regatta #1 (Fall Champs) October 25-26 at Oak Harbor

Sailors - Adrianna, Ajax, Atticus, Avery, Bella, Dawson, Dmitry, Dylan, Emmett, Errol, Finn, Hans, Hazel, Linnea, Marin, Max D, Max W, Nathan, Patrick, Sawyer, Sotiri, Tristan, & Tyce. (23 Sailors)

Drivers - Neuman (3 & Towing), Anna (3 & Towing), Norwood (2), Meyers (2), Meyer (3), Magee (4), Wilcox (4), Vondrell (4 SAT only), Morse (3 SUN only).  (Seats 25 SAT & 24 SUN)

Costs - $15/sailors entry fee. 

Waiver - Linked here. Please fill out.

Schedule - 

Friday, 24 Oct

1545 Loading boats at FJ dock

Saturday, 25 Oct

0730 Sehome Haggen (210 36th St, Bellingham, WA 98225)

0900 Report time. Registration. ( 1401 SE Catalina Drive Oak Harbor, WA  98277)

1030 Registration ends.

1030 Mandatory Competitors' Meeting.

1100 First warning; sailing will continue throughout the day.

*We will be driving home to Bellingham Saturday night

Sunday, 26 Oct

0730 Sehome Haggen (210 36th St, Bellingham, WA 98225)

0900 Report time. ( 1401 SE Catalina Drive Oak Harbor, WA  98277)

1000 First warning; sailing will continue throughout the day.

1500 No starting sequence shall be made after this time

1530 Results and Awards Presentation.

Notice of Race - Linked here. Please read.

More logistics to follow next week. 

Have a great weekend!

Cooper 

Whatcom Sailing Regatta Updates

Hi Everyone,

Regatta signups for Ranking Regatta #1 (Oct 25-26) will be locked tomorrow at noon. Please go review and update any of the information. We will be sending out logistics tomorrow evening. This is a Gold and Silver regatta, and we will be sending everyone. 

Trick or Treat Team Race (Nov 1-2) will be hosted here in Bellingham. We will be sending out more information soon, but for now plan on a home event. It is highly likely that it will just be our program, and maybe a handful of sailors from other north sound programs. This will also be our first Team Racing event!

Looking at the forecasts, wetsuits are most likely going to be required at future practices and regattas. We have wetsuits available that sailors can borrow for the season, but we need to know ahead of time; wetsuits are size dependent and cannot be borrowed day-of or day-to-day.

Thank you,

Cooper