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 

Cascadia Cup Final Details

Hi everyone,

Here are the final Cascadia Cup reminders! See you at 7:30 @ Haggen's!

Address of competition (~1.5-2 hrs away):

Sail Sand Point, 7861 62nd Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115

Carpools:

Drivers Saturday- Eddy (2), Norwood (1), Mora (1), Rosli/Foo (3), Meyer (3), Brewin (1), Hatch (1), Wilcox (1), Baldwin (1), Cooper (3), Coach Anna/Cooper (3)= 20 seats

Drivers Sunday-  Norwood (1), Mora (1), Meyer (3), Brewin (1), Hatch (1), Wilcox (1), Baldwin (1), Morse (3), Neuman (3), Coach Anna/Cooper (3)= 18 seats

All sailors and parents, including those who are driving only their own sailor, will be meeting at the Samish Way Haggen's in the morning. 

Sailors should bring:

1. Sailing gear: PFD, wetsuit, quick-dry clothes, spare layers, extra socks, etc.
2. Packed lunch and snacks for both days
3. Ready-to-sail attitude and learning mindset

Notice of Race(NOR)

Official regatta schedule is linked here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xWXH-YMj04nNO9M8ry0ctzGdTXTbjuL-/view?usp=sharing

All sailors and parents in attendance should read through it so you know what is up.

Sailors, please don't forget to fill out your SSP before 10am Saturday: https://waiver.smartwaiver.com/w/5a6a4392ca618/web/

Cost:

$10 per sailor for regatta registration (due on Saturday), plus $5/day towards gas money for any sailors carpooling with someone

Sailing Instructions (SIs) + Course Diagram:

Attached below- Sailors should read this before the competitor's meeting on Saturday (10:30am) to become familiar with the course! They usually post the SIs online 24 hrs in advance and will have physical copies printed and posted at the event. 

Scoring system:

Scores will be able to be viewed online here: https://scores.hssailing.org/?_ga=2.167977249.1249417633.1760167311-389110662.1754853553 

Schedule:

Saturday, Oct. 11th

7:30am Meet at Samish Way Haggen's for attendance + carpools

9:15am Team arrives at Sail Sand Point (SSP) and start unloading boats from trailer

9:45am Rig boats, change into gear, eat a snack

10:30am Competitor's Meeting

10:45am Launch boats

11:15am First Start- Rotate and sail throughout the day, eat packed lunch on off rotation

1:00pm College sailing forum will take place on the pier during racing.

~5:00pm Done Racing (no official end time on Saturday)

~5:30pm Boats derigged, put away boats + tents and head home

~7:00pm Arrive back at Samish Way Haggen's

Sunday, Oct. 12th

7:15am Meet at Samish Way Haggen's

9:00am Report time at SSP. Change into gear, rig boats

10:00am First Start-  Rotate and sail throughout the day, eat packed lunch

3:00pm Last Start- Sailors not racing can change out of sailing clothes, etc. 

3:30pm Derig boats + load up trailer

4:00pm Awards

~4:30pm Head home

~6:00pm Arrive at Samish Way Haggen's

See you tomorrow!

Best,

Anna

Re: Cascadia Cup - More Drivers Needed & Trailer Loading Friday

Good morning everyone,

Thank you to everyone who reached out to us about driving sailors on Saturday! 

We now have more than enough seats for everyone to get there and back both days. I've updated the regatta/carpools spreadsheet with the recently added drivers in yellow: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fFSinPsZZiDLeLczyqocPWbb49hROQwLP0o-BshBBZA/edit?usp=sharing

Sailors - Adrianna, Ajax, Atticus, Bella, Dawson, Dima, Dylan, Dora, Emmett, Hans, Hazel, James, Jonathan, Marin, Max W., Patrick, Sawyer, Sotiri (18)

Drivers Saturday- Eddy (2), Norwood (1), Mora (1), Rosli/Foo (3), Meyer (3), Brewin (1), Hatch (1), Wilcox (1), Baldwin (1), Cooper (3), Coach Anna/Cooper (3)= 20 seats

Drivers Sunday-  Norwood (1), Mora (1), Meyer (3), Brewin (1), Hatch (1), Wilcox (1), Baldwin (1), Morse (3), Neuman (3), Coach Anna/Cooper (3)= 18 seats

All sailors and parents will be meeting at the Samish Way Haggen's each morning, which gives a chance for Cooper and I to take attendance, and for parents to exchange contact info if needed before we head out. 

More info/ final details coming soon, but for now we know the carpools are more than good! Thank you everyone again for helping out! 

Best,

Anna 

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM Whatcom Sailing Coaches <coaches@whatcomsailing.com> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

We need some more carpool drivers for this weekend. You don't have to commit to both days. Here are the current numbers: 

Sailors - Adrianna, Ajax, Atticus, Bella, Dawson, Dima, Dylan, Dora, Emmett, Hans, Hazel, James, Jonathan, Marin, Max W., Patrick, Sawyer, Sotiri (18)

Drivers - Norwood (1), Mora (1), Meyer (3), Brewin (1), Hatch (1), Wilcox (1), Morse (3 SUN only), Neuman (3 SUN only), Coach Anna (3). 11 Saturday and 17 Sunday. If any more parents can drive on Saturday, please let us know ASAP; Right now we do not have enough spots in cars for the sailors that are going. If any Sunday drivers can squeeze in one more sailor, that would be much appreciated.

We are loading our trailer this Friday at 5:30PM. It should take about an hour. Everyone should come and help, even if you are not attending the regatta. Treats will be provided!

Please let us know if you have any questions. 

Best,

Anna and Cooper

Cascadia Cup - More Drivers Needed & Trailer Loading Friday

Hi Everyone,

We need some more carpool drivers for this weekend. You don't have to commit to both days. Here are the current numbers: 

Sailors - Adrianna, Ajax, Atticus, Bella, Dawson, Dima, Dylan, Dora, Emmett, Hans, Hazel, James, Jonathan, Marin, Max W., Patrick, Sawyer, Sotiri (18)

Drivers - Norwood (1), Mora (1), Meyer (3), Brewin (1), Hatch (1), Wilcox (1), Morse (3 SUN only), Neuman (3 SUN only), Coach Anna (3). 11 Saturday and 17 Sunday. If any more parents can drive on Saturday, please let us know ASAP; Right now we do not have enough spots in cars for the sailors that are going. If any Sunday drivers can squeeze in one more sailor, that would be much appreciated.

We are loading our trailer this Friday at 5:30PM. It should take about an hour. Everyone should come and help, even if you are not attending the regatta. Treats will be provided!

Please let us know if you have any questions. 

Best,

Anna and Cooper

Cascadia Cup next weekend, Oct. 11-12

Hi everyone,

Here is the final roster for who will be going to Cascadia Cup next weekend, Oct. 11-12, at Sail Sand Point, Seattle:

Adrianna, Ajax, Atticus, Bella, Dawson, Dima, Dylan, Dora, Emmett, Hans, Hazel, James, Johnathan, Nusret, Marin, Max W, Patrick, Sawyer, Sotiri (19 sailors)

Carpools:

Families of these sailors are driving: Ajax (sunday only), Bella, Dawson, Dylan, Johnathan, Marin, Sawyer. If you are planning to drive your sailor but do not have extra room, please list the number of sailors you can drive as "1" so we know who all are driving and where extra seats may be available. 

Sailors should bring:

1. Sailing gear: PFD, wetsuit, quick-dry clothes, spare layers, extra socks, etc.
2. Packed lunch and snacks for both days
3. Ready-to-sail attitude and learning mindset!

Parents wanting to watch should bring rain gear, a folding chair and a blanket. We have one or two tents we will be using to protect from rain and sun.

Notice of Race(NOR)

Official regatta schedule is linked here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xWXH-YMj04nNO9M8ry0ctzGdTXTbjuL-/view?usp=sharing

All sailors and parents in attendance should read through it so you know what is up.

Please note that all sailors must have an SSP waiver on file to complete. If you have not sailed at SSP before, fill the waiver out at this link by next Friday: https://waiver.smartwaiver.com/w/5a6a4392ca618/web/

Cost:

$10 per sailor for regatta registration, plus $5/day towards gas money for any sailors carpooling with someone

Schedule:

Saturday, Oct. 11th

7:30am Meet at Samish Way Haggen's for attendance + carpools

9:15am Team arrives at Sail Sand Point (SSP) and start unloading boats from trailer

9:45am Rig boats, change into gear, eat a snack

10:30am Competitor's Meeting

10:45am Launch boats

11:15am First Start- Rotate and sail throughout the day, eat packed lunch on off rotation

1:00pm College sailing forum will take place on the pier during racing.

~5:00pm Done Racing (no official end time on Saturday)

~5:30pm Boats derigged, put away boats + tents and head home

~7:00pm Arrive back at Samish Way Haggen's

Sunday, Oct. 12th

7:15am Meet at Samish Way Haggen's

9:00am Report time at SSP. Change into gear, rig boats

10:00am First Start-  Rotate and sail throughout the day, eat packed lunch on off rotation

3:00pm Last Start- Sailors not racing can change out of sailing clothes, etc. 

3:30pm Derig boats + load up trailer

4:00pm Awards

~4:30pm Head home

~6:00pm Arrive at Samish Way Haggen's

Please let me know if you have any questions on this info so far! We will be sending out final details next week.

Best,

Anna

Team Gear, Inclement Weather Plan, and Cascadia Cup!

Hi all,

A couple of updates as we get further into our season:

Inclement Weather Plan

Our inclement weather plan is to meet in the basement of the Bellingham Yacht Club, the same location as the info meeting: 2625 S Harbor Loop Dr, Bellingham WA 98225. It is about a 10 minute walk from our normal sailing location at Zuanich Park. If the weather or forecast requires it, we send out day-of practice location reminders on Remind. 

Remind App

If you did not get our Remind message about indoor practice on Tuesday, please make sure you can in the future! Remind is how we send SMS messages to the team in case of sudden change of plans (like Tuesday's practice). You can join our Remind by texting "@sailboats" to the phone number 81010. The Remind app is not required to get messages. If you cannot join the Remind for some reason, please let us know ASAP so we can troubleshoot or make a game plan.

Team Gear

If you ordered team gear (hats, tees, hoodies), please pay parent Jayna Neuman (cc'd) who organized the team gear and stickers. She accepts PayPal (@jaynaneuman), Venmo(@jayna-williams-neuman) & cash app ($jaynaneuman). 

Cascadia Cup Oct. 11-12:

If you haven't yet, please make sure to fill out the regatta signups as "yes" or "no" for next weekend. Cooper and I will be sending out a logistics email tomorrow based on who is signed up as "yes".

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Have a great weekend and we look forward to seeing you all next week.

Best,

Anna

Bailer-making Team Bonding Tonight!

Good morning team,

Here are tonight's team bonding logistics from your captains:

Location: 3118 Bennett Dr. 

Time: 4:00-6:00 pm

What you can bring for bailer making: Empty bottles of detergent, juice, etc., colorful duck tape, markers/ paint pens, stickers, and scissors.

Bring any snacks you would like to share with the group!  

Thanks, 

Avery, Bella, Dawson