St Patty's Day Spring Regatta - March 15th, 2014

[Bee]

Fortunately the beer was black and not green.

[svShearwater]

Any sneak peeks on whether we'll have pursuit or traditional starts?  Course length?  Looks like a pretty typical winter GB day on Saturday weatherwise.

I see divisions on the reg. list, so presumably traditional starts... 

[Bee]

What would be cool is to get courses and GPS coordinates for marks.

[Bee]

46 friggin boats.  Way cool.  While SA is designing a new canting keel 30+ footer, GBCA is winning the fun game.

GBCA is definitely the place to race.

[Bee]

Just noticed that there are 10 Sprit boats entered.  To bad a couple more of those wimpy J105's did not enter. One the other hand if Uzi entered and the winds got up above 20 he probably would have tried to cancel.

Nice to have so many boats.  Should be a hoot, or maybe a toot?

[svShearwater]

And where are the 109's? 

I'm excited about the possibility of starting at the same time as other boats.  It can be pretty lonely back there for the first part of a pursuit race. 

Hoping for breeze-on.  We need the practice.

[aj]

looks light for tomorrow
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?w0=t&w1=td&w2=wc&w3=sfcwind&w3u=1&w4=sky&w5=pop&w6=rh&w7=thunder&w8=rain&w14u=1&w15u=1&AheadHour=21&Submit=Submit&FcstType=graphical&textField1=29.57000&textField2=-95.03000&site=all&unit=0&dd=0&bw=0

[edthemainsailguy]

yep....my favorite forecast agrees....but new ride for me tomorrow so light is just fine...
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/gbofs/fore_cg_wind.shtml

[Eric713]

Windfinder shows 1pm SE 15-g22.  Wouldn't call that light air.

[Christopher]

SI's Click Here

[Bee]

Forecasts are all over the place.  Biggest worry is thunderstorms.  We can handle 22+ --- unless Uzi is out.

Thanks for the SI's

[Bee]

WOW.  What madman designed these courses?  Depending on wind direction we could be out there for a while.

[Christopher]

Revised SI's are posted following the skippers meeting. Three changes are noted:
- corrected coordinates for the South Boat Cut 8 mark
- corrected start times for course 6
- Danelaw switched from Spin to NonSpin and subsequent rating change 105 > 125.


Based upon current wind predictions, course 3 "Star" (19.68nm) is the likely candidate for tomorrow.

[Christopher]

WOW.  What madman designed these courses?  Depending on wind direction we could be out there for a while.

[JayZ]

Great turn out! Great plan!  Good job all.  We are on our 15th hr of driving home from CO spring break with the kids otherwise Banjo Girl would be out for sure.

Not sure if anyone else noticed but Stewart Stout aka SJ. Stout has entered this race.  I am pretty excited to see that.   Bee- you are now not the oldest skipper on the water.

Go Stout!  Good Luck!

Jay Z.
S/V Banjo Girl