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Icicle 2 will be the 4th annual "Goulash Race".
Hans Sitter, owner of King's Biergarten in Pearland will again provide goulash soup.
(Hans is now also an author and may want to promote his new book. I doubt it will have much to do with sailing.)
Gerhard

Figaro finished at 9:13:40

Thanks Commodore Scott and John for bringing out Tramp and for the photos.
Thanks Kelly and Denise for being ready to record finishers. We were that close to running a second race!
Gerhard

Congratulations to Shearwater for completing the race to Hawaii - they are excused for not signing up for Bay Cup.
Good luck to the offshore racers and the Race Committee with Texas Race Week!
Here's what's in store for Bay Cup next weekend:

Taking advantage of a high tide at noon, we plan to start the first race in Trinity Bay at 12:30, hoping for a decent sea breeze. As in recent years, we will set a quadrangular course of 8.5 Nm around tetrahedrons.

Second race: Z-shaped courses between 13.6 and 8.7 Nm, including a likely weather leg, with start near Marker 8 of the South Cut, around either the low range ("E"), the high range ("K") or the "H" rig, then South to M54 and finishing near Kemah.

Event planning (trophies etc.) would be greatly facilitated by timely sign-ups!
Thanks,
Gerhard Wittich

The NOR for Bay Cup II has been posted on Regatta Network.

Links are attached:



Notice of race link for bay cup 2
https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/regatta_uploads/8686/BayCupII2014NORFINAL.pdf

on line entry
https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_registration_form.php?regatta_id=8686

crew waiver
https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_registration_form.php?regatta_id=8685

listing of submitted waivers
http://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_registrant_list.php?regatta_id=8685&custom%20report%20id=70

Special thanks to all GBCA volunteers, who have contributed to the success of Bay Cup I:

To John and Scott Lacy, supported by Kelly Dees and Denise Christensen for finishing the first race and for taking great pictures, thanks to Keith Gray and Chris McGuiness for setting marks and patrolling the South Cut and to Amy Gray for line sighting on the signal boat.

Thanks to all racers for participating.
Now let's show up in force for the St. Patrick's Day Regatta, followed by the Elissa Regatta!

Gerhard Wittich

Please contact Jay Zittrer.
jzittrer@gmail.com

Most abandoned rigs and pipes in Galveston Bay and some in Trinity Bay have been removed.

A hazard in Trinity Bay remains, about 1 mile ENE of Marker "4" of the South Cut remains.
It is a pipe with a diameter of about 10 ", typically exposed 1 to 3 feet with the following approximate location:

N 29 32'986
W 94 52'770

Weather forecast for March 1, according to weather.com

Sunny, 0% chance of rain
Temp 62
Wind E 13 mph

Registration for Bay Cup I (March 1) is open on regattanetwork.com

Plan A - in case of favorable conditions:
Two races - one starting near Kemah, finishing at the South Cut;
Second race in Trinity Bay.
(courses similar to the last two Summer Bay Cups)

Plan B - in case of low water level or other adverse conditions:
Quadrangle courses in Galveston Bay (one or two races);
(similar to the last two Winter Bay Cups)

Entertainment: Kelly McGuire

GW

682 NM/24 hrs during the single hand Vendee Globe. (28.4 NM average;)
Armel Le Cleac'h on the 105 ft trimaran Banque Populaire.
Frenchman with cojones mas grandes!
(I hope he doesn't enter the GBCA orange class this Saturday.)

Icicle 3 will be (unofficially) the third annual Goulash race.
Goulash soup provided by King's Biergarten.
BYOBG (bring your own beer girls)!
GW

The Ericson 32, Lil Bit a Sol, Sail number 713, has been correctly scored in the Club Cruising class.
She did not race in the SOS class.

GW

One of Figaro's crew needs to catch an 8:30 AM flight from Corpus on Sunday.
Please let me know if someone would like to share a taxi ride, leaving Port A around 6:00 AM.
Thx,

gwittich@me.com

Anna Willits and crew put LYC on the board in the first race but then defending Champion GBCA quickly closed the deal.
The trophy stays with GBCA - congratulations!

Thanks to Kathy Goethe and Judy Fuller for organizing land activities and trophies, thanks to all on the water RC volunteers (Kelly Dees, Scott and John Lacy, Chris Alk, Josh Ghormley, Sue Collier and Joann Willits on Tramp, Team Captain Chris Dees and Charles Broaddus on OJ's Mako (mark set) and Team Captain Dave Christensen and Jim Crate on the pin boat.
The protest committee (John Butler, Walter Caldwell and Andrea Todaro) had nothing to do - thank you racers!

Shaken not Stirred and Figaro, skippered by Mike Lecompte, were spectator boats and Wyatt Smith and Pete Meeh were out there,too.
Good race, thanks everybody,
GW