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Registration is open for the 2024 Shoe Regatta at Lakewood Yacht Club. 

Please note a few changes from previous years – in particular, last day to register without a late fee is SUNDAY (not Wednesday) before the race.

Here's a link to the NOR, and a link to register.

More information is available at LakewoodYachtClub.com under "On the Water."

If you haven't already seen it, check out the 4 episode series that the Storm trysail Club just put out on ORC.   Its not as intimidating as it sounds and its WAY MORE accurate than other rating rules.  Here's the link to the first episode on youtube.

https://youtu.be/ezZkzGqXEVs?si=AnixzKIy6Q6FBR4t

As discussed in the prior posts - ORC is not for everyone. ORC should be used when there are enough boats to make a class. This usually happens in our Weekend regattas on the bay. There are many factors that go into the "rating" number that an ORC boat will use for any single race - be it a single long day or overnight race. As most of the GBCA races are "pursuit" style and use the same rating number for all races - that will defeat the basic goal of ORC which is the determine the "rating" by using wind velocity and wind angles that the boats sail during the race.

Mark Matthews

  I am not against ORC being added to some regattas, but it should be administered as designed. That means accurate wind readings to adjust for the correct rating for each given race. It should not be a replacement for PHRF (as flawed as it is).
  As for the Racer/Cruiser class, it has its place but not the way it was designed for the Rum Races a short while back. The over/under of sail area vs displacement was too arbitrary, it forced me to sail against boats with two and three time the waterline and sail area.
  As for the cruising club handy cap. I agree it is a good way to get novice sailors into racing. But, it should only be for a limited time (say 2 years at most) and it should be adjusted after each race/regatta as designed by J. Kevin Box. If you placed in say a Rum Race, your rating was adjusted down, or if you came in last it was adjusted up. Forcing you to be a better racing sailor and learn the rules and tactics.     

I love one design because the boats are identical, measured, and weighed.  Any weight added is fiber glassed into the hull.  Crew is weighed and limited.  This is pure racing.  After that i would group boats for displacement racing less than 10 knots hull speed. Then the boats that boat speed exceed hull speed downwind 10 to 20 knots@ about 120 degrees. Then we can add 20+ if needed.

Normally the one designs get their own class and we keep out of their way. This dropping classes and grouping boats together has me concerned.

Thanks for chipping in
I am ok with one handicap system as long as there is a displacement class. Boats limited to hull speed and those that can double that number.  I am an engineer and fluid mechanics was my favorite class. There is not enough math to cover the difference.  In the early 90's Doug Logan put a prototype in the water and on the first rum it did 12 to 15 knots. We are in 2024 and the technology is in several designs.  They did it with a flat bottom, light weight, and big sail area.
(practical sailor article)

The boat I race on will never see those speeds.  It was built before the 90's.  Today we have foiling boats should we compete with them?  What's their handicap?

As someone who has been racing in the area for about the past 15 years either on OPB or mine (j80, o30). I stopped almost immediately after the decision was made to split the fleets into PHRF and ORC the classes effectively halved overnight. That was never going to work they are competing handicap systems. I do not want a 22 or 105 so handicap racing is what it is.

I still have a boat here, and for the last 2 years I've been watching the fleet sizes, and considering getting back in to racing, but the numbers are getting worse. I'm not going to consistently enter as I had in the past to race against 2-4 boats.

There are not enough boats on the bay to support multiple handicaps. Pick one or the other and accept the trade off in the systems or watch the numbers continue to dwindle.

Looks like Miss April is flying the Dragons!!!

Thank you we need help on this one.