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After the sun set last Friday night I noticed a few boats that at first appeared to not have their running lights on until I looked up and saw the tricolor light was on at the top of the mast.  I'd like to ask everyone to run their regular deck lights after dark during rum races it's simply not as easy to see a tricolor sixty feet in the air in close quarters.  Especially if you're on the high side looking for traffic under the boom....

Thank you for your consideration.
 
http://sailing.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Tricolor_light

John Mather gave me a heads up this morning that Stinger had been floating free on one corner because KBM had removed the storm riser on the piling and tossed our stern line onto the back of the boat.  He jumped aboard and re-tied it (Thanks again John) and I understand he did the same on a couple other boats down the pier.

I went down to check it out and there were several boats up and down E-Dock that were no longer tied to the piling.  I think they gave some kind of warning that they were going to be removing the risers but you'd think they'd at least re-tie those of us who had failed to heed the warning.

If you're in KBM, check your boat.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lagoon_bugatti

I guess he didn't order the "submersible" package.

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Don't forget that discussion.gbca.org is here for discussing any local racing.  Feel free to post commentary on other club's races and the Wednesday Night series.

For example, I'll be pulling sheets on Kimo tomorrow night, discussing NASA's recent news with Joe and enjoying a cold one as we bob around in the blazing, windless, heat.

http://www.gbca.org/y09/Rum/results.html

At least I think I fixed it, go have a look.  The original code that David and Stuart wrote had a PHP version conflict with the new host's newer version of PHP3.  Sorry for the delay folks.

Who else is running the Heald this weekend?  It looks like a nice weekend, Weather.com says Galveston will see a HIGH of 89 degrees and SSE winds in the teens.  Should be a nice race.

Stinger is planning to be there.

The old crew list is still available for a short time during our transition to this new forum so that you can cut and paste your old posts from there over here if you're still interested..

http://www.gbca.org/interactive/crew.php3

The old Crew List will be removed at a later time.

Stinger could use a crew or two this weekend.  Interested?  PM me.